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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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- Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories of Protogalaxy Physics: Canonical Star Formation Laws at Low Metallicity
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- Social Skills and Executive Functioning in Children with PCDH-19
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Virtual Patient Simulations (VPS) are web-based exercises involving simulated patients in virtual environments. This study investigates the utility of VPS for increasing medical student clinical reasoning skills, collaboration, and engagement. Many studies indicate that VPS provide medical students with essential practice in clinical decision making before they encounter real life patients. The utility of a recursive, inductive VPS for increasing clinical decision-making skills, collaboration, or engagement is unknown. Following a design-based methodology, VPS were implemented in two phases with two different cohorts of first year medical students: spring and fall of 2013. Participants were 108 medical students and six of …
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Domestic Terrorist Ammon Bundy and Others Arrested; One Person Militant Dead
Breaking News
Published January 26, 2016
BURNS, OREGON— Ammon Bundy, the leader of a bunch of domestic terrorists who took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, was arrested on Tuesday during a traffic stop, according to CNN.
A unidentified source told CNN that shots were fired after authorities made the traffic stop. It's not clear who fired the first shot.
One of the terrorists, also known as militants, was killed. The location of the shooting that led to the death has not yet been disclosed.
The so-called militia group took over the federal wildlife refuge on January 2, 2016.
"The land on which the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is located is in the heart of our tribe's ancestral territory," wrote Charlotte Roderique, chair of the Burns Paiute Tribe in the letter to Attorney General Lynch. "This is sacred place to the Burns Paiute Tribe. The refuge and the refuge buildings hold invaluable, irreplaceable and endangered aspects of the tribe's cultural heritage."
Editor's Note: This is a developing story and will be updated when more facts become available.


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Rabbitte rejects Pringle "offer" claims
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Former Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte TD says he accepts his party had been in contact with Killybegs Councillor Thomas Pringle.
He added, however, he does not believe "any offer" was ever made to him.
He said the Labour Donegal south west candidate issue was "settled" with original nominee, Cllr Frank McBrearty, who also ran in the recent by-election in the same constituency.
Cllr Pringle said he was approached by Labour Party's George Cummins on December 20. He explained he was offered the opportunity of a Seanad seat if he failed to get elected under their party banner if he was to join them, but he rejected their alleged proposal.
Speaking to this newspaper on Friday during a visit to the county, Deputy Rabbitte said: "I have double checked and it is true that contact was made with Pringle and I wouldn't be at all surprised because there is a certain convergence in terms of policy between the stated policy goals that he kept laying down and the Labour Party platform, so that is not unusual. What is unusual is any claim that he was made an inducement, or any offer, and I don't believe that happened. The opportunities I have had to check it has confirmed my view that I don't believe that any offer was made it him. If any offer was made to him, there was no authority to do it. What chat took place in a pub or hotel or whatever I can't account for," he stated.
He added that he "assumed it was a publicity opportunity" by the Independent Killybegs Councillor.
He stated he believed the issue of a Labour Party candidate for Donegal Southwest was "settled" with Cllr. Frank McBrearty being nominated.
Deputy Rabbitte also accused Cllr Pringle of "shooting off his mouth" in relation to what he could achieve as an independent TD compared to what the Labour Party could if they make it into Government.
"He should go a bit easier on the rhetoric," the Labour TD stated on a visit to Donegal last Friday.
The Labour Justice spokesman was on visit in the county with his party candidate for Donegal North East in the forthcoming March 11 General Election, Cllr Jimmy Harte.
Questioned on the prospects of having either one or two candidates taking a Dail seat after the looming election he says it will be an "uphill struggle" for Labour as the Donegal ballot, historically, has been "unkind" to them although he says there is a "earthquake change" in the way people are looking at politics.
"In that circumstance the question is where will that vote settle? I would say that I have been around with Jimmy Harte since last night and today and I'm very proud of the fact we have a standard bearer here who has credibility, who has a track record, whose family have a track record in public service and he would be an informed and sensible representative for the Labour Party."
He added he was "very hopefully of the formers Fine Gael mans's chances in the election.
On Cllr McBrearty's chances in the Donegal South west constituency, he said it will be difficult to claim a seat.
"It is always an uphill battle of Labour in a constituency like Donegal south west. But I actually think the survival of Fianna Fail in Donegal south west is at issue. They will find it difficult to hold a seat," he stated
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In mid-October three hundred people drowned when an overcrowded fishing boat sank offshore from the small Italian island of Lampedusa, midway between Malta and the North African coast of Tunisia. These were emigrants from northern and sub-Saharan Africa seeking a better life in Europe. Living conditions in parts of Africa—already challenging because of overpopulation, drought, famine, disease, and warfare—are being made even more tenuous by climate change. In the face of such difficulties, fleeing Africa for the promise of a better life in Europe becomes a very attractive prospect. The number of refugees fluctuates from year to year, but in 2012 alone 64,000 boat people came ashore in Italy.
Climate change—with its attendant sea level rise, drought, agricultural failure, intensified typhoons, etc.—is likely to up the ante on the already contentious and very serious issue of ecological refugeeism. The United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that much of the migration funneled through Lampedusa consists of people fleeing the Horn of Africa. Particularly vulnerable are the citizens of Eritrea who face increasingly serious droughts every few years, a result of growing climate variability. While the Lampedusa tragedy itself cannot be definitively said to have been caused by climate change, aid groups are warning,
similar tragedies could happen more often as climate change drives more people away from vulnerable countries towards the continent.
This situation is paralleld in Bangladesh. François Crépeau, a UN consultant on migration, warns that it is now almost certain that global migration will increase in the future due to climate change:
A warming planet is likely to exacerbate the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events like storms, floods and heat waves, while gradual processes of environmental degradation such as desertification and soil and coastal erosion would intensify. For those affected, one natural response will be to migrate.
Crépeau notes that some scientists estimate that by mid-century up to fifteen million Bangladeshis will be displaced by climate change and attendant sea level rise. India has built a 2,100 mile-long high-tech fence along its border to try to keep them from entering.
India, for its part, sees climate change bringing multiple threats. Rivers feeding both Bangladesh and Pakistan pass through India, but threaten to dry up because of melting glaciers. Meanwhile, the country can barely handle demands for resources from its own citizens and argues that it shouldn't have to accept the victims of a problem caused by the industrialized world.
For inhabitants of already industrialized nations—by far the biggest contributors of greenhouse gases—numerous ethical issues are raised by the prospect of new waves of human population relocation. Are countries morally obligated to welcome refugees from nations that border them, but not to take in refugees from more distant nations? Is a country's moral obligation to accept refugees greater or less if the issue compelling the migration is escape from rising waters, rather than escape from famine or drought or tribal warfare? Upon which nation is it incumbent to offer safe haven for the population of a gradually submerging island nation in the Pacific? If a country does take in an entire national population, is there an obligation to relocate some of its own citizens to make room so that a welcomed refugee population can retain its cultural and linguistic integrity?
To be sure, large population movements have been frequent throughout human history, In an article in History, Future, Now, Tristan Fischer makes a pointed comparison between current patterns of mass relocation and other migrations in European history:
At some point, this divergence between population growth and food availability will result in the prospect of widespread starvation in North Africa. As with Germanic tribes 1,650 years ago, North African family groups and political leaders will have to ask themselves a tough question: are we more likely to die by staying here and starving or crossing the Mediterranean Sea into the European Union en masse and confronting a military response by the European Union? Given the fact that the European Union is politically divided, militarily weak and culturally pacifist it is highly unlikely that any useful military response would be forthcoming. If I were a Libyan, I would stake my life on crossing into Europe rather than staying behind to starve.
The Lampedusa tragedy is a warning for us both (1) to anticipate the probable effects of climate change, and (2) to begin reflecting on our moral responsibility in the face of this escalating crisis. Unlike residents of the crumbling Roman Empire—who desperately and powerlessly confronted the Visigothic, Vandal, and Hunnish hordes converging on Europe—in 2013 we have a more global vantage point from which to view the causes and consequences of human mass migration. With our knowledge from genetics that Homo sapiens is a single species, and with two millennia of ethical reflection about human rights and responsibilities under our cultural belt, those of us who are citizens of industrialized nations should initiate honest and deeply reflective conversations about how we approach the issue of huge numbers of people like us desperate to escape catastrophe and seek a new homeland.


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Be Healthy School Grant Program
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama will make available $250,000 and award grants up to $10,000 to schools across the state that enroll students in grades K through six. The grants are for the implementation of school-based health and wellness programs that emphasize increased exercise, nutrition education and parental involvement during the school year. Grant requests are generally accepted between January and March.
Guidelines for Consideration
To be eligible for funding a school must:
- Be located in Alabama
- Serve students in grades K-6 (must serve at least one of these grades)
- Must be public or private non-profit
- Awards are payable to schools only
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- Sports leagues or teams of individual schools
- Any activity deemed inappropriate by BCBSAL
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All funding requests must be submitted online.
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In our commitment to help prevent childhood obesity, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama's Be Healthy School Grant Program supports schools throughout Alabama. The grants are for the implementation of school-based health and wellness programs, emphasizing increased exercise, nutrition education and parental involvement during the school year.
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Jefferson County IB School
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Now i'm not too sure about the accuracy of that report. As I recall
none of the freighters were hit in that battle. Can't say the same
about yer so called "Orange Squadron". I flown tougher lanes earning
me pilots license.
Now the real story here ain't some red herring bout a giant space
station, which is bout as likely as the Katana fleet in my opinion.
Nah, the real story is T'Thokk. You shoulda seem him fight. Knocked the
guy on his arse, and that was just the bouncer. I think we've got the
next contender here.
E'Rol 'Bruce' Rivas
Best Bush Pilot in the Outer Rim Territories
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Relationships; Reading The Fine Print
All relationships are like contractual agreements. Each party expects to receive certain things. In our intimate relationships, sex is like a signature on the contract. Unfortunately, many of us sign the contract without reading the fine print. By the time we discover what kind of deal we are being offered, we are bound by our signature. Some contracts have a ninety-day grace period. This gives the parties the opportunity to examine the merchandise, test the service, make any necessary adjustments or bow out of the agreement. It makes sense to apply a grace period to our intimate relationships. We may need time to assess behavior; true intentions and the performance history of the prospects. The fine-print issues such as habits, motive and background cannot be seen with closed eyes.Let them wait. And wait they do.
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Born on Date
Ottos Edge:
School known for
Louisville: Medical field vs SU Journalism
Ottos Edge: Louisville... who discovered a vaccine that is 100 percent effective against cervical cancer, were first to implant a self contained artificial heart, had the first successful hand transplant (creepy for Halloween), and were also credited with developing the Pap smear test, the first civilian ambulance, the nation's first ER, and the first blood bank in Louisville.
Also known as
Ottos Edge: SU... Cuse can order pizza while in the house
GPS (Location)
Ottos Edge: SU… NY beats out
Ottos Edge: Push… lets get it right people
City named after
Ottos Edge: SU... off with their heads
Some other notes about
-the city owns a steamboat (Belle of Louisville)
-the city was 70% under water from the floods of '37
-the largest building will be
Sticking with Kings…
State is
Ottos Edge: SU… one day the SU empire will strike back
But NY is not part of an Evil Empire…
Tom Cruise
Louisville: grew up in the city (Louisvillian as they call themselves) vs SU: born in the city
Ottos Edge: Push... having him born in your city is nothing to be proud of, but Louisvillian sounds like villain, maybe that is what made Tom evil?
Now to cruising in cars on the…
Road way
Ottos Edge: SU… nothing is good about traffic nightmares
Speaking of food…
Let's put the women and children to bed and go lookin' for dinner (Cuisine)
Ottos Edge: SU… I love food but wont even touch half this stuff. I will stick with the salt potatoes and Dino ribs. Look at this stuff:
Hot Brown- open faced sandwich of turkey and bacon covered in mornay sauce and baked till crisp
Burgoo- stew of veggies and lamb
Frog legs
Fried brain sandwich- calves brain on bread
Benedictine- condiment made from cucumbers and cream cheese
Bourbon ball- crushed cookies, corn syrup, pecans mixed with borubon and coated with powdered suger
Beer cheese dip
And to wash it down…
Ottos Edge:
Bourbon is in Mint Juleps that are drinkin at…
Most exciting 2 mins in sports
Ottos Edge:
Staying with Horse Racing…
Oldest race
Ottos Edge: SU… the Travers is the oldest of them all
Another name for a horse is a Bronco…
Ottos Edge: SU… TJ gets points tacken away for not sacking Berman yet
While we are on sacks…
Sack Master
Ottos Edge: SU... he terrorizes the NFL as well
Freeney plays for the…
Colts Great
Lousville: Johnny Unitas vs SU: Marvin Harrison
Ottos Edge: Loiusville... the best field general of all time
Sticking with WRs…
Ottos Edge: SU… and an all time great
I am the Greatest…
All time great athlete
Ottos Edge: SU... Brown was great in several sports and I think he coulda beaten up the
Often marking greatness are trophies…
NCAA FB Award
Ottos Edge:
Sticking with QBs…
Younger Brother
Ottso Edge: SU… nothing beats a Bavaro
Best QBs
Louisville: Johnny Unitas, Browning Nagle, Chris Redman, Dave Ragone, Jeff/Brian Brohm, Stefan Lefors vs SU: Donovan McNabb, Marvin Graves, Don McPherson, Wilmeth Sidat-Singh
Ottos Edge:
Johnny used to battle…
Giants CB
Ottos Edge:
Remaining with the D…
NT Ted
Ottos Edge:
Bobby Boucher (best current defender)
Ottos Edge: SU… my mama says Heyman is the devil
Other Footballers
Louisville: Ernest Givens, Deion Branch, Frank Minnifield, Ray Buchanan, Kerry Rhodes, Otis Wilson, Bruce Armstrong vs SU: Rob Moore, Donovan Darius, Ernie Davis, Keith Bullock, Joe Morris, Jim Ringo, David Tyree
Ottos Edge: SU… Skill Position U
So called FB players…
Ottos Edge: SU… is he still playing?
From kicking to…
Ottos Edge: SU... stomping the Dome is fun, stomping the bird results in an ass whooping
While we are there…
No one, and I mean no one, comes into our house and pushes us around (Home Field)
Ottos Edge: SU… no place like home
Stadium named after
Ottos Edge: SU… I cant live without AC and could do with that "pizza"
Draws 35k fans
Ottos Edge:
Someone who we all wish was foreign to us…
Head Coach
Ottos Edge: SU… he has a winning record against Kragthorpe
Staying with HCs…
Turned the program around
Ottos Edge:
As seen by our FB history…
First year FB
Ottos Edge: SU… what took them so long?
All Time Wins
Ottos Edge: SU… it is sad what has happened to SU
National Championships
Ottos Edge: SU… I would love to see another
Big East Championships
Ottos Edge: Lousiville… nothing like program building
Lambert Trophies
Ottos Edge: SU… since when are they NE?
Bowl Record
Ottos Edge: SU… last year broke a streak of 9 straight Bowls for UL
Rivalry Trophies
Ottos Edge: Push… neither team can win the trophies
Head to Head
Ottos Edge: Push… they will tie it up this year
Both schools are more known for BBall…
Famous BBall coach
Ottos Edge: SU... JB has more wins and will have more championships when he is done
Rick Pitino
Ottos Edge:
Top 50 NBA player
Ottos Edge: SU... both were good but he is our guy
Freshman BBall phenom
Ottos Edge: SU… Pervis would be nervous if he had to guard Melo but that may have to do with cheap shots
Someone who must be hearing constant cheap shots…
Former Thursday night ESPN CFB guy
Ottos Edge: SU... poor Mike has to be teased about this SU team
ESPN is part of…
ABC news
Ottos Edge: SU... he has better hair
Something that would be big news…
Breaking into
Ottos Edge: Lousiville… we should be able to break through in our lifetimes
Columns are used to build…
Ottos Edge:
Speaking of Homes…
Louisville Chris Dodd (Fannie mess) vs SU: Biden
Ottos Edge: SU… he hasnt ruined our country, yet
While we are on Gov…
Louis Brandeis
Ottos Edge:
Sticking with building names…
BBall Practice Facility
Lousiville: Yum! Center after KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut parent company vs SU:
Ottos Edge: SU… Louisvilel has sold out to fast foods
But that doesn't leave much time for…
Ottos Edge: SU… gotta love the NBE
Hitting the books will lead to a good job that allows you to hit the…
Golf course
Ottos Edge: SU… Turning Stone is up and coming, hopefully SU FB will soon be too
And finally the category of the week…
I love the 80s
1980s Redskins Great
Ottos Edge: SU… about time he got into the
And the TATTOO goes to...
The Syracuse Orange as they pull off a win for GRob


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The Supreme Court in 2008 opened up the doors to gun-rights litigation when it held in the Heller case that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms. Gun cases are now working their way through the federal courts. This does not mean that the courts are recognizing new gun rights.
The case is Kwong v. Bloomberg, decided on July 9. New York City charges $340 for a three-year gun license. Second Amendment advocates argue that this fee violates the Constitution. It does not, the Second Circuit (Cabranes, Walker and Wesley) says. The Court borrows from our First Amendment cases in deciding whether licensing fees violate the Constitution. Under the First Amendment, if you want to hold a parade, the government can charge you a licensing fee to defray the administrative costs associated with processing the application and maintaining public order. Same goes for Second Amendment cases. While the $340 licensing fee is significantly more money than that charged by by other jurisdictions, that grievance is irrelevant. What's relevant is that it costs New York City about $340 to defray the administrative costs of processing gun license applications.
The plaintiffs also claim that the licensing fee imposes an unconstitutional burden on gun ownership. In order to resolve this issue, the Court of Appeals has to decide what level of scrutiny to apply. If the Court applies heightened scrutiny, the government has a much harder time in defending the law. Under rational basis review, anything goes. The Second Circuit does not tackle the legal standard head-on, deciding instead that the law survives what it calls "intermediate heightened scrutiny" because"we find it difficult to say that the licensing fee, which amounts to just over $100 per year, is anything more than a 'marginal, incremental or even appreciable restraint' on one's Second Amendment rights -- especially considering that plaintiffs have put forth no evidence to support their position that the fee is prohibitively expensive."
Finally, the plaintiffs sue under the Equal Protection Clause because state law allows New York
City and Nassau County to set their own licensing fees separate and
apart from the rest of the state.This distinction survives rational basis review. The rest of the state can charge $3 to $10 to license firearms. But, "beyond setting the $3-10 fee range applicable to most of New York State, which plaintiffs do not contest, [the Penal Law] itself does nothing to burden anyone's Second Amendment rights." The law does not target a suspect class (such as race or religion) or burden a fundamental right. The City rate also survives rational basis review because it defrays administrative costs associated with processing gun applications.
Friday, August 2, 2013
NYC gun licensing fee is constitutional
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One image, taken from the east bank of the Fox River and facing west.
Parked my car under the "Don't Park Here" sign in the back of St. Brendan's Inn, got out with my camera and then looked at the river. Actually gasped aloud and said something that my friend, Angie, would call an "excited utterance."
This is the very first thing I saw:
Fully worth both a gasp and an utterance, I would say.


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Worldwide Pants
|Production company
|Television and film
production company
30 Rockefeller Center, New York City, New York
|David Letterman
Ed Sullivan Theater, New York, New York (1993-2015),
106960 Wilshire Blvd,
Los Angeles, California (2015-present)
United States
Key people
|David Letterman (Chairman)
Rob Burnett (President/CEO)
|Late Night with David Letterman, Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Everybody Loves Raymond
|David Letterman
Number of employees
|70 (2007)[1]
|Clear Entertainment (C.E. Music)
B&B Entertainment
Worldwide Pants Inc. is an American television and film production company founded and owned by comedian and former talk show host David Letterman.
The company was formerly headquartered at the Ed Sullivan Theater building in New York City, but has since moved to Los Angeles following the ending of the Late Show with David Letterman.[2] The president and CEO is former Late Show executive producer Rob Burnett. Peter Lassally, a former The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Show executive producer, was the senior vice-president until his retirement.
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A predecessor company, Space Age Meats, produced Letterman's first television talk show, The David Letterman Show.[citation needed]
The first Worldwide Pants production was Late Night with David Letterman, produced in partnership with NBC and Carson Productions. The company, then known as Worldwide Pants Productions, shared a 1991 Peabody Award, for their ability to "take one of TV's most conventional and least inventive forms—the talk show—and infuse it with freshness and imagination."[3]
A 2002 Forbes article comments on the approach Letterman takes for Worldwide Pants television productions:[4]
- Letterman's approach is to nurture an idea with seed money from his production company, then get someone else to pay for the rest of it. He isn't particularly hands-on once the programs get past the initial stages, but his imprimatur carries weight with network buyers. "They've got a point of view about everything they do," says Chris Albrecht, president of original programming at HBO. "These guys are making television every night and have been for a long time. You feel more comfortable with them."
The company produced its first film, Strangers with Candy, a prequel to the TV show of the same name. The film premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, within the "Park City at Midnight" category. Warner Independent Pictures subsequently signed up as North American distributor of the film, before ThinkFilm acquired the rights from Warner, giving it a limited release in summer 2006. The film grossed slightly more than $2 million, on a $2 million production budget and $1.5 million prints and advertising budget.[5]
In April 2005 the Sci-Fi Channel announced that Worldwide Pants would produce a half-hour animated ensemble comedy for the channel from Brendon Small, called Barbarian Chronicles. A subsequent interview with Small confirmed there were no plans to go through with the deal.[6]
2007 WGA strike[edit]
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Production of new episodes of the company's two late-night CBS talk shows ceased on November 5, 2007 when the Worldwide Pants writers joined the strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the trade association of which Worldwide Pants is a member.
During the first part of the strike reruns of Worldwide Pants shows were aired. This changed when Worldwide Pants broke ranks with the AMPTP by negotiating an independent, interim collective bargaining agreement with the Writers Guild of America in which Worldwide Pants essentially agreed to operate in accordance with the contract demands of the WGA for the duration of the labor dispute. The agreements automatically reverted to the final contract terms that the guild reached with the AMPTP at the end of the strike. The agreement allowed both the Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to return to the airwaves with their full writing staffs on January 2, 2008.
The agreement gave Worldwide Pants and CBS a perceived advantage over their rivals at NBC. The latter network was unable to make similar arrangements for its late night programming because NBC had retained control of production operations for both The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Unlike CBS, NBC would have had to negotiate an agreement covering the entire network in order to have writers work on the two late night shows. NBC aired new episodes of its late night shows on the same night as CBS, but without writers. This meant, among other things, that Leno and O'Brien were unable to perform their traditional monologues without violating strike rules (as the WGA had determined Leno previously did with monologues he claimed to have written) and were unable to secure the appearance of most celebrities, who refused to cross a picket line.[citation needed]
In October 2007, the media announced that Worldwide Pants would co-produce its first non-comedy project, a documentary about young adults running for public office.[7] The documentary, titled The Youngest Candidate, was written and directed by Jason Pollock and premiered July 2008 at the Traverse City Film Festival.[8]
In March 2008, EcoMedia announced a "content partnership" with Worldwide Pants to "create original, unscripted, environment-related content, in the style of The Late Show remote segments, for television and Internet distribution."[9]
In 2008 Worldwide Pants signed a product placement deal with Ford to promote the Ford Flex during The Late Late Show, using a series of weekly custom-written skits in which Ferguson played the leader of a band riding in a Flex as they traveled from Los Angeles International Airport to the CBS Studio.[10]
In April 2010, Worldwide Pants started Clear Entertainment, a.k.a. C.E. Music, a record label and announced the signing of their first band Runner Runner, a pop-punk group from Huntington Beach, California.[11]
In April 2012, CBS announced that it would begin co-producing The Late Late Show with Worldwide Pants, part of a deal that included extending Ferguson's contract until 2014.[12]
In October 2012, Worldwide Pants and B&B Productions—a subsidiary of Worldwide Pants created by Rob Burnett and Jon Beckerman—announced they had secured the rights to adapt Jonathan Evison's novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving as a feature film.[13]
The company's principal property, Late Show with David Letterman, wrapped up production in 2015. Its production of The Late Late Show also ended once James Corden's version of the franchise launched in March 2015, though Worldwide Pants did continue to produce the show while it was fronted by a series of guest hosts between the departure of Craig Ferguson at the end of 2014 and Corden's premiere. The company is not producing either The Late Show with Stephen Colbert or The Late Late Show with James Corden, both of which are owned outright by CBS.[14]
Post-Late Show[edit]
The company didn't shut down with Letterman's retirement from late night television; however, its future direction was unclear at the time of Letterman's finale. CEO Rob Burnett said at the time of Late Show's finale: "I honestly don't know what the future of Worldwide Pants will be... We've built a brand here. There is value. Ultimately it will be to Dave to decide what he wants to do with that."[15] Burnett indicated that he will likely step down as CEO in order to focus on his own projects once matters dealing with Late Show's winding down are concluded. The company moved out of the 13 story office building above the Ed Sullivan Theater, its home for 22 years, and relocated to Los Angeles.[14]
In early 2017, Worldwide Pants won a lawsuit over royalties.[16]
In an interview with New York magazine published in March 2017, Letterman said of the company: "Worldwide Pants is now on pause. Years ago, I wanted Worldwide Pants to be an ongoing organism whereby we could continue to employ people and develop material. In the meantime, things changed out from under us. It was explained to me that that production model doesn't hold up anymore. So Worldwide Pants ran out of steam for lack of opportunity. But we are trying to put it back together. It would be fun not to be involved in traditional ABC, NBC, CBS television. There's a billion different places to put something now."[17]
Due to its ownership of Late Show with David Letterman and various iterations of The Late Late Show, Worldwide Pants is also the owner of a considerable library of archival footage from both programs which, according to Burnett, "is extremely valuable if handled correctly".[15]
Worldwide Pants is currently the co-producer with RadicalMedia of Letterman's Netflix series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.
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- ^ 1991 Peabody Award to Late Night with David Letterman Archived 2009-06-24 at the Wayback Machine from the Peabody Award website
- ^ Celebrity 100 article about Letterman and Worldwide Pants, from a July 2002 Forbes article
- ^ Strangers with Candy from The Numbers
- ^ "Brendon Small interview". lambgoat.com (published 7 April 2008). Fall 2007.
- ^ Documentary fits Worldwide Pants from Variety (magazine) magazine
- ^ Release dates for The Youngest Candidate from the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "EcoMedia and Worldwide Pants Incorporated Announce Content Partnership". EcoMedia press release. Reuters. 7 March 2008.
- ^ "Innovative Marketing Campaign Puts Ford Flex in Front of Millions of Potential Customers". Ford press release. Reuters. 2008-09-03. Retrieved 2008-10-10.
- ^ Simon Vozick-Levinson (April 28, 2010). "David Letterman starts record label, signs pop-punk band". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
- ^ a b "CBS ANNOUNCES New Contract Extension with Late Night Stars David Letterman and Craig Ferguson through 2014". Press release. CBS Corporation. April 3, 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
- ^ Tatiana Siegel (October 11, 2012). "Worldwide Pants Nabs Big-Screen Rights to Jonathan Evison's Novel The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
- ^ a b "David Letterman's Final 'Late Show': What's Next for His Production Company Worldwide Pants". The Wrap. May 21, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
- ^ a b "On David Letterman's next Top 10 List: What to do with his company". Crain's New York Business. Bloomberg News. May 20, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
- ^ "Letterman's Production Co. Freed From Royalty Claims - Law360". www.law360.com.
- ^ Marchese, David. "David Letterman on Life After TV, Late Night Today, and the Man He Calls Trumpy".
External links[edit]
- Worldwide Pants Licensing Website (Operated by third party company MediaMine on behalf of WWP Inc.)
- Worldwide Pants on IMDb
- Who Ever Said Comedy Had To Be Fun?, from a May 2003 Fast Company article


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We have much to fear. War. Disease. Death. Peanut butter on the roof of our mouth. Or, to put it another way: traumatophobia, panthophobia, thantophobia and arachibutyrophobia. It seems there's a phobia for everything and everyone, even the poor soul who's afraid of sticky peanut butter.
Most of us are familiar with some of the common phobias: claustrophobia is a fear of closed spaces, agoraphobia a fear of people or crowds; acrophobia is a fear of heights. We've heard of these. But how about ataxophobia and atelophobia? They represent fear of disorder and imperfection. Their good friend is amathophobia fear of dust. If you have any of these, I would advise staying far away from my house where imperfection is the norm, disorder is the order and dust bunnies run rampant. Like fear of war, disease and death, there are some phobias that are easy to understand. Lophobia (fear of poison) and hadephobia (fear of hell), are terms most of us can relate to. But how about fear of otters (lutraphobia)? Otters are such happy animals. What's to fear, a slap from their flat little tails? People who experience kyphophobia fear stooping. How random is that? I haven't had the need to stoop for weeks now.
I assume people with this phobia suffer from bad knees, sore ankles or maybe plumber's pants that make stooping uncomfortable or even an embarrassment. Helminthophobics fear being infested by worms. Worm infestation is definitely not on my top ten to-do list. No one wants their innards filled with worms even when one is six-feet-under. Yes, worm infestation is unpleasant business and something we all can fear. Here's one of my favorites: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Are you ready? Fear of long words. I need say no more on this one. Love it. A person with amnesiphobia fears amnesia. How illogical is that? If a person did get amnesia, then they wouldn't remember that they had amnesiphobia anyway. So, in essence their phobia is a fear of not being able to remember their fear. Then there's antiophobia fear of floods. Especially hard-hitting, if your name is Noah. Cryphobia a fear of extreme cold, ice or frost can be detrimental to hockey moms. I work to avoid cryphobia at all costs by spending six months of the year in close proximity to my long johns and snow pants.
Some phobia names teach us about language. Frigophobia, a fear of cold things, is obviously the origin of the phrase, "It's friggin' cold in here." Frigophobics and cryphobics often hang out together in saunas and other warm places. Ablutophobia is a fear of washing or bathing, and goes a long way to explain the behavior of my little boys. I thought they avoided baths because they wanted to spend more time playing. Turns out their behavior stems from fear and is in need of a label. I guess this makes me a deficient mother, however there is no phobic term for fear of being a deficient mother. Interesting. Fear not, my children mommy's here, and it's bath time! Has anyone heard of walloonphobia? I'm pretty sure I don't have it, because before I wrote this article I didn't even know that a Walloon spoke French. In fact, I believe I can say I've never met a Walloon I didn't like. No discussion of phobias would be complete without the all-encompassing term to beat all terms: panophobia means fear of everything. You can't get any more phobic than that. My research into phobias made me think of a few of my own. Celltextophobia is fear of your cell phone bill something 90 percent of parents of teenagers experience each month. Keepupwidujonesaphobia describes the fear that the neighbors will get a fancy new car.
A person who fears minivans suffers from dontwanttogrowupaphobia. A fear of Santa is nohohoaphobia. Fear of disco: strobiaphobia, while fear of cutting the grass is mowbiaphobia. And, someone who fears infidelity? A tigerbythetailaphobic. I could go on and on. (You know I could.) That's because I don't have any of the big three: graphophobia (fear of writing), logophobia (fear of words) or grammatophobia (fear of grammar). Franklin D. Roosevelt gave us a famous quote about fear. He said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Which, I guess means that we should fear our own phobias. Is there a phobia about phobias? Of course there is. We call it phobophobia. I'm not making that up.
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Eric Ripert talks food, Anthony Bourdain, "Good vs. Evil" tour before Boulder visit
Eric Ripert has been praised for his thoughtful, passionate advocacy of contemporary French cooking through his TV shows, books and renowned New York seafood restaurant Le Bernardin.
He is not, however, known for his acid-tongued takedowns of celebrity chef-dom, his punk rock past or a certain je ne sais quoi that makes his fans want to guzzle endless shots of vodka with him. Leave that to Anthony Bourdain, Ripert's close friend and the more devious half of the "Good vs. Evil" stage tour.
The occasional road series, which visits CU-Boulder's Macky Auditorium on Sunday, April 14, unites Ripert and Bourdain for two hours of lively, humorous stage discussion and audience Q&A.
We did our own Q&A with Ripert for an article in today's Denver Post Food section, but thought we'd also present our unedited conversation with him exclusively for Colorado Table.
Thanks for your time today, Eric. I know Anthony's done his own tour for a few years, but how long have you been doing "Good vs. Evil"?
I've been doing it now for more than two years. I do about 10 to 12 cities a year with Anthony but not more because of the day job.
Ah yes, "the day job." How often do you get out on the road in general?
Sometimes, yes, I give some speeches a couple of times a year and mostly to an audience that is interested in my industry, but I have been giving also a speech about marketing and public relations to people who were in the industry as well. So, yes, I will say I have a bit of experience speaking in public. Now, finally, I am comfortable.
Is it refreshing to do something like this after spending so much of your time a Le Berdardin, or is it more like work? Do you meet a lot of fans at these shows?
I think the people who come mostly come for Tony. But it's very refreshing, yes. The audience that I have seen in different cities when I have been traveling with Tony are very diversified in age and also we see people from the industry, but we see a lot of people who have seen Tony or my show ("Avec Eric"). What they have in common is that they have a certain passion for food and that is the common thing that I have seen all over the country.
I know you've been in the U.S. since 1989, but has this tour taken you to some parts you never thought you'd see otherwise?
I have been in some college towns in the Midwest that I didn't even know existed, some small towns, but it was a very nice, welcoming, warm and young audience. It's always nice to see the diversity in the room.
Given the fact that you and Anthony are both celebrities and there's an audience Q&A in the show, have you ever had any crazed fans rush the stage for autographs?
(chuckles) Not really. I mean, it's always interesting with the Q&A, but nothing shocking to me. I think that the people who come out are very respectful of the process of question-answer, and we say nothing about our private lives because it's obviously private. So it's geared to the industry, or they ask for advice or they're asking Anthony about how he felt in some of the countries that he visited in some of the ("No Reservations") episodes. But nothing scandalous.
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Boston, MA – This morning, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce released a public policy brief created to inform the Chamber's approach to public policy on energy costs and supply, as well as solutions being offered in Massachusetts. The report, titled The Current Balance: The Role of Cost, Reliability, and Environmental Impact in the Massachusetts Electricity Market, can be found attached.
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When you've decided to commit to losing weight, you have the choice of going the surgical route or committing to some long-term changes in your lifestyle that will help you not only lose the weight, but also keep it from coming back in the months and years ahead. Using the traditional combination of improving your diet and getting regular exercise won't lead to immediate changes, but helps you create the foundation that will provide favorable results in a steady way. You already know that it's smart to exercise more and eat better — here are some specific tips that will help you meet your goal of losing weight.
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The average American spends a considerable amount of time each day in the front of the TV; why not cut down on some of your couch time in favor of exercising? For example, instead of flipping through the channels, lace up your running shoes, grab the family dog and take a 30-minute walk through the neighborhood. You can still make time to enjoy your favorite TV programs, but watching a little less will allow you to easily fit exercise into your day.
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If you've previously been eating unhealthily, it can be a major adjustment to suddenly stop buying sweets and junk food during your weekly trip to the supermarket. For some people, going "cold turkey" on unhealthy foods can be psychologically challenging, and you could find yourself obsessing over bad food — or worse, sneaking bad treats several times per day. It's better to set up one cheat meal per week. This will give you the chance to look forward to something unhealthy and, in the big picture, it won't be overly detrimental if you're eating good food the rest of the time. Make sure to set a time limit on your cheat meal, though. For example, aim to eat for no more than 30 minutes, rather than stretch the "meal" into several hours of unhealthy snacking.
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"There is no psycho/legislative alchemy through which we get 'golden conduct' from 'leaden character.'"
A Rochester, NY pizza-shop owner, Mufid Elfgeeh, another supposedly "vetted" Muslim immigrant to the US, was convicted recently in federal court of being a recruiter for ISIS. He is currently awaiting sentencing.
Curiously, the main issue in this case has become "buried". The main issue being that this person, by his own admission, planned to personally participate in the murder of US servicemen, and had illegally purchased weapons (black market) specifically for that purpose.
However, noticeably absent from the ultimate "plea deal" is any mention of the fact that Elfgeeh planned to personally murder members of the US military. In previous court papers, the FBI documented conversations that Elfgeeh had with confidential sources in which he freely talks about his murderous plans.
Here is yet another obvious example of the BHO Administration cynically attempting to "soften" real facts and issues of such terrorist acts by Islamic criminals. We witnessed the same thing when Nadal Hassan actually did murder serviceman in the infamous Fort Hood, TX terrorist attack. That act of terrorism was originally, and insultingly, labeled "workplace violence!" To add insult to injury, the BHO Administration actively opposed all efforts to correct the injustice.
The foregoing is illustrative of an inherent, and fatal, character flaw, shared by all liberals/socialists:
They're perpetually afraid of the truth, and they lack sufficient personal honor to overcome their fear. We can believe nothing they say, and they are thus unfit to govern, as we see.
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Friday, 19 July 2013
Neville Slams Abandoning Principles as UKIP Activist Admits to Playing Politics for Popularity.
SACKED UKIP YOUTH CHAIRMAN Olly Neville has slammed UKIP and praised the Conservatives for allowing a much broader base of thought and difference of opinions regards party policy, tbg can reveal.
In a social network exchange Conservative Youth Chairman Oliver Cooper called it "#TeamFreedom", former Liberal Youth (LY) Chair' Kavya Kaushik said she was willing to organise a leadership coup in LY if Olly Neville joined the Lib Dems. However, UKIP/YI members still seem not so keen to allow freedom of thought if it's different to UKIP's ever increasing authoritarian right-wing agenda.
The former UKIP Youth Chairman said that UKIP have gone from being radical to "hedging their bets" - to which one influential UKIP activist sensationally replied - "Or in short words, being more focused on popular opinion. It's Party politics, it's completely inevitable. Democracy for you!"
With the government coalition seemingly extending to it's youth wings, YI, the UKIP Youth Wing, whom has just released it's new logo, seem increasingly lost and sidelined from the rigors of youthful, free thinking political debate, through fear of dismissal.
Neville added - "With central control and policy changes I'm not sure who YI appeals. CF had a very successful election and LY is probably the most credible part of the Lib Dems, both youth wings doing well".
Edited & Posted by theblueguerilla at 13:25:00
5 comments:
- Olly Neville said...
Is this really a story?
- 1:28 pm, July 19, 2013
- Anonymous said...
What, UKIP suck balls and are showing true colors? Yes.
- 1:30 pm, July 19, 2013
- Anonymous said...
Oli was one of the most principled guys inside UKIP. They really lost any claim to 'principle' when they kicked people like him out.
- 1:32 pm, July 19, 2013
- Anonymous said...
Olly Neville should join CF and run for Chairman.
- 1:40 pm, July 19, 2013
- Anonymous said...
Neville was the biggest positive advertisement for UKIP there was. Without him YI on twitter are nowhere. His becoming leader had me so close to defecting, there's no chance I'll jump ship now
- 1:56 pm, July 19, 2013
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SEATTLE -- More HIV treatment in a community results in fewer new HIV infections, a South African study has revealed.
When HIV treatment coverage reached 20% of the infected population, a surveillance project indicated a 22% decline in HIV infections community-wide (P=0.002), said Frank Tanser, PhD, associate professor of health and population studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Richards Bay, South Africa.
"In communities where HIV treatment achieved 30%, the individuals' HIV acquisition was 38% less likely (P<0.001)," Tanser said in a press briefing here at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
"These results clearly demonstrate that the rate of new HIV infections can be reduced and that this can be done in a typical sub-Saharan African setting," he said. "This is the first empirical evidence to date that treatment can be prevention."
Tanser and colleagues put together two databases involving treatment in an area of South Africa with high rates of HIV prevalence. When they analyzed the results, they were able to observe "a robust decline in transmission as the coverage of HIV treatment was rolled out."
In the KwaZulu area studied, HIV prevalence is 24% in an area with high levels of unemployment and poverty. The Hlabisa HIV Treatment and Care Programme, funded through the American-based President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), delivers HIV and AIDS treatment programs in 17 communities. Since 2004 and 2008, Tanser said, some 20,000 individuals were initiated on treatment among 228,000 people in the communities studied.
The data and treatment was married to population-based HIV surveillance since 2003, which studies HIV acquisition in the area. About 75% of the population found to be HIV negative retest each year, allowing epidemiologists to determine infection rates. In the study, the researchers followed 16,667 HIV-negative repeat-testers, Tanser said. All participants in the analysis had to have participated in the project at least twice and had to be 15 years of age or older.
"We observed 1,413 seroconversions over 53,605 person years, a crude incidence of 2.64 per 100 person years," Tanser said.
Strengths of the observational study include the direct measurement of HIV acquisition in a longitudinal prospective cohort of all adults in an entire population, as well as directly measured antiretrovirus status in every infected individual, he noted. In addition, the researchers controlled for a wide range of key determinants of HIV acquisition.
"Randomized controlled treatment-as-prevention trials are the next step," Tanser said. "Our findings suggest that attaining high levels of antiretroviral coverage through existing, decentralized, public-sector antiretroviral programs is an effective means of reducing the rate of new HIV infections in hyper-endemic rural settings in sub-Saharan Africa."
James Hakim, MD, chairman of the department of medicine at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences in Harare, said the findings demonstrate that "rolling out antiretroviral therapy appears to be having an impact in reducing incidence of HIV in the community beyond just reducing the morbidity and mortality among the individuals receiving treatment." Hakim was not involved in the study, but moderated the press briefing where Tanser reported his findings.
Tanser and Hakim had no disclosures.
- Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston
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Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.Source Reference: Tanser F, et al "Effect of ART coverage on rate of new HIV infections in a hyper-endemic, rural population: South Africa" CROI 2012; Abstract 136LB.


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Posts Tagged 'parody'
Or, put it another way…May 1, 2012
Texts from CatwomanApril 13, 2012
If anyone hasn't seen or heard about the Texts from Hillary Tumblr I can only assume your internet is out, your dog ate your phone, you have no friends, and you don't watch the news. If anyone doesn't know a bunch of new pics came out from The Dark Knight Rises, there's really nothing this blog can do for you. For everyone else, behold the parody that simply had to happen…
via Cat-Tales
Comic-Con TweetsJuly 24, 2010
Didio looks like he's aged 30 years since September.
Twilight fan panel canceled after CosPlay mishap.
Comic-Con fun: ordered a Cattitude at the Marriott bar in front of Matt Idelson.
Unless you're dressed as an Imperial Storm Trooper, DO NOT go in Room 26AB.
Grant Morrison has the cursed monkey's paw.
Three things that should never go together: IMAX, vampires and nachos. I'm just sayin'
Jim Lee is HOT.
(Not giving away a phone for that, it's just a personal observation.)
Bride of the Demon was only written to make Denny O'Neil stop trying to break up Batman and Catwoman, settle down and do his effing job.
Of course it didn't work, he just started spending his time trying to make Bride continuity and The Long Halloween an Elseworld.
No, seriously, my Uncle Larry was dead for 3 days and he looked better than Didio looks now.
Just saw a Xena, a real Catwoman and two Hulks beating up a goggle-whore in Ballroom 3. WIN!
Comic-Con fun: ordered a DEE-vious at Hilton bar in front of Will Pfeifer.
Javier Grillo-Marxuach is HOT.
(No giveaway. Again, just a personal observation.)
Those were the droids you were looking for.
Unless that hazmat suit is real, DO NOT go in Room 8.
Ferregamo, Manolo Blanik and Jimmy Choo recognize DC Comics w/ special merit award.
There is no such thing as a Lego Amazon.
Chris Dee
PornMay 19, 2010
Several people have sent me the trailer for this Batman XXX: A Porn Parody that is making the rounds, and a few have suggested I take up my sword and lead the charge. What's interesting is that some assume I'd be leading the charge against it and others assume I'm all for it, but despite that 180-degree difference of opinion, both sides seem to think I have a sword.
Okay, technically, I do. Remember that "shoe fund" I started years ago with money I no longer waste on comics? I've used it to acquire some serious movie props over the years, including (the in-joke of all time for Cat-Tales readers) a pair of hero swords from Batman Begins. Oh if Mr. Didio's stockholders only knew. I mean seriously, primo memorabilia with a documented provenance does not come cheap. I realize they'd only have my word for the fact that the money was diverted from comic purchases, that every penny of it would have gone into their coffers if Didio & Co. hadn't screwed the pooch so completely on Batman and Catwoman. But c'mon, look at the amount of time and creative energy I have put into these characters over the past 9/10 of a decade. Don't I look like one of those people who keep the comic shops in business? And, as I've stated many times, I'm not a Marvel gal. So you do the math.
Anyway, point is, I do technically own a sword or three, but I can't say I have an opinion on Batman XXX to bother unsheathing one. I admire their cojones in putting out a press release for it. That's not something fair-use dwellers normally feel comfortable with. But that's about it. I thought I might use the opening to talk a bit about fair use, but come on. If you clicked on a blog entry called PORN and got a dissertation on copyright infringement, I think you'd be justified in slapping a bait-and-switch tag on this entry. So let's talk porn, just bear with me if I take the occasional detour into the dry stuff. It will get back to the Bown-chicka-wow-wow momentarily:
First: I am not a lawyer. I did, however, have an uncle who was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and passed on to me the only true thing you will ever read about the subject on the internet, the one thing that all of the hangers on, support staff and friends of the practicing attorney never quite get: any time a lawyer speaks in absolutes, they are on the clock. If Action X is absolutely illegal at all times, in all states, and under any circumstances, if Person Y is absolutely within his/her rights and all culpability falls on the other party, that lawyer's meter is running. Off the clock, there is always a trialable issue, a question of fact for the jury or judge to determine, a grey area or a mitigating factor that indicates, at the very least, it's time to challenge the established precedent. It's not hypocrisy, it's the nature of the beast: if everything actually was as cut, dried and never-changing as the meter-running advocate pretends, there wouldn't be two sides to argue. Not only would none of them have a job, there wouldn't even be a need for the process they're all a part of.
So let's dispense with this notion that copyright is gravity, and let's take a short break to cue up the bump-and-grind soundtrack, because you were all patient for that last part. Now then…
DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., owns Batman. (Bown-chicka-wow-wow…)
I don't. (Bown-chicka-wow-wow…)
The kids running around in their backyard right now playing Justice League, they don't. (No music here, there are kids playing. Pretend we're talking about the census until they're gone…)
The couple cosplaying Batman and Catwoman prior to making love in their own bedroom, they don't own either character. (Bown-chicka-you get the idea…)
And the makers of Batman XXX, they don't own the rights to anything either. So what is this "ownership" exactly, and how do we reconcile it with this thing called the human imagination and the way it responds to storytelling?
First, stories are meant to capture our attention and excite our imagination. So the kids playing in the back yard and the couple roleplaying in bed are, bottom line, using DC's products in the way they are meant to be used. It worked, imaginations are engaged and running wild with what they have been given. And even though some copyright holders may be unaware of it, that is absolutely what they want. It's the reason Star Wars and Lord of the Rings are still going strong after decades when Farthest Star and The Gray Prince are not. Enforcing your rights as an "owner" is a tricky business in this arena, because it's not like somebody trespassing on your land to fish in your stream, shoot your deer, or eat grapes off your vines. Just consider two shampoo simple extremes:
Of course LucasArts is going to go after a virtual world offering a complete roleplay environment when they're gearing up to launch their own official MMORPG.
Of course too, they're not going to touch Randy picturing Leah in the gold bikini when he's trying to get off. That's between his ears, beyond their control, and none of their damn business, thank you Captain Obvious.
So let's start adding stuff and see when it becomes their damn business… Can Randy bring his girlfriend into this process? Can he ask her to call him Han? Can he ask her to actually wear a gold bikini rather than just imagining her in it? Can she add silks to the bikini and braid her hair? Can a third party participate if everyone is a consenting adult? Can that third person just watch if that's their thing? (BTW, if at any point you're googling copyright law to find the answer to these questions, you need to call your credit card company right now, get your limit raised and go buy yourself some perspective, some common sense, a sense of humor, and a good therapist.) What if Randy and his girlfriend are into the virtual worlds and make a private area where they can do this same thing with avatars that look more like Han and Leia than their pudgy middle-age bods will allow in person? Where exactly is the line between OF COURSE SHUT IT DOWN and OF COURSE, IT'S NONE OF THEIR DAMN BUSINESS? Even in these extreme, absurdist scenarios, that line is a slippery little sucker and it keeps dancing around.
But wait, we're not done yet! There is still fair use to discuss, which is what I do (Don't leave, we'll get back to the porn shortly). I criticize DC Comics and they way they have consistently mishandled the legends that are an important part of our collective psyche. I say look at this guy who has a track record for making female characters prostitutes, that isn't someone you allow to establish the origin of a woman's icon. I say look at his take on heroes in a myriad of other writings, that isn't someone you allow to write the bible on your hero. I say look at this former writer-turned-editor using the bully pulpit to trying and insist his characters into importance: mandating plotlines that eviscerated where the story had gone naturally and organically in order to force relationships, both romantic and adversarial, with his own creations. I say look at that editor's successors piling degradation upon degradation on certain characters in order to punish the fans of those characters for not accepting a new direction despite a full court press of manufactured hype. I say that these people have abdicated their responsibility as caretakers of our legends and are not fit to be their custodians. That's one woman's opinion, and the right to express that opinion in whatever manner I feel will be most effective is the essence of what fair use is about. It's protected speech precisely when the opinion expressed is one the copyright holders won't like.
Which brings us back to the porn, because it brings us to The Streisand Effect, which I have to believe is what Batman XXX is banking on. Basically, you file a cease and desist or a DMCA, and rather than making the offending thing go away, you propel it into a stratosphere of fame and recognition that even Superbowl ads can't always deliver. The most recent episode:
Ralph Lauren had a new ad out with an impossibly skinny model in it. As Boing-Boing put it, "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis". The ad was highlighted on PhotoshopDisasters, as an example of (we really hope) bad Photoshopping. However, Ralph Lauren filed a (bogus) DMCA takedown notice on the post, which has since been removed.
That's the end of it, right? Post removed, story gone. Ha! BoingBoing has now covered the story, as has the Huffington Post, TechDirt and others. Ralph Lauren filed a DMCA complaint against BoingBoing, but their ISP (Canada's Priority Colo) knows what they're doing and didn't remove the post. They spoke with BoingBoing about it, and decided (rightfully) that the post can stay.
The BoingBoing blogger was then invited onto the Rachel Maddow Show to discuss American companies that respond too quickly to these DMCAs and the troubling implication of a practice that puts the burden of proof on the accused and not the accuser. And of course, every time this discussion escalates or takes a new turn, there's that picture again displayed for a new and larger audience.
Is there a wrap up to all this? I'm not sure… Maybe it comes down to maturity. Cut free of all the job titles, jargon and dollar signs, there is an inherent childishness running through these stories. In Ralph Lauren's behavior with the photo, in Denny's when he became editor, and in DCs when their new direction didn't fly. In The Lion in Winter, Queen Katherine says "A nation is a human thing. It does what we do, for our reasons." A woman finds it hard to love the son she was carrying when her husband took a mistress. She favors the other boys over him and the father overcompensates, favoring the other way – and when that man is a king, the rivalry that ensues brings civil war. Today, corporations have more power than most nations, and what was true in 1183 hasn't changed: they do what we do for our reasons. Some of these guys, they really need to grow up.
Chris Dee


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We are not big on celebrating Valentines Day. I show my valentine love all year long, this day is not any different.
It is a lot of fun for the kids, so I try to make a big deal for them. Owen usually has some type of celebration at school. This year I made his little cards to send to school with a little pack of candy.
I got the template from iheartfaces. I love this website!
When he got home from school he came home to a little bag of goodies from Brian and I.
We made Brian a little surprise for when he came home and hung it on the door. This is how we do Valentines day!
And our littlest valentine…he just sits and smiles all day long!
I passed up on a chance to go back to work. Brian and I had been talking about it here and there and an opportunity for me to go back to my old job just fell in my lap. I thought I was ready but boy was I mistaken. After a long weekend of running over all the options and scenarios we agreed that it was not the best thing for us.
Yes, money is wonderful and it buys you a little bit of comfort and a little less stress but its not everything. It would not buy me time with my kids that will be spent in the office. I love that I am available for my children and can give them everything they need. I do not take that for granted for even one second. I am very lucky. Its not saying that we go without but its all worth it in my book.
So this morning I called and passed on the offer. I know in my heart that I made the right decision.
I need to focus on the big picture and thats raising my kids and being the best wife I can be!