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Do What Fred Says!
February 6, 2012
Dr. Rob Garofalo is a physician who cares for adolescents and young adults affected by HIV. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2006 and at a particularly low point in his life, he searched the Internet for "puppy Chicago" and an image of Fred popped up. Although he had never previously had a pet, Garofalo credits Fred with bringing both peace and joy to his life again.
Fred's healing properties have now led to a creative project aimed at helping teens who are HIV-positive and uninsured. By selling "Fred Says" greeting cards online, Garofalo is raising money to help this vulnerable population. According to their website, doc and dog have four goals:
Garofalo is an attending physician at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and Director of both the hospital's Adolescent/Young Adult HIV Program, and the Gender, Sexuality, and HIV Prevention Center. Dr. Garofalo is a strong advocate for HIV-positive adolescents through primary patient care and innovative HIV prevention research projects.
To help Dr. Garofalo and Fred reach their goals, go to fredsays.org.
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Joel Hillison is an Adjunct Professor at Gettysburg College, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. from Monmouth College in Business Administration and Economics, an M.A. from the University of Oklahoma in Economics, an M.S.S. from the United States Army War College in Strategic Studies and a PhD from Temple University in International Relations. He has been teaching at Gettysburg since 2012 and has been on the faculty at the United States Army War College, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania since 2007.
Professor Hillison teaches courses in International Relations. His specialization is in security studies and international political economy. Professor Hillison's research focuses on international organizations such as NATO and the European Union. Professor Hillison retired as a Colonel in the U.S. Army after 30 years of federal service and 2 years in the Illinois National Guard. He is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Desert Storm and has served in Europe and Honduras.
Dr. Hillison has three children, Nathan, Dena, and Claire.
Joel Reinhart Hillison
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Political Science
Phone: (717) 337 - 6035
Box: Campus Box 0406
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Gettysburg, PA 17325-1400

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SPIRIT LAKE -- Funeral services for Patricia Pasket of Lake Park were held Friday, March 15, at Turner Jenness Funeral Home in Spirit Lake. Burial was at Crown Hill Cemetery in Ruthven.
Patricia Jean Paskert, the daughter of Donald and Carolyne (Kirkwood) Laubenthal, was born Aug. 9, 1961 in Spencer. After graduating from high school, Pat received her Associates Degree in Accounting from the Spencer School of Business. She lived in Cylinder before moving to Lake Park in 1986. Pat worked as a plant manager at GCC Ready Mix in Lake Park.
Pat enjoyed being outdoors, gardening, cooking baking and grilling. She also liked to sew, read and especially loved her time with her grandchildren, friends and family. She was a member of the Lake Park United Methodist Church and the Kansas City Barbeque Society.
Pat passed away on March 10, 2013 at her home in Lake Park at 51 years of age.
She is survived by her son, Josh (Jennifer) Paskert and their children Braeton, Ashlyn and an exchange student, Paul Teufel, of Lake Park; daughter, Jessie (Mike) Warburton of Milford; son, Jake (Anne) Paskert and their daughter, Bailey, of Polk City; daughter, Jenna Ehret and her special friend, Jared Wolthuis, of Milford; brother, Joel Laubenthal of Cylinder; sister, Sarah (Cliff) Steffen of Ruthven; brother, Rich (Pat) Laubenthal of Whittemore; sister, Donna (Mike) Faulkingham of Knob Noster, MO; sister, Susan Stearns and her special friend, Dave, of Graettinger; six nieces and nephews and many more relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Donald and Carolyne Laubenthal.
Turner Jenness Funeral Home of Spirit Lake was in charge of arrangements.
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FLORIDA (WIFR) -- Most of Rita Crundwell's horses have been auctioned off, and now U.S. Marshals are targeting the former Dixon Comptroller's elaborately decorated Florida Vacation home. You've got to see it for yourself to be believe what's inside.
821 East Fifth is no doubt the envied house on the block. The perfectly placed palm tree, elegant entry way, custom Mediterranean roof. It is opulent throughout.
"This is the defendant's Florida vacation home," said U.S. Marshal Jason Wjdylo, an expert on all things Rita Crundwell.
Almost every piece in the 3,300 square foot home is custom made, so there is no Google cost-comparison. The Dixon comptroller laid her head in this king sized master bed, kicked back on this leather ottoman, and entertained with these bar stools.
A lady with a penchant for high end horses also likes high end details, from longhorn head to ivory toe.
"The only thing on the second floor is a master bedroom and a master bathroom. Still, Rita Crundwell built a custom elevator big enough to fit four people. No expense was spare in furnishing this property," explains Marissa Bailey with CBS 2 Chicago.
U.S. Marshals are still trying to tally the value of Crundwell's Florida furniture, but they won't publicize the results. As for her criminal case, Crundwell will be back in court on Halloween.


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BOSTON -- First Wind announced last week that it hopes to increase its operating portfolio of wind projects by at least 50 percent after the recent extension of federal tax credits by Congress.
In a press release, First Wind said the effort could mean that thousands of people will be employed building new projects over the next few years, along with millions of dollars in investment and new revenue generated for host communities and others, while delivering cost-competitive clean energy to more homes across the country.
First Wind, an independent U.S.-based renewable-energy company, currently operates 980 megawatts of wind projects in six states.
"With the passage of the wind-energy tax-credit extension, First Wind and other wind-energy companies around the country have predictable federal policy in place that will allow for millions of dollars of investment in local communities over the next few years," First Wind CEO Paul Gaynor said in a statement. "We are planning to substantially expand our portfolio -- by as much as 50 percent or more -- with several projects starting construction by the end of 2013. That will mean jobs and investment, and consumers will be getting clean energy at a competitive price."
The bill passed last week would cover all wind projects that start construction in 2013. The new legislation includes language that projects meeting certain criteria by Dec.
First Wind said nearly 1,000 people worked on the construction and development of the five wind projects the company brought online in 2012.


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Brooklyn Beer Chili Burgers with Smoky Barbecue Sauce, Oil and Vinegar Slaw and Spicy Kirby Cucumber Slices
Rachael Ray's Favorite Burger Recipe
These fabulous sliders were served at Rachael's 2010 Feedback Picnic Party.
Cooking Directions
Heat 1 cup cider vinegar and the sugar, sea salt, peppercorns, halved garlic and bay leaves in a small pot diluted with about 1/3 cup water. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. In a small storage container, add the red chili pepper, kirby cucumbers, half of the red onion and dill; sprinkle in a little celery seed and mustard seed and pour the hot brine over the cucumbers. Cool, cover and chill, shaking every once in a while, overnight.
When you are ready to make the burgers, dress the slaw and the remaining half of the red onion with 3 tablespoons cider vinegar, 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, salt and pepper.
Place the ketchup, finely chopped garlic, dark brown sugar, maple syrup, 2 tablespoons Worcestshire sauce, 1 1/2 tablespoons cider vinegar, smoked sweet paprika and coarse black pepper in a small pot and cook over medium-low heat for 15-20 minutes to thicken the sauce and combine the flavors.
Meanwhile, place the meat in a bowl and season with Montreal Steak Seasoning or season with coarse salt and pepper. In a small bowl, combine the remaining Worcestershire sauce with the herbs, chili powder and beer; pour over the meat and mix thoroughly.
Form 12 sliders (approximately 2 1/2-3 inches in diameter or about 2 1/2 ounces each) and drizzle with the remaining vegetable oil. Grill or griddle the burgers for a few minutes on each side and baste liberally with barbecue sauce. If you prefer cheeseburgers, melt the cheddar over top.
Place the burgers on the brioche or slider rolls and top with a little slaw and a slice of pickle.
Note: This recipe makes 12 sliders, but makes enough slaw for 20 sliders and at least 50 pickle slices. You will need to marinate the pickle slices overnight.
Food styled by Karen Pickus
Recipe Summary
Main Ingredients: beer, sirloin, kirby cucumbers, cider vinegar


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Redskins owner Dan Snyder has refused good advice from diverse quarters on changing his team's offensive name. He's ignored the pleas of Native American tribes. He's ignored President Barack Obama and Charles Krauthammer. When protesters showed up in Minneapolis at the Redskins-Vikings game in early November, he ignored them, too.
After decades of ineffective rallies, op-eds, lawsuits, House bills and D.C. Council hearings about this controversy, one remedy remains for those who want Snyder to change his mind:
Pay him off.
In an Octoberletter to fans, Snyder waxed eloquent about what the team means to him: "I still remember my first Redskins game. . . . I was only six, but I remember coming through the tunnel into the stands at RFK with my father, and immediately being struck by the enormity of the stadium and the passion of the fans all around me."
If Snyder wants to play sentimental, he can go ahead. But he's not running a national park. He is running a business that happens to be the NFL's third-most-profitable franchise. And as a good businessman, he'll respond to financial incentives to change his brand.
The bill wouldn't be small. Forbes magazine valued the Redskins, who earned $381 million in 2012, at $1.7 billion in August. National NFL merchandising is worth $3 billion per year, split evenly between the league's 32 teams, save the Dallas Cowboys, who have their own deal. The Redskins' annual share of this pot is about $100 million.
So, how much of the value of the team is tied up in tomahawks and headdresses?
"There's no doubt that if they would change the Coca-Cola brand name, it would be a serious problem for the brand," said David Haigh, founder of Brand Finance, a brand-valuation company hired by big names such as Shell, Heineken and Vodafone. "Every brand is different. The Redskins have a football stadium, a franchise and a team that people come to watch. That's not going to change if you change the name."
Changing the name could be more profitable than keeping it. If the Redskins backlash grows, removing merchandise with the R-word from circulation could mean more sales of team gear, not less, as customers embrace a new nickname and shell out for rebranded jerseys, T-shirts, coffee mugs and banners. (Snyder could even continue to sell Redskins merch, just as the Washington Wizards sell Bullets gear despite late owner Abe Pollin's principled stand against the name.)
And whether the team becomes the Skins, as Krauthammer suggested, or the Red Clouds or the Pigskins, it will remain valuable because it plays in the nation's capital, one of the wealthiest metro regions in America.
"They clearly have an extremely loyal fanbase willing to act as a permanent ATM," said Patrick Hruby, a former reporter for ESPN.com who's written about the Redskins brand for his blog Sports on Earth. "I've lived here for 20 years, and I find it hard to believe that even the most diehard fans of the franchise will say, 'I'm not going to care about this team and root for this team because they have a different name.' "
In August, Forbes put the value of the Redskins brand — calculated as the team's total value minus the value of its stadium, shared NFL revenue and value attributable to the lucrative Washington area market — at$145 million.
Let's use this figure to start the bidding. No Kickstarter campaign has ever raised more than seven figures, let alone nine. So, unless activists such as Suzan Harjo want to try their luck on Indiegogo.com, money will have to be found elsewhere.
The D.C. Council denounced the name, but would it pass a much-loathed tax on, say, game-day liquor sales to build a kitty? Perhaps wealthy, politically correct Washingtonians reluctant to root for the Redskins could take up the slack. Or maybe not: According to a Washington Post poll, two-thirds of our city doesn't think the name should be changed. Even sportscaster Bob Costas, who called the team's name "a slur" and makes something like $5 million each year, couldn't foot the bill.
No, name-change advocates can't rely on crowdfunding, bake sales or car washes. They need a billionaire.
Finding one wealthy person to pay Snyder off is the most elegant solution to the Redskins stalemate. Given Washingtonians' apathy, finding Mr. or Ms. Big avoids the messy collective action demanded by doomed boycotts or half-measures. Snyder, a billionaire himself, may prove receptive to a cash-on-the-barrel offer from an even more incredibly rich person.
According to Forbes, there are about 1,400 billionaires in the world. Who would step up?
Unfortunately, there's no marquee Native American Croesus. Ray Halbritter, a representative of the Oneida Indian nation flush with New York gaming revenue who's spoken out against Snyder, recently denied that he's a billionaire. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Saudi magnate Walid bin Talal don't seem to have the Skins on their radars. Given her close relationship with Obama, Oprah Winfrey might be a good candidate — then again, her OWN network only recently began turning a profit, and she declined a chance to promote the Affordable Care Act. And there's new Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. A petition is already circulating urging him to ban the use of the term in these pages.
I know: The idea of bribing a wealthy NFL overlord to do something he should do anyway will bring critics of the name no small amount of psychological suffering.
Big deal. Suffering is what political change is all about. Under this scheme, Redskins fans don't need to stage sit-ins, endure beatings or go to war. Those who want to make a difference have it easy — they'll just need to open their wallets.
Paying to change the Redskins' name would be less a political act than a consumer choice: not marching on Washington but coughing up more to drink Coca-Cola out of a bottle instead of a can.
Snyder has responded to emotional arguments about his team's name — Change this name because it hurts us — with an emotional argument of his own: Changing this name will hurt me and my team's fans.
But what if an organized group of Pigskins advocates — or a wealthy donor — came to him with a substantial payoff that proved that their hurt was bigger than his? What if they sweated to raise a massive sum, then humbled themselves before Snyder and were willing to fork over the cash in exchange for a promise?
How could Snyder turn them down?


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National League Championship Series: Game 3: Dodgers knock out Jamie Moyer early on their way to a 7-2 victory over the Phillies. Phillies now own a two games to one lead in the series.
The Dodgers came out smoking against Jamie Moyer, batting around in the first inning and scoring six runs off of him before he is finally removed in the second, as the Dodgers defeated the Fightins', 7-2.
The Phillies lead in the National League Championship Series is now two games to one. The Dodgers attack Moyer early in the bottom of the first as Rafael Furcal would get on base with a single. Andre Ethier would follow with a single, moving Furcal to second base. Manny Ramirez would then follow with a RBI single, scoring Furcal and giving the Dodgers a 1-0 lead. Ethier and Ramirez would both move up to third and second respectively on Pat Burrell's throw to home, which would get past Phillies' catcher Carlos Ruiz, which was a mistake as Burrell should've thrown to third, keeping the runners at second and third. Moyer, after getting ahead in the count, would hit Russell Martin on the right knee, loading the bases, with still nobody out. Nomar Garciaparra would strike out looking for the first out of the inning. Casey Blake would then follow with a single, scoring Ethier to make it 2-0 Dodgers, while Ramirez and Martin would both move up a base, leaving the bases loaded. Moyer would then strike out Matt Kemp looking, for the inning's second out. He would then get ahead of Blake DeWitt with two quick strikes, before the count evens out at 2-2. DeWitt would then hit the ball down the right field foul line for a three-run triple, knocking in Ramirez, Russell and Blake, giving the Dodgers a 5-0 lead. Moyer would finally get out of the inning by getting Dodgers' starter Hiroki Kuroda to ground out, 5-3. The Phillies would get a run back in the top of the second as, with a runner on third and two outs, Pedro Feliz would hit a RBI single, scoring Ryan Howard, who has earlier doubled and would move to third on Jayson Werth's fly out to center, making it 5-1 Dodgers. The Dodgers would get that run back as Furcal would hit a lead-off home run off of Moyer, giving the Dodgers a 6-1 lead. In the top of the third inning, with no one on and two men out, Kuroda would throw the first pitch behind Shane Victorino's head for ball one. This would lead to an exchange between first Victorino and Martin and then Victorino and Kuroda, with Victorino constantly pointing at his head and ribs, indictating that if he was going to hit him, Kuroda should be aiming for his ribs and not his head, while the home plate umpire would give Kuroda (and every pitcher who would later enter the game) a warning that if he believes that he was intentionally aiming at a batter, he would be thrown out of the game. Two pitches later, Victorino would ground out to the first baseman, Garciaparra, with Kuroda covering. Victorino would continue the argument about the ball being thrown at his head while both benches would clear out. Thankfully no blows were thrown, although Ramirez ended up being restrained by several of his teammates as he still believes that Brett Myers had tried to hit him with a pitch in game two although Myers has denied it. In the fourth, the Dodgers would make it 7-1 as, with two men on, and two outs, Garciaparra would hit an RBI single, scoring Ramirez, who has earlier walked and has moved to second on Martin's walk. But the inning would end as Burrell would throw to third, catching Martin in front of third base, who is then caught in a run down, before being tagged out by Jimmy Rollins, 7-5-6. The Phillies would get a run back in the seventh, as, with runners on the corners and no outs, Pat Burrell would get a RBI single, knocking in Chase Utley, who has earlier doubled, and would move to third on Howard's single, making the score 7-2 Dodgers, while moving Howard up to second. But, that would be the best that the Phillies would be able to do as the Dodgers' bullpen would then shut them down for the last three innings, with Jonathan Broxton ending the game with a Feliz's pop up to second, with Werth on first base, and two men out.
Jamie Moyer took the lost, his second straight bad start in the post-season, as he is only able to go one and a third innings, giving up six earned runs on six hits and a hit batter, while striking out two. His series record is presently 0-1 with a rather high 40.50 ERA. Clay Condrey would pitch two-thirds of an inning, giving up no runs on no hits and walking one. J.A. Happ would pitch three innings, giving up only one earned run on four hits and a two walks, while striking out two. Steve Eyre, Chad Durbin and J.C. Romero would each pitch an inning of scoreless ball, giving up between them no hits, two walks (Durbin (1), Romero (1)), and a hit batter (Durbin) and four strikeouts (Durbin (2), Romero (2)). Hiroki Kuroda would get the win as he would pitch six strongs innings plus three batters, as he gave up only two earned runs on five hits and a walk, while striking out three. His record in the series is now 1-0 with a 3.00 ERA. Cory Wade would pitch two shut out innings, giving up only one hit, while striking out two. Jonathan Broxton would pitch a scoreless ninth, giving up only one hit, while striking out one.
The lost would cut the Phillies' lead in the series to 2-1 as the Dodgers went to work early on Jamie Moyer, batting around in the first as they scored five runs, with DeWitt's three-run triple being the major blow. But the Phillies' bullpen, after Moyer's removal in the second after giving up a solo home run to Rafael Furcal, would shut down the Dodgers, only giving up one more run in six and two-thirds innings of work. Meantime, the Phillies' batters would be once again unable to do anything against Dodgers' starter Hiroki Kuroda before the seventh inning, when three straight hits by Chase Utley, Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell would finally chase him out of the game. Sadly, it would a case of too little, too late. If there is any silver lining in all this, it is that it looks like Howard is finally coming out of his post-season slump, as he had a double and a single, scoring a run, and helping to set up the other Phils' run. Now, if Jimmy Rollins' bat would finally wake up, and if Shane Victorino would use last night's incident as a motivator for the rest of the series, the Dodgers will be in a lot of trouble.
The National League Championship Series will continue tonight with Game 4. The game will be played at Dodgers Stadium and will begin at 8:22 pm Eastern (5:22 pm Pacific). The Phillies' starter will be Joe Blanton, who is coming off an excellent start against the Brewers on October 5, as he pitched the Phils into the championship series by pitching six innings of strong ball, giving up only an earned run on five scattered hits, while striking out seven, in the Phillies' 6-2 win. During the regular season, his record was 9-12 (4-0 as a Phil) with a 4.69 ERA (4.20 as a Phil) in 197 and two-thirds innings, striking out 111 batters while walking only 66. He has faced the Dodgers twice already this year, getting a no-decision in both starts, as he pitched a combined total of eleven innings, giving up just five earned runs on fifteen hits and six walks, while striking out ten. He will be trying for his fourth straight win and his second win in the post-season, while trying to give the Phillies their first win this year in Los Angeles as well as a three games to one lead in the series. He will be opposed by first game starter Derek Lowe, who lost game one as the Phillies ended up knocking him out of the game in the sixth inning, after having them under control for the first five, as he gave up two home runs to Chase Utley and Pat Burrell after Dodgers' shortstop Rafael Furcal's two-base error on Shane Victorino's ground ball shifted the game's momentum over to the Phillies. In five and a third innings of work, Lowe would give up three runs, only two of which were earned, on six hits and a walk, while striking out two, in the Dodgers 2-1 lost. His series record is 0-1 with a 3.38 ERA. He will be trying to rebound from the lost, as he tries to tie the series up at two games apiece.


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WARRNAMBOOL police will target anti-social behaviour on Australia Day in a bid to stamp out drunken brawls which have marred previous celebrations.
Acting Inspector Steve Thompson said revellers could expect a strong police presence with additional members rostered on for tomorrow.
"It's a day that in the past has caused some concern for police and some community concern," Acting Inspector Thompson said.
"We will be enforcing alcohol restrictions and on alert for anti-social behaviour.
"By all means we're encouraging people to enjoy the day but certainly not at the detriment of others.
"Certainly there are still a lot of families holidaying around Lake Pertobe and we would encourage people to be respectful of those families."
Last year at least five locals were arrested for drunken behaviour at night after boosted police numbers had kept revellers in check throughout the day.
At the time, witnesses said the behaviour was reminiscent of Australia Day in 2011, when piles of rubbish and broken glass were left at Lake Pertobe's picnic and playground areas and a Warrnambool policewoman was struck by a bottle in a drunken melee.
Statewide last year there were 109 assaults reported to police on Australia Day and 122 reported on the same day in 2011.
On average, 115 assaults have been reported to police on Australia Day over the last five years, compared with an average of 70 reports on a typical day over the same period.
Warm weather, over-indulgence in alcohol and illicit drug use are the main drivers behind the reckless behaviour, as well as people coming together in groups for community celebrations.
Men aged between 18 and 24 account for a significant proportion of the offending, with assaults generally carried out in groups later in the day, after 5pm.
Deputy Commissioner Tim Cartwright said the figures were an alarming revelation for a day that was supposed to be one of the proudest in the nation's history.
"We know people will have a few drinks in celebration of the day, but it's important to understand that one drink too many could lead to serious consequences," he said.
"The message is simple — have a good time, but don't let your fun get out of control."
Police are also reminding licensed venues of their responsibilities when it comes to serving alcohol.


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To the Editor:
At the very last minute, our great leaders got together and passed a bill, but there still were some who were willing to go all the way over the cliff. The next day, everybody was congratulating each other for the great work that they did. They should have been working on this a year ago.
The people whom they represent, the ones who could have been hurt the most, were held as hostages to make their point. Maybe now "we the people" should let them know what we think about this.
I am not going to point a finger at either the Republicans or Democrats, but instead at our congressional members as a whole. They are salaried, not hourly employees. They should have stayed and done their jobs. They were derelict in doing what they are paid to do. We should have the power to impeach them.
Now that the current crisis has past, we will be listening to the same old thing as before when they try to reach an agreement on the cliff that's coming in March. By the time March comes around, some of the old members will be gone. Maybe, just maybe, that will make a difference. That aisle that separates the two sides is not that wide, but they treat it as if it were the Grand Canyon.
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Period dramas (and
costumes) having a moment
The clothes were just as entertaining (and in some cases, more entertaining) than the scripts and the acting in some television dramas. We've already come to expect retro sartorial eye candy from "Mad Men" (at left) — je t'aime "Zou Bisou Bisou" — and "Downton Abbey." In 2012, neither show disappointed. The return of BBC America's "The Hour" was another polished, mid-century delight. There were even highlights to be found in eras not usually celebrated for style acumen. Witness the poly-blend deliciousness of Ben Affleck's "Argo" (right).


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wow!wow!wow! yes, thanks a lot rararamsgi for the link. How beautifully he explained the hamsanandhi raagam and how he gets into film song, explaining the beauty of the raagam, wonderful! While explaining the raagam I was overwhelmed when he said it requires wisdom to extract the brightness/essence/swaroopam in any raagam is what is most important, be it muthiah bhagavathar, papanasam sivam or Ilaiyaraaja. It is always to good to hear these words from these legends.
Three points to be noted/implied from TNS sir's thoughts.
How Maestro composed this film song (raagadeepam) in a purely carnatic classical way, yet it never sounds like a classical song, that's the beauty of the genius. Second, how he explored new and rare carnatic raagams in films. Third, any song which can be sung without any orchestration definitely has more weightage, as the melody content/soul is more in vocals.
Raaja is in London right now... Apparently for NEPV recording or mixing.
Contrary to popular belief here, Raja did score for youthful romances in 2000s. Ofcourse, Tamil films mostly gave him village based themes or melodramas, Malayalam family dramas and Kannada some indeterminate stuff. It was Telugu which gave him these 'youthful' romances. I can personally think of 'Sunny', 'Shambu' and 'Ninnu Choodaka Nenudalenu' and 'Om Shanthi' belonging to this category. The music in these movies is varied. I would say 'Sunny' and 'Shambu' are quite similar in their music, while 'Ninnu Choodaka Nenundalenu' is more like 'Mallepoovu', where melody is the key. 'Om Shanti' on the other hand in the newer, jazzier Raja that we have come to hear in the recent past.
Here is the link to the songs of 'Shambu':
Songs of 'Sunny':
Songs of 'Ninnuchoodaka Nenundalenu':
Songs of 'Om Shanthi':
It must be said that as far as I know all of them were flops !!!! I personally love the music from all these movies and keep playing 'Sunny' and 'Om Shanthi' regularly. (The other CDs are not available) The songs didn't make much of an impact on the general populace, I should confess. (Maybe a couple of songs from 'Ninnuchoodaka.." were well known.) All these movies (with the exception of 'Om Shanthi' ) have one 'teen maar' or 'kuthu' song, which I love and which aakarsh hates from the bottom of his heart
My feeling is that NEVP will be in the lines of 'Om Shanthi'. That is Raja's new sound. The jazz and the Broadway musical style. And I will be more than happy if I get something like 'Chinna Polike'. If you haven't heard it do go to the 'Om Shanthi' link and listen to it.
you love to remind me about my dislike for those set of songs
Though I agree with you that there were "youth" catering scores that Raaja worked on, in the last 5-10 years, I believe this NEVP is much more important and much more bigger. Because all the above mentioned films - were films made by non-entities. Sunny was almost a b-grade film I think and nobody knows Shambhu. Ninu CHoodaka Nenu Undalenu had many songs from Tamil (Enna Solli) and it too was not a big film as such. Om Shanti was backed by a big banner and yet, it was by a new director and the film flopped miserably. One common thing among all these films is - They all were made by directors who never had a name and who couldn't make a name either, with these films.
GVM, on the other hand, is a brand now. He has 'some' fans, irrespective of who acts in his films. His films may flop, but there is an audience who are willing to give his films a try. And more importantly, music has been a plus-point in his films, no matter who the composer was. The songs atleast, were hits. So NEVP is much more main-stream than the above mentioned films.
And honestly, I expect something much better than Chinna Polike. I recently heard Chinna Polike again and I felt it is just an 'OK' song (Gunjawala not withstanding), atleast compared to even more valuable nuggets such as Kooda Varuviya, Sneha veedu etc. And apart from Chinna Polike, other songs in the album really didnt catch me much, as much as some of the 2009 films of Raaja did. A Ediya Baagilu is much more innovative than a Chinna Polike, i feel. So I'll be disappointed if Raaja comes up with a Chinna Polike standard song. Give me atleast a Kannil Paarvai or Kooda Varuviya or Kai Veesu (Nandalala) anyday - they rank much higher, according to me.
From audience perspective - Telugu audience love Raaja's 80s works and they loved when he did Anthapuram. And they again loved his Rama Rajyam. But they couldnt get to love Sunny, Om Shanti, Shambu and all. So if Raaja composes another Chinna Polike standard song, I am not sure if the audience will lap it up.
Raaja is currently in London, recording/mixing NEVP. It very much shows the scale of this film. I hope the music lives up to the hype, which we all have generated
'chinna polike' is definitely more than an 'OK" song. To me it is an amazing song.
Yes, none of those songs were hits and the directors were not famous guys and didn't become famous. The scale of NEPV is different of course and the expectation is also high. What I wanted people to understand listening to these songs was how Raja's brain worked. The level of complexity which was there even within the 'youth' and 'fun' songs. So you cannot expect Harris level dumbed down 'hits'
Its official - Raja is in London with GVM for NETP recording
Music always plays an important role in a Gautham Menon directorial venture. Right from his debut Minnale, he's had good music.
This time around, his trilingual project Neethane En Ponvasantham, which stars Samantha as the female lead, while Jiiva, Nani and Aditya Roy Kapoor play the leads in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi respectively, will have music maestro Ilaiyaraaja composing the tunes.
The filmmaker is off to London to record the songs. "I am off to record the songs with Raja. He is someone I've grown up listening to and I love his tunes. I am excited about working with him as it is a dream come true for me," says Gautham.
While the teaser promo that was released a month back had the famous Ilaiyaraaja song that the film's title is inspired from, a little known fact is that Gautham himself sang the song that Jiiva lip syncs in it. Ask him if he will be singing the full song which will be remastered and released in this film and he says, "Oh no! I am not a singer."
Dear Fans of Ilayaraaja sir, you will have the official word from us soon. Yesterday fans of ilayaraaja met in chennai and we had the privilege of having Mr. Prabhakar and Mr. Jayamanickam as our chief guests. The musical discussion with them will be written in a separate topic. The main discussions of yesterdays meeting is we plan to collect a small fee from interested members every month. this money will be used to get audio releases of raaja sir for the group remembers. We target around 500 members and the subscription amount could be from 100 to 200 rupees a month. Comments welcome.
Please let us know more details. I hope this will not be a "project Gem" kind of effort. Project Gem got some good releases, but couldnt sustain because there were not many buyers. But now, with the advent of social media, i think things can work out well.
Rs.100-Rs.200 per month subscription? I didnt get this exactly. What is the plan as such? and how does it work out?


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A return to the 28-year copyrights of the Statute of Anne would be in many ways arbitrary, but not unreasonable.
It has been reported that 14 years is closer to optimal [arstechnica.com].
Maybe reasonable would be 7 years, or two.
And of course these speaches [baens-universe.com] on copyright make a good primer on what to expect when the copyright law is percieved to be unfair.
"...it provides a completely unfair playing field for inventors, which are the people that the concept of copyright was meant to protect in the first place..."
Err, no...
Inventors get Patents, not copyrights.
Copyrights were for writers and other artists.
As always, the case against Intellectual Monopoly:
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm [ucla.edu]
(Not that I'm against it all, but sometimes you have hear from people on one extreme to balance out the extremist corps like Disney, etc.)
I think reasonable is about midway between the likes of Harlan Ellison and Disney Corp and Richard Stallman.
A return to the 28-year copyrights of the Statute of Anne would be in many ways arbitrary, but not unreasonable.
It has been reported that 14 years is closer to optimal [arstechnica.com].
Maybe reasonable would be 7 years, or two.
And of course these speaches [baens-universe.com] on copyright make a good primer on what to expect when the copyright law is percieved to be unfair.
Maybe you should support the Pirate Party [pirateparty.org.uk]? When (ha) we come to power we'll cut the duration of copyright to 10 years.
Basically the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
So who is the guardian of snow white?
Jack Horner?
The 9 tailed demon fox?
The skin walkers of indian lore?
Pride and Prejudice?
"Fables" comic book (which is excellent) wouldn't even exist if all the characters in it were locked up. and it's an excellent *new* creation.
When did our culture become the exclusive property of "royal" families?
What I find illuminating is drawing a sharp distinction between copying and plagiarism. Show those people that they've confused and conflated these two concepts, and they often come around.
No one sharing a few Beatles songs is seriously trying to claim they wrote those songs, they're only making copies. A lot of people object to removing copyright because they're convinced it protects against plagiarism. Copyright can be used toward that end, yes. But we can protect against plagiarism just fine without copyright and all the other bad, monopolistic things copyright does. I think plagiarism is already covered under statutes against fraud and misrepresentation. But if it makes everyone more comfortable, we can have a law specifically against plagiarism.
Then, what really is wrong with "fanfic"? Nothing. Unless someone is trying to misrepresent their own work as official, and why should anyone do that? Only to cash in in some way on the name recognition and the copyright monopoly that grants far too much control to the author anyway. If there isn't copyright, that incentive is much reduced.
Some examples. One is this Harry Potter Lexicon that J.K. Rowling squashed. The people who worked on the lexicon put a lot of time into it, and they got screwed thanks to copyright and this idea that somehow they weren't the victims, that instead they were victimizing poor little J.K. Rowling and making it impossible for her to profit from doing her own lexicon her way, when she saw they were right about it being profitable and changed her mind on letting them do it. Obviously, she's no dummy, and so I guess she was pushed and manipulated into this stance by publishers whose opinions she perhaps trusts overmuch. It goes against her own philosophy as revealed in her works, so far as I can tell. That is, what would Harry Potter do in a similar situation?
Another example is the huge library of CD track information built up by thousands of fans and utilized by ripping software. Thousands of people each contributed a tiny little bit, but the music industry keeps trying to assert control over such efforts out of a misplaced sense that they really do have some right to every possible potential profit such a collection of info might be able to generate, or might hypothetically prevent them from being able to make somehow. That last is one of the most anti-competitive, bad results possible. The controllers deny a good tool to the public so that their much inferior, cruddy workarounds, if any, can maybe generate a profit that is, frankly, not deserved. It's as if they were granted a monopoly on the horse and buggy, then were allowed to interpret that as a monopoly on all forms of transport, and then opted to shut down the airline, auto, railroad, and river shipping industry so that everyone has to buy more buggies, or walk. And if some enterprising person tries to finesse the restrictions by, say, using cows to pull a buggy, they're vilified as cheaters. There are many people who would seriously argue that Wikipedia should be shut down because it harms the print encyclopedia business.
Just point out that with a 20 year copyright term, they'd be able to *legally* download a library of any/every song & movie created before 1990. People older than 30 would be signing up in droves. Might as well make greed work *for* us, for once.
Most people agree that the original author should have control of his creation.
You say this, and then you follow it up with an example of two authors who died, and are thus bereft of all control over their works. Why should people who did NOT write the works (okay, Christopher Tolkien might be given latitude here) ever be given control over the copyrights, especially in an age where that copyright is becoming ever more perpetual?
Mitchell didn't want a sequel written. Tough. Given her feelings, we can consider her lucky that she didn't live to see it. The Tolkien estate is protecting the legacy of the literature. Good on them. But like the works of literature before them — some of which were the basis of other, later, better works — these works will eventually fall into the public domain, and anyone can do anything with them. I, for one, am not willing to extend copyright until the heat death of the Universe (plus 70 years) to prevent it.
Given her feelings, we can consider her lucky that she didn't live to see it.
I find your sympathy and compassion admirable, good sir. Basically your argument amounts to, "I don't like it, so she can suck it." Even if you are right, which often isn't the case in political situations, you still aren't going to convince anyone with that argument. You look like a self-centered fool. So the question remains, what argument can we use to help people see that short copyright is good, even though it removes control from the original authors?
A technical answer to that might manifest shortly in the musical scene.
"Music" follows set mathematical grammars, and as such, has only a finite number of "Pleasant" sounding progressions. It is entirely possible for all possible "Pleasant" musical scores to become copyrighted, and thus, essentially destroy the process of creating "new" musical scores. (Since the only way to make such new scores would be to either radically redefine musical structure (would require rewiring human brains)-- or to utilize th
http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html [spiderrobinson.com]
One of the major problems with the current state of copyright is that everything is copyrighted for these ridiculous long terms. I'd like to see something like a basic 15-20 year copyright, after which you would have to re-register and maybe even pay a property tax to continue your monopoly.
My argument for regular people, then, would be "If you want to keep control, you have to show that you want control and you have to pay for it, just like real property where you can't abandon it and you have to pay property tax."
Oh, I don't know. In the world of real property, there used to be something called a fee tail. Basically, this was a form of ownership in which land was owned by A, and all of A's heirs. It could not be sold or otherwise gotten rid of, unless the family line died out (although this could cause massive lawsuits if one branch of the family tree died, and others vied to take over). In practice, it could not be rented or mortgaged, since the tenant would be kicked out as soon as the person they dealt with died.
Why should people who did NOT write the works [...] ever be given control over the copyrights [...]?
(Referring to heirs.)
Well, for one thing, it greatly reduces the chances that creators will be murdered so that publishers can get access to their works. For another, it increases the motivation for the elderly and the terminally ill to create new works. I'm all for reducing copyright length, but I tend to think a fixed period is best/safest.
For example, my sister was very upset that someone wrote a sequel to Gone With the Wind, because the original author didn't want a sequel to be written (it was written after her death).
That's not a sequel and shouldn't be treated as such. It's fan fiction, and I don't see anything wrong with it as long as it's not marketed as canon. From an "official" point of view, it doesn't exist.
I think this is related to the fact that in our culture we really don't like plagiarism.
Plagiarism would be if she wrote a different ending to the story, and published the whole as her own. Meanwhile, did you stop to consider the artistic qualities of the sequel?
See, that's exactly the problem with copyright debates: you're treating the right to use ideas, the right to modify existing works and the right to distribute existing works as one inseparable topic.
There's an interesting case of an authorized sequel that was only temporarily accepted as canon.
H. Beam Piper wrote a pair of novels ("Little Fuzzy" and "Fuzzy Sapiens", the first a Huge Award nominee in 1963) before he committed suicide. There were rumors of a third "final" Fuzzy novel (the second novel had a sort-of cliffhanger), but his effects after his death were so scattered no one could ever find it.
Eventually, his estate authorized William Tuning to write the final Fuzzy novel in the trilogy ("Fuzzy
I think this is related to the fact that in our culture we really don't like plagiarism.
The continued economic success of Disney makes me inclined to believe otherwise. The vast majority of their content is ripped directly from Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, and others. Occasionally, they even plagiarize more modern content, like Kimba, the White Lion.
Otherwise you can forget reforming copyright law. I am not sure of the best argument for this, maybe someone else can think of a convincing one.
"The Congress shall have Power
Why didn't the drafters add in:
"The Congress shall have Power
The second version sounds absolutely ridiculous, because, unlike ideas, we actually own our clothing. The founding fathers understood that publishing an idea is like pissing in the ocean. Once you decide to do that, you can't get it back...it's not your piss anymore; you don't own it.
TJ's thoughts on the matter:
I don't believe retarded notions such as "offical" keepers of fictional characters eg. tolkien, should be pandered to or encourged.
this idea that the author some how controls the works from beyond the grave is equally stupid, and deserves a bigger slap in the head.
20 year copyright terms were more then generous, if you haven't milked every drop of profit from a work in 20 years, your an incompetent fool who deserves to be driven out of business.
I suggest we drop by the house of everyone that doesn't understand IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DON'T WATCH/READ/LISTEN TO IT, and slap them in the side of the head.
This is the best presentation of an argument I've heard in weeks. I can't imagine why you've never run for public office.
I suggest we drop by the house of everyone that doesn't understand IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DON'T WATCH/READ/LISTEN TO IT, and slap them in the side of the head.
This is the best presentation of an argument I've heard in weeks.
True enough when it comes to copyright and patent debates on slashdot...
I can't imagine why you've never run for public office.
It would be far too exhausting. Can you imagine how many voters would need their heads slapped during the campaign?
It would be far too exhausting. Can you imagine how many voters would need their heads slapped during the campaign?
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That is one of the best arguments on the subject I've ever seen, and surprisingly relevant considering it was made over 170 years ago.
A lot of what he has predicted has come to pass. The relentless extension of copyright has certainly diluted it in the eyes of many, even with the threat of legal action it's clear that copyright is increasingly seen as outdated and people are happy to infringe it on a daily basis, whereas if it was for a short term and could be demonstrated of proven benefit to artists rather than greedy middle men who "drove a hard bargain for the copyright with the author when in great distress", people would be more likely to respect it.
The solution to that is to extend something like trademark law (which is perpetual) to cover characters and settings. If you create a sequel to something in the public domain then you'd have to clearly market it as unauthorised, unless you received permission from the creator to use their trademark. You could still write the sequel to Gone With The Wind, but it would have to be marketed as an unofficial sequel and there could be no (even implicit) indication that it was canonical.
This would also help protect big content franchises. Star Trek would now be out of copyright, but if you wanted to create an official novel, TV show, or film set in the universe then you'd need a license to the trademark. This would cleanly separate things into official material and fan fiction. Of course, given some of the recent output from Paramount, the fan fiction might be better, but that's the trademark owner's problem.
For example, my sister was very upset that someone wrote a sequel to Gone With the Wind, because the original author didn't want a sequel to be written (it was written after her death). That could have been prevented with modern copyright law.
Your sister didn't have to read it, now did she? She loses absolutely nothing for said sequel existing. On the other hand, the people who did read and enjoy it would lose something had it been prevented from existing.
You have made an argument against, not for, copyright law.
A lot of people view the descendants of Tolkien as the official guardians of the lore, and would be annoyed if someone else tried to hijack that (although the result couldn't possibly be worse than the cartoons).
And a lot of people say screnw that [fanfiction.net] and hijack it anyway. Which is okay, because Tolkien also used elements from common cultural heritage - the works of people who became him - to create his works, so why should it be held more sacred than them?
People like the feeling of officialness. They want the original author to be able to own the work. I think this is related to the fact that in our culture we really don't like plagiarism.
I notice a lot of people haven't objected to Disney ripping off everything from Tarzan to Jungle Book to Snow-White and the Seven Dwarves.
In other words, if you want to get political motion behind copyright reform, you are not only going to find the ideal economic balance, you're also going to have to find a way to convince people that giving control to the original author isn't all that important. Otherwise you can forget reforming copyright law. I am not sure of the best argument for this, maybe someone else can think of a convincing one.
People are already just fine with this, as proven by the fact that Tolkien-inspired art doesn't seem to draw a negative response, nor do the orcs and elves in pretty much every fantasy work. In fact, they are constantly creating derivative works from everything imaginable. That's not a new phenomenom either, but has been with us ever since stone-age hunter-gatherers told stories around a campfire.
No, what you have to do is convince politicians that not criminalizing normal human behaviour is more important than bribes from Disney. That's never going to happen, so let's concentrate our efforts on improving various anonymizing networks like Freenet or Tor that make it easier to ignore such laws. That also has the added social benefit of countering censorship in general.
For example, my sister was very upset that someone wrote a sequel to Gone With the Wind
So what, we should all suffer because your sister is a bitch?
Most people agree that the original author should have control of his creation.
Some, you are thinking about some people. Most people do not care. Millions of downloaders disagree to the point of non-violent resistance to the law. They are breaking the law and risking million+ fines for downloading a few $10 movies, so they obviously either don't care or disagree with you strongly.
For example, my sister was very upset that someone wrote a sequel to Gone With the Wind, because the original author didn't want a sequel to be written
She'll get over it. She basically would like to dictate what other people will do with their culture, the one she barely contributed to. Oookay.
A lot of people view the descendants of Tolkien as the official guardians of the lore
A lot of people did not read the books, they cannot care all that much. Those who are informed, know that Christofer Tolkien is the only guy with the guns, having edited The Silmarillion and other great works. Everyone else in that team is more of leech, and their efforts to defend the copyright did nothing but set back the influence of Tolkien's work. There are no hobbits in our games or comics, and that is not because of lack of interest or desire to introduce them.
People like the feeling of officialness. They want the original author to be able to own the work.
Pointless, meaningless generalizations.
In other words, if you want to get political motion behind copyright reform, you are not only going to find the ideal economic balance
We are already finding the economic balance, by the way of making cheap digital copies of the monuments of our culture. The copyright, being a monopoly, can only destroy the balance. If you believed that free markets work better than planned markets, you would agree immediately, but you seem to be all mixed up. If we wanted to ruin the economic balance, we would tighten up the copyright noose and started (over)charging for every freaking word you read and every moving picture you see. Yeah, let's make everyone pay for access to culture, even though there is no sound economic reason for doing so, unless we specifically want to segregate the society and create a caste of content producers, the mighty Brahmins, who own all the rights to creation and modification of content. Of course, this won't work while licenses like GPL and CC-SA provide a hedge around the public domain. Who needs expensive pop-culture, when people voluntarily create a double-free alternative? Look at Linux and BSD: they've dwarfed proprietary OSes in terms of how good they are, and now they are poised to crush them in the marketplace. So if you are that commited to proprietary culture, you better make copyleft explicitly illegal, or it will swallow the marketplace, because it will be cheaper and of superior quality.
If 14 years is optimal, than 7 years would be unreasonable. Not quite as unreasonable as 95 years, but unreasonable nonetheless.
The basic idea behind copyright (providing security to invest in creating new products) is one I can support, the current implementation of that idea significantly less so. It has come to a point where the copyright itself has become the business model instead of the product.
The length of copyright terms should be variable depending on the type of work...
A piece of music written today may still have relevance 14 years from now, but a piece of software probably won't.
A piece of music written today may still have relevance 14 years from now, but a piece of software probably won't.
They're still selling classic video games on the Wii, most of which are older than 1996. I think you'd have to provide a method for extension of copyright by payment of a tax for certain properties (which do remain commercially viable).
Remember, copyright is not there to make profit, it is there to encourage progress.
If 14 years is optimal, than 7 years would be unreasonable.
I don't think unreasonable means what you think it means. The concept you were looking for is "suboptimal". In many cases, a suboptimal solution is a very reasonable one. In fact, this is the case much more often than the most optimal solution is a reasonable one.
But personally, I think (and have said before) that copyright in the internet age should be no more than about 3 years, and probably even less. Back when the it took 20 years for societ
Well, if you use very short terms of, say 1-2 years, but more of them (perhaps a maximum length of 20 years), you increase the number of opportunities for an author who has sought copyright (indicating that they want it) to fail to renew the copyright (indicating that they no longer care), thus getting the work into the public domain that much sooner. Since the cost and effort to renew is minimal (a couple of blanks, a couple of checkboxes, send it in over the net if possible, by mail otherwise; the fee cou
Of course, that leaves a hole for companies that may stop publication for a while and then want to start back up... I should think that they must maintain distribution for a certain minimum period before my above proposed 5-year clock would reset... perhaps at least six months or so.
Well, then there would be the equivalent of Patent-Troll-Companies.
They would just run websites to claim that their are still distributing the work (against a fee)
I have a problem with long copyright terms as long as the definition of derivative work is as large as it is. I also have a problem with the preventative scope of copyright in general. Exclusive rights to profit from a specific production used to be the basis of copyright. But nowadays, that is just a minor aspect of copyright.
The biggest and most important achievements in science and art happened before the existence of copyright and patent laws
It's a little specious to imply that it was the lack of copyright and patent laws that caused this, no? I would contend that what really caused the greatest achievements in science and art is the ignorance/narrow culture preceding its creation.
sweet so we are in for a boom in achievements in art and science any day now.
The biggest and most important achievements in science and art happened before the existence of copyright and patent laws.
I disagree. The biggest achievements has happened in the last couple of hundred years. However, I also think that there is a huge difference between correlation and causation.
To tell people that they cannot freely share the ideas of another person for one hundred years...it just seems to fly in the face of advancement
If 14 years was considered an adequate amount of time to capitalize on an idea back then, before the days of speedy digital distribution (and speedy analog distribution!), why is it so long now?
Because neo-mercantilist companies and individuals have lobbied to extend it so that they can profit more. And don't expect it to change. With an expected resource crisis due to massive consumption and popultion growth on earth, the mercantalist ideas will just grow strong among those in power.
If 14 years was considered an adequate amount of time to capitalize on an idea back then, before the days of speedy digital distribution (and speedy analog distribution!), why is it so long now?
Because corporations never die and they have a lot of money to spend indirectly on political campaigns. Oh, and now they can spend it *directly* on political campaigns. Let the kleptocracy be complete!
The biggest and most important achievements in science and art happened before the existence of copyright and patent laws.
Absolutely! Well, unless you count antibiotics, electricity, computers, quantum mechanics, special and general relativity, the works of Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Johan Strauss, The Beatles, bob Dylan, the steam engine, the aeroplane, the hot air balloon, nuclear fission, recorded and broadcast sound and video, electromagnetism...
Here's hoping it's indicative - or will lead to - a groundswell of public opinion.
What us nerds need to do is remind people that copyright is a trade. I've explained to people that Disney nor your favorite band 'deserve' any protection, which they find crazy. But when I explain the idea of copyright is to promote new works by allowing the creative types to make a living - with the understanding that we'll all get it in the end - they start to look at copyright how it was originally intended.
We would still have books and music and art without copyright - people do those for free all the time - but big movies, etc legitimately take a lot of money to make. So I think copyrights are necessary, but drastically limited in length. It's a travesty that the Beatles' work doesn't belong to the world yet, and it's obscene that Mickey Mouse doesn't.
Copyrights were much shorter at the founding of our nation - and that was when a significant portion of the time allotted was used in physically moving stuff around. Now that that's almost instantaneous - or perhaps a few days - it should be shorter than that.
It's time for the "Everyone who had anything to do with creating the mouse is dead now act". It will revert the term on all existing works to the length it was when the work was created. Last I checked, no amount of retroactive incentive can further encourage the dead.
Your Supreme Court already ruled that any finite duration of copyright is, in fact, constitutional.
Eldred v. Ashcroft [wikipedia.org]
The one thing that makes absolutely no sense in all this is that copyright gets extended when new laws come out.
Suppose that copyright is now 50 years. Now supposing that the government thinks that say 100 years is a more optimal time period for copyright. They write a law which changes the time period for copyright law.
Why do the copyright end dates for those works already under copyright change? There is no reason for them to. There is no way that the new law is going to affect whether or not people 50 years ago write more books and music. But clearly the government seems to think that if they keep pushing the date back on existing copyright that they will reach some point where the financial incentive of the new law will convince the Beatles to write another album back in the 1960s. Perhaps they believe that we will soon have time traveling agents, who can inform the artists of the past of their rights.
You keep insisting that the government is "thinking." If it is, it's not thinking about copyright as related to what is good for our society, it is thinking about it in the way that gets senators and representatives re-elected. It's lobbyists that get copyright extended.
``The one thing that makes absolutely no sense in all this is that copyright gets extended when new laws come out.''
Looking at how things have worked out in practice, it seems the terms have been chosen in such a way as to make copyright simply not expire. Perhaps the reason for that is that those pushing for the extensions are afraid of what will happen if works do go into the public domain. For example, it might then be found out that this actually _promotes_ the arts and sciences. Obviously, they can't have that, because it would wash away all their argumentation for extending the term.
Perhaps, however, the explanation is much simpler: the difference between a work that you hold the copyright for and a work that is in the public domain is that, in the former case, you are in control, and thus in the best position to profit from the work. In fact, you have a monopoly - nobody else is allowed to do certain potentially profitable things without your permission. Given the choice, who wouldn't prefer to keep control over losing it? If someone has an idea that you approve of, you can always grant them the necessary permissions.
I'm not an accountant, so I may well be way off here, but maybe it also has to do with not upsetting shareholders with losses on ip.
As long as you have intellectual property, that's an asset on your balance. If you've arbitrarily valued your Steamboat Willy copyright at, say, $50,000,000 USD, that's a sizable loss when the copyright on it expires. A loss that you can avoid by having the copyright term extended. Easy way to keep the shareholders happy, even with property that doesn't actually generate any re
The one thing that makes absolutely no sense in all this is that copyright gets extended when new laws come out.
You are far too kind in your analysis. I say that copyright extensions are wholesale theft on such a massive scale that it dwarfs all the piracy that ever has, and ever will happen. When copyright is extended every single piece of work from the minute and arcane to the titans of their genres is stolen from every single member of the public. Compared to all of that, a few billion downloads on the internet is a drop in the ocean.
Simple Solution:
That way, Disney can keep Mickey Mouse copyrighted forever, but anything that isn't generating more than 10k of revenue a year is cheaper to let lapse. Plus, it's another source of revenue for the government.
Of course, simple solutions never survive politics.
Of course, simple solutions never survive politics.
It won't even survive Slashdot.
Is that $10,000 per idea? Per character? Per story? Per song? Album? Lyric?
Does Disney have to pay $10,000 to copyright Mickey, and another $10,000 to copyright Steamboat Willie? What about that song he sang during the short?
Not that I'd mind making Disney pay for an infinite amount of $10,000 copyright units... But I'm also curious what I personally can expect to have to pay.
Traditionally supporters of long copyrights have claimed that unless the copyrights were for substantial amounts of time there would be no incentive to create (a similar arguments is made for patents, etc). Well, the other side of it is that if a company is continually reaping revenue from a copyright what's the motivation to create again? Giving people an opportunity to reap a just reward is one thing but ensuring them an entitlement is quite another. Reward is a great motivator but ruin is as well. Innovate or die.
At the very maximum, "a limited time" should be the average lifespan of a child born at the time the work was created. Today that's 70-odd years.
What's the logic in this you ask?
If I create something you can argue that I and any heirs that are already alive should benefit from it for life, and you could make a weaker argument that direct heirs not yet born have a claim. By heirs I mean people, not organizations. By limiting it to the "average" rather than "actual" lifetime it provides greater certainty as to when copyrights expire.
Personally, I think 70-odd years is too long for complete control, it should be about half of this for complete control for most works, with mandatory licensing at some reasonable scheduled rate after that point for most works, and mandatory licensing at a likely higher rate when new works are used as a minor part of a greater work, such as a song used in a movie, technical documentation or journal publication is copied into a larger work, etc. The devil would be in the details of course.
This is separate from the problem of orphaned works, which is a whole 'nuther ball of wax.
Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing. -- Thomas Tusser


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Sometimes she writes to a blogger only to get the e-mail equivalent of a blank stare. The pseudonymous author of The Minor Fall, The Major Lift was particularly unreceptive. "What am I going to write a book about?" he replied. …
[W]hile she loves her bloggers, and has faith in them, it can be difficult to get them to be productive. "They all have day jobs," she pointed out. Writing anything longer than a blog post is a commitment they don't always seem up for.
Isn't it just possible that people who blog blog precisely because they like this literary form? It's not as if the idea of writing a book wouldn't occur to a person without the prodding of a literary agent.
MORE: And I love the assumption that writing a book would be more time consuming. You can write a 365 page book in a year if you write a page a day. Don't you think the bloggers who impressed Lee were writing at least a page a day? It seems to me that the bloggers she contacted who didn't want to write books were genuinely interested in writing blogs, writing time-stamped entries that immediately reach out to the whole world. I'll bet the really good bloggers are generally much more "up" and energetic than your average novelist. A blogger has to leave entries every day, and the entries have to be good enough to make people want to come back. I have a sneaking suspicion a good percentage of novelists have long unproductive spells and are among the least up people around. And finally, if Lee really is interested in bloggers, why doesn't she have a more positive attitude toward blogging? I mean, aside from the fact that there is no role for the agent in blogging.


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Museum Educator, Early Childhood & Family Learning – Part Time
The Rubin Museum of Art is a dynamic environment that stimulates learning,
promotes understanding, and inspires personal connections to the ideas,
cultures, and art of Himalayan Asia. Now in its eighth year, the museum
welcomes over 200,000 visitors annually and has over 6,000 members. The
museum's preeminent collection includes works of art from present-day
Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, India, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the
Tibetan Plateau. The pace is lively with more than ten changing exhibitions
and more than 250 public programs a year.
Early Childhood and Family Learning at the Rubin Museum of Art incorporates
all family and early childhood (preschool) programs for school groups and
general public including: drop-in family workshops home school programs,
preschool group workshops, family days, birthday party workshops, and early
childhood and family resource development. The Museum Educator will work
with Education staff to gather and approve content for projects and develop
and implement programs. Program curricula will address overall Museum and
departmental goals.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Under the direction of the Manager of Early Childhood and Family Learning,
develop, document and implement programs such as Yak Packers, Family Art
Labs, Birthday Parties, Families Days, and Preschool Workshops.
Collaborate with Education staff to develop curricula that complement the
Rubin Museum's collection and help families, early childhood educators, and
early learners form authentic and personal connections to the art of the
Evaluate and revise lesson plans, art-projects, and the program
activities. Conduct assessment of program effectiveness through student work
and family interaction.
Adapt curricula to specific early childhood populations.
Coordinate schedules and collaborate with other museum educators and
teaching artists.
Participate in trainings related to new exhibitions.
Maintain and organize supply inventory and request supplies as needed.
B.A. required, M.A./MS.Ed preferred (in Education, Early Childhood
Education, Art Education).
Must have experience working with young children (2-6 years of age) and
Must be available to work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings and some
$13 per hour, commensurate with experience.
20 hours per week.
Complete resume, including salary history and salary requirements.
Summarize your relevant qualifications for this specific position and
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Barajas Barrage of Homers Kills Phils
Rod Barajas returns to Philly, and in very uncharacteristic fashion, whacks a grand slam and a solo homer, scoring 5 of the 6 runs for the Blue Jays last night. With Ryan Howard still slumping and Utley and Burrell both coming up empty, the Phillies could only muster up 3 runs, which was not enough to catch Barajas and the Jays who flew away with the win. So hey Rod, where was all this power last year when you were with the Phillies? Here is a shot from last year of Rod saying hi to me. Or is he waving bye-bye to the balls he smacked out the park last night?
Jayson Werth did get his start last night at center and Jenkins in right as I had predicted. Overall, I thought that worked very well. Werth did not get a hit (0-2) but worked 2 walks, which to me is as good as 2 hits, stole a base and had an outfield assist. He looked very comfortable in the line-up and his base running is excellent. Jenkins went 1-3, which is about what you expect from him and did a good job in the field.
Another guy you hear me talk about a lot needing more playing time is Greg Dobbs, so I was thrilled to see him in the line-up too. I have said many times I think Manual should be platooning him and Feliz. Greg is a third baseman originally and is very comfortable there (see my interview with Greg on the Phillies Baseball 101 Video page where he talks about this). Not to mention, he is a much better hitter than Feliz. Last night, Greg went 2 for 4 with an RBI and a run scored. So Charlie, let the man play! Now, I still love Pedro, but give Greg some time too! He's got quite a luxury with so many great players on this team…may as well use them!
Going to the game this afternoon and hoping it is not a total wash out. The weather does not look promising. Yuck! Wish me luck! :o) Go Phillies!


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During finals week in January, nearly every seat on the first floor of the Arlington Heights Memorial Librarywas taken by high school teens, working in study groups.
That only confirmed what library officials have believed for some time: One of their most important constituencies is teens.
The library is in the process of doubling the size of the teen section, with The Hub set to open in April. It's part of a $2.8 million renovation that is helping to redefine the library space -- as determined by users.
"Teens are a huge market for us," says Debbie Smart, library trustee. "We've seen a real void in the community with the closing of the Teen Center."
The library's new space will have conversation or study groupings with movable chairs, as well as the latest technology, from laptops to iPads to board game tables and an area to screen movies.
The library also will have 11 more group study rooms on the second floor for students, with interactive whiteboards that allows them to not only write notes for the group, but print them out when they're done.
And it's not just new rooms and equipment, Smart adds. Library officials worked with the library's Readers Advisory Group and determined there wasn't enough art from different age groups featured in the library.
Enter teen librarian Tom Spicer. Working through a Facebook page set up for The Hub, Spicer conceived the Design Out Loud contest for teens to decorate and take ownership of their new space.
He recently announced the winners: Marissa Allen of Hersey High School for her work, "Possibilities;" Joohyuk Lee of Thomas Middle School for "Master Chief;" Reed Skocz of Prospect High School for "Untitled;" and St. Viator junior Kristen Yi for "Rooted in Knowledge."
"We worked with our architects and designers to work the images into the new space," Spicer says. "The teens submitted pieces that reflected their own insights, interests and passion. We received art based on music, social and global issues, popular culture and self-portraits."
Joohyuk Lee used the stippling technique, or shading with dots, to design his image.
"The image is of the character Master Chief, who is in a science fiction game," he says. "I thought the library would appreciate having some more science fiction images."
By contrast, Kristen Yi chose a more conventional design. "Rooted in Knowledge" shows the proverbial book of knowledge as a tree, with books stacked to form its trunk, and its branches in different stages of blooming.
"I love to read -- and I read through every season," she says. "My family spends a lot of time at the library, so I thought it would be exciting to try and have some of my art displayed there."
Spicer says the contest drew 28 submissions in all from junior high and high school artists from five different schools.
"I really enjoyed the submissions," Spicer said, "and I think the level of artistry speaks for itself when you look at the four winners."


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SALLY SARA: David joins me now for our look at today's business and finance.
David, we've just heard about the Australian manufacturing sector. What's the data showing about how things are going for Chinese manufacturers?
DAVID TAYLOR: Well Sally official figures show that China's manufacturing sector expanded in January. What surprised the market though was that it's expanding at a slower rate.
So the purchasing manager's index slipped to a reading of 50.4 in January, which was below analysts' expectations. A reading under 50 indicates below trend growth for the sector. So whilst the sector is expanding, analysts would like to see it expanding at a faster rate.
Now China's hesitant to stimulate its economy because of rising inflation, and also concerning in this report, was a fall in export orders, which you know draws attention to the fact that China is exposed to the global economy and the evidence would indicate the global economy continues to hurt the Chinese economy.
The Australian dollar also fell on that data release. It fell under 104 US cents and it's currently travelling at around 103.9 US cents.
SALLY SARA: And David, back on the Australian market. The shares in the outdoor adventure retailer, Kathmandu, climbed higher today. What's happening for that company?
DAVID TAYLOR: Well simply said, Kathmandu released a report today saying that they're expecting to deliver a strong first half profit result. So they haven't delivered it yet but they've forecast they will. Sales are up around about 13 per cent. Same store sales, so not including new stores that have come online, grew at 6 per cent, a solid number.
Australian sales are even growing faster than their New Zealand sales, because it's originally a - Kathmandu is originally a New Zealand company.
Now the company, Kathmandu, says it expects full year earnings of between $NZ 9.5 million and $NZ 10.5 million, but Sally, Kathmandu shares rose quite strongly on that news.
SALLY SARA: And David, how did the broader market perform today?
DAVID TAYLOR: Sally the banks and consumer discretionary stocks did well today, they lifted the majority of the market, but also a lift in the price of iron ore also helped lift mining stocks. The price of iron ore is around about $US 152 a tonne, and that was up around 2 per cent on the Chinese spot market.
So all of that helped lift the market and the majority of sectors did rise. The All Ords up at the end of the day 40 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 4,941.
SALLY SARA: David Taylor, thank you.
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A Super Bowl ad that suggested California cows are happier than ones in the dairy state has cheesed off some people in Wisconsin.
The ad was sponsored by the California Milk Advisory Board.
In it, a cow decides to leave the herd in a snowy field and head for the warm, green pastures of California.
Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association director John Umhoefer says California apparently feels it has to put down the top cheese-making state to build themselves up. Wisconsin produced two-point-three billion pounds of cheese last year, California 1.9 billion pounds.
California board spokeswoman Nancy Fletcher says the ad has been on the air since 2003. She said it's meant to be funny and the state is not trying to squeeze anyone out of the milk business.
But U-W Madison dairy science professor Jess Reed says the ad only skims the surface of truth. cold weather than warm weather. He says happy cows produce more milk in cold weather.


text: Love this initiative by Fallon. Supporting Start-ups with admin, financing, comms and strategy. I think this could be an important component of the agency of the future. Actually nurturing and developing companies to market! And having a stake in their success! Bravo! Not unlike Ogilvy New York's Start-up University, helping budding companies develop business plans, ideas and comms. Guess we need to make a cool video too:)


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I am sorting out an old laptop for my grand daughter to use for her homework. I am getting a strange boot problem.
I. it used to beep twice as it booted it now beeps once or not at all.but will still boot (sometimes)
2.Sometimes it will not boot but show this message...SIS900 PXE BootRom v1.09 hook Int19 then after a short while it asks me to place a bootable object in a place where it can be booted.
3 I have had a couple of times it try to boot but come up with the error message telling me ntdlr is missing.
4. it boots from a bootable cd every time I have tried it that way, (I have reinstalled the OS several times trying to sort this out) Sometimes when booting from the CD it tells me it cant find the hard drive.
from this it appears to be not finding the hard disc on startup but if I keep powering down and restarting it eventually boots to the OS. Am I right in thinking it is probably the hard disc on its way out?
Further update while I was writing this it decided it had to close and restart (good old winXP) It was doing nothing at the time just the desktop showing, anyway it restarted and ran chkdisc and recovered some orphan files then restarted again this time giving a single beep and straight onto the desktop


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NBC meets the press
Happy, happy NBC: No. 1 in the demo. even without the Olympics, leading among 25-54-year-olds. Bob Greenblatt pronounces it a "pretty great year."
The network renewed "American Ninja Warrior" and "America's Got Talent," two reality series that have helped summer momentum.
Ratings for "Extant" and "NightShift" are encouraging, Greenblatt said. In late night, "The Tonight Show" is enjoying a 20-year ratings high, with Jimmy Fallon's repeats beating Jimmy Kimmel's originals.
Among NBC's announcements:
In May, NBC will introduce Red Nose Day, a comedy/music charity institution in England. all day event leading to a primetime special. In collaboration with Comic Relief U.K.
Christopher Walken cast as a singing/dancing Captain Hook in the musical "Peter Pan Live" airing Dec. 4.
Regarding the controversial rejection of an ad with the word "abortion" in it, Greenblatt said there were three different ads submitted, they chose the one that didn't mention the abortion angle. "I don't think we have any ironclad policy about the word abortion or the topic."
The Maya Rudolph variety special, which the network called an imperfect first episode, remains in "active creative discussion," said Paul Telegdy, head of alternative/late night programming.
Re. NBC's weak Emmy tally: "Emotionally we all care" about Emmy Awards, there are so many great shows on so many networks now. cable has the advantage of doing material that is darker, feels cooler than some of the stuff we can do. That's just a fact of life." He noted the snub of James Spader ("Blacklist") is disappointing, but nothing to be done. "I'm not going to grouse about the Emmys. Let's bring back the Cable Ace Awards, how about that?"
NBC is still working on Bill Cosby multi-generational family comedy. Mike O'Malley working as producer and will have onscreen role.
To the larger question, why can't broadcast networks do serious, heavy drama like "True Detective" or "Fargo"? Greenblat said, "Hannibal" is one of the best shows we have creatively. We still struggle to find an audience for it. We're keeping it going but if this were on a cable network the small audience wouldn't matter. It would be deemed successful. Two or three million might watch it on Showtime, (not enough for a broadcast network). "The minute you try to do something dark, subversive, frightening, you peel away the mass audience."
In his job, "the volume is the killer," Greenblatt said. You have to make lots and lots of shows in broadcast TV and, beyond the stories, "it's all about the deal."


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So, BlackBerry has just announced it's exciting the consumer market, focussing on the enterprise instead. Worse yet, it's cutting 4500 jobs, half its workforce, which is a statistic for us, but a disaster for those involved.
The company sold just 3.7 million smartphones in the second quarter, most of which ran the older BlackBerry 7 operating system instead of the new BlackBerry 10. This means the Z10 and Q10 have been unmitigated flops. Hardly surprising though - even random people such as myself knew BB10 was going to be a hard, if not impossible, sell.
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That might be the truth now but I forsee a time not very far in the future where the problems with the parent compnany will drag down the QNX/embedded part of the company no matter how much money it is making.
The only saviour for it (IMHO) is for it to be floated off as a separate company via an IPO that will bring in much needed cash for the ailing company.


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NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said the network was taken by surprise when Sharon Osbourne said on Twitter that she's not returning to the show next season — and that he doesn't want her to leave.
"I don't know that she's not returning," he told TheWrap at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. "I don't really have anything conclusive to say. … I haven't spoken to her or her agents so I'm not sure really where it's coming from. It took us all by surprise."
He later added from the TCA podium that he thought the Osbourne news was probably "much ado about nothing."
Also read: Sharon Osbourne Tweets That She's 'Not Returning' to 'America's Got Talent'
Asked if NBC wanted Osbourne back, he told TheWrap: "Absolutely. We love Sharon."
Osbourne tweeted to new judge Howard Stern on Tuesday, "My darling @howardstern, money is not the reason I'm not returning to @nbcagt, it's because …"
And with that she trailed off.
Earlier Tuesday, NBC president of alternative and late-night programming Paul Telegdy said at TCA that he was pleased with "AGT" and that Stern was welcome to return.
"We'd be delighted if Howard wants to come back," he said.
Osbourne, the show's longest-serving judge, joined in its second season in 2007. This season, she serves on the panel with Howie Mandel as well as Stern.


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By Sally Deneen
NASA Astronaut Thomas Marshburn gazed out a window of Soyuz TMA-07M during a work break and saw the sprawling city directly below, so he snapped what would become one of a handful of metro Chicago photos that his team would post on Twitter during their 2,336 orbits of the Earth covering almost 62 million miles.
"Chicago, a bright spot on the tip of Lake Michigan, glowing through the clouds," reads the caption of a more dramatic image also captured in the spring by his colleague on the mission, Canadian astronaut and International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield.
The pair shot many photos from around the world that you now can view on an interactive website called "Our World From The ISS." One Chicago image shows the city in drab gray color tones, or as Hadfield put it: "Chicago on a clear winter's day, ice on shore, busy O'Hare airport visible from orbit."
Salt Lake City as seen from space, by contrast, features a vast expanse of snow and craggy bulges that surround the great lake from which the city draws its name. Detroit as seen from space at night appears as spider webs of light expanding from dark Lake Michigan.
While the team ended its mission last spring, newly retired Hadfield couldn't help but shoot an aerial photo of Chicago when he visited in November for a book tour of "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth."
The region again appears gray, with Chicago O'Hare International Airport prominent.


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Veronica Mangrich, RN, chemotherapy nurse at Skiff Medical Center, was recognized for energy, diligence, empathy and the specialized care she provides during the organization's fourth and final DAISY award ceremony of 2012.
The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses was presented to Mangrich following a nomination by her colleagues in the Skiff Laboratory.
"Veronica always finds ways to integrate Skiff's iSpark values in her daily life," said Beth Pettigrew, reading aloud from the nomination she had written with her colleagues from the lab. "Integrity, service, passion, advocacy, responsibility and kindness are all words you can use to describe her and her work."
Pettigrew went on to describe how Mangrich forms special bonds with her patients, serving as their advocate, their friend and even their adopted family member, which includes mourning with relatives when a patient loses their battle with cancer.
"She gives the little things that can make a difference," Pettigrew said, "such as offering warm blankets, providing snacks, spending her own money to make the Cancer Clinic a warm, inviting place, even caring for the fish in the clinic's aquarium."
Mangrich's also was commended for her relationship with her colleagues, the clinic's oncologists and the community, both local and global. She participates in fundraisers, her church and, on an annual basis, mission trips to El Salvador.
"I want to say thank you for the very special honor of receiving the DAISY Award," Mangrich said. "It is only by the excellent example of many fellow workers both in nursing and other areas, with whom I have worked over the years that has helped me to develop my own strong nursing care values. Being given this award is not only a humbling honor but also serves to encourage me to find new ways to better serve my patients and coworkers. Furthermore, this award is a reflection of all of our efforts to personify the iSpark values."
Mangrich was among 13 nurses nominated for this quarter's DAISY Award: Linda Chrismore (nominated twice), Ramona Davis, Patty Habel, Noelle Harper, Carla Johnson, Susan Junge, Stephanie Machin, Becca Nunn-Ryan, Ellen Ritter, DewAnn Sanchez, Brenda Steenhoek and Sandy Verwers (nominated twice).
"We continue to see nurses from area department be recognized," Chief Nursing Officer Mary Swoboda said. "Skiff is now among about 600 hospitals nationwide who participate in the DAISY awards, so it is becoming quite a well-known honor."
The DAISY Award, presented in collaboration with The American Organization of Nurse Executives, is part of the DAISY Foundation's program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform everyday. The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, Calif., and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura, a little-known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. DAISY is an acronym for Diseases Attacking the Immune System. The care Patrick and his family received from nurses while he was ill inspired this unique means of thanking nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.
Nomination forms are available throughout Skiff Medical Center. The nominations are reviewed and award winners are selected on a quarterly basis by the Nursing Coordinating Council, which consists of professional nursing representatives from all areas of the organization.
To learn more about Skiff Medical Center, visit www.skiffmed.com or www.facebook.com/skiffmed.