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This isn't partisan.
And unfortunately, it seems like too many Congressmen can only conform their official actions to a tired red vs. blue partisan mentality. It's toxic and I advocate that we actually start voting the toxic players out with independent candidates with no alligience but to their constituents.
/end idealist rant
"The law is like math; it has an exactitude about it that is not friendly to irrational, mindless, stabbing in the dark."
That a case concerning the sale of watches would eventually control the function of copyright law/First Sale Doctrine is pretty troubling in and of itself.
WATCHES people - watches. Omega's inclusion of the tiny design was a dirty trick to conflate the resale issue with copyright.
I was having a tongue-in-cheek conversation with a buddy along these lines the other day...
In the battle that pits Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich, when the most conspicuous difference between the two are their competing brands of dumbfuckery, I suppose I prefer the challenger. I'm fully confident that he can be just as awful, but it'd be nice to have a new guy's decisions to ridicule.
When an individual infringer is dinged with a judgment this, complete satisfaction of the award is practically impossible -- but somehow wholly reasonable according to the Executive branch and the RIAA. How can a position that will surely spawn more wasteful litigation be of any use here? Why do the labels want to keep shelling out legal fees in a fruitless endeavor to collect obscene, disproportionate, and unobtainable damage awards? To say "well, it's the law" doesn't seem to advance their interests. Insisting upon their current course is just hurting their ability to collect.
It just seems like this battle must not really be about the money. Whatever this has to do with, they are foolish to think a courtroom is their best forum for vindication.
[T]he Due Process Clause does not require that the statutory damage award be proportional to the actual harm defendant has caused the plaintiff.
This is a brand of federal claptrap that, while not really surprising anymore, makes your average American citizen justifiably nonplussed about those running our government. By this Administration's standards, if Congress passed a law allowing for $100 trillion in damages against a defendant for spitting on a property owner's lawn, Due Process is not implicated.
Symbolically, it shows that those in key government positions don't have our back. Individual interests take the backseat -- nay, trunk -- to corporate interests.
[T]hey're not actually arguing that paying $1.5 million is reasonable, perfectly or otherwise. . . . They're arguing that it's perfectly legal because a due process analysis is not applicable.
An argument like the Administration has made here doesn't even serve the labels' best interests, and is obviously a kick in the balls for the defendant. The labels' lawyers win though -- more billables.
This type of litigation hasn't had the deterrent effect that labels hoped it would, so what's the effing point of arguing that this nonsense damage award should remain intact -- a $1.5 million judgment against your average file-sharer will never be satisfied. One message these awards does convey, however, is probably not what the RIAA had in mind, i.e., that the labels are frivolously out-of-touch vindictive twats.
As you've pointed out, risk and reward are variables in the equation here...what about dignity? Shouldn't that be considered?
It's easy to get the impression that Bayer hasn't considered it, because $5K+ compared to the generic prices appear to be a gouge. And trying to thwart access, even through legal process, is at best a dubious endeavor.
Not that I don't share your sentiment that proponents of this burden-shifting scheme favor stacking the deck in their favor.
I think rigging the process is just the means to an end: that backers of this proposal feel copyright ownership needn't be proven indicates that they hell bent on eliminating anyone with the gall to compete with the legacy content distribution system.
Or put differently: if you want to join their club, you must kiss the Dodd's ring. Or just stay off his turf. Disruption will not be tolerated.
If you're taking about an "agreement to make an agreement" then it's already a pretty problematic idea, especially where material terms are vague, undisclosed, or disproportionately favoring the side with all the bargaining power. A court will not enforce a contract it determines to be unconscionable.
Not that it won't find a way to rule that an unconscionable agreement is wholly acceptable. Surely the major record labels' contract attorneys have had some success convincing judges to endorse their clients' strong-arming of naive or legally ignorant artists.
Old Guard Entertainment Cronies: Accept the fact of life that piracy is not "curable" - if you're personally troubled when your copyrighted material is infringed, INNOVATE or STFU. Don't go rent-seeking and lobby for increasingly draconian IP legislation to support a business model that is falling more out-of-sync with a digital economy.
Turn about is fair play, no?
Of course pirates don't respect your IP -- very many are still your customers, or could be, and as much as you loathe their actions, they are as equally offended (justifiably) by your aversion to a digital and consumer-friendly economy.
Honest query: by what standards should a netizen judge a release group and it's offerings?
Which parts of your analysis are supported by "science"?
I'd hazard to guess that TV release groups ("thieving pirates" to some of you) don't cut beginning credits because it's just a little more of a pain in the ass to edit these out, especially considering they're often run directly over a show's beginning scenes. As for ending credits, I often find these partially if not wholly cut from the types of files about which you write.
It's not that I don't want to believe you're right (though to be clear, redacting credits from pirated TV releases does not offend me in the slightest), but my gut just tells me those credits that you see are there for WAY less altruistic reasons than you seem to believe.
This smacks of drivel hastily pieced together by a naive teenager for his high school debate team.
0 points, you cost your team its shot at regionals.
A personal anecdote of why the mutually-assured-destruction-by-patent wars are silly (especially applicable to Apple's "slide-to-unlock" patent): I have an iphone, jailbroken of course, and use an android-type unlock method. But thank god Apple was able to get its patent - it gave me the opportunity to look for better software.
Trust me, if Universal, Warner, etc thought the MPAA should be sitting down with people like us to help solve their problems, they would be.
The 'AAs suck at what they do. Part of an advocate's job is not to just blindly represent his client's position, but to also advise his client on the efficacy of taking a particular stance on an issue. The 'AAs fail miserably in this regard.
Or they've simply sold out. Pick your poison.
Keep in mind that pleadings need only allege the prima facie case for the underlying cause of action, i.e, everything the DOJ has alleged in its complaint still must be proven to the trier of fact (judge or jury).
So it shouldn't be surprising that, just from reading the allegations, it seems Megaupload is guilty. If it read otherwise, that's a good indication the pleading may be defective. But just because the case was properly plead is not a good indicator of a defendant's guilt.
I don't think I'm ready to accept what you believe should be the obligations of an "essential facility," but for the sake of argument: what about the "essential facilities" on the pro-rights holder side of this debate . . . some of us are curious about how you characterize the 'AAs who support SOPA/PIPA: are these "essential facilities" in your view?
Assuming the affirmative, haven't they also ignored that obligation to remain unbiased, apolitical, and inclusive?
Assuming yes again, it's plainly hypocritical to chastise Google for voicing its stance on these proposed bills, wouldn't you say? It amounts to "do as we say, not as we do." Inconsistencies like this do little to advance your goal, and I'd argue it reveals Big Content's not-so-subtle strategy of winning passage via creating strawmen, spreading misleading information, etc.
Aside from all that, I'll now assume you don't characterize the Big Content SOPA/PIPA supporters as "essential facilities." Now you'd be saying that because these groups are less ubiquitous than Google, this somehow makes their political support of the measures more worthy of public approval?
Help us out here.
Righthaven, with good intent, was set up to vindicate people's rights that were being violated.
Gibson went on record a few years ago stating that the market for prosecuting online copyright infringement was in the "gazillions." Combine that with the haphazard way the agreements with Stephens Media and the Post were executed and the arrogant manner in which Righthaven went about extorting settlements, it's very difficult for many of us to see their intent as an altruistic vindication of newspapers' copyrights. This has all the earmarks of a cash grab with little to no regard for motivating creativity as intended by copyright law.


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In the world of art and design, white space = negative space.
Artists value both positive and negative space as they fill their canvases.
Graphic designers position color, text, and image, with uncluttered care, in white space.
Sumi-e artists entice the viewer's imagination through suggestions of ink floating in white space.
Architects love white space. They paint walls white in homes, schools, hospitals, courthouses, and museums.
On Harry Beck's subway map, white space allows the user to find her way with ease along side and main rail tracks.
Theresa Amabile wrote a post, Three Threats to Creativity. She's the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Amabile shared that "the first threat to business creativity is our endangered education system." Here's what she says a work environment needs for creativity to thrive:
1) smart people who think differently
2) Passionate engagement
3) a creative atmosphere
Amabile says mandated and narrowed curricula close down creativity in education. As America's corporate ed-reformers and politicians increase standardization of learning inside cookie cutter schools and classrooms, I believe passion for learning decreases among educators and children. Mass standardization pushes for a culture of people who think the same, follow procedures and discourage new ideas. If we want "design think", how do we create a "contagious creativity" within a customizable curricula?I wonder why we keep painting all of the white spaces in our children's world, instead of seeking the perfect balance of color and light.

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Ever since it launched the HD 4000 series last summer, ATI has been sitting more-or-less on top of the GPU performance market. The GT200 series of cards haven't been bad products, per se, but the HD 4600 and 4800 lines have made it difficult for NVIDIA to create and maintain any serious momentum in the OEM space. The Green Team's fortunes seemed to be changing a bit recently when the GTX 295 arrived and took overall top honors as the best single-slot/dual-GPU solution on the market, but these cards typically account for only a fraction of either companies' earnings. ATI's new HD 4890, which arrives today, is meant to solidify the AMD subsidiary's position around the $250 price point—and, of course, hopefully entice a few of you to upgrade.
There's two ways to view the HD 4890. NVIDIA, of course, would point out that the 4890 is nothing more than a faster 4870 with some additional RAM bolted on the side to justify a higher price. The fact that this actually is a fair description of the HD 4890 doesn't help ATI's launch seem any more noteworthy—but we've not yet explored all the facts of the situation. Shall we have a look-see?
Quick, can you tell them apart? I can—but only because I've got access to secret information and UV glasses. For a real look at what's going on underneath each hood, have a look at the spec sheets for each:
Eyeball the above, and the Radeon 4890 does look an awful lot like an overclocked HD 4870, but ATI insists it has done quite a bit more under the hood than these specs show. According to the company, it has redesigned and retuned the entire GPU for higher clockspeed, lower power consumption, improved power leakage (meaning less of it), all of which leads to the board's lower idle power. The fact that the 4890 has cut the 4870's idle power by one-third, in fact, is no small achievement. One small error on this sheet that ATI notified us about, however, is that the transistor count on the new card is actually slightly higher, at 959M, rather than the previous 956M.
Anandtech has a great review of the 4890 out where the card is put through its various paces, specifically against the GeForce GTX 275 (NVIDIA's new answering model). The good news, for those of you who don't have a strong brand preference one way or the other is that the two cards perform quite well against each other, with NVIDIA's new drivers adding a boost in some areas and a new in-driver feature (ambient occlusion) in general. Part supply is a perennial question, and here AMD seems to have an edge—the HD 4890 is already widely available while the NVIDIA GTX 275 is going to trickle out and hit the market more gradually.
Anand also takes a look at CUDA, its promise, and the reality of shipping applications—the article, in my opinion, is worth a read for that information alone. NVIDIA has put a huge push behind CUDA (not without some reason) and we're starting to see applications ship that take advantage of its capabilities—but that doesn't mean the feature is ready for prime time or a major factor behind card purchases.
By the pricking of my thumbs...
Here's where I'm going to go out on a limb a bit. At its heart, the HD 4890 is a respun HD 4870. This type of respin is something a company normally does when moving from process to process—it's actually relatively rare for a processor to shrink from, say, 90nm to 65nm without some modifications to the core layout or design. Such changes may not impact performance in any way, but they can increase power efficiency, reduce thermal hotspots, or make future modifications to the architecture (adding cache, for example) much more practical.
We know ATI has already debuted processors on 40nm technology in the form of the Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and 4830. Now that we see the company respinning the 4870 into the 4890, it's not hard to play connect-the-dots. My bet is that ATI simply chose to perform the task of rearchitecting the GPU and die-shrinking it in two separate steps, with the rearchitected version (HD 4890) hitting the market first. Given how well the HD 4890 has worked out on 55nm, Team Red should be able to take its time bringing its highest-end parts to 40nm. I don't know about ya'll, but the prospect of an integrated GPU based on 40nm process technology and ATI's next-gen desktop part is downright sexy-sounding.


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The state funeral Sunday for Kim Dae-jung, the former South Korean president who initiated his country's "Sunshine policy" vis-a-vis North Korea, is opening a new chapter in the search for North-South reconciliation.
While tens of thousands of mourners flocked to the service in front of Seoul's domed National Assembly building, President Lee Myung-bak received a six-member delegation representing North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il, whom Kim Dae-jung met for the historic first North-South summit in Pyongyang in June 2000.
Kim Jong-il's message, however, was described by a spokesman for Mr. Lee as "oral," not written, and touched only on "progress of inter-Korean cooperation." That comment indicated that Kim Jong-il did not mention the nuclear and missile programs that led the United Nations Security Council after North Korea's May 25 nuclear test to invoke sanctions banning trade in critical items that North Korea badly needs.
"North Korea's peace gesture has nothing to do with its intention to give up nuclear weapons," says Kim Tae-woo, a senior analyst at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul. "That is entirely separate."
North Korea signaling new openness toward the South
North Korea, in a downward economic spiral of severe food shortages and economic deterioration, has indicated its eagerness to ease up on access to the economic complex at Kaesong (across the North-South line 40 miles north of Seoul), reopen tours to the ancient city of Kaesong, resume reunions of families divided by the Korean War, and possibly come to terms on resuming tours to Mount Kumkang.
Kim Jong-il, believed to have suffered a stroke a year ago and to be building up his youngest son as a possible successor, has made Kim Dae-jung's Aug. 18 death the basis for the latest in a series of moves toward easing rising tensions.
Kim Jong-il immediately sent a condolence message to Kim Dae-jung's widow, Lee Hee-ho, who was at her husband's bedside when he died. Kim Ki-nam, a secretary of the North's ruling Workers' Party, leading the delegation to Seoul, said he was "leaving with good feelings" after calling on Lee for half an hour at the Blue House, the center of power in South Korea.
A Blue House spokesman refrained, however, from revealing the exact contents of the message from the North Korean to the South Korean leader in view of what he said was its "sensitivity." There was even speculation that Kim Jong-il may have invited Lee for a summit in Pyongyang similar to the June 2000 summit and the summit in October 2007 with Kim Dae-jung's successor, Roh Moo-hyun.
A sign of desperation?
In practical terms, however, the olive branch extended by Kim Jong-il to Lee, previously reviled in North Korean rhetoric as a "traitor" and "lackey" of the United States for his conservative policy toward the North, seems most likely to reflect the country's economic desperation.
"The most important thing for North Korea now is life, food," says Choi Jin-wook, senior fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification.
Mr. Choi believes Lee may resume humanitarian aid to North Korea, in the form of food and fertilizer, after North Korea resumes reunions of families divided by the Korean War. Kim Dae-jung and Mr. Roh, during their five-year terms, authorized the shipment of several hundred thousand tons a year, but Lee outraged North Korea by insisting it abandon its nuclear program.
About 16,000 family members, among hundreds of thousands still alive more than 50 years after the war ended, have seen each other in brief reunions since the June 2000 summit, but there have been no reunions for more than two years.
'Sunshine' legacy lives on
The death of Kim Dae-jung – who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000 for his efforts to promote reconciliation on the Korean peninsula – has aroused a tremendous outpouring of emotions for carrying on his Sunshine policy. While thousands attended his funeral, about 700,000 visited memorials for him around the country, and almost all the South's 48 million people watched all or part of the service as carried live on four national television networks.
The makeup of the US delegation to the funeral also indicated Washington's support for his policies. Madeleine Albright, who visited Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang in October 2000 as secretary of state for President Bill Clinton, led the delegation, which also included her deputy, Wendy Sherman, who accompanied her to Pyongyang, and Stephen Bosworth, who was ambassador to South Korea during Kim Dae-jung's presidency and now is US envoy on North Korea.
Signs of a thaw?
Mr. Clinton's 20-hour visit to Pyongyang earlier this month to bring home two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee of Al Gore's Current TV network, who had been held in North Korea for 140 days, marked the first sign of a thaw in North Korea's confrontational attitude. The White House said Clinton's trip was "unofficial," but he met for more than three hours with Kim Jong-il and briefed President Obama last week on what they discussed.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, however, has said that US policy remains unchanged and North Korea must first return to six-party talks, which North Korea has said it will never do. Lee also has said there is no change in his "firm" policy toward the North.
"They already rejected six-party talks," says Choi, "but they are ready for talks with South Korea and the US." Whenever the parties talk, he says, "the nuclear issue should be on the table."


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Three vivid halos of light behind a dark mineral crystal lens, Kisai Satellite X Wood is an LED watch with an intuitive way to view time housed in a custom designed natural wood case.
Easy To Read Once You Know How
The time is shown by three interlocking rings which can be read from top to bottom. Touch the button and lights showing the current time will flash for a short time.
Hours are displayed in the upper ring in the same position as hours on a clock. Groups of five minutes are displayed in the central ring in the same position as minutes on a clock. Four single minutes are shown in the lower ring.
Limited Edition Wood Watches from Tokyoflash Japan
Kisai Satellite X Wood has been carefully crafted from 100% natural wood in very limited quantities. There are two models to choose from, dark sandalwood with red or blue LEDs. A matching color filter has been added to give the display a subtle highlight when unlit.
Contrasting against the dark mineral crystal lens, the natural wood case and strap take on different appearances depending on the light. In the sun, the wood grain really stands out.
Like all wood watches from Tokyoflash Japan, a clear coating has been applied to Kisai Satellite X Wood for protection.
A USB Rechargeable Watch Design
Satellite X Wood is a USB rechargeable watch. To recharge, connect to your computer with the USB cable provided. One full charge will take 3.5 hours and each charge should last 1 month.
The links that make up the strap are individually made so the strap can be adjusted like a normal watch to fit your wrist perfectly.
Due to the natural qualities of wood, the color and grain may be slightly darker or lighter than shown in the photos.
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Like all watches from Tokyoflash Japan, Satellite X Wood is a limited edition design which means that it is guaranteed to be an original watch that not many other people own.
An animation is programmed into Satellite X Wood and when activated, the lights will slowly rotate once every fifteen minutes between 6pm and midnight.
- Displays the time
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- Clasp: simple fold over clasp with push button
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- Minimum wrist size: 100 mm (approx.)
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Report: Benghazi attack preventable
The attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi could have been prevented, according to a bipartisan report the Senate Intelligence Committee released Wednesday.
The report also seeks to clarify accusations about the response to the attack by the White House. It blames intelligence agencies for incorrect talking points instead of administration officials, who Republicans have accused of covering up the reason for the attack.
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"The committee worked on a bipartisan basis to investigate the various allegations that have come out since the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in September 2012 and to get to the truth about what happened leading up to, during and after the attacks," Intelligence Chairwoman Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said in a statement. "I hope this report will put to rest many of the conspiracy theories and political accusations about what happened in Benghazi."
( PHOTOS: 10 slams on Obama and Benghazi)
The report looks at the run-up and response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. It includes a detailed narrative of what happened the night of the attack. The report is redacted in places, omitting some of the actions of CIA personnel.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said the report does not change the administration's own conclusion that security should have been tighter in Benghazi.
"This reinforces what other investigations have found, which is that there was not security to protect the four Americans who lost their lives," he said Wednesday.
Feinstein told reporters Wednesday afternoon that the report proves that the State Department needs to do a better job assessing risks.
( PHOTOS: 10 quotes on Hillary Clinton and Benghazi)
"I think where this report goes is that there needs to be better analysis within State of intelligence, and that they really need to move to see that these facilities are secure," Feinstein said. "I believe to the extent I know that that is happening. There are other facilities that are potentially dangerous, and they know which they are, and I think they need to tend to that."
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said that while he hasn't read the entire Senate report, he saw nothing that differed from the concurrent investigation he is conducting.
"I think their conclusions are very similar to the investigation that the House Intelligence Committee is going through," Rogers said.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he would like to see former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testify again about the attacks. But he raised no issues with the report.
"It was everything that we've been saying," McCain said. "We're glad to see it corroborated. Nothing that I didn't know already."
The report concludes there was a "significant strategic warning" about the possibility of an attack in the months leading up to it. The report details several intelligence reports, many redacted, that warned of an attack on Western establishments in Libya.
"Despite the clearly deteriorating security situation in Benghazi and requests for additional security resources, few significant improvements were made by the State Department to the security posture of the Temporary Mission Facility," the report states. The report finds that, unlike the building maintained by State, facilities run by the CIA responded more quickly to security concerns, but the steps that were taken are redacted.


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Earnings from Apple, Amazon and a few other tech names could be a big factor in determining how quickly stocks get back to their old highs, some technicians say.
The Dow Transports, Russell 2000, S&P 400 and S&P 600 have all made new highs—a bullish sign. The S&P 500 has broken out above its 2012 high, and is at a five-year high of 1492. The Dow closed Tuesday up 62 at 13,712. That put it at a five-year high and above 13,661, its 2012 intraday high for the first time. (Read More: 10 Stocks Send Transports Surging )
The one index that hasn't joined the move to highs is the Nasdaq, heavily dependent on technology stocks and the performance of Apple, which reports earnings Wednesday. The move in the indices, however, is positive and it suggests the market could move higher, as buyers are drawn in.
"It's (viewed as) bullish, and there's more to go. That very well could be the case," said Carter Worth, Oppenheimer Asset Management's chief technician. "The issue is how can you be at all-time highs and have some prominent names, such as Wal-Mart, AT&T, Philip Morris, Apple and Coke just dragging…Intel was a testament to it last week."
Intel reported a 27-percent decline in earnings last Thursday due to weakness in PCs, and its stock fell sharply.
But IBM and Google both reported better-than-expected profits after Tuesday's close, and their stocks moved higher. Even Apple shares rode a half percent higher in late trading, amid the positive reports from tech names, including Advanced Micro Devices.


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A casual platform puzzle game in which you must slide the blocks around the level before it can be finished. The entire game revolves around a single color palette and a simple idea. With a start of 25 unique levels, Mika~Tika is bound to give hours of enjoyment!
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TOISON D'OR round soft pastels
TOISON D'OR 8500 round soft pastels represent a traditional product of the company KOH-I-NOOR HARDTMUTH. They are popular amongst artists thanks to the high quality of all their components, the long-term research of ingredients and a thorough following of the prescribed production procedures. The colour range of these pastels is very wide.
The key components of the cakes are very pure micro-pulverized natural substances on a base of calcium carbonate. This is either calcite mineral or chalk. Together with other additives and binding agents it creates a basic mixture, into which colour pigments are carefully mixed. The pigments are purchased from renowned manufacturers all over the world. Their quality, light permanency and dosed concentration influence the final result as well as the durability of the artworks.
The minimum content of binding elements ensures a very simple and silky stroke on paper or another medium. The low adhesion to the medium allows toning and the creation of simple crossing. The basic characteristic of round soft pastels is simple distribution in a sufficient quantity within the appropriate medium, which allows the subsequent distribution of colour dust particles. This technique provides unlimited possibilities of change of the richness and tone. With the amount of distribution we can achieve shading of the drawing more simply. After finalization of the artwork, the use of a preparation fixative is recommended (prevents subsequent blurring).
No component used in production contains toxic or otherwise harmful substances and the final product is therefore suitable for all age categories.


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Last week, Jared Rosen, writing for Indie Statik, broke the story of GAME_JAM, a $400,000 reality show production about indie game development that crashed and burned. I wasn't there. My knowledge of the events comes entirely from what I've read in Jared's report and the extraordinary personal testimonies of participants Robin Arnott, Adriel Wallick, and Zoe Quinn. I'm not writing this because I have any personal insight to share. I'm just writing this because I think that the story of GAME_JAM is an important one, and that it has lessons for all of us about where games are, and where they're going.
To sum up the events that occurred: the project that eventually became the "reality show" known as GAME_JAM started out with the concept of a documentary-style production meant to show people the process of game creation that happens at game jams, which are gatherings where people collaborate to produce games very quickly. Some seasoned indie developers were motivated to participate by the prospect of sharing that creation process with an audience, some of whom might have then been inspired to try their own hands at game development. It could have been wonderful.
But the production changed as sponsors got involved, and as attempts were made to artificially ratchet up the drama, "reality show" style, to attract bigger numbers. This shifted the production away from the spirit of camaraderie and creativity that it had initially been meant to celebrate, and in a more competitive and corporate direction. Beverages other than Mountain Dew were banned on the set. And a brand consultant for Pepsi named Matti Leshem pushed too hard in his attempts to create artificial drama between the participants, asking questions of participants like "Do you think the teams with women on them are at a disadvantage?" That's when the developers walked and the production crumbled. And more power to them.
To participate in a piece of entertainment that treats the question of whether are not women are a liability in the field of game development as a legitimate question worth asking is to reinforce the notion that women are, at best, secondary, that gaming is not really a space where we belong. For a long, long time, games were overwhelmingly seen purely as products, and, what's more, products that were intended primarily for men. Now, the industry is experiencing some growing pains as creators emerge who believe that games can be more than just products, that they can be made on a multi-million-dollar budget or no budget at all, that they can be an avenue for explorations of all kinds of topics, and that they can be for all kinds of people. There are those consumers of games who feel threatened by this, even though such indie games typically represent no more of a threat to AAA games than art house foreign films represent to the next Michael Bay blockbuster.
And there are those who cling to outdated ideas of a monolithic, male-dominated gamer culture, as evidenced by Matti Leshem's sexist questions to the GAME_JAM participants. But while it makes sense for some movies--those that are unabashedly mainstream consumer products--to have tie-ins with sodas or Happy Meals, it would be absurd to expect those films that are more interested in telling human stories to have a line of action figures. Everybody understands that cinema is a multifaceted medium and that different films can have wildly different aims, and are no less films for it. But in gaming, some are still holding tightly--too tightly--to certain ideas: that games are always consumer products and never art, that games need to be about fun, that games are primarily for men.
GAME_JAM could have been a very good thing, giving people a look at the process of game design and creation. There's a chance that it could have inspired some people--including women--who have previously thought of game design as a field that was off-limits to them to give it a closer look. But it collapsed when one man (who was hired by other people) completely failed to grasp the spirit of the endeavor, and tried to treat this process of game development the way that people have so often treated it: purely about the creation of product, a place where men belong and women might be a liability simply because they're women.
Games are at a cultural crossroads. We can honor and celebrate games by acknowledging that they can take all kinds of forms and can be made by all kinds of people. Or we can hold them back by trying to pigeonhole them into certain formats, or by suggesting that they should only be made by certain kinds of people. It's time that we all accepted that games are multifaceted, that there's room for all kinds of games, and all kinds of people under the umbrella of "gamers." Reinforcing the idea that games are a place where women don't belong holds all of us back, and it holds games back from being everything they can be. I hope this is something of a wake-up call. We should all be as brave as the participants of GAME_JAM were, to take a stand against these ideas, and fight for a more diverse and inclusive gaming industry.


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In love for Christmas
Renee Zellweger and her boyfriend Doyle Bramhall II arrived back in LA together yesterday after a weeklong trip to New York. They were first sighted together last week on their way out and didn't mind holding hands, even in front of the paps. Once again, here, Photo Assumption says Renee seems almost too happy to bother with being annoyed at having her picture taken...
All is well to end the year then. It's looking like 2013 will be a good one too.
Renee is back to work -- she's the director, producer, and star of an upcoming film called 4 ½ about a f-ck up comic played by Johnny Knoxville who gets hired by a single mother to babysit her genius son...only the story based on the life of Dov Davidoff and is set in the New York stand-up comedy scene and not in the world of sports agents. Shooting begins in February. Click here for more from Renee on the project.
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The Board of Supervisors of the County of Inyo, State of California, met in special session at the hour of 9:00 a.m., on Monday, August 1, 2005, at the Administrative Services Offices at 785 N. Main Street, Suite G, in Bishop, with the following Supervisors present: Chairperson Ted Williams presiding, Linda Arcularius, Susan Cash, Jim Bilyeu, and Richard Cervantes.
Public Comment
The Chairperson announced the public comment period and there was no one from the public wishing to address the Board.
Closed Session
The Chairperson recessed open session at 9:01 a.m., to convene in closed session, with all Board Members present to discuss Agenda Item No. 2. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR [Pursuant to Government Code § 54957.6] - Instructions to Negotiators re: wages, salaries and benefits - Employee Organization: ICEA - Negotiators: CAO Ron Juliff.
Report on Closed Session
The Chairperson recessed closed session at 11:30 a.m., to reconvene in open session, to receive a report on closed session. County Counsel reported there were no items discussed in closed session, which were required by law to be reported on in open session.
The Chairperson adjourned the special meeting at 11:30 a.m.
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Sunday, October 15, 2006
Language Barrier, a microdocumentary on Cebuano
Whether or not the show would garner a substantial audience is another matter altogether, but a guy can dream, can't he?
But I digress.
I did, however, find a video that's along the lines of what I want to do. While in the land of viral videos that is YouTube, I discovered a video titled Language Barrier, produced in Cebu City & Lapu-Lapu City by IAFT film student Ian Allen Lim. It is a "microdocumentary" (I think I just invented this word) which gives a sociolinguistic perspective by interviewing three native Cebuanos: writer/poet Michael U. Obenieta, UP student Roxy Jane Kaka, and media law professor Alfredo Buenaventura.
Each of these three have differing attitudes concerning their native language vis-à-vis Tagalog. Mr. Obenieta and Ms. Kaka seem to have diplomatic attitudes toward people speaking Tagalog in Cebu but at the same address the way that Cebuanos and their language have been mistreated. Atty. Buenaventura, on the other hand, passionately argues that Tagalogs should learn Cebuano when they come to Cebu if he has to speak Tagalog while in Manila.
Despite these different opinions, there seems to be a common thread among the three of them. They have their own rich language with its long-standing history and they are damn proud of it. It's also a matter of fairness. Until the late 20th century, there were more native Cebuano speakers than native Tagalog ones. Despite that, it was Tagalog that went on to be national and official language of the country and the only language to be officially taught in schools. Even today the mass media is by and large in Tagalog and English, though Cebuano seems to making ground, albeit slowly.
The point is that it puts a more meaningful background of how Cebuanos feel about the marginalization of their language in the face of Tagalog domination. It's very easy for Tagalogs to discard Cebuanos' feelings and quickly labeling it irrational and divisive regionalism and such.
I do support Atty. Buenaventura's idea of reciprocity to a certain extent, however it's not a Tagalog-speaker's fault they can't learn the language (Cebuano resources are difficult to obtain, and I speak from experience, as a Tagalog speaker). It should be up to the Philippine educational system to implement such a program. More on this can be found in my blog entry titled My Ideal Language Policy.
In any case, you can view the video at the end of this blog entry. You can also access it directly (as well as leaving the author a comment) by clicking here.
11 comments:
- Kalani said...
Did you mean a show for linguists? Or for the general public who don't comprehend a lot of what you preach? :)
- Sunday, October 15, 2006 8:07:00 AM
- murrayjames said...
hey chris, that video was interesting--thanks for posting it. I thought Buenaventura was very well-spoken. But I wonder, why does the government of the Philippines oppose incorporating other Filipino languages in the schools and media? Wouldn't this unite the country across linguistic/tribal lines?
Also, please get your own TV show on PBS. I will watch faithfully
- Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:11:00 PM
hey, ive been checking out your blog just recently. maybe 3 months ago. I've learned so much here and ive read most of the entries even the older ones.
I live in NYC since 04' but I am originally from cebu. The Filipino immigrant community here is also representative of the language diversity of our country. So I always use tagalog to engage a filipino i meet in the street but most of the time when 2 cebuano speakers talk in tagalog then later on find that theyre both cebuanos, a conversation about tagalog follows mostly commenting about how tagalog feels really hard to the cebuano tongue.
Being cebuano myself, I think the video really shows how the cebuano's think about the politics in our country as expressed in the language issue. I got all my formal education in cebu and its true that we are contemptuous to tagalog in places where the lingua franca is cebuano. We take our language as an important aspect of our visayan ethnic identity which is threatened by the imposition of this preposterous "filipino language". Its as if this "filipino" language (which we know is just tagalog) was arrogantly forced down to our throats despite of our numbers and the scope of the regions were cebuano is primarily used. hence unlike other filipinos who feel comfortable incorporating tagalog language in their day to day conversations, cebuano speakers tend to be purists, using tagalog only to non cebuano speaking filipinos.
- Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:11:00 AM
Some of my non Cenuano Bisaya friends don't like to call their language "Cebuano".. they call it "Bisaya"(usually from Bohol and Leyte) and from my observation, they have some grudges against those from Cebu(the "Cebuanos")
- Saturday, October 28, 2006 7:26:00 PM
I think Boholanos treat Cebuanos the same way Cebuanos treat the Tagalogs. Must be because the Cebuanos treat the Boholanos the same way the Tagalogs allegedly treat the Cebuanos.
It's a vicious cycle.
- Wednesday, November 01, 2006 8:38:00 AM
Not really my family both sides from Bohol actually respect Cebuanos more than Tagalogs. Many Boholanos go to college in Cebu since its an easy transition. Of course many Filipinos have pride of their island, but there's always a grudge against Tagalog and Bisaya. Its annoying when the Filipino language is just really Tagalog in disguise. I hope Philippines changes this.
- Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:58:00 PM
I'm glad I came across this blog. I'm not a linguist so I'm learning a lot here. But my present trade is translation. My team is composed of A Cebuano, an Ilocano, a Waray, and a Bicolano translator (and me Tagalog). The website is www.english-to-tagalog.com. Hope to link you to my website. I hope also that you can also link me to this blog. Thank you for caring about the Philippine languages.
- Wednesday, September 12, 2007 5:09:00 PM
- Garuda00 said...
most tagalogs actually are against the teaching of tagalog in schools of the philippines actually filipino is the most hated subject in CALABARZON area.
- Sunday, October 28, 2007 12:00:00 AM
- Christopher Sundita said...
Hah, it reminds me. I don't like English class at school. But it's necessary... learning how to use one's language in writing effectively.
- Sunday, October 28, 2007 12:03:00 AM
Hi there..I am interested in languages and I find your blog very informative and enlightening! As a media student, I think you have the resources on hand to produce and make your own tv show and broadcast it on Youtube and such. I'll definitely watch them! Mainstream media is disappearing anyway..when people want to watch/read/see something, they'd go looking for it. Now it's more of a pull rather than a push of media. That's why Youtube will be the perfect place to broadcast your material. As for monetary purposes..who knows where that will lead to right? Perhaps you can get discovered! Youtube is a great way to put your foot in the door, and with quality content you can also pitch your show idea to a big broadcasting network.
- Friday, July 25, 2008 12:25:00 AM
Hi Chris,
I read your blog about the language barrier and I appreciate the fact that you are making a discussion out of it. The first time that I showed this in public it was a screening back at film school. I was surprised with the Cebuano audience after they watched it, well, they seemed not to be very interested at all. Then I posted it in youtube and that's when I found out people were affected by it. It's good to hear that people are identifying with the doc on whatever side they maybe on.
Ian Allen Lim -language barrier, director/writer
- Saturday, July 26, 2008 7:46:00 PM


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Federal Agency Charged Retailer Discriminated Against Worker Because of Her Pregnancy
ATLANTA – D&K Suit City, LLC, an Atlanta retailer of discounted suits, and its corporate parent, DDK, Inc., will pay $20,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
In its lawsuit, filed on Sept. 23, 2010 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division (Case No.: 1:10-CV-03056-AT-SSC), the EEOC charged that D&K Suit City's manager reduced the number of hours assigned to its employee, Linda Bell, and subsequently fired her because of her pregnancy. Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), which prohibits employers from subjecting employees to discrimination due to pregnancy. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
The consent decree settling the suit, in addition to the monetary relief, includes provisions for equal employment opportunity training and reporting and posting of anti-discrimination notices. In the lawsuit and consent decree, D&K Suit City, LLC and DDK, Inc., denied any liability or wrongdoing.
"The EEOC is satisfied that this employer now understands that employment decisions should not be made on the basis of pregnancy status, and will make future efforts to remain in compliance with the law," said Robert Dawkins, regional attorney for the EEOC's Atlanta District Office.
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Oct. 7, 2009
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-An experienced riding instructor who currently manages a horse farm is the new Head Equestrian Coach at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Meredith Arden has been named to replace Katelyn Medeiros, who resigned after the 2008-2009 season.
Arden currently leases and manages Hobby Horse Farm in Rehoboth, MA, where she teaches and also runs a rated hunter show series.
A native of Pawtucket, RI, Arden graduated from LaSalle Academy and the University of Rhode Island, where she earned a bachelor's degree in political science. A rider since she started at the age of seven at Endolane Farms in Little Compton, RI, Arden qualified for the United States Pony Club's national championships in Virginia and Kentucky. As a junior rider, she qualified for numerous medal finals.
Arden began working under Olympic trainer Paul Valliere in 2002, achieving the USPC's c-1 rating, which combines horse care knowledge and riding skills. In 2004, she worked for top grand prix rider and trainer Molly Ashe at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, FL.
In 2005, Arden moved to the Raven Rock Farm in Scotland, CT, where she served as the head trainer and sale horse rider. Moving on to Merigold Farm in Plainville, MA, she served as the head riding instructor, had her own horses, and taught lessons to the general public. Arden subsequently ran Highland Stables at the Lepore Farm in Lincoln, RI, before moving on to Hobby Horse Farm, where she leases and manages the facility.
While she has a wealth of experience, this will be Arden's first experience as a collegiate head coach. "One of my students was Meredith Milliner, who was the captain of the team last year, and she encouraged me to apply," said Arden. "This is the first time I've coached a collegiate team. I'm very excited; this is my main focus right now. I want to qualify the team for nationals. Hopefully, we'll have a really successful season coming up."
"I am very excited to have Meredith join our staff," said UMass Dartmouth Director of Athletics Ian Day. "She brings energy and enthusiasm that our student-athletes will appreciate."
The Corsairs will begin their season when they host the first show of the year on Saturday, October 24th. The season involves between six and eight shows, with each team responsible for hosting a show each year.


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Trojans win region crown, begin postseason play Friday when Metter comes to town.
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Woman files complaint after her hair and extensions are mangled at local nightclub.
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Piedmont Green Power to shutdown plant to install noise abatement equipment.
One dead, one jailed after .40 caliber fired in Washington St. home.
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Desktops are arranged to make the transition from one computer to the next easier as well as reducing the amount of time you have to spend looking for files and folders.
In short, your desktops are prepared so that you have immediate access (i.e. "shortcuts") from the Desktop to any projects folders needed on a given computer as well as the files and applications you need on a regular basis. Note that Windows uses the term "Shortcut" while Macs use "alias" for links to files and folders.
There are three main sections to each Desktop:
• Bottom: This is where you'll find the icons to launch various applications you'll need such as scanning software, photo editing software, web browsers, and text editors. There are some goodies, too, like Windows Media Player and iTunes.
• Middle: This is where you'll find shortcuts to the project folders. In other words, if the "Roll Tide" collection is stationed at WorkStation #3 and you are assigned to that workstation, then you should find a folder in the middle of the desktop that gives you quick access to the "Roll Tide" project folder.
• Sides: on either the left side (Windows) or right side (Mac), you'll see shortcuts to the local and Share drives as well as links to our WIKI, the Shift Report you need to send Jeremiah every day, and even a link to this handout. Note that you should save a copy of the Shift Report on your desktop, fill it out, email it to Jeremiah as an attachment, and then delete the copy you downloaded to the Desktop (we don't want to clutter up the desktops with these daily files).
By the way, if you attempt to use any of the shortcuts to files/folders in the Share drive and they don't work, the most likely reason is that you aren't yet connected to the Share drive. Connecting is easy. Just click on "Shortcut to SHARE"(Windows) or "SHARE alias"(Mac) and type in your credentials (username and password). Also, please keep the following in mind ... Since the point of these prepared desktops is to streamline productivity and make all of our jobs easier, there are a few things we can't do without the approval of a supervisor ... Specifically:
• Do not move Desktop icons around.
• Do not add or remove applications, files, or folders to/from the desktop - or anywhere else on the computer, for that matter - unless so instructed.
• Do not alter software settings.
Having said all that, if you see ways in which your digital workspace can be improved, let us know. Since full-time staff don't do a lot of scanning, sometimes we just don't know what the best or most convenient way of organizing your workspace is.
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TMZ Live -- Hey, Gisele Bundchen -- Show Some Faith in Tom Brady
TMZ Live Hey, Gisele Bundchen Show Some Faith in Tom Brady
(4:45) Gisele Bundchen asks her family to pray for Tom Brady -- lack of confidence, or just the hottest Patriot fan on Earth?
(8:15) Donald Trump calls in to explain why he's in Mitt's corner.
(11:30) Trump defends Mitt's statement about focusing on the middle class -- and not the poor or rich -- Harvey wonders if Trump's backing on the heels of the statement sends the wrong message.
(17:25) Trump would totally take a spot in Romney's cabinet ... and calls the current people in charge a bunch of "clowns."
(18:37) Harvey hates the idea of pet plastic surgery. HATES.
(20:30) Dax doesn't see a problem with giving a neutered dog some fake testicles.
(25:10) The craziest story to come out of Florida since yesterday -- a man adopts his 42-year-old girlfriend in order to protect his millions from a lawsuit.
(33:35) Deion Sanders divorce war -- worse every day.
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|START Conference Manager
According to many experts in the field of medicine, there is potential for a crisis in the collection and distribution of patient records and community health. In the 1990s the introduction of HIPAA (Health Information Privacy and Accountability Act) regulations protected individual privacy. How have electronic records transformed society and/or information? How is the technology changing information practices? This panel builds on earlier research on these questions reported at the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, and it is intended to provide an opportunity to share new findings about recent transformations. Each presenter will answer one of the following questions and will ask attendees to share their experiences, to respond also, and to ask more questions:
1. How can we use maps of the perceived value(s) of information flows to educate interdependent stakeholders in a healthcare domain?
2. How does our understanding of the consumer and our assumptions about what consumers think and feel affect our research into healthcare communication?
3. What is the boundary between personal views and the public health information space?
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Fascinating, inspiring, astonishing–all of them with a lesson to impart. These are the stories that Tunay na Buhay, a 30-minute profile magazine program that features compelling stories of people, will share. Hosted by Rhea Santos, Tunay na Buhay goes beyond biographies by searching far and wide for the most riveting life stories. These are stories of people who have gone through some of the most unforgettable, amazing experiences, life events that are sometimes beyond belief but are always engaging and thought-provoking.
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If you're interested in giving back to the community in which you're hosting your meeting, our corporate social responsibility programs provide great opportunity to be a part of something wonderful – community giving and musical team building.
So many public schools across the country are in need of arts funding and musical instruments. Wherever you hold your event, we'll match your company with a worthwhile school or student organization. We'll work with you and the school to identify need and meet your company's goals for your corporate social responsibility programs.
Here's how it works:
- We'll match your group with a school organization to develop a wish list.
- There are several options for involvement at your event. You can have a hands-on experience of stringing guitars that you'll donate, or have students join your program to participate after you've created your songs – or both!
- You can choose to simply donate without hands-on involvement.
- After your team building program, you will present the students with donations of musical instruments.
We've designed our corporate social responsibility programs so your company's team building goals are not diluted. In fact, this will enhance your experience. Our corporate CSR program presents a natural opportunity to invite participation from talented students, through playing of percussion, impromptu back-up vocals or even some dance moves. Don't forget that kids are easily creative and don't need much coaxing to take part. In fact, you will learn from them! This is community giving at it's best.
As PTO co-president for Nashville School of Arts, a public magnet high school, I've seen the need first hand, for increased support and donations from the private sector, to enable quality education and quality experience for our school children. – Billy Kirsch, President, Kidbilly Music, LLC
We're deeply committed to our corporate social responsibility programs, to enhancing musical opportunities and cultural experience for young people, and we welcome the opportunity to help you help others. Contact us now to learn more.


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Aromatherapy is the use of plant extracts and oils to encourage health and wellness of the mind, body and spirit. Learn the basics of aromatherapy, safety and precautions and blending techniques using a variety of essential oils. In addition, herbalist Blake Burger discusses the ancient practice of smoke remedies, covering plants and herbs such as frankincense and myrrh, palo santo, copal and sage.
Price: $52, public
Instructor: Blake Burger and Amberle Suski
Blake Burger's passion for plants began at a young age gardening in Illinois and only grew stronger once he moved to Colorado in 2000 and began hiking in the wilderness areas of Colorado. There, he began to cultivate a great curiosity and appreciation for the diverse flora found along the hiking trails. In 2007, he left his career as a food scientist and worked as a seasonal gardener for Denver Botanic Gardens. After one year, he was hired full time as a horticulturalist. Throughout his years at the Gardens he has worked with tropical plants, native plants, vegetables and herbs. After receiving his Herbalist Certification here in Denver, Blake immediately began working with the vast array of medicinal plants growing in the Gardens. He founded the Denver Medicinal Plant Society in 2015, created and maintains several medicinal plant beds at the Gardens York Street location, and has laid the foundation for the Gardens first Herbalist Certificate Program. As a certified yoga instructor, Blake has led more than 1,000 yoga classes over six years and created a nationally recognized yoga program here at the Gardens. Blake believes in a multifaceted approach to health and wellness: eat well, move your body, never stop learning, get outside and connect.
Amberle is a Colorado native who has been working as a holistic healthcare practitioner in the Denver community for over seven years. She is trained and certified in community herbalism, permaculture design, reflexology, reiki and wellness coaching. Amberle aims to connect with people in need of support to enable them to mindfully, skillfully and confidently care for themselves, others and their environment. She believes that people flourish as they take ownership of their health and quality of life through tapping into education, intuition, empowerment, community, nature, spirit and sharing the highs and lows of life. She can be found farming, gardening, telling people way more than they wanted to know about plants and playing with plants in an unending variety of inspired ways! Her herbal products, integrative healing sessions, educational offerings and therapeutic gardening guidance and services are uniquely tailored by employing a variety of strategies such as bodywork, traditional spiritual healing, gems and essences, nature exploration, in-depth interactive research, DIY formulations, permaculture, regenerative growing, and plant-based foods and medicines.


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When using the DIGEST-MD5 mechanism in clients, you do not need to install a user certificate. However, if you want to use encrypted SSL connections, you must still trust the server certificate as described in Managing Certificates.
A realm defines the namespace from which the authentication identity is selected. In DIGEST-MD5 authentication, you must authenticate to a specific realm.
Directory Server uses the fully qualified host name of the machine as the default realm for DIGEST-MD5. The server uses the lowercase value of the host name that is found in the nsslapd-localhost configuration attribute.
If you do not specify a realm, the default realm offered by the server is used.
In the UNIX environment, you must set the SASL-PATH environment variable so that the LDAP tools can find the DIGEST-MD5 libraries. The DIGEST-MD5 library is a shared library that is dynamically loaded by the SASL plug-in. Set the SASL_PATH environment variable as follows:
export SASL_PATH=SASL-library
This path assumes that Directory Server is installed on the same host where the LDAP tools are invoked.
You can perform DIGEST-MD5 client authentication without using SSL. The following example uses the default DIGEST-MD5 identity mapping to determine the bind DN:
$ ldapsearch -h host1 -p 1389 \ -o mech=DIGEST-MD5 [ \ -o realm="example.com"] \ -o authid="dn:uid=bjensen,dc=example,dc=com" \ -w - \ -o authzid="dn:uid=bjensen,dc=example,dc=com" \ -o secProp="minssf=56,maxssf=256,noplain" \ -b "dc=example,dc=com" "(givenname=Richard)"
The preceding example shows the use of the -o (lowercase letter o) option to specify SASL options. The realm is optional, but if specified, it must be the fully qualified domain name of the server host machine. The authid and authzid must both be present and identical, although the authzid intended for proxy operations is not used. The -w password option applies to the authid.
The value of authid is the Principal used in identity mapping. The authid should contain either the dn: prefix followed by a valid user DN in the directory, or the u: prefix followed by any string determined by the client. This use of authid allows you to use the mappings that are shown in DIGEST-MD5 Identity Mappings.
The most common configuration is for an SSL connection to provide encryption over the LDAPS secure port and DIGEST-MD5 to provide the client authentication. The following example performs the same operation over SSL:
$ ldapsearch -h host1 -P 1636 \ -Z -P .mozilla/bjensen/BJE6001.slt/cert8.db \ -N "cert-example" -w - \ -o mech=DIGEST-MD5 [-o realm="example.com"] \ -o authid="dn:uid=bjensen,dc=example,dc=com" \ -o authzid="dn:uid=bjensen,dc=example,dc=com" \ -o secProp="minssf=0,maxssf=0,noplain" \ -b "dc=example,dc=com" "(givenname=Richard)"
In this example, the -N and -w options are required by the ldapsearch command, as the operation is performed over SSL. However , these options are not used for client authentication. Instead, the server performs another DIGEST-MD5 identity mapping of the Principal in the authid value.


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NYC Artist Satirizes Law Enforcement Drone Program; Gets Book Thrown At Him By NYPD
from the for-all-the-tough-talk,-the-skin-is-surprisingly-thin deptIf there's one thing authority figures hate, it's anything that goes counter to the narrative and/or puts their pet projects in an unfavorable light. A New York City artist is learning this the hard way after he and some friends took aim at the police department's drone program, plastering the city with satirical ads touting the "safety" provided by the new eyes in the sky.
On September 16, 29-year-old "Essam" and a group of friends blanketed lower Manhattan with posters designed to look like official New York Police Department signage. "Drones: Protection When You Least Expect It," read the slogan below simple ideograms of families running from unmanned aerial vehicles. Essam and his team disguised themselves as employees of the outdoor advertising firm Van Wagner, which manages the advertising space on bus stations and kiosks throughout the city. All told, they swapped out about 100 ads.
"We see this trend throughout history of military technology always coming to the civilian world," the Army veteran told Animal New York. He says his goal is for the conversation about domestic police use of drones "to reach a mainstream level where we are talking about this at the dinner table."
Needless to say, the PD was highly unamused. Its "weeks-long manhunt" for the artist finally culminated in an arrest... and a handful of trumped up charges.
Essam Attia, 29, was hit with 56 counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument, grand larceny possession of stolen property and weapons possession after allegedly having an unloaded .22-caliber revolver under his bed at his Manhattan apartment when he was arrested early Wednesday.Attia hoped to generate some awareness and kickstart discussion about the increasing prevalence of law enforcement drone usage. Unfortunately, it looks as though the NYPD is only interested in providing its narrative, one that is free from criticism or transparency. It also seems to be particularly bad at actual "police work." Essam signed many of the posters with his artist signature ("ESSAM") and participated in a barely-anonymous interview and yet it took a "weeks-long manhunt" to track him dow.
He posted bail, which was set at $10,000 bond or $2,500 cash, and is due back in Manhattan Criminal Court on Dec. 3.
Calling his lookalike posters "forged" is stretching the truth to fit a hefty criminal charge, one that appears to have been levied solely out of spite. Perhaps if Essam had just placed his posters over the NYPD's, he wouldn't also be facing the grand larceny charge, but that's just quibbling over theoretical outcomes. The larger issue is the First Amendment. No one ever guaranteed free speech without consequences, but it does seem like this pursuit of an artist who honestly did nothing more than make more New Yorkers more aware of their PD's tactics has very little to do with bringing a criminal to justice, and everything to do with harshly shutting down criticism in order to deter further critiques of the NYPD.
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March 19 (Bloomberg) -- Tim Sappington is ready to buy horses for Valley Meat Co., which is seeking to open the first U.S. horse slaughterhouse since 2007. Right now he's the only paid employee, and he puts his money where his mouth is.
He eats horse meat. And he likes it.
"I've eaten it for years," said Sappington, who slaughters the animals himself and keeps a meat locker stocked at his home near Roswell, New Mexico.
Sappington and others see the plan to reopen the shuttered cattle facility about 8 miles outside Roswell, near a ranch that is home to a Kentucky Derby winner, as a chance to reclaim jobs now going to Mexico.
The idea of killing horses for food has generated heated opposition from animal-welfare advocates who say it is cruel and could introduce unhealthy meat into the food supply, and it has spurred legislation in Congress to keep it from happening.
While horse meat is consumed in many nations, including France, China, Mexico and Russia, its presence in U.K. meat set off an outcry in Europe earlier this year that devastated consumer demand for suddenly suspect beef. It could do the same in the U.S., said Marion Nestle, a public-health and nutrition expert at New York University.
"We don't eat animals with names," she said. "We don't eat dogs, we don't eat cats, and we are horrified when people do. The same is true of horses."
Horse Exports
About 4.6 million horses lived on U.S. farms in 2007, the last year the U.S. Department of Agriculture counted them and the final year of domestic slaughter, which wound down after Congress stopped funding federal inspection of horse facilities. The U.S. slaughtered 94,037 animals in 2005, the last full year before funding dried up.
Without a U.S. plant, horses have gone to Mexico or Canada for slaughter, enduring thousands of miles in trucks and on trains criticized both by animal-welfare groups as cruel and by agricultural organizations as an argument for a domestic industry. Exports of live horses last year to other North American countries were 197,442, more than double the number in 2007 and more than six times what it was a decade ago.
In Roswell, a community of about 50,000 that draws tourists with the legend of a UFO crash in the 1940s, some residents are interested in the up to 100 jobs Valley Meat says it may create. The company's plant last processed cattle about a year ago.
'City People'
"The people who are commenting on this are city people, and they don't know any better," said Michael Crawford, a 49- year-old with a gray handlebar mustache who drives a fuel truck for West Texas Gas. The local economy, thanks to the region's fracking boom, isn't doing as badly as other parts of New Mexico, he said while eating green chili stew at Farley's bar and restaurant on Main Street. Still, if people are fine with the smell a slaughterhouse inevitably brings, "I don't see a problem with it."
Whether horse-eating itself is desirable "depends on the horse," said Vanessa Reyes, a 34-year-old cosmetologist, at Farley's. While her fiancé, Raul Zuniga, 29, said it might be "weird," neither were opposed to the plant. "As long as it doesn't harm anyone, community-wise, go for it. Eat a horse," Reyes said.
Not everyone in Roswell, though, is all right with the idea. Shari Hamilton, a 61-year-old oil and gas employee, said she knows people need jobs. Still, she doesn't like it.
'Inherently Inhumane'
"We are more sophisticated than that," said Hamilton as she finished her lunch break at Martin's Capitol Cafe, a Mexican and American food restaurant downtown. "I hate to think we've sunk that low."
Horse slaughter is inherently inhumane, even in comparison to pig, lamb, cow or chicken processing, said Nancy Perry, a lobbyist with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Washington. Unlike cattle, which tend to remain stationary while being stunned, horses will move their heads, which can leave animals conscious while they're being dismembered, she said.
Horse meat can also be toxic because of the chemicals animals are given during lives not intended for someone's dinner plate, she said. Racehorses, show horses, even animals on ranches have different dietary and medical needs, making them less safe to eat, she said.
"They are much more a companion animal than a food animal," she said. "They're not raised for human consumption."
Co-mingled Meat
Supermarkets in the U.K., Ireland, France, the Netherlands and Germany pulled tainted frozen beef burgers and lasagnas from shelves in January and February after they were found to contain horse meat that wasn't properly mentioned on the label. The prospect of revived horse slaughter in the U.S. has raised similar concern about co-mingling, even as producers say a potential horse-slaughter industry will be separate from the much larger beef, pork and poultry markets.
After complaints from farm and ranch groups, Congress ended the ban on funding USDA inspections in 2011. Still, the department hasn't devoted resources to horse slaughter, and animal-welfare groups have fought the applications of Valley Meat and plants in Missouri, Oklahoma and elsewhere that are seeking inspectors.
Valley Meat sued the department to force inspections, saying it had a legal obligation to do so if a plant met federal standards. While that case is pending, the government will inspect slaughterhouses that comply with technical requirements after its inspectors complete necessary training, according to an e-mailed statement from the USDA yesterday.
Mexican Slaughter
Company owner Rick de los Santos couldn't be reached for comment. A. Blair Dunn, attorney for Valley Meat, said the plant could begin slaughtering in the next three weeks. Most of the meat will go to other countries, though selling to U.S. customers isn't prohibited, he said. Many of the horses the Valley Meat plant will slaughter would have been shipped to Mexico, about 200 miles away, Dunn said.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters today he wouldn't commit to a three-week schedule set out by Valley Meat. "We're very close to getting the work done that's needed to be done to allow them to operate," he said.
The USDA is taking time wiring rules for horse slaughter because it needed to incorporate findings from food safety and animal science since 2007, he said.
Landrieu, Graham
Lawmakers including Senators Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat, and Lindsay Graham, a South Carolina Republican, have introduced bills to ban U.S. horse killing for human consumption and prohibit transporting the animals elsewhere for slaughter.
"Horses have been raised for sport, transport, security and companionship, but never for slaughter and consumption," Landrieu said in a statement on her website last week. "There are very few regulations on the drugs given to horses, and we cannot risk introducing dangerously toxic meat into our food supply here at home or abroad."
The ASPCA, along with the Humane Society of the United States, the Animal Welfare Institute, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest all back the anti-slaughter legislation.
Opponents say horse-slaughter plants have unusually bad health effects on the surrounding community, with more leftover blood and offal than other slaughterhouses. Valley Meat itself came under scrutiny for poor practices while slaughtering cattle.
Decaying Animals
Government documents obtained by Front Range Equine Rescue, a Larkspur, Colorado-based horse-protection group, report maggot-infested piles of decaying animals as high as 15 feet on the property.
State inspectors cited Valley Meat in 2010 after finding evidence that animal carcasses had been improperly disposed of at the site, according to a summary from the New Mexico Environment Department. The company paid a $5,000 fine and removed the waste while disputing many of the reported infractions, Dunn said.
Under its settlement with environmental officials, Valley Meat is no longer allowed to compost animal waste on site, said Jim Winchester, a spokesman for the environmental department.
Agricultural organizations such as the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Farmers Union, the two biggest U.S. farmer groups, support domestic horse slaughter.
40 Horses
Farms and ranches need to be able to have animals slaughtered, said Mike Spradling, president of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau. Along with cattle and pecans, his Flying G Ranch just west of Tulsa's suburbs has about 40 horses, managed by a daughter with a degree in equine science, he said. Horse owners near cities may not be able to bury animals on their land because of zoning codes; rendering facilities may not be available. Without slaughterhouses, horses may be abandoned or mistreated, he said.
"I've heard of horses just dropped off in the desert to starve," he said. "Ultimately, our horses are our private property, and we need to be allowed to have options to care for them."
As for the safety of eating horses, Spradling says any meat slaughtered for domestic consumption will be governed by U.S. food-safety regulations.
Sappington, of Valley Meat, says the plant is getting calls from around the world: "We had people calling from Canada, Russia, Belgium," asking whether the plant may be able to ship them horse meat, he said.
Sappington said he consumes horse meat two to three times a week, often serving it to curious guests, who he says always love it. He grills it, makes hamburgers and -- his favorite -- makes chicken fried steak.
"Anything we've ever made with meat, we've made with horse," he said.
--With assistance from Derek Wallbank in Washington. Editors: Jon Morgan, Steve Geimann
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Tequila Thursday: All The King's Men
It's Thursday, which means it's tequila time. Got a favorite tequila cocktail? Let us know about it in the comments!
We're trying to extend our repertoire of delicious tequila cocktails, but we might as well quit right here: this is one of the best drinks we've tried in recent memory.
We found All The King's Men in Joanne Weir's Tequila: A Guide to Types, Flights, Cocktails, and Bites. The recipe comes from Duggan McDonnell of Cantina in San Francisco, and it may sound like an unlikely combination of ingredients. Ruby port contributes a blackberry-like fruitiness, balanced by a squeeze of fresh lemon. Averna makes it rich and complex, tequila adds some heat, and a dose of intensely spicy ginger beer brings it all together. If you're a fan of ginger and berries, but fear fruity drinks, we highly recommend you give this cocktail a try.
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KPRC anchor to leave Houston
Channel 2's Irika Sargent heads to Miami
A Houston anchor is heading to sunnier skies and cleaner beaches (no offense, Galveston.)
KPRC Channel 2 confirms that anchor Irika Sargent is leaving Houston for Miami CBS affiliate WFOR. Her last day on air in Houston will be April 29, and she will join WFOR's team in May.
Sargent has been with Channel 2 since August 2011 as the weekend anchor and evening reporter.
One thing you might not know about Sargent: according to KPRC's website, she is a licensed attorney. She attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism and worked a couple of gigs in the media, including one at NBC's London bureau. After college, Sargent attended the prestigious Cornell Law School, where she earned her J.D. She practiced law in New York for a couple of years before returning to journalism.


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U.S. Equal Employment
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Store Manager Harassed Female Employees, Then Fired One for Complaining, Federal Agency Says
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Bojangles' Restaurants, Inc. violated federal law by subjecting female employees to a sexually hostile work environment at one of its corporate-owned restaurants, and by firing one woman who complained about the sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The restaurant involved in the lawsuit is located in Greensboro, N.C.
According to the lawsuit, from approximately mid-2008 to July 2009, Shannie Norfleet was subjected to sexual harassment by her male store manager. The EEOC contends the store manager made explicit, obscene sexual comments to Norfleet on several occasions, including requests for sexual favors and requests for oral sex in exchange for time off. The lawsuit further alleges that on one occasion, the store manager approached Norfleet in the restaurant's outdoor shed, exposed his penis and asked her to touch him. Norfleet complained about the sexual harassment to the company's area director and the senior director of human resources, the EEOC said, but the harassment did not cease. Rather, the agency charged, Bojangles' discharged Norfleet in retaliation for her complaints.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Bojangles' Restaurants, Inc., Civil Action No. 1:11-cv-00641), after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC seeks monetary damages for Norfleet and the other harassment victims.
"Once an employer is put on notice that its employees are being subjected to sexual harassment, it must take prompt corrective action to stop it," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District. "And when an employer punishes someone for complaining about discrimination, it is only compounding the problem and its own liability."
EEOC Supervisory Trial Attorney Tina Burnside added, "The EEOC will continue to take action to enforce federal law and ensure that employees have the right to work in an environment free of sexual harassment."
According to company information, Bojangles' has more than 500 restaurants.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.