| Iowa farmers hope to sow seeds of agritourism
Dianna and Loren Engelbrecht never thought visitors would travel six or seven hours from Chicago and pay to spend a weekend on their Fredericksburg farm.
They were wrong. Not only do urbanites want to visit their Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast, they wake up at 5 a.m. to perform chores.
Illinois resident Debbie Dewane booked a stay on the farm for herself and her two sons. .
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Ghosts of Kosovo
Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian leaders have belatedly tried to extend an olive branch to the province's aggrieved 120,000 Serbs. In addition to allowing Serbs in northern Kosovo to have their own police, schools and hospitals, Kosovo's new Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, did the unthinkable: he delivered part of his inauguration speech in the hated Serbian language. Even in Serbia, whose citizens feel genuine humiliation over losing Kosovo (which Serb nationalists call their "Jerusalem"), the protests should abate. Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has threatened to retaliate against Kosovo's becoming independent by suspending talks with the European Union, but Kostunica can't afford to cut ties with the West. The E.U. supplies 49% of Serbia's imports and buys 56% of its exports--a far more valuable trade relationship than Serbia's with Russia.
Sports calendar
March 8,9--Kirklevington Senior league. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday. At Kroger at Tates Creek Center. 13-16 year-olds. $150, sibling discounts available. More information: (859) 271-3157. Northern Cal Ripken--T-ball, rookie, major league. Online at www.northerncalripken.com or Kevin Stinnett (859) 263-0883. TOURNAMENTS March 28-30--Bourbon Bash 12u USSSA. Three-game guarantee, $250, no gate fee. Michelle (859) 484-9312. basketball TOURNAMENTS March 14-16--Fleming Co. boys & girls AAU, grades 3-6. $150. Round-robin, six-game guarantee. First seven teams accepted. Robbie Conway (606) 849-8163. March 14-16--9u, 10u, 11u, 12u, 13u boys and 5th-grade girls at sites in Lincoln Co. $175, pool play with single elimination, three-game guarantee.
Ubuntu backer seeks open-source collaboration
Ubuntu Linux backer Canonical has launched a beta version of its Launchpad service, part of an effort to make open-source programming methods a better match for Microsoft. Launchpad is a website that provides a foundation for Ubuntu's co-operative programming projects, with features for tracking bugs, managing source code repositories and planning new features. Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth believes broader use could help marshal free and open-source software forces more effectively against Microsoft. "Microsoft has an efficient core infrastructure that allows developers from one part of the company to connect with a developer on another," Shuttleworth said in an interview after the move last week. "In a free software world, if we want to match that, we have to crank up the level of collaboration." Launchpad was founded to run the Ubuntu project, but it's now open to other projects.
Interesting email in today mailbag: “ Will SP1 contain undisclosed ...
Hardware 2.0 Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Mac users - Secure or smug? Posted in: Security Mac AMD The accepted wisdom is that Mac users are immune to most of the security afflictions which plague those mere mortals that are still using Windows. But is all this set to change? Is a wave of Mac-homing malware getting ready to flood the Internet? I ask because of a piece run by Infoworld a few days ago. It seems that security firm Kaspersky Labs has a prototype antivirus software in the works in case hackers suddenly set their sights on Mac users. San Francisco - Russian security vendor Kaspersky Lab has a prototype version of its virus protection software waiting in the wings in case Apple Mac OS X suddenly becomes a target of choice for hackers.
Judge Mark Fuller - Asshole or diligent, obedient, and greedy foot ...
The above from a Harpers column last year. http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-9000076... Last Sunday, 60 Minutes broadcast its story on the travesty that is the Siegelman conviction. Just before and since, Karl Rove's personal fingerprints have been found to be on the whole mess. To put it bluntly, the top GOP leadership did everything and anything they could to stop a man who was popular enough to be elected (and possibly be a Rovian victim of election fraud) and suffer the consequences. People like Judge Mark Fuller represent everything that is wrong with the US legal system. Funny, he is too twisted and obedient to recognize the damage he does. To paraphrase Sir Douglas Adams, tongue in cheek, Mark Fuller and his criminal cabal will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
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