News:East Sussex sex abuse fear vicars allowed to work

By Colin Campbell BBC South East Home Affairs Correspondent

Two vicars were allowed to work at churches in East Sussex following serious sex abuse allegations, a BBC South East investigation has revealed.

Roy Cotton, who died in 2006, worked as a parish priest in Brede near Rye in the 1990s despite being convicted of a sexual offence against a boy in 1954.
Collin Pritchard served as the vicar of St Barnabas, Bexhill, until 2007 after being arrested over sex abuse claims.
The Diocese of Chichester has appointed a judge to carry out an investigation.
In 2008 Pritchard pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two boys in the 1970s and 1980s and was jailed for five years.
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Comment: After reading about these two vicars predatory activities, what is to stop them repeating their bad behavior?

News:India and Brazil head move to 'green' economic future

By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News, Nagoya

Governments are increasingly taking the economic value of nature into account in policy-making, with growing interest in results from a UN-backed analysis.

The Brazilian and Indian governments are among those keen to use findings from The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (Teeb) project.

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Pavan Sukhdev Deutsche Bank

Final results from the three-year study were unveiled here at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting.

Nature's services must be counted if they are to be valued, its leader said.
Pavan Sukhdev, a Deutsche Bank capital markets expert who leads Teeb on secondment to the UN Environment Programme (Unep), said that if society did not properly account for services that nature provides, they would be lost.
In an earlier analysis, Teeb calculated that the economic value of services being lost - including water purification, pollination of crops and climate regulation - amounts to $2-5 trillion dollars per year, with the poor hardest hit.More here

News:Mount Etna mapped by radar satellites

By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

Two German radar satellites flying in tight formation above the Earth have returned their first combined images.

TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X are circling the globe just 350m apart as they get set to make the most detailed 3D map of the Earth's surface ever acquired.
Their close proximity allows them to view the same patch of ground simultaneously but from slightly different angles.More here

My modecideas.com site is making gains

Here is one site that has picked up mine and is starting to make advances in the search engine listings.

www.bontey.net/partner/modecideas.com/ I can't be sure at this stage how many other sites have noticed it, but it looks like a good beginning. It still remains to find out what they like about it, but that will be clear soon.

Someone grafitied my followers

In the last 2 days somebody replaced all my blog followers with spurious links. I deleted them moments ago, but the original followers are gone. They had to be sacrificed to remove the junk left behind by some reprehensible person who remains anonymous. Following this an effort will be made to inform the friends of this badness.

News:BT seeks moratorium on internet piracy cases

By Jonathan Fildes Technology reporter, BBC News

BT is seeking a moratorium on legal applications to obtain details of its customers who are alleged to have illegally shared files online.

The firm outlined its stance following a high-profile data breach at London law firm ACS:Law last week.

The leak saw thousands of customers' details from various ISPs - including BT-owned PlusNet - published online.

BT said that it wanted a temporary halt on all new and existing applications until a "test case" could be heard.

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Comment: As you know, file sharing is common on line. This may have effects from innocent users sharing what they created, to unscrupulous people who attempt to obtain copyright material and sell it for profit. We are not concerned with people sharing family photos or a child's kindergarten pictures here. Those cases involving original or copyrighted work involving great effort and those that are unique and of a high standard are individual works difficult or impossible to replace.

For example, as an author, I worked for years to complete a novel (now published on line at Return by John Durham). Could you imagine my sense of betrayal to discover someone had copied it and was selling the work on his own site claiming he or she had the right to do so? If that happened, I would feel betrayed, used and preyed upon by such a person. How would you react to such treatment?

News:Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds

1 October 2010 Last updated at 09:11 GMT
Change to 'Bios' will make for PCs that boot in seconds
By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News

New PCs could start in just seconds, thanks to an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers.

The upgrade will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initialises a machine so its operating system can get going.

The code was not intended to live nearly this long, and adapting it to modern PCs is one reason they take as long as they do to warm up.

Bios' replacement, known as UEFI, will predominate in new PCs by 2011.

The acronym stands for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface and is designed to be more flexible than its venerable predecessor.

"Conventional Bios is up there with some of the physical pieces of the chip set that have been kicking around the PC since 1979," said Mark Doran, head of the UEFI Forum, which is overseeing development of the technology.

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