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celebrating Mexico’s independence day
on September 15

I see no reason to ignore the fact that The Ovi from Thanos Kalamidas and Asa Butcher is runing now without me and I would not like to “confuse” people about it. So if you found this site by looking for the english finnish online magazine of ovi please go to www.theovi.com/

Anyways, TheOviMagazine.com will be out soon, and this ovi blog and the ovi forum will change totally, in fact they will disappear and be replaced with a total new project. So enjoy the few weeks left of it!

In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes • ovi © 2006 oviwebportal.com All rights reserved

All IMAGES are copyright material of oviwebportal.com

In case somebody claims to have the right of images or text, we ask for notification, since we cannot control everything our users write on the Ovi Blog / Ovi Forum. Since we have no longer anything to do with OVIMAGAZINE.com and their respective owners we have deleted all images and content that might be of their copyright. You will find almost that ALL images used right now on ovimagazine.com were edited/modified by Oliver H. and should not be used without permision. YOU WON’T FIND ANY COPYRIGHT INFRIGMENT REGARDING OVIMAGAZINE.COM or Thanos Kalamidas or Asa Butcher here.If we have not had the time to react as quickly as Thanos and Asa did, we apologize; we will bring the contents back online as soon this is cleared. In any case we will delete all Ovi Magazine images and leave always a reference to the articles published under Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.

Dear DMCA, 

It seems you do not do your job as you should.

Thanks to the DMCA the site “theovimagazine.com” has been suspended temporarily and I promise I will get it back soon BECAUSE it is MY material and it seems the DMCA doesn’t even bother CHECKING the accusations correctly. Just for example my dear friends in the DMCA: “PLEASE Show ONE, just ONE site on theovimagazine.com which contains Thanos and Asa’s work but does not give credit to them.” Where is the proof for that claim?Anyways the statements of Thanos Kalamidas and Asa Butcher are lies.
Believe it or not!…  Not even a week ago, Thanos and Asa illegally deleted all contents from my PLAYARTA.com blog and forum, but also my work that was on their host ovimagazine.com And of course I haven’t had the time to change ALL logos of the ovi magazine, since the work published was LEGAL at the time of creation since it was published, created and programmed by me on ovimagazine.com and Thanos K. and Asa B. contributed to it!  There was no contract that Ovi belongs only to ovimagazine.comCheck out google CACHE! And you will see that what is on my theovimagazine.com is exactly what was on ovimagazine.com because I CREATED ALL contents of ovimagazine.com  AND THEY ARE STILL USING IMAGES WHICH I CREATED/EDITED/MODIFIEY on their ovimagazine.com site!!!The ONLY thing “they” did was to send me word documents of their articles and the articles of other people. I was the PUBLISHER in this case. I created the images and programming as every feature and IDEA on the site. Of course it now only lives in the deep cache of google… until I get justice! In your accusation to the DMCA you say: 

“The entire site is filled with copyrighted material and he has changed the author names on all of Asa Butcher and Thanos Kalamidas’ work to his own (Oliver H.), but the links still go to our names! Beware of any confusion because he has also created a web domain that is almost the same as our magazine” 

Again… WHERE DID I PUT OLIVER H. ??? Maybe you should have thought a few seconds before writing that to DMCA, because it’s written now, and there is NO BACK. This is proof of your lies Thanos and Asa. Proof it! 

Almost ONE year I have been programming, designing and creating stuff for “our” ovi magazine. Of course now I know what you mean when you say that I belong to “the inner circle”. Now I understand why in your attached emails I never get a “how are you” or a “thank you”… you just send me the original word documents and unedited pictures for me to work on and expect me to do this for what? I edited you big MP3 files every WEEK to upload it and have done more than you can imagine!  If you had bought my services THEN you may have a right to say you paid for them and are the ONLY respective OWNER but NO, it was OUR work, mostly mine since there is a BIG difference in writing simple text into Microsoft’s word, or programming, designing, structuring and making a whole site work!!! And SORRY, but as publisher I never signed a contract which said STRICTLY ONLY ON OVIMAGAZINE.COM… this means I could have published it on yourface.com! So what is wrong with theovimagazine.com??? It is an EXACT copy of MY work in the last year BEFORE you decided kicking me out on your host ovimagazine.com AND EVEN delete all my work on MY server playarta.com 

Obviously this has just happened a few days ago and I have NOT had the chance to change the LOGO and did NOT receive a NOTICE about the “problem” .. well then keep the logo! Didn’t you read my blog??? I did say that I was creating a new logo… so please get a LIFE you two!  Actually you had opportunities to be honest with me and tell me what was going on and that you wanted me out, but you kept on lying. And this is what causes me to believe you are indeed total liars. This is why I have no concern in listening to you anymore or taking you seriously… you are bad people and are trying to destroy something you have not the right to. This is really LOW from you AND THE DMCA. i hope they will realize that you are no more than a bunch of sad liars that have not only lost their partner but a good friend. For what? I don’t know! I have not published any recent work of yours and never claimed to be the author/creator of any work of yours. 

Who invented e-learning computing?

(AP) — Every day, millions of students taking online college courses act in much the same way as their bricks-and-mortar counterparts. After logging on, they move from course to course and do things like submit work in virtual drop boxes and view posted grades — all from a program running on a PC.

It may seem self-evident that virtual classrooms should closely resemble real ones. But a major education software company contends it wasn’t always so obvious. And now, in a move that has shaken up the e-learning community, Blackboard Inc. has been awarded a patent establishing its claims to some of the basic features of the software that powers online education.

The patent, awarded to the Washington, D.C.-based company in January but announced last month, has prompted an angry backlash from the academic computing community, which is fighting back in techie fashion — through online petitions and in a sprawling Wikipedia entry that helps make its case.

Critics say the patent claims nothing less than Blackboard’s ownership of the very idea of e-learning. If allowed to stand, they say, it could quash the cooperation between academia and the private sector that has characterized e-learning for years and explains why virtual classrooms are so much better than they used to be.

The patent is “is antithetical to the way that academia makes progress,” said Michael Feldstein, assistant director of the State University of New York’s online learning network and one of the bloggers who has criticized the company.

Blackboard, which recently became the dominant company in the field by acquiring rival WebCT, says the critics misunderstand what the patent claims. But the company does say it must protect its $100 million investment in the technology. The day the patent was announced, Blackboard sued rival Desire2Learn for infringement and is seeking royalties.

“It just wouldn’t be a level playing field if someone could come onto the scene tomorrow, copy everything that Blackboard and WebCT have done and call it their own,” said Blackboard general counsel Matthew Small.

Waterloo, Ontario-based Desire2Learn said it was surprised by the lawsuit but will defend itself vigorously. No court date has been set.

The dispute is part of a contentious area of the law concerning patents awarded not just on invented objects, but on ideas and processes. In theory, patents can be awarded on a whole range of ideas as long as they are “non-obvious” and the Patent Office sees no evidence they have been described before. Patents have been awarded for everything from types of credit card offers to methods of teaching a golf swing…

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Isn’t the world just going nuts! Of course it is not correct to copy software or already established work, for example if there is a company using a CD which does certain things like vocabulary checking, grammatical stuff, etc… it would be illegal to copy exactly the same software and publish it under another name. 

But would it be illegal to create a own software? Maybe even better and similar? Obviously a teaching technique is a way of doing something and even if it’s possible to patent a way of teaching I think that it’s unfair to other teaching company’s to deny them a sort and way of teaching! I think it’s ridiculous! What matters is that people and teachers evolve and find new and better ways of sharing information! As long as you don’t steal the work of somebody, I think it IS OK if you spend your time and money in finding better ways of teaching! 

Education is very important and especially here in Mexico. What would happen if there are new and better ways of teaching BUT the only company who has the “patent” of using it is way to expensive for many people! This is called a MONOPOLY Isn’t THAT illegal and supposed to belong to the “past”? 

Anyways… I have already started developing a sort of learning program for the Mexican population and I will hope to work another year on it so soon everybody who has 5 pesos can go to a cyber cafe and log into the website and start learning FOR FREE! Yes for free! WHY? Well… because I have always believed that information should be free. It will cost me a lot of work to create and develop especially the video teachings, but… it’s the last thing I can give back to this world. And maybe I will encourage more people to see that many schools are more “busyness” than for “educational” purposes… and ESPECIALLY here in MEXICO! Teachers are paid bad and don’t even know their material or how to teach. I know this is not only in Mexico, and that by giving free online classes I wont change the world… but Mexico is being invaded from Americans and Europeans, and sad thing is that all these strangers WONT learn SPANISH. Well not ALL of them but the majority. WHY? 

Because they expect the Mexicans to learn English… but you know what? The majority of Mexicans don’t earn more than 50-100 pesos a day (5-10 usd) and are not able to afford the money and time to go to English classes which makes this a devils circle since without English they wont be able to get a good job, etc… Think about this before screaming and shouting INJUSTICE! They are COPYING MY METHODS of teachings! 

Comments are very welcome! 

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This news is one of those things that remind me how horrible sick humans can be. Just imagine how many crimes are out there without being noticed. How many people and especially women have to go through things that we’ll never know. How many babysitters hit and violate kids and babys. How many military personal torture innocent victims. Yes INOCENT! And even if NOT inocent… this world isn’t as bad as it was hundreds of years ago, when they burned women for their eye color or killed jews for their money… but is this a better world today?

Or might it just be that things are “more silent” today and that crimes aren’t easy to recognize since the masses are kept distracted worrying about things that are irrelevant in this world. Instead of thinking twice to buy a car, to prevent ambiental damage, we don’t… we just buy it. Instead of sharing work and things with others we guard it like a jelous dog that has nothing better to do than see the one bone.. his bone.

I wish this girl will enjoy the rest of her life in peace and hopefully she will be able to get over this horrible thing that happened to her. Here’s a short text cut from AP: 

VIENNA, Austria (AP) — The man who held a girl captive for more than eight years in Austria spent some of his last hours in a panicked state, driving around Vienna with a friend, before he committed suicide, the friend said Wednesday.

Police asked Ernst Holzapfel later that day to identify a photograph of Wolfgang Priklopil, who had thrown himself beneath a commuter train after his hostage, Natascha Kampusch, escaped on August 23.

“It was terrible for me,” Holzapfel said in comments quoted by Austrian radio. “At the police station, I then had to identify Mr. Priklopil in the photo after the suicide.”

Hours earlier, a panicked Priklopil had called him and asked to be picked up from a shopping center, saying it was an emergency, Holzapfel said. They drove to another Vienna location, and Priklopil told his friend he had fled a police checkpoint because he was drunk, Holzapfel said.

Holzapfel — who met Priklopil in the 1980s and worked with him in the 90s — said he knew nothing about Kampusch’s escape, after she was imprisoned for eight years in Priklopil’s tidy, suburban home just north of the Austrian capital. Kampusch, who was 10 when she was snatched off a Vienna street, was kept in a cramped, windowless, basement cell….

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Let me introduce you to Fiji!

The new Ovi Mascot! Actually I wasn’t going to publish him/her? But I have to try out my new Nikon Coolpix 5700 !!!

Ok, we have recieved a few designs on our Ovi Forum and I will start publishing them but until we have more you won’t be able to Vote, so just take a look at them and comment on them or contact us if you want to participate on our little project! :)

We have a LOGO! Look up there!
 

On October 1 we will launch the new Ovi site. Which will be found under www.theovimagazine.com

Until then you may submit your design proposals to compete on our Ovi Forum!

There is no specific criteria, so you’re free to use your fantasy without limitations!

The Contest will be for our Forum, this Blog and the Ovi Magazine Website. We will be launching the site on October first, so please submit your designs and proposals before September 20.

From September 20 to September 29 you will be able to VOTE for whichever design you may like more and we will use it and promote the Designer / Website who is responsible for it. So this is YOUR CHANCE to get free publicity for the next 12 months! Since we will have these sorts of competitions every year starting on September 1…

Yes, I know Halloween is coming, but please! Only some cool Ovi Web Design, ok? I’d be damned if our readers vote for some halloween design, since we would have to use it because I have promised to use the winning design from our voting competition!

Good luck everyone!

The Ovi Team

As you might have noticed this Ovi Blog and the Ovi Forum are not longer managed by Thanos and Asa. You might visit their new “construction” site under http://www.theovi.com/

Anyways, this means I will need a new logo for the new site. I will also need a new site design, since I would feel bad using the same design I made for them almost a year ago… so…

Design Contest !!!

What is the prize? Well… money? nah! I know you don’t want THAT! hmmm.. women? nah! we’re not an Adult site!

Ok, I know! How about a own section about YOU or your DESIGN COMPANY? Plus a Link to your website which will be visible as long as we use your design! And of course the best… a THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

 Ok, if you want to participate, please visit the Ovi Forum and click on the post in CONTESTS which says OVI Logo Contest!

Good Look! Ups, I mean LUCK!!!

Be aware that there are TWO Ovi’s out there.

 ”The Ovi Magazine” and “The Ovi“.

“The Ovi” belongs to Thanos Kalamidas and Asa Butcher, so feel free to visit their website here: http://www.theovi.com/

“THE OVI MAGAZINE” belongs to Oliver H. (which is responsible for the programming, structuring and design of the previous mentioned Ovi from Thanos and Asa) and has the actual content of Oliver’s work of the last months for the Magazine.

Since Oliver has gone his own way now, everything published from now on (September 2006) on http://www.theovimagazine.com/  or http://www.theovi.com/  is not part of Oliver’s http://www.theovimagazine.com/

Feel free to visit the ovi magazine under: http://www.theovimagazine.com/

THE OVI MAGAZINE

THE NEW OVIMAGAZINE WILL BE FOUND UNDER

theovimagazine.com

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Ovi Forum and Ovi Blog