MTARS HAMFEST. Saturday March 15th, 2008
Directly behind the 1st Methodist Church, at Lauderdale and Jackson St., in
Tullahoma.
Street address is 208 W. Lauderdale St., Tullahoma.

Doors open at 8 AM.... main prize drawing at 2 PM

Talkin on 146.70 (minus offset).... secondary / backup on 147.195 (plus
offset)

Hourly doorprizes.

Several vendors already signed up to come.

VE testing at 9 AM. (for info, contact Bradley Brake W4BB (Email
bbrake@charter.net)

Lots of good food on site, featuring locally cooked, Award winning BBQ,
plate lunches and sandwiches, deserts, drinks, etc.

Admission $5. Children 15 and under free

Vendor tables with limited electricity $10. (Vendor setup, Friday, 5 to 8 PM
and Saturday 6 AM.)
For table info, contact Bill Holt (Email n0euu@hotmail.com)

For more info, contact Ed Hohenthaner W7LGD, Cowan Tn. phone
#(931)967-0545 Email W7LGD@yahoo.com

MTARS HAMFEST 2008

It had been hoped members would boost the supply of oil to help prices fall from their historically-high levels.

The price of a barrel of oil reached another record of almost $104 during trading on Monday in New York.

Oil ministers from Opec member nations are gathering in Vienna ahead of their meeting which starts on Wednesday.

"I don't think Opec would consider increasing production because then we would be increasing to meet a demand that doesn't exist," Opec President Chakib Khelil said

Damit... These people with their S.E.G's are going to kill us at the pump...
"I don't think Opec would consider increasing production because then we would be increasing to meet a demand that doesn't exist," my ass.

They are going to milk the USA for every dime, every time.... period.

*EOR (end of rant) *

Opec dashes oil supply rise hopes

MESSAGE: MESSAGE:

DTG: 20080304/0031Z VAAC: WASHINGTON
VOLCANO: ANATAHAN 0804-20
PSN: N1621 E14539 AREA: MARIANA.ISLANDS
SUMMIT ELEV: 2585 FT (788 M)
ADVISORY NR: 2008/056
INFO SOURCE: MTSAT. GFS WINDS. RADIOSONDE.
ERUPTION DETAILS: ONGOING EMISSIONS
OBS VA DTG: 03/2330Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL060 40NM WIDE LINE BETWEEN
N1910 E14810 - N1624 E14544. ASH IS MOVING NE
5-10 KNOTS.
FCST VA CLD +6HR: 04/0530Z SFC/FL060 40NM WIDE
LINE BETWEEN N1858 E14823 - N1628 E14543.
FCST VA CLD +12HR: 04/1130Z SFC/FL060 40NM WIDE
LINE BETWEEN N1854 E14826 - N1626 E14546.
FCST VA CLD +18HR: 04/1730Z SFC/FL060 40NM WIDE
LINE BETWEEN N1842 E14831 - N1626 E14546.
RMK: MORNING VISIBLE IMAGERY REVEALS A 35-40 NMI
WIDE PLUME EXTENDING AT LEAST 215 NMI TO THE
NORTHEAST OF THE VOLCANO OR TO ABOUT 19N 148E.
GFS AND SOUNDINGS SUGGEST A SLIGHTLY LOWER HEIGHT
AT ABOUT FL060. SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS SUGGEST
WINDS COULD BE UP TO 15KTS. ...BALDWIN
NXT ADVISORY: WILL BE ISSUED BY 20080304/0630

Whats up in the MARIANA.ISLANDS?

VOLCANIC ASH ADVISORY

Check the link... Global Crossing is having some issues and it is blocking access to some servers down in a Dallas data center so I am sure others are probably affected...

Does anyone else know of a better source of info?

I hate being kept in the dark... :|

Global Crossing and Others Are Having Problems...

But while Comcast's seat-warmers slept, a collection of Cambridge scholars, Internet advocates, industry leaders, engineers and policymakers nearly all agreed that Internet blocking has serious consequences for each and every one of us.

I say "nearly" because Comcast remains defiant; its executive vice president, David Cohen, continues to insist that "Comcast does not block any Web site, application or Web protocol including peer-to-peer services."

Cohen sets a high bar with that denial, especially since extensive testing has shown exactly the opposite to be true.

"There a single fact here that [Comcast] cannot deny," explained Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu during Monday's hearing. "Users of the Internet sought to use an application in a certain way, and they were blocked."

This view was supported by David Reed of MIT's Media Lab, who had also experimented with popular file-sharing applications and found that Comcast was duping users with forged network transmissions that cut off their connections. "Comcast's secretive attempt to apply non-standard management practices creates serious problems," he said before the FCC.

In Boston: A Shot Heard 'Round the Internet....

Net neutrality rules for broadband providers would protect bandwidth hogs at the expense of other customers and civic organizations, said the coalition, which includes the National Black Chamber of Commerce, Latinos in Information Sciences and Technology Association, League of Rural Voters, and National Council of Women's Organizations.

The coalition filed comments with the FCC Thursday in the agency's inquiry into Comcast's slowing of some P-to-P (peer-to-peer) traffic. "Regulations prohibiting network management risk undermining free speech on the Internet by allowing P2P traffic to overwhelm the network and prevent non-P2P traffic from reaching its destination," the coalition said in its filing. "The effective prioritization of P2P traffic would represent an altogether new type of 'back of the bus' second-class status for our speech on broadband networks -- and ought to be resoundingly rejected

: FCC should allow network management?

One might rethink playing with snow or walking in the rain as a new study by scientists from the Louisiana State University revealed that snow and rain might form mostly on bacteria in the clouds.

Scientists have long known that the ice crystals in clouds, which become rain or snow, need to cling to some kind of particle, called ice nucleators, in order to form in temperatures above minus 40 degrees Celsius.

Microbiologist Brent Christner at Louisiana State University sampled snow from Antarctica, France, and the Yukon and found that as much as 85 percent of the nuclei were bacteria, he said in a telephone interview with the Associated Press.

“Every snow and ice sample we’ve looked at, we found biological ice nucleators. Here’s a component that has been completely ignored to date,” Christner said.

The most common bacteri

Bacteria ! The Main Ingredient in Snowflakes, Scientists Say

For the first time in the litigation over documents posted on the Wikileaks Web site, lawyers have appeared representing the owner of the Wikileaks.org Internet domain. He is John Shipton, “a citizen of Australia currently residing in Kenya,” according to a document filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco.

In the document, Mr. Shipton’s lawyers endorsed arguments made in briefs filed by various groups — including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press — contending that an order from Federal District Judge Jeffrey S. White hindering access to the Wikileaks Web site should be withdrawn and the lawsuit should be thrown out.

Freedom of information or just a bunch of crooks?

More Twists and Turns in Wikileaks Case

With no news from regulators and a merger agreement set to expire this weekend, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio have agreed to buy themselves a little more time.

"The companies have agreed not to exercise their rights to terminate the merger agreement until May 1," the companies said in a joint statement without commenting further.

The $4 billion all-stock merger is still waiting on approval from the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission. The two agreed to merge in February 2007 and had set March 1, 2008 as a deadline.

The companies want to merge to cut expenses and turn profitable sooner than they might alone. Critics have said the merger would stifle competition by creating a satellite radio monopoly.

"satellite radio monopoly" sounds like a buch of who-ha to me.
Hmm what was there before, FM/AM Broadcasting... Which is sorta free...
I see no real harm it them getting together....

XM, Sirius extend merger agreement

At the request of chemical industry lobbyists, the Environmental Protection Agency removed the chair of an expert peer review panel charged with setting safe exposure levels for a toxic fire retardant that contaminates human blood and breast milk, this according to a report from the Environmental Working Group.

The panel was convened by EPA to report to the agency on environment and health concerns of Decabromodiphenyl or Deca. It is a spin off from chemical fire retardants and used in electronic components and other consumer products. The chemical has been shown to be a developmental neurotoxin.

It was the American Chemical Council, the industry's major lobbyist, that pressured EPA to remove Dr. Deborah Rice from the panel.

Rice, retired EPA scientist, is credited by many in the public health community for doing the leading work in researching Deca's toxicity to the brain and nervous system during development. Now with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Rice also spearheaded a regulatory review mandated by Maine law, to investigate the feasibility of replacing Deca with less toxic chemicals.

Big $$$ shut her up... Welcome to America...

EPA bows to chemical industry lobbyists, fires top expert on flame retardents' dangers