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Thank you sincerely for those who have stood up for me in this arena. I am truly overwhelmed and quite humbled. Thank you. I do not wish for there to be any ill-feeling created on my behalf however...and am willing as always to accept the consequences of my own thoughts and words. If AvidVisionary was standing right in front of me... I still would have said exactly what I wrote.... and been corrected if necessary by him if in fact my assertions were incorrect.... with an apology forthcoming from myself.In this case I am neither a troll... nor did I consider I was derailing the thread because I questioned why the poster did not ask the artist for their technique. As an artist I consider it inappropriate to copy.... (as in the act of placing it in this forum you most probably used "COPY and paste") in another arena work of another artist, without somewhere having an acknowledgement of who the artist is - regardless of one thinks the art is 'worthy' of being credited or not. In my view...it would have been more appropriate to say.... "Here are some images from xxxxxx... how do you think they are done." To flare up towards me so strongly I feel was very defensive and actually uncalled for. A simple "No Julie... I didn't think to credit them.... nor did I think to ask them... you are incorrect" I feel would have been more respectful and I would have immediately apologised. As the crew here know... i say things usually quite bluntly and openly.. and say thing show I see it. ... which is what I did above. Thank you once again to those who have recognised my value, contribution and support I give to others here.Julie
There are so many things in there for me to reply to but I won't. That's something for you to consider Julie. Just because you can say something doesn't mean you should.
Just did a TinEye search on one of the images. It seems the photographer is Tim Tadder. Here's his 500px roll.Now that you know who it is, why don't you go ask a commercial photographer how he does his work and whether he's ok with unattributed use of his stock.
Why don't you go and tell films and games reviews they can no longer review anything unless they ask permission from the person.
Frankly, your ignorance is starting to irritate.Those reviewers either had to buy the product or the ticket to view, or they were given a free viewing or copy of the software, WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER. In neither case was copyright infringed.You need to apologise, and the list is growing to whom you owe an apology.
What would have made the difference in this thread is if you'd asked: "I really like the work of Tim Tadder, do you guys have any advice on achieving the same effect?", with maybe a couple of sample images linked back to his website.
Ah, I see now where you learn your manners
Don't bother replying. I am out of this thread.
... I thought you said you don't want to be associated with me here? If Julie only knew you don't really care for her. You just pretend. You always enter peoples thread say something negative and then leave. You always post things publicly to be praised and given human recognition...
Don't bother replying. I am out of this thread.
Is your brain up your ass? Credit them for what, exactly? You know, I have had enough of people like you on here coming onto a thread and derailing it from the original question. Condemning the original poster for asking a question and then leaving it to ruin. You know, a troll.
'AvidVisionary' is no longer a member of the Forum.Chris
LuLa isnt a sweetie farm...
AvidVisionary was impolitic. For that, LuLa bullied him. It would have been nice if he cited the artists of those works, but it was not required by copyright law. He responded with inappropriate and awkward anger...... my personal opinion of the compassion and fairness of the LuLa community has been sorely compromised.
AvidVisionary was impolitic. For that, LuLa bullied him. It would have been nice if he cited the artists of those works, but it was not required by copyright law. He responded with inappropriate and awkward anger. Slobodan, you initially defended him (correctly, I might add) regarding the Fair Use Doctrine, but rescinded your support because you didn't like his attitude. as Rob said,..and AvidVisionary wasn't either, but he clearly felt bullied when the educational intent of his innocent query was questioned. LuLa is a fabulous photo resource that I will continue to use for my learning and advancement, but my personal opinion of the compassion and fairness of the LuLa community has been sorely compromised.


text: HKSS.com | Community > Discussion Forum > View topic - Music: GIGI LEUNG "Ente'tein" Home Community Superstars Music | What's New | Help HKSS | Search* Discussions | HKE Chat | Reflections of Life | Virtual Cards | Member Galleries Please excuse our mess. HKSS is currently under re-construction and some links/sections don't work yet. What's New: Latest updates | Member Galleries | Music | HKE Chat | About HKSS.com Community Discussions HKE Chat Reflections of Life Member Galleries Virtual Cards* Play Music Superstars Profiles* Galleries* Reviews Gossip & News Other Privacy Policy Terms of Use Link to HKSS* HKSS.com What's New About Contact* Advertise* Help HKSS Links YesAsia yuenStudios Do you like HKSS? My Watched Topics | My Favorites | My Profile Private IMs Register Log in Help | Stats | Members | Groups Search Forum Music: GIGI LEUNG "Ente'tein" HKSS.com Forum Index -> Reviews View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message MavisCrazed FanJoined: 07 Oct 2003Posts: 113 Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:27 am Post subject: Music: GIGI LEUNG "Ente'tein" Let me try my first album review under Mikey's format. On straight translation, the title of Gigi's latest Canto album is "Entertaining Everyone". That's also the title of the first plug song (track 1). Interesting song given the fact that Gigi wrote it herself, the song arrangements include pieces from her old songs, and the lyrics were written by Andy Lau. Didn't quite like the lyrics at first, but after hearing Andy's explanation that they lyrics were HK style (e.g. the first line of the chorus), I was a little more forgiving. The 2nd plug was "Northern Lights" (track 2), written by Edmond Leung. Very sweet song and probably the best song in the album. My favourite song is "Runaway Queen" (track 4) though. I like that feeling Gigi expressed in the song, written by Paul Wong. Many other male singer/songwriters contributed to this album. Including: Tats Lau (who rarely writes pop music) writing track 6 "Try everything everytime" Sam Hui writing the lyrics of track 7 "Kiss my face" (the music sounds so much like Amanda Lee's old song "Living better than you" though). Hins Cheung writing track 8 "Reasons & Consequences" Overall this is not bad as a pop album. Personally I wish Gigi would've wrote more songs though, she seems to perform much better. Rating 7.5/10 Buy the CD here Recommendations: Track 2 "Northern Lights" Track 4 "Runaway Queen" Track 8 "Reasons & Consequences" Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First HKSS.com Forum Index -> Reviews All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Entertainment----------------All EntertainmentReviewsGossip and NewsIdol DiscussionsMusicMoviesTV Shows Non-Entertainment----------------General DiscussionsNew MembersFun and GamesReflections of LifeHobbies, TravelFood and CookingHelp!Websites HKSS.com----------------Announcements/ What's New?Help HKSS.comFeedback/ Contact HKSS.comWishlist You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Back to top Copyright © 1996-2014 HKSS.com™. All Rights Reserved. About | Link to HKSS.com | Advertise | Contact | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use Information and images accessed from this site are protected by international copyright and/or other intellectual property rights. You may infringe these rights if you download, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, or exploit such content without the explicit consent of HKSS.com. > Site design by yuenStudios.com (2006)

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These could kill your friends...
Just a little mange
Y'all come for the feast!
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Dirty underwear?
Who would pay for these?
Everyone's the same
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Those cows hurt MY EYES.
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Misery prolonged
Sticky, green and strange!
Makes you feel deranged
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Certainly this one
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
THE IDEA that 12 million illegal residents of the United States can be induced to quit the country en masse within four months is absurd on its face -- a non-starter in logistical, humanitarian, political, diplomatic, commercial and economic terms that would leave an indelible stain on this country for years. Yet that is the wrathful centerpiece of Mike Huckabee's "Secure America Plan," which the Republican presidential candidate issued the other day in the course of his party's escalating enthusiasm for nastier-than-thou prescriptions to deal with illegal immigrants.
Never mind that Mr. Huckabee, when he was governor of Arkansas, actually pursued a pragmatic policy in regard to illegal aliens, urging that exemplary youngsters be eligible for scholarships to public universities even if they were undocumented because, as he put it, "we are a better country than to punish children for what their parents did." Having lately surged enough in the polls to sniff the sweet smell of success, he is not about to let experience, common sense or simple decency get in the way of short-term electoral advantage.
Mr. Huckabee was promptly rewarded for his reversal with an endorsement from Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, a group of xenophobes who spend their time videotaping and harassing day laborers wherever they find them. The candidate, apparently once fazed by the Minuteman group's vigilantism, said he had undergone a conversion and cravenly apologized for his past skepticism; Mr. Gilchrist, for his part, said of the Huckabee immigration program: "It was a plan I myself could have written."
It's a fair guess that this cruel campaign of immigrant-bashing will eventually turn toxic for the Republican Party itself, whose own strategists (Karl Rove, among others) have long grasped the growing electoral clout of Hispanics. Those Hispanic voters, native-born or not, are anxious and angry about the intensifying nativist zeal in political rhetoric, which many are rightly blaming on the Republicans. In a new survey by the Pew Hispanic Center, half of all Hispanics in America reported that the debate on immigration has had a specific negative impact on their lives; 41 percent said that they or someone close to them had suffered discrimination in the past five years -- up from 31 percent in 2002.
The new data undercut the Republicans' frequent protestations that their targets are not legal immigrants but illegal ones. The attacks have become so venomous, and the policy proposals so pernicious, that, predictably, they have caused collateral damage among Spanish-speaking and non-native-born people generally. The anti-illegal-immigrant crowd would have us believe it honors and admires legal immigrants; in fact, it is making America a less hospitable place for them.
The candidates are stepping into a breach left by the colossal failure by Congress in June to enact comprehensive immigration reform, which held out the promise of calming a turbulent national debate. The bill would have tightened security at the borders; cracked down on employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers; established a legal mechanism for immigration for the hundreds of thousands of workers who enter the country each year to fill low-skill jobs; and provided a path to legal status for the illegal immigrants now living in America. It was a sensible response to a problem that will not be fixed by grandiose and far-fetched schemes such as Mr. Huckabee's -- cadged from an anti-illegal-immigrant think tank -- which goes heavy on enforcement and security but suggests no realistic plan to address the economy's appetite for immigrant workers in the future, let alone those here now.
Virtually all the presidential candidates now tip their hats to tougher enforcement of existing laws, with the Democrats generally differentiating themselves by saying or hinting that illegal immigrants might subsequently be offered a shot at legalization. But in Congress, some Democrats, mostly from red or purple states and wary of being attacked as insufficiently fierce on illegal immigration, are also going the enforcement-only route. A bill co-sponsored by freshman Rep. Heath Shuler, a North Carolina Democrat, which seeks to purge undocumented immigrants from the work force, would probably drive millions of them further underground; nonetheless, he has attracted a few dozen sponsors from his own party.
Such measures, in addition to state and local legislation that would deny some benefits and services to illegal immigrants, are a response to understandable and legitimate concerns that the nation's borders are porous; that illegal immigrants are straining government services and budgets; and that neighborhoods are being degraded by flophouses, day laborers and immigrant gangs. But the rhetorical excess that has accompanied the proposals, and the suggestions that millions of people might be expelled or hounded from the country, not only respond to popular disquiet; they also whip it up. According to the latest FBI statistics, from 2006, hate crimes against Hispanics had increased by more than a third since 2003.
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We received our first shipment of the new Grand Bois Lierre (Ivy) 38 – 584 mm (650B x 38 mm) tires. I put a set on my Grand Bois Urban Bike and went for a ride. With the shallow "negative" tread, the Lierre is a very smooth-riding, quiet tire. It offers excellent cornering thanks to its rounds profile and grippy rubber – like all tires we sell. After I got back, I measured its width at 37.6 mm. I expect it to grow to a full 38 mm after a few weeks, so that is what we'll call it, even if the package says 36 mm. The two samples I put on the scale weighed 364 g and 370 g, respectively.
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Compared to the Grand Bois Hetre, the 3 mm smaller width means that shock absorption isn't quite as good on bigger bumps – the Hetre has 16% more air volume, and you can feel the difference. On the other hand, it's much easier to build a bike that fits these tires and fenders with adequate clearances (and without resorting to cranks with ultra-wide tread/Q factor), whereas the Hetre requires all clearances to be just right.
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Dear Parent:
This is in response to a May 5, 2004, letter this Office received from Kay Hastings, Assistant Attorney General, Open Records Division of the Office of the Texas Attorney General. Along with her letter, Ms. Hastings forwarded to us your March 29, 2004, letter to Greg Abbott, the Attorney General of Texas. This Office administers the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which addresses issues that relate to students' education records.
In your letter, you raise a number of issues, some of which are addressed by FERPA. For example, it appears that you allege that Irving Independent School District (District) violated FERPA when it did not provide your wife with "Three-Weeks Reports" which you state is required by the State's "No PassNo Play" law. You also appear to allege that, even though your wife, has provided consent, requesting that the District provide you with access to the records of (Student), that the District has not complied. You enclosed a letter from Mr. Jack Singley, Superintendent, in which he replied to your wife's request by asking that she submit a copy of the most current court degree granting custodianship of her children. It is not clear whether your wife complied with Mr. Singley's request. Some of your other allegations that may relate to FERPA are also not clear. However, we trust that the following guidance regarding FERPA will be of assistance to you. The other issues you raise concerning State law are not addressed by FERPA.
FERPA is a Federal law that gives parents or eligible students the right to have access to a student's education records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of information from the records. The term "education records" is defined as those records that contain information directly related to a student and which are maintained by an educational agency or institution or by a party acting for the agency or institution. 34 CFR § 99.3 "Education records."
The term "parent" is defined as including natural parents, a guardian, or an individual acting as a parent in the absence of a parent or a guardian. 34 CFR § 99.3 "Parent." The Department has determined that a parent is absent if he or she is not present in the day-to-day home environment of the child. Accordingly, a stepparent has rights under FERPA where the stepparent is present on a day-to-day basis with the natural parent and child and the other parent is absent from that home. In such cases, stepparents have the same rights under FERPA as do natural parents. Conversely, a stepparent who is not present on a day-to-day basis in the home of the child does not have rights under FERPA with respect to such child's education records.
Under FERPA, a school must provide a parent with an opportunity to inspect and review his or her child's education records within 45 days of the receipt of a request. A school is not, however, required to provide a parent with copies of education records unless a failure to do so would effectively prevent the parent from obtaining access to the records. A case in point would be a situation in which the parent does not live within commuting distance of the school. 34 CFR § 99.10.
While a school is required to comply within 45 days with each individual request for access, a school is not required by FERPA to honor standing requests, to provide immediate access to records, or to send out grades to parents at the end of marking periods. Additionally, FERPA would not require a school to provide parents documents such as school calendars, updates, or notices of parent/teacher conferences because such documents do not generally contain information that is directly related to individual students. Likewise, a school would not be required to notify parents about school plays, spelling bees, or sporting events in which their children may be participating. Also, schools are not required by FERPA to permit parents to attend parent/teacher conferences such decisions are made at the discretion of local and State officials.
Although a school district would be required to conduct a reasonable search for education records, it is the responsibility of the parent to clearly specify the records to which he or she is seeking access. If a parent makes a "blanket" request for a large portion of his or her child's education records and the parent believes that he or she was not provided certain records which were encompassed by that request, the parent should submit a follow-up request clarifying the additional records he or she believes exist.
FERPA affords parents the opportunity to seek amendment of their child's education records that they believe contain inaccurate or misleading information. 34 CFR §§ 99.20-22. While a school is not required to amend a record in accordance with a parent's request, it is required to consider the request for amendment of an education record, to inform the parent of its decision, and if the request is denied, to advise the parent of the right to a hearing on the matter. If, as a result of a hearing, a school decides not to amend the record, then the parent has the right to insert a statement in the record setting forth his or her views. That statement must remain with the record for as long as the record is maintained.
This right is not unlimited, however, and FERPA does not require a school to afford a parent the right to seek to change substantive decisions made by school officials, such as grades or other evaluations of a student. Thus, while FERPA affords parents the right to seek to amend education records that contain inaccurate information, this right cannot be used to challenge a grade or an individual's opinion, unless the grade or the opinion has been inaccurately recorded.
The Texas Attorney General provided this Office with copies of letters indicating that in February and March 2004, you and the Parent submitted to the District requests to inspect and review the Student's education records, and requests for copies of the records. The letters also indicate that the Parent informed the District that she authorized you to obtain access to the Student's records on the Parent's behalf. Please note that a school is not required by FERPA to disclose information from a student's education records to a third party, even if the parent has provided consent. Rather, a school is required to provide a "parent" with an opportunity to inspect and review their child's education records. Accordingly, if you are a stepparent who is present on a day-to-day basis with the natural parent and child and the other parent is absent from the home, you would be considered a "parent" under FERPA. As such, the District would be required to provide you with access to your daughter's education records.
With regard to your requests to the District for the records of students who are not your children, with their names and grades redacted, this issue is addressed by the Texas Public Information Act, not by FERPA.
I trust this information is helpful to you.
LeRoy S. Rooker
Family Policy Compliance Office
cc: Ms. Kay Hastings
Assistant Attorney General
Office of Texas Attorney General


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We're used to politicians telling us about the virtues of prudence and austerity, but an MP spoke directly to students in Harrow when he visited their college.
Harrow East MP Bob Blackman spoke to students at Harrow College's Harrow-on-the-Hill campus as they took part in activities to learn how to budget and be financially independent.
Activities included a money personality quiz and a taste test, which helped them understand how to save money by buying unbranded foods.
Mr Blackman said: "It is great to see Harrow College students learning to take financial responsibility at such a young age.
"Schemes such as this are really important when it comes to helping students learn about enterprise and employability and become financially savvy and independent."


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Jeff Holmberg designed these labels for a new line of coffee from Bull Run Roasting Company to be served and sold at their new retail location inside the Rustica Bakery in Minneapolis. Top notch stuff! Bull Run wholesales their coffee into some of the finer restaurants in the metro. This Reserve Collection is the first offering of their coffee at retail and it had to look tasty. The label is customized by rubber stamping the coffee variety and hole punching the bean and weight information. The ripped edge of the label on the kraft bag balances a raw yet refined look. Nice work Jeff. We letterpress printed in two color on Strathmore Ultimate White label stock. We kiss cut the labels with a steel rule die with several punches to add the coarse perforated edge when ripped and opened. Yum and Buzz.


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