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When I heard the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was holding a celebratory "spotlight" on Tel Aviv, I felt ashamed of Toronto, the city where I live. I thought immediately of Mona Al Shawa, a Palestinian women's rights activist I met on a recent trip to Gaza. "We had more hope during the attacks," she told me. "At least then we believed things would change."
Al Shawa explained that while Israeli bombs rained down last December and January, Gazans were glued to their TVs. What they saw, in addition to the carnage, was a world rising up in outrage: global protests, as many as 100,000 on the streets of London, a group of Jewish women in Toronto occupying the Israeli Consulate. "People called it war crimes," Al Shawa recalled. "We felt we were not alone in the world." If Gazans could just survive, it seemed that their suffering could be the catalyst for change.
But today, Al Shawa said, that hope is a bitter memory. The international outrage has evaporated. Gaza has vanished from the news. And it seems that all those deaths-as many as 1,400-were not enough to bring justice. Indeed, Israel is refusing to cooperate even with a UN fact-finding mission headed by respected South African judge Richard Goldstone.
Last spring, while Goldstone's mission was in Gaza gathering devastating testimony, the Toronto International Film Festival was making the final selections for its Tel Aviv spotlight, timed for the Israeli city's hundredth birthday. There are many who would have us believe that there is no connection between Israel's desire to avoid scrutiny for its actions in the occupied territories and the glittering Toronto premieres. I am sure that Cameron Bailey, TIFF's co-director, believes that himself. He is wrong.
For more than a year, Israeli diplomats have been talking openly about their new strategy to counter growing global anger at Israel's defiance of international law. It's no longer enough, they argue, just to invoke Sderot every time someone raises Gaza. The task is also to change the subject to more pleasant topics: film, arts, gay rights-things that underline commonalities between Israel and places like Paris, New York and Toronto. After the Gaza attack, as the protests rose, this strategy went into high gear. "We will send well-known novelists and writers overseas, theater companies, exhibits," Arye Mekel, deputy director-general for cultural affairs for Israel's Foreign Ministry, told the New York Times. "This way, you show Israel's prettier face, so we are not thought of purely in the context of war." And hip, cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, which has been celebrating its centennial with Israeli-sponsored "beach parties" in New York, Vienna and Copenhagen all summer long, is the best ambassador of all.
Toronto got an early taste of this new cultural mission. A year ago, Amir Gissin, Israeli consul-general in Toronto, explained that the "Brand Israel" campaign would include, according to a report in the Canadian Jewish News, "a major Israeli presence at next year's Toronto International Film Festival, with numerous Israeli, Hollywood and Canadian entertainment luminaries on hand." Gissin pledged, "I'm confident everything we plan to do will happen." Indeed it has.
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Let's be clear: no one is claiming the Israeli government is secretly running TIFF's Tel Aviv spotlight, whispering in Bailey's ear about which films to program. The point is that the festival's decision to give Israel pride of place, holding up Tel Aviv as a "young, dynamic city that, like Toronto, celebrates its diversity," matches Israel's stated propaganda goals to a T. Gal Uchovsky, one of the directors in the spotlight, is quoted in the festival catalog saying that Tel Aviv is "a haven [Israelis] can run away to when they want to forget about wars and the burdens of daily life."
Partly in response, Udi Aloni, the wonderful Israeli filmmaker whose film Local Angel premiered at TIFF, sent a video message to the festival, challenging its programmers to resist political escapism and instead "go to the places where it's hard to go." It's ironic that TIFF's Tel Aviv programming is being called a spotlight, because celebrating that city in isolation - without looking at Gaza, without looking at what is on the other side of the towering concrete walls, barbed wire and checkpoints - actually obscures far more than it illuminates. There are some wonderful Israeli films included in the program. They deserve to be shown as a regular part of the festival, liberated from this highly politicized frame.
It was in this context that a small group of filmmakers, writers and activists, of which I was a part, drafted The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration Under Occupation. It has been signed by the likes of Danny Glover, Viggo Mortensen, Howard Zinn, Alice Walker, Jane Fonda, Eve Ensler, Ken Loach and more than a thousand others. Among them is revered Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, as well as many Israeli filmmakers.
The counterattacks-spearheaded by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the extremist Jewish Defense League - have been at once predictable and inventive. The most frequently repeated claim is that the letter's signatories are censors, calling for a boycott of the festival. In fact, many of the signatories have much-anticipated films at this year's festival, and we are not boycotting it: we are objecting to the Tel Aviv spotlight portion of it. More inventive has been the assertion that by declining to celebrate Tel Aviv as just another cool metropolis, we are questioning the city's "right to exist." (The Republican actor Jon Voight even accused Jane Fonda of "aiding and abetting those who seek the destruction of Israel.") The letter does no such thing. It is, instead, a simple message of solidarity, one that says: We don't feel like partying with Israel this year. It is also a small way of saying to Mona Al Shawa and millions of other Palestinians living under occupation and siege that we have not forgotten them.
This column was first published in The Nation (www.thenation.com)


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Fair Use, Public Domain And Creative Commons: They're Not All The Same
from the important-differences deptHere's the latest excerpt from our Techdirt Book Club selection for May, Reclaiming Fair Use by Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi. We're running a bit late with these, and will have one more excerpt next week. If you want to see the first excerpt and the second excerpt, go check them out.
Also, Patricia will be joining us for a live Q&A discussion session about the book on Friday, June 8th at 1pm PT/4pm ET. If you have some initial questions, you can post them below or on the Step 2 discussion page, and we'll try to incorporate them into the Q&A.
This particular excerpt discusses the differences between fair use, the public domain and Creative Commons
People who are well aware of how copyright ownership weighs on new creators often confuse fair use with efforts to recover and recreate the public domain, or material not (or no longer) bound by copyright ownership. Sometimes they even think these efforts are in competition. In fact, they are complementary ways to address the same general problem, as David Bollier has noted. Furthermore, enthusiasm for public domain work sometimes leads people to believe that fair use is not as useful as it is. This is because they have been drawn to public domain work by their frustration with copyright ownership restrictions, and have associated all of copyright with copyright ownership. They have not yet become aware of the flexibility and power of the fair use doctrine, and they see one side of copyright as the only side. Sometimes they simply do not have faith that copyright imbalance can be righted.
Creative Commons (CC) is possibly the best-publicized of the efforts to create an artificial public domain to compensate for the badly eroded zone of copyright-free work. It was launched by legal scholar Lawrence Lessig, who indeed was dismissive, even contemptuous, of the potential of fair use to address copyright imbalance. However, CC was not an attempt to supplant or be better than fair use. Rather it was an attempt to solve a different problem: how to allow people to give away or condition their long and strong copyright. CC licenses use the strength of owners' rights to allow owners the leeway to release their works into an artificial public domain.
So CC creates a zone inside copyright ownership for owners who want to be generous and give their works away. All CC licenses impose some conditions, and some impose more than others. (Some people ignore this; owners of CC licenses sometimes complain that people do not honor the conditions.) This makes CC a copyright-light zone rather than copyright-free zone, and of course it does nothing (and doesn't pretend to) to loosen long and strong copyright policy—rather, it depends upon it.
A CC license, intended to promote circulation of work, may limit it to the alternative CC world it was born into. This is precisely because it is designed to be an alternative to rather than a feature of the copyrighted environment. Many CC licenses forbid the use of digital rights management (DRM), which is standard to all commercial DVD contracts. Thus, a CC license may kill a distribution deal. Even people who depend upon CC licenses, such as the makers of open educational resources—scholarly materials of all kinds, available free on the web—still sometimes need fair use. That is because most new work refers to existing culture. When that happens, people need to exercise their right of fair use, because most work is not in the copyright-light, fenced-in zone.
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LA Tops 'Dirty Air' List for 13th Time in 14 Years
(LOS ANGELES) -- Thanks to the Clean Air Act, a lot of people in the United States are breathing a little easier. The American Lung Association's "State of the Air 2013″ report, which analyzed ozone and particle levels in the air from 2009 to 2011, showed that the nation's air quality is overall much cleaner, especially compared to a decade ago.
Still, the report found that more than 131.8 million people – 42 percent of the nation – live where pollution levels often make breathing a hazardous activity.
Nearly 120 million people live in areas with unhealthful levels of ozone, putting them at risk for premature death, aggravated asthma, difficulty breathing, cardiovascular harm and lower birth weight, the report revealed. The actual number who breathe unhealthy levels of ozone is likely much larger, since this number doesn't factor people who live in adjacent counties in metropolitan areas where no monitors exist.
Car-obsessed Los Angeles once again tops the list for the worst ozone pollution in the country for the 13th time in the 14 years the report has been issued. Californians, in general, tend to inhale the dirtiest air: seven of the top-10 most air polluted cities on the list are in that state.
Houston, Dallas and Washington, D.C., round out the top 10 for dirtiest air.
Although the worst offenders tended to be repeats from the 14 previous reports, there were a few surprises.
"One of the concerns we saw in this year's report was the increase in unhealthy ozone days in the middle part of the county," noted Janice Nolen, assistant vice president of national policy for the American Lung Association. "This smog spike in smaller cities in particular may be related to increased heat in the summer and to the growth in oil extraction."
Four cities – Bismarck, N.D., Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, Fla., and Rapid City, S.D. – were noted for having the cleanest air overall, meaning they reported no days at the unhealthy level for ozone, short-term particle pollution or year-round particle pollution.
The majority of cities that topped the list for lower ozone pollution, lower particle pollution or both, tended to be in the western part of the country in states like Colorado, Arizona and Utah. But Bangor, Maine, enjoyed low levels for both year-round and short-term particle pollution, and Burlington, Vt., topped the list for lightest ozone levels and year-round particle pollution.
One lone city from the Deep South, Muscle Shoals, Ala., was singled out for low levels of ozone and short-term particles.
Even in the cities with the filthiest of air, there are some glimmers of fresh oxygen through the smog. Fifteen of the 27 cities with the most ozone pollution improved their air quality in the previous year. And 13 of the country's most smog-polluted cities experienced their best year yet.
Unfortunately, even with the improvements, people living in the most pollution-choked areas are still breathing air that reaches dangerously unhealthy levels.
The full report can be found here.
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(BAKERSFIELD, Calif.) -- A 911 dispatcher pleaded with a nurse at a Bakersfield, Calif., senior living facility to save the life of an elderly woman by giving her CPR, but the nurse said policy did not allow her to, according to a newly released audiotape of the call.
"Is there anybody there that's willing to help this lady and not let her die?" the dispatcher asked in a recording of the 911 call released by the Bakersfield Fire Department.
"Not at this time," the nurse said.
The incident unfolded on Tuesday when 87-year-old Lorraine Bayless collapsed at Glenwood Gardens, a senior living facility in Bakersfield.
In the seven-minute, 16-second recording, the nurse told the dispatcher it was against the facility's policy for employees to perform CPR on residents.
With every passing second, Bayless' chances of survival were diminishing. The dispatcher's tone turned desperate.
"Anybody there can do CPR. Give them the phone please. I understand if your facility is not willing to do that. Give the phone to that passerby," the dispatcher said. "This woman is not breathing enough. She is going to die if we don't get this started."
After several minutes, an ambulance arrived and took Bayless to Mercy Southwest Hospital, where she died.
Glenwood Gardens released a statement confirming its policy prohibiting employees from performing CPR.
"In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community, our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives. That is the protocol we followed," the statement said.
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Reading this interesting article and its comment thread on the benefits, or lack of, Development for the world's 150 million indigenous people, I wondered what the general feeling is of the IFADAsia community?
Stephen Corry is directory of Survival International and author of a book called Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow's World. His blog in the Guardian.co.uk seems to have prompted a fairly lively discussion. What do you think about it?


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Federal offices to reopen 2 hours late
Federal offices in the Washington area will reopen two hours late Friday as the region digs out from the snowstorm that blanketed the region.
The Office of Personnel Management announced the reopening late Thursday night.
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It was the latest sign that the D.C. area should begin coming back to life after snow shut down most of the federal government, closed airports, interrupted bus service and gave many people an unscheduled day off.
( WATCH: Snobama: Snow day sculptures in D.C.)
Thursday was a snow day for much of Washington, with the federal government and schools closed. And commuting quickly became a hassle, especially if you were planning to fly — Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Dulles International Airport halted all flights for much of the day.
As of 6 p.m., Reagan National had reopened its main runway, joining the one that had been open at Dulles since the afternoon. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said both airports should be functional by Friday morning.
However, the airports authority's Robert Yingling cautioned that "it will take more time for the airlines to recover their full schedule. Expect several canceled flights, especially in the morning."
And Dan Stessel, a spokesman for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority, said "every expectation is that Metrorail will be on a regular weekday schedule" on Friday.
Bus service, which was more disrupted on Thursday, is more up in the air but will probably have at least some modifications to service because of road conditions. MetroAccess, which was closed Thursday, should also be operating again by Friday at noon.
( Also on POLITICO: Snowed-in D.C. takes to Twitter)
In New York City, hardy souls braving the outdoors reported "near whiteout" conditions, according to The New York Times.
New York's subways were running on Thursday, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority warned that service is "subject to being delayed, curtailed or suspended during a storm this significant." New Jersey Transit warned consumers in much the same fashion and said some lines are subject to up to an hour delay — though at least one train, with a New York Times columnist on board, was stranded for at least three hours.
Just under 10,000 flights have been canceled in the past two days alone as of Thursday evening, according to FlightAware.com. The airport in Charlotte, N.C., with more than 1,200 flights canceled so far, tops the list with the highest number of disruptions Thursday. Atlanta's airport vied with Philadelphia's for second place, with just seven canceled flights' difference between the two — roughly 860. Reagan National has clocked about 760 canceled flights so far, with Dulles at just over 500.
Washington's Metrorail is running but bus service was suspended for about half of the day. Metro started the day running trains on what it called "on or close to" a regular weekday schedule, and though it warned that service may have to be reduced, it hadn't as of 6 p.m.
WMATA said ridership was about 13 percent of a normal Thursday. There were about 48,200 trips taken as of 3 p.m., compared to about 370,000 on a typical Thursday.
Maryland's MARC and Virginia's VRE have also suspended service. Even Capital Bikeshare, which was open for business during the polar vortex, has locked up its wheels for the day. Amtrak's Northeast Corridor service will operate Thursday on reduced or modified schedules.
Not everything is closed, though. When D.C. takes a snow day, many of its bars and restaurants don't, with some even going so far as to create snow day specials.
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I confess. I did it. I was in college, and I took money for doing journalism: A little freelance gig there, a paid summer internship there. And then I went back to writing for my college newspaper like it never happened. Good thing the National Collegiate Journalism Association never caught wind of it, or I surely would have lost my eligibility to continue on competing as a student-journalist, and the college paper could have faced big-time sanctions.
Of course, there is no NCJA, and if there were it wouldn't care whether reporters for college papers took money for doing what they were trained to do. It is not, in other words, at all like the NCAA, the body that oversees college sports with an iron fist and the sensibility of an unusually constipated accountant.
Which brings us to the case of Jonathan Benjamin. He is a University of Richmond student with an entrepreneurial streak. He launched a clothing line, called Official Visit, that he hoped would become the next Under Armour or Nike. He marketed his clothing line using Facebook and Twitter, as one does in the modern age, and, quite reasonably posted photographs of himself wearing the clothes.
And it was enough to potentially cost him his eligibility to play college basketball. As Patrick Hruby reported at Sports on Earth, Benjamin had run afoul of an NCAA rule that student athletes can start a business, so long as the "student-athlete's name, photograph, appearance or athletics reputation are not used to promote the business."
It's just the latest in a series of stories, with varying degrees of absurdity, of how the body that oversees college athletics metes out its bizarre version of justice. Just this week, the NCAA backtracked after first ruling that a Marine veteran could not play football for Middle Tennessee State University because he had played in loosely organized games on-base while in the military. And the NCAA is investigating whether star Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel sold his own autograph, which if proven would count as a grave offense.
This all has its roots in the central fraud that is big-time college sports. Universities function as the nation's true minor league sports franchises, driving billions in revenue in the process, mainly from football and mens' basketball. The players, er, student athletes, are not only unpaid by their universities; the NCAA rules actively prevent them from earning money in any way from the thing that they spend most of their waking hours doing. They will not be allowed on the field or court if they so much as they take $20 in exchange for signing an autograph for a fan.
Because there are vast revenues to be won for fielding a top-tier team in one of the televised sports, universities will spend untold millions to try to improve. But because their star performers are student athletes who they are not allowed to pay, that competition occurs not by bidding up salaries but in other ways. By spending big to get the best coach (hence Alabama coach Nick Saban's $5.3 million annual pay package); investing in the best facilities; and developing a reputation as a place that prepares its athletes well to make a go at the NFL or NBA after a few good years at the college level.
The result: Some kid who grew up poor in Tuscaloosa puts his health on the line by playing left tackle for the University of Alabama and isn't allowed to take a dime for it, working under a coach gets paid hedge fund money.
Defenders of the current system would argue that amateurism is the essence of college sports, what makes the NCAA men's basketball tournament or a great football rivalry game so exciting. That makes no sense to me; the precise pay arrangements of the people on the field don't really matter if you're the one in the stands watching what you hope will be an entertaining game.
A better argument can be made that the system is one of elaborate cross-subsidies, in which big-time college sports support more truly amateur pursuits that in turn enrich college life. Having a wildly profitable football program is, for the University of Texas, a way of funding a less high-profile tennis or swimming or track team, and ultimately the educational mission of the institution. Perhaps if there were bidding wars among universities for top high school recruits in football and basketball, that would eat up the profits that now subsidize lower profile athletics, and universities would be worse for it.
But here's how the rules for college athletics could be changed to make more sense, and offer more basic fairness to the athletes involved, while preserving their role as a prestige sports as a revenue driver for universities.
Keep their unpaid status. But eliminate restrictions on other ways they can earn income. An endorsement deal with a local car dealer? Mazel tov. Getting paid for autographs? Why not? It could even enliven some currently low-profile college sports if, for example, budding professional tennis players found it useful to enroll in a university and compete at that level while tuning up for Wimbledon.
Years ago, the Olympics realized that requiring competitors to be "ameteur" created all kinds of problems. First, it meant that some of the world's top athletes were not allowed to play, making the competition less compelling; do you remember any Olympic basketball games from before 1992, when NBA players were finally allowed to participate?
And second, it meant that there was all kinds of difficult rule enforcement around who counted as an amateur and who didn't; a nation could employ an athlete as a "soldier" when their real job was to train for the Olympics, but one shoe endorsement deal was enough to end an Olympic career.
The Olympics eventually realized that in the interest of quality competition and basic sanity, they needed to relax on the whole principle of amateurism. It's time for college sports to do the same.


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During the past couple weeks I've become very aware as to how my diet accelerates or minimizes my pain. I'm not having nearly as much pain as I was having in the earlier weeks. I would categorize the pain level at a 4, which is a huge improvement as I had been at a pain level 8 for far too long.
Over the past few weeks I've found that when I eat grains-good whole grains-such as steel cut oats, brown rice or nice fresh corn on the cob, I begin to feel more pressure in my spine which in turn leads to more nerve pain descending down my arm and into my hand.
One evening we met Tyler and Amanda for dinner at Granite City . I had a slice of bread, well, maybe two, with my salad and I couldn't believe the inflammation I suffered from the next day. At first I thought it could have been from the sodium that was probably in the grilled chicken, and in part could have been. In my notes (yes, I journal everything) I jotted down how miserable the pain was and wondered why it had accelerated.
I continued to jot down how I was progressing, activity, diet, etc. In looking at my notes I finally realized that when eating grains I was indeed suffering more pain the next day.
I consume essential fats and take EFAs which reduce inflammation. I have since researched grains and the effect they have on inflammation. It's too bad that my PT or Dr or someone had shared this information with me when I first injured my back. Maybe they didn't know, maybe it is a farce, maybe I am making it up in my head. No.
Of course, in correct doses inflammation is a boon, necessary for healing and protection of germs and other foreign invaders. As my discs heal, I probably won't be so sensitive to grains. Time will tell.
Because I'm not running 100 miles a week at this time whole grains aren't at the top of my list of foods to be consuming so they aren't that hard to limit or cut out. I'm eating meats, vegetables, fats, fruits and nuts. I know, right! Where's the raw, the vegan? Still whole, organic, healthy foods. I added meat back in a while ago. I've gone off the Splenda (again) and I'm feeling really well. I've even begun the Challenge to give me something to focus on besides healing. Lord knows I'm not focusing on running or lifting or yoga or CrossFit right now, sad but true. It will come, it will come!
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Not Feeling So Superior
Sadly I am not at the Superior Trail Races this weekend. I still feel quite a bit of pain in my back as well as nerve pain going down my arm. I'm not sure which is worse. Both are especially horrible when I drive. The drive to Lutsen was just too much for me. I forgot that I hadn't updated this blog in quite some time, I guess I update Facebook much more often. I have had four sessions with my Physical Therapist. Traction is my new favorite activity. Friday I had 30 minutes and it was awesome. As the device pulls my head from my neck, the spaces between my discs is lengthened, removing the pressure from my nerves. Ah, relief! After Fridays session I didn't feel pain for an hour, a great improvement! I progress every day. Last week I was still devouring Advil first thing in the morning with an ice pack to my neck. I was taking pain reliever every four hours. I haven't had any today ;) Topaz and I have been able to get back out to Lake Maria for walks. I don't know when I'll be running again. Eventually. I find myself missing my active self so very much. My day began with an easy run with Topaz, lifting at the gym, maybe a hard run in the PM, some, yoga at CorePower. I REALLY miss CorePower! More so than Gold's. I can't wait to get back to CorePowers vinyassa hot yoga. My body is craving that stretching and my mind needs the focused intent. I may try the beginning vinyassa next week. It's been difficult, that is for certain. I put away the idea of racing this weekend but I surely thought I'd go up to Lutsen, spend the weekend aiding the runners, rooming with Alicia, Bill and Matt again. Not so. Chin up, right...it could be worse!
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Do you share your computer with someone who has different tastes in music and media? You can create separate user accounts for each person who uses the computer. You can maintain separate, personalized iTunes libraries and customize each devices' sync settings accordingly.
Mac OS X users
Learn how to set up other user accounts.
Windows users
Look in your computer's Help documentation to learn how to set up other user accounts. To find this information:
- Click the Start Menu and click Help or Help and Support.
- Enter "new user" in the Search field.
- Press Return.
If you create multiple user accounts on one computer but want the same media to be available in iTunes for all users, you can share music between different accounts on a single computer.
Sync devices to playlists
You may use multiple devices on a computer without creating multiple user accounts. To do this, you can set iTunes to update each device with only certain playlists. This method allows you to put all your music on, for example, your iPod and keep your iPod shuffle updated with only your workout music. Here's how to do this with iTunes:
- Create new iTunes playlists on Mac and Windows that contain all the music you want to sync to each device.
- Sync your device.
Note: iTunes for Windows does not support syncing multiple iPod devices at the same time.
Create a separate iTunes library
Create a separate iTunes library for each device. Note: It is important that you make a new iTunes library file. Do not just make a copy of your existing iTunes library file. If iTunes is open, quit it.
- Mac users: Hold down the Option key while you open iTunes.
Windows users: Hold down the Shift key while you open iTunes.
- In the dialog that appears, click Create Library.
- Name and save the alternate library file. iTunes opens with your new library file.
- Open iTunes Preferences. Choose iTunes > Preferences (Mac) or Edit > Preferences (Windows).
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Deselect the "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" checkbox if it is already selected and click OK. This will prevent iTunes from creating duplicates of your existing media files in the new library folder.
- Add the specific media files you want on your device to iTunes either by dragging them into iTunes or choosing File > Add to Library (Mac) or File > Add File to Library or Add Folder to Library (Windows).
- After you organize the iTunes library, connect and sync your device.
- After the sync is complete, quit iTunes.
- Mac users: Hold down the Option key while you open iTunes.
Windows users: Hold down the Shift key while you open iTunes.
- Click Choose library.
- Choose your original iTunes library and click Choose (Mac Users) or Open (Windows Users). You can now switch between the different libraries for different devices.
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You can use the above information to sync music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and other media content. You can also sync contacts and calendars to iPod or to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.


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The bobcat has bounced back. Ohio's bobcat population had dropped to such low levels by the 1970s that it was one of the first species Ohio's first endangered-species list in 1974.
The bobcat has bounced back.
Ohio's bobcat population had dropped to such low levels by the 1970s that it was one of the first species Ohio's first endangered-species list in 1974.
By 2012, it had recovered to the point that Ohio Wildlife Council upgraded its condition to � threatened.� The bobcat is still a protected animal, so even if the council approves the recommendation, it cannot be hunted.
And now, four decades after being labeled �endangered,� Ohio Department of Natural Resources biologists this week recommended to the council that it remove the bobcat from the list of threatened species, according to an ODNR release.
Biologists verified 169 sightings of bobcats in Ohio in 2012 - the third consecutive year that more than 100 sightings had been verified in the state.
Most sightings occurred in Noble County and surrounding counties, a rural area in the I-77 corridor in southeastern Ohio. Observers have seen the elusive cats most recently in 31 of the state's 88 counties.
To report a bobcat sighting, call 800-WILDLIFE (945-3543) or email email@example.com.
Bobcats once roamed the entire state, but they were pushed out starting in about 1850 as settlers moved in, according to ODNR officials. A handful of unverified bobcat sightings in the 1960s announced the return of the species. Bobcat sightings have been verified in 43 counties since 1970, with unverified sightings in 84 counties.
ODNR says that a bobcat may be verified with photographs of the animal or its tracks; road kill recovery and sightings by ODNR Division of Wildlife personnel; and encounters through incidental trappings, which are followed by the animal's release. The number of bobcat sightings confirmed from trail cameras has increased dramatically since 2006, and most verified sightings in 2012 were documented by these cameras.
The ODNR Division of Wildlife uses technology to clarify estimated bobcat populations because it is rare to see them in the wild. To help them with their research, biologists use remote cameras and scent stations. GPS radio collars are used to track the location of bobcats after catching and releasing them.
The Ohio Wildlife Council is an eight-member board that approves all of the ODNR Division of Wildlife proposed rules and regulations.
The council will vote on ODNR proposals made this week, including dates for various hunting seasons, during its April 9 meeting after considering public input.
Proposals for Ohio's white-tailed deer hunting season will be heard at the next Ohio Wildlife Council meeting on Feb. 5.
ODNR open houses will be held to give the public an opportunity to view and discuss proposed fishing, hunting and trapping regulations. Comments also can be filed online at wildohio.com. The online form will be available until March. Directions to the open houses can be found at wildohio.com or by calling 800-WILDLIFE (945-3543).
A statewide hearing on proposed hunting rules will be held at the ODNR Division of Wildlife's District One office at 9 a.m. on March 6. The office is at 1500 Dublin Road, Columbus.
Council meetings are open to the public. Individuals who want to provide comments on a topic that is currently being considered by council are asked to preregister at least two days prior to the meeting by calling 614-265-6304. All comments are required to be three minutes or less.


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Imogene M. Nursing educator, administrator, researcher, and practitioner. She developed a conceptual framework for nursing at a time when nursing was striving for status as a science and for recognition as a legitimate profession. From her conceptual system, a theory of goal attainment was derived, within which she developed a transaction process model that makes her theory a middle range theory. Her ideas have been tested in research and used by practitioners and educators. Several other theories have been derived from her conceptual system.
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(1923-2007), a nursing theorist who introduced her theory of goal attainment in her book, Toward a Theory for Nursing (1971). King defines nursing as a process of human interactions between nurse and patients who communicate to set goals and then agree to meet the goals. King's conceptual framework specifies three interacting systems: personal system, interpersonal system, and social system. She believes that the patient is a personal system within a social system, coexisting through interpersonal processes with other personal systems. The nurse and patient perceive each other and the situation, act and react, interact, and transact. From her major concepts (interaction, perception, communication, transaction, role, stress, growth and development, and time and space), she derives her theory of goal attainment. King describes nursing as a discipline and an applied science, with emphasis on the derivation of nursing knowledge from other disciplines. She suggests that the patient's and nurse's perceptions, judgments, and actions lead to reaction, interaction, and transaction, which she calls the process of nursing.


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Details of individual sites contain notations "LEGAL INFO" followed by sets of letters and numbers (example: Helvetia "LEGAL INFO: T18S, R15E"). What do these represent? Is there some master key to these codes, and if so, where can I find it?
Township and Range - there is a write up on this under "learn how to ghost town"
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You don't have to shoot with us to work with us. Call the retouching team on: 020 3289 9054
Photo Retouching Services
Our in-house photography retouching service offers clients — both those who shoot their projects with us and those who didn't, everything you can think of and all in-house too. From simple skin touch-up work to green screen background removal or comping of images, we have the skills to create the ultimate image for your project, however large and complex or simple.
Our prices start from as little as £45 per hour for most jobs that do not involve comping work which is charged at £70 per hour.
Our free, third-party download facility makes it easy to get your images back, regardless of where in the world you are.
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If you would like to talk to us about your image requirements and hire one of our in-house photo retouchers, please feel free to get in touch with us at our email or call: 020 3289 9054 and someone from our Bookings Team will certainly be able to help with advice and estimated costs.
Have a look at a few images from our portfolio that have all been photographed and retouched by us:
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Removal of human, rebuilding helmet. / Enlarging of heads on models bodies.
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Serge Ramelli
Escalier MontmartreAbout this photograph
Serge Ramelli has achieved his dream: to photograph Paris in a cinematographic way. Through lighting effects, framing and mood, he looks for a ?grandiose, dramatic landscapes that communicate an emotion like some movies". To this end, he digitally applies a black and white technique once used by Ansel Adams, zone system, which allows photography to get as close as possible to the visual reality perceived by the artist. He thus obtains strong and contrasting images to enhance the aesthetic and graphic qualities of his subjects. Serge Ramelli's respective passions for photography and cinema have led him to capture iconic locations in Paris and capture the poetry emanating from the city's architecture, which has inspired, over time, many writers and artists.Read more Read less
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Passionate about images since a young age, Serge Ramelli decided to devote his career to it in 2005. He thus soon became a professional photographer and cinema producer. His creative and inquiring mind leads him to constantly explore new techniques, both photographically and digitally, in order to better recreate the grandeur of urban landscapes. He multiplies experiments in the field of photography and also successfully teaches various methods of mastering photography such as composition, materials, or retouching, via educational tutorials. These digital guides are designed for amateurs and professionals of the 8th art who wish to learn how to use creative digital tools such as Lightroom or HDR (High Dynamic Range), which allow powerful, contrasted, and dramatic images to be obtained.


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Here at Garolla Scunthorpe, we combine our professional and reliable garage door installation service with great products that are available at amazingly low prices.
All of our roller garage doors are manufactured in Britain, using the highest quality components and with over a decade's experience in the door sector, you can guarantee that our products will look great once installed.
As well as electric roller garage doors, we also manufacture and install uPVC and composite pedestrian doors and uPVC windows – making Garolla your one-stop-door-shop for all your garage door and window needs.
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A garage door should help keep your garage warm and secure and here at Garolla, our roller garage doors do just that whilst adding extra kerb appeal to your home.
The slats that create the main shutter of our roller garages are twin-walled aluminium and insulated. High strength end locks, a patented auto-locking system and remote controls that cannot be cloned are also utilised. With all of these components also being tested to comply with European legislation, you can trust in our doors to protect your garage.
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VICTORIA - A former judge who helped engineer major child-welfare reforms in British Columbia and Manitoba says the overrepresentation of aboriginal children in government care across Canada is an "unconscionable national embarrassment."
Ted Hughes said Thursday Canada's federal, provincial, territorial and aboriginal leaders need to get together and develop a national strategy to reduce the numbers of aboriginal children in the child-welfare system.
Hughes urged the leaders to start work on the strategy when Canada's premiers and territorial leaders hold their annual meeting of the Council of the Federation in August in Charlottetown, P.E.I.
"To Canada, a country that purports to be a leader in the advancement of human rights, both at home and abroad, the foregoing facts have to be a significant national embarrassment," Hughes said during a speech in Victoria.
"The problem cannot be solved by Manitoba acting alone. Nor can it be solved by British Columbia acting alone."
A spokesman in B.C. Premier Christy Clark's office said efforts will be made to meet with Hughes prior to the Charlottetown meetings.
Of the more than 9,700 children in the care of child welfare agencies in Manitoba, more than 80 per cent are aboriginal, and the numbers have been increasing since 1997, Hughes said. In Winnipeg, 83 per cent of the 5,291 children in care in 2012 were aboriginal.
He said of the estimated 4,500 children in care in B.C., more than 53 per cent are aboriginal.
"The impact of these statistics is driven home when it is appreciated that in British Columbia in 2011 about 5.4 per cent of the population identified themselves as aboriginal," said Hughes. "The fact of this dramatic overrepresentation is incontrovertible when it is appreciated that aboriginal people represent just over four per cent of the Canadian population."
"Even in Winnipeg, where the figure is about 10 per cent and in Manitoba, where it is about 16 per cent, this disproportionate number of children in care is unconscionable," he said.
Hughes conducted a public inquiry in Manitoba into the death of Phoenix Sinclair who died in 2006 under horrible circumstances at the hands of her mother and her mother's boyfriend.
His report concluded that the province's child-welfare system did not protect the five-year-old aboriginal child from her parents who were both convicted of first-degree murder. The report prompted a major overhaul of child welfare in Manitoba.
Hughes said the findings and recommendations from his Manitoba report conclude "that responsibility to protect children is a shared responsibility _ shared with the child-welfare system itself, and with other arms of government and with the community as a whole."
In 2006, Hughes delivered a report on B.C.'s stretched child-protection system and its unmanageable degree of change that prompted the Liberal government to create an independent body to oversee and monitor children's issues.
The post is currently held by former Saskatchewan judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond who is B.C.'s independent Representative for Children and Youth
He said he supports Turpel-Lafond's aim to ensure B.C.'s ministry for children and family development take the leadership role in closing the gap facing aboriginal children, but a national approach is required.
"A provincial initiative will neither rectify nor reverse what I have characterized as 'unconscionable', a 'gross disproportion' and 'a national embarrassment.' I refuse to accept that it will indefinitely remain as such. There has to be a solution. This is a serious problem that needs to be tackled at a national level."
After the speech, he said he knows what he would tell Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the issue.
"I would make the case why the feds have a major role to play to get to work on what I am suggesting is a re-look at some of the decisions they have made over the years that have resulted in these out of whack statistics," he said.


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LISLE, Ill. - The Benedictine University football team held a 13-7 halftime lead but allowed the visitors from Concordia Chicago to score 19 points in the second half on the way to a 26-13 victory on Family Weekend.
Benedictine was able to slow down the high octane offense of Concordia Chicago early by virtue of ball control offense. L.J. Stolarski secured an interception near the endzone to halt the opening drive of the day for the visitors following seven plays. The Eagles responded by using 7:43 of the opening quarter on a 15-play drive but came up empty with a missed field goal.
The first points of the day came following another interception. Stefan Herron stepped in front of a pass from Jake Koehler and returned it 39 yards for a touchdown with 6:19 remaining in the half. A penalty allowed the visitors solid field position and four plays later the game was even. Benedictine responded with another long drive, striking with :01 left to grab the 13-7 lead into the break. Concordia took a timeout to ice the kicker and Benedictine returned with the offense on the field. Cyle Schultz found Chris Schultz for a 10-yard touchdown in the back of the endzone to finish the drive.
Touchdowns less than 30 seconds apart allowed the Cougars to open a 20-13 lead. An odd bounce on a squib kick following the first touchdown allowed Concordia to recover and two plays later Koehler snuck in for a three-yard score. The final points came late in the fourth on a 42-yard pass to account for the final score.
John Borsellino recorded just his second 100-yard rushing game of the season with 122 yards on 27 carries. Artie Monaco caught six passes and carried the ball seven times. Defensively, the Eagles finished +1 in the turnover battle. Ben Lockton collected 13 tackles with Chris Buonavolanto adding 12.
Benedictine (3-5, 1-4) returns to action on November 3 in the final home contest of the season against Maranatha. Kickoff is slated for 1:00 p.m.
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LISLE, Ill. - The Benedictine University football team held a 13-7 halftime lead but allowed the visitors from Concordia Chicago to score 19 points in the second half on the way to a 26-13 victory on Family Weekend.


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For decades, full-size vans were the antithesis of style. According to a report by TruckTrend Magazine, they were defined by their no-nonsense functionality, and automakers made little effort to make the interiors or exteriors interesting or stylish. But if this interior photo of the new Ford Transit Custom is any indication, American van customers are in for a real treat when the U.S.-spec T-series vans hits showrooms.
We've already seen exterior photos of the new Transit , and by van standards, it's certainly a looker. But until now, we haven't had a good idea of what the interior would look like. Ford of Europe just released this photo of the Transit's dashboard and front passenger area. What struck us almost immediately is its strong family resemblance to some of Ford's newer passenger cars and crossovers, most notably the Focus, Fiesta, and the new 2013 Escape. From the four-spoke steering wheel, 4-inch multi-function display between the primary gauges, and its "wing"-center HVAC vents, the interior shares some unmistakable design cues with its passenger-car cousins.
Some RV manufacturers are looking at the Transit as a potential platform for Class B RVs as Ford phases out its E-series van.
Some unique features facilitated by the van's width are a dashboard-mounted cupholder to the left of the steering wheel, just the thing to cool off the working man's cup of Dunkin' Donuts coffee on the way to the job site. The steering-wheel mounted controls suggest Bluetooth integration (no great surprise) and voice-activation of some functions. There are two knee-level cubby holes on the dashboard, one at each corner. A park sensing system and Eco mode are also apparent from the dashboard controls. The photo of the Euro-spec model also shows a six-speed manual transmission, although U.S.-spec models will likely be automatic-only.
The stylish and high-tech dashboard only increases our interest and enthusiasm for the upcoming T-series, which we know will offer the 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 as one of the engine options, as well as one as-yet unidentified diesel engine. We're inclined to believe it will be some version of Ford's global 3.2-liter I-5, which is good for approximately 200 hp and 347 lb-ft of torque. In view of the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, Nissan NV, the upcoming Transit, and Ram's upcoming entry into the van market, this formerly moribund segment is suddenly quite intriguing.


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FSU, Northern Illinois coaches getting used to Orange Bowl
As long as he's been around, Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher has never had the opportunity to be a participant in the Orange Bowl.
"Been to a bunch of Sugar Bowls, Cottons, but this will be my first Orange Bowl," said Fisher, who prior to becoming Bobby Bowden's successor in waiting in 2007 spent the bulk of his career earning his coaching stripes at Auburn and LSU.
"When I was a young man, when I became a Florida State fan in 1979, they played Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl in back-to-back to years. I remember watching [FSU's] Ron Simmons, how they couldn't block him. To me, this game has such great tradition. We're very proud, excited for our guys to be here."
If Fisher and the Atlantic Coast Conference champion Seminoles (11-2) feel good about playing in their first Bowl Championship Series game in seven years, imagine how Mid-American Conference champion Northern Illinois (12-1) and coach Rod Carey are feeling.
The 79th annual Discover Orange Bowl on Jan. 1 isn't just the first BCS appearance in Huskies history, it will be Carey's first game ever as a head coach. Sunday, Carey was named the successor to Dave Doeren, who left for North Carolina State — a day after the Huskies won their conference title and crashed the BCS party.
Before Carey took a seat on the opposite end of a poolside table from Fisher on Wednesday afternoon at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, he was able to sneak an hour's worth of sleep on the plane ride down from DeKalb., Ill. It was one of the few hours of sleep Carey, 41, has been able to get since being named coach.
"It's been a crazy four days for me personally and our team, but really this is about our team, not about me," said Carey, a University of Indiana grad who took over the offensive coordinator duties when Mike Dunbar left the team for health reasons after the first game of the season.
"Our team has earned this by going out and doing what they have to do on the field, and we're super-excited to be part of this Discover Orange Bowl and have a great opponent like Florida State. It's a thrill for us.
Fisher, whose team is an early two-touchdown favorite, said he isn't buying any of the expert talk that the Huskies, who finished 15th in the BCS rankings, are not worthy of playing in one of college football's premier games. Aside from having high praise for Huskies star quarterback Jordan Lynch, who leads the nation in both total offensive yards (4,733) and total rushing yards (1,771 yards), Fisher said Northern Illinois "had an unbelievable season."
"You look at the numbers and the people they've beaten and the things they've done. They're a great opponent. They've had a tremendous year. And to me, it's disrespectful to Northern Illinois [to question its BCS validity]. We definitely don't think that way. We know what kind of opponent they're going to be."
Fisher, who lost two assistants himself recently, said former defensive coordinator Mark Stoops and defensive ends coach D.J. Eliot may come back to help the Seminoles prepare for the Orange Bowl once the recruiting period goes dead later this month. Stoops is the new head coach at Kentucky. Eliot, who will be Stoops' new defensive coordinator according to Fisher, "will definitely come back and coach in the game."
"I was hoping he wouldn't," Carey joked after Fisher shared the news of Stoops' potential return for the bowl game.
The Seminoles, who have never faced Northern Illinois, rank second in the nation in the total defense (253.8 yards per game) and boast the ACC's Defensive Player of the Year in end Bjoern Werner and Rookie of the Year in cornerback Ronald Darby.
Neither of them are from South Florida, but the Seminoles, who have begun to tap into Miami-Dade and Broward County heavily again under Fisher, said he has a lot of players who are excited to be coming home again.
"This is a prime-time area, home base for us," Fisher said. "The more we can come back here, the more it enhances our ability to get those players."
Northern Illinois has a handful of players from South Florida, including four defensive starters: linebacker Jamaal Bass from Miramar, defensive tackle Ken Bishop from Sunrise Piper, safety Demetrius Stone from Miami American and linebacker Victor Jacques from Miami Columbus.
"We had a team meeting yesterday, and they were ecstatic," Carey said. "I don't know if they were happy because they don't have to fly back from Christmas break or excited about the game. But I think both."
The Huskies, who currently have a commitment from Miami Pace linebacker Robert Jones, are already seeing a difference in recruiting, according to Carey, now that they can call themselves a BCS program.
"They call back, which is a new thing," Carey said. "So yes, absolutely, we are using that. And why wouldn't we be?"


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ELDER JOSEPH W. SITATI - LDS Church First Quorum of the Seventy
Elder Joseph W. Sitati was sustained a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 4, 2009, at age 56. At the time of his call, he had been serving as president of the Nigeria Calabar Mission. He currently serves on the Perpetual Education Fund Committee and as an Assistant Executive Director in the Temple Department.
Elder Sitati earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Nairobi in 1975 and a diploma in accounting and finance from the Association of Certified Accountants. He has also done course work for the MBA degree from the same university in 2000 and worked as an executive for "Reach the Children," a nongovernmental organization. Prior to that, he worked in several positions with the Total Group, the 4th largest oil and gas company in the world. Among those positions was that of strategy manager at Total Kenya and consultant for the overseas division.
Since joining the Church in 1986, Elder Sitati has served in numerous callings, including branch president's counselor, branch president, district president, mission president's counselor, stake president, Area Seventy, and mission president. He also served as the Church's international director of Public Affairs for Africa.
Joseph Wafula Sitati was born in Bungoma, Kenya, in May 1952. He married Gladys Nangoni in July 1976. They are the parents of five children and currently reside in Salt Lake City, Utah. (via LDS.org)


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Gnome answers Linux critics with 'big' vision plan
"Experience" this
The Gnome Foundation has laid out a roadmap saying it's time to depart from incremental updates.
The team said it's realized it's not enough to simply organize a collection of individual sub-projects and that a project-wide roadmap is needed. Gnome is the default environment of Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu, and initially the goal was for a version 2.30.0 - that will now become 3.0 due next March.
Responding to growing criticism of Gnome's "lack of vision," the team said its 3.0 release will focus not only on streamlining the platform, but "revamping the user experience."
"One concern that came more than was that it would be an error to do Gnome 3.0 without any big user-visibility change," the Gnome Foundation posted on its website.
"While some of us didn't necessarily agree with this concern, it was still a fairly valid one. But it turns out that if you tell the community that there's something after 2.x, then the community will stop vaguely thinking about future ideas and start working on concrete plans."
While Gnome's nearest competitor in the field of free desktop environments, KDE, was willing to scrap its established code base of KDE 3.x and start a new with KDE 4.0, Gnome has stuck to simply improving on 2.x's innards.
Central ideas the development team thinks will have a tangible positive impact on the user experience are Gnome Shell, which manages how users open applications, and Zeitgest, which controls the way documents are accessed using tags, bookmarks, timelines and other ways to make the desktop work less like a traditional filesystem.
"Making Gnome 2.30 a 3.0 version is of course still an ambitious goal, but we can achieve it thanks to what we learnt in the past," the team said.
They added the team is prepared to consider the fact that Gnome 2.30 won't be good enough to call it 3.0 and waiting for version 2.3.2 for the 3.0 release.
"That being said we want the community to try as hard as possible to make 'Gnome 2.30 = Gnome 3.0' a success," the team said.
Meanwhile KDE has released version 4.2.2 (dubbed "Cano") less than a month after 4.2.1 rolled out. The new version, which rolled out yesterday, includes numerous bug fixes, performance improvements and updated translations, according to the KDE developer team. ®
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