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It’s been a bad day for those of us that aren’t happy with our government. The latest news…

Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

Also, officials may share copies of the laptop’s contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two DHS agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In other words, they can take your laptop for as long as they want, for any reason, and share it with anyone they want.

In other news (from MSNBC and The Washington Post)..

A Bush administration proposal aimed at protecting health-care workers who object to abortion, and to birth-control methods they consider tantamount to abortion, has escalated a bitter debate over the balance between religious freedom and patients’ rights.

The Department of Health and Human Services is reviewing a draft regulation that would deny federal funding to any hospital, clinic, health plan or other entity that does not accommodate employees who want to opt out of participating in care that runs counter to their personal convictions, including providing birth-control pills, IUDs and the Plan B emergency contraceptive.

This means that if a nutjob that thinks the Birth Control pill is the same as having an abortion, they can deny you the pill. Should a hospital try to put rules in place forcing Pharmacist to dispense the pill regardless of their personal beliefs, the government will pull their funding.

I really want my country back.

I live by Woodland Park Zoo. Every year they have a concert series that makes parking impossible, but in return, I get free tickets to two concerts. I went looking for a calendar I could subscribe, so I would know which concerts to attend, and when I need to get home early so I can get a parking spot. I couldn’t find such a calendar, so I created one -> Zoo Tunes Calendar <- (presented in ics format for use in most major calendar applications.)

The schedule, from http://www.zoo.org/zootunes/index.html

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Lillie Clara Redd is my grandmother. She was a very important and special person in my life. This is the obituary from the The Winter Haven News Chief

Lillie Clara Redd

Lillie Clara Redd, 88, of Winter Haven died of pneumonia Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001, at Winter Haven Hospital.

She was a native of Omaha, Ala., who came to the area from Roanoke, Ala. She was a foreman for WG Roe & Sons.

She is survived by a son, Radney Redd of Winter Haven; three daughters, Kathryn Cowden of Lakeland and Carolyn Cain and Merlyn Blagg, both of Winter Haven; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be held at Lakeside Memorial Park on Monday, Dec. 17, 2001, at 11 a.m.

Ott-Laughlin Funeral Home, Winter Haven.

News Chief l December 15, 2001

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When Automatic ShowSqueeze is enabled via the ViewScape (SETTINGS –> SHOWSQUEEZE AND SMARTSKIP SETTINGS), high-definition (HD) recordings are not affected.

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This is by design, because HD recordings are in such high quality, and so large, that it takes significantly longer for them to complete. In testing, this resulted in an accumulating backup of ShowSqueeze / SmartSkip jobs on heavily used machines. ShowSqueeze for HD recordings must therefore, by default, be initiated on a per-recording basis.

The user can override this setting to force HD ShowSqueeze to comply with the “Automatic” setting, but this should be used with care. This modification is recommended only for advanced users as it involves altering Beyond TV’s SETTINGS.XML file.

To change this setting, first exit Beyond TV from its system tray icon. Then open SETTINGS.XML, which is located in “\documents and settings\all users\application data\snapstream” on the system drive, in a text editor. Insert the following text between a </Property> and a <Property> tag:

<Property><Name>AutoTranscodeHD</Name><Value>1</Value></Property>

To undo this change, either change the “Value” to 0, or delete the entry.

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