This is just a cool article and since I am a ham radio operator I will post it cause I am proud of being one!
Ham Radio Operator Glen Briggs Receives NOAA Environmental Hero Award
Grundy County Emergency Services Coordinator Glen Briggs received the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Environmental Hero Award today in Trenton, Mo. Briggs was recognized for assistance to the National Weather Service in meeting its mission to protect lives and property and enhance the national economy.
Glen Briggs in action
Held annually in conjunction with Earth Day celebrations, the Environmental Hero Award honors NOAA volunteers for their tireless efforts to preserve and protect our nation’s environment. Briggs was recognized for his long-time commitment to helping provide high quality weather information to Grundy County residents and for volunteer assistance in the severe weather warning program, Andy Bailey of NOAA’s Kansas City National Weather Service office in Pleasant Hill said.
“We are extremely fortunate to have such dedicated people as Glen Briggs volunteer so much of their time to help keep their neighbors informed and safe,” Bailey said. “He sets a perfect example for others to follow in their communities. America needs more volunteers like Glen Briggs.”
Briggs was commended for his over-all excellent service investing hundreds of hours a year as an amateur radio operations operator assisting the National Weather Service in their severe weather and for specific efforts on May 13, 2009. On that day of the Kirksville, Mo. tornado, Briggs provided real-time information to Pleasant Hill forecasters that resulted in saving countless lives by giving residents time to seek shelter before the tornado devastated the Kirksville area.
Established in 1995 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Earth Day, the Environmental Hero Award is presented to individuals and organizations that volunteer their time and energy to help NOAA and its line offices carry out their mission. The mission of the National Weather Service is to protect lives and property and enhance the National economy.
During a ceremony honoring Briggs this week Bailey said, “On behalf of the many people you’ve helped keep safe in northern Missouri, I am pleased to present you with the 2010 Environmental Hero Award. Your dedicated efforts and concern for your community make our nation a better place.”
NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources. Please visit http://www.noaa.gov.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The FCC and the Internet ohhhhh no
CC Chairman Defends Broadband Regulation Move
Grant Gross , IDG News
May 6, 2010 12:10 pm
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will move to reclassify broadband transmission as a regulated, common-carrier service, but exempt many broadband services from new regulations in an effort to find a middle ground between no oversight and heavy-handed new authority, the agency's chairman said Thursday.
The FCC's move to reclassify broadband as a common-carrier service regulated under Title II of the Communications Act, announced late Wednesday, is necessary after a U.S. appeals court ruled last month that the agency does not have the authority to enforce informal network neutrality rules in a case involving Comcast's throttling of peer-to-peer traffic, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Thursday.
The agency will also forbear from most common-carrier types of regulations for broadband, Genachowski said.
The Comcast decision raises questions about the commission's ability to pass net neutrality rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking Web content and from implementing parts of the agency's national broadband plan, including a plan to revamp a telephone service subsidy to broadband deployment, Genachowski said in a statement.
"The goal is to restore the broadly supported status quo consensus that existed prior to the court decision on the FCC's role with respect to broadband Internet service," Genachowski said.
The Comcast decision, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, "does cast serious doubt" on the FCC's exercise of authority over broadband service, Genachowski said. The FCC does not want to face a court battle every time it tries to assert indirect, so-called ancillary, authority over broadband service, as it has it recent years, but it also does not want to give itself heavy regulatory powers over broadband, he said.
Genachowski said he has "serious reservations" about both of those approaches.
Claiming full Title II authority over broadband would "subject the providers of broadband communications services to extensive regulations ill-suited to broadband," he said.
Genachowski criticized both "extreme" alternatives available to the commission -- taking no action, or claiming full common-carrier regulatory authority. "Heavy-handed prescriptive regulation can chill investment and innovation, and a do-nothing approach can leave consumers unprotected and competition unpromoted, which itself would ultimately lead to reduced investment and innovation," he said.
The FCC would presumably have to launch an extensive rulemaking proceeding to reclassify broadband as a common-carrier service. An FCC spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to an e-mail asking for the agency's next steps.
Genachowski's announcement received mixed reviews.
Executives from five broadband suppliers said Wednesday they're concerned that new regulations would cause broadband providers to slow their investments in network expansion and upgrades.
"If people like Verizon start slowing down their investment in networking infrastructure, we're going to be hit pretty hard," said Noam Lotan, CEO of MRV Communications, a California manufacturer of networking equipment. "Any regulation you start introducing, the first thing that will happen is uncertainty."
While this FCC may back away from widespread regulation of broadband, future commissions may not, said Bruce Mehlman, co-chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance, a broadband deployment advocacy group with members including AT&T and Alcatel-Lucent.
"While an enlightened Chairman like Genachowski may indeed bring a light touch during his tenure, regulatory agencies tend to ultimately use all of the authority in their arsenal and more, and that would be bad for broadband," Mehlman said.
Comcast, in the center of the controversy, said it was disappointed by the FCC's move to regulate broadband. However, the broadband provider is prepared to work with the agency to determine if there is a compromise way to "take limited but effective measures to preserve an open Internet and implement critical features of the National Broadband Plan, but does not cast the kind of regulatory cloud that would chill investment and innovation by ISPs," said Sena Fitzmaurice, vice president of government communications for Comcast.
Others were more upbeat about Genachowski's announcement.
Public Knowledge, a supporter of new net neutrality rules, is "generally pleased" with the direction outlined by Genachowski, although it is concerned that agency officials suggested they would stay away from requiring broadband providers to share their lines with competitors, said Gigi Sohn, the organization's president.
"We have said for months that the right path for the commission to take would be to examine all the possibilities for the best way to protect consumers and guarantee the expansion of broadband," she said in an e-mail. "The method the FCC is expected to propose should be on the table, and we are glad it is."
The "Title II lite" approach is the right one, added Tyrone Brown, president of Media Access Project, a media reform group and net neutrality backer. The FCC's new approach will protect free speech rights of Internet users, he said.
"This is a defining moment for Chairman Genachowski," Brown said in a statement. "He was the object of a massive lobbying campaign mounted by some of the most powerful corporations in the country, and he held his ground. The telephone and cable companies fought this outcome because they know that the alternative ... is difficult if not impossible under the recent court decision in Comcast v. FCC."
Grant Gross , IDG News
May 6, 2010 12:10 pm
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will move to reclassify broadband transmission as a regulated, common-carrier service, but exempt many broadband services from new regulations in an effort to find a middle ground between no oversight and heavy-handed new authority, the agency's chairman said Thursday.
The FCC's move to reclassify broadband as a common-carrier service regulated under Title II of the Communications Act, announced late Wednesday, is necessary after a U.S. appeals court ruled last month that the agency does not have the authority to enforce informal network neutrality rules in a case involving Comcast's throttling of peer-to-peer traffic, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Thursday.
The agency will also forbear from most common-carrier types of regulations for broadband, Genachowski said.
The Comcast decision raises questions about the commission's ability to pass net neutrality rules prohibiting broadband providers from selectively blocking Web content and from implementing parts of the agency's national broadband plan, including a plan to revamp a telephone service subsidy to broadband deployment, Genachowski said in a statement.
"The goal is to restore the broadly supported status quo consensus that existed prior to the court decision on the FCC's role with respect to broadband Internet service," Genachowski said.
The Comcast decision, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, "does cast serious doubt" on the FCC's exercise of authority over broadband service, Genachowski said. The FCC does not want to face a court battle every time it tries to assert indirect, so-called ancillary, authority over broadband service, as it has it recent years, but it also does not want to give itself heavy regulatory powers over broadband, he said.
Genachowski said he has "serious reservations" about both of those approaches.
Claiming full Title II authority over broadband would "subject the providers of broadband communications services to extensive regulations ill-suited to broadband," he said.
Genachowski criticized both "extreme" alternatives available to the commission -- taking no action, or claiming full common-carrier regulatory authority. "Heavy-handed prescriptive regulation can chill investment and innovation, and a do-nothing approach can leave consumers unprotected and competition unpromoted, which itself would ultimately lead to reduced investment and innovation," he said.
The FCC would presumably have to launch an extensive rulemaking proceeding to reclassify broadband as a common-carrier service. An FCC spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to an e-mail asking for the agency's next steps.
Genachowski's announcement received mixed reviews.
Executives from five broadband suppliers said Wednesday they're concerned that new regulations would cause broadband providers to slow their investments in network expansion and upgrades.
"If people like Verizon start slowing down their investment in networking infrastructure, we're going to be hit pretty hard," said Noam Lotan, CEO of MRV Communications, a California manufacturer of networking equipment. "Any regulation you start introducing, the first thing that will happen is uncertainty."
While this FCC may back away from widespread regulation of broadband, future commissions may not, said Bruce Mehlman, co-chairman of the Internet Innovation Alliance, a broadband deployment advocacy group with members including AT&T and Alcatel-Lucent.
"While an enlightened Chairman like Genachowski may indeed bring a light touch during his tenure, regulatory agencies tend to ultimately use all of the authority in their arsenal and more, and that would be bad for broadband," Mehlman said.
Comcast, in the center of the controversy, said it was disappointed by the FCC's move to regulate broadband. However, the broadband provider is prepared to work with the agency to determine if there is a compromise way to "take limited but effective measures to preserve an open Internet and implement critical features of the National Broadband Plan, but does not cast the kind of regulatory cloud that would chill investment and innovation by ISPs," said Sena Fitzmaurice, vice president of government communications for Comcast.
Others were more upbeat about Genachowski's announcement.
Public Knowledge, a supporter of new net neutrality rules, is "generally pleased" with the direction outlined by Genachowski, although it is concerned that agency officials suggested they would stay away from requiring broadband providers to share their lines with competitors, said Gigi Sohn, the organization's president.
"We have said for months that the right path for the commission to take would be to examine all the possibilities for the best way to protect consumers and guarantee the expansion of broadband," she said in an e-mail. "The method the FCC is expected to propose should be on the table, and we are glad it is."
The "Title II lite" approach is the right one, added Tyrone Brown, president of Media Access Project, a media reform group and net neutrality backer. The FCC's new approach will protect free speech rights of Internet users, he said.
"This is a defining moment for Chairman Genachowski," Brown said in a statement. "He was the object of a massive lobbying campaign mounted by some of the most powerful corporations in the country, and he held his ground. The telephone and cable companies fought this outcome because they know that the alternative ... is difficult if not impossible under the recent court decision in Comcast v. FCC."
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
possible scam
Take a look at this, I will never click on anything like this from an unidentified e-mail source
Dear e-mail User
Due to concerns for the safety and integrity of our web base e-mail service...we have issued this warning message
We have noticed that your e-mail account needs to be verified/confirmed, as we are upgrading our SSL web base e-mail account database.
To verify your e-mail account,please click on the Link below to verify your e-mail Account:
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For further information, please contact our Customer Services.
Note: Failure to Verify/Confirm email account wethin 48hrs may lost his or her email account.
Sincerely, ....................
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© 2010 e-mail Support Team.
Dear e-mail User
Due to concerns for the safety and integrity of our web base e-mail service...we have issued this warning message
We have noticed that your e-mail account needs to be verified/confirmed, as we are upgrading our SSL web base e-mail account database.
To verify your e-mail account,please click on the Link below to verify your e-mail Account:
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
A neat article about Pay Pal
By Chris Crum
2
Buzz This
A study released this week sponsored by FIS, PayPal and NACHA, found that demand for electronic P2P payments and transfers is growing rapidly, and that the interest of making these and other payment transactions through an ePayment Portal is also strong.
According to the study, of those who were interested in the Portal concept, 70% would be likely to use P2P payment services within that Portal.
Dan Schatt of PayPal on P2P payment demand "Results showed that almost 50 percent of consumers surveyed expressed interest in replacing cash and checks using electronic P2P for common needs," says Dan Schatt, GM of PayPal’s Financial Innovations team. "For example, sending money to a child at college, sending money out of the country or splitting the cost of a gift with family members, co-workers or friends."
"Research indicates that banks will benefit most by promoting P2P payments to online banking and bill payment customers, as well as users of mobile banking services and payments," he adds. "There is significant opportunity to drive adoption by increasing consumer awareness of the simplicity of initiating electronic P2P payments. As a proof point, 34 percent who expressed interest in the Portal concept indicated they would be willing to switch to a bank that offers electronic P2P payments as part of an ePayment Portal."
2
Buzz This
A study released this week sponsored by FIS, PayPal and NACHA, found that demand for electronic P2P payments and transfers is growing rapidly, and that the interest of making these and other payment transactions through an ePayment Portal is also strong.
According to the study, of those who were interested in the Portal concept, 70% would be likely to use P2P payment services within that Portal.
Dan Schatt of PayPal on P2P payment demand "Results showed that almost 50 percent of consumers surveyed expressed interest in replacing cash and checks using electronic P2P for common needs," says Dan Schatt, GM of PayPal’s Financial Innovations team. "For example, sending money to a child at college, sending money out of the country or splitting the cost of a gift with family members, co-workers or friends."
"Research indicates that banks will benefit most by promoting P2P payments to online banking and bill payment customers, as well as users of mobile banking services and payments," he adds. "There is significant opportunity to drive adoption by increasing consumer awareness of the simplicity of initiating electronic P2P payments. As a proof point, 34 percent who expressed interest in the Portal concept indicated they would be willing to switch to a bank that offers electronic P2P payments as part of an ePayment Portal."
Monday, April 26, 2010
Duplicate content from Google
The truth of the Google duplicate content penalty is quite simply that there is none! If that confuses you, then you have been reading too many misinformed forums or blogs where people get stuck on some popular term that they have no idea what it means, and then profess to be experts.
The only experts on the Google duplicate content penalty, and the only people who are qualified to define it, are Google, and in Google's own words "There is no such thing as a duplicate content penalty". This comes directly from Google's Webmaster Central Blog.
From Peter Nizbet
The only experts on the Google duplicate content penalty, and the only people who are qualified to define it, are Google, and in Google's own words "There is no such thing as a duplicate content penalty". This comes directly from Google's Webmaster Central Blog.
From Peter Nizbet
Thursday, April 22, 2010
If you use hotmail and you use Facebook read this!
http://windowssecrets.com/2010/04/22/01-Hotmails-social-networking-busts-your-privacy/#story1
This is very troubling, and privacy is potentially being compromised!
This is very troubling, and privacy is potentially being compromised!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
you must keep up
One important thing to consider to keep in the search engines good graces is constant change. Write in your blog, do a Facebook page and a Twitter page. Change your front page often. The net changes often and you should also try to change with it.
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