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CNN Reported today: The sport of polo needs new oversight to protect its prized horses, the nation's largest animal protection organization said after reports that a pharmacy's mistake with medication may have killed 21 animals. "This tragedy has brought to light the absence of drug policies and regulation within the sport of polo," said Keith Dane, director of equine protection for the Humane Society of the United States. This is the precise reason that our country gets in trouble.

I was watching the television on November 3rd as Ted Stevens flew home to cast his vote and thought, "You arrogant, man. Withdraw from the race! Have some dignity!" Now a Federal Judge has set aside his conviction and started a new investigation of the prosecutors. [read more] This man, a 40-year Alaskan veteran of the senate, apparently lost his U.S. Senate seat because of the allegations and now we find out the evidence was withheld and even fabricated. It is difficult to imagine that the 4000 vote margin of loss was not the result of the conviction coupled with media outcry. An outcry which included the Republican Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates (who was also Steven's Governor) making public statements

Today Australia's Government announced its intent to create a private/public company to build a 100mb/s Ethernet service to 90% of the homes in the country. The new network, with the government owning at least a 51 percent stake, will bring a fiber-to-the-home network with Open Access rules similar to what Poplar Bluff's City Cable did with Internet access in 2005. [read more]

Missouri-based Internet Provider Re-brands Service Under the Moniker Hydra Internet Service Offering Reliable High-Speed Alternative to T1, Frame Relay or MPLS SAN DIEGO, CA – March 31, 2009 - Mushroom Networks, Inc., the innovator of broadband bonding technology, today announced a partnership with Semo.net, a Midwest Internet provider, to deliver high-speed bi-directional broadband service to its business class customers. Semo.net will re-brand Mushroom Networks’ popular Broadband Bonding solution into its own service offering called Hydra Internet Service. Hydra Internet Service offers business customers the ability to combine multiple types of broadband connections such as DSL, cable modem, or wireless into a single high-speed connection with near 100 percent reliability, download speeds of 10 Mbps, and upload speeds of 5 Mbps

A leaked version of Windows 7 (the Windows OS to replace Vista) reportedly allows the user to remove Internet Explorer from the operating system. This would be a dramatic change in policy by the software giant. For more information check out ComputerWorld.com