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PHOENIX — Arizona's World War II memorial is on pace to be ready for its opening in December.
Workers spent Saturday morning moving the gun barrels of the USS Arizona and USS Missouri into place in Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza near the Arizona State Capitol.
The work to get them here started three years ago when Secretary of State Ken Bennett — who was then the president of the Arizona Senate — learned that the gun barrels were just lying in storage.
"I suggested that we would get one (gun barrel) from the Missouri, and the last remaining one from the Arizona, and we put them out here to represent the bookends of the war — the beginning and the end," Bennett said.
The U.S.'s involvement in World War II started with Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Japanese war planes bombed the Arizona ship, causing it to sink. The War ended with the Japanese signing documents of surrender on the deck of the Missouri in 1945.
The Navy agreed with Bennett's plan, and gave the gun barrels to Arizona.
Both barrels are now in position, pointing east. They are situated on the memorial, in between the Arizona's anchor to the east, and its masthead on the west.
But those are just part of the memorial.
"In between the two gun barrels are nine steel pillars that represent the nine minutes that it took for the Arizona to sink," said Bennett. "On the sides of those steel pillars hang about 2,000 individual nameplates, one each for the 2,000 Arizonans who were killed during World War II in all of the different branches of the military."
Bennett said that you can add your personal touch to the memorial by buying a memorial paver that will be placed at the base of the guns.
"Families or individuals can purchase a paver," Bennett said. "You get so many lines of text on each paver. You can honor a family member or put your name or say, 'Thank you all veterans.'"
A dedication will take place when the memorial is fully unveiled on Dec. 7, which is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Click here for more information or to purchase a memorial paver.
In the video below, Matthew Roberts of the Arizona Secretary of State's office explains some of the items that have been added to the World War II memorial.


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ExhortationRichard Waialeale
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (NIV)
13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.
14 Do everything in love.
13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.
14 Do everything in love.
Paul gives a set of instructions to the readers of this book that holds true especially for us today. The very moment we step outside of our devotions and the spiritual time with the Lord, we come face to face with a society corrupted by this world. Not all things are bad but as Christians we are always in danger, therefore, we must be on the watch, diligent in carrying God's purpose for our lives. In all of Paul's letters he affirms our faith, reminding us that temptation will try to rock us, but it's by faith alone we will keep sure footed, firmly on the ground. He instructs us to be people of courage and be strong as we grow and mature. And then in everything we do, show the love of Jesus.
These scriptures shows me a great way to affirm fellow Christians. No body does this better then Paul, as he even calls people by name, uses living examples of people who are serving in ministry in different areas of the country. Exhorting and affirming ones call is necessary to building up peoples confidence and courage. Do it as much as it is necessary to keep people close to each other.
Father I pray for the people in this church. Those that have dedicated their lives to serve you. May they be on their guard at all times and stand firm in their faith as we mature in You. I pray Lord, they be strong and courageous as we serve you in love. Amen.

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text: International Game Technology rose on strong fourth-quarter earnings of 38 cents per share, beating estimates by 6 cents. Revenue surged 17 percent over last year to $631.1 million, primarily driven by higher product sales and strong performance from interactive businesses. IGT specializes in the design and manufacture of electronic gaming equipment and systems products.


text: On the 4/4 Virtualization Security Podcast, Pete Nicoletti, the chief information security officer for Virtustream, joined us to discuss how VirtuStream does cloud security. VirtuStream runs some of, if not the largest SAP installations in the cloud for very large enterprises around the world. The key to VirtuStream is that they are an Enterprise Cloud that looks at everything from the Enterprise perspective, whether that is billing or security. For security, they have implemented many changes required by their customers and allowed the end-enterprise to dial that security to 11 if necessary. But what does VirtuStream do that is different from all others?


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The main reason I usually have for rebooting is moving house. The car journey lasts longer than the UPS.
UNIX - why reboot more often than you have sex?
Its similar to the restart process you do when you install a new kernel.
This is an element of what is also sometimes known as "percussive maintenance". When you have a computer that refuses to work correctly, often the first thing one does is to kick it angrily. If even after going through the usual support voodoo it still doesn't work, you "re-boot" (i.e. "kick it again") it.
On unreliable platforms, this may be the preferred way of dealing with problems.
None of my windows machines have had a BSoD in years!
I want my money back.
I don't think you can. The "shell" in the summary is what we UNIX folks would call a "window manager". Not that you can't get a somewhat workable shell in windows, it just requires cygwin.
I would really be interested in hearing how Cygwin plays with KDE4.2. Popping open a konsole to a cygwin bash shell would be really nice.
Konsole is not yet ported. Which makes me very sad since I switched to Windows 7 until KDE 4 stops being the trainwreck that it is, but I miss having a terminal emulator that doesn't suck (aka Konsole). Putty is pretty awful in comparison.
KDE 4.2.0 is out today, and isn't a trainwreck. There are a few annoyances left, but most of them should be gone by 4.2.2. But then again, 4.2.0 wouldn't be four-two-o if it wasn't a bit four twenty.
Konsole is not yet ported. Which makes me very sad since I switched to Windows 7 until KDE 4 stops being the trainwreck that it is, but I miss having a terminal emulator that doesn't suck (aka Konsole). Putty is pretty awful in comparison.
Agreed on putty, but hey, Windows users (including the leet PowerShell users) are still using cmd.exe, the notepad of terminals, and think it's fine.
Depending on your needs, Cygwin might suit you. Say what you want about emulation, there's something invaluable about have
KDE 4.2 is no trainwreck. Here's my take [blogspot.com] on KDE 4.2. My personal verdict is that KDE 4 has surpassed KDE 3.5 for daily use and is ready for primetime.
Konsole is not yet ported. Which makes me very sad since I switched to Windows 7 until KDE 4 stops being the trainwreck that it is, [
This has to be one of the most bizarre comments I've ever read in here (and that's quite something).
You might want to try MSYS [mingw.org]. It provides a shell, a handful of common Unix commands, and it translates path names so you can type "/c/Program Files/" instead of "C:\Program Files\". It allows me to cry a lot less when I have to use Windows.
Who cares about KDE 4.2 on winblows!
I want to know if it is ready for Linux/BSD.
When it has features == to KDE 3.5.10 and is usable, then post some sensational headline to the effect.
Until then somebody needs to stay in the kitchen and keep cooking
I installed this in order to use kate on windows. What can I say: I've grown attached to the editor. But I found that it no longer feels so crisp and clean as on linux.
Notepad++ [sourceforge.net].
The closest thing I've found in Linux is Geany, and it's a pale imitation. God, I wish I could get it to do highlighting on the corresponding open/close (x)html tag to the one the cursor is in--among other things.
I'm seriously considering running it in Wine; it's actually good enough to be worth that hassle. It's the only non-Adobe, non-game program that I miss from Windows.
Unless Kate has gotten better about resource usage and start time since I last used it, it's kind of a pig on any platform.
I have to admit I do like Geany, but have you tried SciTE [scintilla.org] which shares the same engine as Notepad++? The only thing I can see straight away that it misses is macros.
No, really, why? Windows already runs poorly with its default windowing interface. Why would I want to use up even more memory for a second windowing interface? No application is worth this layer of added complexity.
kill explorer.exe?
You aren't using a second windowing interface at all. You just use the applications unless you choose to use Plasma.
I am running the same RC just fine on my Windows partition. The only application I really miss is KMail.
I suspect the reason you might want to do this is so that you can use Linux tools on a Windows base platform. Kate, for example, is rather a nice editor (although I tend to use Notepad++ under Windows). Don't forget as well that KDE almost certainly has more development than the Windows desktop - although this can be a mixed blessing in my experience due to random breakage.
As others have suggested just kill explorer.exe to free your machine from the default Windows desktop.
<rant>P.S. Not to mention that somebody at kde decided that konqueror should be a web browser and not a file manager. I'll never understand this... from my perspective they had some software that was a very mediocre web browser but what was in my opinion, the best file manager in existence and they threw out the file manager. For one thing, those two functions should never be in the same software, you can thank Microsoft and leveraging its monopoly for that particular monstrosity, but something is obviously wrong with the kde development process if they're making decisions like this. It's no wonder that kde4 turned out so badly.*grumble grumble*</rant>
konqueror is still a file manager, the only difference is that dolphin is the default one on kde4
konqueror is still a file manager, the only difference is that dolphin is the default one on kde4
Konqueror seems to have lost about half of its functionality in KDE 4 as a file manager. Maybe it will return over time, but I really preferred using Konqueror under KDE 3.5 than Konqueror or Dolphin on KDE 4. I'm currently running the KDE 4.2 nightlies and while it's decent and usable, it's still lacking some of the things I liked about 3.5, like Konqueror having the built in FileSize view.
As others have suggested just kill explorer.exe to free your machine from the default Windows desktop.
Not familiar with running KDE on Windows, but the "choice" of Windows shell is set in the registry (the default being "explorer.exe"). Killing off the process may work, but generally the approach used by the various shell-replacements (Litestep, etc.) is to reset the registry key instead. Explorer has a nasty tendency to restart itself for inexplicable, just as related programs/features have a tendency to
For example, to run KOffice on Windows. Or Amarok2.
Also, given that QT is soon going to be LGPL - I feel very interested in contributing to KDE and using parts of KDE in my proprietary programs.
I didn't RTFA or tried it out. But does it replace the explorer.exe? If it does, may be it's could replace the one shipped in Vista.
The next step? EU might force the Redmond OS to allow selection of Windows manager at first boot.
Haha! Awaiting an influx of Slashdotters actually agreeing with you... I'm sure they will also demand that Microsoft give you a choice between the Linux kernel and Vista's kernel.
I do just that with Litestep - much lighter than Windows Shell (explorer) and much lighter than KDE I run explorer rarely when apps insist on it
But I am willing to bet that KDE has the same problems with programs assuming that you have explorer running and failing silently when you don't (those popup bubble messages are done by explorer, not by your app, not by the window manager, not by a notification app, but by explorer....)
I am quite elated at the fact that this [livejournal.com] GNOME developer says KDE 4.2 rocks [livejournal.com]. Now, if the two teams could combine resources to churn out an awesome desktop environment (preferably KDE based), that would make the Linux ecosystem even more relevant in today's environment.
They wouldn't, because GNOME and KDE have two different design philosophies. Anyway, this argument is kind of similar to the "why waste time making so many distros?" one you see a lot.
The only design philosophy that should matter is pragmatism. The desktop environment that allows the user to take the best ideas, no matter where they come from, or what their philosophical base, and combine them easily to create a successful environment for the user's own work is what all of the projects should work towards.
And they are. Xfce for instance can integrate quite a bit of stuff originating from both KDE and Gnome. So parts are already fairly interchangeable between environments (at least if you
If KDE 4.2 is already an awesome desktop environment, and you want an awesome desktop environment based on KDE, why are you advocating integrating Gnome?
If compatibility is your concern, than the FreeDesktop.org projects are already taking care of that, without having to consolidate DEs. If competing widget toolkits is your concern, well, to bad, that's not going to change anytime soon, and its not really a big problem anyway.
Gnome is already moving common components out of the Gnome libraries and into gtk
Now, if the two teams could combine resources to churn out an awesome desktop environment (preferably KDE based), that would make the Linux ecosystem even more relevant in today's environment.
I apologize ahead of time for my language but speaking as someone who doesn't run kde as their wm (e17 for me), all I have to say to this is:
From my perspective, if I want to run any application that has to do with kde, and there's a lot of great ones, I have to wait for all the damn dcopservers, kio_slaves, kdeinits, etc. to load and it's a royal pain in the ass. The kde environment is bloated and irritating for anyone who doesn't want to run the kde wm. The gtk and gnome apps have no such irritations. Think about what you're saying, you'd turn kde precisely into what we all hate about windows, a monopoly. A huge bloated mess where somebody up on high says, thou shalt do it this way and no other and the rest of us have to live with it. Frankly, I'm waiting with baited breath for more mainstream qt4 apps to come out that aren't tied to kde. VLC has already done that and it's such an improvement over the wxwidgets interface.
Let me remind you that KDE is and will be Open Source! That means you are and will be in position to modify it to your heart's satisfaction. Now your problems with KDE can be solved.
and what, exactly, are all of those bells and whistles necessary for? XDND, XDS, and pipelines already exist, so why the necessity for all of that other crap? I agree with grandparent. KDE is a bloated environment, which is why although there are nice KDE apps out there, I will never run them in my gnome or windowmaker environments. No thanks.
GNOME uses DBUS as well (and therefore dbus-server). KDE no longer uses DCOP but uses the same thing GNOME uses.
KIO Slaves are launched on demand as needed, not just because kdeinit loads up.
On the other hand there is usually at the very least a kbuildsycoca step involved when running your first KDE app in a session. I'm sure GNOME has something similar (gconf?) although it may be faster, no doubt.
Really a lot of the startup time concern in my experience has been related more towards C++ symbol bloating (which is significantly reduced nowadays between prelinking and symbol visibility support). The kdeinit you talk about was actually a hack designed to work around that problem, by turning KDE applications into shared libraries (that would startup up much faster as a result).
I will say that I also am cheering on the adoption of more plain Qt apps, for the same reason that I have quite a few GTK+ utilities but no GNOME ones. Less startup time is always a good thing. Unlike the grandparent though I'm not hoping that one DE ends up winning out, I'd actually prefer there be choice available (as long as it interoperates).
Yes, I already have an idea for how this would work.
First, the computer "starts up" in some kind of new mode that only shows text. Once the new Windows user has entered single user mode and set a password for his account, he can then proceed to select the graphical environment and video driver supplier that he prefers.
This would probably be best accomplished by editing some sort of very simple text file, perhaps called wingui.conf or something. Some kind of easy to learn text editor would obviously have t
You think that is funny, but back in the Windows 3.x days there was actually a thriving market for alternate Windows desktops. Norton desktop and Central Point desktop come to mind as several popular ones. OEMs regularly bundled alternate startup shells with tutorials and such, because they felt people might want this and in the end could make the OEM more money.
Then when Windows 95 came along Microsoft completely forbade OEMs from bundling alternative interfaces, or anything that displaced their "desktop".
So I can get the stability of windows with the a compatibility an open-source desktop... hey why don't I load it on expensive Apple hardware and go for an all around win!?
Honestly, it's a little difficult to see the point it seems like you'd getting the worst of two worlds with KDE on windows....
The option for "wheels" disappeared - the bugfix was Triaged by adding cinder blocks.
Porting unix software to Windows instead of improving Cygwin to run these apps without porting is an awful waste of time. Improving a common support layer that supports Unix APIs instantly allows thousands of Unix apps to work, rather than trying to port thousands of Unix apps to Windows.
KDE4 is such a disaster on Linux I do not think that porting to Windows should be a higher priority. Fix all of the regressions and feature loss between KDE3 and KDE4. KDE 4 is an embarrassment and a piece of shit. Torvalds
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You may be unaware of the local ramifications of one of the proposals currently at play in the danse macabre that passes for fiscal negotiations in Washington.
This is the plan to cap federal tax deductions at either a set figure or a percentage of income. Either way, it would strike deepest and hardest mostly at residents of California, as well as other populous states with high levels of government services, high state and local taxes, and relatively expensive housing.
The mortgage interest and state and local tax deductions are among the most important tax breaks that would be capped under this sort of proposal. They're linchpins of middle-class tax planning in the most heavily affected states, which also include New York, Illinois, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
These states, of course, are also of the deepest blue, politically speaking. They also tend to support the broadest range of public services, such as healthcare for the needy. That's what's under attack.


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Robert Breest had the chance to walk out of prison on parole, after spending nearly half his life there, if he admitted to committing a 1971 murder. But the former Lowell carpenter steadfastly refused that offer in the mid-1990s.
Breest, now 75, has maintained his innocence — even as his five children have grown up and had children of their own — and he has relentlessly filed petitions seeking to toss out his conviction.
Now his lawyers say they have evidence, including new DNA test results, that casts serious doubts about whether Breest murdered Susan Randall on a February night 42 years ago and hurled her body over the Merrimack River Bridge in Concord, N.H. They filed a motion Friday seeking a retrial.
The case has become one of the more contentious legal battles in New Hampshire history. Breest's successful 2000 motion for DNA testing of evidence used to convict him — dried blood under Randall's fingernails — was the first time that the state's courts allowed DNA results in post-conviction proceedings.
Since then, several rounds of DNA testing of the severely degraded evidence have produced either inconclusive results or failed to rule out Breest as the killer. Prosecutors have said that it's time to stop dragging Randall's family through such an emotional wringer. Also, Breest is a suspect in a second, unrelated killing.
But Breest's lawyers say the latest results, produced using newer DNA technology, clearly show that Randall was in "a violent struggle with at least two men" before she died, as opposed to a lone murderer, as prosecutors have long contended. That, they say in their motion, drives a stake into prosecutors' central theory of the case and the testimony of the state's star witness, a jail house informant who testified that Breest told him he acted alone.
"All the problems you see in wrongful conviction cases are present in this case: a confession from a jail house snitch, bad eyewitness [identifications], and junk science," said New York attorney Ian Dumain, who volunteered in early 2007 to represent Breest for free after learning of the case from the Innocence Project, which helps prisoners try to prove their innocence through DNA testing.
Jeff Strelzin, senior assistant New Hampshire attorney general and chief of the homicide division, said Friday he had just received Breest's motion for a new trial and had not yet had a chance to read it. He declined to comment.
Members of Susan Randall's family could not be reached.
Randall, 18, had been living in Manchester and working two jobs, with dreams of saving enough money to attend fashion design school, according to court documents. She had gone out for pizza with a friend and apparently was walking home when last seen shortly after midnight, Feb. 28, 1971.
She never showed up. A state highway department employee discovered her body several days later, lying under a bridge in Concord, naked from the waist down.
Breest was a 33-year-old carpenter, living in Lowell with his pregnant wife and their four children, when police questioned him shortly after the murder. An acquaintance had reported to police that Breest had been moving furniture in Manchester during the night in question — something Breest has acknowledged — and that he drove a white vehicle. Witnesses reported they saw a woman who resembled Randall getting into a white car shortly before she disappeared, but their accounts differed as to the make and model of that vehicle.
Breest was arrested a year later, in 1972, and has been imprisoned since. A jury convicted him in March 1973 of first-degree murder. The sentence was life in prison.
At trial, prosecutors said Randall had clawed her assailant "to the bone," that Breest was that lone assailant, and that the blood under Randall's fingernails matched Breest's blood type. A jailhouse informant, David Carita, testified that Breest had confessed to him while awaiting trial. No mention was made of an accomplice.
Carita died two years later, according to court documents and news accounts, from a shotgun blast during an attempted robbery.
In their motion for a new trial, Breest's lawyers include affidavits from 1975 by two fellow prisoners of Carita and Breest who say that New Hampshire State Police visited them in prison shortly before Breest's trial and asked them to testify that Breest confessed to the killing.
Both wrote that such a confession never happened, that Carita was a known "liar," and that they refused to testify.
Breest's lawyers say this information was never shared with their client's defense team at trial, and Breest's petition to have the court later consider the affidavits was dismissed in 1983, when he represented himself in court proceedings.
Breest's lawyers say the new testing of the dried blood scraped from underneath Randall's fingernails clearly shows evidence of DNA from two men. One of the men's DNA does not match Breest's, while the other could belong to Breest but also would match as many as 1 of every 51 Caucasian males in the database of a company the defense lawyers hired to conduct the test.
"Applying these statistics to United States Census Bureau 1970 census data shows that more than 2,000 men" in the two New Hampshire counties where Randall disappeared and where her body was discovered could also match that DNA profile, the lawyers wrote.
Edward Blake, a forensic scientist in California who has prepared and analyzed DNA evidence in several high-profile cases, questioned the new results in an interview with the Globe, saying they do not appear to have been replicated by other scientists, a gold-standard in the DNA-testing industry.
Blake, who has not seen the DNA report from the testing company and only read details in the court motion, said it is "very unusual" for so many rounds of DNA testing to be done on "what is typically a minuscule amount of material from fingernail scrapings." That, he said, raises questions about its reliability.
He also said the DNA results do not preclude the possibility that some of the dried blood under Randall's fingernails could have come from an earlier contact with a male friend and the rest of the material could be Breest's.
There is one other troubling question: Breest is a suspect in another homicide. Two years before the Randall murder, Luella Blakeslee, a 29-year-old school teacher, mysteriously disappeared. She and Breest had dated.
Police questioned Breest but he was never charged. Blakeslee's skeletal remains were found in 1998 in Hopkinton, N.H., which is near Concord. The case remains open, and on the New Hampshire attorney general's website of cold cases, it notes that "Breest remains a suspect."
Breest has long denied any involvement in Blakeslee's murder.
In a phone interview Friday from MCI-Shirley in Massachusetts, where he is imprisoned, Breest said he is more confident today than he has ever been about clearing his name.
"I never, in 40 years of litigation, had five attorneys sign off on one of my motions," Breest said, referring to his lawyers from the New York law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, and co-counsel from the University of New Hampshire School of Law.
Breest said he never considered saying he was guilty to get a chance at parole in 1995.
"I didn't take the deal because I believed I would prevail and prove I am innocent," he said. "My wife has been married to me all these years. I am not going to bring disgrace on the family."
When Breest went to prison in 1972, his youngest child was just 9 months old. Today, that son, Manuel Breest, is 42 and has four children of his own.
Through Robert Breest's four decades behind bars, his wife, Carol, who lives in Ayer, said she has never doubted his innocence and has never considered ending their marriage.
"I keep saying God give me the strength," she said. "I ask the Lord to bring about Bob's relief, and that has been our prayer since the early 1970s."Kay Lazar can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @GlobeKayLazar.


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MAHWAH (AP) — A local historian believes he's found proof that writer Joyce Kilmer wrote his poem "Trees" in New Jersey.
Several towns in New England and even the University of Notre Dame have laid claim to inspiring the verse, which begins, "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."
Alex Michelini of the Joyce Kilmer Society of Mahwah tells The Record newspaper a letter written in 1929 by Kilmer's widow shows the poem was written in 1913 at their former home in Mahwah.
He found the letter and a notebook containing the first two lines of the poem at Georgetown University's Lauinger Library in Washington.
Aline Kilmer wrote a graduate student that the poem was written at home by a window looking at the Ramapo Valley.


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In my opinion, the single most bad - a$$ weapon on any battlefield, bar none, is the unrealistically large rotary cannon.
However, we only have stats for minifig-sized miniguns. Originally I just treated each barrel of the gun like an independent gyro rifle, but this became so tedious that I made some stats for larger weapons:
MKI minigun
Range 8", use 4, damage 1D6+1, fire cone 15 degrees/2-finger cone, 10CP (this is essentially the man-portable version, mounted on a vehicle)
MKII minigun
Range 12", use 4, damage 2D6+2, fire cone 15 degrees/2-finger cone, 20CP
MKIII minigun
Range 16", use 5, damage 2D6+2, fire cone 30 degrees/3-finger cone, 30CP
MKIV minigun
Range 20", use 5, damage 3D6+3, fire cone 30 degrees/3-finger cone, 60CP
MKV minigun
Range 20", use 6, damage 3D6+3, fire cone 45 degrees/3-finger cone, 120CP


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Honeywell TrueIAQ Digital Humidistat, Dehumidistat, Fresh Air Control
About This Product
TrueIAQ Digital IAQ Control. Integrate control of your home's humidification, dehumidification, ventilation and even bathroom fans into a single device with Honeywell's TrueIAQT Control.
Includes TrueIAQ control, and remote sensor. Requires constant supply of 24VAC Power. Sensor is wired using 2-conductor, 18 gauge thermostat wire.
The TrueIAQ monitors and automatically adjusts operation of your whole-house humidifier, dehumidifier, ventilator, or bath fan.
Maintaining proper indoor humidity minimizes the potential for unhealthy airborne pollutants to grow. Having too little humidity can leave you vulnerable to infections and uncomfortable dry skin. Too much humidity creates ideal breeding grounds for mold, mildew and dust mites. Humidified air also feels warmer in the winter, and dry air feels cooler in the summer.
TrueIAQ can adjust humidity with or without dependency on HVAC equipment operation.
If you have both a humidifier and dehumidifier installed, the TrueIAQ can automatically change over to the appropriate equipment based on your comfort settings and the changing outdoor conditions.
TrueIAQ can also deliver fresh air with or without dependency on HVAC equipment operation. Today's building codes require homes to be built more tightly for energy efficiency,
but that tightness can also trap indoor air pollutants, such as cooking odors, cleaning agents, radon, and carbon dioxide/monoxide. TrueIAQ provides cost-effective ventilation in accordance to industry standards. In addition, the TrueIAQ can be programmed to deliver ventilation during set times of the day or night.
- Operating/Storage temp: -40°F to 120°F (-40°C to 50°C)
- Condensation Protection: 0-100%
- Operating RH%: 0% to 99% non-condensing (TrueIAQ). Outdoor sensor protected from condensation.
- Temp reading range: -40°C to 50°C (-40°F to 122°F)
- Temp accuracy within range: 0.4°C (0.72°F)
- Humidity reading range: 5% to 95%
- Humidity temp accurate reading range: -20°C to 50°C (-17°F to 122°F)
- Humidity accuracy over that range: +-4.5%
- Maximum real time clock drift over 1 year: 7 minutes
- Vertical mount to cover one gang box
- Flame Rating: UL94V-0
- RoHS compliant
- Relay life: 100,000 cycles at 1A 24Vac
Power Supply:
- 24Vac ± 20% 50, 60Hz (TrueIAQ control)
- 24Vdc 2-wire over communication bus, not polarized (outdoor sensor)
- Protected against voltage spikes
- Not protected against over voltage connection (ex 120 or 240V)
- All setup parameters are stored indefinitely
In the Event of Power Failure:
- Real-time clock is maintained for 4 hours
- All outputs are deactivated
- All setup parameters are stored indefinitely
Mechanical Design:
- Dimensions: 2-3/4" W x 4-3/4" H x 7/8" D (TrueIAQ control); 2-3/4" W x 3-3/4" H x 7/8" D (Outdoor sensor)
- Weight: .35 lbs (TrueIAQ control); .15 lbs (Outdoor sensor)
- Temperature Unit Display: °C/°F
5-Year Manufacturer's Warranty
Reviewed by 1 customer
- Attractive Design
- Easily Understood Instructions
- Easy Installation
- Simple Interface
- Needs backlight always on
- Needs temp calibration
Best Uses
- Cold Climates
Comments about Honeywell TrueIAQ Digital Humidistat, Dehumidistat, Fresh Air Control:
Only short comings are the lack of temp calibration capability and an always on backlight like the Honeywell thermostats; otherwise a great product..............


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KLRU is partnering with the Austin Lyric Opera for a special presentation of Rossini's Cinderella to be taped for KLRU's In Context program.
"We're thrilled to have this partnership with KLRU," said ALO General Director Kevin Patterson. "Opera is such a rich spectacle and to have it captured by someone as talented as Dutch Rall will make it a visual feast for an audience who may have never experienced the art form."
Gioachino Rossini's Cinderella will be presented at The Long Center for the Performing Arts November 8, 12, 14 & 16, 2008. KLRU will tape the November 12th performance of the production. The show will air on In Context on PBS in early 2009. Tickets are currently on sale for Cinderella starting at $20 and can be purchased by calling (512) 472-5992 or online at www.AustinLyricOpera.org
In Context recently won two Lone Star Emmy Awards. The show is produced by Dutch Rall, 3-time Emmy-winning producer, director, cinematographer and editor for America's Public Broadcasting System (PBS). He has traveled the world as a soundman for bands and musicals, lectured for the National Press Photographers Association and was the winner of the World's Smallest Film Festival, the very first competition for video on mobile devices. His commercial work includes shooting for AT&T's Olympic campaign. Dutch is also working as the director of photography for a documentary about architect Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio and producing performance films for various dance companies He was awarded the 2008 Austin Critics Table Award for best video design. His first independent feature film, The Incurable, is in the final stages of post production.
"Being allowed the opportunity to showcase the amazing work of ALO is an immense honor for us," said Dutch Rall. "A collaborative and continuing effort between KLRU and ALO is something that I hope will benefit and enrich the entire community. Full-length, HD, locally-produced operas will be something Austin can be proud of."


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British gay Muslims seek Islamic weddings
British gay Muslims are joining the global fight for equality and seeking gay Islamic marriage. The BBC's 5 live Investigates speaks to one couple about their 'nikah' - a Muslim matrimonial contract - and asks how they balance their sexuality with the Islamic faith.
"We met about three years ago, at an iftar - a breaking of fast during Ramadan.
"I think a lot of Muslims find that time of year very spiritual and very enlightening, and so I think that's why our relationship developed, because we spoke about our faith."
"Eventually we went on a date."
Asra recalls the first time she met her partner, Sarah, three years ago. The gay couple, who are also Muslim, are one of a growing number of gay, British Muslims who have cemented their relationship with marriage - Islamic marriage.
Asra fondly remembers the moment Sarah proposed to her.
"After the first date, which was about an hour, Sarah casually asked me to marry her."
Sarah interjects.
"I think it was more like four hours, after dinner, coffee and walking. I didn't really plan it, but it just really seemed like the way it was between us, I should try and keep it as pure as possible.
"That may sound strange being lesbians, but it felt like we should do it the most honourable way we could."
The Muslim way
Asra and Sarah decided upon a 'nikah' - a Muslim matrimonial contract. Whilst nikahs have traditionally been the reserve of heterosexual Muslims, Asra and Sarah were aware that other gay Muslims had followed this route and the couple decided to investigate further.
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[1] For those who like Imrahil and Andrahar, I've posted "A Brotherly Gift". It also features Halabor, my very own little Gondorian fishing town and some of its inhabitants.
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Posted:Sep 24, 2006 06:47 GMT Reply to this Comment
[2] Hi, Soledad,
First to restate again how much I liked "A Brotherly Gift." I love these stories-as-presents that all the rest of us get to enjoy, too!
Do you have a particular time/set of years in medieval Europe (or elsewhere) that you draw from when describing Halabor and its people and their way of life? I know that Middle-earth was not meant to replicate one specific real-world time period, but your descriptions are so vivid that I wondered about your own imaginings in this area. Is the keep like one actually in Yvoire? Was [i]Swanwing[/i] based on an existing boat or design?
I'm curious in part because I think I'm now going to be picturing your specific descriptions whenever I read something similar in other stories. (I.e., anyone who writes "The hunting party returned," is going to have me seeing your retinue unless they are pretty specific about it being otherwise. Were/are greyhounds really capable of pulling down a deer?)
If you've already answered questions like this in another forum about Halabor, just let me know and I'll go search them out. Thanks!
Posted:Sep 24, 2006 14:53 GMT Reply to this Comment
[3] Hi Denise,
I often use the books of Joseph and Frances Gies as reference. They wrote a lot about medieval life. For example, I took most of the information to the hunting party from "Life in a Medieval Castle", and simply put the pieces into a - hopefully proper - narrative. According to them, a greyhound actually could kill a deer on its own. Yvoire's Castle is actually a lot more modern than the one described in the story, at least from the outside. It's in private hands and can't be visited, unfortunately.
I can also recommend "Live in a Medieval City" and "Life in a Medieval Village", although the latter one is a bit harder to read. Another good book on medieval hunting is "The Hound and the Hawk" by John Cummins. "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott is also a good source, although I wouldn't dare to judge how authentic it is. And Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael stories. She really put a lot of research into her work.
For the oriental part of "A Brotherly Gift", I did a bit of Internet research about oriental rug patterns. There are some wonderful pictures, too. The food stuff is from another Internet site about Arabic food, although halvah is something you can get in every bigger European city with a good percentage of Turkish inhabitants. It's good but abysmally sweet.
"Swanwing" is just a little bit based on smaller Viking ships, but only from afar. Time-wise, I'm rather eclectic, picking pieces from everywhere between the 11th and 13th century, adding the idea of Dúnadan sophistication and just generally mixing it the way the story demands.
I hope that helps. I'm glad you liked the story. :))
Posted:Sep 24, 2006 16:57 GMT Reply to this Comment
[4] That helped a lot - thank you! *adds several books to the to-read list* Although I don't know when I'll have time to actually read them, I can start looking around for copies. It would be nice to have some references on hand. Your dedication to research and authenticity definitely comes out in the story.
Posted:Sep 25, 2006 16:18 GMT Reply to this Comment
[5] Oh, I haven't come around to read "The Hound and the Hawk" yet, either. My to-read list grows with frightening speed. *g*
Glad you've grown so fond of Halabor and its inhabitants. I have anoher story in planning, titled "The Young Knights" - theoretically, it should come for Christmas, but, well, it depends on the muse and on how much time I can steal from Real Life. The main character would be Herumor, but it's going to have a lot more canon characters than usual.
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Left to its own devices, Wikipedia would degenerate under the rule of deletionists until finally only one page--Wikipedia--remained on the site. This would then be nominated for deletion.
Actually, that sounds like a rather good outcome. Perhaps you're on to something.
Is bbcnewsamerica.com anything to do with the BBC? I'm guessing not.... My first reaction to this story was to wonder how the BBC had ever managed to produce such a fugly website to be honest...
It lost its father, it went through a fundraiser. It had two fuckin libel suits filed against it. Larry Sanger turned out to be a user, a liar, and now he's accusing it of hosting childporn.
Who cares about all that?
The most important thing about Wikipedia is that Old Uncle Lar's partner Jimbo Wales promised some wacky right-wing talk dame that he'd sanitize her (quite interesting) Wiki page if she'd tug on his johnson. That tells you everything you need to know about the dependability of Wikipedia, especia
Malapropism means to use a word in place of another word that makes the same sound, but doesn't deliver an appropriate meaning, for example, odorous for odious, comprehended for apprehended and auspicious for suspicious and benefactors for malefactors. All these are Malapropos of each other. Now the second word portmanteau means to merge two words with each other in such a way that the sounds of the two words become merged as well as their meanings. In this case malamanteau is a portmanteau of portmanteau and Malapropism, whereas malamanteau is also a Malapropos of portmanteau. The meaning of the new word is still to be created properly.
That's a very hirsute observation.
Some readers at the XKCD forums pointed out that the term may have originated from this MetaFilter thread [metafilter.com] back in 2007:
[blockquote]It's not spoonerism. More like a portmanteau combined with a malapropism. So I'd go with malamanteau or a portmanpropism.
posted by ludwig_van at 3:31 PM on July 17, 2007[/blockquote]
for example, odorous for odious, comprehended for apprehended and auspicious for suspicious and benefactors for malefactors.
I have a young cousin that loves to talk... and he does this all the time, nearly every other sentence he is using the wrong word for what he's talking about, yet it isn't difficult to understand what he's saying. I've noticed this more often on the reality shows (when I catch glimpses on talk soup), the reality stars are constantly doing that, replacing the wrong word for the word they mean.
What is a person that suffers from this linguistical malady called? There must be a more clinical and less pejorativ
I've noticed this more often on the reality shows (when I catch glimpses on talk soup), the reality stars are constantly doing that, replacing the wrong word for the word they mean.
What is a person that suffers from this linguistical malady called? There must be a more clinical and less pejorative term than 'idiot.'
In the case of "reality" shows and daytime talk TV, I expect there is no more accurate word than idiot.
Who cares about pejorative? The truth hurts.
This is the best example of why XKCD is an awesome web comic - a modern "funny" - I've seen in some time. In fact, I'd argue the societal commentary is often better - more cutting and intelligent - than you'll find most anywhere else (WSJ included). It's not always just "geeky" stuff, though Little Johny Normalization is a great example in that department, too.
All right then, since you find it so funny, could you explain the joke to me?
Because I have absolutely no idea what the joke is in the line "Ever notice how Wikipedia has a few words it really likes?", or even what it is trying to say. No, I haven't noticed Wikipedia having any words it particularly likes, whatever that means, and I have no idea what that has to do with a made-up funny word?
The library is witness to both truth and falsehood
I'd check the quotation properly in my translation, but currently it's hiding somewhere in L-space, probably afraid to come out.
I still think that the most scary(And interesting) part is that google now have 152,000 hits for the word. So a: Google is fast at picking up new words. It really generated a lot of interest and there are quite some spammers with some effective automatic page generation systems.
And people say kids these days put too much stock in wikipedia. Come on, they won't even let an undefined word be added even after it clearly becomes defined by xkcd.
Now the power to change google search results [xkcd.com], make new words [xkcd.com], and cause spontaneous gatherings at random locations [xkcd.com]. That's power that only stick figures can be trusted with.
It serves them right for deleting all that porn. Karma's a bitch!
The link in TFA: http://www.bbcnewsamerica.com/malamanteau-wikipedia.html [bbcnewsamerica.com]
This site does not appear to be related to BBC News, it is actually registered to a guy in Pakistan:
Domain Name: BBCNEWSAMERICA.COM
Shahbaz Ali (email@example.com)
DHA Lahore
Tel. +092.3218830642
Creation Date: 16-Feb-2010
For reference, BBC World News America has this website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/default.stm [bbc.co.uk]
Unfortunately, I only realised this mistake after I posted the submission. This particular story has in fact been copied around an endless list of such spam sites, but I was totally unable to find the original source, so I couldn't make a proper submission update in time. It'd probably be best if the link was taken out of the story altogether as the site linked to is essentially plagarising whoever initially wrote it.
I thought this was blindingly obvious based on the fact that the author of TFA is clearly a pseudonym, there's a very low hit counter at the bottom, and the web design looks like it's from six years ago. Slashdot editors must be out to lunch on this one.
"Your obscure Pokemon obsession is no more valid than my XKCD fetish" - Anonymous
So, I use Wikipedia on a daily basis for quick reference and as a jumping point to the sources. However, as a community/culture, I think its really just sort of gotten out of hand. Arguing for pages and pages about something which is really sort of inconsequential? Who do they think they are, Slashdot? (but seriously...). I first realized a few years ago that there was no point in trying to actually participate when I watched a revision war/flame fest between some random Swedish guy and an exchange student friend of mine who was from Georgia (the country), over stuff in the Georgia article. J. Random Swede decided that being born in a country, growing up there, and having had 20+ years of first-hand experience wasn't good enough to contribue some relatively minor points to the article, iirc. It turned into quite the little bru-ha-ha between Soso (my friend) and that guy, who wasn't exactly a Slavic languages and culture scholar himself, either. There is some value in wikipedia, but not enough to justify a bunch of bored, pissed-off nerds thumping around like some stiff-collar Britannica editors at the East India Club.
First-hand experience is not appropriate for Wikipedia at all, regardless of how good it is. That's because there's no way for anyone later to verify your friend's level of experience. All information on Wikipedia is supposed to be cited (or common knowledge). Do you really think it would be a good idea to just trust all contributors who claim to have knowledge of some subject?
The official name of this policy is No Original Research [wikipedia.org]. "The term 'original research' refers to material--such as facts, allegatio
Cool. It's like a new and improved version of the prank involving the lengthy name of the new German Foreign Minister [slashdot.org] last year.
The XKCD threat has officially been upgraded from "Unfunny But Harmless" to "Somewhat Annoying".
Luckily for them, the Internet doesn't scramble its bombers until DEFCON 2 ("Almost As Problematic As 4chan").
The XKCD threat has officially been upgraded from "Unfunny But Harmless" to "Somewhat Annoying".
Luckily for them, the Internet doesn't scramble its bombers until DEFCON 2 ("Almost As Problematic As 4chan").
However ROFLcopters fuelling up as we speak
"It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence. [...]
Comrade Ogilvy, unimagined an hour ago, was now a fact. [...] Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar."
George Orwell: 1984, pp 46-48.
It's really odd the wikiadmins should be complaining about someone else making up things to put on their site. All things considered, it seems somewhat hypocritical.
It's really odd the wikiadmins should be complaining about someone else making up things to put on their site. All things considered, it seems somewhat hypocritical.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
It's precisely because it's so easy for random people to document made-up stuff on Wikipedia that the wikiadmins take such a hard line about removing it. Without a serious focus on removing such articles, the encyclopedia would be flooded with them.
The correct response is "Good one. That was very funny! We are a project that lives and dies on the contributions of our users. You just demonstrated how quickly people on the internet can be motivated and organized to a single goal. We're hoping some of that energy can be directed towards making Wikipedia a better place. Thanks. -- The Management"
"Wikipedia sucks! Ya man, they're not COOL enough to let my favorite webcomic make shit up on its website!"
I think XKCD has the right to make whatever jokes it wants to. I also am more of the opinion that Wikipedia should allow the article to be published. For the sake of avoiding confrontation, Wikipedia should probably chill and let it through. In reality, though, all the thousands of people who vandalize Wikipedia every day who think they're SOOO funny just mess things up for everyone else.
Wikipedia has done more for humanity's accessibility to knowledge than most of us will individually in our lifetimes. So quit being so damned rough on a website with such a huge task at hand: creating an accurate, universal encyclopedia while fighting ignorance, stupidity, and malice.
An internet forum is debating the proper formalism for creating neologisms on a user-edited encyclopedia.
Would I even be able to give my grandmother the slightest glimmer of what this is about?
"Wikador" --A malmanteau combining "Wikipedia" and "Matador," the latter standing in semantically for "Editor."
Without getting into the argument about the notability of the term (I think it's quite notable, but I'm biased), "Malamanteau" should not have a Wikipedia entry because Wikipedia is not a dictionary, as Wikipedia will gladly point out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTDICT [wikipedia.org]
The link in the article is a blog. It has no ties with the "real" BBC. This is the real one... [bbcamerica.com].
Poor Wikipedia...
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Toyota's sponsorship with Ireland's most successful rugby province will be worth 5.75 million euro over the next three seasons and includes the title sponsorship of the Munster senior rugby squads competing in the Magners League, Heineken Cup and the British & Irish Cup.
This will bring Toyota's investment in Munster Rugby well beyond the 13 million euro mark, having come on board as the principle sponsor of Munster Rugby in July 2004.
In addition to a basic sponsorship fee, Toyota's commitment to Munster is further highlighted in a continuation of its incentive-based package related to progression through to the final stages of the Heineken Cup and Magners League.
It also provides for continued investment in general marketing, communications and advertising that will help boost the Munster Rugby and Toyota brand images.
David Shannon, Managing Director of Toyota Ireland, said: "It is a great pleasure for us at Toyota Ireland to announce our continued sponsorship of Munster Rugby until 2013.
"Since 2004 we have been on a magical journey together. One that has seen Munster teams deliver, to their wonderfully devoted fans, two Heineken Cups, a Celtic Cup and a Magners League.
"In tandem with this has been Munster's magnificent achievement in developing a truly iconic and worthy home for the team here at Thomond Park."
Commenting on the sponsorship renewal, Munster Rugby Chief Executive Garrett Fitzgerald said: "Munster have been in partnership with Toyota as our title sponsor since July 2004.
"Toyota's professionalism, understanding and support during this period has played a significant part in the development of our brand and our success on the field.
"The renewal of this sponsorship further confirms Toyota's commitment to Munster Rugby and we are privileged and delighted to have the opportunity to work with Toyota for a further three years, until 2013."


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MPAA CTO Jumps Ship To Internet Society, An Opponent Of Greater Online Copyright Enforcement
from the changing-his-tune? dept
DNSSEC was designed to provide consumers with a secure, trusted connection to services like online banking, commercial transactions, and electronic medical records - not to foreign websites operated by criminals for the purpose of offering counterfeit and infringing works. These evolving protocols should be flexible enough to allow for government, acting pursuant to a court order, to protect intellectual property online.That shows a rather complete misunderstanding of how DNSSEC works, which is odd, because Brigner should know better. However, in the brief time that I did get to talk with Brigner, he struck me as one of the more reasonable folks at the MPAA, and I wondered if he was pressured into writing such nonsense that completely misses the point. In fact, on that panel back in January, it seemed pretty clear that he was conflicted about his views on this particular issue.
I bring all this up, because Brigner has left the MPAA after just about a year, and has joined the Internet Society, an organization who has made it clear that it opposes these efforts to expand online enforcement strategies. There's been some concern that Brigner now becomes the MPAA's voice over at ISOC, and moves them away from this position.
I'm hopeful, however, that the true story is that ISOC's position on things is a lot more aligned with what Brigner's true feelings on these matters are, and that what he said while employed by the MPAA was more about the job than what he really felt.


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Police have arrested an Amarillo man on a robbery charge in Tuesday morning's holdup at the FirstBank Southwest branch at 5701 S.W. 34th Ave.
Sgt. Brent Barbee said Steven Edward Boyd, 28, of Amarillo was arrested Tuesday about 8 p.m. in a parking lot at Silver Oak Apartments, 1710 S.E. 34th Ave.
Officers took Boyd into custody on municipal warrants, and evidence linking Boyd to the robbery was later found in an apartment in the complex, police said.
About 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, a police investigator spotted a blue Chevrolet Trailblazer matching the description of the vehicle linked to the robbery. Officers stopped the vehicle near Sixth Avenue and Harrison Street, and two people in the SUV were released without charges, police said.
Further investigation of the vehicle led investigators to the apartment complex, where Boyd was arrested as he stepped out of another vehicle, Barbee said.
Boyd was booked into Randall County jail on a robbery charge and three traffic warrants, Barbee said.
Barbee said a masked man walked into the FirstBank Southwest branch Tuesday about 9:28 a.m. and demanded money. He had his hand inside his jacket pocket as if he had a weapon, but no weapon was seen, Barbee said.
Barbee said the robber ran east out of the bank, then south. Tuesday's robbery marked the second time the bank has been robbed in the last three months and the fourth Amarillo bank robbery since December.
On Nov. 5, a masked man entered the same branch, pointed a handgun at the teller and demanded cash. The teller placed money in a bag and the man, later identified as Donald Joseph West, 49, left the bank, authorities said.
Amarillo police arrested West about 10:30 p.m. the next day after a tip led them to an unoccupied pickup parked in the 1900 block of Gregory Street.
West, who was captured after a short foot chase, has been indicted on federal bank robbery charges. He also faces other state charges in Potter and Randall counties.
Another tip led police to arrest Walter Bernard O'Dell Jr., 59, of Oklahoma on an aggravated robbery charge in the Dec. 26 armed robbery of a Bank of America branch at 3601 S. Washington St.
About 10 a.m. that day, a man with a pistol grip sticking out of his jeans walked into the bank, handed the teller a note demanding money and fled in a vehicle bearing Oklahoma license plates, police said. A local car dealership employee's tip led to O'Dell's arrest, police said.
O'Dell remains in the Randall County jail under a $250,000 bond.
Police said they have not arrested a suspect in the Dec. 31 robbery at the Wells Fargo bank branch at 2000 S. Washington St.


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Exploring how solar energy works while having some fun at the same time is the theory behind a Brush Solar Energy Camp for teens held recently at Brush High School.
It's also a way to inspire students to consider the possibilities of a career in science engineering or math, according to Xcel Energy's Pawnee Station Director Jerry Lyne, who helps coordinate and lead the camp, along with Brush High School science teacher Dave Miner.
During the camp, students learn about electricity, gears, building things and making them work by building a drive box and mechanism powered by a solar panel. The solar collector panel contains reflective material that deflect the sunlight into solar cells to make the unit function. At the end of the two-day session students usually take their projects outside in the sun to see if they work. However, Lyne said this year due to overcast skies they were not able to test the collectors outside. However, they did use a flashlight just to test the control circuits and that the collector rotated in the correct direction.
The camp has been held for several years now. Returning students, including two of Lyne's own children, help mentor new students.
In past years, Lyne said they have also studied the science behind energy in rockets and also challenged themselves with a whimsical "mental experiment " – calculate the size of a box needed in order to hold all the people on earth, challenging the students to determine if it's something you could actually calculate.
Lyne said at the end of the camp this year students completed a survey which asked if they were also interested in other types of camps. Some suggested botany, biology and chemistry.
"If there are people in the community that would be interested, we could develop a week-long series of classes and the students could pick and choose based on their interests, of which the solar camp would be one," Lyne said. "I am hoping this interest might prompt other individuals or businesses to have an interest to do similar types of camps."
The camp, along with other science programs for students, is funded through a $17,500 grant from Xcel Energy to the Brush School District.


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A southern Arizona housekeeper has been sentenced to four years' probation for stealing from 13 of her clients.
Pima County prosecutors say 55-year-old Georgia Chapman also was ordered Tuesday to pay more than $430,000 restitution.
A Green Valley resident called the Pima County Sheriff's Department last April to say she believed her housekeeper had taken up to $2,000 worth of her jewelry.
Authorities say Chapman admitted stealing from the woman. She told investigators that she sold the jewelry as scrap and received more than $300.
The Arizona Daily Star says Chapman later confessed to stealing jewelry from other clients.
Chapman was indicted on charges of burglary, trafficking in stolen property, theft and fraud.
She pleaded guilty in November to attempted theft and faced up to three years in prison.
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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
The Naked Truth Behind My GMAC Bowl Pool Pick
Tonight's clash of the titans pits 8-3 Texas El-Paso versus 8-3 Toledo in the GMAC Bowl (Where the hell is that again? I need a goddamn atlas to go along with my bowl pool sheet nowadays).
As you might have guessed, like most college football fans, I'm sporting full wood just thinking about this donnybrook. I mean, how can one even fathom looking ahead yet to the Poinsettia Bowl (being played in...oh, screw it) when these two traditional powers are set to square off tonight? Pinch me, honey, and clear that Desperate Housewives shit off our Tivo. Daddy smells Instant Classic.
Therefore, after giving careful consideration to strength of schedule, talent levels and injury reports while also factoring in Chris Dufresne's "Want to be there" element mentioned below, I threw all that crap out the window and based my pick one thing: Titty Bars.
As you may recall, UTEP head coach Mike Price had a George O'Leary-esque run as coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide after a little trip to a Pensacola strip club. So I figure, as a 20 year old college kid, that's the kind of coach I would play my ass off for. I mean, you think the Michigan Football Bust is fun? Ha! Puh-lease! What kind of entertainment you figure ol' Mike is pulling in for the UTEP football banquet? "This year's team MVP is quarterback Jordan Palmer! Now, Lexus, Lexus to the main stage to announce the team spirit award..."
Thus, for that mature, informed reason -- and that reason alone -- my Bowl Pool pick for tonight's GMAC Bowl being played in beautiful, downtown somewhere is UTEP. And as the band strikes up the school fight song -- along with Motley Crue's GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS -- I say, "Go Miners!"
Confidence rating: 11
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- The King said...
Without looking it up, that game is in Mobile. Gradkowski vs Jordan Palmer. A traditional MAC power vs a resurgent (newly C-USA) power. What's not to like?
I would ordinarily pick UTEP here because of Price, but the fact is, UTEP underachieved heavily this year with a roster full of upper-classmen. This is only their second bowl game since just about the Pleistocene Era, and Toledo is a solid, experienced bowl club.
I took Toledo. They been to the dance before.
Also, Yost, I like how you pick on this game, saying it means nothing to you and does not interest you. When you and I both know that at 6PM we'll be on the phone talking about an interception Gradkowski just threw.
- December 21, 2005 10:43 AM
- Yost said...
"Yost, I like how you pick on this game, saying it means nothing to you and does not interest you. When you and I both know that at 6PM we'll be on the phone talking about an interception Gradkowski just threw."
- December 21, 2005 11:14 AM
- Yost said...
P.S. Loef, what's with all that logic shit when making your bowl picks?
- December 21, 2005 11:28 AM


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Do you end up with manicure-wrecking bubbles in your nail polish? Does your hair go right to Frizzville after you blow-dry it? According to ShopSmart, the shopping magazine from the publisher of Consumer Reports, odds are you're not using your hair and beauty products the right way.
ShopSmart offers these tips:
Blow-dryer. One of the biggest mistakes that many people make when they blow-dry their hair is flipping their head over. That's a sure recipe for frizz. "This method sucks all of the moisture out of your hair while creating no sense of direction," says Nina Aprile, a stylist at Blow, a blow-dry bar in New York City. Another common blow-dry error is using too high of a temperature, leading to damaged, burnt ends.
The right way: Start with freshly washed, towel-dried hair, which will shorten dry time and cut your risk of damaging strands. Apply a heat-protecting spray and use a paddle brush to detangle your hair.
Eyeliner. The most common mistake people make when applying liquid or pencil eyeliner is to follow the natural downward curve of the eye, which can give you a sad, droopy look � the opposite of the youthful, wide-eyed look you're probably going for.
The right way: Extend the line outward past the end of the eye and slightly upward to lift and open.
Nail polish. In addition to shaking the bottle like it's a maraca � an instant manicure ruiner � women often store their polish in places that lead the ingredients to break down prematurely, says Erica Marton, a celebrity manicurist in New York City. The main culprits: heat, moisture and sunlight.
The right way: ShopSmart recommends keeping polish in a cool, dry place away from sunlight. When it's time to use it, gently roll the bottle between your palms to mix the dye particles. If, out of habit, you do happen to shake the bottle, set it down for a few minutes to give the tiny air bubbles time to pop.
Face wash. Over-washing your face is an easy habit to get into, and it can dry out your skin. Not using the right cleanser for your skin type can also be a mistake, says Dr. Marianna Blyumin-Karasik, a dermatologist in Hollywood, Fla. "For example, if someone with sensitive or rosacea-prone skin uses heavy-duty cleansers or cleansers with chemical or mechanical exfoliants, such as fruit acids or sand beads, they may get skin irritation such as redness and peeling," she says.
The right way: For sensitive-skinned individuals, a nightly wash to remove makeup and daily environmental grease is enough. People with normal or oily skin should aim for twice a day. Apply a little warm water to the skin, then gently massage a pea-sized amount of the wash into the skin and rinse.
Face serum. Layering serum on too thick can lead to skin irritation or cause the product to flake off, especially if you use it with a lot of other products.
The right way: There's a reason serums usually come in an itsy-bitsy bottle; a little goes a long way. ShopSmart recommends following the instructions on the packaging. Most suggest using just a few drops of serum or a single squirt for the entire face.
Shampoo. If you're having more bad hair days than good ones, it might be because you need to switch things up. "Hair can become resistant to a cleanser's properties," explains Ryan Trygstad, a celebrity stylist at Sally Hershberger Downtown salon in New York City.
The right way: "I advise changing up your shampoo (brand) once a bottle is empty," Trygstad says. "Also, try to cut back on shampooing altogether to allow the natural oils on your scalp to moisturize and hydrate your hair."


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If you miss the free day, you should know that a portion of the sales from the Kindle version of this book will be donated to support three foundations close to the heart of the author: Rockstar Ronan, Friends of Brianna, and the National Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain Association.


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I'd rather remember family on their birthdays, but since I don't know the date of birth of my great-great-great-grandmother, Susan (sometimes known as Susanna) Holmes Bickerstaff, and I know she died on January 10, 1894, I thought I'd commemorate her life today.
The connection between us goes like this: me -> my mom -> Emma Bickerstaff Meinzen -> Edward Jesse Bickerstaff -> Ellis Bickerstaff -> Susan Holmes (& William) Bickerstaff.
I found Susan through research and the help of Danice Ryan, another Bickerstaff descendant, rather than through any family records or genealogy. I know so very little about her.
She was the mother of 14 known children. Susan's husband, William, passed away in March, 1893, about 10 months before her.
This obituary was published in "The Steubenville Weekly Gazette" on Friday, January 12, 1894.
It reads: "Mrs. Susan Bickerstaff, widow of the later William Bickerstaff, died Wednesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Kidd, on South Sixth street, aged eighty-five years. She was born in Carroll county, her maiden name being Holmes, and was married to Mr. Bickerstaff in Tuscarawas county in 1829. Nine children survive her: Augustine, Enos, William N., John and Lewis of this city, Ellis of McKeesport, Elizabeth, wife of John Nelson; Mrs. Mary Kidd and Mrs. John Curfman of this city. Her death removes a highly respected Christian woman. Funeral at 2 p.m."
Gramma Susan, if I knew your birthday, I would remember you then. Perhaps one day I'll find it.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Susan Holmes Bickerstaff
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Breaking and Entering Law & modern technology isnt working with my chosen profession of burglar.
I could try going to individual houses asking them not to lock doors but ultimately I think the
law needs changing so I get special treatment so I can continue to screw people.
I've always been curious as to exactly how the copyright holders expect the content providers to determine if any given piece of content is copyrighted or authorized. Is there an algorithm that can distinguish between an original copyrighted work and a fair-use derivative for audio or video?
I've always been curious as to exactly how the copyright holders expect the content providers to determine if any given piece of content is copyrighted or authorized. Is there an algorithm that can distinguish between an original copyrighted work and a fair-use derivative for audio or video?
To which these particular copyright holders would respond, "what fair-use?".
It's such a shame that music has been ruined by money.
Oh wait, no it's not. Money and advertising are no longer difficult hurdles to overcome for a talented independent musician. True, modern technology is a big reason why so many musicians are able to get their work out in the wild now, but think how many of those people have been driven to do it on their own due to record companies' douchbaggery.
I'm extremely happy that most of the real talent comes from a random dude in a basement with a homemade vocal booth, or some chick jamming on a synth in a bedroom. Being able to get our own emotions and musical inspirations available to the public so easily (and cheaply!) is, in my opinion, one of the greatest side effects of the Internet.
Right, except that there are physical limits to what you can accomplish when recording in a bedroom. The homemade vocal booth might fare a bit better...if this hypothetical poor musician manages to scrape together the cash for this and for the necessary professional recording and mixing equipment, and has the construction and audio engineering skills. So basically what you're saying is - music for the people, but only where the people are financially well-off home owners with a loads of free time and the ab
Agreed. If you read Youtube's position on fair use appeals on videos, they pretty much say as much flat-out. "We consider almost no fair use appeal to be valid, and if you make such an appeal, we're likely to sanction your account."
The only way you could do it is to have some massive database that can quickly and easily identify a work as copyrighted or not based on a small sample of it. This kind of "fingerprinting" already exists for music. Not sure about video. Getting it all together into one big database would be a real pain, though--and so would legally forcing YouTube, et al to use it.
how do you separate infringement from fair use? What if it's a clip from a song they have the right to use?
You don't. The RIAA, and other such organizations, do not believe in fair use. They are in fact, very bitter about it.
Their preferred world is one in which they can deny, or enjoy forced monetization, of all content and the burden of defense, both financially, and legally, is borne by those least capable to do so.
Your question about rights is interesting too. I currently have a problem with this very situation with YouTube. I do have rights to use a song in videos and get flagged on a constant basis by the fingerprint system. Guess what their solution to the problem is? MMO DRM. In their solution I would need to embed my own personal code in the video when uploaded to authorize its use. Of course the next logical step is to create licensing rights that demand a per viewing fee.....
What if it was intentionally uploaded by the copyright holders themselves, or by those they authorized to do so?
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/03/broadcast-yourself.html [blogspot.com]
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/google-viacom-wanted-to-buy-youtube-uploaded-its-own-clips/32061 [zdnet.com]
For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt "very strongly" that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube.
Viacom's efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.
In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.
You know, when individuals start to exhibit this kind of behavior we stick them in a padded room somewhere with medication and therapy till the symptoms go away
I know your comment was tongue-in-cheek, but if you've ever watched the documentary The Corporation [imdb.com], they do a very interesting comparison between incorporated business (as a legal "person") and the technical DSM-IV definition of psycopathy, with some disturbing results. I know it's not the most unbiased documentary ever, but it does at least raise some poignant questions about the mental health of these "people" we have created in the name of progress (and... ?? profit!!)
You know, when individuals start to exhibit this kind of behavior we stick them in a padded room somewhere with medication and therapy till the symptoms go away
Not if they have money. Then they are just eccentric until they actually hurt or kill someone else. Phil Spector, anyone?
Actually poor old Phil is just in jail because he didn't have enough money. Just look at that heir to the DuPont fortune that was found with a guy's head in his closet and still managed to get off. I think he is up to three or four dead now (it is believed he killed his ex wives as well) and is still walking scott free. Once you get up to a certain dollar amount it pretty much doesn't matter what you do, thanks to superlawyers.
As for TFA, while I don't download their shit for anybody that wants it I say go right ahead. Why? Because they have robbed us of our public domain, that's why! The whole point of copyright was a contract between the holder and the People nothing more. In return for a limited copyright We, The People got a richer public domain. Now? Hell even Steamboat Willie is still under copyright and the man has been dead, what? 50 years now?
Frankly I believe this is one of the reason why the US will end up a backwater. You can't get shit done in the US anymore thanks to the giant minefields of patents and copyrights anymore, and we tech guys now nearly all new things are built upon ideas of old, but now our entire culture is locked up behind paywalls. Countries like India and China will end up being the next great leaders, since you can actually do things there without an army of lawyers, while here in the USA everybody just sues everybody. But it never ceases to amaze me how truly disgusting and greedy the *.A.As are. Really, 150 YEAR copyrights aren't enough for you people? Ripping off the artist AND the consumer and you STILL whine about lack of profits? Disgusting pigs, the whole damned lot.
Google Goggles is scary at the things it can recognize. It could probably do video with a little more coding.
The "New World Order" that the *IAA seeks is one where everything is assumed to be copyrighted (by them). If you want to distribute something, it must have their approval (probably to the tune of $thousands + $hundreds per minute of media for "analysis" to ensure it's not infringing). Sounds farfetched? RIAA's Sound Exchange is already THE government-mandated recipient of all royalties for music played on "internet radio". Even if the song wasn't written, performed, or recorded by anyone associated with
I've read about this. Can you provide a citation? I play CC-licensed music over internet radio all the time, and fair-use-ly sampled stuff as well. I'd love to see the RIAA come after me, I've got nothing better to do than fight a lawsuit like that.
Here's a slice of the mandatory and automatic internet radio royalty fight, from the point of view of a broadcaster:
http://somafm.com/crb/ [somafm.com]
More recent stuff from the same guy is
http://somafm.com/blogs/rusty/labels/IREA.html [somafm.com]
"The new agreement keeps the per-performance rate structure but reduces the rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board for 2009 and 2010 by about 16 percent and establishes rates for 2011-2015. This year's rate is $0.0015 per streamed recording, moving up to $0.0025 in 2015. The CRB rates w
They don't care. They just want the ISPs to do their work for them.
Technology is making it so that business models that revolve around copyright protection need to come up with a new paradigm. They don't want to, for the obvious reasons. They happen to exist in a country with a corrupt political system so rather than change their business model they're just going to buy a law.
What they don't realize it that it's impossible to stop copyright infringement if the cost of the 1+n copy is almost zero.
I also i
RIAA won't stop until they gain the right, by law, to send their personal SWAT team to your home and execute you on the spot for humming more than two notes from a 200-year-old song that they have somehow kept under copyright.
The only other way to stop the insanity is for the artists and publishers to stop participating in RIAA.
Amid the furor of increasing crime rates the National Association of Police Chiefs declared that the home owners and citizens were not doing enough to deter crime on their own. The association members concurred that citizens should be wielding tools that allow police authorities to monitor their behavior and the behavior of those around them including voluntarily installing equipment in their homes and vehicles that would allow police authorities to monitor and deter crime in whatever way was possible. The Police Chief's association declared that they would not be able to deter crime at the current rates because they couldn't possibly know where all the crime was occurring and when, nor to the degree it would break the law. As a consequence the Police Chief's Association asked that new laws be passed that would require citizens to become participants in monitoring and reporting crimes. Otherwise crime would continue, other citizens would continue to loose money, their health, and risk their safety.
If the wall was labeled a "public art space" and people were encouraged to do graffiti on it, then maybe? Youtube and RapidShare encourage people to post content then basically look away until someone complains about it.
And how should the 3rd party (the site like Youtube or Slashdot) know what material that a user owns the rights to and are allowed to upload? The only ones who possible can know that is the one who upload the content or the guy (RIAA or MPAA) that claims that they own copyright for it.
A law like this would make it impossible to allow any site where a user can upload content. No more Flickr, no more Facebook, no more Slashdot...
A law like this would make it impossible to allow any site where a user can upload content.
And just what do you think the xxAA really wants? They want to be the only "authorized" source of "content".
How does this affect the porn industry?
Youtube and RapidShare encourage people to post content then basically look away until someone complains about it.
Youtube and rapidshare allow people to post content and the law doesn't require them to do anything until someone complains about it.
Despite that, both companies will block previously uploaded content by hash and Rapidshare relatively recently stopped their rapidshare
points program because they say it encouraged uploading of copyright infringement.
All that said, I loathe the idea of "informal agreements inked with intermediaries"
Copyright is a public policy issue and it should be decided by the public, not by a cartel of businesses.
All that said, I loathe the idea of "informal agreements inked with intermediaries" Copyright is a public policy issue and it should be decided by the public, not by a cartel of businesses.
This. The RIAA is trying to back-door some deals instead of doing everything out in the open anymore where we can publicly mock them. This is the same problem I have with it.
If the wall was labeled a "public art space" and people were encouraged to do graffiti on it, then maybe? Youtube and RapidShare encourage people to post content then basically look away until someone complains about it.
You mean like the bulletin boards at the local grocery stores, community centres, churches, gyms, skating rinks, pools, and post offices? You know the ones... where anyone can post notices and whatnot? You are seriously arguing these companies/facilities should be liable for copyright infrin
...encourage people to post content then basically look away until someone complains about it.
Yeah, and the constitution should also be held responsible for encouraging Copyright violations with this ridiculous "freedom of speech" notion. Surely the right to distribute my works while still telling everyone what they are allowed to do with it is the most inherent and inalienable right of them all.
The wall has a few other grafitti on it, and a sign saying "post no bills".
Youtube et al encourage people to post content they own, and warn against posting material they don't.
Which is enough.
If the RIAA wants to protect its copyrights it has to enforce them itself, against the infringers. Putting Youtube out of business isn't that.
Perhaps a slightly better analogy:
An author writes a book, and plagiarizes most, if not all of it from another copyrighted work.
Editor doesn't catch the plagiarism, and passes it on to the publisher for printing.
Publisher prints the book and ships to bookstores.
Original copyright holder finds this book and is now getting ready to sue.
Who does the original author go after?
The plagiarizing author?
The editor?
The publisher?
I'm assuming the publisher would have to pull the books from shelves when the plagiarism
I thought the answer is 'go after the deepest pockets and just hope the settle out of court'?
If somebody spray paints the text to a copyrighted poem on the side of a building, shouldn't the building owner be held responsible for copyright infringement?
If the building owner somehow made a lot of money from the poem then yes.
Maybe we're getting to a point where big business will no longer make oodles of money distorting our culture. They've had a good run for 150 years, but hopefully technology has destroyed this model. Woohoo!
It isn't working. Amendment __: Strike the clause "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;". Replace with "To enrich the sciences, arts, and culture of the People, by securing for fourteen years* to Authors and Inventors the temporary Privilege of monopoly to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself. But the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
"Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine...
"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property." - Jefferson
You do know he was talking about ideas, not recordings, right?
And that patent law and copyright law are very, very different beasts for just this reason, right?
You do know he was talking about ideas, not recordings, right?
You're contending that Jefferson advocated for ideas spreading across the globe, but only via word-of-mouth, never by written transmittal?
"Who is this Jefferson you are quoting?"
- A Texas High School graduate.
Say goodbye to youtube in its entirety. The risk of liability would be too great, it would turn into another hulu. What would happen to user generated video content?
Big media doesn't want user generated content because they don't own it and don't make any money from it.
They don't represent the artists. They represent the copyright holders (the recording and distribution companies).
Let the artists get together and release their work through different channels under different contract terms. They can shop around for other industry representatives to defend their IP. Or go it alone.
Let the RIAA wither and die. If they interfere, then the DoJ can throw the Sherman Antitrust Act at them.
Let's deal, Cary...
-Since every CD I buy today says that downloading music has the same effect as stealing a disc, make the punishment for downloading the disc the same as physical theft.
-Hold Rapidshare responsible for their hosting of copyrighted content, but you pay double if the content is found to be uninfringing.
-Allow me to write my own music to which I own the copyright and stream it over the internet without having to pay you royalties.
-Show that monies collected from copyright infringement cases (less court fees) literally go to pad the pockets of the artists you claim to protect. For added sympathy, use some to fund school music programs to encourage the next generation of musicians.
And, as a personal request:
-Stop using Autotune as an effect. It's annoying.
"..Since every CD I buy today says that downloading music has the same effect as stealing a disc..."
I wonder if any attorney has tried using this in court? If there is actual RIAA literature out there saying the downloading of music is the same as theft of a CD, wouldn't that establish a monetary value of the content and hence limit the financial liability of the downloader/filesharer?
If there is actual RIAA literature out there saying the downloading of music is the same as theft of a CD, wouldn't that establish a monetary value of the content and hence limit the financial liability of the downloader/filesharer?
No, because they already bought the law that places the statutory damages at something like $250K for each infringed work.
If they accepted a 1:1 value for downloaded music, those lucrative court settlements wouldn't be nearly as fun or profitable.
Wow, that just sounds like something out of a bad gangster movie
What will be enough for these people? Everybody just simply tithes to them?
They want the entire world to be beholden to, and policing, their copyright. At some point, they're actually doing society more harm than good. These people aren't even the ones "creating" anything -- they're just the ones using funny math to prove they're losing money hand over fist so they can avoid paying the actual creators. A bunch of middlemen skimming off the top don't contribute anything.
Sadly, I'm mostly preaching to the converted, and I fear bitching about it won't help.
Youtube et al are not responsible for uploads.
They can take down material you identify as infringing, identify infringing users to you under court order, and you can sue the users.
That's how civil law works. You don't punish people who aren't doing anything wrong.
And if it's too expensive for you to make money with your business model, you shut down your business and let life go on.
Copyright will work fine in those instances where it matters, and in those instances where it doesn't, well, you can't squeeze blood from a stone.
I'm sure they taught you that at B-school.
Apparently not satisfied with the current scope of the minimum age of concent laws, NAMBLA President ????? wants to broaden the scope of the law.
(note, you'll have to excuse me for not digging up the name of the NAMBLA president from work.)
The RIAA is allowed to rip off the very people the law should be protecting.
Copyright law should protect authors and artists not non value added resellers.
Its members have been nailed in payola scam after payola scam without any serious repercussions. Price fixing on a massive scale and "Record company accounting" is well known for forcing artists to pay for the privilege of earning money for them.
Any just law in the public interest would reduce their profits to a small percentage of the net.
Here is the main content of TFA:
RIAA President Cary Sherman said the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act contains loopholes that allow broadband providers and Web companies to turn a blind eye to customers' unlawful activities without suffering any legal consequences.
"The DMCA isn't working for content people at all," he said at the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum here. "You cannot monitor all the infringements on the Internet. It's simply not possible. We don't have the ability to search all the places infringing content appears, such as cyberlockers like [file-hosting firm] RapidShare."
- you see, DMCA isn't working for RIAA.
In response to a question from CNET, Sherman said it may be necessary for the U.S. Congress to enact a new law formalizing agreements with intermediaries such as broadband providers, Web hosts, payment processors, and search engines.
The RIAA would strongly prefer informal agreements inked with intermediaries, Sherman said: "We're working on [discussions with broadband providers], and we'd like to extend that kind of relationship--not just to ISPs, but [also to] search engines, payment processors, advertisers."
- makes sense, make it increasingly difficult for US economy to survive.
Last week, the RIAA and a dozen other music industry groups called on Google and Verizon to crack down on piracy, saying in a letter that "the current legal and regulatory regime is not working for America's creators."
- RIAA considers itself a 'creator' apparently.
Clearly the law is not working. The correct fix is to abolish patent and copyright law altogether. There should be nothing of the sort, all government intervention into economy must stop, and this does include creating any sort of barriers of entry into any industry. Copyrights and Patents are like any other regulations, are designed to make competition less likely, to make the monopolies of the existing powers more persistent and pervasive, this of-course helps the government to maintain its power in a number of ways: obviously government makes much more money from monopolies than from actual competing businesses, who wouldn't bother giving the government officials those nice fat bri.. contributions.
All government regulations do this: they tax, they subsidize, they regulate, all that it ends up doing is creating barriers to entry, creating moral hazards, helping big monopolies and destroying competition, all of this of-course helps government officials but totally works against sound economy and competition.
Copyrights and patents must be abolished, that is the correct way to help the economy and not by helping some specific people to maintain their monopoly while giving them ability to drag any competition through a bought court system with their ill gained money.
... er ... just why does the RIAA think it can write laws? Merely because they've had success in the past influencing legislation does not mean they have a right to such influence continuing.
Because the paid damn good money to get their guys into office!
Source Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept. [wired.com]
People NOT the RIAA President saying 'trying to sell garbage at a premium' isn't working.
But legislation that establishes a group with the authority to establish mandatory and fair licensing rates. Some sort of clearing house that is solely charged with collecting fees and distributing the proceeds fairly. Something like what exists in England but way more progressive. Everything can be licensed, you can't withhold, and you must accept the established rate. Furthermore they can be petitioned/lobbied to create varied fair packaged licenses or even custom licenses. Of course whomever owns the copyright is free to accept less money... So all those books out of print and abandonware will still be purchasable.
Truth be told the government should be involved in the issue. Consumer licenses should be tracked and maintained by the government, it's in everyone best interest. It makes what you purchase more physical and non revocable. You should be able to lend your licenses as well as be able to sell and transfer them. So you really do own every book you purchase forever as well as all that music, you won't need to repurchase it over and over again.
A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it.


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First they fine us for not buying Obama Care and now we're forced to buy Car Care. Socialists!
Please let Texass secede!
Please let Texass succeed.
Anyone else old enough to remember having your Mad Magazines confiscated? Another case of humor deemed "inappropriate" for "kids" in grades 8-12. I agree with the previous comment about the issue is more about humor being heretical to the church; Our Lady of Consumption.