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Due to the amount of suspicious ads being posted through SuperAds Pet categories, we ask strongly that users exercise caution when dealing with buyers/sellers on the sites in these areas.View this page for more information on ways to avoid internet fraud.I have 2 horses I want to trade for an Olde English Bulldog. Must be registered,not neutered, and prefer young adult. Missy is a 6,7 year old QH,dark brown,stands 15.3H. She has been broke just hasn't been rode allot by us(third owners). Bluff is a 6 year old QH, mustang, black with white spot on head,stands 14.2H.He will need working on, we've rode him but not much. He has 2 wolf teeth that prevent him from taking a bit so we ride with a halter and 2 reins.Calling the vet to see how much it cost to have that fixed so he MIGHT have that problem when he's purchased.He does great with kids while someone leads him.Neither horse is spooked. Both are VERY use to dogs, goats, pigs, cats, 4-wheelers, lawnmowers, and cars.NOT REGISTERED. BLUFF HAS PERFECTED FEET.Will sale separate. I live in Franklin, GA.For more info just email me.
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Marsh was born on May 29th, 1995 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in Etobicoke and currently lives in Ajax.
Marsh was born on May 29th, 1995 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in Etobicoke and currently lives in Ajax.
Marsh's primary focus is on music, as
Marsh's primary focus is on music, as to a band as the drummer.
==Grand Theft Auto==
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Zach Marsh (born May 29th, 1995), primarly known on GTW as Carl "CJ" Johnson is a user on Grand Theft Wiki, whose username is taken from the protagonist of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. He is mainly known for his short-lived series Grand Theft Auto: The Untold Stories, which premiered in 2006 and was cancelled after a lengthy hiatus in 2011.
Marsh was born on May 29th, 1995 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. He grew up in Etobicoke and currently lives in Ajax.
Marsh's primary focus is on music, as his goal is to make it in a rock band as the drummer.
Grand Theft Auto
Marsh was exposed to GTA at the age of seven and has been a fan of the series ever since. His favourite game in the series is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Involvement in the GTA community
Marsh has been a member of many different Grand Theft Auto communities - the series is his favourite video game series ever made, and he posesses a wide knowledge of every game and most major characters, events, and locations in the games.
The Untold Stories
Marsh is an avid writer, and at the age of 11 premiered the first episode of his fan fiction series Grand Theft Auto: The Untold Stories. At first, the series only reached a very small audience, but was critically acclaimed. However, the series only lasted three subsequent episodes before going on a 5-year hiatus, in the wake of scathingly negative reviews. Marsh cancelled the series on July 17th, 2011.
Marsh also made several smaller GTA series, including the disastrous Daily Dude Damage, which was killed before it ever really got started.
Possibility of resurgence
Marsh has not denied the possibility of the series' resurgence, and he has started to outline a specific plot for himself in the event that he does start writing the series again. The only details released by him are that, if the series is rebooted, it will involve a story chronicling the life of Carl Johnson's father, a character invented by Marsh named Brian Greaves, who later changes his last name to Johnson, and is the namesake of the youngest sibling of the Johnson family. Marsh has referred to him as a "brilliant" character, stating that he has "never come up with a character as detailed and as developed as he is. Any fans of the GTA series will fall in love with his story."

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The 'school of E.H.D.' leads local family to trio of restaurants in Huntington County
Andre B. Laird - Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:07 PM
Originally published Sept. 30, 2013.
Most family-owned restaurants have all the members working at one location.
In Huntington County however, three kids have carried on their father's legacy in the form of three restaurants.
The late Eugene H. Drabenstot acquired the first "Nick's" restaurant, Nick's Kitchen, in Huntington in 1969. The restaurant has been open since 1908 and at the time he purchased it, Drabenstot was the fourth owner.
Today, Nick's Kitchen is owned by daughter and son-in-law Jean Anne and Kenny Bailey.
The "franchise" has grown to include Nick's Country Café, owned by daughter and son-in-law Nancy and Ray Bonebrake, and Nick's Junction, in Roanoke, owned by son and daughter-in-law Jim and Dana Drabenstot.
Bonebrake says all the kids got their start in the business by working at Nick's Kitchen.
"We were required to work there," she says. "I would say that we were educated at the school of E.H.D. (Eugene Harold Drabenstot)."
Jim Drabenstot also remembers getting an early start in the business.
"I started working there at 9 years old washing dishes," he notes. "I started cooking at age 12."
Eugene Drabenstot owned the business for 20 years. The opportunity to purchase was a chance that Bailey capitalized on.
"We knew he was retiring it and thought it would be a good opportunity for us," she says.
Eugene Drabenstot set his sights on another building and in 1982 bought a restaurant in Roanoke.
"The former name was The Clydesdale Inn," notes Jim Drabenstot. "But after he bought it, he changed the name to Nick's Junction."
He adds that his father owned the restaurant for seven years before he and Dana purchased it in 1989.
Bonebrake says she chose to keep the "Nick's" theme at her restaurant for brand identity.
"Dad wanted everyone to know that the other restaurants served the same good food and had the same great service," she says. "He kept the name for continuity purposes."
Bailey says Nick's Kitchen is a well-known name, featured in numerous publications and serving a number of visitors.
"Dan Quayle stopped by on his way to the Republican Convention when he ran for vice-president," she says. "He visited quite a few times while he was in town."
Bailey adds that the notoriety has been good for business, as there are people who have come to the restaurants simply because they heard or read about it.
All three say that even when on vacation, they often run into people who have either visited or heard of Nick's Kitchen and its famous tenderloin, which is offered at all three restaurants.
Bonebrake says that even though Nick's Kitchen has its fair share of local customers, Nick's Country Café and Nick's Junction see a lot more local traffic.
"We all have different niches that we fill and we love the people that we serve," she says. "Even though Nick's Kitchen is more known, all the restaurants are successful in their own right."
Bailey and Jimmy Drabenstot both became restaurant owners on the same day - July 5, 1989 - Bailey purchasing Nick's Kitchen, and her brother purchasing Nick's Junction.
Bonebrake opened Nick's Country Cafe several years later, in 1992.
"At the time I was working for Jimmy and the opportunity came up for me to own a restaurant of my own," she says. "The original location of the restaurant was the (current) Los Amigos building on South Jefferson Street."
She adds that Nick's Country Café was located there for four years, after which she relocated to its current location on Old U.S.-24.
"After realizing that the building was never going to be up for sale, we purchased the one we have in 2000," she says. "It was a good fit for what we wanted to do."
With such a storied legacy in Huntington County, all three agree that the most rewarding part of the job is the interaction with the customers.
"I love the people the most," says Bailey. "It's fun to have people come in and look at the pictures on the wall and tell stories of my dad."
Bonebrake adds that she is blessed every day by the kind words of her customers.
"Until recently, I wasn't able to spend much time in the front of the room," she says. "But now I have time to do that and the experience interacting with the customers is fun."
Jim Drabenstot says his restaurant's clientele is a good mixture of locals and people passing through.
"Business is good and we have great customers," he says. "This is a small town and we love what we do."
He adds that with Nick's Kitchen being a landmark in Huntington County and the success of the other restaurants, the experience has been rewarding.
Although none of the siblings plans to retire any time soon, Bonebrake says the opportunity for someone to carry on the legacy will be there.
"We don't have children who are interested in taking over at this point," she says. "That may change in the future, but there is potential for someone to come in and carry on the legacy."
Nick's Kitchen is located at 506 N. Jefferson St., Huntington. Its phone number is 356-6618.
Nick's Country Café is located at 1643 Old U.S.- 24, Huntington. Its number is 356-4849.
Nick's Junction is located at 4215 E. Station Rd., Roanoke. Its phone number is 672-2977.
Complete caption: Jim Drabenstot (with wife Dana) and his sisters Jean Anne Bailey and Nancy Bonebrake (from left) operate Nick's Junction, Nick's Kitchen and Nick's Country Café respectively. The siblings are torch-bearers of a legacy handed down from their father, the late Eugene H. Drabenstot.


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Brasilia police have canceled an order for 17,000 raincoats for use at the World Cup because next year's tournament will be played in the dry season.
"The military police made a mistake in listing the product among those to be acquired with a view to the World Cup which will be held in the dry season," said the Federal District government in a statement.
Brazilian media had criticized the plans as an example of wasteful spending by authorities, pointing out that the jackets would have cost a total of 5.35 million reais ($2.66 million).
Rainfall is very rare between May and July in Brasilia and the air humidity often drops to 30 percent.
The Brazilian capital, a planned city founded in 1960, will stage five matches at the World Cup and will also host games at the Confederations Cup in June.
The new 72,000-capacity Mane Garrincha stadium has been plagued by delays and its opening has been postponed until May 18, leaving FIFA on tenterhooks.


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Code.org: Give Us More H-1B Visas Or the Kids Get Hurt 271
theodp writes "Fresh off their wildly-hyped Hour of Code, Code.org headed to Washington last Thursday where H-1B visas were prescribed as the cure for U.S. kids' STEM ills. 'The availability of computer science to all kids is an issue that warrants immediate and aggressive action,' Code.org told Congress. "Comprehensive immigration reform efforts that tie H-1B visa fees to a new STEM education fund,' suggested Code.org co-founder Hadi Partovi, is 'among the policies that we feel can be changed to support the teaching and learning of more computer science in K-12 schools. We hope you can be allies in our endeavors on Capitol Hill.' Also testifying with Partovi was inventor and US FIRST founder Dean Kamen, who also pitched the benefits of H-1B visas (PDF). 'We strongly encourage Congress to pass legislation that directs H-1B visa fees to enable underserved inner-city and rural schools to participate in FIRST,' Kamen testified. 'Specifically, these fees should support efforts to enable underserved inner-city and rural schools to participate in FIRST.'"


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The city of Colorado Springs has just released its proposed budget for 2003. It calls for across-the-board raises for city employees. Overall, the budget is approximately $212.6 million. The proposed raises would amount to about $4.9 million of that amount.
But with so many people in our area out-of-work, and with the city already making cutbacks in other areas, some people are wondering why the city is budgeting for raises.
On Thursday, City Manager Lorne Kramer addressed those concerns. He says the pay increases are designed to retain quality employees. Kramer also says this should not be portrayed as an exorbinent increase, since city employees have actually been 12 months behind people in comparable markets. He says the goal is to close that gap. Kramer wants to bring city pay up to the 2002 median salaries for similar jobs.
Debra Hilton is one of the 6,600 people in the Springs area who recently lost a job. Hilton says since her layoff, she's spent every day looking for work, but without success. She says she's happy city workers have jobs and might get raises, but she questions the fairness of the proposal. She says her family is struggling just to eat and keep a roof over their heads, and it upsets her to see city workers getting raises.
Kramer defends the move and says he's protecting the city's investment by holding on to quality workers. He says, "Once we have them, we want to ensure that our investment is protected and we can retain them." He also says he expects a lot of debate on this issue before next year's budget is finally approved.


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C700 To Windows? No Drivers.. Cant Ssh, What drivers do I need for XP for a C700
C700 To Windows? No Drivers.. Cant Ssh, What drivers do I need for XP for a C700
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The windows driver can switch between network and IO modes. I set mine to network and disabled the checking service and other stuff, so it now always comes up just like any USB network adapter. It uses Samba to display the local storage as well as the SD and CF cards if inserted, and you can do ssh or other things if you install them.
I have a C700 and cant get my WINxp box to reconize it.. It comes up in windoze as a C760 but I can't locate drivers.
I got this off ebay. Zaurus 3.1 manager doesnt reconize the device so I can't Sync it or anything. I would really like to access the device through windows to access the SD/CF cards and SSH into it. I don't want to spend a LOT of time trying to write shell scripts on a little keyboard I can write them on another box but it would be a LOT easier if I could SSH into it.
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Jennifer Lawrence Discusses Her Anxiety Disorder
(NEW YORK) -- Jennifer Lawrence wowed fans with her fiery portrayal of Katniss Everdeen in the hit movie The Hunger Games. Yet, despite Lawrence's confident command of the film's leading role, the actress admits she has struggled to mirror that confidence in her personal life.
In an interview with French magazine Madam Figaro, the 23-year-old actress revealed how she overcame social anxiety disorder.
"My nickname was 'Nitro,' as nitroglycerin," she recalled of her childhood. "I was hyperactive, curious about everything. When my mother talks about my childhood, she always says there was a light within me."
"When I went to school, this light went out," she continued. "We never knew what it was, a kind of social anxiety. I went to see a shrink, nothing worked."
It wasn't until Lawrence decided to pursue a career in acting that her struggles subsided.
"One day, I begged my parents to take me to a casting," Lawrence told the magazine. "We went off to New York and that's where I started acting. On stage, my mother saw the change taking place in me. She saw my anxieties disappear. … I felt capable whereas before I felt good for nothing. This is why Mom fought for me to become an actress."
During the interview, Lawrence also thanked her parents for their efforts to ensure her happiness. Her parents took out two mortgages on their homes and moved to New York to support their daughter's career, she said.
"They wanted me to grow up in Kentucky, to lead a normal life, what all parents want for their children," she said. "But they saw me so truly happy that they sacrificed everything for my happiness. … Without my family, I would be nothing."
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Scott Hoag Interview - Bullitt: 10 Years After
Former Team Mustang customization engineer Scott Hoag looks back on the creation of the '01 Bullitt GT
It's hard to believe it has been 10 years since Ford surprised us--and maybe even surprised itself--with the '01 Bullitt GT. Scott Hoag was Team Mustang's customization engineer charged with producing a special "feature car" to bolster Mustang sales during the final years of the SN-97 body style. With support from Mustang chief engineer Art Hyde, Hoag successfully launched the '01 Bullitt in May 2001. Two years later, he was instrumental in the creation of the '03-'04 Mach 1 before departing Ford to start his own aftermarket business, Mustang Racing Technologies, better known as MRT.
When it arrived in showrooms, the '01 Bullitt GT was a sensation with enthusiasts, especially those old enough to remember 1968 movie, Bullitt, which featured actor Steve McQueen driving a '68 Mustang fastback through San Francisco in one of the most memorable movie car chases of all time. But, as Hoag is quick to point out, the car also resonated with younger people who appreciated the lean, clean looks and added performance, like the special cast-aluminum intake that was borrowed from the Ford Racing catalog to increase the 4.6-liter's horsepower to 270. Additional changes included high-flow mufflers, revalved struts and shocks, Brembo front brakes (with red rotors), and vintage-style instrument cluster. Available in Black, True Blue, or Dark Highland Green similar to McQueen's '68 Mustang, the Bullitt GT also looked different from the standard Mustang GT with a lowered suspension, 17-inch Bullitt-style wheels, different moldings, brushed aluminum fuel filler door, and unique sidescoops.
The popularity of the Bullitt GT and its successor, the '03-'04 Mach 1, led to future feature-car Mustangs, like the California Special and a reprise of the Bullitt for '08-'09. Today there are clubs, like the International Mustang Bullitt Owners Club (www.imboc.com), and a registry devoted to the Bullitt Mustangs. At events, Bullitt owners tend to park together in a sea of black, dark blue, and dark green.
We sat down with Scott during the Mid-America Ford and Team Shelby Nationals to get his reflections about his involvement with the Bullitt GT.
MM: Can you believe it has been 10 years since you were involved with the launch of the '01 Bullitt GT?
SH: I can't. That means I've been gone from Ford for almost 10 years. I left a year after I launched the Mach 1.
MM: How long were you with Team Mustang?
SH: I was there for a little over three years. They had a hard time trying to figure out what to call my position. It went from Nameplate Manager to Mustang Customization Manager to Specialty Vehicle Project Manager to whatever. They could never put a title on it because that job had never happened before. My job was quite simple--to keep the SN-95 Mustang exciting and selling until the new S197 came out for '05.
MM: How did you come up with the Bullitt concept?
SH: We were working on finding an appropriate feature car, but we didn't want to do a sticker and a paintjob and call it something cool. While we were figuring that out, the auto show efforts were kicking in. In December 1999, unbeknownst to me, Mustang design manager Sean Tant was chartered to come up with a Mustang for the LA Auto Show in January. He and a group of people worked over Ford's Christmas shut-down to deliver a Bullitt-themed Mustang to the show. Sean obviously knew Mustang history and realized that the Bullitt movie, which showcased a '68 Mustang, had been popular. And we had just released a Bullitt-style wheel.
I was sitting in Art Hyde's office when we got a call from someone at the show saying, "Alright, what's going on with this car?" Art and I looked at each other because we didn't know what he was talking about. The guy said, "This green Mustang, we can't keep people away from it." We told him we'd get back to him.
We called Sean Tant, who said, "I meant to tell you guys about that. We had to rush something out there." So he had started something. If there was that much excitement, then there was our feature car.
MM: So the Bullitt was the result of lucky marketing?
SH: Obviously it got the buzz going. Then the challenge was to deliver the essence of a Bullitt in an impossible time frame. Introducing it for the '01 model year was a stretch at best, unless we were going to do something like a stripe and wheel package. But we were very strong on the fact that the car needed to have substance or it wouldn't connect with enthusiasts. If they didn't connect with it, the car would be a failure.
We knew the Bullitt GT needed to touch on all of the functional elements--exterior and interior styling, performance, sound, corporate DNA, driving dynamic, and human interface. Of course, that grew into a new interior, chassis, powertrain actions, and color selection, which is not a minor program in the Ford system. The scope of what we said we were going to do within the short time frame was so absurd that people giggled, walked away, and left us alone. It was the perfect ground cover.
MM: Did you have assistance from other departments at Ford?
SH: We solicited help from the functional areas I mentioned. I told them, "This is a program of passion. We've got no head count and no budget. I'm looking for guys who think this is a cool idea. You still have to do your full-time day job." Once they got permission from their managers, then that became the enabler for people to say, "Let's do this the right way." That brought a lot of creative juices to the team.
MM: The Bullitt had a special intake. Was that hard to pull off?
SH: Most of the people in powertrain had some car-person DNA in them. One of the keys was referencing the technologies we already had. We started with the Ford Racing catalog and figured out some of the things we'd have to change to integrate certain parts, which had to meet crash-worthiness and all the safety elements, fuel economy, etc. We were not going to do a new emissions certification for the car. We were not going to have a crash program. So we ended up revising a lot of the components, starting with something that existed so it was a refinement instead of an invention process. That's how the intake manifold came about.
MM: Were you able to include all of the components that you wanted?
SH: You can't always get everything you want. There were two things on the front of the car that we really wanted to pull off from the Bullitt show car--the front fascia and the functional hoodscoop. Because the show car grille opening required compromises to the front bumper beam, which is safety, it was taboo. To make the hood functional was a tooling expense that was out of our reach. Those two things on the front of the cars didn't happen the way we would have liked.
We actually spent a lot of time on the rear, which was more of a "wingless wing" decklid. We tried all sorts of spoilers. After near exhaustion, I said, "Let's just paint the decklid green, bring it to the next review, and see what they think about it." People gravitated toward what was different. Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something if something is wrong.
The biggest thing people noticed inside was that the steering wheel from the prototype was missing. It had a button-style horn instead of the big airbag horn. But a new airbag would have affected safety. We fought hard for those things but in the scheme of things, the essence was maintained in the production car.
MM: How long did the Bullitt development take?
SH: About 13 months. We had the prototype at SEMA in November 2000 and the first car was delivered at a Fun Ford Weekend in May 2001. To go from a concept, through the whole program--product definition, program approval, engineering sign-off, and make it available in a dealership--in essentially a year was crazy-stupid. To some executives at Ford, it was also crazy-irresponsible.
MM: Did the car generate more response and enthusiasm than you expected?
SH: It did. Part of the surprise was seeing the type of people who were resonating with it. I figured people wearing "supporting whitewalls" would remember the Bullitt movie so it would be a sentimental journey for them. The surprise was that the young generation gravitated to the car as well. They thought it was very unique and cool. Not for historic reasons but under its own merit, which was a delightful surprise. There's luck in the formula as well as science.
MM: How many did you end up building?
SH: We had hoped to sell 6,500 units. And we actually had 6,500 orders in the system. But from a scheduling situation, they didn't get built. If we had built 6,500 cars, every one of them would have had a customer. Only 5,582 were able to make it through the scheduled production run before that model year closed.
MM: We understand you had to work with the McQueen family because of the Bullitt name?
SH: Our office of general counsel had been in discussions with the McQueen Foundation and things were working quite nicely with using the name Bullitt. Then we discovered that Time-Warner thought they had more rights to the name than the McQueen family. I literally had to step out of the negotiations because my Scottish temperament was getting involved by saying, "Listen, these guys stand to profit more from this car than Ford and I find that wrong." Sorry, I didn't see them in any of the meetings at 10:30 at night.
I think if we hadn't negotiated the name into the deal, the car wouldn't have been the success that it was. I also don't think that the movie Bullitt would have had a resurgence in popularity either. It was good pro quo.
MM: We've heard that Steve McQueen's son, Chad, drove a Bullitt for the promotional photography in San Francisco. Is that true?
SH: Yes. It was neat to see all that come together. Chad had been on location during the filming of the Bullitt movie so it was a personal milestone in his life. Watching him launch the car time and again on the hills of San Francisco, I was thinking, "This is smoking cool!" I was also thinking, "He's destroying this car."
Afterwards, we had the engineers inspect the car. The engine crossmember was pretty clean from any paint that was originally on it. Other than that, the car was perfect. It went into the media fleet and never had any serviceability issues. I ended up finding that car later. It was for sale at a car show in Alabama. The owner had no idea about its history. I remembered the vehicle number and confirmed it by the scuffed up crossmember. I told the owner and he said, "Not for sale anymore."
MM: Did the McQueen family receive any of the Bullitts?
SH: Part of their contract was that they were to receive four vehicles serialized one, two, three, and four. After we'd produced around 400 cars, the legal guys clued us in that that was the deal. That was way too late because the early cars, all sequentially numbered, were sold and shipped. I said, "We can number them McQueen one, two, three, and four." And they thought that was even better. A car went to Chad, his sister, and his mom. The fourth one was auctioned for the McQueen Foundation. I think all have now been sold except Chad's.
MM: Did the success of the Bullitt help facilitate the Mach 1 for '03 and '04?
SH: Actually, it probably hurt the Mach 1 effort. At that time, we had no data that said the Bullitt was going to be successful. And I was saying, "Let's do another feature car. And we're going to go bigger and badder and we're going to put a hole through the hood." And the executives were going, "We need a drug test from this guy. He's not right." The car guys, like Art Hyde and VP Chris Theodore, felt good about it. But some of the other disciplines within Ford were afraid of making a mistake, of having product that we would have to dump on the dealers.
MM: Did working on the Bullitt and Mach 1 programs help you with MRT?
SH: Absolutely. Because we didn't have any formidable marketing available for the Bullitt and Mach 1, we had to get creative. We had to look toward internet help and grassroots events, such as Mid-America Shelby and MCA shows, etc. With the help of the media, I certainly got mentioned with both the Bullitt and Mach 1. So you guys validated that I conceivably knew what I was talking about.
I've always been a tinkerer. There's only been one car that I have not modified, and that's Bullitt number one sitting in my garage.


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CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WEAU) -- "There's nothing to do in this town." It's a phrase you'll undoubtedly hear in small towns. But a group of friends in Chippewa Falls is defying the odds and proves a little creativity, hard work and imagination can make all the difference.
If you walk out onto Lake Wissota, you'll see it's not just a flat surface of ice.
There's a large ice fort, not too far from the shoreline.
"We built this ice fort, castle I guess you could call it," said Ty Krajewski who started the whole project. He grew up at his parent's home along the lake. "We started cutting lines in the ice, then you score it and then I pulled the chunks out with what's called a rogue, basically a logger's tool. You pull them out, then we cut them into smaller blocks and then we started stacking."
Two days and 200 blocks later, a masterpiece was formed.
"My dad came down and talked about how to engineer it. We started stacking and here we are," said Krajewski.
But it's not just about building an ice fort. It's about a lifestyle or the "lake life."
"A lot of us all grew up out here, born and raised, always looking for new things to do," said Levi Hunt who's grandparents used to own a small resort on Lake Wissota. "I was always helping them with the resort. All my friends and family would come up from all over the place."
And it's not just the winter this group of friends hangs out on the lake.
"When you're bored and there's nothing to do, you go out on the lake. You hop on the boat, you do a set, you wakeboard, you hit it hard, you do some surfing, we ice skate, we fly a kite, we built this massive ice igloo thing. We're just looking for things to do to keep us out of trouble and that are fun," said Krajewski.
Hunt said the ever-changing seasons and activities is a reason why the Midwest and all of Wisconsin is the best. People, creating you're their own fun in a town where kids claim "there's nothing to do."
"A lot of kids now days are wrapped up in their technology, their iPhones and iPads and stuff like that," said Krajewski. "I never got involved in it because there's always something to do out on the lake."
"Lake Wissota has so much to offer, not just that, Wisconsin does," said Hunt.


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CARLINVILLE, Ill. – The women's basketball team dropped their second straight conference game Wednesday as they failed to control a balanced scoring attack from Blackburn College who posted five players with double figure scoring marks. Sophomore guard Laura Hobbie led the Lady Panthers in scoring with 16 points on 7-of-11 shooting in the losing effort.
Blackburn got scoring from a host of ladies but leading the effort was Sierra Shipley who netted 17 points and grabbed a game high 12 rebounds in her 34 minutes of play.
The Lady Panthers shot a season low 33.3 percent from the floor and struggled from the free throw line as well, only hitting 61 percent of their attempts.
Greenville (9-7, 4-5 SLIAC) hit the floor Saturday, Jan. 29, as they defend H.J. Long Gymnasium against Monmouth (Ill.) at 1 p.m.


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At the risk of being hopelessly behind the times, there's something to be said for vampires that actually scare people.
Here's a starting point: Michael Sims curated a collection of some of the best vampire lit ever written, dubbed Dracula's Guest. (You can hear him gushing about it here, if you need more convincing.)
It's all 19th century stuff, which means brittle Victorian morays, long craggy sentences and some genuinely terrified peasantry from heavy-hitters like Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant. It's a little stuffy in places, but if you're going to make a turn through the bloodsucker backstory, this is the best ways to do it. And presumably you've already seen what the movies have to offer.


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You can achieve the same things with Linux but, it is done by using a collection of bits & bobs that hang together by a very weak thread.
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PHOENIX — Screaming across the desert just after dusk, the murderous head winds peel back the plastic cowling under the wipers, shearing it right off their bolts.
It's a poignant reminder of why lizards have, over the last million years, developed those heavy, Emma Stone eyelids — so that when they're barreling across Arizona on a road trip, they have an extra layer of protection when hurricane-force winds begin to tear apart their overpriced German sedans.
Off to spring training we go. Evolution on our side.
Obviously, I'm self-medicating with baseball again, something my doctor recommended when I started responding to unsolicited Internet ads:
"We wish to inform you that we can supply canned tuna as per your demand," the email offered.
Sensing an opportunity, I send a friend 450 metric tons of chunk tuna by way of Cameroon. I may also have a bead on some medium-density pond liners.
So, putting such stresses aside for a moment, we're heading to spring training, Blythe our first stop.
There is not much between L.A. and Phoenix, except this sparkling border town of Blythe, where they rarely clean the one restroom, and if they do, they seem to rush the corners a little.


text: Here's an interesting hunting story. Nothing got shot, but you will see why. Some years ago I was visiting a friend. On the long drive through open but hilly country to his place, a dark big cat, lion sized, ran across the road in front of my car. Later that same a day I was having some refreshment with some local hunters. I told them about the cat, they said I had been seeing things. There had been cats in those parts, they explained, but had been hunted out more than 50 years earlier. I said I must have been mistaken, it was quick and blurry, but knew I was not. I rather liked the idea of some survivors, plus given a chance they might repopulate a little. I got the idea if I had insisted, some of the guys would be up there looking for tracks at first light. I only wish I could remember where in the world it was.. I think that one will remain between me and the cat.


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- ATP Tour
Lendl sets the bar high for Murray
Ivan Lendl believes Andy Murray will be in contention at all four grand slams in 2013 after guiding the Scot to his first major at the US Open.
Lendl is preparing to spend his first off-season with the British No. 1 and believes "there is a lot to look forward to" after a successful first season with Murray.
The former world No. 1 will be looking to ensure Murray hits the ground running next season at the Australian Open, where he is a two-time finalist.
"All the other players will be targeting the Australian Open, wanting to make a bold start to the new year, so it is vital Andy has a healthy, fundamentally strong base to build on," Lendl told the Metro.
"I now have more of an understanding about what makes him tick and we can build successfully on that. There is a lot to look forward to next year."
While Lendl admits winning Wimbledon will be Murray's priority, he believes the Scot has what it takes to win the French Open.
"No one has won the French Open without having enjoyed a good clay-court season," he said. "But if he works on aspects of his game I want him to improve, then he can do it.
"I am way too old to worry about what people think but Wimbledon is very prestigious. Players always want to win their home grand slam but he can only prepare and give it his best."


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Both Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) and Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) yesterday dismissed criticism of the government's policy flip-flop on the dispute over the demolition of four houses in Miaoli County's Dapu Borough (大埔), with Jiang also playing down concerns about the Presidential Office taking over the resolution of the dispute.
Wu, who in 2010 was premier and promised to preserve the four houses, on Tuesday discussed the issue with Jiang and asked him to negotiate with Miaoli County Commissioner Liu Cheng-hung (劉政鴻).
Seeking to dismiss accusations that he had failed to keep his promise, Wu stepped up his efforts and called a meeting with Jiang and Liu yesterday afternoon at the Presidential Office to resolve the dispute.
Presidential Office spokesperson Lee Chia-fei (李佳霏) said President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has been paying close attention to the development of the Dapu incident and that he expects the relevant government agencies to find a solution to the case.
Wu yesterday said the government would demonstrate its sincerity in addressing the issue, while stressing that the meeting three years ago with Liu and Jiang, then the minister of the interior, had concluded that the four houses should not be demolished.
"We expect all parties to resolve the issue with sincerity. On the other hand, we will respect the county government's authority in handling the incident," the vice president said.
Wu's comments came amid Liu's insistence on the forceful demolition of the houses to make way for a science park project. Liu and the county government have largely ignored protesters' demands that the houses be saved.
Jiang yesterday confirmed that he had talked with Ma and Wu by telephone on Thursday and said Ma authorized Wu to preside over the negotiation.
"The Executive Yuan is happy to have the vice president share his experience in handling the issue. We believe we can find a solution to the dispute," Jiang said.
Jiang denied that he had been forced by Wu to change his position on the matter.
Since Thursday last week, Dapu residents and activists have brought attention to yesterday's deadline set by the county government for the demolition of four houses in the borough.
After presenting an appeal demanding that Wu honor a promise he made in 2010 to save the four houses and failing to receive a positive response from the Executive Yuan and the Presidential Office, the protesters began a sit-in outside the front gates of the Executive Yuan on Tuesday and clashed with police on Thursday.
The Executive Yuan remained silent on the issue until Tuesday, when spokesperson Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) said the four houses were to be dismantled by the Miaoli County Government because they did not meet the four conditions for preservation — that they should not compromise the flow of traffic, public safety, equality or rationality in urban planning.
On Wednesday, Jiang reaffirmed what Cheng had said, adding that what had seemed to the Dapu residents to be a promise by Wu to preserve their houses was contingent on the four conditions, except that the four conditions were not listed in the minutes of the meeting in 2010.
Jiang said that the Executive Yuan told the Miaoli County Government that it should go ahead with the decision made at a meeting on April 24 last year by the Ministry of the Interior's City Planning Commission that favored the county government's plan to demolish the houses.


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Just run a Tor obfuscated bridge.
Yes, and here's how to do it:
https://www.torproject.org/pro... [torproject.org]
I've been running an obfuscated bridge for about a year now. Setting up was pretty easy and it's been pain-free since then, especially since bandwidth usage limits can be set.
For the uninitiated, a bridge is basically an unpublished entry point into the Tor system; unpublished means you have to send an email to or visit a certain server to be given the address of just one rather than being in the directory for all to see at once, meaning that it
TOR quite simply does not work in China. I find it hard to understand why so many people here cannot see how easy it is to recognise protocols connected with TOR, VPN, Proxies, etc. and block any user that uses any forbidden protocol. None of these things work, not because they block the hubs or the addresses but because the they block the protocols.
As soon as you talk about how to get around the Great Firewall of China...
...that method suddenly stops working.
(Somewhere in Beijing, a Zman adds "*.astrill.com" to the blocklist.)
(Somewhere in Beijing, a Zman adds "*.astrill.com" to the blocklist.)
I wish someone over in the western hemisphere would add that rule.
Here is how you get around the "Great Firewall of China":
ssh -D1234 some.server.outside.china.which.you.rented.com
There, you're done. Yes, that really works, and if you're a tourist, the chances of really getting into trouble over that are, well, not huge. Some system will notice, somewhere - but you'll be gone after two to four weeks, anyways. It's not hard to get around the firewall - it is hard to get around it for a long time without showing up on the radar.
The real, main reason why the Great F
1. Demand democracy.
2. Convince someone else to follow and on and do the same (including convincing someone else.)
Yeah, good luck, your lifespan is measured in days. If you are careful and lucky you can complain about SOME things, and people do let their opinions be known about GENERAL things "its very polluted here, this should be fixed!" or "food is too expensive!" etc. The government is pretty sensitive about public opinion up to a certain point. It is just always hard to tell if they will react to your complaints by fixing the problem, or killing you.
So it's like a work or school network that covers an entire country. "Few people outside the country know what it's like to live with those access controls, or how to get around them," is total crap. Many, many people know exactly what it's like. Plenty of people outside China have been fired, expelled, or jailed for getting around access controls. Kids today are spoiled brats who grow up with home Internet and no restrictions as long as mommy pays the Internet bill. They have no comprehension of what
Plenty of people outside China have been fired, expelled, or jailed for getting around access controls.
Getting expelled from not following some school's ToS is far different than living where the government is doing it to you at home, and you could be executed if caught.. Getting fired from a job, well its your own damned fault. ( sounds more like you are the spoiled brat here )
Also, who has been jailed due to 'firewall' circumvention? ( other than perhaps some 3rd world country, as they dont count )
...with the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests earlier this month â" an event the Chinese government wants no one to remember.
It's nice to want things.
Thing about it is, if China's ruling party could hold on to power without committing further abuses then time would probably actually be on their side for forgetting about Tiananmen. After all, my own country committed terrible atrocities throughout its existence and we simply look at those transgressions in a historical context, but
limiting the amount of time that our leaders are in power (at least the President) and peacefully transitioning between those leaders makes it easier to let go. China doesn't have any of that going for them.
I call bullshit. Jiang Zenmin: General secretary of CCP 1989 - 2002, PRC Chairman 1993 - 2003, Hu Jintao: General Secretary of CCP 2002 - 2012, PRC Chairman 2003 - 2013, Xi Jinping: General Secretary of CCP 2012 -, PRC Chairman 2013 - notice a pattern? Maximum of 2 terms for both positions, 5 years each. Jiang had an extra part term as General Secretary because his predecessor was deposed early. Premier is similar, maximum of 2 terms, 5 years each.
The main difference is only the manner of the leader's choos
I lived in China for 10 years. I don't like their censorship but I have to admit, they are very good at it. And they've developed something that the NSA can only wet dream about. I shudder to think how much computing power is used. They don't simply block content, they also modify it (text and images, particularly). For example, if you're looking at some standard western porn (white man fucking a white woman) they run image filters to shrink the penis size. There are some image artifacts but if you we
I live in China. Everyone I know hops the GFW with ease. It is a non-issue on laptops and cell phones.
These guys have a storefront in Shanghai:
http://vpninja.net/ [vpninja.net]
You go to the store, you pay in Chinese currency and they give you a log in. It is fast and reliable.
Lots of people I know use Astrill. (astrill.com)
Of course anyone who is actually worried about security will set up their own server abroad and use putty or OpenVPN to access YouTube.
I've spent some time in various parts of China. I simply set up 2 AWS micro instances running SQUID listening only on localhost and then ssh tunneled my laptop into them (I set up several ports for sshd to listen on just in case they blocked one or more). Had no problems. This has been known to work for quite some time reliably. Now and then you'd get a slowdown or your connections would drop, but overall it worked fine. Fire up your SSH client, use the -L option to tunnel a local port over to squid (and th
Of course anyone who is actually worried about security will set up their own server abroad and use putty or OpenVPN to access YouTube.
The last time I was there, OpenVPN connections were being blocked, while openvpn had worked perfectly 6 months earlier. In fact, on that trip, all attempts to run openvpn over UDP appeared to be blocked (I even tried port 53). I found that ssh (tcp/22) was not being blocked and used that. Later I found suggestions that playing with the MTU of the openvpn traffic would avo
Yes. The blocking changes all the time, and it changes by location. Sites that work at the office might not work at home. Go to the areas that are closer to Xinjiang (the western parts with more Muslims), and it becomes very difficult to get over the GFW. PPTP works nearly 100% of the time. OpenVPN has more issues. It might work for 30 minutes then cut off, then work fine for a few days, then go off for a week.
...few people outside the country know what it's like to live with those access controls, or how to get around them...
Well, there are the millions that visit China each year, and anyone who's ever bothered setting up a VPN connection so they could FaceTime with family or whatever.
"And we'll block any web site that says there is!"
few people outside the country know what it's like to live with those access controls
It seems a strange sentiment to express, on a technical site.
I've never been to China, and yet I know EXACTLY what their internet access is like. Anyone here can find out for themselves in 10 minutes flat, by hopping on a proxy located in China, and surfing around.
The only extra bit of knowledge that I gained through my extensive time dealing with it, is how incredibly random, frequently changing, and therefore frustrating and utterly-pointless the IP bans are. Send enough traffic over an IPSec tunnel in a short enough period of time, and expect it to be suddenly blocked one day, only to work again in just a few days.
Send enough traffic over an IPSec tunnel in a short enough period of time, and expect it to be suddenly blocked one day, only to work again in just a few days.
This. It's totally arbitrary. Also it's a two-tier system, where many things are easily proxied around, while some sites (pornography, Falun Gong, Tian'anmen) can't be.
I think mostly the point is to inconvenience and be protectionist rather than block. Sure you can get on twitter if you really want, but your average Joe in China doesn't want to bot
Another way the Chinese evade censorship is to use oblique terms and references, many of which are quite funny. The Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon [chinadigitaltimes.net] is a compilation of them. (In Mandarin, "grass-mud horse" sounds very close to "fuck your mother" and is a way of evading and poking fun at censorship of vulgar content.)
I'm going to just say it now. China is stupid. Not the people of China really, but the government is pants-on-head retarded.
They banned the phrase "May 35th". What about "April 65th", "March 96th", "February 124th", or "January 155th"? What about "July -26th" or "July 339th"?
Sure, a good calendar will sort it out quickly, but which calendar? Gregorian? Julian? Hebrew? Are they going to ban "Sivan 1, 1989"? (Pentecost is on Sivan 6, which was June 9th that year.) What about every number between "612921600" a
Evolution is a million line computer program falling into place by accident.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. — December 19, 2013 — North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.24 billion in orders worldwide in November 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.11, according to the November EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI. A book-to-bill of 1.11 means that $111 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
The three-month average of worldwide bookings in November 2013 was $1.24 billion. The bookings figure is 10.1 percent higher than the final October 2013 level of $1.12 billion, and is 72.3 percent higher than the November 2012 order level of $718.6 million.
The three-month average of worldwide billings in November 2013 was $1.11 billion. The billings figure is 4.0 percent higher than the final October 2013 level of $1.07 billion, and is 22.4 percent higher than the November 2012 billings level of $910.1 million.
"The continuing rise in equipment bookings clearly points to year-end order activity that is substantially stronger compared to one year ago," said Denny McGuirk, president and CEO of SEMI. "This trend supports the current outlook showing a rebound in equipment spending for 2014."
The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Billings and bookings figures are in millions of U.S. dollars.
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Source: SEMI, December 2013
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The data are contained in a monthly Book-to-Bill Report published by SEMI. The report tracks billings and bookings worldwide of North American-headquartered manufacturers of equipment used to manufacture semiconductor devices, not billings and bookings of the chips themselves. The Book-to-Bill report is one of three reports included with the Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS).
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Am I confused today, or did you mispell Maori?
That said, Trademark only applies in a specific field. If whoever it is has a Trademark for anything other than a library, his trademark in no way impacts the small library in question...
I know it is pointless to say - but RTFA. PTFS wants the trademark for their fork of the library software.
They would have spelled the term correctly, but to do so violates someones trademark on the term "M-a-o-r-i"
Not even "Māori" displays correctly. How come slashdot still doesn't support non ASCII characters? At this point it is probably more of a tradition thing than difficulty of implementation, right?
Posting to cancel wrong moderation.
I think you mean Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.
There may well be Maoris on Slashdot. You can't see tattoos over the Internet. Now, there are probably no Moa on Slashdot and I hope there are no Keas (they're terrorists, I tell you!), but that's ok, there are enough bird-brains as it is. I have great respect for the Maori and it is intensely sad that I lost all of my mementos from my year in New Zealand after a storage place fire.
Back to the issue at hand. It is completely reprehensible that a "common word" (because it IS a common word in New Zealand) can be trademarked at all. That is not acceptable, in and of itself. It is a flagrant abuse of the system, relying on the fact that Americans are not very up on foreign cultures. I am increasingly of the opinion that words should not be trademarkable at all. A "trademark" is, after all, first and foremost a mark. From the Sumerians to the Victorian English, this has been a stamp, a unique symbol that denotes the origin and guarantees authenticity. Arguably, the seals produced by stamps and signet rings serve the same function.
You can always make a new symbol. Creativity is endless. But you can't create a new language every time foreigners decide to trademark words from it.
Which, IMHO, is utterly wrong, completely in violation of the spirit of what a trademark is and probably in technical violation of the written law but IANAL.
Not in New Zealand you can't. Although apparently that only applies to little people.
No no... he means Boatmurdered where the dwarves were obsessed with cheese, talking with dwarves, and the killing of dwarves by pachyderms.
ok. usually i can understand
but this summary just does it - it makes so much "no sense" that i have no fucking idea what is it about and i'm just going to skip the topic.
but this summary just does it - it makes so much "no sense" that i have no fucking idea what is it about
Like Google News, Slashdot doesn't have an editor. You wand your submission accepted, all you need to do is hit ther geek's hot buttons in your headline.
> but this summary just does it - it makes so much "no sense" that
> i have no fucking idea what is it about and i'm just going to skip
> the topic.
which is real a shame, because what is happening is nasty, evil, theft (in the correct IP usage of the term) from a long established volunteer community by newly arrived greedy corporate. Or just take a moment to listen to the linked 2 minute mp3?
here is the real project's "about" page: http://koha-community.org/about/ [koha-community.org]
"Koha" is a Maori word meaning gift (often in a quid quo pro sense). Note that Wikipedia lists it as a custom. It is a truly wonderful name for a GPL'd project for the public good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koha_(custom) [wikipedia.org]
read the mailing list plea from the librarian here:
http://lists.nzoss.org.nz/pipermail/openchat/2011-November/008940.html [nzoss.org.nz]
a blog post:
http://news.tangatawhenua.com/archives/14545 [tangatawhenua.com]
and the thread that follows.
http://lists.nzoss.org.nz/pipermail/openchat/2011-November/thread.html#8943 [nzoss.org.nz]
favourite quote from the ensuing thread:
Oh, and that you can't win a Wikipedia fight against librarians.
listen to more audio from NZ public radio than what's in the
(Scroll down to the Ogg @ 9:44 am)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon [radionz.co.nz]
The project was founded by a small country town library in 1999 when the Y2K bug was taking out their existing solution and they couldn't afford to buy another one. Since then it has grown to be a large and wonderful FOSS success story. Until last year, when an associated company that held the domain name and provided commercial support got bought out by a big corporate bully, who took ownership of the DNS and domain name, taken over the home page, obfuscated links to and existence of the community (which has had to rush out and register http://koha-community.org/ [koha-community.org] instead of their original koha dot org site), and now are trying to block the community from being able to use their own name, on their own turf. It seems that Liblime has grabbed the trademark already in the US; the original koha-community.org group after they got over their shock was able to get in first in the EU, but not Liblime (a US company) has moved in to grab it in the community's home country of New Zealand.
PTFS/Liblime's actions here are truly despicable, and if I were a customer I'd have to wonder if they are willing to screw over the people who built up the project from nothing, what is stopping them from screwing me over too?
Please visit the Koha-community.org [koha-community.org] site, read the plea: http://koha-community.org/plea-horowhenua-library-trust/ [koha-community.org]
and help out their non-existent legal fund with a small donation:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FQ6JH3L48LV5Y [paypal.com]
(your dollar goes far here; they are a registered legal non-profit, paypal's freezing of funds typically happens to unregistered projects who are basically ignoring tax laws, so they should be safe from that)
written article here:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/91830/lawyer-labels-overseas-trademark-of-'koha'-offensive [radionz.co.nz]
Wow - there has to be an easier way to explain this. A two three sentence summary perhaps? Like what the problem was before, what great thing was conceived of and what the threat currently is...
Hmmm... simple... let me try.
5) PTFS/LibLime does not try to convince anyone that theirs is the only Koha distribution.
Horsepoop. By asserting their trademark, they are *in fact* asserting that they are the only Koha distribution. That's what a trademark does.
thank you, slashdot, for reviving some old comment of mine and attaching to this article. for the record, this comment was originally to some other article where summary indeed didn't make sense (this one actually does).\
it was a bit of a surprise, though. started reading the comment. thoughts go like this
"hey, what's this guy (there are no girls on
Kia ora from Wellington NZ
Maori was definitely misspelt
link to wikipedia article on the Maori term Koha
Basically a company who has extended and NOT given back to the community is now wanting the trademark the name of the Open Source product.
That's what I got out of it...
Not sure what the hell the defense contractor has to do with anything? LibLime appears to be the guilty party here.
That's what I got out of it...
Not sure what the hell the defense contractor has to do with anything? LibLime appears to be the guilty party here.
Liblime sold themselves to PTFS (a defense contractor) in 2010
'LibLime was founded in 2005, as part of Metavore Inc.[2] and purchased by Progressive Technology Federal Systems, Inc. (PTFS) in 2010.'
here's a very interesting recent discussion about this - with comments from PTFS/Liblime
Oh, so you ARE an employee of LibLime then. I figured you were, since you're the only person defending this shitty behaviour.
Basically a company who has extended and NOT given back to the community is now wanting the trademark the name of the Open Source product.
If LibLime has distributed Koha binaries, but not source, they have violated its Copyleft license, which is much more serious than a trademark dispute. Is there any evidence they've done so? LibLime's FAQ [liblime.com] says
Q. LibLime Koha is open-source software; doesn't that mean it's free?
A. Yes, LibLime Koha is open source and so LibLime Koha is free, in fact you can download it yourself from a number of sites, including here. LibLime is an open source support company and we were established in 2005 to work with libraries that wish to run LibLime Koha but do not have the internal resources to manage a system.
LibLime offers the following services:
-Professional project management for your LibLime Koha implementation
-Set up and implementation of your LibLime Koha instance
-LibLime Koha Training
-Migration of legacy data
-Hosting and support (help desk and online ticketing system)
A commercial company that has been reselling an open-source product now wants to claim ownership of the product itself. Because the current owners are not well funded, there is a prospect that they will be able to do so.
The current owners, being incredibly naive, claim to have been under the impression that foreigners couldn't trademark Maori words. (Possibly they've never heard of Coca-Cola [wikipedia.org]. Even now, they're only trying to fight the trademark application in New Zealand, so I'm not sure what (if any) effect that would have internationally.
'Poor' is a better word than 'naive'. They're just a small library, they cannot afford things like legal fees. Hopefully the EFF will step in here.
Short version: PTFS ended up owning the community domain name and a trademark for Koha due to some weird stuff that has happened over the past 12 years. PTFS is not well regarded by the general community due to how they try to confuse users into thinking theirs is the only version, their practices which (from what I can tell) make versioning a nightmare, and their lack of regard for the community. The community does not want them to gain any more ground.
Sure, PTFS counts some DoD entities among its clients, but it's odd to refer to a company that has clients like the Holocaust Museum and the National Library of Medicine as a defense contractor.
That being said, it's super shady for a company that got started solely to provide end-user support for an OSS system to try and trademark that system's name.
The dispute has nothing to do with copyright (and therefore Copyleft) AFAICT. I don't see any claim that LibLime is distributing proprietary derivatives of Koha. This is only a trademark dispute. If LibLime is trying to gain trademark protection for a term they adopted from the already existing project, that is an attempt to mislead at best and commit fraud at worst, but it has nothing to do with the GPL.
1. rural library responsible for the first open source library catalogue
2. defence contractor PTFS
3. More than a decade after rolling out Koha
4. in a battle to keep a generic Mori term within the public domain
Is Koha a generic Mori (Maori) term? What is a library catalog? Like a public library catalog of the books in the library? Who is PTFS?
As far as the TM goes, If I make up a word called Azkio but it turns out to be a generic term in a language that less than
Is Koha a generic Mori (Maori) term? What is a library catalog? Like a public library catalog of the books in the library? Who is PTFS?
As far as the TM goes, If I make up a word called Azkio but it turns out to be a generic term in a language that less than
Koha is the Maori word for "gift" - It's about as generic as the english word "gift". An example in the New Zealand context would be Te Papa Tongarewa (translates as "container of treasures" - the National Museum of New Zealand) having a box by the door labelled "Koha" in the hope you'll put some money in it to help support the museum and to show your appreciation for the place.
If you ask almost any New Zealander what Koha is (that's approximately 4 million people) they'd nearly all say it means gift or d
a language that less than
By my rough calculation our 4 million people gives us 0.057% of the world's population recognising the phrase
The basic fact is that this is an extremely arrogant move. A company is taking a "common word", which ironically means gift, and using it for commercial gain for open source software that was created in the very country they're applying their trademark in.
The Maori meaning of "koha" is more complex than Gift - and if you start to understand the moral obligation that underpins true "koha" - you re
If I make up a word called Azkio but it turns out to be a generic term in a language that less than
In the country whose native language it's a generic term in, I would imagine so, yes.
sounds like a job for Anonymous.
IANAL But the Tabasco story is a famous and an interesting trademark case [vegastrade...torney.com]
Since Tabasco is a state in Mexico and a name for a pepper, McIllhenny understandably had a hard time cementing its claim. Right or wrong, McIllhenny vigorously defends this hard-won mark to this day.
but this kind of behaviour is not OK in New Zealand. What if someone from NZ snuck over and trademarked "Honour" (or "Honor" on your side of the pond)?
Frankly, I'm fed up with corporations behaving like this then bleating that they are only doing it to secure their profits which justifies anything as you know. Time they got taken down a peg or two.
Instead of spending their own resources to dispute the trademark, they ought to consider if the trademark covers their own domain of application - similarly to how Apple Inc and Apple corps are both trademarks built on a single English word, but technically don't cover the same area - one is a trademark on an IT brand, the other is a trademark on a music store, and one should not be able to confuse one for the other (although they have fought over the name, needlessly really). Is LibLime asking them to C
I am unable to adequately express my dismay regarding your sheer ignorance of the situation at hand.
So, if you could just punch yourself in the face, just as hard as you can, that'd be great. Well, it wouldn't be great for *you*, but I'd feel a whole lot better knowing it had been done.
I'm pretty sure LibLime's application for trademark was the first (and probably only) one. It seems that the originators of the project didn't apply for a trademark because they didn't think the generic word "Koha" could be trademarked. Horowhenua Library Trust is not saying they should hold the "real" trademark but that the trademark shouldn't exist at all.
they're the same product. they can't co-exist.
it's like ubuntu going and trademarking "debian" to fight loosing downloads to debian-mint.
"Debian" was trademarked [uspto.gov] in 1999, long before Canonical came along anyway. While Canonical and Mint must use the term "Debian" in compliance with the Debian licensing policy [debian.org], Canonical gets to determine Ubuntu trademark policy [ubuntu.com]. Whether "Koha" can be trademarked seems a similar question to whether "Ubuntu" can, since it's also a generic word in several languages [wikipedia.org].
How do you loose a download?
If it's extraordinarily tight, perhaps you mean loosen?
I'm from Tasmania, where our most recognisably tasmanian icon the Tasmanian Devil(TM) (since we killed the Tigers) is trademarked by a US company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil_(Looney_Tunes) [wikipedia.org]
Are you sure it's not the "businesses" that hire those lawyers who are really to blame?
This summary and the ensuing discussion are so full of dumb and FUD, it's hard to know where to start. I'll list a few bullets:
1) If managing one of the Navy's library catalogs makes PTFS/LibLime a "defense contractor," that's a serious diffusion of the term.
2) PTFS/LibLime has held the same trademark continuously in the US for several years without any attempts to limit its use. The same applies to this trademark.
3) PTFS/LibLime's project is also OSS: https://github.com/liblime/LibLime-Koha
4) The LibLime c
The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die.


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HAMILTON — The scoring was spread out, but in the end, the Zen Crew came together as one to chill out.
Placed between Zen Master Adrianna Boucher's pre- and post-game Inner Peace exercises, the Steinert High girls' soccer team got goals from five different players in taking an inspired 5-0 victory at township rival Nottingham yesterday.
Prior to the match, and again after the warm-down run, the Spartans lined up and looked like movable Barbie Doll figurines as Boucher put them through their Zen exercises.
"It's Yoga man," Boucher said with a grin. "We have to relax after our intense game, get our calm back."
Coach Aimee Turnbull had another term for it, but couldn't argue with the results as the Spartans played a strong game from start to finish.
"We came out, created opportunities and what was different than in the past is we were able to capitalize those opportunities," Turnbull said. "In the past, we were creating stuff but we weren't able to finish. Today we got one good goal and they kept following through. I'm happy with that."
The coach is especially happy with how her 9-1 team has responded to its only loss of the season at Princeton on Saturday, having outscored two opponents 8-0 since.
"We were faced with adversity, and coming out against West Windsor (Plainsboro) North we played well, got a 3-0 win and that helps," Turnbull said. "Coming out today, it's always a rivalry, you just never know. We came out hard and finished some opportunities. I'm happy with it."
Turnbull brought up a good point. One never does know how these Battle of Klockner Road skirmishes will go, especially since Nottingham is better than its 3-6-2 record might indicate.
But the Spartans took it to the Northstars quickly as Boucher set up an unmarked Chelsea Schultz in front, and Schultz buried it in the game's second minute. Sara "Puffy" Eggert nearly tied it with a hard shot saved by Briyanna Femia – notched her seventh shutout – and Lindsay Argirou's shot off the rebound went just over the goal.
Steinert took complete control in the 27th minute when it scored twice within 45 seconds as Gabi Smith and Corey Smith (no relation) each scored their first goals of the campaign. With 6:10 remaining, Nottingham transfer Kristina Ragolia bedeviled her old team with a long shot to make it 4-0.
"We played really good, we put great passes together, moved off the ball well," Ragolia said. "That fast start was important. Our warm-up was really good. We brought it on to the field, gave it everything we had and had a strong start."
Gabi Smith, who sat out last season after suffering a slight case of burnout, felt the Spartans were in high gear.
"They had been saying how bad they wanted to beat us but we came out and did awesome today," Smith said. "I didn't think it would be this easy, we thought it would be a tougher game with this. We know they have a good team."
The second half was fairly academic, except for a final goal by Boucher on a well struck free kick.
It was a fitting score, indeed.
Because for Boucher, it was goal number 10.
Which happens to rhyme with Zen.
Follow Rich Fisher on twitter @fish4scores and at fish4scores.com.
Steinert (9-1) 4 1 – 5
Nottingham (3-6-2) 0 0 – 0
Goals: Schultz, Boucher, G. Smith, C. Smith, Ragolia. Assists: Peate, Boucher. Shots: S—13. N—5. Saves: S—Femia 5. N—Toscano 6.


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These days, the building on Diane Disney Miller's mind is San Francisco's Walt Disney Family Museum, opened in 2009. She bubbles with enthusiasm over this recent tribute to her father, Walt, housed in a former Army barracks building in the Presidio.
Still, in a recent conversation, it was easy for Miller, 79, to hark back a decade to the opening of the L.A. structure that had dominated her life and architecture headlines around the world: Walt Disney Concert Hall, a project instigated by a $50-million gift from her mother, Lillian Disney. "It turned out so well, it's a place that people are thrilled to be in," she says. "And it gave me the courage to do the museum."
You won't see Miller's name anywhere on the concert hall's undulating exterior or even inside the building. (She admits with a laugh that she was a little skeptical when Frank Gehry told her he envisioned exterior walls of polished steel.) But there was a time when Miller, the surviving sister of the Disneys' two daughters, held the future of the hall in her reluctant hands.
TIMELINE: Walt Disney Hall through the years
That time was 1997, when the project was past its fundraising problems and finally back on track. Then crisis hit: Gehry said he would walk off the project when Disney Hall leaders tried to force a plan that would take the job of completing working drawings out of the hands of the architect's firm. Project leaders including then-Mayor Richard Riordan and billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad threw their weight behind the plan because they believed Gehry's firm was too inexperienced to execute the drawings for Disney Hall's all-curves design, even though the firm had executed drawings for the similarly curvy Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
The normally reticent Miller stepped forward and played her trump card. She mandated that the approximate $20 million left from her mother's original gift could not be used unless Gehry's firm remained in charge of the working drawings.
"She was the turning point, definitely," Gehry says now. "I was devastated. I had left the project, and in the next day or two, I got the call" that Miller had made the crucial decision not to go forward without him. "She's an amazing lady and continues to be — for the project, for classical music and for the arts."
Miller, speaking from her family winery Silverado Vineyards in Napa, Calif., recalls the crisis moment as "very depressing — it was, 'What to do? Where to go?'" Not surprisingly, she sidesteps taking credit for the turnaround. "I think it was the support of the architecture establishment of the world, and the Philharmonic — the music world that wanted to see this hall, wanted to see Frank Gehry build this hall."
INTERACTIVE: Disney Hall inside and out
Her action solidified a friendship with Gehry that endures to this day. She lauds the architect for being able to translate Lillian Disney's homespun, traditional tastes into a landmark of contemporary architecture. Miller recalls that her mother once told her: "I want it to look like a little brick church, covered with vines." Miller dutifully relayed this information to Gehry and one of the project's leaders, developer Fred Nicholas.
"Fred Nicholas said, 'It ain't going to look like that,'" Miller says with a chuckle. "But Frank said: 'I know exactly what she means, she wants it to be warm and welcoming' … he understood her, he really did." Gehry named the colorful pattern of the concert hall's seats and carpet "Lillian." Lilly (as she was called) Disney died in 1997 at age 98.
Standing in front of shiny Disney Hall on a summer day, "it can get really hot," Miller admits. Other than that, she has no complaints. "Frank built a hall for the music, and for the musicians, not for architects and critics," she says.
"I wanted something that would bear my father's name, that would come from his wealth but not be commercial. That would be just a wonderful thing for the city, for the spirit, for the soul. I think we achieved that. When I say we — Frank has achieved that."
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ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Under the federally mandated "No Child Left Behind," 100% of public schools are expected to meet federal testing standards by the year 2014. And that's going to be a tough feat for most school districts, especially Rockford. Last year, just 16-percent of Rockford Public Schools fulfilled that requirement. The District is now pouring millions of dollars into boosting test scores. But some question if the money is being spent wisely.
There's a lot riding on how well Mrs. Worley's 4th graders perform this week on the ISAT's. There's student/teacher success and federal funding on the line, along with a five million dollar investment. It's a contract signed last school year with Arizona-based Evans Newton Incorporated.
"Last year they helped us realign our curriculum so that everything was matched completely 100% to the standards, so this year it's maintaining it and continuing for growth," says Chief Academic Officer Tracy Stevenson-Olson.
Evans Newton was paid via federal stimulus dollars and in exchange promised at least a five-percent bump in test scores. Turns out, test scores went down slightly.
"I thought that was one of the reasons we hired the Superintendent to have our test scores rise," says school board member Harmon Mitchell.
Administrators says the consulting firm is continuing its work in Rockford Schools this year free of additional charge. There is an ongoing fee for two other consultants though, long-time educators Nilsa Gonzalez and Dr. Thandiwe Peebles. Peebles was forced to resign from her most recent Superintendent job in Minneapolis.
"She was released because she forced improvement in 30 of her schools and had significant growth that her city hadn't seen for some time," says Superintendent Dr. LaVonne Sheffield.
District 205 hired the women to coach principals how to become better leaders. This is separate from the state-funded Principal Mentoring Grant, run by the Regional Office of Education. Since the work is similar, Regional Superintendent-elect Lori Fanello agreed to let the consultants bill through her office.
"We were just trying to get that continuity and fidelity in the program," says Fanello.
The Principal Mentoring Grant pays local retired principals 27-hundred dollars a year to mentor new principals. Consultants Peebles and Gonzalez work with all under-performing principals and charge 700-dollars a day plus travel expenses. So far this school year, Gonzalez has made 14-thousand dollars for eleven days of work. Peebles worked 45 days and made over 38-thousand dollars.
"We do a lot of different grants and we don't have any contracts with them because that's just not how it has been done in the past, lesson learned. We probably would check into it, but we've never had to," says Fanello.
There is no contract. And since they didn't bill over ten-thousand dollars at one time, their work didn't require school board approval.
"It's not that we need to give approval to every cotton pick'n thing going on, it's just that you'd like to be in the loop and know," says board member Alice Saudargas.
"For a district that preaches transparency, this school district seems to take a 180-degree turn on that transparency thing and works very hard to keep things from being public," says Harmon Mitchell.
These board members say it's essential they're kept apprised of these decisions, especially when they're the ones forced to cut the budget. Now, it's important to note like other fairly recent hires, Peebles and Gonzalez worked with Dr. Sheffield before.
"Knowing a Superintendent or knowing an educational expert shouldn't preclude you from being able to come and offer your assistance, I think it's healthy," says Dr. Sheffield.
It's outside perspective some staffers hope will soon translate into higher test scores and stronger performing schools.
Dr. Sheffield says Peebles and Gonzalez are paid through funds set aside for professional development. Peebles is expected to be back working in the schools next year. The Principal Mentoring Grant most likely won't be around next year since it's state funded and the Regional Office of Education has yet to be reimbursed.
ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Students throughout the Stateline spent most of the week taking the Illinois State Achievement Test. THE ISAT's help determine federal funding and whether our teachers are doing a good job. Rockford Public Schools spent millions of federal stimulus dollars on a consulting firm to help raise test scores. And tens of thousands more on independent consultants to work with principals. But some feel this money hasn't been wisely spent.
ISAT performance serves as a gage for not just student/teacher success, but will help District 205 determine whether hiring Evans Newton Incorporated last school year was worth it.
"They're helping us use data to inform instruction using data to make changes in the delivery of instruction and really helping us sculpt what our best practices should be," said Tracy Stevenson-Olson, Chief Academic Officer.
The Arizona-based consulting firm charged Rockford Schools five million dollars, with a promise to raise test scores at least five-percent. Administrators say Evans Newton is back in the district this year, free of additional charge. That's because test scores actually went down.
"I thought that was one of the reasons we hired the superintendent to have our test scores rise," said Harmon Mitchell, school board member.
District leaders are hopeful test scores will rise but can't say confidently it will happen.
"We have new reading materials this year. There may be a dip," says Stevenson-Olson.
"I feel pretty good about it. One of the reasons I feel good about it is that our teachers are asking for additional professional development," said Dr. Lavonne Sheffield, Supt., Rockford Public Schools.
Principals are getting extra leadership training this year as well from two independent consultants; Nilsa Gonzalez and Doctor Thandiwe Peebles.
"There are a lot of things going on in this district that as a taxpayer in this area makes absolutely no sense," said Andrew Boyce, Auburn H.S. teacher.
Andrew Boyce teaches Special Education at Auburn. And questions why the district has paid these two consultants 50-thousand dollars for less than two months of work. Much of their fee stems from travel expenses.
"We can find people right here in this area that can help with whatever it is the administration feels the teachers need to know in order to be successful," said Alice Saudargas, school board member.
Dr. Sheffield supports these consultants' presence and expects Dr. Peebles' work to continue in District 205.
"She's one of the brightest women I know in terms of instruction and I've learned a lot from her. Whatever happened between the politics between the school board and the superintendent should not have any merit on her ability to move principals where they need to be and believe me she has moved some of her principals," Sheffield said.
According to Minneapolis news reports, Peebles' leadership style wasn't well received and was forced to resign. I'm told that's typical for leaders who make major changes in a school system. The school board signed off on the contract with Evans Newton.
The board is required to approve contracts over ten-thousand dollars. Since the consultants bill 700-dollars a day and not ten-grand at one time, their work didn't require board approval.


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Returning Creativity to the Commonsby Richard Koman
It was Eldred reunion night Dec. 16 at the SomArts performance space in San Francisco's South of Market district to celebrate the rollout of Lawrence Lessig's Creative Commons organization. There was Net radical John Gilmore furtively handing out little LED key-chain lights in an array of colors--of course, John wasn't at the Eldred hearing because he only flies anonymously, which is to say he doesn't fly at all. EFF provacateur Cory Doctorow was there sporting a slimmer frame courtesy of the Atkins diet and a new EFF bumpersticker. Creative Commons' XML maven Lisa Rein was buzzing excitedly about the outlook for the Elcomsoft trial (they were acquitted the next day). And there was Brewster Kahle and the Internet Bookmobile, parked right on the floor of the space, just below a trippy computer projection slide show and not too far from the grilled eggplant and hummus table, handing out yet more copies of Alice in Wonderland, made on the spot thanks to the amazing desktop binding machine. Oh, and Eric Eldred himself was there, unassuming in a Red Sox baseball cap.
When the program itself started, Eldred attorney Lawrence Lessig took the stage and did what he does so well in his public speeches--boiling complex issues down to their essence, sometimes a one- or two-word essence. This boiling down is underlined by his slides, writing large the juxtaposition of two opposing themes. He starts with a story of his father complaining about someone who owes him money and the young Larry innocently asks, "Dad, why don't you sue him?" The elder Lessig gives a stern look and tells his son, "Son, in this world there are those who do"; cues a black slide with the Courier-set word "do"; "and those who sue"; cue the "sue" slide. "Those who tear down and those who build"; cue the "build" slide.
As the attorney on the Eldred case, Lessig is, of course, pursuing the sue option. But even in the event of full-bore victory for the Eldred forces, the copyright issue will not be fixed. Now Lessig is building something more: a system of projects that taken together will enable creators to give their works to the public domain, or to limit the terms of their copyright protection, or to retain certain rights and give up others. What is being built may reflect the nuances of all of human creation, it may reflect the sometimes low-cost nature of creating and distributing on the Net as opposed to creating things that cost thousands or millions of dollars to display.
The genesis for Creative Commons came from Eldred himself, who told Lessig in an early meeting on the case that he didn't even care if they won the case; "what I care about," Lessig reports Eldred saying, "is that we build something that increases the public domain." That's Creative Commons, a series of projects designed to increase the amount of "stuff available to others."
Creative Commons is trying to build, or rebuild, the enabling of the public domain. It starts with two efforts, both of which allow creators to say, "I want to be compensated (perhaps financially or perhaps just with credit) for my work, and I want to enrich the public domain with my works." These two efforts are:
The Creative Commons license, which includes "legal code" (assuring creators that the rights they assert will be legally protected), a "commons deed," (a simple statement of which rights are asserted and which are ceded, which anyone can understand), and "machine-readable code," (some metadata in the form of RDF, so that computer programs can understand the terms of the work.)
The Founders Copyright, under which publishers and creators agree to limit their copyright protections to 14 years, renewable to 28 years. (O'Reilly & Associates has pledged to convert some 200 works to Founders Copyright within the next month.)
Copyright Gone Wrong
Why do we need these initiatives? What's wrong with the copyright system we've had for over two centuries? In fact, copyright today could not look more different than it did when the Constitution was drafted in 1790, with the specification that copyright be for a term of "limited" duration. Today, in the age of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, copyright lasts for the lifetime of the author plus 70 years. What is the meaning of the term "limited" when Congress has extended copyright so many times, made it so long? This is the crux of the Eldred case: Lessig says the term is rendered meaningless, while MPAA lobbyist Jack Valenti (and the U.S. Attorney General, and Congress) says: "Limited means whatever Congress says it means."
Roll Your Own License
The Creative Commons license lets you specify that your work can be freely copied with any or none of several restrictions. To create a license, visit the Creative Commons site and answer these three questions:
Based on these choices, Creative Commons' software pulls up the appropriate license and provides an image and text that you can place on a Web site or include in printed material. You can post the commons deed (a simple statement of license) on your Web site and link to the legal document. Creative Commons also provides code for you to link to their RDF for your license. Creative Common's RDF includes the following:
As long as this information is linked from your document, other computers (with RDF-reading ability) accessing the document will know the rights and permissions. This is crucial as the Web moves from the computer-to-human paradigm to the computer-to-computer paradigm.
What's next? Look for the ability to add more metadata to your creations, and the integration of Creative Commons metadata into search engines like Google.
In so many words, the current law says that creators (or the corporations to whom they assign their rights) should control their works for a very long time. Long after an author's death, profits should continue to flow to his or her heirs. The public should not be able to copy, expand, alter, or make art out of the works even after the author's grandchildren are dead. Which side of this case do you think the heirs of Dr. Seuss are on?
The framers of the Constitution had a different idea: that people have the right to collect for their creations, but after a set amount of time those creations go into the public domain. The time specified was 14 years, renewable for another 14 years. After 28 years, there are no more extensions--even if the work is still filling your bank account. The framers wanted to enable the public domain.
In the old days, your work was not copyrighted unless you explicitly made a copyright claim; if you wanted to extend your copyright for another 14 years you had to file for that extension. By default, work was entered in the public domain unless the creator took steps to (temporarily) remove it. The law today says everything you create you can copyright automatically. "The copyright system has a default of no with regard to all creative work," Lessig told me earlier the day of the event.
The Constitution envisions a world in which intellectual property and a public commons are kept in balance. It rewards entrepreneurial initiative and seeks to compensate artists and inventors for the time, money, and talent it takes to create, build, market, and distribute a work or a product. It also claims for Americans a rich public domain.
Intellectual Recycling
Lessig talks about creative works having two lives. First, there is the private, commercial life, during which money is charged and, perhaps, profits are made. Then there is a second life, a noncommercial life, when the work is turned over to the public domain. It's not a new idea; surely this was the framers' vision.
"Think of it as recycling," Tim O'Reilly tells me after the presentations, while technical difficulties delayed DJ Spooky's real-time remixing of Birth of a Nation. "It's a code of conduct for the digital age: recycle stuff when you're done with it .... Keeping under copyright something that no longer has value is like keeping all your old newspapers .... It's about small opportunities. You never know what people will do with something you're not using."
And how do we guarantee that once things enter the public domain, they will remain available? Internet archivist Brewster Kahle took the stage with his son Caslon to make this offer: The Internet Archive will provide unlimited storage and bandwidth--forever--for all video and audio media made available as Creative Commons-licensed or public domain content.
So is O'Reilly endangering his business by committing to the Founders' Copyright? "No. As a computer book publisher, 28 years is far longer the life of any title. It's not a very hard choice when it comes down to it, although I might feel differently if I were a fiction publisher. As a publisher of useful works, all I have to do is keep updating it. If the first edition enters the public domain in 14 years, I'm probably on the fourth or fifth edition by that time. An example is our X books. People have asked for those over the years but it no longer makes financial sense for us to publish them. Someone could take those books and put them in a Linux distribution, for example.
O'Reilly recalls a book he wrote about Frank Herbert back in 1978, which has been long out of print. When a few people asked for a copy of it, he contacted the publisher but got no response. "I decided to break the law and put it on the Web, under the theory that they'd probably never find out about it and if they did it would be a wake-up call. So, one of the exciting things about Creative Commons is that it makes things explicit up front.
"We have an obligation to make a statement," O'Reilly says, while conceding that his decision will likely have little impact on the general publishing industry. "It may tip our competitors to start thinking about it. It may matter more to computer geeks."
O'Reilly is not only releasing out-of-print books, he has made a commitment to publishing all future titles under the Founders' Copyright. The final list of titles should be released within a month.
The Third Way
As part of his presentation, Lessig shows two videos from two well-known figures. First, John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist and well-known radical Internet thinker: "Creative Commons, by setting up a conservancy of the middle, is increasing the right to know. As a species, we will get away from thought as something to own .... You are assuring that our grandchildren will have access to information, that it won't die in the clutches of institutions trying to clutch it to their breasts."
And then ... Jack Valenti himself, smiling graciously, apologizing for not being at the event in person, nattering on about how he's debated Lessig three times, supposedly to the chagrin of his friends who demanded to know why he was debating "the most brilliant lawyer in America," telling him these appearances do not make him look intelligent by association but simply make him look like an "ass."
"Larry makes it clear that he is supportive of copyright, and I agree that people may want to give up part or all of their copyright protection .... Creative Commons strikes a marvelous balance between copyright protection and copyright material that people want to make available," Valenti says on the video.
Quickly dismissing Valenti's "bullshit" about his brilliance, Lessig is nonetheless beaming. He claims the evening is the first time Barlow and Valenti have been in agreement on anything. "Both permit us this middle place."
"We adopt this strategy now because there's an urgency to this debate, an urgency when the laws want to turn anyone who shares into a criminal. Our tradition is one where we share our culture. We start with Valenti and Barlow expressing agreement on an ideal to build something different. Our tradition is freedom, not control; creativity is built on top of freedom, not control.
"The ideology of control must end now."
So, where's all the CC-licensed content? Part of the Creative Commons site is devoted to highlighting some of the works and Web sites that have signed on to the CC license. Most notable is a huge amount of material from Byrds leader Roger McGuinn (the works, not his recordings). Ultimately, however, Creative Commons has no intention of maintaining a full database of all licensed materials. Look for tools in the future that will enable search engines to access license information and for Web sites to identify the licensing of given works.