MMTC Commends AT&T's Investment of $14 Billion In Broadband ...

For Immediate Release ? WASHINGTON DC, 11/7/12 ? The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC) praises AT&T?s recent announcement that it will invest $14 billion over the next three years in both wired and wireless broadband build out as part of its new Project Velocity IP (Project VIP).? This major commitment by one of the world?s largest communications companies can help strengthen and expand America?s broadband infrastructure for the benefit of consumers.

Through Project VIP, AT&T emphasizes its commitment to investing in America?s economy and future, bringing next-generation high-speed broadband Internet-protocol (IP) based services to more consumers and businesses nationwide, particularly the underserved and unserved.?IP is the common language almost all forms of technology can understand that enables seamless communication of voice, data and Internet applications among various devices (TVs, laptops, mobile smart devices, etc.).??IP-based services are high bandwidth broadband services that can provide important consumer benefits in the areas of education, healthcare, energy and public safety.? Upgrading rural broadband lines and bringing new wireless and wired IP-based services to more of America is essential to the growth of the nation?s economy.?

AT&T expects to cover 300 million Americans by the end of 2014, and expand its wired IP networks to 57 million customers and one million new business locations, including small businesses, in its current 22-state footprint by the end of 2015.

?Modern IP networks are dynamic, cost-efficient, and can offer consumers and communities opportunity by spurring technological innovation, job creation, and economic growth through major capital investment,? said MMTC President David Honig.??These smart networks are becoming increasingly vital to our nation?s economic development and efforts to maintain our global competitiveness.? MMTC has long emphasized the need to close the digital divide through broadband infrastructure investment, and Project VIP goes a long way toward achieving that goal.?

?We welcome AT&T?s investment and the opportunity it can bring to improve service quality and to help address the digital divide facing millions of Americans,? said Honig.? ?We should all have the good fortune to be able to access the best possible opportunities for educational, healthcare and career opportunities.? AT&T?s Project VIP can help more Americans realize these broadband-related advantages.?

Founded in 1986, MMTC is the nation?s leading advocate for diversity, equal opportunity, and closing the digital divide in the mass media, telecommunications, and broadband industries.

Source: http://broadbandandsocialjustice.org/2012/11/mmtc-commends-atts-investment-of-14-billion-in-broadband-infrastructure/

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Coming to Texas ballots: another Bush in 2014?

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ? George P. Bush, a rising star among Hispanic conservatives and the grandson of one president and nephew of another, has taken the first step toward seeking elected office in Texas.

But it's unclear what his next step will be.

The 36-year-old attorney from Fort Worth has filed a two-page candidate reporting declaration with the Texas Ethics Commission but didn't list which office he plans to seek. Bush did not return messages at his consulting firm Friday, and his campaign treasurer was traveling in Oklahoma and unavailable for comment.

Still, word of yet another Bush coming to Texas ballots was cheered by Republicans across the state, where party leaders are well aware that they will need Hispanic voters if they want to continue dominating politics here over the next two decades the way did during the last two.

"It's a positive thing to have something besides old white guys like me on the ballot," said Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson.

A Democrat has not won statewide office in Texas since 1994, but Hispanics accounted for two-thirds of Texas' population growth over the last decade and now make up 35 percent of its population. Mitt Romney's failure to connect with Latinos is being cited as a reason for his defeat by President Barack Obama, who carried 71 percent of the Hispanic vote nationwide.

"I think George P. Bush is the future of the party," said George Antuna, who co-founded the Hispanic Republicans of Texas with Bush. "Whichever office he decides to seek, we will support him 110 percent."

Bush is the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and his wife, Columba, who was born in Mexico. His uncle is George W. Bush and his grandfather is George H.W. Bush.

George P. Bush speaks Spanish and has been active in politics for years. In August, he was promoted to deputy finance chairman of the Texas Republican Party.

The filing answers at least one question: Texas or Florida?

Bush grew up in the Sunshine State but met his wife Amanda while attending law school at the University of Texas. He later became a partner in a real estate investment company and has since started Fort Worth-based St. Augustine Partners, a business consulting firm.

As recently as September, Bush said he was being recruited to run for statewide office by Texas GOP brass. That same month, however, he launched a four-day bus tour of Florida to drum up support for the Republican Party among college students there.

"I know he has a passion for Texas. Texas is where his granddad lives, where his uncle lives and a lot of other family members," Antuna said. "He's always been a Texan. It just took him a little while to get here."

But Bush's paperwork was filed at a time of great uncertainty among top Texas Republicans.

Gov. Rick Perry, succeeded Bush's uncle as Texas governor in 2000 and has now held the job longer than anyone in history. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has been in his post for a decade. Both are eying re-election runs in 2014.

That's sparked a logjam among Republican statewide officeholders, many of whom are anxious to move up ? and that was before Bush entered the fray.

Attorney General Greg Abbott has raised $14 million, presumably to run for governor. Patterson and Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples have already said they will challenge Dewhurst, while Comptroller Susan Combs and state Sen. Dan Patrick are also expected to run for lieutenant governor.

As a newcomer, Bush will likely wait to see how the field settles before he announces what office he'll pursue.

If Perry decides not to seek another term as governor in 2014 ? a possibility since he may want to run for president two years later ? then Bush will likely want to run for attorney general. But if Abbott stays put, Bush is expected to run for land commissioner while Patterson campaigns for lieutenant governor.

Adding to the intrigue is the fact that Perry and the Bush family don't get along very well. Perry served as George W. Bush's lieutenant governor and once unsuccessfully sought a judicial appointment for his brother-in-law, whom Bush shunned.

Both sides claim the feud has long since cooled, but the Bush family made no secret of its support for Romney, even when Perry briefly challenged him for the Republican presidential nomination. And Jeb Bush has been mentioned as a possible presidential hopeful for 2016, which could pit him against Perry.

Patterson said he believes either attorney general or land commissioner is George P. Bush's likeliest potential destination. The land commissioner administers state-owned lands and mineral resources.

"He comes from pretty decent lineage of folks who've been successful in politics," Patterson said.

Meanwhile, all officeholders will keep an eye on Bush to see if he tries to follow in Ted Cruz's footsteps.

Instead of working his way up the Texas GOP ladder, Cruz ran for the U.S. Senate in his first election. He stunned Dewhurst in the Republican primary before being elected Tuesday as successor to retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/coming-texas-ballots-another-bush-2014-174641197--politics.html

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'No change' on wind farms - PM

31 October 2012 Last updated at 13:07 ET

Ed Miliband and David Cameron clashed over Lord Heseltine, and wind farms

There has been no change in the government's policy on renewable energy, the prime minister has said.

It comes after a Tory energy minister sparked a coalition row by claiming the UK had "enough" onshore wind farms.

John Hayes was slapped down by his Lib Dem boss Ed Davey after suggesting future projects would be blocked.

Mr Davey said he was in charge of energy policy and, echoing the PM, said the wind farm policy had not changed.

"The government is still committed to renewables including onshore wind," said Mr Davey.

"They are the cheapest available major renewable source and as the Prime Minister made clear today in the House of Commons the policy on renewables hasn't changed."

"There will still be lots of investment in onshore wind farms," he added, saying they were vital as a "clean" and "secure" alternative to oil from other countries as North Sea oil diminished.

Mr Davey refused to answer when the question "Is John Hayes just wrong then?" was shouted at him by reporters.

'New Jerusalem'

Mr Hayes, a longstanding critic of wind farms, was handed the junior ministerial role in September's reshuffle, prompting Mr Davey to take personal control of wind farm policy to protect a key Lib Dem priority.

Continue reading the main story

Analysis

John Hayes is a long-standing opponent of onshore wind farms, so this row was waiting to happen.

I understand that he wrote an anti-wind speech which Ed Davey decreed to be against government policy.

He then penned a more emollient version, but shared his original views with journalists.

Mr Hayes cannot be contacted to confirm that.

Onshore wind is particularly contentious with so many back-bench Conservatives opposing turbines in the countryside, but the Lib Dems insistent that wind farms offer the cheapest way of expanding low-carbon energy to help keep the lights on and reduce emissions in the forthcoming Energy Bill.

Of the alternatives, offshore wind is very expensive; nuclear is controversial and expensive; wave power is in its infancy; energy efficiency is hard to achieve; coal is deemed too dirty and gas leaves the UK vulnerable to price spikes on the global market.

It's not easy.

The Tory minister, who is in charge of "renewable energy deployment", is understood to have wanted to announce a moratorium on new wind farms in a speech on Tuesday evening but was prevented from doing so by Mr Davey.

Instead, he told the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph there were enough wind farms in the planning pipeline to meet government environmental targets - and there should be no more.

He said: "We can no longer have wind turbines imposed on communities. I can't single-handedly build a new Jerusalem but I can protect our green and pleasant land.

"We have issued a call for evidence on wind. That is about cost but also about community buy-in. We need to understand communities' genuine desires. We will form our policy in the future on the basis of that, not on a bourgeois Left article of faith based on some academic perspective.

"If you look at what has been built, what has consent and what is in the planning system, much of it will not get through and will be rejected. Even if a minority of what's in the system is built we are going to reach our 2020 target."

He also suggested reviews would be launched into the noise and impact on the landscape created by turbines - something denied by a DECC source, who said Mr Hayes had "totally over-egged" things in the newspaper interviews.

Mr Hayes told reporters on Wednesday morning "I stand by what I said".

'Playing politics'

Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Cameron denied there had been any change to the government's policy on wind energy, but did back a future debate on renewables, once the government had met its environmental targets.

He said: "There has been no change towards renewable energy.

"We have got a big pipeline of onshore and offshore wind projects that are coming through, but frankly all parties are going to have to have a debate in this House and outside this House about what happens when those targets are met."

Labour leader Ed Miliband described this as a "useless answer," adding "there are investors all round this country who want certainty about energy policy".

There are 3,400 onshore wind turbines across the UK at 324 different sites, generating 3% of the UK's electricity.

A further 4,000 turbines are due to be built by 2020.

Maf Smith, deputy chief executive of RenewableUK, said his organisation was "disappointed" by Mr Hayes' comments, which came after he addressed a renewables conference on Tuesday evening.

Mr Smith told BBC Radio 4 Today's programme: "At our conference he was talking about the importance of renewables in the mix, the importance of wind, the importance of jobs and securing benefits for renewables.

"What we would like is clarity about those views."

Earlier this year, more than 100 Conservative MPs wrote to Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to get rid of the subsidies paid to wind farm operators funded from household energy bills.

Shadow energy secretary Caroline Flint, for Labour, accused Mr Hayes of "playing politics" with clean energy jobs and the country's energy security.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20150316#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

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For what realism there is...!

The World Tree is dying, and all the world is descending into chaos. Are there still heroes left who will be able to stand and fight to prevent the promised apocalypse of legends?

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This topic is an Out Of Character part of the roleplay, ?The Dohvin Tree?. Anything posted here will also show up there.

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Forum for completely Out of Character (OOC) discussion, based around whatever is happening In Character (IC). Discuss plans, storylines, and events; Recruit for your roleplaying game, or find a GM for your playergroup.
This RP, though based in a fantasy world and making use of magic, is still grounded in a world dominated by the world of physics and reality. So here's an example of what I do not EVER want to see out of someone.

Age: 16
Fighting Style: Makes heavy use of hard styles with tight blocks and swift, fierce strikes.
Bio: Despite their youth, they are the best known warrior around!

These three details will earn your character a one way trip to the RP graveyard. Teenagers, by very nature of their bodily growth and features, will never, NEVER, be able to be the strongest or most feared warriors of any race or be the most proficient in any weapon form. It doesn't matter how much you might otherwise known about combat or weaponry, a teenager will never be stronger, faster, or more skilled than a seasoned adult character.

So please, no teenagers folks. Teenagers are good for romance RP's, sci fi horror RP's where they don't have to have any special abilities or talents, and maybe the occasional Gods vs Men RP where they can get away with supernatural abilities by being a God or Goddess.

The youngest age I will accept in this RP is 21, no younger. At that point, your body has, more or less, stopped growing and has hit the age where its physical prime can be reached. However, be mindful that this is not an invitation to make a 21 year old the best archer the world has ever known. If I find any profiles trying to pass off someone this young as a prodigy or some sort of ultimate warrior, I will not accept it. While Kyero may be the best swordsman in his village, he has never competed against others outside his village and therefore has never been able to test himself against other warriors. If he were to come across a warrior who is older and more experienced, he would lose in a one on one confrontation with him.

In other words, I want characters who are young enough to have room to grow, but strong enough to hold their own in combat without finding a way to miraculously come out of every combat situation they find themselves in without a scratch.

Thank you!

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We Have Class Tomorrow :( | Bwog

According to an email from Columbia?s Emergency Management Operations Team, we (undergrads) have class tomorrow! The reason? ?Our students will only benefit by beginning to reengage in the purposeful work that brings our University community?and our City?together each day.?

The med school, School of Public Health, School of Continuing Education, School of the Arts, UTS, and Teachers College all canceled classes. (Barnard has not announced whether classes are canceled, but it?s likely they?re not.) NYU canceled classes, there?s still no public transit, and NYC public schools and libraries are closed. And yet, we have class. But look on the bright side: in two days, it?ll be Fall Break.

Full statement:

UNIVERSITY STATEMENT REGARDING RESUMPTION OF CLASSES
FOR WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 31, 2012

As our city and region recover from the serious impact of Hurricane Sandy, the University will begin resuming classes tomorrow, Wednesday, October 31, with the following exceptions:

The Mailman School of Public Health on the Medical Center campus will not hold classes;

On the Morningside Campus, the School of Continuing Education and the School of the Arts graduate classes will not be held, but undergraduate classes in the School of the Arts will meet.

We know that transportation within the five boroughs and wider metropolitan area will remain a challenge for several days to come and that there will inevitably be some students, faculty and staff who may have special difficulty reaching our campuses. We want to emphasize that everyone whose families, homes and neighborhoods have been severely affected by the storm have our full support in attending to their needs on the home front in the days ahead.

We are fortunate to have large populations of students, faculty and staff living in, or within close walking distance of, our campus communities, which escaped significant damage from the storm. Our students will only benefit by beginning to reengage in the purposeful work that brings our University community ? and our City?together each day.

Administrative and support staff should report to work on Wednesday. If that presents difficulties, please contact your supervisor. Faculty members and teaching assistants who cannot reach campus tomorrow should try to follow normal procedures to inform their students that a particular class will not be held, as they would do with other instances such as missing class due to illness. Teaching assistants should follow the same protocol in regard to recitation sections or other academic sessions. To be sure, we appreciate that because of flooding and power outages elsewhere, it may sometimes be impossible to alert students of a class cancellation.

We encourage faculty members to be flexible and creative in making provision for students who may themselves not be able to reach campus, such as providing class materials including notes from lectures and discussions. Please do not hesitate to contact your deans and department chairs for more information and guidance, if needed.

We will continue to update the University community about the status of activities and operations depending largely on decision-making by State and City about travel and transit conditions. For example, because of limited staffing, we can expect that some campus services will be reduced this week.

It is also worth note that this coming Monday and Tuesday remain scheduled University holidays.

With patience, understanding and flexibility, the University can move forward with the rest of our City and region in reestablishing our daily lives and work in the days ahead.

Source: http://bwog.com/2012/10/30/we-have-class-tomorrow/

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