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As youll hear in this weeks installment shes having a ball catching up with stuff around the house, hanging out with her kid,  seeing friends and in general doing all the things she hadnt time for before. 

Toward the end of this weeks chat she asks me what I would do with six months off. I told her Id do all the stuff I already do in my off hours – cook, play poker and do … okay, botch … the occasional home improvement – only more of it. All that stuff is enjoyable but still doesnt add up to the general fun of doing radio every day.   Which means my retirement plan is still to die before I run out of money.

Actually I am taking some time off this week but it wont be for leisure activities. Ill be fetching and carrying for my wife the Lovely amp; Talented Cheryl DeGroot after the installation of Robo-Knee II. Sure, its nice that we can still get parts for her, but if its anything like the last time around itll be like caring for an infant – with the vocabulary of a brown-shoe Marine.

How about you? If money were not an issue what would you do with six months off? Noted leisure-time expert Peter Gibbons shares his experience here.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

- George Bernard Shaw

But Patricia Cochran, of Woodberry, was less than happy as she did her grocery shopping at the market in the Greenspring Tower Shopping Center on Saturday.

Its horrible, she said. I just sent my husband to Whole Foods (in Mount Washington) to pick up things they dont have here.

Kieffer earned his first European Challenge Tour title in this, the season- opener for the circuit.

Kieffer posted a final-round, two-under 70 on Sunday, while Gangjee, the third-round leader, managed a one-under 71. The pair finished regulation tied at seven-under 281 and was off to the par-four 18th at Kensville Golf Country Club to begin the playoff.

In the extra session, Kieffer found the fairway off the tee, while Gangjee landed in a bunker. Kieffer knocked his second to 40 feet and Gangjee hit the lip with his approach and the ball bounced into water.

After a drop, Gangjee hit his fifth to 20 feet. Kieffer ran his birdie effort to four feet, then Gangjee missed his bogey putt. Kieffer could two-putt from four feet for the title, but poured in the par save for his first victory on the Challenge Tour.

Paul Dwyer shot a four-under 68 and tied for third place with Callum Macaulay, who had a two-under 70 on Sunday, and Andrea Harto, who carded a 71. The trio came in at minus-five.

Raymond Russell and Chris Doak both posted three-under 69s in the final round and shared sixth at three-under par.

Aereo is a distribution service launching later this spring that will give people access to broadcast television via smartphones and tablets and Internet-friendly TVs. It does this with a tiny antenna that picks up the over-the-air signals of broadcasters.

Aereo, originally called Bamboom, unveiledplans Tuesday to offer its service in New York City on March 14. The company also announced that it had completed a $20.5-million round of financing led by IAC/InterActiveCorp., the Internet company headed by ChairmanBarry Diller. Diller, the architect of the Fox Network, is also joining Aereos board of directors.

Aereo will charge customers $12 a month. For that, they get an antenna to receive not only broadcast TV signals, but also a digital video recorder in the sky that can store up to 40 hours of shows. Cable channels are not available because their content is transmitted through wires and satellites and not over the public airwaves.

For cable programmers and distributors, any new service that provides people a reason to cut the cord is bad news. Aereo is no doubt banking on people being frustrated with rising cable bills and willing to pay less for broadcast signals, figuring they can eventually catch cable content via Netflix or another streaming service, or on DVD.

But broadcasters will also be wary of Aereo. Although consumers can get broadcast TV free, most Americans get it through their multichannel video program distributors, such as Time Warner Cable or DirecTV. The networks now charge cable and satellite operators fees to carry their content.

The development of this crucial second revenue stream is what the broadcast networks are counting on to cover rising programming costs — particularly of sports — at time when their audience is shrinking.

IACs Diller, who prior to building the Fox Network for News Corp. was a top executive at ABC and Paramount Pictures, called Aereo a potentially transformative technology and revolutionary product.

The broadcasters and their lawyers are likely working on other phrases to describe Aereo ascopyright thieves. The networks protect their signals the way the Colts used to protect Peyton Manning and are expected to launch a legal assault as soon as Aereo goes live.The broadcasters have been successful in the past when it comes to shutting down companies trying to stream their signals.

Aereo is banking on a 2008 decision by the United States Court of Appeals in New Yorks Second Circuit to thwart any efforts to derail its plans. That ruling cleared the way for the New York-based cable operator Cablevision Systems Corp. to offer its subscribers a remote DVR, as opposed to a DVR built into the cable boxes in their homes. That may solve their cloud DVR plans but perhaps not the reselling of broadcast TV signals.

The broadcasters — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — declined to officially comment about Aereo. However, one network legal eagle said the Cablevision case wont wash here.

For starters, Cablevision already had negotiated permission to distribute the content to its subscribers, which Aereo has not. Furthermore, this executive noted that Aereo is not just taking its signals out of the air but is rather manipulating the signals to offer them on platforms other than a traditional television set without permission or payment.That, the executive said, may not fly in court.

In writing about Aereos plans last April, Los Angeles Times editorial writer Jon Healey opined that it is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

While the lawyers will rake in big fees fighting Aereo, it remains to be seen if there will be a consumer demand for it. If people are so frustrated with cable costs then they can get their own antennas to receive broadcast signals.

The DVR in the sky is a nice add-on. But at $12 a month, thats roughly what one from a cable operator costs. For another $100 or so you can also get tons of channels. As Healy put it, maybe its a solution to a problem not many people are eager to solve.

BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield said Aereo could be a game changer in the media industry that could radically alter the economic models of the business. It is distribution at its finest Greenfield wrote, before adding, if Aereo is in fact legal.

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– Joe Flint

Photo: Barry Diller. Credit: Bloomberg

“Time is money” sounds like an efficient strategy. But such a perspective could undermine your overall happiness, according to a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (pdf)

Researchers surveyed subjects about their state of happiness before and after several experiments.

In one, subjects were asked to calculate their income as an hourly wage. They later reported less happiness from spending leisure time surfing the net, compared with people not asked to calculate hourly income.

In another test, subjects spent their leisure time listening to the opera Lakme. Again, those who thought of time as dollars reported more anxiety than did those who had not tied time to money.  

But this decrease in happiness was mediated in a third experiment when subjects got paid to listen to the music. Which suggests that it’s the feeling of losing money during leisure activities that causes the drop in enjoyment.

The research indicates that thinking about time in terms of money changes the way we experience time. And may leave us too impatient to smell the roses–a truly costly outcome. 

According to a summary of the conference report on a payroll tax break/unemployment insurance compromise package agreed to by congressional conferees, the cost of that benefit extension is being paid for by spectrum auctions, as well as making civilian federal employees and members of Congress contribute more to their defined benefit pensions.

The Treasury is projected to get at least half that figure — $15 billion — from the auction of reclaimed broadcast spectrum. FCC authority to pay broadcasters to give up spectrum remained part of the payroll tax package as one of the pay-fors required of any proposed new spending, though the money to from auctions wont be coming in for several years. Estimates for a completed spectrum auction process vary from four to as much as 10 years., the statutory deadline for completing the auctions according to the legislation.

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WORRIED  by the dwindling fortunes in the sports sub-sector of the nation’s economy, Nigeria’s most influential religious leader and the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has perfected plans to pray for God’s intervention in the area.

Speaking in an interview in his church office, the Special Assistant to the General Overseer on Administration/Personnel, Pastor Funsho Odesola told our reporter that Pastor Adeboye, in continuation of his prayers for different sectors of the nation’s economy has set aside Sunday, February 5, for prayers to reverse the dwindling fortunes in our sports sector.

“Daddy G.O has been praying for some sets of people for sometimes now but this time around he intends to pray for all sports people in response to a request by the sports director,” Pastor Odesola said, adding that the RCCG helmsman could not resist the call to pray for the sector.

According to him, Pastor Adeboye was once an active boxer who also had a stint at other sporting activities including volleyball is not happy that Nigeria which used to occupy a pride of place in the global sporting activities is no longer reckoned with and has therefore agreed to take advantage of the beginning of the year like this, to pray and prophesy into the sports sector.

The Maravari
games which kick started in early December last year and ended early this month
was described a success.

Sporting
activities organized included; soccer, netball, swimming and other smaller
games.

One of the
organizers Natina Kipili said that organizing such events is of great
importance as it brings the community together.

“We have truly
witness the success of these events as it helped bind and unite our community
well before Christmas right up to the New Year.

“Popular
sporting activities like soccer and netball along with other fun games such as
quizzes, choir competition and debates help us unite and have fun at the same
time touch on important issues that affect us as a community.

“It was indeed
good to see relatives from town come over to spend the Christmas with us, as it
provided us the chance to re-unite, have fellowships and enjoy ourselves as a
community before everyone disperse to go about their lives in the New Year,” Ms
Kipili said.

Kipili meanwhile
encouraged village elders and the community to make the games an annual event.

By GABRIEL RIOTARAU