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Dean Fowler of Wellford is shaking his head, wondering whether a criminal could stoop much lower than stealing from a Marine. "I have a grandson who has been serving our country in the Marine Corps for the past 11� years. He was deployed in the invasion of Iraq, had two deployments to Afghanistan and is now stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. He purchased a home in Wellford for him and his family. He has been remodeling the home on his days off. A few weeks ago, we found that some copper thieves had demolished his heating and air conditioning unit while he is out serving our country," says a disgusted Mr. Fowler. "This is the kind of thanks members of our military get for putting their lives on the line for this country. God forgive us."
'PRETTY SOON': James Sexton of Chesnee doesn't understand why South Carolina's lawmakers are reluctant to get tough on moped drivers. "If you're driving a car while you are intoxicated, I believe you lose your license, but if you're on a moped, you can get back on the highway, pay no taxes and insurance and drive drunk again," he grouses. "They need to go ahead and widen the roads and have lanes for mopeds and golf carts. And don't leave out the horse riders. Pretty soon the lawn mower riders will want to be able to drive to the corner store for beer."
BUILD A SCARECROW: The Piedmont Interstate Fair promises to be an annual event no one should miss, and prior to the start of the weeklong fair Oct. 7, The Stroller recommends going online to PiedmontInterstateFair.com and checking out the many fun contests in which folks can participate. You could even win free tickets to the fair. The fair currently is accepting entries in the Build A Scarecrow contest using only recycled materials. The deadline to enter is Oct. 1. Rules and entry forms can be found online.
ODDS AND ENDS: Members of American Legion Auxiliary Unit 28 will be dishing up some delicious fare during their annual Bean Supper on Saturday, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Legion's home in Duncan Park. In addition to a large variety of beans, the supper will include corn bread, slaw, dessert and tea. The cost of the all-you-can-eat affair is $7. Kids under 6 will eat free.
The Alzheimer's Association will hold its annual Walk To End Alzheimer's on Saturday at Wofford College. Registration will begin at 9 a.m., and the walk will start at 10. Registration is free, and you also can register in advance at Alz.org.
You'll find bargains galore Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the yard sale at Fairview Free Will Baptist Church, 2058 Chesnee Highway. Don't pass up the hot dogs that will be served for lunch, and be sure to take home some of the baked goods. The fundraiser will benefit missions.


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Welcome to Parthenon Hotel
The Hotel is situated in town, just 5 minutes walk from the medieval old town and close to commercial city center and the Casino of Rhodes and just at 97 meters from Psaropoula beach.
The Hotel was completely renovated in 2008, provides a modern hotel with nice and warm atmosphere. The staff will give you a professional service combine with the traditional hospitality Philoxenia.
Our services and prices make our hotel attractive for everyone all year round.
Check in time: 14:00
Check out 12:00
Please contact us regarding your arrival time.
Cash or credit card (MasterCard and Visa) accepted for payment of balance.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hotel Facilities & Policies
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- Child Friendly
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Our property is located on the western side of the town. It is recommended you take a Taxi because it's about a half hour walk from the Rhodes Port.
Here's the walking directions via Google just in case.
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A co-worker and his wife are expecting and I offered to make the cake for the work shower to save other people $$$ and because I know the cake will come out well. Today, co-worker's assistant was surprised when I said I would make the cake and cupcakes and bring everything to serve them, but I was not bringing anything else. It will cost me at least $30 in supplies, and I do not expect to be reimbursed. Why would I be expected to provide drinks/punch, cups and serving equipment?
My sister came and helped me unpack after my last move. Let me rephrase...she unpacked while I recuperated from the surgery I had to have 3 days after the move.After a long morning of wrangling in the crafts room in the basement, she came in and observed, 'You know, you really should finish some of those projects you have.' (pause) 'And give them away to your family and friends.'I don't know which project attracted her eye, but she'd more than deserve it. OTOH, helping people move is one of HER hobbies. Seriously.
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A person I knew from years ago at university, "John", contacted me out of the blue today. I had never liked this person, who was well-known to like nothing better than inciting arguments, and would bicker just for the sake of bickering. Needless to say, we were acquaintances only because we shared so many classes.I am a very casual artist, and when I have the time, I do highly-detailed pencil sketches wherein I aim for photo-realism. These take upwards of 8 hours, and I've had several commissioned and sold for a few hundred dollars each. John remembered these drawings and wanted me to do a sketch of him. I didn't particularly want to draw someone I dislike, but would have felt guilty for flat-out saying no, so I said sure, and told him the usual prices people had paid in the past.His response? "Oh, I know other people have to pay and stuff, but we both know I don't have to, thanks. It's just a drawing." He wanted 8-12 hours of work for free. If we were best buddies and it was his birthday or something, then I might do this. But not for this guy I hardly knew and found what I did know unpleasant. It took me quite a bit of effort not to tell him that if it was "just a drawing" that was worth nothing then he could bolly well do without it.
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I love the entire CD!
I love the entire CD!
I just got the CD,
I'm surprised that I really liked it.
Fave Songs:
MLWSWY - First single, I think it was awesone. Nice hook, very catchy.
If I can't Have You - love dancy songs like this.
Whyyawannabringmedown - this came as surprise, this is some metallica shit right here, you go Kelly bitch! w00t!
"Cry" has now become my favorite song from her, it's amazing.
well... i've decided to give her a chance with the last record...
its OK some songs r good...
it's still very girlie girlie
The only thing with her is that she has a GREAT voice...thas bout it
(already gone is very good)
I'm so glad Emo-Kelly is gone.
We already have Evanesence, sweetie!
I like "Since U Been Gone" Kelly Clarkson. Not the "I hate everything!" Kelly Clarkson....
Okay Talkintotherain...
i will argue with you BUT
the reason why the album is "fluff" is because the producers wanted to be radio-friendly cuz of the last album.
yes in some songs she does sound like other artist but this is a new sound for her.
besides i think she does it better than they do.
I loved My December. That album was the shit. It was so, so real. Kinda raw for a pop star.
But yeah. This album was good, just too glossy.
And a bit too hooky, if you know what I mean.
But my favorites are
1. Save You
2. I Want You
3. Cry
4. Already Gone
5. I Do Not Hook Up
6. My Life Would Suck Without You
On a good note, Kelly's vocal work is at the top of her game on this CD. I've went back and listened to My December and she sounded good, but not great there. But that and Breakaway are my favorites from her.
And the pressure to make more hits after My December, which was her least catchy album.
your right with each album that Kelly has released her voice keeps getting better and better.
I love My December, but the record company forced her to release "radio friendly songs"
the reason why her last album did "poor" ( sold 2.5 million.) was because there was no promotion for it.
I love this album myself. My faves:
Already Gone
wooo! just saw her last night playing with Lady GaGa at the House of Blues in Boston. She was incredible! I got to meet her for a few seconds at a meet and greet too! Can't wait for the full tour...I'll be first in line for sure!
Cant wait to get this album. I love her voice and really digged My December.
i'm finally kind of over this album, but for a couple weeks it was almost all i listened to. to the point where when i finally put it on in the car i knew almost all the lyrics (i hadn't really realized this before because i always listen to it in headphones, walking).
i think i like If I Can't Have You the best.
just 'cause i'm shallow doesn't mean that i'm heartless
just 'cause i'm heartless doesn't mean that i'm mean
Yeah that plus she's so unattractive and chunky. She's the female Jack Black without the funny.She's a good vocalist but I sampled her new CD the other night and all the tracks sound the same.
That's not Kelly Clarkson?
omg were is she
Her last song also was just like Kelly Clarkson, if memory serves. Does the world need two Kelly Clarksons?
I love new music as much as the next guy - more, some might argue - but it seems KK's musical discoveries are all "the new" something. Many of us might recall his rather insistent threads and posts regarding the "new Whitney Houston". I'm not going to pretend that my favorite new artists are extremely innovative, but why can't they just sing and perform? Why must they be reincarnations of something we already have?
i LOVE kelly clarkson.
there is no other artist like her.
ugh....how many times have you made this same post?
I like this song. Anyone know who this is?
"Love me, hate me, say what ya want about me, but all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to If U Seek Amy"
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yay i fixed it. tell me what you guys think bout the video.
Kelly looks so beautiful.
Honestly i don't like Kelly Clarkson but i love this song it makes me cry although the video is Lame
That was such a unique and gorgeous video. Kelly looked amazing in it! I loved that it was just her the whole time. It fit the song very well! LOVED IT!
Oh no I do not hook up, up. I fall deep. Cause the more that you true the harder I'll fight to say goodnight...
loved it....she looks gorgeous in it.
When you have a new cd coming out you should look your best. Girl gained a ton and looks fat as hell.
I heard she fought like hell to not have this song released as a single because it has the exact same backup track as Beyonce's Halo, but her label released it anyway.
I am always rooting for Kelly but lately it seems like she keeps getting involved in battles and she always seems to lose.
this is a respond to Jayden.
I dont care if kelly is a size 0 or a size 12.
i just care bout her great voice. i didnt buy the cd cuz of the way she looks.
this is a respond to Ares
I tired of kelly getting screwed over.
first it was My December.
now this.
the record company is stupid for doing that.
i heard that she wanted if i cant have you as the next single.
which is a hot song.
i wanted cry instead of this song.
But it can only happen so many times until you have to start wondering, why does this always happen to Kelly?
I wonder how her management team is doing. She switched to Reba's husband a while back. It was always puzzling to me since he had absolutely no experience managing a pop star's career. I suppose if Joe Simpson can do it, anyone can, but still I don't think it was a wise choice for Kelly.
Love the song and now I love the video... ya she has gained some weight, but I have to admit that girl has a voice that can make one overlook her weight.
I should really be doing homework right now...
i know what you mean.
i read on a website earlier that in the vid.
kelly commited suicide.
that the record company didnt want to realease the vid cuz it was too dark.
I absolutely LOVED the title track, but this is a gorgeous song. and shut the fuck up about her weight. She is gorgeous and her voice is out of this world.
This is the elimination song for the girls on So You Think You Can Dance! I like it!
You know everytime I think 'bout you, baby...
It's like a movie in my head that drives me crazy...
I try to fight it, try to hide it, can't contain it, so amazing...
Like I'm daydreaming... again!
I like the song,... but the Veronica Lake look does her no justice--in fact (and it pains me to say this), in the video, she looks more like Kelly Osborne than Veronica Lake.
Hockey First!
Yes. She's fat. Who cares?
What annoys me is that this isn't anything special and, in fact, isn't really a "song" she wrote. She just bought the same background tapes the Beyonce did and made up some words to warble over it. It's just some "make your own Karaoke" thing.
Does nobody actually write music anymore?
We'll meet again...
The video was bland. In addition, I've seen similar concepts done before with videos. I just was not impressed by anything.
Actually...Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic wrote and produced both tracks....there are many songs from recent years that were both released as singles and used the same track from the same producer.
Nicole Scherzinger "Whatever You Like" used the same track as Kelis' "Blindfold Me"
then there was this Lumidee song "Never Leave You(uh Oh)....and for the life of me I can't remember the other track that used this...but it came out like right at the same time as eachother.
^^^Sean Paul: Get Busy.
How about Lil' Wayne: A Milli and Beyonce: Diva?
You have to love pop music today.


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After reading Xav's review of Child of Eden, we assumed you rushed out to the store and bought a copy. "But Andrew," you say. "I don't own a Kinect sensor. And gee golly, $50 is way too much to spend on a game that's only a few hours long."
Well, Microsoft hopes that its newly updated Kinect bundle will grab you.
For the same $150 retail price, the new Kinect bundle will include two games: Kinect Adventures and a download code for Child of Eden. According to Major Nelson, the new bundle will "start appearing in stores next week in all Xbox Live regions." The bundle will be available in "limited quantities and while supplies last." So how do you take advantage of the deal? Make sure you look for the special packaging (pictured above).
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I think Rex is too loyal and is more concerned about his players liking him, than doing the right thing as a HC. Plus there's no accountability when it comes to "his guys" i.e. Sanchez, Scott, Greene
Yes I understand NFL offenses can be complex, and it takes time for guys to it down, and get in rhythm. I get all that but I still have always had a problem with the NFL's mentality when it comes to the quarterback position for a long time, mainly because I think it's based more on politics than it is on competition and sound logic.
Giving rookie quarterbacks keys to franchises before they prove a damn thing on the field as opposed to finding out what they have first, and perhaps even have them ride the bench for a year. Sticking with bad quarterbacks for way too long because "they are the starting quarterback". Afraid to bench a quarterback when it needs to be done because of all the consequences that always follow it. In essence, benching your starting quarterback basically means his career with the franchise is more or less over. And most sickening of all, throwing away full seasons, to "train a rookie QB".
Personally I don't feel it needs to be this way and it leads to a lot of teams suffering. There are 53 guys on a team's roster, and I think it is unfair to the team to revolve them all around this twisted cliche TRADITION. Because that's all it really is. Tradition. And some coaches seem like they are brainwashed into following this as if its some sort of rule that just can't be broken. Dinosaur mentality. And we are seeing it happen here with Sanchez and Rex. I'm sorry, but I believe in competition. And the quarterback position is not exempt.
And the fact of the matter is, I honestly can't remember too many teams with starting quarterbacks who have performed as poorly as Mark has in 4 consecutive games and had this much support from their head coach, unless they were freaking rookies.
In 2012, through 5 games, Mark Sanchez has:
a 48% completion percentage
as many interceptions as he has touchdowns, 6 vs 6 but only 3 over the past 4 games.
averages 6.56 yards per attempt
a passer rating of 66.6
and if you care a Total Quarterback Rating of 28.2
He has failed in every single possible category a quarterback can fail in.
In the NFL, it's the starting quarterback's job to lose. Now I don't know about you, but to me he's pretty much lost it. And save for a season ending injury, I can't think of anything else Mark Sanchez could do worse that would make Rex open his eyes and say, maybe I should try something different. Is this not exactly the type of performance for which a back up position exists? Personally I feel this sends the wrong message to the players, and even other back up quarterbacks. If I was a back up quarterback, the last team I would want to go play for is the Jets right now because of the attitude they are displaying. I'd ask to be released and get the hell out of dodge and go somewhere where I would feel I'd have a chance.
And most of this has to do with the NFL starting quarterback tradition. Because in any other sport, at any other position, when a player does this poorly on a consistent basis, most coaches will make adjustments and if it doesn't work out, you can change again.
Not in the NFL. Personally I don't see what the big deal is with benching a guy, giving someone else a shot, and if it doesn't work out, put the better guy back in. I don't believe it should carry all of these other consequences, when the ultimate scope of the game is to help your TEAM win football games, NOT to protect your starting quarterback's job. I believe in needing to keep earning your job, even after you won it. And if you can't, step aside, let someone else get a shot, and get back in line, get better, and try to re-earn your spot!
In all honesty, there really should only be about 5 QB's in the NFL that are untouchable and deserve this much rope. Beginning with the Romos on down, I think they are all fair game to lose their jobs to their back ups if they continue to perform poorly. Mark Sanchez is definitely no exception, and under no circumstances should he be treated with the same amount of leeway as a Brady or Manning.
And to me this isn't just about Tebow and Sanchez. It's deeper than this. I've had this issue with many other teams and many other coaches and quarterbacks. It's a perverse cycle that I think stifles competition at one of the most important positions in sports. Competition should be encouraged. Bad part is you don't even know what you got later down the road in your back ups, when you finally do realize it's time to move on from your starter. Because you never helped them grow. They're in essence most of the time put in to do mop up duties.
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I think Rex is too loyal and is more concerned about his players liking him, than doing the right thing as a HC. Plus there's no accountability when it comes to "his guys" i.e. Sanchez, Scott, Greene
This isn't a comparison to Eli but he didn't really show signs of life until the last game of the season in his forth year. He still has those bone headed picks although much rarer. I really don't see where the Jets have much of a choice but to stick with Mark for at least another year. I do have my doubts about Mark too.
It's in the jets' best interest for mark sanchez to get better, therefore they will give him as many chances as possible to get better before it makes sense for them to part ways. Don't expect to see someone else until the jets acquire a better QB


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FOREIGN tourists are travelling to Australia in record numbers despite the high dollar, a trend the tourism industry is attributing partly to an increase in flights by budget airlines and cheap fares.
The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the number of people travelling here rose by 0.8 per cent in November, compared with October.
On a year ago, international arrivals were up 6.9 per cent.
Australians are also continuing to travel overseas en masse with the number of people flying abroad for holidays or business rising by 2.5 per cent in November.
For the year to November, almost 8.18 million Australians travelled overseas - an all-time high.
Chinese visitors rose by about 14 per cent in November, from the same month in 2011, while Malaysian and Thai tourists increased by 35 per cent and 27 per cent respectively. China is now Australia's second-largest source of foreign tourists.
The industry's peak body, the Tourism and Transport Forum, said an increase in flights by airlines such as Malaysia's AirAsia and Singapore's Scoot, cheap fares and marketing campaigns, had helped to boost the growth in visitor numbers from Asian countries.
China's largest airlines have made substantial increases in flights to Australia over the past two years.
Despite the high Australian dollar, traditional source markets also improved in November - visitors from the US and Japan rose by almost 9 per cent and 10 per cent respectively.
Although British visitors rose by 3.4 per cent in November, they were down almost 5 per cent for the year to November 2012, compared with the previous year. TTF blamed the fall in British tourists over the year on ''excessive aviation taxes''.
The country's airports have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the surge in overseas visitors and the flight of Australians to foreign destinations. In contrast, airlines have not fared as well, as strong competition on many routes eats away at their earnings.
In other developments, Virgin Australia experienced minor teething problems on its first day of a new booking and reservations system.
The airline's head of corporate affairs, Danielle Keighery, said it had some delays of up to 40 minutes at Sydney Airport on Monday but on a network-wide basis the switch to Sabre's global distribution system had ''gone reasonably well''.
''While we have had some delays across the network, they have been minimal. We haven't had to cancel flights,'' she said.
Passengers experienced problems logging into Virgin's website on Monday but the problem was resolved. So far, the biggest challenge has been a large increase in the number of passengers turning up at Virgin's counters at airports because they could not access the airline's website to check in.


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To the editor:
As a citizen of the City of Cape Coral that watches the Council meetings on a regular basis I wish to share my observations on how the Council is set up and how it works.
The council consists seven members and the Mayor. After observing this council in action I believe it is divided up as follows.
There are two members that want to be leaders. There are four followers that blindly vote aye on what the leaders propose. Then there are two independent votes, one being the Mayor.
We have all heard of tax and spend; well in Cape Coral we have tax and spend and fee and spend. The council has come up with these fees that everyone will pay and not be able to deduct from their income tax. (They do not want to lower the millage per the councilman from District 2 and the city manager).
I cannot understand why public input is called for on any tax or fee item because once presented the vote has been pre-determined. We all know the vote will be 6 to 2 in favor of the tax or fee.
The city manager was supposedly hired because of his experience, knowledge and ability to manage a city of this size. Apparently this is not true because in his letter he really wants these fees. The spin zone started with the city being blighted if there were no fees, then we went to closing parks without the fees, and finally to laying off firemen and policemen. WHEW, that was a lot to get out but the City Manager managed to accomplish this. Thank you, Mr. Szerlag
Bottom line!
Folks, remember, we have an election coming up and the representative from District 6 is up for re-election. PLEASE read the platforms of all the candidates and VOTE. With the exception of the Councilman from District 4 and the Mayor you can be sure that your wallet will a lot lighter with this council.
Remember, read, listen, watch how the council votes and then you vote.
Tom & Sommay Pritchard
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LONGMONT -- Boulder County Sheriff's deputies and police are searching for a man who robbed a Bank of the West in Niwot just after noon.
The suspect told the clerk to place all of the loose bills in a bag and then fled with an undisclosed amount of money, according to officials. The man is described as a heavy-set white man in his 50s, about 5-feet, 8-inches tall, 190 to 200 pounds, with strawberry blonde hair and a beard. His face is heavily pock marked, according to reports. He was last seen wearing a blue, oversized button-down shirt and black pants. His shirt was untucked.
Boulder County Sheriff's Cmdt. Scot Williams said the man indicated that he had a weapon, but did not display one. The three bank employees present at the time of the 12:20 p.m. robbery were unhurt.
Officers searched Whistle Stop Park and nearby streets looking for any evidence and the suspect. Local officials notified the FBI for assistance in the investigation. Williams said surveillance video captured images of the man, but investigators are not ready to release the photos to the public.


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Did you ever wonder why the movie industry is located in Hollywood? It was because Edison who owned the patent to motion pictures was very strict as to the types of movies that could be made. So all of the famous studios you know today were started out west where they could easily avoid the patent enforcement that was happening back east.
True, one is generating a shitload of money for lawyers and the other
The difference is that patents expire, eventually, whereas copyrights seem to no longer expire.
Patent and copyright are two very different beasts....
So different, in fact, that there is only one clause [wikipedia.org] in the Constitution granting Congress the power to create both of them.
Both are forms of intellectual property, but both are still very different in scope and execution.
Patents cover inventions. Also, patents require thousands and thousands of dollars to apply for, and it may take millions to defend against a patent claim. It can take at least 5 figures to attempt get a patent invalidated, no matter how unfair it is or how much prior art there may be. Patents also work as a blockade, as soon as you have them, you can legally stop anyone from inventing something that is too similar or depends on similar ideas, even if the new inventor had no knowledge of the existence of your patent.
Copyright covers arts and literature. Copyrights are automatic. As soon as you write a page of a short story or do a doodle, the copyright belongs to you. Although a copyright case can also eat a lot of money, it is focused on proving the infringing artist was aware of your work before he made his. If he had no clue of it, and you had no evidence to the contrary, there is no case. If you have evidence, then things can get more complex and things like Fair Use come into play. Copyrights do not work as a creative barricade. As long as my work is unique enough, similitude or reuse of certain ideas is fair game, even if you were aware of the original art.
Without copyrights, a writer that comes up with a script and attempts to sell the script to a studio can forget about it. As soon as he shows the script, the studio would be able to just make the movie and never give a penny back. An indie developer would also get screwed. He would spend months or years working in a game, publish it, and now any big studio can decide to just copy his work and sell it in big stores without giving him a penny.
The only problem right now with copyright law, is how it's used by the music industry to harass civilians, specially the use of precedent to claim absurd amounts from theses poor people, cases that were originally ruled upon the idea that a big corporation doing the infringement should not feel the consequences of being caught to be negligible. Citizens should not be pursued under that same standard.
Patents are horrible, and turn the inventing into an over encumbered practice. You are expected to do insane amounts of research before you can even proceed with the most ridiculously small segments of inventions, you may find that a round knob in a centered position on the top of a box to be patented. It is nearly impossible to do and ends up making it a huge gamble for anyone but large corporations to invent anything without running the risk of being sued to bankruptcy.
Patents need to be killed. They are horrible and just get in the way of progress, counter to what they were designed to do. Products name and design should be allowed to be copyrighted as the only way to protect the creator from being ripped off.
Both patents and Copyright are excellent, in the form described by Congress originally.
Copyright and patents as (very) limited times for authors to have power over those who would steal their inventions is worthwhile and good for any economy. However, 100+ year Copyrights and absurd "barely any different" patents that act as infinite extensions are not.
The system needs reform, not demolition.
Patents were broken long ago. The innovations related to the steam engine were delayed by decades due to patents.
A more recent example is the airplane. Once again due to patents innovation was stifled until the patents expired or were taken away by immanent domain due to the First World War.
I used to think similar things. But I kept seeing how the system was being abused. I read the following book Against intellectual Property. As one would expect this book is public domain. It gives examples from history and ideas for the future about how creative people can still make money without intellectual property rights. Thing food and clothing. Recipes and designs cannot be copyrighted. Yet these industries thrive and the creative people make money inspire of copies. The one part of intellectual property the author finds the sleast offensive is trademarks. Copying a trade mark is akin to fraud since you are claiming the product you made is made by another company.
http://mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf [mises.org]
No, Stallman owns a butter knife, and thinks it is a katana.
If it really was, the beast would've been slain decades ago.
At the time, however, the equipment that allowed you to create and/or view the motion pictures was covered by Edison's patents, and so it gave him significant leverage in imposing morality codes on what people produced using that equipment. Read up on Edison sometime - he was a complete asshole not satisfied with making shitloads of money when he could also gain total control over whatever he touched.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company [wikipedia.org]
Wait.. did I miss it? Were the authors of Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning sued by LucasFilm / Paramount / any of the other companies involved with the Star * sci-fi series?
Because I"m pretty sure that downloading/uploading a copy of a movie doesn't fall under most interpretations of the 'fair use' doctine, whereas satire and parody (see story) do.
I would argue that Mr. Tyson is part of the 'work', and by modifying the work of art by putting it on the other guy's face for parody purposes, means the original a
If it's based that heavily on the original then it's likely to be considered a derivative work. And since there is apparently no creativity involved with recreating the tattoo for the movie it should be considered a derivative work.
As such, there definitely is going to be something of significance to this case if Warner Brothers manages to win. Or even if they don't, this would likely still have some pretty astonishing effects on the tattoo industry.
Or another option:
1) There is hypocrisy.
2) They do what they can, according to the law.
There is no hypocrisy here. They do what they can, according to the law. Just like you, or I, or any sane person would do if we ever appeared in court.
Hypocrisy is holding others to a standard to which you're not willing to hold yourself, which is exactly what's happening here. No, it's not illegal, but it's repulsive. And no, sane people do not take every possible advantage of the law to bludgeon people, and then use that same law as a defense when they're the ones on the receiving end of the bludgeoning. Sane people do their best to avoid legal conflict altogether, which is something the IP industry is notably reluctant to do.
Sane people do their best to avoid legal conflict altogether
Sane people avoid legal conflict, except when it is in their interest. Which is why the law exists in the first place.
And no, sane people do not take every possible advantage of the law to bludgeon people, and then use that same law as a defense when they're the ones on the receiving end of the bludgeoning
Yes, yes, actually they do. Especially in regarding IP law, which has a long history of legal fighting, and delicate balances being formed, for example, between song-writers, publishers, and performers.
Hypocrisy is holding others to a standard to which you're not willing to hold yourself, which is exactly what's happening here
The standard here is the law, as interpreted by the court. Let me know when Warner Bros gets parodied by someone, as judged by a court, and t
I understand the world just fine. I particularly understand that corporations like Warner which see the law as a weapon to be used and abused at every opportunity, and the corporate apologists who cheer them on, do your level best every day to make the world a worse place to live.
Sane people see filing suit as a last resort, not standard practice. Sane people do not decide to go to court the minute they think they might gain some advantage by doing so. Sane people know that the law doesn't, can't, and sh
For Hollywood, copyright has one meaning: inflating their profits. Unfortunately, almost everyone in America has forgotten that copyright is supposed to exist to improve the people's access to works of art by making money for copyright holders, and so Hollywood manages to get away with their abuse of our legal system.
The major content producers are Pro-IP because it's where all their money is, sure, but the argument WB is making is that it's a parody, and *nobody* in the US comes close to saying parodies are not okay, because courts would reject that argument. Kind of like how in the recent video game case, the real trick was trying to get around any reasoning that meant the government could ban books.
The First Amendment makes it really hard to argue parodies are not okay.
Except that this isn't parody by any reasonable definition. Which is going to be a real problem. I haven't seen the film, but merely slapping an identical looking design onto a character, even if the character is a parody, is not sufficient to extend fair use to that. Especially since there's no reason why the design needs to be that similar to the original.
does this make Mike Tyson a work of art or a piece of work?
I thought it was the face tattoo from star trek voyager's Chakotay
According to US copyright law, when you perform a work for hire, such as a painting or a tattoo, the work becomes the property of the person the work is performed for unless otherwise agreed upon.
So the work belonged to Tyson, not the artist at that point (unless they agreed otherwise). And if Tyson gave permission for it to be used, then there is no problem.
According to US copyright law, when you perform a work for hire, such as a painting or a tattoo, the work becomes the property of the person the work is performed for unless otherwise agreed upon.
Tell that to the photographer you hired for your wedding.
Well that's usually in their contract. Thankfully, not every photographer does this.. hit google to find out where you can find them and whether they're available for shoots.
The question then is whether or not Mr. Tyson signed a similar such contract OR whether the work could fall under the same laws that absurdly make taking photos of statues and other works of art ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate [wikipedia.org] ) violations of copyright resting on them from their original artist - enforced only when commercial
They make you sign an agreement that they retain the copyright... get a good photographer, pay the higher price, and have it be a work for hire instead of the standard contract that leaves those photos as his/her property!
In the US, no professional photographer is going to relinquish their copyright just to take photos of you unless you are a celebrity and/or are willing to pay a HUGE amount of money. The client doesn't need reproduction rights to the artwork; they just need copies of the artwork. The photographer needs the copyright because it is THEIR artistic vision that set up, directed, lit, took, and edited the shot. Not you. It may be a picture OF you, but it is still the photographer's aesthetic choices that make
First of all, "negatives" are a thing of the past insofar as 99% of wedding photography is concerned. It's all digital now. You want the unedited raw files? What would you want with them, clone out all the blemishes and do your own post processing because you're SO much better at it than the photographer you've paid to do it for you?
Let's put it this way: feel free to take your own damned wedding photos if you think the photographer's just there to snap some shots. Nobody's stopping you. You want comp
Hmm? I own all my wedding photos, and have the document to prove it. Now I did end paying 2-3 times what i could have, but I really wanted the copyright assignment. Of course in the contract was the ability for the photo place to use them in advertising and promotional material, and I would hardly ever deny a photographer rights to use it in a portfolio, and if I did I know I pay very well for it.
Mike Tyson apparently doesn't own the rights to the original. It was apparently agreed to that the tattoo artist would own the copyright to the tattoo. Which seems odd to me, but that was apparently what they agreed to.
It was apparently agreed to that the tattoo artist would own the copyright to the tattoo. Which seems odd to me, but that was apparently what they agreed to.
I have a friend with lots of tattoos, one of them actually includes a (c) symbol on her skin. So I'm thinking it may be pretty common after all.
What kind of idiot agrees to let someone else have the copyright on something that is permanently on your face?
Oh, wait, I forgot we were talking about Mike Tyson here. Never mind.
Why? What possible use would it be for you to have the right to duplicate it - unless you happen to be a tattoo artist?
Which seems odd to me, but that was apparently what they agreed to.
It's pretty much the same as a painting Tyson might have purchased from an artist: he would own the painting, but the artist would retain copyright (unless it was contracted as a work for hire). It doesn't matter, legally, that the work happens to be on his body.
The tattoo on Tyson is probably his, but the design might not be.
According to US copyright law, when you perform a work for hire, such as a painting or a tattoo, the work becomes the property of the person the work is performed for unless otherwise agreed upon.
So the work belonged to Tyson, not the artist at that point (unless they agreed otherwise). And if Tyson gave permission for it to be used, then there is no problem.
Brilliant! I'm getting a tatoo with a flag and a half eaten apple surrounded by a hex code on my ass so I can moon a whole court room full of copyright and trademark litigators when Sony, MS and Apple sue me!
But he did include DRM. The DRM was putting it on the infamous boxer Mike Tyson.
It sounds like the general public has discovered that copyright law and trademark law allows them to do an end-run around the 1st amendment. From the article:
The range of material that individuals and businesses are seeking to get copyright protection for has only been expanding, often at the insistence of movie studios. Mattel has gone to court to assert the copyright of the face of its Barbie doll; fashion companies have been lobbying Congress to pass a law to protect unique, nontrivial new designs. And trademark, which is governed by different laws and is much more contextual, has been used by athletes and coaches to get a measure of control over terms like "three-peat" or "Revis Island."
This system is broken. Culture should not be owned.
Culture should not be owned.
And no reference to convicted rapist Mike Tyson should ever include the term "Culture".
He is, whether you like it or not. Sorry. Deal. If you don't like it, go shoot him yourself, though that won't stop people from talking about him.
Does S. Victor Whitmill have permission from the Maori people to produce tattoos based on their designs?
Insightful... those designs are protected in New Zealand at least via the Treaty of Waitangi.
Why would he need that? By that logic architects would need permission from the Romans whenever they chose to include Roman arches in their buildings. A lot of architects would be liable for infringement around here if that were true.
My father, who's somewhat of an authority on tribal art (he's a self-employed bodypainter and has published a book about tribal art), had an interesting tidbit for me when I mentioned this story to him. Mike Tyson has said that his tribal tattoo is a warrior's tattoo based on art from the Maori tribes. According to my father's research, the Maori and other tribes in that area of the world do produce such art, although the warrior tattoos are meant to be a form of endurance testing. The warriors of the tribe
This is an interesting question because it brings up a serious problem with how poor the common domain has become. Maori have a culture and cultural artifacts which they own collectively. It is their culture. No single Maori can claim it for themselves, but they together own it. Today virtually all the cultural artifacts of our period are owned by someone else. Try and use the artifacts of your own culture in a new work and just see how fast you will find yourself in court for copyright violation.
Sing a popular song, draw a picture of a Coke can, or copy a tattoo from someone who is famous, and suddenly it's a huge problem. But it is clearly a double standard. They can copy cultural artifacts, but we cannot copy them.
I'm not really standing up for pirates - outright duplication of works for profit - but I do think that there should be a liberal ability for individuals to copy segments in order to create new works.
We are thoroughly in favor of Fair Use rights... as long as it's in our favor. Help a brother out? (Ha! Get it?)
Yours truly,
- Warner Bros. Legal Department
No doubt, if you or I, having seen the movie, wanted to paint ourselves up like Ed Helm, Warner would claim we're violating THEIR rights
is a flaming asshole. He should be sued by the Maori, from whom he ripped off "his" design. What a scumbag.
Good artists copy, great tattoo artists from rural Missisoupy claim copyright.
I was about to make a similar point. The tattoo artist is a hypocrite,
"Tribal" artwork is owned by the tribes who used them for millennia
By that argument, it's in the public domain, so no one has any claim on it. Which actually makes perfect sense to me!
We have seen the parody fair use claim before and watched it fail when the item in question is a complete replication of the work in question. By precedent, Warner Bros should lose this one.
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CLEVELAND (AP) - A person with knowledge of the negotiations says the Cleveland Cavaliers have reached agreement on a two-year contract with free agent forward Earl Clark.
Clark, who played for the Los Angeles Lakers last season, met for two days with the Cavs earlier this week. The deal is worth $9 million, said the person who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because NBA teams can't announce free-agent signings until July 10.
The Sporting News first reported Clark's deal.
The 6-foot-10 Clark set career-highs in scoring (7.3), rebounds (5.5) and minutes (23.1) in 36 starts last season. Before joining the Lakers, Clark played for Orlando and Phoenix.
He was drafted in the first round (No. 14 overall) by the Suns in 2009 after playing at Louisville.


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Published: 2012/07/28
by David Steinberg
Featured Column: The State of the Phish
We are currently between legs of Phish's summer tour. That seems like a good place to pause and reflect. This tour has been inspiring a lot of conversation about whether Phish is "back" and what that would mean to begin with. The way I see it, Phish is a three-legged stool. Some eras emphasized different aspects of the band than others, but the essence of Phish is the contrast between their songs, their personalities, and improvisational force.
Song Catalog
The song catalog can be judged in two ways: what they play and if they play their songs well. The one thing that the first leg really accomplished was the sheer number of distinctive songs played. While a few songs were overplayed, when nearly every show has a song or two that's only played that night, it makes it really tempting to get in your car and hop on tour. While it prevents a show from being special just because it had a bust out or two – think about how legendary the Sweet Jane or Shaggy Dog sets would have been if they were the only songs returned on the tour – it adds extra potential to every show when there's always a sense that the next song could be anything.
When you have 200 songs in rotation, there's a risk of some sloppiness; Sweet Jane was a song that had people calling for a do-over. Still though, train wrecks have been largely avoided. While we haven't quite seen a composition nailed the way the Great Woods Divided Sky was last year (perhaps in part due to the infrequency that that and You Enjoy Myself have been played), the disasters have also been minimized.
If there's one thing that's really missing, it's new songs. There's been a call since last year for there to be new originals, but even more surprising is the lack of new covers. Other than The Gambler – played because they got Kenny Rogers to guest at Bonnaroo – not one song has been debuted in 2012. Even covers like Blister in the Sun had previous performances. According to a clip in Rolling Stone, the plan is to go into the studio this fall and create songs from scratch, but that shouldn't prevent the wacky covers from happening. As interesting as it is to see how many songs they can play without debuting any, the moment of confusion when no one knows what is being played has been missed.
If there's one thing the first leg had in spades, it's the band's personality shining through. From the tucking experiment to the joking about Fishman only being able to play songs that start with him in Cincinnati to the Marco Polo games in Antelope to trying to bring the "Whooooo"s from Twist into other songs in Atlantic City, Phish are clearly enjoying themselves on this tour. The excitement they're bringing to the stage is contagious and helps to lower the barrier between fan and band. Phish likes to play jokes but there were two ways how that went. Most of the time we were either in on the joke (such as with the secret language) or it was designed to mess with our minds a bit for fun (John Popper's wheelchair being lowered onto a trampoline in the H.O.R.D.E. tour or Sara(h) from Pittsburgh in Miami 2009). In either case, there was a feeling of being on the same page as the band, the sort of interaction you have with your friends.
When I think of the Dark Years of Phish, yes I think of Coventry and Vegas, but what also comes to mind is Bittersweet Motel. A major theme of that movie – and obviously it was edited to tell a narrative that may or may not be accurate – was of the band acting like the fans were an annoying hindrance to their lives. Now we're back to feeling like we're inside, like we know them as people not just as entertainers. Is it an illusion to some degree? Sure. But it's a more fun one than having the all-powerful band and us taking the roles of fan or critic. Hopefully it's not too late to reestablish a healthy relationship between the sides; what has existed with a large part of the fan base actively hating the men on stage is non-sustainable.
It's somewhat amusing that we went directly from a period where everything was awful except for the jams to one where the only thing left to complain about is the absence of extended periods of improvisation.
The seeds for that might have been planted in an interview Trey gave to the New York Times way back at Hampton. He talked about how musicians helped people to forget tough economic situations. So many of the massive jams of the past had long periods of sheer tedium. Sometimes it took pushing through that to get to the peaks. The new sensibility is that jams aren't allowed to be dull. It's rare that there are 5-10 minutes of noodling, hoping that someone will come up with an idea that they can run with. This goes both ways. It means that the infamous ripcording happens when someone feels that the direction is lost. On the other hand the jams that do happen tend to be punchier, more focused. Between the SPAC Piper, the Cincinnati Twist, the Worcester Carini and Roses, the calypso tinged Pittsburgh Light, and the Alpine Fee, there were plenty of interesting jams coming out of different songs. None of them came close to 20 minutes – the SPAC Piper clocks in as the longest non-composition of the tour at 15:31 – but they managed to do a lot in their shorter slots. It would be nice to have a few songs extended a bit more, but it's hard to complain with what they're doing with the time they're allotting.
What all of these three elements – song selection, banter and goofiness, and jams – have in common is that they add to the surprise factor of shows. People focus on the jamming side of things, but what keeps us coming back is more generic than that. The novelty factor is simply having our expectations subverted, preferably in a good way. There's a feeling that anything can happen at a show these days, the next song could be something that hasn't been played in years or maybe would lead to some bizarre band interaction or perhaps would have a jam in a song that doesn't usually contain them. Just about everyone who has attended part of this leg is busy trying to find ways to add shows to their summer. Keep us guessing and we'll keep on coming.
David Steinberg got his Masters Degree in mathematics from New Mexico State University in 1994. He first discovered the power of live music at the Capital Centre in 1988 and never has been the same. His Phish stats website is at http://www.ihoz.com/PhishStats.html and he's on the board of directors for The Mockingbird Foundation. He occasionally posts at the Phish.net blog and has a daily update on the Phish Stats Facebook page


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Finalists invited to campus for Dean's position at UH Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and TechnologyUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
UH Manoa Chancellor's Office
Finalists for the position of Dean of the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) have been identified. Interviews and campus visits have been scheduled beginning next week on the Manoa campus.
UH Manoa Chancellor Peter Englert expressed his gratitude to the dean search advisory committee. "SOEST is a major component of the research enterprise at UH Manoa, and it is critical that we enlist top caliber leadership to capitalize on our world-renowned excellence in ocean and earth sciences," Englert said. "The committee has recommended three well-qualified candidates, and we look forward to the opportunity to introduce them to the campus community."
Chair of the search advisory committee, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, said, "The committee was pleased to have a pool of applicants and nominees that are well aware of the quality of our faculty researchers at SOEST. We believe these finalists can provide the necessary leadership to continue and enhance our research programs in these areas.
The finalists are:
Eddie Nolan Bernard, Director of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Bernard directs an interdisciplinary oceanographic and atmospheric research program that supports NOAA's mission in climate forecasts, predicting environmental change, building sustainable fisheries, and related endeavors. He directs a research, professional and administrative staff of 175 at facilities in Seattle and in Newport, Oregon. Dr. Bernard received his BS in physics at Lamar University and his MS and PhD degrees in Physical Oceanography at Texas A&M University.
Mahlon C. Kennicutt II, Director of Sustainable Development and Professor of Oceanography at Texas A&M University. Dr. Kennicutt serves as leader of a major new interdisciplinary research program — the Sustainable Coastal Margins Program - created in 2001. It involves a coalition of numerous on- and off-campus entities that now directs the work of more than 50 faculty in sustainability science. He received his BS in Chemistry at Union College and a PhD in Oceanography at Texas A&M University.
Thomas M. Powell, Professor, Department of Integrative Biology and Chair, Energy resources Group, University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Powell's research has been directed toward studying how physical processes affect planktonic ecosystems, working in the full spectrum of fresh and ocean water environments. He has taught a wide variety of courses in oceanography, ecology and other related areas to both undergraduates and advanced graduate students. He received his BA and PhD degrees in Physics at UC Berkeley.
Additional biographical information about the candidates and about the search process will be posted at www.hawaii.edu/executivesearch/soest . Each of the candidates will be on the Manoa campus for meetings beginning next week, and each has been scheduled for a public presentation beginning at 9:15 am, in POST 723, on the following days:
Mahlon C. Kennicutt — Wednesday, November 17
Eddie Bernard — November 19
Thomas M. Powell — November 23
Interested members of the community are invited and encouraged to attend.
Members of the search advisory committee are:
· Chair, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Director, Institute for Astronomy and Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education· Vice Chair, David Karl, Professor, Oceanography· Janet Becker, Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics· Kathy Cutshaw, Director, SOEST Administration· Melody Eckmier, Senior, Geology and Geophysics, and ASUH representative· Sarah Fagents, Assistant Professor, Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology· Gary Jensen, Director, Office of Naval Research· Suzi Johnston, Program Assistant, East-West Center Seminar Program· Stephen Masutani, Associate Researcher, Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute· Eric Mittelstaedt, Doctoral candidate (Geophysics) and GSO representative· Paul Nachtigall, Director, Marine Mammal Research, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology· Jeff Polovina, Director, Pacific Islands Fisheries Center· Lorna Ramiscal, Educational Specialist and Staff Representative, University of Hawaiʻi West Oʻahu· Jane Schoonmaker, Associate Geophysicist, Oceanography· Clyde Tamaru, Extension Specialist, Sea Grant· Nainoa Thompson, President, Polynesian Voyaging Society and Trustee, Kamehameha Schools· Bin Wang, Professor, Meteorology, International Institute of Geophysics
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/executivesearch/soest


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Investigators in the Aaron Hernandez murder case were prepared to interview a Bristol man who was killed early Sunday when he crashed a car registered to his father-in-law, the former New England Patriot tight end's uncle.
Multiple law enforcement sources said Massachusetts investigators were interested in speaking with Thaddeus Singleton III, 33, because he was associated with Hernandez. Singleton, who records show has served time in state prisons on various drug-related convictions dating to the mid-1990s, was killed when the car he was driving shot 100 feet through the air and hit the Farmington Country Club 6 feet off the ground.


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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- Steady improvement by Wes Korth allowed
the junior to rise to 17th place overall and finish as Tennessee
Tech's top individual as the Golden Eagle men's golf team tied for
seventh place in the 54-hole, 17-team F&M Bank Intercollegiate
hosted by Austin Peay.
Of the six Ohio Valley Conference teams in the two-day event, Tech trailed two and topped three. Host Austin Peay (832) won the team title, while UT Martin (840 finished fourth. Tech tied for seventh place (883) with Dayton, one shot ahead of the OVC's Eastern Illinois (884) in ninth place and four ahead of Morehead State (887) in a tie for 10th. Tennessee State (890) was 12th.
Korth opened play Monday with a 75, and improved to a 71 in his second round on the first day. On Tuesday, he trimmed another shot from his score to shoot a 70, finishing at 216 eand earning a tie for 17th place among the 93 golfers in the field.
Jared Dunn, who led Tech after the first day with rounds of 71 and 72, shot a closing 76 to finish tied for 27th place at 219. Three shots back, Jake Heatherly (75, 72, 75) was tied for 37th place at 222. Also in Tech's lineup, Josh Simer (81, 74, 75) tied for 71st place at 230 and Blake Garrison (77, 76, 78) tied for 74th place at 231.
Sophomore Travis Ramsey was also in the tournament, competing for Tech as an individual, and finished alongside Garrison in a tie for 74th place (76, 77, 78) at 231.
The APSU event was the final action of the fall season under first-year coach Craig King.


text: Any website can post "offseason grades" for NFL teams, mixing the draft and free agency into transaction soup, then straining it through the mind of some sportswriter who doesn't know who half the players are. Only the Shutdown Corner has the resources to get actual players, coaches, and executives from each team to evaluate their own offseasons! That's right: over the next few weeks, you will get transaction evaluations straight from the horse's mouths: straight talk about who was signed, who was lost, who was drafted, and why. (For the satirically challenged: all player, coach, and executive remarks are made by an impersonator). In this segment, former Chiefs coach Todd Haley breaks down the offseason moves of the team that fired him at the end of last season. We have a bad feeling about this. TODD HALEY: Wash your windshield, mister? I don't scrub windshields for the money. I have a coaching job now as offensive coordinator for the Steelers. I carry this slop bucket because I like it. It's comforting to wash windows while the mad clown stares at me with his dead, gray eyes, whispering razor truths mortals dare not speak aloud, truths that pierce flesh and cut an inky scarlet line against the throat of the he-goat Sorry, my thoughts meander sometimes. The Chiefs had a productive offseason. At the skill positions, they added Peyton Hillis to a running back committee that already includes Dexter McCluster and Jamaal Charles, who is ahead of schedule rehabbing his knee injury. Kevin Boss joins Tony Moeaki, also on schedule to return from a knee injury, to give the Chiefs two tight ends who can block and catch. Two rookie wide receivers, Devon Wylie and Junior Hemingway, will provide extra depth behind Dwayne Bowe, Steve Breaston, and last year's top pick Jonathan Baldwin, who started to come on late in the season. Matt Cassel, yet another player who missed much of last season with injuries, won't have to worry about throwing to the likes of Keary Colbert or Anthony Becht. That's right, everyone gets to come back to Kansas City but me, the guy who got blamed for not being able to build an offense around Tyler Palko and Terrance Copper, while the dead-eyed clown stares back at me from the mirror and cackles. "You ever played cornhole with the devil, son?" he asks, his raspy voice a rusty hypodermic needle scraping gutter concrete. "He don't use no beanbags, boy." And that he-goat just brays and brays like he sees the end coming and don't know whether to fight it or welcome it. Moving on to the defense, Dontari Poe was one of the most physically gifted specimens in this year's draft class. The Chiefs have a bad habit of striking out with big defensive tackles, from Ryan Sims to Glenn Dorsey, so my former assistant Romeo Crennel will have to be careful about Poe's development and role if he doesn't want Poe to become an overpriced space-eater the greasepaint smears and the sharpened steel glints in the pickup truck headlights behind the barnyard. The loss of Brandon Carr is going to hurt at cornerback, because Stanford Routt is an adequate #2 corner behind Brandon Flowers. But the defense will be better if it is not* on the field as often, and when the muffled brays fade to pitch-black silence, vengeful darkness sated all-too-briefly by the still-quivering sacrifice .


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The Men's Group is a gathering of men at Marywood who desire to grow in their faith while developing a strong bond with other males.
Where a lone man may be overcome, two together can resist. A three-ply cord is not easily broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:12)
The Men's Group is an excellent way to strengthen spirituality by building a solid foundation with peers. The group is open to males of any faith. Discussions range from growing closer to God to relationships, school, and family. The Men's Group also takes part in activities outside their weekly meetings including bowling and SAC events like Bingo and Trivia. Please join us for this opportunity to grow and support one another.
Meetings are held on Thursdays, 9 p.m. in the Swartz Center for Spiritual Life.
4:12 for Women is dedicated to the renewal of faith for college students. Meeting twice a month, 4:12 for Women is a fun, open, and friendly way for women at Marywood to topics such as relationships, stress, pressure, and happiness while incorporating their faith and values and developing a sense of community.
Meetings are held twice a month on Sunday at 8:30 pm in Campus Ministry. You are welcome to come to one meeting, some meetings, or every meeting. Dates and topics can be found on the Campus Ministry calendar.


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MOREHEAD, Ky. - They knew it was going to be a tough match
heading into it. It was a showdown of the number one and two in the
OVC. But it was number one Morehead State that claimed the OVC win
over the Tennessee Tech volleyball team to remain undefeated in the
Tech (8-9, 5-2 OVC) returns home next weekend when they take on Murray State and UT Martin on Friday and Saturday. Match times are 7 p.m. and 2 p.m. respectively.
"They are a tough team," said head coach John Blair. "We knew going in it was going to be a battle. We missed some opportunities that they capitalized on."
Morehead State used timely plays in the first set and claimed the 25-23 set win. But it was Tech who came back during the second set and leveled the match up at one set apiece heading into the longer set break.
The momentum then switched back in favor of the Eagles and claimed the final two sets to pick up the OVC win.
Tech was lead by junior Amanda Lindgren with 13 kills. On the defensive side of the net junior Katie Kenline set her career record for digs in a single set with 17 in the first set and finished with 41.


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Ok so let me get this right.
Miata short rear struts with the adjustable coil kit and 92 FWD Legacy Fronts.Do they make a coilover kit for the legacy fronts or are those stock springs you are using in there?
Just found that the 93+ Impreza and the 92 Legacy use the same struts in the front.
yea, front struts didn't really every change much. the '03 legacy stuff I have sitting here is also virtually identical.
the springs are cheap generic coilover sleeves for a GC impreza. used 'em on my 4-lug all-EA82 setup, and still using them on my goofy hybrid setup now.
btw, just found the attached picture on ebay. this is of a NB ('99-'05) Miata front shock. I'm working on getting my hands on a pair of these.


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This is a flyer that Stanford sends out to their football recruits. Personally, I think it's pretty awesome. This, in my mind, isn't negative recruiting, it is only showing the power of a Stanford degree. Now I know that this isn't for the average football player with a degree or anything like that, but I still think it is impressive and is a very valid way to recruit and can bring up some interesting discussion at least.
Link: http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9378/screenshot20110524at103.png
EDIT: Tried to fix to fit screen, but that doesn't seem to be working, sorry.
FYI: The top part says:
Stanford Graduates' Mid-Career* Annual Salary Advantage Over 2010 Final Top 25
Salary $$ Less than Stanford
1. Auburn: -$31,600;
3. Oregon:-$42,800;
4. Stanford: -$0
5. Ohio State: -$39,600


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Construction of Chillicothe's new Hedrick Medical Center continues to progress, with many activities taking place on site. Crews are now doing detail work on steel, interior and exterior wall framing, duct work, and mechanical rough-in. Temporary lighting has also been placed within the structure for job safety. Just last week, the final steel beam for the structure was put in place during a topping out ceremony.
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The Ohio High School Board met in regular session on Nov. 25 and conducted the following business:
• Approved the agenda as presented, the minutes of the Oct. 21 meeting, October treasurer's report, bills and payroll.
• There was no audience participation.
• Approved the resolution of estimated amounts for tentative levy as presented. There is no need for a levy hearing.
• Approved Drivers Education Waiver to be submitted to the state board. (Invalid due to publication not printed in newspaper).
• Approved Health Life Safety Amendment.
• Approved submission of maintenance grant for new windows.
• Approved Jason Wilt as appointees to Performance Evaluation Advisory Council (PEAC). This is a committee that works with union representatives on new teachers evaluation tools.
• Approved one-to-one computer purchases.
• Approved first reading of policy manual updates.
In the administrative reports, Superintendent Sharon Sweger reported:
• Current high school enrollment is at 34 students.
• The new scoreboards and pads installation started last week. The installer ran into a few problems with the height of the board. One board is completely installed and operational. The other board will be installed when the school receives the attachment for the donors. The installer also needed a lift for the second board installation. The other board and the new add-on will be installed at no additional cost.
• Sweger has a volunteer who would like to help supervise in the cafeteria during lunch time. This is a parent of a new fifth grader. The school is in the process of getting background checks completed.
• The district has had two FOIA requests this month. One, is for all union contracts from 2001 to present. This is from a research firm. The second was from a photographer wanting the names and addresses of the Class of 2015. Sweger has contacted Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's office to determine if she can send them. It is Sweger's opinion that this would not be a safe thing to send to anyone. Sweger has called the business and offered to personally pass out or mail any flyers they want to send to her.
Principal Jason Wilt reported:
• The school's Veterans Day program was cancelled. The veteran Wilt had lined up to address students got deployed last minute. Instead, after morning announcements, Patrick Anderson played Taps in the auditorium for the whole school to hear. The teachers also provided instruction pertaining to Veterans Day in the classroom. The staff participated in Jeans for Troops and made $65.
• The girls' basketball team received fourth in the Princeton tournament. Adam Spencer has taken over as FS girls' basketball coach this year.
• Thanksgiving feast was on Nov. 26. Thanks to parents and staff who volunteered their time to make the Thanksgiving feast a success.
• The Christmas concert was on Dec. 4.
• Wilt talked about the suicide prevention program held at the school. He said the school has about 25 to 30 attendees. It was a very good program and hard for the people giving it so he thanked them for their time.
• Wilt thanked Greta Bates for all she does for him. Whenever he has data information that needs to be analyzed, she is his "go to" person and he really appreciates her for that.
There was no need to go into executive session. The meeting was adjourned at 7:55 p.m. The next meeting will be Monday with the Drivers Education Waiver Hearing starting at 6:30 p.m. and the regular meeting immediately following in the school library.
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Award-winning political journalists Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill will co-anchor gavel-to-gavel broadcast coverage from the PBS Skybox at both the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL and from the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC as well as the Bank of America Stadium.
Convention Schedule:
Note schedule change to GOP convention coverage below:
GOP: August 28 - 30 at 6pm on PBS North
DFL: September 4 - 6 at 6pm on PBS North
PBS special broadcast coverage will begin at 6pm each night of the conventions and continue LIVE until the conclusion of the proceedings at approximately 10pm. The coverage will be interspersed with analysis, interviews and commentary.
NewsHour Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan will extend the coverage online via the NewsHour interactive digital map center and "NewsHour
All Hours" – a 24-hour livestream on multiple channels that offers viewers an "all-access pass" to the conventions.
A repeat of the evening's convention coverage will air from 9pm to 1am on our 2nd Chance channel.


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
A light hearted post for a Friday…
A couple of days ago on Twitter I asked…
The replies flew in thick and fast, there are some fairly vindictive people out there in the Twitter community let me tell you so i thought it'd be fun to show you a sample! Let's go with a couple of harmless non-evasive suggestions first from Jens Vestergaard and Randi Borys:
The screenshot one I particularly like. Those two are pretty tame though, if you want to get really nasty then try this suggestion from Brent Ozar:
Oh my word! In true "embrace and extend" style though Brent and Rob Farley built upon the idea:
Nasty!!! Mr Farley upped the cruelty ante though with his next suggestion which I think might be my favourite:
Do that to a green SQL developer and soon they'll be thinking they're in the seventh circle of Microsoft-tool-hell! Not to be out-done Brent replied with the ever popular:
I can think of a few variations on that theme – the hosts file might be one thing you might want to target.
Want to really make someone really angry? Kenneth Nielson has a suggestion:
If humiliation tactics are your bag Andy P has one for you:
And for the time-poor amongst you Koen Verbeeck offers:
Lastly if pure criminality is your bag, as it clearly is for Rowena Parsons, simply:
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turns on high contrast accessibility mode. Nice and quick.
on dual monitors alter screen orientation by 90 degrees on each monitor in the opposite direction and watch them try to move the mouse.
Use PowerShell to alter all favourites to point to google or an inappropriate site:-)
Leave it as it is as thieves will bypass you and go for the soft target
Courtesy of @GSElevator:
"change the signature on his Email settings. Using white font, add any variety of obscene words. No one will see it… except for IT and HR"
Change his default font to comic sans
If you aren't a domain admin, make yourself a local admin of the machine and install PSEXEC on your machine...
In our team, we have a little prank where we change each others backgrounds to embarrassing things. I have also written a script... compiled it.. .named it chrome.exe and replaced my co-workers chrome.exe... every time he launched the browser, it locked his PC.
Jamie, there is a wealth of ideas here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/11/dont-forget-to-lock-your-computer.html
I've always been a fan of using an image of a BSD and setting it as the only image on his screen saver.
Standard practice at my last employer was to use their email to send a message to all their colleagues that they will be buying the cakes in the morning.
At the last place I worked at, if you left your machine unlocked you'd return to find you'd been Hoffed. That is, a random picture of David Hasslehoff, normally wearing little else but a lot of chest hair and some tight underwear, replacing your desktop wallpaper.


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Commercial leases come in many varieties. There are two major categories of leases found in the marketplace. There are referred to as "net leases" or "gross leases." Allow me to explore some of the differences and nuances between the two.
First, there is a "gross lease." The landlord picks up the costs or expense of real estate taxes, insurance on the building and exterior maintenance like snow plowing and lawn care. Tenants like this type of lease because it is easier to budget for a known fixed number. Landlords have a love/hate relationship with gross leases as they are simple to do the accounting for but if expenses go up, the entire increase comes out of the landlord's pocket. This reduces the landlord's financial returns.
For example, if real estate taxes go up from $10,000 to $12,000 from year one to year two and the rent stays the same, the landlord has to absorb the loss ($2,000) in a gross lease. Some landlords mitigate their exposure to this kind of loss by modifying the gross lease terms. They negotiate what is called a "tax stop" into the lease which means the tenant will pay any increase in the real estate taxes over a base year amount.
In the example above, where taxes went up from $10,000 to $12,000 from year one to year two, the tenant would be responsible for that increase. This is called a "modified gross lease" and there are variations on that approach in the real world. Sometimes a modified gross lease is structured so that the landlord pays real estate taxes and insurance but the tenant pays the cost of lawn care and snow plowing. Since leases are legal instruments that are negotiated between two parties, they can take a variety of forms. The point here is that if you see the term "modified" in front of the word "gross" as it pertains to a lease, you will need to ask for a definition. As in many things, "the devil is in the details."
Net leases are by nature structured to put the onus of expenses on the tenant. Typically in net leases, the tenant pays a scheduled amount of "base" rent and also pays property expenses such as real estate taxes, insurance and maintenance. In a multi-tenant property such as a strip center or industrial building, the tenant will pay his proportionate share of the property expenses based on the percentage of space he occupies of the total. If he occupies 10 percent of the space, he gets the honor of paying 10 percent of the provable documented expenses.
Net leases vary in their degree of "netness" (I made that term up) in that some require the tenant to pay all operational expenses of the building (often referred to as a "triple net lease"). Then some net leases only require the tenant to pay for real estate taxes, leaving insurance and maintenance to the landlord to pick up.
If all this sounds complicated, it's really not. If a landlord puts his property on the market for lease, he will tell you if he is asking for a gross, net or some modified version of those. If it is not clear what he is asking, a prospective tenant will simply ask for an explanation or definition.
What is important to understand is that the market determines the level or amount of rents, whether they are quoted as net or gross. In theory, in a given rental market, there should not be much of a difference between net and gross leases. If you take a net lease and "gross it up" by adding real estate taxes, insurance and maintenance to the base rent, the result should look a lot like the gross rents in the market. For example, if $6-per-square-foot gross is representative of a market rent, the net rent equivalent should equal $6, as well. So, if the base rent is $4, then taxes, insurance and maintenance are in the realm of $2 ($4+$2=$6).
If you are in the market to lease commercial space, be aware of the differences in how leases are structured. When supply exceeds demand by a large amount as is currently the case, you will have more negotiating power than when demand exceeds supply. Sometimes landlords who prefer net leases will end up agreeing to a gross lease, just to make the deal happen.
What's the grossest lease of all? That's when utilities are included in the equation and the tenant has an all inclusive monthly payment. Then of course you could buy a building and not have to worry about all this.
• Bruce S. Kaplan is senior broker associate for Premier Commercial Realty, 9225 S. Route 31, Lake in the Hills. Email firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit www.profit-success.net.