Humane Society for Hamilton Co. pleads for foster ... - Fox 59 News

Clementine is the life of the party and she loves to play.? Two-year-old Grant is no scaredy cat either. They are both happy and healthy and ready to be adopted from the Humane Society for Hamilton County.

But their friends just down hall are in trouble. There are only supposed to be about 20 sick cats in the holding area but now there are 40.

Many of the cats have been surrendered from homes they may have lived in for years for various reasons but when they?re put in a shelter environment there are new sounds, it?s loud, the food is different and the cats get stressed out.

?They?re sick, they?re sad, they?re confused and they don?t know why they?re here,? said Jennifer Judd, Manager of Marketing & Public Relations.??They?re prone to the illness and some of them just give up.?

Periwinkle feels so bad she stopped eating so she has to be hand fed.

But there is hope for these cats. Veterinarians said they just need to be taken out of the shelter and put in a foster home to heal for about two to three weeks.

?Animals get better quicker in a home, three times faster than they do in this environment,? said Judd.

All you need to do to be a foster family is provide the love. The humane society will give you everything else.? There is no cost to you.? It will provide the medicine, the blankets, the food, even the crate.

?And in a home environment it?s quiet,? said Veterinarian Suzanne Ostle.? ?People are there to pet it and talk to it and they can leave them alone too and that helps them to heal.?

?Fostering an animal can truly make a difference between life and death,? Said Judd.

With a little love, fostered cats can soon be back out there with Clementine and Grant, healthy and ready to play in a new, forever home.

Source: http://fox59.com/2013/02/05/humane-society-for-hamilton-co-pleads-for-foster-families-to-come-forward/

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The Transformation of Global Telecommunication: How is Australia

During my early years of studying economic globalisation in the late 1990s?I was astounded to learn that a majority of the world's population had not even used a telephone, let alone used a computer or accessed the Internet. This was mainly because the costs of telecommunications infrastructure were so high. Poles and wires cost a lot of money.

Mobile phones have changed all that. Suddenly, communication could take place through?relatively inexpensive mobile phones, whose infrastructural requirements were far less onerous.

There is still a long way to go, however; despite the massive growth in access to mobile phones, around two-thirds of the world's population is still not on-line.

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) provides a statistical picture of global telecommunications.??Made up of 193 Member States, academic institutions and around 700 private companies, the ITU, according to its website, is

the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies ? ICTs. We allocate global radio spectrum and satellite orbits, develop the technical standards that ensure networks and technologies seamlessly interconnect, and strive to improve access to ICTs to underserved communities worldwide.??

ITU is committed to connecting all the world's people ? wherever they live and whatever their means. Through our work, we protect and support everyone's fundamental right to communicate.?

Lofty ambitions indeed and while the role of the ITU in the spread of ICTs is difficult to measure, the increased global access to mobile phones is not. Mobile phones?have had a profound affect on virtually the entire world, including some of the poorest countries. There is, however, a long way to go on the global communications front, especially in terms of access to broadband in developing countries.

The last available data on ICTs is from June 2012 and makes the case for an ongoing remarkable transformation.

Mobile Cellular

• Total mobile?cellular subscriptions reached almost 6 billion by end 2011, corresponding to a global penetration of 86%.?

• Growth was driven by developing countries, which accounted for more than 80% of the 660 million new mobile?cellular subscriptions added in 2011.?

• In 2011, 142 million mobile?cellular subscriptions were added in India, twice as many as in the whole of Africa, and more than in the Arab States, CIS and Europe together.?

• By end 2011, there were 105 countries with more mobile?cellular subscriptions than inhabitants, including African countries such as Botswana, Gabon, Namibia, Seychelles and South Africa.??

• Countries where mobile?cellular penetration increased the most in 2011 include Brazil, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, Lao P.D.R. and Mali.

Mobile Broadband:

• By end 2011, there were more than 1 billion mobile?broadband subscriptions worldwide.?

• Mobile broadband has become the single most dynamic ICT service reaching a 40% annual subscription growth in 2011. Although developing countries are catching up in terms of 3G coverage, huge disparities remain between mobile?broadband penetration in the developing (8%) and the developed world (51%).?

• In Africa there are less than 5 mobile?broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, whereas all other regions have penetration levels above 10%.??

• By end 2011, there were more mobile?broadband subscriptions than inhabitants in the Republic of Korea and Singapore. In Japan and Sweden, active mobile?broadband penetration surpassed 90% by end 2011.?

• In 2011, 144 million mobile?broadband subscriptions were added in the BRICS (Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa), accounting for 45% of the world?s total subscriptions added in 2011.

Fixed (Wired) Broadband:

• By end 2011, there were 590 million fixed (wired)?broadband subscriptions worldwide.?

• Fixed (wired) broadband growth in developed countries is slowing (5% increase in 2011), whereas developing countries continue to experience high growth (18% in 2011).?

• Fixed (wired)?broadband penetration remains low in some regions, such as Africa and the Arab States, with 0.2% and 2% respectively by end 2011.?

• In 2011, 30 million fixed (wired)?broadband subscriptions were added in China, about half of the total subscriptions added worldwide, and fixed (wired)?broadband penetration reached 12% in the country.?

• Top performers ? such as France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, the Republic of Korea and Switzerland ? had fixed (wired)?broadband penetrations above 35% by end 2011.??

• Countries where fixed (wired)?broadband penetration increased the most in 2011 include Bahrain, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mauritius and Uruguay. However, among these, only Bahrain and Uruguay surpassed the 10% fixed (wired)?broadband penetration by end 2011.

?Internet:

• The percentage of individuals using the Internet continues to grow worldwide and by end 2011 2.3 billion people were online.?

• In developing countries, the number of Internet users doubled between 2007 and 2011, but only a quarter of inhabitants in the developing world were online by end 2011.?

• The percentage of individuals using the Internet in the developed world reached the 70% landmark by end 2011. In Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden more than 90% of the population are online.????

• By end 2011, 70% of the total households in developed countries had Internet, whereas only 20% of households in developing countries had Internet access. Some outstanding exceptions include Lebanon and Malaysia with 62% and 61% of households with Internet respectively.??

• Total international Internet bandwidth increased seven?fold over the last five years reaching 76?000 Gbit/s by end 2011. This equates to 34?000 bit/s per Internet user worldwide.??

• Major differences in Internet bandwidth per Internet user persist between regions: on average, a user in Europe enjoys 25 times as much international Internet capacity as a used in Africa.

Put in graphic form, these stats look like this.

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The statistics show the simple fact that the greater the costs of infrastructure, the less likely it is that developing country populations will have access to the technology. Mobile phone applications are the wave of the future in the developing world. As predicted many years ago fixed-line telephones are on the way out. What is worth pondering for the future is whether fixed-broadband subscriptions will meet a similar fate in years to come.

As noted above, access to the Internet has been growing rapidly but still has some way to go, especially in the developing world. Amazingly, nearly 30 per cent of the developed world still does not use the Internet, while 75 per cent of people in the developing world are not on-line.

So what about Australia? How are we doing in the ICT world? Compared to our macroeconomic performance we are a definite laggard, although geography no doubt plays some role in this. Engineering ICT infrastructure is a harder and costlier?job in Australia than it is in South Korea for example.

To measure ICT prowess, the ITU constructs an ICT index, based on the following parameters.

Australia comes in at a lowly 21st, well behind ICT supremos Korea and the Scandinavian countries. Virtually every Korean household (97 per cent) has an Internet connection and 84 per cent of the Korean population is on the Internet.

According to the ITU, there were 46.6 fixed-telephone subscriptions per 100 Australians in 2011, down from 47.6 in 2010. Australia had 108.3 mobile subscriptions/100 inhabitants in 2011, up from 101.0 in 2010. The percentage of households with a computer was 82.6 per cent in 2011, up from 81.1 per cent in 2010; and 78.9?per cent of households had access to the Internet in 2011, up from 74.1 per cent in 2010.

AIMIA, the Digital Industry Association for Australia, recently conducted a survey on mobile phone usage. In 2012, 76% of those surveyed had a smartphone, up from 67% in 2011. The mobile handset market is still dominated by Apple, with 40% of respondents (up from 32 per cent in 2011) owning an iPhone. Samsung is also improving its position?from 13 per cent of respondents?in 2011 ?to 18 per cent in 2012. Nokia is the big loser?, dropping?from 28 per cent?to 16 per cent of respondents.

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics also provides data on Internet activity in Australia. In June 2012, there were 12.0 million Internet subscribers in Australia, an increase of 4% since the end of December 2011 and an annual growth of 10 per cent.

In 2006 dial-up dominated, but by 2012 96 per cent of Internet connections were broadband.

According to the ABS,?"5.9 million subscribers were using mobile wireless connections while 4.6 million were using DSL".

Download speeds have also been increasing: "The number of connections at the top end of the speed ranges (24Mbps - 100Mbps and 100Mbps or more) grew by 20% and 34% respectively, since December 2011, accounting for 1.5 million subscribers."

The amount of data downloaded via the internet (excluding mobile handsets) in the three months ending 30 June 2012 was 414,537 TB, a 20% increase since December.

At the end of June 2012, there were 16.2 million mobile handset subscribers in Australia. This represents an increase of nearly 7% over six months. The volume of data downloaded, via mobile handsets, over the three months ending 30 June 2012, was 6,610 TB, an increase of 32% from December 2011.

Australians are becoming more Internet and mobile phone?oriented, but there is still some way to go before Australia joins the global top 10 in the ICT world.

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Source: http://tomjconley.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-transformation-of-global.html

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For U.S. gun clubs, NRA membership has its privileges

CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine (Reuters) - Things are looking up at the Spurwink Rod and Gun Club.

The junior marksmanship team now has matching jackets and Olympic-style rifles. There's a new video security system. And the shooting range has been rebuilt, with a rubber roof and double-thick plywood walls to dampen the crack of rifle fire - not that that's likely to satisfy the neighbors who keep complaining about the noise.

There's another change as well: One year ago, the private club required all 300 of its members to join the National Rifle Association, the nation's largest gun-rights group. Some club members objected, and a dozen or so quit. But most had their NRA cards already, and the rest signed up.

The decision offers a glimpse of how the NRA - best-known in Washington as a bare-knuckled gun advocacy group - plays a prominent role in the nation's gun culture in a way that helps expand its membership, which it says is now 4.5 million.

The NRA's on-the-ground effort brings in members who might not join otherwise - and allows the group's lobbying arm to claim that it represents a broad range of gun-owning Americans as it pushes back against calls for gun restrictions following a shooting massacre at a Connecticut school that killed 26 people.

In return for registering NRA members, shooting ranges like Spurwink - little more than a caboose-red cabin and a shed at the edge of some woods - get a little more assurance that they will be able to keep their doors open.

Now that the Spurwink Rod and Gun Club is a 100 percent NRA Club, its junior shooting team can participate in official tournaments and the club is eligible for thousands of dollars in NRA grants. There's also legal help available, if it's needed.

It hasn't gotten to that point yet, but it might.

This affluent seaside community is more crowded than it used to be, and the gun club had to hire a lawyer last year when some of its new neighbors began complaining to the town council about noise from the gun range.

"We just want to be left alone to do what we're doing," club President Mark Mayon said on a recent weekday, as the crack of rifle fire echoed through the falling snow. "We've been here for 63 years, and we want to be here another 63."

BUILDING UP THE NRA

The NRA's involvement in gun activities ranging from safety instruction and tournaments to financial support for shooting ranges dates to the 141-year-old group's roots as an organization dedicated to promoting marksmanship.

Since the 1970s, the NRA has ramped up its political operations as activists have worried that gun-control efforts threaten Americans' constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

The NRA has rejected President Barack Obama's efforts to ban the sale of military-style assault rifles like the one used in the killing of 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14.

Gun-control advocates say that some metrics, such as circulation figures for magazines that the NRA sends to its members, suggest that the group's claim of 4.5 million members might be inflated.

Gun ownership has fallen sharply from 54 percent of U.S. households in 1977 to 32 percent in 2011, according to the University of Chicago's General Social Survey. In that context - and amid calls for new restrictions on guns - it's important for the NRA to show that its membership is rising, said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, a gun-control group.

"It's in the NRA's interest to show that although gun ownership is decreasing, their membership is rising. They can't in any way be interpreted as a fading movement in a political context," Sugarmann said.

The NRA did not respond to several requests for comment.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association, estimates there are 10,000 shooting ranges in the United States. Ranges that are open to the public can't exclude customers who do not belong to the NRA, but private clubs may set membership rules as they wish.

Only the NRA knows how many private clubs require NRA membership, but gun owners who object to the organization's ties to conservative politics say it can be difficult to find a place to shoot that doesn't require membership in the gun group.

"It's this sort of self-fulfilling thing where the NRA continually gets money from people who would rather not give it to them, because it's the only game in town," said Mark Roberts, president of the Liberal Gun Club, a left-leaning gun owners group.

The NRA says it has awarded more than $11.3 million for safety improvements and equipment upgrades at nearly 2,200 public and private ranges since 1994.

For a $35 annual fee, more than 14,000 affiliated organizations also get access to attorney referral services and discounts on business services such as credit-card processing. More than 8,000 clubs get their insurance through the NRA, according to the group's promotional materials.

In return, the NRA gets a recruitment channel to reach millions of gun enthusiasts who aren't already members. Clubs can earn up to $10 for each new NRA member they sign up and $5 for each annual renewal, according to an online manual for club officers.

Clubs that require all of their members to join the NRA get another important benefit: the chance to apply for grants of up to $5,000 per year to help improve and develop shooting facilities.

For a modest operation like the Spurwink Club, such help from the NRA could make a big difference if the club were to need it someday.

So far the club has paid for improvements itself, relying on volunteer labor and donated materials. Annual dues recently were raised to $65 from $45. Shortly after the Connecticut shootings the club raffled off an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle - one of the models that could be taken off the market under Obama's proposed ban on assault weapons.

'WE CAN'T BLOW IT'

The club hopes NRA money will help pay for further upgrades, such as an elaborate safety system that would ensure stray bullets do not leave the property, Spurwink's Mayon said. Last year's application was rejected by the NRA because of a paperwork snafu, but Mayon plans to apply again this year.

"Since there are fewer places to shoot, you've really got to take them seriously," he said. "We've really got something special down here, and we can't blow it."

Up the hill from the shooting range, the Spurwink clubhouse looks little changed from when it was built in 1956. Mangy deer heads and stuffed partridges line the walls, and an antique cast-iron stove squats in the kitchen.

But the neighborhood has changed. Half-million-dollar houses now dot the woods and fields around the club, and some neighbors have complained about noise, perceived safety risks, and the types of guns that members use.

"Semiautomatic weapons are not what one would expect from a hunting/fishing club," several neighbors wrote to the town council last month.

Club members say they are well aware of the experience of the nearby Falmouth Rod and Gun Club, which had to shut down temporarily in 2011 and undergo an extensive permitting process after neighbors complained about safety violations.

The Spurwink Club adopted its 100 percent NRA membership requirement in the fall of 2011, before the latest dispute with neighbors flared up. Club officers said they had discussed the NRA membership requirement for several years as a way to help protect gun rights at the national level, and that the benefits from the NRA were an added sweetener.

The new requirement took effect in January 2012, prompting about 50 people to join the national organization, said membership secretary Richard Aspinall.

A dozen or so members decided to quit the club rather than join the NRA, he said. Some who left said they disagreed with the group's uncompromising stance on gun control. Others said they just didn't want to be told what to do, or objected to paying $25 to the NRA on top of their annual club dues.

Spurwink Club member Chris Bond said he initially resisted the idea of joining the NRA but eventually opted for a bare-bones membership that costs him $5 per year after concluding that the benefits of being in the gun club outweighed whatever reservations he had about the NRA's uncompromising political stance.

"The club doesn't have any money, and we could be wiped out behind one good lawsuit," Bond said.

Another member, Greg Walsh, said he quit last year because he didn't like the idea of being required to join any organization. Since Newtown, he has grown more concerned that gun rights are under threat from the government. He has since re-applied to the club and put in for an NRA membership as well.

"It seems like there's so much momentum to put guns behind the closet doors," he said. "Spurwink needs all the help it can get now."

(Reporting by Andy Sullivan; Editing by David Lindsey and Eric Beech)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-gun-clubs-nra-membership-privileges-151226441.html

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Unmasked.

Hey everybody this is the start of a story idea I have knocking about up in my brain case. It came from two things. First the line ?None of us are as cruel as all of us? which featured heavily in those creepy videos Anonymous used to send to Tom Cruise?s people, I found the line to be so menacing yet, in its own way, insightful. The second piece of inspiration came when I heard about the AOL search data leak which is basically what it sounds like. A few years back AOL accidently released users internet search history. You can read about it on Wikipedia but some of the searches where tragic, some were banal while a few were straight up terrifying.

The rest just kind of came naturally. I?m thinking of developing the story into a kind of internet sci-fi horror thing. Anyway this is just the set up.

Oh and it?s about to become painfully clear I know nothing about computers so expect a healthy dose of technical babble ahead although I tried to have a little fun with it.

Unmasked.

Like most things I later regret the project started in a bar.

It was a trendy place called Fate which was popular with undergrads and townies alike. I was there because it was the venues of an interdepartmental mixer that are open to all staff and students. The idea was the mixers would lead to interdisciplinary thinking, get the engineers talking to astronomy lecturers, which is an example of where the idea is a good one. An example of where it?s a bad one is when the Humanities people got together with the Sciences, things got real ugly, either everyone got way too drunk or everyone got way too drunk then there was argument about the validity of someone?s field. All in all though it was one of the New Dean?s better ideas.

Most lecturers tried to avoid attending but would send a sacrificial lamb so it didn?t look like we were blowing off the idea completely. In the computer sciences department I was the Lamb, youngest in the department and no kids. I was perfect, course everyone made out like I was some hero, taking one for the team, you know how it is. I didn?t mind some of them that much as most departments had the same idea so it was something of an excuse for the younger lecturers to get together and have a drink at an officially sanctioned University event no less.

It was at the Computer Sciences/ Psychology Department mixer that I met Professor McCool. He was sitting at the bar nursing a bottle of beer and entertaining some Graduate students with stories of the good old days before ethics committees. It?s fortunate that he has a name like McCool as for a man in his late fifties he?s actually pretty cool. He remains the only man I?ve ever known to pull off a turtle neck. His coolness also came from his teaching ability which saw his lectures were always oversubscribed, in particular anything to do with body language. You know that old show where Tim Roth could read minds by picking up on microexpressions? Professor McCool was one of the leading researchers.

I decided to introduce myself on a whim.

?Professor. I?m...?

?No wait I never forget a student. It?s either Pat or Ash... definitely something unisex.

?No Professor, I?m a lecturer from the Computer Science Faculty.?

?God, they?re getting younger.?

We laughed and I introduced myself, explaining that my field was Artificial Intelligence.

?An interesting topic for a psychologist, I wonder if you?ll be the one who has psychiatrists analysing suicidal toasters.?

He ordered two drinks and we got to talking.

?You know I find computers very interesting. In a way they the only things in the world we are completely honest with.? He continued.

?How? Most people are honest aren?t they??

He raised a doubtful eyebrow. ?Are they? I?d rephrase the word honesty, most people and not wilfully dishonest. They?re just social engineers and so they should be. Humans, like computers, are programmed them by code us by evolution. DNA gives us the information required to grow feet, eyes and brains.?

I took a sip of my glass of wine and nodded. McCool was starting to get animated gesturing with his near full beer bottle.
?However unlike other animals Humans are deeply social and have evolved complex processes to deal with it. For example you would act differently around a lover than how you would with the Dean.?

?Ok but how does this make us honest with computers??

?Even in a therapy session people will put walls because they know they are dealing with another person. However with a computer people see it as just a machine and they believe they have total anonymity.?

An image of an ancient but often copied web comic flashed across my mind?s eye. The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory while apt probably wouldn?t have impressed McCool.

Instead I said. ?Which removes the need for a mask.?

?Correct but even online, in certain circumstances, people will act differently in different social settings. For example some people will create elaborate online personas from different messaging boards quite removed from any mask they wear in real life. However an amalgamation of these will give a truer representation of a person than if we spent a month evaluating them.?

I nodded while watching a group of my undergrads strike out with a couple of Psychology students. Unfortunately the stereotypes are true, Computer Sciences is a nerdy pursuit, fortunately though our graduates are more likely to find high paying jobs than average which means one day they?ll have the money to buy better clothes and work out how to talk to the opposite sex. For example one of them was wearing a T-shirt with Indiana Jones on it. In a bar.

?Which leads me to your line of work. If somebody were to collate all those points of data they would have an excellent approximation of what a human being is when completely free of societal oversight.?

The bartender looked at me and McCool then frowned. It almost looked like he yearned for a down on his luck guy to come and tell him about it, like happens in real bars, instead of listening to drunken academics wax lyrical.

?You?d need a hell of a lot of data though.? I mused returning my gaze to McCool.

?Of course and the subject couldn?t be allowed to know they were subject of an experiment.?

I nodded slowly, already running the experiment in my head, the arduous task of collecting the data would have to be done by electronically for obvious reasons. The proof of the pudding would of course be if such a process could give an accurate representation of a human being.

Or an AI.

?No ethics board would ever sign off on it though. Just an Interesting little thought experiment.?

The night wore on and I drifted from McCool as another group of adoring students approached their goateed Psychological sensei. He was gone before things got too rowdy and I followed suit. As I gathered my coat though I was happy to see Indiana Jones Shirt Kid leaving with one of the Psych Students from earlier, it was that kind of night.

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The seed, of course, had been planted, McCool was onto a good idea but lacked the technical expertise to pull it off. To collect all that data and then run it though some programme that could pool it and then utilise it in an intelligent way would be groundbreaking. Not a true AI, but it may help understanding of personality.

It took me six months to gather the confidence to submit a proposal, the Ethics board shot it down ain less than five minutes. They felt it was ?deeply unethical? ?huge invasion of privacy? and my personal favourite ?verging on voyeuristic?.
I decided to drown the shame of basically being called the computer sciences equivalent of Joseph Mengele with alcohol.

Sitting in the student?s bar though the cogs kept turning, The Ethics board were all intrigued on some level, the flash in their eyes gave them away. It was a curious question after all but their role on the ethics board kept them from expressing it. I sat for a long moment pondering this and my conversation with McCool. As the two twisted and folded into each other a new proposal began to form.

I left the bar without touching a drop of my drink.

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The new proposal was even better than the last. Why focus on just one participant when I could focus on the entire University? I could gather the search data recorded on the University Servers for every student. This would include public computers and private computers that were part of the local net. Instead of trying to replicate a single person?s personality I could give the entire student body a personality.

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Two Years passed and the Ethics Board heard nothing else from me. This experiment would be private, a proof of concept. If the data worked all I?d have to do was showcase the Tech to some companies give the highest bidder the keys and mosey into the sunset. They could worry about making the research legal and they would have the cash to do it, heck maybe I could retire and become a consultant. . It?s happened before, normally in pharmaceuticals or biological sciences but I figured I could do the same in computing.

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It took two years to collect enough data to be fed into the HAL matrix but then things moved fast. Using the AM programme, a proxy SHODAN buffer and the GLADOS coding language I was able to piledrive the Data into the programme by using MU-TH-R 182 protocols and a little bit of GETH I was able to complete the programme. I called it Guy.

I was sitting in my office with a black Laptop I?d bought specially to write the programme on, well that and watch the occasional youtube video. The programme was eady to go all I had to do was add the final piece the massive collected browsing history data.

I dragged the file across and dropped it into the programme.

It took the loading bar five minutes to reach one percent.

I decided to get a coke.

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The Superdome, where the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens will be played, is seen at sunset Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

The Superdome, where the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens will be played, is seen at sunset Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis stretches during an NFL Super Bowl XLVII walkthrough on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. The Ravens face the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick laughs as he walks onto the Superdome field for practice on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in New Orleans. The 49ers are scheduled to play the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game on Feb. 3. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

New Orleans residents Stephen Boudy, left, Shiela Jones, center, Camry Boudy, top right, and Sequoia Boudy, lower right, sport Saints jerseys in New Orleans on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. Saints jerseys are such a staple on the streets of New Orleans this week, you'd think they're playing in the Super Bowl. The city hosts NFL football's Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens on Sunday. (AP Photo/Nancy Armour)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? Around the Super Bowl and its host city with journalists from The Associated Press bringing the flavor and details of everything surrounding the game:

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49ERS WALKTHROUGH

The next time the 49ers step onto the field at the Superdome, it'll be time for the Super Bowl.

San Francisco finished up on-field preparations on Saturday with a 15-minute walkthrough. The team has meetings Saturday night.

Coach Jim Harbaugh said the stadium lights are brighter than they were when the 49ers beat the New Orleans Saints here on Nov. 25, so getting his players adjusted to that was important.

Harbaugh invited family members and friends ? 11 busloads of people ? to attend the short session and come down to the field to pose for photographs.

One person hollered Harbaugh's signature chant from the stands: "Who's got it better than us?"

The rest of the group replied: "No-body!"

The coach smiled.

? Janie McCauley ? http://twitter.com/JanieMcCAP

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RAVENS DONE PRACTICING

Baltimore is done practicing on the field for the Super Bowl.

Team officials, friends and family watched as the Ravens went through a short walkthrough at the Superdome on Saturday afternoon.

The 15-minute session was more of a pep rally than a workout.

Running back Ray Rice playfully tackled his mother on the sideline and guard Marshal Yanda had a video camera attached to the top of his Ravens cap.

John Harbaugh describes his team's work this week as "effective."

"We've gotten everything we've needed to get done, that's the No. 1 thing," Harbaugh said.

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GLORY, PLUS CASH

The Super Bowl isn't just about the glory ? players for San Francisco and Baltimore both have decent paydays riding on the outcome.

The difference between winning and losing is $44,000, nearly $9,000 less than the median annual household income in the United States from 2007-2011, according to U.S. Census data.

Winning players get $88,000 each, losers get $44,000. That's just cash ? it doesn't count the marketing clout gained by going from NFL player to Super Bowl champion.

Super Bowl paydays have gradually increased the last 30 years after doubling in 1983 to $36,000 for winners.

In the game's first 11 years, winners got $15,000 and losers got $7,500.

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MACKIE COLD ON NY GAME

Add Anthony Mackie to the list of people cold on next year's Super Bowl at the home stadium of New York's teams.

Though the "Gangster Squad" actor now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., he's from New Orleans and thinks a city like his hometown should get the Super Bowl every year.

Mackie said Friday night at an ESPN Magazine party that he doesn't want to sit outside in 30 degree weather and watch the Super Bowl.

"I want to see the girls in their pretty dresses; I want to hang out with the players. I don't want to be outside in the cold in New Jersey," he continued, stressing that Met Life Stadium, where both the New York Giants and Jets play, is actually in East Rutherford, N.J. "You're not in New York. I have to take a bus from Manhattan all the way to Jersey?"

Though Mackie's Saints didn't make it to the Super Bowl this year, Mackie is still passionate about who he wants to win ? the Baltimore Ravens.

"I will do everything to not see San Francisco win another Super Bowl," he said, hoping for a bit of karma.

? Nekesa Mumbi Moody ? http://twitter.com/nekesamumbi

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LEAVING HIS MARK

If there are some dents in the Superdome roof, blame San Francisco 49ers punter Andy Lee.

Lee bonked several punts off the roof this week as the 49ers practiced for Sunday's Super Bowl against the Baltimore Ravens. Lee finally lowered the trajectory of his kicks to make sure he got the ball downfield.

"I'm glad he didn't hit those lights," 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said.

? Nancy Armour ? http://twitter.com/nrarmour

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PLAYING FOOTBALL, NOT FUTBOL, IN MEXICO

The NFL wants to return to Mexico, though Commissioner Roger Goodell won't say when.

Back in 2005, Azteca Stadium in Mexico City was the site of the league's first regular-season game outside the United States. But the league hasn't been back, despite playing in Toronto and ? now regularly ? in London.

Goodell says the league is perfecting things in England.

"We have to make sure that whenever we do come back to Mexico, and I expect we will, that we do it successfully, with the right kind of television support, fan support and sponsor involvement," Goodell said.

"I would expect if we are successful in the UK, where we thankfully are continuing to grow, that we'll have the opportunity to get back there," Goodell said. "And the sooner, the better for me."

? Nancy Armour ? http://www.twitter.com/nrarmour

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YOU BET WHAT?

Novelty bets on the Super Bowl might be getting out of hand.

Regional specialties between mayors and governors used to be the only norm, but now it seems like every public figure's betting on the Super Bowl ? and the wagers are getting pretty elaborate.

Here are three of the better bets:

THE BOOKWORMS: If the Ravens win, San Francisco Public Library City Librarian Luis Herrera has to recite Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" in the atrium of the city's main library while wearing a Ravens jersey. If the 49ers win, Enoch Pratt Free Library CEO Carla Hayden must declaim George Sterling's "The Cool, Grey City of Love" in the Central Library main hall wearing a 49ers jersey.

THE FUZZ: It's a duel of on-field demonstrations for San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr and Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts. Suhr vows that Batts will be "Kaepernicking" ? flexing and kissing his bicep in imitation of 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's victory pose. Batts says Suhr will have to don Baltimore Ravens gear to perform the signature dance ? the Squirrel ? of linebacker Ray Lewis.

THE BREWERS: Flying Dog Brewery in Frederick, Md., and Anchor Steam in San Francisco have agreed that the brewery from the home state of the losing team will have to pour the other's beer for a week in their tap room. The tour guides will have to wear the winning team's jerseys.

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WHO DAT?

Wander the streets of New Orleans this week and you'd think the Saints are one of the teams playing in Sunday's Super Bowl.

Entire families are sporting Drew Brees jerseys. Women are wearing rhinestone-studded Saints T-shirts and fleur-de-lis earrings. Men are in Saints jerseys and sweatshirts.

Of course, fans in every host city show pride in their home team. But there's a special bond between the Saints and the people of New Orleans. While they're happy to welcome the Ravens and the 49ers, this city will always belong to the Saints.

?Nancy Armour ? http://www.twitter.com/nrarmour

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THE PISTOL, EXPLAINED

You'll hear about it from the first time 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick stands behind center, and listen to it be endlessly dissected in the Super Bowl.

But just what is this pistol offense San Francisco is running?

Put simply, it's a variation of the shotgun, a formation that has been in the NFL for decades. Former Nevada coach Chris Ault invented it, and gave it the name because it reminded him of a shorter version of the shotgun.

In the pistol, the quarterback lines up 4-5 yards behind the center. Unlike the shotgun, the running backs line up behind the quarterback instead of next to him so they can be in motion when they get the ball and run north and south more easily.

The tweak that makes the pistol even more effective, though, is the read-option. This what Kaepernick runs so well, and what Baltimore has spent two weeks preparing to stop.

In the read-option, Kaepernick turns to his right and tucks the ball in the belly of his running back ? all while keeping his eyes on the defense. Based on the first move the defensive end makes ? either to the outside or toward the quarterback ? Kaepernick will either leave the ball with the running back or pull it out and take off himself to the outside.

Defensive players say the move causes problems because it forces them to hesitate a split-second to see what Kaepernick does with the ball. Often, that is just enough time for running back Frank Gore to slash up the middle or for Kaepernick to take the ball around the right end down the field for a big gain.

? Tim Dahlberg ? http://twitter.com/timdahlberg

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GET HERE EARLY

Anyone wanting a cafe au lait or a beignet from New Orleans' most famous coffee shop better be prepared to wait.

Tables were filled, and lines were stretching down the sidewalk at Cafe Du Monde by midday Saturday.

? Nancy Armour ? http://twitter.com/nrarmour

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QUICKQUOTE: RAY LEWIS

There are many sides to Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis.

Even he admits that the guy he professes to be most of the time ? deeply religious, a caring mentor, a humble leader ? is not the one you see when he puts on his helmet and pads.

"I turn into a different person on the field," Lewis said. "I am a totally different person off the field. But on the field, I'm driven to do whatever it takes for my teammates. There are so many of my teammates here today who I've honored and told them that I would do anything in my power so we can feel that confetti drop together, because that is the ultimate. For me being a leader of this team, I owe that to them."

? Paul Newberry ? http://twitter.com/pnewberry1963

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CULLIVER SENSITIVITY TRAINING

After playing in the Super Bowl, San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver is immediately starting sensitivity training.

The 24-year-old took a hit to his image this week after making anti-gay remarks to a comedian, saying he wouldn't welcome a gay player in the locker room.

Now, his public relations spokesman Theodore Palmer says Culliver will begin working with "The Trevor Project," an organization that provides crisis and suicide intervention to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth.

Palmer says the group wants to be sure Culliver is genuine about his words.

"It's just an opportunity for him to learn about his comments and educate himself about the LGBT community, and grow," Palmer said. "It's the first step in learning about his words."

After an educational program, Culliver is expected to then pursue volunteer work related to helping gay youth.

? Janie McCauley ? http://twitter.com/JanieMcCAP

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MCGRAW ROOTING FOR BLIND SIDE

Country music superstar Tim McGraw doesn't want to explicitly share who he's rooting for to win the Super Bowl. But he gave a pretty big hint.

"It would be nice to see Michael win and see that whole 'Blind Side' story come to completion," McGraw says.

He's referring to Baltimore Ravens offensive tackle Michael Oher, whose life was the subject of the film "The Blind Side." It starred McGraw and Sandra Bullock, who won an Oscar for her role.

McGraw, whose new album, "Two Lanes of Freedom," comes out on Tuesday, was in New Orleans on Friday for a very early performance at the House of Blues broadcast live on ABC's "Good Morning America."

? John Carucci ? http://twitter.com/jcarucci_ap

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