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... is a big deal in most courts, as far as I know.
Even for something like a traffic ticket, if the cop doesn't show up in court, you're let off... (in the US anyways)
It's a bit more interesting than that, though. BREIN was actually sueing the company that was planning to take over TPB, expecting an easier grant from the judge (which they got). This opens the door to forcing ISP's to block certain websites, something which BREIN has been trying for but has hitherto miserably failed at. This is all just a sham to set up jurisprudence to slowly swing the courts in their favor. I think I'm gonna go BREINwash their CEO.
Put up a page for all Dutch users saying that they have been banned, then provide links on how to circumvent the ban. Any lawyer here know if they can get away with that?
IANAL and I know that is a bad idea. (wow. almost spelled that "I ANAL")
There are legal means of addressing the situation, and contempt of court is not one of them.
There are legal means of addressing the situation, and contempt of court is not one of them.
Yes, but they're not nearly as effective as the extra-legal means. The system is designed to create the illusion of recourse for individuals, while protecting the power of corporations.
I guess there's something to be said for sovereignty. Seems the main effect of the European Union has been to limit individual rights.
What did you expect? The EU is all about economy. It used to be called the European Community, and before that the European ECONOMIC Community. The first thing they set out to do was the common currency. Yes, money. Not a simple, straightforward Constitution reaffirming the inalienable rights of the people and the form and limits of government.
No. Not at all
Money. And trade. The "constitution" they later produced is a horribly bloated piece of shit that enumerates tons of "rights" that are impossible to gra
They are expendable cogs in the EU economic machine
It's not just Europe. Here in the US, corporations have somehow managed to convert our Constitution, an Enlightenment-era document about the rights of the individual, into an EULA which basically grants unlimited power to corporations, while enslaving anyone who is not in the top
And they managed it while hardly changing a word. Just in the last decade for example, activist judges on our Supreme Court, such as Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Ro
"Just in the last decade for example, activist judges on our Supreme Court, such as Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts, have overturned an unprecedented number of laws implemented by Congress and signed by the president, finding in favor of corporate interests and against individual rights at every turn."
OK, defend "unprecedented". How many has SCOTUS overturned in comparison to past courts? Which specific individual rights have been thrown away to enrich the evil corporate overlords?
It's like that for the most part in the US too. It goes back to our ape ancestors and how they ran things. Time changes, people don't much. Follow the leader, follow.
See, here's the main thing I don't like about this (apart from the whole censorship thing, which is obvious).
The Netherlands is asking The Pirate Bay to block its own citizens.
Why doesn't the Netherlands simply block access to The Pirate Bay?
Of course, the answer is simple: to shift the blame away from government.
Too bad most people who go to TPB are smarter than that.
Generally if you fail to appear without a good reason you can be found in default and lose automatically.
Which is a bad thing if you, you know, don't actually want to lose.
BUT, most courts require proof you were served with papers to appear at court.
Honestly the Judge is the jackass here. If they were properly served and responded with "we cant make the court date" the judge cant do this.
Otherwise, I could sue every one of you in court, and if you did not know of the court case, would not show up, and I would automatically win.
The whole story is not there.
I personally find the latter point somewhat dubitable: why the heck would they follow Dutch news anyway, but the former point is to me somewhat more convincing.
One also has to note by the way that the entire Dutch IT-crowd has their panties in a bunch over this, because our Christfaggy government earlier announced plans to introduce a filter not entirely different from the thing the Australian wants. Many see this as an important first step towards that goal and a very large step back for our freedom and society.
Nice try, but sending a letter which states, "We are not able to attend," is proof that you received the summons. Of course it's bad form to just not show-up. That's considered an insult to the judge because you're wasting his time, and the proper thing would have been to ask for a postponement to a more-convenient time.
I think what we're witnessing here is a bunch of arrogant people who don't realize that pissing-off the judge tends to sway him to rule against you. If the Piratebay took a different tactic, like your typical politician of smiling even when you're filled with hate, they could probably convince the judge to come-over to their side.
"Play the victim" is also a valid tactic. - Poor, defenseless citizens being attacked by a big billion-dollar corporation. "C'mon judge, we'll be smashed like bugs if you don't help us out."
From the English translation of the verdict:
2.3 From the productions deliverd by the prosecution it can be seen that de prosecution has tried to use the central organisation for summoning in Sweden but this didn't work. After this they tried a swedish bailiff which also failed.
2.4 In cases like this a judge can still allow the prosecution to continue if it's plausible that the summoned somehow still did see the summoning even though they never have been officially reached to hand them the summoning.
The prosecution sent mails to the email adresses of the prosecuted and the official owner of thepiratebay.org on 19 and 23 juni 2009. It's plausible the summoned did read the emails since the prosecution have received an email from 1 of these email adresses on 6th may 2009 in which the prosecution has told them they were going to sue.
The prosecution has also sent summonings by facebook and twitter. In these messages were special links to click on to see the swedish translations. Someone with an ip adress from the piratebay has visited this website. The summoned have declared to multiple media that they did not receive a summoning and so that they were not informed. The prosecution does not believe this.
...and evidently the court didn't believe it either. Seems like the usual level of legal skills displayed by TPB. First they have their heads handed to them in Swedish court, now the same has happened with a Dutch court. These people had better get a better legal team, because as it stands now they're being annihilated due to own stupidity - or more likely, by repeatedly basing their defense on a belief that judges are gullible.
I can't help but believe that TPB keeps making these idiot mistakes because they think they're smarter than the court. "Oh we never received the summons because you can't prove it, nyah!" "Well, according to the law, you should have, and according to the law, we can proceed as if you had."
IANAL, but there is at least one fact that links TPB to the Netherlands: ns2.thepiratebay.org is in the Netherlands. I don't know if this is what made the NL court assert authority, or if TPB have more servers there - they used to be based there back in 2006, and tracker.tpb.prq.to [184.108.40.206][Google Cache] used to be in the Netherlands, but now points to servers in Sweden. (PRQ is the TPB's hosting company.)
So my guess would be that no, the internet isn't collapsing. There is something that links TPB to the Netherland
The judge can, and will, do this.
In point 1.2 the judge established that the defendants had written an undated letter saying that the defendants will not be showing up in court. In point 1.3 the judge established that seeing as they wrote the letter, it is ridiculous to claim that they were in fact -not- aware of the proceedings before them, and the motions for dismissal thus be struck down; after all, they could have either been present just fine or have sent representation.
Further, they judge accepts the evidence by BREIN, that they followed:
- the official paths of notification (point 2.3; going through swedish authorities, and through a Swedish bailiff)
- unofficial paths (point 2.4)
-- e-mail to the defendants' e-mail address
--- (the judge and accepted the evidence by BREIN that one of the defendants -had- replied from one of the e-mail addresses written to as late as May 6th, in response to a notification about this very case (again, point 2.4) )
-- e-mail the domain holder's e-mail address)
-- wrote to the lawyers who had represented the defendants in a recent court case
-- registered mail, containing the subpoena in Swdish) to each of the defendants addresses.
--- (the judge accepted evidence by BREIN, from the courier service, that the mail was delivered)
-- a Twitter post
-- a Facebook post
--- (for the curious: whether or not these are reasonable venues for notification has yet to be determined. In the case a defendant can't be found, the posting in newspapers and such -is- acceptable. It is likely that the above two are found to be acceptable as well)
As a result, the judge once again surmises (still in point 2.4) that it is not likely that the defendants were -not- (timely) aware of these proceedings, and most certainly -could- have been present, or represented, in court.
Both are EU countries. Not sure if that has any relevance here, IANAL.
That's like saying I can ignore a ruling from a New York judge because I live in Maryland. That tactic might work at first, but the case will merely escalate to the U.S. level and I'll be in serious trouble.
Same applies here. If they don't comply, then the case will escalate to the E.U. level. There's a chance the higher court might reject the case and refuse to hear it, but you're still taking a big gamble.
My wife was served with court papers (for me) in Washington state while I was in Nebraska for an extended period of time (hadn't been home for over 7 months). I talked to a lawyer here in Nebraska. He advised several things:
1) I was not properly served and did not have to respond
2) They would not issue a bench warrant for my arrest (which I think was more because it was just a debt matter and not a criminal matter)
3) I was not in the courts jurisdiction
4) Sending a letter to the court explaining why I coul
Provided the ruling stands in appeals (and they could appeal all the way up to the EU courts, of course), you're right.. the judges can be told to blow themselves until the Swedish authorities hand down the rulings.
However, in the mean time...
- if they appear in The Netherlands, they can be arrested.
- if they continue to not block the Dutch, then BREIN may have a case for Dutch -ISPs- to block TPB as alternative means of getting TPB blocked.
Foreign sites have been blocked before - think gambling sites - bas
- if they appear in The Netherlands, they can be arrested.
No that's not true, it's not a criminal charge, it was in civil court. You can only be arrested if you have committed a crime. If they're not paying, according to the court, and they appear in the netherlands, the court could order to confiscate their belongings till the sum they have to pay is fulfilled, but that's about it. So i.o.w.: it's likely they just don't give a toss about this ruling.
if they continue to not block the Dutch, then BREIN may have a case for Dutch -ISPs- to block TPB as alternative means of getting TPB blocked.
No, as BREIN isn't associated with the public ministry (Openbaar Ministery) which is the authority which sues people/legal identities in criminal court. BREIN is a civil organisation like any other company or foundation, and therefore has no authority to order anything from anyone. An ISP isn't involved in this (otherwise phone companies should also be held liable when a criminal tells a mate to commit a crime) and therefore can't be ordered to do anything.
The judge is clearly not aware of what internet is. This is common among judges btw. I also find it weird that a civil organisation can censor the internet (through civil court) for people who aren't involved in the lawsuite.
While I'm pretty sure you're just joking here, it's quite easy to do a GeoIP lookup [maxmind.com], which is pretty reliable on the country level.
It may be easy for a nerd to install e.g. SwitchProxy, and knock together some scripts to automate the maintenance of a list of working anonymizing proxy servers (and by the way, any old proxy is not good enough), but it's not that easy for Joe Public. Unless they're going to pay for a vpn service, the vast majority of Dutch people will be accurately blocked by their IP address. And since accessing TPB is not a fundamental human right, the tiny amount of collateral damage will be seen as insignificant.
It may be easy for a nerd to install e.g. SwitchProxy, and knock together some scripts to automate the maintenance of a list of working anonymizing proxy servers (and by the way, any old proxy is not good enough), but it's not that easy for Joe Public. Unless they're going to pay for a vpn service, the vast majority of Dutch people will be accurately blocked by their IP address. And since accessing TPB is not a fundamental human right, the tiny amount of collateral damage will be seen as insignificant.
True, but this is a crowd that's rather well-known for their ability to circumvent restrictions.
Then anyone using a proxy will be assumed by the courts to be from the Netherlands, and the due fines will be charged, else face forfeiture posessions and/or imprisonment and/or penalty of being legally barred from the internet for a period of time decided by the courts.
Proxies don't help much if you're in jail.
>>>Then anyone using a proxy will be assumed by the courts to be from the Netherlands, and the due fines will be charged
Piratebay's lawyers would argue that if Dutch citizens are presenting fake representation (i.e. claiming to be from France or Spain), then those private citizens are the ones who should be prosecuted for counterfeiting et cetera. The website owners acted in good faith to the best of their ability to block *.nl domains and comply with the order, therefore they are not guilt
Piratebay's lawyers would argue that if Dutch citizens are presenting fake representation (i.e. claiming to be from France or Spain), then those private citizens are the ones who should be prosecuted for counterfeiting et cetera.
Yeah, but that would require them to show up in court first.
Well, the obvious solution is to put a "What country do you live in?" dropdown on the front page. Thus you no longer have to worry about IP addresses and all that. Sure the users may lie, but that's their problem...
I doubt you could make it stick. One EU country can't force another EU country to do something like that, otherwise eg. Germany would have all nazi sites banned in France.
What they can do is force dutch ISPs to block it.. which creates legal precedent if it goes through.
The judge was clearly pissed off that nobody showed up. If you can't make it, you at least have an attorney put in an appearance. When nobody shows up there isn't much you can do and the judge is going to be pissed off. It is like you are questioning the validity of the court.
And that is a really bad beginning to something you would like to win.
The validity of the court SHOULD be questioned! I mean, they gave summons via *Twitter*! What kind of a kangaroo court is that?
Besides, it's a Dutch court asking a Swedish citizen to appear regarding a Swedish website. If you received a "summons" from a Chinese court to appear for violating their demands that you block all of their citizens from viewing your website, would you appear?
and how, pray tell, do you suggest that you 'have an attorney put in an appearance' in a foreign court? It's hard (and expensive) enough to engage an attorney in your own country, let alone in another country 100s of miles away where they speak a different language.
No, writing a polite letter to explain that you won't be able to fullfil their totally unreasonable demand for an appearance is quite acceptable, and any judge who thinks otherwise has a major superiority complex.
"It is like you are questioning the validity of the court."
If the court does stuff like this then what's wrong with questioning its validity?
In a totally unexpected ruling, a Dutch court has decided that The Pirate Bay should block visitors from the Netherlands within 10 days or face a fine of â30,000 per defendant per day.
What about residents on islands like Sint Maartin [wikipedia.org] in the Netherlands Antilles [wikipedia.org]? Blocking by IP address could get a little more complicated considering the Northern half of that island is French.
The Pirate Bay should refuse to heed that request/order on grounds that it is undemocratic to discriminate against users on the basis of religion, ethnicity, nationality or otherwise. Who can argue against that?
The Pirate Bay should refuse to heed that request/order on grounds that it is undemocratic to discriminate against users on the basis of religion, ethnicity, nationality or otherwise. Who can argue against that?
That's a stupid argument.
The Netherlands are still a sovereign State with their own laws.
You can't exactly argue that it's undemocratic to stop violating one set of laws because other countries 'allow' it.
BREIN argued that TPB's ongoing actions are causing damages.
The Dutch Court agreed and ordered TPB to cease and desist from the damaging action.
This concept is fairly consistent wherever you go.
What we need to do, is get a US judge to order the Dutch Judge to over turn the ruling or face a fine of $100,000(US) for every Dutch user that is prevented from accessing the Pirate Bay.
On a side note, does the Judge realize that a simple proxy server can bypass his ruling? There is NO WAY to enforce such a stupid ruling. The Technically Illiterate should not be making what amounts to a new law regarding Technological issues.
This whole thing would be silly if the pointy headed elites weren't involved. Is it me, or are they (pointy headed elites) some of the stupidest people on the planet or what?
The Technically Illiterate should not be making what amounts to a new law
The Netherlands does not use common law [wikipedia.org] but instead uses civil law [wikipedia.org], where: "laws are written into a collection, codified, and not determined [...] by judges".
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
you are now required to use a proxy to access our website, we apologize for the inconvenience.
They should not care. By international laws the location of the servers ("service") defines the laws and the (location of) court used to settle disputes. The only other route for IP related issues is by using WTO, which is extremely unlikely (requires actual political will from top brass).
In theory it could be bounced to the EU court, but that moves at the speed of a glacier.. the *AA will have crumbled to dust before the lawyers have even got as far as the 50th volume of the ruling...
IIRC Switzerland isn't part of the EU.
Are their servers in the Netherlands?
I believe they still have some servers there. Not the main ones, but they do have a presence in the Netherlands (trackers?). It started when they were raided way back in '06 (?) and had to move the whole operation there. Since then they moved back to Sweden, but I vaguely recall them still having some hardware there.
ns2.thepiratebay.org is in the Netherlands, for example.
Seattle, WA - The Kingdom of the Netherlands has been ordered to pay Irving Schwartzmizzlegub $50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 for causing his pet cockerspanial , Peppy-dee, to die. Judge Thomas Hikemyjacksbitchpeople awarded Schwartzmizzlegub the large sum because, in his own words "These fucking people live by dikes, and I got Herpes in Amsterdam when I was 20."
Schwartzmizzlegub alleged that the osmotic psychowaves emanating from several Dutch cities caused little Peppy-dee to spiral into canine depression, prostitute himself at a nearby 7-11, and ultimately take his own life by leaping into the Slurpee machine.
The large size of the award is assumed to be because the Kingdom of the Netherlands never appeared in court. A representative of the Dutch ambassador tried to explain that countries can't actually move, but the judge rejected that, called the Ambassador's representative "a sub-German freek" and made the award.
Schwartzmizzlegub is planning to use the money to clone Elvis and make him into a sex-slave.
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Step 1) Make a blanket rule on any IP resolving to a
Step 2) The rule presents the users with the following message:
Dear user
Thanks to a ruling from a Dutch court [drop.io], we are required to prevent anyone from the Netherlands not using a proxy to mask their country [google.com] from using our site.
Kind regards
The Staff
Alright, the last link might be a bit much, but still
I would think that is the bigger headline here. Otherwise, how could a Dutch court demand anything from a Swedish company?
Or perhaps they should demand the legal drinking age [wikipedia.org] in the US to be 16.
And the irony is that downloading is legal in the Netherlands, just not uploading.
Downloading is legal in a lot of states. Uploading is the action that usually gets one in trouble.
The Pirate Bay should block visitors from the Netherlands
Are you from the Netherlands?
No of course they can't, for exactly the reason you state.
Now I know there is a limit on the fine, but for the sake of ridiculousness...
Population of the Netherlands, 16,500,156
Fine per person per day, US $42,300
GDP of Sweden, US $484,550,000,000
Number of years required for the entire economic output of Sweden to pay back for a week of TPB usage by the entire Netherlands, 10
Where do they come up with these damn numbers?
Wouldn't it make more sense that if the Dutch jurisdiction doesn't want the traffic to/from X to tell providers to not allow connections to X rather than to tell X "we don't want your service".
Either way, as mentioned above proxy servers refute the quest. I like the word quest.
I read the rough translation over at http://drop.io/breinpaidforthis_english [drop.io]
The only bit interesting was:
1.3 Since they summoned did not show up at the summoning they can now not fall back on the letter they have sent from 27th of juli 2009. Since they have said they were not going to be in court at the date appointed they can not fall back on not knowing about the summoning (article 142, lawbook of the netherlands Civil rights)
In most jurisdictions, if hold yourself out as intentionally disobeying an order of the court, they can throw the book at you in your absense. It all hinges on how the judge decides to interpret your letter of intent - they can be strict and litteral, or understanding and wide. Saying you will not be attending is very different to being unable to attend, regardless of whatever else said. Consider, "I am unable to attend the meeting because a family member has died and I am at the funeral at that time. I will not come." and "[at that time]. Please rearrange meeting". The latter indicates intent to come, whereas the former does not.
I find it hard to believe that they don't have prescribed methods of good notice - ie: in the UK good notice can be at their abode, registered address, or place of work. Only when you have "good notice" can you reply on preceedures in absense.
Just fine everybody who gives any Chinese citizen information the Chinese government don't want them to have.
Perhaps we can start trading proxies with Iranians.
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BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP), Mar 16 - A southern Vermont neighborhood is being stalked by a renegade gray squirrel.A number of people on Bennington's East Street say they've been attacked by a squirrel over the last few weeks.Kevin McDonald tells the Bennington Banner he was shoveling when the squirrel jumped onto him. He says he threw the animal off, but it twice jumped back onto him.A game warden says there have been similar reports from the area. One woman is being treated for exposure to rabies.But Vermont Public Health Veterinarian Robert Johnson says there's never been a case of a squirrel passing rabies to a human.Johnson says it's possible the squirrel was raised by people and lost its fear of humans. He says squirrels then ``go ballistic because it's not their human.''---Information from: Bennington Banner,http://www.benningtonbanner.com

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Timothy Lord: Over the last several years, I have been moving more and more to laptops instead of conventional desktop PCs. But that is not true for everyone. Sometimes you need a bigger power supply, bigger hard drive, whatever, whatever reason it is that drives you to have a conventional desktop case. So the ones here range everything from ludicrously huge to vanishingly small. I just got a pretty good look at a case that is not either one of those extremes but it is pretty expensive. It is over $300. On the other hand, it is beautiful.
Sarah Lien: I am Sarah and I just got here. And if you don't mind, I can give you a little introduction about the D-Frame.
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Sarah: The actual what?
Timothy: The components.
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Timothy: Okay. And it doesn't come with any of the components in here, you are supplying your own mother board and other accessories?
Sarah: No. It is just this thing.
Timothy: Okay. Now what will this retail for?
Sarah: What?
Timothy: What will this sell for?
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Timothy: Okay. Will this be available worldwide?
Sarah: It will be available for at least Q2.
Timothy: Okay. And are these going to be limited edition?
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Timothy: Looks like they have plenty of airflow.
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Timothy: I see this one is quiet even though you've got three pretty big fans down there.
Sarah: Exactly.
Timothy: You can run it nice and quiet that way.
Sarah: Yeah. Right.
Timothy: Sarah, thank you very much. Is there anything else that you want to tell me about these cases?
Sarah: Thank you. No I think that will be all. But you will like to have one. This is really cool. And it makes you a big space so you can upgrade any equipment you want. So that we want to introduce. This is In Win. Thank you.
Timothy: Thanks very much.


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I knew for a long time that Mr C would be a good father, but of course you don't really know how things will be when a baby arrives. Babies can put an enormous amount of pressure on you, even if you are the coping type, in an emotional and physical way that is hard to comprehend unless you have been through it first hand.
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Thank you for being an exemplary (A++ as they say on eBay) doting father who is completely selfless when it comes to your child.
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A rare apology in the House
Things got a little testy last week during the legislative debate on Gov. John Kasich's plan to use the Ohio Turnpike to leverage billions of dollars for road and bridge projects statewide.
So testy, in fact, that one Republican lawmaker had to offer a rare mid-session apology to the Democratic lawmaker who was the target of his comments.
"And now for the truth," Rep. Ross McGregor, a Republican from Springfield, told members of the House finance committee earlier in the week, shortly before calling out a Democratic member by name and noting her absence from a subcommittee debate on the bill. "... I think you're manufacturing a problem that doesn't exist."
Those comments, uttered toward the end of the House finance committee, didn't seem too over-the-top at the time — in part because McGregor had laryngitis when he spoke them. It's hard to get too upset over an insult when the speaker is offering them in a higher-than-normal-pitch whisper.
But Rep. Alicia Reece, a Democrat from Cincinnati and the target, was not happy and attempted repeatedly to address the Republican lawmaker's contentions.
"Mr. Chairman," Reece said during the committee hearing. "I was personally attacked, and I think I deserve [a moment] to respond."
Chairman speaks
Rep. Ron Amstutz, a Republican from Wooster and chairman of the finance committee, quickly stopped the back-and-forth, putting McGregor and Reece on the spot after the committee adjourned.
"I'm going to caution the committee not to make personal statements about other members," Amstutz said, the point is well taken. "We're not going to inflame it. We'll have that conversation between ... the three of us afterwards."
Lawmakers make a point not to address other members directly by name during committee or floor deliberations. They'll mention "my good friend from so-and-so district" or "the gentle-lady from so-and-so county," but they generally don't come straight out and say, "Rep. So-and-So is an idiot." The context may imply the message, but names and direct attacks are frowned upon.
McGregor carried the turnpike legislation after it was spun off the larger biennial transportation budget, and he did not hide his disgust during committee hearings at Democratic members making allegations of "broken promises."
The governor said 90 percent of turnpike bond proceeds would go to projects in northern Ohio and tolls would be frozen for local commuters, but neither of those provisions was included in the legislation.
The turnpike bill passed along mostly party lines, with mostly Republicans supporting and mostly Democrats opposing.
But before the final debate and vote on the bill, McGregor rose on the floor to apologize to Reece.
"Yesterday in committee, I'm afraid, while we were debating the merits of turnpike legislation ... I'm afraid that I let my senses go in terms of my decorum in addressing the issues that Rep. Reece was bringing up," McGregor said, adding, "I know that we debate things, and we're not always going to agree, but we have to maintain decorum and civility in that process or we'll lose all respect for anything that we do here."
Reece accepted the apology.
And then members launched into a lengthy and heated floor debate — the first of the session — with many pointed comments directed at no one in particular.
Marc Kovac is The Vindicator's Statehouse correspondent. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog.
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/18/fans_goad_valve_for_half_life_3_information/
Fans goad Valve for Half-Life 3 gen
Let us be Freeman
Posted in Personal Tech, 18th January 2012 08:14 GMT
Fans of Valve's groundbreaking FPS franchise, Half-Life, have taken to the net en masse to voice their frustration regarding a lack of information on the series' next installment, Half-Life 3.
Seven years or so have passed since Half Life 2 hit shelves for the PC. Ever since, the gaming world has sat patiently holding its breath in anticipation of a sequel.
Steam group A Call for Communication (Half-Life), has so far gathered over 12,000 members following its formation on Christmas Day.
"While continued support for current and future products is greatly appreciated, fans of the Half-Life series have waited years for a word on when the franchise will return," the group says.
"Your oldest and longest running fanbase would like better communication," it told Valve. "Waiting patiently for over four years is a daunting task, especially when E3 comes and goes without any beat of a Half-Life pulse, time and time again."
The group points towards Valve's promises that information would be released towards the end of 2008. It had previously announced the entire trilogy would be available by 2007.
"If Valve have decided to do other things for the time being, that is fine; all that we ask for is a basic response on the matter, and to let fans know whether or not the current story arc is scheduled to conclude at another point in time."
Will the sheer volume of frustrated fans prompts Valve to make an announcement? We'll sign up and keep our fingers crossed.
Earlier this month, a group of PC gamers rallied the troops and aimed a petition at Namco Bandai asking it to at least consider a PC version of the unforgiving Dark Souls.
The petition attracted almost 80,000 signatures before the publisher stepped forth to announce: "If you wanted to have the attention of Namco Bandai Games, now you have it." Let's hope Valve is equally engaging. ®


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LOWELL -- While U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and challenger Elizabeth Warren sparred on stage at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell on Monday night, many observers took to Twitter to weigh in on issues brought up during the debate.
Many users who tweeted using the hashtag #masendebate focused around the candidates' opposing comments regarding support for the Dream Act and who each candidate responded was a "model" U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Brown first named Justice Antonin Scalia as a model justice and then mentioned other justices. Warren answered Justice Elena Kagan.
Twitter user @kenjimaallon tweeted: "Not that Warren's performance was stellar, but Brown's Scalia answer won the debate for Warren."
Many users noted that Brown received boos from the audience when he responded that he does not support the Dream Act, while Warren said she does.
Many of the conversations taking place on Twitter about the debate focused on moderator David Gregory, who moderates NBC's Meet the Press. Many Twitter users criticized Gregory's performance, noting he seemed to insert himself in the debate.
Wendy Schiller, @profwschiller, who identifies herself as an associate professor of public policy and politics at Brown University, tweeted, "David Gregory is so bad as moderator of #masendebate that it is hard to watch. He should remember to let candidates finish their sentences.
Another comment Twitter users jumped on was Brown's response to Warren when she began to interrupt him while he was speaking. He said, "Excuse me, I'm not a student in your classroom. Please let me respond."
The tweet on The Sun's official Twitter account that was re-tweeted the most -- 10 times during the debate -- noted that before the debate, when Gregory asked Brown supporters in the audience to cheer, then Warren supporters, the Warren supporters cheered louder.
One Twitter user who replied to The Sun, Chase Schaub @Chase_Schaub, said it depended where you were sitting in the auditorium.
Another Tweet from The Sun's official Twitter account that was re-tweeted several times noted that when Warren brought up Brown's vote against President Barack Obama's jobs bill, she received a huge applause from the audience.
There was lots of reaction on Twitter from the lightning-round question regarding whether the candidates would bring back Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine for another season.
A Twitter user who identifies himself as Sean G @Workaholic_SG, added the hashtag "#importantissues" to The Sun's Twitter account, responding to the tweet that Brown didn't say if he would bring back Valentine as manager of the Red Sox next year.
Tweets from the candidates themselves also were sent during the debate, adding on to topics covered in the debate or reiterating points made.
For example, from Brown's official Twitter account @ScottBrownMA, "Warren took a $212K paycheck to help one of the largest US insurance co.'s win immunity from asbestos victims #masendebate #charactercounts."
While many of the comments on Twitter seemed to support Warren's performance, there were Brown supporters.
Twitter user Lorraine Schratz @drlms, tweeted, "MA Sen debate #LizWarren can't name 1 Repub senator with whom she can work will actually BE there #ScottBrown = 2nd most bipartisan NOW."
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2003 Softball
weekly recap
Bluffton posts 6-4 record in Florida, opens northern schedule this weekBy Tim Stried
March 10, 2003
|Special to: The Bluffton News (Mar. 13), The Witmarsum (Mar. 14), Alumni e-newsletter (Mar. 11), but you read it here first.
Freshman Sarah Betts collected four pitching victories and senior Missy Neal batted .324 as the Bluffton College softball team posted a 6-4 record at the Rebel Spring Games in Kissimmee, Florida, last week.
Sophomore Jenny Lehman and freshman Jessica Rosengarten collected Bluffton's two other wins that didn't come via the arm of Betts, while other offensive leaders included senior Stephanie Rush, sophomore Allison Lange, sophomore Michelle Pleiman, sophomore Mandy Snider, senior Missy Alexander and junior Amber Fitzwater.
Neal started all 10 games and batted .324 (11-for-34) with three triples, six RBI and six runs scored.
Complete statistical leaders will be available in next week's recap.
Bluffton notched victories over Clarke, Misercordia, Muhlenberg, Kean and Thiel during the week.
Weather permitting, Bluffton is slated to travel to Thomas More on Thursday before hosting Kalamazoo on Saturday.


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What is a "mum"?
I had some Czech guys staying with me a few years ago around Easter. They were getting all excited about it as they have a tradition where you get to chase girls and beat them with sticks. Apparently is is marvelous fun. Well not here! I told them if they came near me with a stick they had better watch out. http://www.thedashingfellows.com/easter/5800
Quote from: RingTailedLemur on October 16, 2012, 03:43:15 AMWhat is a "mum"?Sorry chrysanthemum in Texas are just called mums Here is the type of thing I'm talking about http://indulgy.com/post/UkHCF1GKS1/years-ago-guys-used-to-give-their-homecoming-dat
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I see little movement on the development front? What's up?
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Bug fixes never have negative effect on functionality. Well unless they cause more bugs...
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Given recent events I'm a little concerned about the continued support for LMS and Squeezeboxes. The Logitech CEO has been quoted saying that the Revue was a mistake and by the looks of it there will be no next generation Revue (Google TV hardware from Logitech). The SBS was renamed LMS to reflect added DLNA support for the Revue. The Revue has/had a lot more visibility than the Squeezeboxes ever had and this, I thought, would keep the LMS server development going. Unless I see a next generation Squeezebox in the next couple months, I don't see a compelling "business" reason for Logitech to continue to invest resources to keep this product line supported. I don't see folks running to the corner store to buy Squeezeboxes or hear much buzz about this product line. I'm sad saying this and I hope to be proven wrong, but I just don't see how Logitech can continue to support the LMS server software without a next generation hardware product that depends on it.
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2012-01-27, 09:02 #4Ikabob
Squeezebox Touch w/LMS V7.9; Benchmark DAC1 USB;Marantz Pre-amp; SAE Amplifier;ESS Heil Speakers(main listening speakers plus various additional speakers).
Multiple players: SqueezeBooms,SqueezeRadios; SB3;
Services:Rhapsody;Slacker;RadioTunes;Spotify (+Triode's Plugin);CalmRadio,Napster,
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2012-01-27, 10:29 #5
While there has been a grand total of just 1 non-cosmetic change to LMS in the past month, it looks like there is more activity on the SqueezeOS/SqueezePlay development front. See:
It makes one curious as to just what a MP2 or baby-MP2 might be, or what sort of sbradio hardware sports a rev. 7 board.
2012-01-27, 10:57 #6
Also M Herger said he was on vacation ?
Have they killed off svn.slimdevices.com it seems to be down you used to be able to follow dev there ?
gharris link was interesting sugesting all kinds of addition you never see logged svn.slimdevices hmm--------------------------------------------------------------------
Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub.
Bedroom/Office: Boom
Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4
Misc use: Radio (with battery)
iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad
(spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller )
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I had a look on various sites last night and also there is no stock near me only 3rd party supplier on Amazon.
The rumours seem to be that Logitech are closing down the music streaming division as the competition from the likes of Apple i players and android devices point the way to the future and the development of LMS is down to a skeleton staff. Pure rumour and speculation gleaned from other sites.
Interesting that stock is very low and there were heavy discounts on Amazon recently also the future roadmap for LMS seems to stop at verion 8 dateline sometime 2012.
I certainly couldn't recommend the Touch to someone unless they were above average computer competent. My sister was looking for a similar device and went for a Roberts streaming radio for the kitchen, can connect to itunes and their music library, easy to set up, play podcasts etc.
2012-01-27, 13:40 #8
I can assure you that Logitech is supporting Squeezebox more than ever, and we are working on several things behind the scenes. For example, we have some large projects in the works to scale up MySB that will not be visible to users (unless we screw it up
2012-01-27, 13:47 #9
LMS moving forward?
> Have they killed off svn.slimdevices.com it seems to be down you used
> to be able to follow dev there ?
It's being migrated to a new datacenter.
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Selfie 101: Geraldo Rivera Uninvited by University After Revealing Photo
A photo self-portrait cost television personality Geraldo Rivera a gig. Geraldo had been scheduled to moderate a panel at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of President John F. Kennedy–but Rivera was uninvited because of a revealing "selfie" (a picture taken of oneself) he shot in front of a bathroom mirror with the words "70 is the new 50." The 70-year-old Rivera posted this note on his Twitter: "Duquesne's cancellation of my JFK panel appearance is pretentious censorship Do students agree with administration? Am I banned for life?." A spokesperson for Duquesne University told Speakeasy: "The administration felt that Mr. Rivera's decision to post a nearly naked picture of himself on social media was inappropriate and inconsistent with who we are as a Catholic Spiritan university and therefore asked the Wecht Institute to withdraw the invitation. We warn our students not to post questionable material on social media due to the possibility of negative consequences- you could consider this teaching by example."


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|University of Pittsburgh
|National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
|Information provided by:
|University of Pittsburgh
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
The purpose of this study is to see if giving people with CF and ABPA enough vitamin D to make their blood levels of the vitamin higher, will reduce the allergic response in their body and make the symptoms caused by ABPA better.
Cystic Fibrosis
Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis
A. Fumigatus
|Dietary Supplement: cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3)
Phase 1
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Open-label Vitamin D Trial for Patients With Cystic Fibrosis and Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis
Cystic Fibrosis
Vitamin D
- Aspergillus induced IL-13 responses in CD4+ T-cells [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
To test the hypothesis that supplementation with Vitamin D in CF patients with ABPA will reduce Aspergillus induced IL-13 responses in CD4+ T-cells.
- Total IgE, Aspergillus specific IgE and IgG levels, vitamin D levels, FEV1, cytokine production by Aspergillus stimulated peripheral blood T cells, urine calcium/creatinine ratio [ Time Frame: 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
To test the hypothesis that supplementation with Vitamin D in CF patients with ABPA will reduce total and aspergillus specific IgE levels
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|September 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|September 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Dietary Supplement: cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3)
Detailed Description:
Many patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) cough up mucus or have throat cultures that grow a common fungus called Aspergillus. In patients with CF, aspergillus is not known to cause direct damage to the lungs, but some patients respond with an allergic reaction that causes them to wheeze, cough, or have difficulty breathing. This allergic reaction is called ABPA. Current treatment for ABPA includes high dose steroids and an "anti-fungal" medicine. Treatment with steroids may be problematic for some people due to its side effects on blood sugar levels and the bones. Steroids are medications that decrease inflammation, including prednisone, medrol, dexamethasone and others.
Ongoing research at UPMC on the study "Mechanisms of Immune Tolerance in ABPA" has studied people with CF and ABPA versus those patients with CF that just grow A. fumigatus (Af) in the sputum, but do not have ABPA. You may have participated in this study. This study has shown that people with CF with the fungus, Af, in their sputum but who do not have ABPA have more of a certain type of cell in their blood that helps the body to regulate or suppress allergic reactions than those people with CF and ABPA.
Recent studies have demonstrated that Vitamin D is a critical factor in the development of these cells that suppress allergic reactions. People with CF, due to their pancreatic insufficiency that causes them to have difficulty absorbing fat, also have lower levels of the fat soluble vitamins which include vitamin D. In the study done at UPMC, "Mechanisms of Immune Tolerance in ABPA", people with CF and ABPA had significantly lower vitamin D levels than people with CF who did not have ABPA.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female ≥ 12 years of age at enrollment
Confirmed diagnosis of CF based on the following criteria:
- One or more clinical features consistent with the CF phenotype AND (b or c)
- Positive sweat chloride > 60 mEq/liter (by pilocarpine iontophoresis)
- two identifiable mutations consistent with CF
- Written informed consent (and assent when applicable) obtained from subject or subject's legal representative and ability for subject to comply with the requirements of the study.
- Clinically stable at enrollment as assessed by the site investigator
- Past or present respiratory culture positive for Aspergillus fumigatus
- IgE ≥ 250 and/or presence of class II or higher aspergillus specific IgE on enrollment
- Ability to comply with medication use, study visits and study procedures as judged by the site investigator –
Exclusion Criteria:
1. Systemic corticosteroids (1 mg/kg if < 20 kg or > 20 mg of prednisone per day),.
2. Investigational drug use within 30 days of screening 3. Laboratory abnormalities at screening
a. Serum Calcium > 11 mg/dl b. 25(OH) D > 50 ng/ml at screening. c. Creatinine ≥ 1.5, or estimated GFR <60 by Cockcroft-Gault or MDRD equation. d. LFT≥ 3xULN
4. History of transplantation or currently on lung transplant list 5. Positive serum pregnancy test at screening (to be performed on all post-menarche females) 6. Pregnant, breastfeeding, or if post-menarche female, unwilling to practice birth control during participation in the study 7. Presence of a condition or abnormality that in the opinion of the site investigator would compromise the safety of the subject or the quality of the data 8. Diagnosis of HIV and a CD4+ T cell count below 500 cells/ml or active hepatitis B or C infection.
9. Undergoing therapy for non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01222273
|Contact: Elizabeth Hartigan, MPH, RN, CRM
|Contact: Adrienne DeRicco, BSN, RN
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15224
|Principal Investigator: Joseph M Pilewski, MD
|Comprehensive Lung Center – Falk Clinic
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15213
|Principal Investigator: Joseph M Pilewski, MD
|Principal Investigator:
|Joseph M Pilewski, MD
|University of Pittsburgh
|Study Director:
|Jay K Kolls, MD
|Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Joseph M. Pilewski, MD, University of Pittsburgh
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|October 14, 2010
|Last Updated:
|October 14, 2010
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by University of Pittsburgh:
cystic fibrosis
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
A. fumigatus
Immune response
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary
Cystic Fibrosis
Pulmonary Aspergillosis
Lung Diseases, Fungal
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Respiratory Hypersensitivity
Respiratory Tract Infections
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Immune System Diseases
Pancreatic Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Infant, Newborn, Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Vitamin D
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Pharmacologic Actions
Bone Density Conservation Agents
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Photos of Air Force moms breast-feeding in uniform recently went viral and sparked debate. The photos were meant to support military moms in breast-feeding. But some critics say the photos are disrespectful to the uniform. Host Michel Martin discusses the issue with active and retired military moms, including one who was featured in the photos.
Breast-feeding In Uniform: Brave Or Brazen?
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Brown Challenges Effort to Depose Schwarzenegger In Prison Crowding Case
LOS ANGELES—In opposing a federal court ruling in the prison crowding case, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued the following statement:
"Inmates' counsel have gone too far. They are attacking the state with a blizzard of paper and an outrageous demand to depose the Governor. This effort creates a public circus and does nothing to fix our prisons. Moreover, they made no showing that the Governor has relevant information concerning the issues at stake."
Today, Brown filed a request for reconsideration of the magistrate judge's ruling which would require the Governor, his Chief of Staff and his Senior Deputy Cabinet Secretary to submit to a deposition.
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What a match that was. Absolutely superb entertainment. Manchester City were thoroughly outplayed for large spells of it and will be hugely grateful to have escaped with a point, but it keeps them nine points behind Manchester United. At least Yaya Toure is on his way back. For Liverpool, it's another 2-2 draw away to a big side. They should have won but they can be highly satisfied with how they played. With Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge together in attack, the future looks very bright for Liverpool indeed. Thanks for your emails. I'm off for a lie-down.
Full time: Manchester City 2-2 Liverpool
That's your lot!
90 min+6: One last chance for Liverpool. Johnson slides a pass down the right for Suarez, whose shot is deflected wide by Skrtel. Hart flaps again at the corner but City get it clear and...
90 min+3: Aguero pokes it through to Maicon on the right and his cross towards Dzeko is put behind by Skrtel. The corner is a waste.
90 min+2: Daniel Sturridge, comfortably the best player on the pitch, is booed as he's replaced by Joe Allen. He applauds the City fans with a smirk on his face. There's a certain irony to City fans criticising a footballer's greed, isn't there? I'm sure it's not lost on them.
90 min+1: There will be five minutes of added time.
90 min: Joe Hart does save one from distance this time! On the edge of the area, Sturridge toepokes a fierce effort with his left foot towards the bottom-left corner. Hart gets down to push it out. That's a top save. Agger reaches the rebound and finds Suarez who wins a corner. It's cleared.
88 min: Samir Nasri replaces Gareth Barry.
87 min: Can City do it again? Milner curls in another corner and Maicon nuts it over from six yards out. Close.
85 min: Johnson shoots well over from distance. Meanwhile the rarely-spotted Samir Nasri is going to grace us with his presence. "Message for Rob Stewart," says Rod Stewart. "I'm in Montserrat, West Indies."
84 min: "Another two "unstoppable" screamers beat Hart from outside the box today, how many is that this season?" says Bernard Walsh. "I'm amazed that every team that plays City don't shoot on sight, Hart is pretty poor at dealing with shots from distance largely because of poor foot work."
That's unfair. These were two goals of the very highest quality. Not even Jussi Jaaskelainen could have saved them.
83 min: This is a barmy game. Fabulous stuff. On the right Suarez gets past Clichy. His cross is cleared as far as Gerrard. Surely not again? Correct, his volley is blocked and City attack but Aguero loses the ball on the break. "This Lucas chap is a better player than first meets the eye isn't he," says Gary Naylor. "And Reina is much worse." Imagine if Barcelona do buy him.
82 min: Agger shoots from 35 yards out. I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
80 min: Dang! "I follow the MBM, but I am Rob Stewart...," says Rob not Rod Stewart. "Not quite the same thing... I am in Koh phangan thailand, bound to be more exciting here than wherever that good for nothing rod stewart is...."
GOAL! Manchester City 2-2 Liverpool (Aguero, 78 min)
Ok, start playing the circus music now. Take nothing away from Aguero's magnificent improvisation but what was Reina playing at? He really is an overrated chancer. A ball was played over the top of the reconfigured Liverpool defence and Aguero reached it first on the right of the area. He had a fair bit to do but Reina made it a bit easier for him by charging off his line. Aguero knocked it past him and then, from a quite ludicrous angle, he chipped the ball into the empty net.
77 min: This was almost game over. Gerrard whips in a corner from the left and Sturridge's header skims just wide. Skrtel almost got on the end of it in the six-yard box too.
75 min: Liverpool make their first change, Martin Skrtel on for Jose Enrique.
74 min: Maicon is on for David Silva.
GOAL! Manchester City 1-2 Liverpool (Gerrard, 73 min)
2005 has just called, it wants its players back. This is classic Gerrard. Liverpool attacked again and a ball was only cleared as far as Gerrard, 25 yards from goal. He chested it down and it sat up for the volley, which he rammed past Hart and into the bottom-left corner with his right foot! That was rather like his goal for England against Germany in Munich in 2001, I'll have you know. The champions are behind. That might be the first Steven Gerrard goal celebrated by Manchester United fans. It would have helped if someone had bothered closing Gerrard down.
71 min: Javi Garcia is booked for a cynical trip on Suarez in the centre circle.
70 min: The fear for Liverpool is that their moment will slip away from them. You would expect City to have more belief as the game enters the final 20 minutes.
68 min: But so do City. Milner, their best player today, flashes a low cross in from the right but no one can get a telling touch on the ball, which fizzes across the face of goal and away from danger.
67 min: Henderson, Lucas and Gerrard have completely dominated Barry and Garcia in midfield. Is that news? Meanwhile Downing cuts in from the right and drills a low shot wide. Liverpool know this is there for the taking.
65 min: Oh, Aguero's back. And he announces his return with a cracking 60-yard run, speeding away from Lucas and into the area - but he just overruns it. That was looking like it was going to be one of The Great Goals. Moments later Silva almost plays Aguero in but Enrique is there to clear.
63 min: "So Rod Stewart follows the MBM?" says Simon McMahon. "Maybe you could commission him to do the official MBM song? Or get fellow Celtic fan Snoop Dogg / Lion / Zebra or whatever to do it."
Lutz could be Bez.
62 min: Aguero is off getting treatment, allowing your knackered minute-by-minute reporter a moment's peace. But not for long. Downing swerves a pass to Suarez with the outside of his left foot. From the left, he opens up his body and curls a shot a couple of yards wide of the far post.
61 min: The City fans cheer ironically after Agger puts the ball out of play with Aguero down clutching his shoulder.
59 min: Can all games be like this? City have finally stepped it up and are starting to turn the screw. Silva darts into the area and Carragher has to stop him with a last-ditch challenge at the expense of a corner. Liverpool get it clear.
58 min: "There was contact," says Robert McKenna. "You are wrong, sir." Hmm, you could be right. But not enough to send Sturridge down and I think he knew because he apologised.
57 min: Carragher is booked after steaming into the back of Aguero. He's shown his age there, all right. "Talking about encroaching walls, why don't refs in the EPL use a little spray can to mark where the ball and wall should be for a free kick, as they do in the MLS?" says Richard Armitage. "There isn't a whole lot that I like about the MLS but this does seem to be a very good idea, it certainly stops walls moving forward before the kick is taken."
56 min: Roberto Mancini switches to a back three, replacing Nastasic with Kolarov.
55 min: Sturridge lets fly from the edge of the area and almost knocks out whichever City defender blocked it. They all look the same.
54 min: Only United, Dortmund and Real Madrid have played as well as this at the Etihad this season. Downing takes on Clichy again on the right but his low ball evades everyone in the middle. This is so impressive from Liverpool.
53 min: Anthony Taylor wins back some favour with the City fans by booking Sturridge for diving. And it was a dive - he went down in the area, despite Lescott making no contact with him. He apologises. Bloody foreigners.
52 min: Hart flaps again, punching the ball away. The ball is sent back in and Downing heads well wide.
51 min: Absurd as it seems, City are almost clinging on here. First Suarez nearly gets past Nastasic and into the area on the right. The defender gets enough on the ball just nicking it away. Then Downing runs at Clichy, winning a corner. City clear but there's no let-up in the pressure. From the right, Downing curls a cross to the far post where Suarez is unmarked. He cushions it into the six-yard box for Carragher, who's denied by Lescott. Corner to Liverpool.
50 min: Liverpool are causing City problems again. Suarez scampers into the area from the left. He can't quite get a shot away so tees up Gerrard, whose low effort from the edge of the area is blocked by Nastasic.
49 min: From around 35 yards out, in a central position, Suarez's free-kick is deflected wide for a corner on the right by City's wall. He's annoyed because the wall wasn't 10 yards away. Not that his free-kick would have gone in anyway. The corner comes to nothing.
48 min: "Just heard Fox Soccer mangling the English language: 'Second half kick, coming up, on the backside.' Unless, of course, they were referring to Mancini sorting his team out." That email was sent to me by ... Rod Stewart.
47 min: Milner sends in a corner from the left and Garcia heads over from close range. City mean business.
46 min: Here we go again. City, in danger of falling 10 points behind Manchester United, need a very big second half. And it's a good start to it, as Milner whips a devilish cross into the six-yard box and it bounces just past the far post with Reina worried.
Some good news for City: Nigeria have beaten the Ivory Coast in their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final, which means that Yaya Toure will be back soon enough. Unfortunately he'll be bringing Kolo the Klown with him.
It's a clear foul by Agger on Dzeko, but he clearly wasn't injured. There.
Half time emails.
"What would Chelsea give for Sturridge in this form?" says Seamus Devlin. "Or any striker in any form?"
"I'm choosing to assume the man city fans were booing Dzeko, he proved he was fine by sitting up and pounding the ground right after the foul wasn't given, and then by standing up as soon as play stopped," parps Steven Bentley. "Clearly they're criticizing him for leaving his team short whilst they conceded."
"Don't know what the City fans were complaining about," says Robert Johnson. "Referee saw no foul of Dzeko and he wasn't injured (he hopped up pretty quickly after the goal to abuse the linesman, and didn't even need treatment). The best way to prevent the goal would have been for Dzeko to stop rolling around on the ground for a whole minute and run back to help out his team."
"Denis Law scoring for City at Old Trafford and not celebrating, yes," says Simon McMahon. "Daniel Sturridge scoring for Liverpool at City and not celebrating, no."
"I have to disagree RE players not celebrating goals," says Moses Muccie. "Fans always complain about how self absorbed footballers are and how they do not connect with the fans. Sturridge was set on his way to becoming a multi millionare by Manchester City even if they didn't rate him. It's polite to resist the urge to rub it in the fan's faces even if deep down you are doing cart wheels."
"Re: the awful goal music played at the Madejski, it's a conundrum as Reading fan surveys have indicated a vast majority of punters are against the music," says Derek Walmsley. "However, for some odd reason, they seem to have dropped the question from recent fan questionnaires. Either the players like it as a psychological crutch, Zingarevich has some interest in a weird Russian download music scam, or perhaps most likely, like the BBC News 24 in every pub in the land, everyone hates it and no-one is bold enough to turn it off."
"Had Hart had to handle Zabaletta's back pass in order to prevent it from rolling into the net, what is the referree's call?" says Patrick Finch. "Not sure I know." An indirect free-kick to Liverpool, I believe.
Half time: Manchester City 1-1 Liverpool
Anthony Taylor's whistle is greeted by boos from the home fans. But to be honest, City have got away with this. With better finishing and a bit more luck, Liverpool could be out of sight. Brendan Rodgers's side have been brilliant and look like scoring every time they go forward. Roberto Mancini has some thinking to do during the break.
45 min+1: There will be two minutes of added time.
45 min: After punching the corner away, Hart makes a decent save from Suarez's low volley from the right side of the area after the Uruguayan had been picked out by a ball from Jose Enrique from left to right.
44 min: Dear lord, City's defence is a rancid mess! Start playing the circus music, if we must have music during games. There's almost a horrible mix-up between Zabaleta and Hart as, under no pressure, City's captain knocks a pass back to his goalkeeper, not realising he'd vacated his original position. Zabaleta and Hart both watch in horror as the ball rolls past City's goalkeeper... and just wide of the post! I blame David de Gea.
43 min: Everyone's calmed down a little bit and City have steadied the ship. For now. "I was at the Madjeski stadium yesterday & a little bit of what remains of football's soul died each time Reading scored and the darts music (Chase The Sun by Planet Funk) started blaring out after a short drum solo," says Neil Thompson. "Hard to tell whether the Sunderland fans were more embarrassed by that or Titus Bramble's 'defending'..."
42 min: "Let's be clear, Dzeko was on the ground feigning injury and got exactly what he deserved," says Richard South. "This suggestion that you can just lie down when you don't get a decision you want and the opposition should just stop attacking is ridiculous. There shouldn't be any controversy at all, he was clearly not injured nor in need or urgent treatment."
41 min: Steven Gerrard stares at Daniel Sturridge after knocking a useless pass out of play for the third time (by my count). That was your fault, Steven.
40 min: Sturridge appears to be feeling a thigh injury. "Heaven knows there's lots of stupidity running amok in football these days but this not celebrating against your old team nonsense has to be high on the list," says Michael Meagher. "Sturridge left Man City three years ago because they didn't want him and he has just scored a crucial equaliser for his new team who have not beaten a top six side under their new manager and surely feel, based on what's happened so far, that this might be their day. For him not to celebrate is showing a combination of self-regard and nonsense bordering on the Christianoesque."
38 min: "Whether it was a head-injury or not is immaterial - it was a blatant foul on Dzeko and the referee should've given a city free kick for it," says John Steciuk. "It's pretty obvious that's why the City fans are angry."
It wasn't just that - they were booing in the build-up to the goal because they wanted Liverpool to put the ball out. It's pretty obvious.
37 min: Suarez is oh-so-close to getting past Nastasic on the edge of the area, but the Serbian just gets enough on the ball to stop him breaking clear. If Liverpool play this right, they should win this match. City have been so dodgy at the back. Moments later, Johnson charges past Clichy on the right but his cross lands on the roof of the net.
36 min: Henderson is booked for a late tackle on Milner. No complaints.
35 min: When Liverpool went to Manchester United two or three weeks ago - I forget exactly when - their first half was one coloured by unforgivable cowardice. They've clearly taken heed from that, attacking City with gusto at every opportunity and seeing what they've got.
34 min: "If there's one time to celebrate with your stupid body-popping dance, it's when you score a controversial screamer against your old club Daniel," says Andrew Enloe. "This refusal to celebrate goals is worse than diving."
33 min: Now City's fans chunter after a contentious corner decision goes Suarez's way on the left. You'll be hearing more about this if it ends as a goal.
It doesn't end as a goal.
30 min: Edin Dzeko has been booked for his complaints about the goal. As much as City will complain about this though - and their fans are spitting blood - the goal was legitimate. You only have to put the ball out of play if it's a head injury and this wasn't one of those. Teams are told to continue playing unless the referee blows his whistle. In any case, Liverpool deserve to be level.
CONTROVERSY! Manchester City 1-1 Liverpool (Sturridge, 29 min)
What a goal from Daniel Sturridge against his old club but Manchester City and Roberto Mancini are furious that play wasn't stopped because Edin Dzeko was down injured. They wanted Liverpool to put the ball out of play after Dzeko was felled by Agger. No free-kick was given and as it wasn't a head injury Liverpool played on. They toyed with City outside the area before Sturridge decided to get down to business, absolutely larrumping an unstoppable left-footed shot with no backlift at all past Joe Hart and into the bottom-right corner from 25 yards out.
28 min: "I was watching the game at Newcastle yesterday and for the first 15-20 minutes you could hear music absolutely blaring over the PA system in the stadium and you could hear the stadium announcer as well," says JR in Illinois. "I literally couldn't believe it. I still don't know if it was some type of malfunction or if they meant to be doing it. Have you ever heard of clubs blasting music during a game?" There are certain clubs who play music after goals, which should be a relegationable offence.
26 min: But they come up with the worst set-piece of all time. Downing clips the ball back to the edge of the area for Henderson, who wonks a terrible volley back to Downing, by now offside. Downing and Henderson? It's not quite Beckham and Scholes, is it.
25 min: Sturridge, booed by the home fans, is clipped by Lescott down by the right byline. A chance for Liverpool here. They really don't deserve to be behind.
AND THEY DO REGRET IT! Manchester City 1-0 Liverpool (Dzeko, 23 min)
Against the run of play, Manchester City take the lead through Edin Dzeko. This is a well-constructed goal indeed. David Silva played a reverse pass in behind Johnson and Carragher for Milner on the left. He drilled a low cross into the six-yard box - impossible for Reina to claim - and Dzeko peeled off Agger to tap the ball home. Liverpool should be winning. They're losing.
21 min: City need to get their act together. They're all over the place at the moment. Lescott's clearance is charged down by Sturridge and runs to Suarez. He has a sight of goal again, placed well on the right side of the area, and his left-footed effort slithers just wide of the far post. Liverpool could end up regretting missing these chances. They could easily be two up here.
20 min: What a chance for Luis Suarez. Sturridge leaves Nastasic for dead on the left flank, showing a brilliant turn of pace to get away from the defender. That wasn't a contest at all. He cuts the ball back for Suarez, it's set up for him to slam into the net – and he gets it woefully wrong, sidefooting it off towards the right touchline.
19 min: Silva coaxes a pass over the top for Dzeko but he controls it with an arm. That's the end of that. "Thanks for that link to Dion Fanning's great piece on Brendan Rodgers," says Justin Kavanagh. "He's remind you a bit of a boy scout camp councillor who is always studiously aware of how his boys must look up to him. Whereas Mancini would be the guy offering his scouts cigarettes and beer later if they'll just put on a good show for the visiting parents."
17 min: You think you've got Luis Suarez in a hole and suddenly he's left you for dead. Clichy and Barry think they have the situation sorted on the right - so Suarez just diddles his way through both of them with his quick feet of his. Lescott comes across to concede a corner. From which Liverpool go close again. From 15 yards out, Agger heads it down into the six-yard box. Carragher can't quite turn it goalwards though and ends up hooking the ball over the bar from an angle. What Liverpool would have given for Kevin Nolan in that position!
15 min: Because that didn't result in a goal, Hart won't receive the attention he deserves for that.
14 min: Superb defending from Pablo Zabaleta prevents Daniel Sturridge from scoring against his old team after dreadfully tentative goalkeeping from
David de Gea Joe Hart. Glen Johnson played a stunning scooped pass from right to left, over the City defence, for Sturridge, who was in the clear. Hart came out but not quickly enough and Sturridge cleverly cushioned the ball past him with his left foot, only for Zabaleta to steam across and stop him from rolling the ball into the empty net. A couple of corners follow but Liverpool can't do anything with them.
12 min: "With a bit of Guardian Sport cross-referencing, what do you make of this story about the effect of teams being played music during a game improving their performance," says David Wall. "Surely it's effectiveness would depend on the rhythm of the music, though, which could be a problem for Fulham if 'Diddy' David Hamilton is the man at the turn-tables at the Cottage. Or for Liverpool if the captain gets to make the play-list. I can't imagine Phil Collins it the kind of thing to get the adrenaline going in the right way."
You mean there's music that isn't Sloop John B?
10 min: From the halfway line, Steven Gerrard expertly picks out Joe Hart with a 60-yard pass into space. If Alan Parry was commentating, he'd be saying that "it's not often you see that from Steven Gerrard" even though it is.
8 min: City work a short corner routine on the left but Garcia puts his header from the resulting cross well over the bar. "How about 'Bregers'?" asks Ryan Dunne. "Excessively blokey (c.f. Chappers), faintly pretentious (pronounce it "Bray-jers'' and you've got a hipstery student-ridden pub), with a ring also of the banausically (boogers/wedgies) pseudo-American!"
7 min: Some marvellous slapstick in the Liverpool defence. For a moment Silva looked threatening as he found space on the edge of the area. But Lucas got a foot in - he did a great job on Silva at Anfield last season - and the ball looked like running harmlessly back to Reina, only for Agger to haplessly get involved in proceedings and concede a corner with a needless backpass.
6 min: Rodgers does seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on the touchline clapping, although I'm not sure about his technique. His claps aren't very hearty. They're a bit tippy-tappy which, I suppose, is appropriate.
5 min: Apologies to City fans if this mbm becomes rather one-sided. Needs must. Steak calls.
3 min: Nastasic bumps into the back of Sturridge near the halfway line, the ball breaking for Suarez to run at Lescott - only for Anthony Taylor to blow his whistle instead of playing the advantage. Suarez has the funk on.
2 min: Liverpool clear the corner with some difficulty and break at some speed. Suarez wriggles into the City down the right but he can't get past Gareth Barry. This has all the makings of a fine game already. More of this please, teams.
Peep! We're off. Liverpool, kicking from right to left, get us going. Guess what colours the teams are wearing. City soon pinch the ball though and are on the attack straight away. A loose ball sits up invitingly for Silva to loop a volley goalwards from 25 yards out. Reina punches it over brilliantly. What a start!
Richard South is pessimistic: "Having Carragher in the team for his leadership and experience is all well and good but it also means we'll spend most of the game defending from the edge of the six yard box, no doubt getting dragged all the way back to the goal line as the game wears on. It's a sorry state of affairs that that's the best we have to offer."
It could be Sebastian Coates.
The two teams are incoming. The talking's over, the tracksuit tops are off. Let's get on with it. "I already miss Balotelli," says Kabir Sethi. Pablo Zabaleta has said that the dressing room is already quieter. "With Mario, there's always something to laugh at," said City's captain.
"I prefer B-Rod, or perhaps B-Rog," says Marie Meyer. "Definitely not Brendan. Nothing wrong with that name, mind - I'd be perfectly happy to live in a parish that was overseen by a Father Brendan."
Does he speak Brendanese? Or Brendish? Rodgerese?
"Tevez and Suarez," says Simon McMahon. "Two of the more likeable characters in English football. Team players. Proper modern day Bobby Charltons both."
Brendan Rodgers. Brendan. We need to talk about Brother Brendan. Luckily Dion Fanning has done so in this excellent piece in the Irish Independent, in which he reminds us of this jaw-dropping quote from last season.
Rodgers has mastered the looking confident bit but it remains to be seen if he can produce a successful side. He has tried to make it seem an irrelevance. When Swansea played in Sunderland last year, Rodgers talked about the game in language that is now familiar.
"It is great for the public here at Sunderland to see us," he said after the game. "They must have been wondering what this team everyone is talking about are all about and now they have seen. We were wonderful. Our intention is always to pass teams to a standstill, but give credit to Sunderland, they defended ever so well when other teams might have wilted." Sunderland had just beaten Swansea 2-0.
That really is some impressive hot air right there.
"Hello Mr. Steinberg, (and I hope you're not one of those post modernists who hates formal forms of address)," says Mr Mustapha Garba. "I'd hope Man City fans would join me in cheering Nigeria on in the AFCON today. We've certainly had the better of the match so far, with Victor Moses making like Leo Messi on a number of occasions. That said, I'm not sure City want Yaya back in this kind of form; he's looked sluggish, at times wearing a constipated face. I certainly he hope he carries on like this."
Teams? Teams. Carlos Tevez and Samir Nasri are on the bench for City, with James Milner and Edin Dzeko in instead. Liverpool surprisingly leave Brad Jones on the bench.
Manchester City: Hart; Zabaleta, Nastasic, Lescott, Clichy; Milner, García, Barry, Silva; Dzeko, Agüero. Subs: Pantilimon, Rodwell, Kolarov, Sinclair, Nasri, Tevez, Maicon.
Liverpool: Reina; Johnson, Carragher, Agger, Enrique; Gerrard, Lucas, Henderson; Downing, Sturridge, Suarez. Subs: Jones, Wisdom, Skrtel, Allen, Shelvey, Sterling, Borini.
Referee: Anthony Taylor.
It's Manchester City v Liverpool and any mention of this fixture always brings up memories of what went on between these two sides at Maine Road on 5 May 1996 when, with City needing a goal to stay up, Steve Lomas ran down to the corner flag in order to protect the 2-2 draw, thinking that's all his team required to beat the drop. They needed a bit more than that – the aforementioned goal to be precise – but by the time they realised it was too late. City were down and wouldn't be seen in the top flight again for another four years, even spending an ignominious year down in the third tier. Lomas had began his day by scoring an own goal too. All in all, it was Cityitis in its purest form.
Happily enough, such slapstick efforts are becoming a thing of the past now, thanks to Sheikh Mansour's billions. City are the champions of England and have won an FA Cup. They've got players like Sergio Aguero, David Silva and Yaya Toure, where once it was Shaun Goater, Nicky Summerbee and Jamie Pollock. No offence to any of those players, but. Yet despite their riches, not everything has gone to plan for City this season. They come into this match 10 points behind Manchester United after only managing a 0-0 draw with QPR in the week, Roberto Mancini has had to admit defeat in his bid to put Him on the right track and no one can find Samir Nasri, even though he keeps being named on the teamsheet every week.
Incidentally Paul Dickov, who helped City escape Division Two with his late heroics in the 1999 play-off final, has left Oldham today – a week after putting Liverpool to the sword in the FA Cup. It's not been a great day for those associated with City - another old boy, Keith Curle, has been sacked by Notts County. But it's Dickov's departure which allows us to move swiftly on to Liverpool, who are still smarting from being given the runaround by Dr Who last Sunday. Given what happened at Boundary Park, you fear what Aguero, Silva and Carlos Tevez might do to Liverpool's defence. But then, Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge will fancy their chances against a City defence short on Kompany.
Liverpool are a funny side. At one moment, they look like a laughing stock and before you know it they are threatening to turn into a very good team. Judging by some of the stuff he comes out with in his press conferences, Brendan Rodgers must be as confused as the rest of us. He'll know that City are the firm favourites today. They have tended to be convincing when under pressure in big matches at home under Roberto Mancini and have handed Liverpool two gubbings, three goals to none, in their last two league matches against them at the Etihad. Although, having said that, Liverpool won here in the League Cup last season and are unbeaten in their last three matches against City. Conclusion: anything could happen.
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A nonpartisan comptroller could also eliminate the appearance of conflicts of interest that arise because a politically appointed budget officer controls the purchasing department, Mr. Cohen said. "Purchasing should be a stand-alone department answering directly to the board, or it should report to a nonpartisan comptroller."
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