The midfielder’s late extra-time winner for Spain sunk a sorrowful Dutch team who had a few significant chances to win the match.

The Barcelona star struck with a fine volley deep into the additional half hour to crown Spain as World champions for the first time.

It’s currently unknown whether British-born Paul knew that the winner would not come in the regulation 90 minutes, but if he did he certainly kept quiet about it.

Nevertheless, the Octopus corrected his previous European Championship final mistake by predicting Spain to win this time around to complete a perfect eight out of eight record for the World Cup.

After the game, Iniesta commented on Foxsports: “The Octopus will now be very popular in Spain.”

Paul predicted the only losses of the tournament for both Holland and Germany. His most impressive prediction was arguably his correct call that Serbia would defeat the Germans in the group stages.

Paul’s growing fanbase will be hoping that he is still fed properly now the World Cup is over and could be starting to wonder whether he is any good when it comes to club football

A PAINTING depicting Nelson Mandela as a corpse undergoing dissection has provoked disgust and been compared to witchcraft by South Africa’s governing party.

The artwork is a parody of Rembrandt’s 17th-century masterpiece The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp.

It shows Mandela lying in a loincloth while Nkosi Johnson, an AIDS activist who died aged 12, points to his arm stripped of flesh.

The spectators include Archbishop Desmond Tutu and politicians F. W. de Klerk, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma.

The artist, Yiull Damaso, argues South Africa must confront a subject that remains almost taboo: the future death of Mr Mandela. The country’s first black president turns 92 later this month.

The painting, which has been on display in Johannesburg, provoked a furious response from the ruling African National Congress.

”The ANC is appalled and strongly condemns in the strongest possible terms the dead Mandela painting,” said Jackson Mthembu, a party spokesman.

”It is in bad taste, disrespectful, and it is an insult and an affront to values of our society.

”In African society it is a foreign act of ubuthakathi [bewitch] to kill a living person and this so-called work of art … is also racist.”

But Damaso, 41, insists that he is using the image to convey a political argument. ”The idea just popped up in my head,” he said on Friday.

”We have Nelson Mandela, one of the great leaders of our time, and the politicians around him are trying to find out what makes him a great man.

”Nkosi Johnson, the only one in the painting who’s no longer alive, is trying to show them that Mandela is just a man.”

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]]> http://bloogle.co.za/2010/02/25/ancyl-julius-malemas-house/feed/ 0 http://bloogle.co.za/2010/02/24/sptcs-cdma-delayed/ http://bloogle.co.za/2010/02/24/sptcs-cdma-delayed/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:23:46 +0000 Jackson http://bloogle.co.za/?p=356 The product was launched in January and although a majority of the public had hoped that it would be on sale soon, the communications company Acting Managing Director Amon Dlamini said this could happen towards the end of March. The much hyped about “fixed wireless” is infact CDMA technology which the country’s sole fixed telecominication provider was hoping to launch this month.

How it works
What happens in when your mobile phone handset is a CDMA phone, the voice or data calls are spread out across the entire available wireless frequency bandwidth and use frequencies 1.25MHz wide, rather than being allocated channels either by time or frequency.

he cellular information of either voice or other data (like picture messaging for example) is split up into small packets and transmitted to the recipient in binary code of 1s and 0s (or it wouldn‘t be digital), and each packet has a spread code embedded within it. This cellular phone code is exclusive to each cell user and call, and every packet of data can therefore be assigned correctly when being reassembled at the receiving cell phone and all other data with different codes is ignored.

Also referred to as wide band spread spectrum, CDMA cellular encoding makes sure that all the cellular transmitted data is correctly recognized and duly assigned, without interference from all the other cell phone signals which all have their own individual codes to be recognized.

Interference from other cellular users within the system is not a problem unless the number of phone users reaches a saturation point which disrupts the voice coding system.

Another thing about CDMA cellular technology is that more than one (actually three) cell phone towers can be used at any one time, as the cell phone can choose which site is giving the best signal, or choose to blend the signal from two or more. This cell phone process is known as `soft handoff’ and is an ability unique to CDMA cell phones.