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I know, this post it's two years old, but I have a question.
Does it works the disk protection under Linux(I'm under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).
the sensor works, but I have not a software to drive the sensor.
Does it exist?
This is a compatibility guide to running Linux with the HP Pavilion dv4t laptop.
This guide is intended to provide you details on how well this laptop works with Linux and which modules you need to configure. For details on how to actually install and configure the required modules have a look at our guides section for distribution specific instructions.
This page is just for discussing using Linux on the HP Pavilion dv4t. For a general discussion about this laptop you can visit the HP Pavilion dv4t page on LapWik.
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|HP Pavilion dv4t
|Intel Core 2 Duo
|14.1" WXGA Widescreen
|1GB to 4GB
|120GB to 320GB HDD
|Optical Drive
|DVD+-RW or Blu-ray
|Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500 or NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS
|Ethernet, Intel 802.11abgn or Broadcom 802.11bg, Bluetooth
|Optical Drive
|Requires a recent Linux distribution, such as Fedora 10 or Ubuntu 8.10
|See notes below
|Only the Intel controller was tested, not the Broadcom one
|56K Modem
|Not Tested
|ExpressCard Slot
|Not Tested
|Fingerprint Reader
|Not Tested
|Not Tested
For sound to work you need to add the following line to your /etc/modprobe.conf (or your distributions equivalent) file:
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
You can enter a summary of how well the HP Pavilion dv4t works with Linux here.
I know, this post it's two years old, but I have a question.
Does it works the disk protection under Linux(I'm under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS).
the sensor works, but I have not a software to drive the sensor.
Does it exist?
can ny1 here tell me how to configure my touchpad so that i can go for multiple tapping, drag , right click etc.. from the touchpad itself like itz in vista….
plz respond ASAP as i'm jaded with a touchpad having no functionality at all….
HP dv4t-1300us + Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope(64-bit)
Wireless: Intel 5100 AGN. works out of the box with 802.11g
Sound: Edit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf. Append the following line:
options snd-hda-intel model=3stackdig enable_msi=1
With the above change sound also works after suspend/resume.
Suspend/Resume: works after full update.
Graphics: Intel 4500MHD. Works out of the box.
Power Management works out of the box.
webcam works out of the box.
flashplugin, java, adobe reader 9.1, skype (64-bit static qt3) all work after installation.
I installed new skype version with dynamic linking qt4. Fonts get garbled if you have subpixel hinting and hintling style is VRGB or VBGR. Set smoothing to grayscale. I installed qt4. Run qtconfig. Select "GTK+" GUI style. Also start skype with the command line option '–disable-cleanlooks'. This will use the gtk style/theme you are using on your GNOME desktop. Looks great.
I have recently bought an HP laptop (HP Pavilion dv 4-1211 TU) with preloaded Windows Vista Home Basic. I am trying to dual boot it with linux.
Configuration of my system:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T6400 @ 2.00 GHz
I have tried SLC4.5 and 4.6. It was installed successfully but while booting it stucks at:
Initializing hardware...........storage network
I have also tried uBuntu8.04 and 8.10 but the system hangs while installing it.
Which linux operating system would be compatible with this system?
Please note:
I also encountered the sound issue using Ubuntu 8.10 on my hp dv4t. I tried the "option snd-hda-intel model=3stackdig enable_msi=1" edit to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base but the issue was not resolved. I then did some further research and believe the edit should instead be "options snd-hda-intel model=3stackdig enable_msi=1" I resolved my sound issue without model=3stackdig.
Sound issue resolved through sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base and the addition of "options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1" to the end of the file.
My dv4t comes with the following configuration:
- Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
- Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T5800 (2.0GHz)
- 14.1" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
- 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
- Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
- 250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
- HP Imprint Finish (Mesh) + Microphone + Webcam
- Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
- LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-RW with Double Layer Support
- High Capacity 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
- 5-in-1 media card reader
First thing I did to the laptop was format the HDD and remove Vista completely.
Out of the box install of Ubuntu 8.10 was reasonably successful with the following results:
Screen expected resolution 1280×800
Optical Drive Writes DVD. Lightscribe functionality not tested
Graphics 3D acceleration works
Sound Minor issue where sound worked but echoed repeatedly simple workaround: edit (with root or sudo) /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base and append the following to the end of the file: "option snd-hda-intel model=3stackdig enable_msi=1" (without the quotes). See this bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/269586
Ethernet Works
Wireless Works
56K Modem Not Tested
USB Works
ExpressCard Slot Not Tested
Card reader Reads my camera's MMC card and another camera's SD card (2/5 )
Camera Not Tested
Infra-Red Remote Does not Work (xev does not detect events at all)
Quickplay buttons The wireless on/off, Mute and volume up/down work, the rest not
Ok, now for the ramble:
1) Sound issue already mentioned above. Simple fix found on google, thanks to the post on ubuntu forums that cleared that up for me (sorry, too lazy to link to it). I see in other comments that people have used the boot option no=acpi, check whether that option is causing one of your CPU cores to not work. This is the first fix that I came across and it turned of one of my cores. Pretty significant side effect .
2) Suspend does not work. According to logs the system actually fails to suspend at all so when you open and try to resume the system is un-recoverable. Even SysRq combo's won't shut it down safely it is a hard reboot or nothing. Hybernate works fine. I just changed the power options to hybernate when lid is closed.
3) Wireless driver works very well out of the box other than causing the odd kernel panic!!! Erk, this is quite a problem for me and I have just not managed to narrow it down to when/why, I get this error at most once every couple of days and wireless is my primary method of connectivity. It is rare but that makes it so much harder to find.
4) Infra-red remote does not work (events not registered in xev as mentioned)… bummer. Would have been nice but hardly a big concern.5) Touchpad turns out to be a ALPS touchpad and not a synaptics touchpad (looks like HP went cheapskate not that I should complain seeing the price that I paid). It works but one of the worst things about windows is that you can't middle click by double tapping and now I can't on Linux either
Thats all. Other than that I am very happy with Ubuntu
Also I ran a SUSE live CD just to see and ended up with a complete shuffle of what worked and what didn't.
SUSE: Suspend - worked perfectly; Sound - does not work at all; wireless - works after quick fix (http://www.susegeek.com/networking/fix-bcm4311431243214322-wireless-in-opensuse-111-and-earlier/); touchpad detected correctly as ALPS but works the same. However configuration tools like gsynaptics fail in ubuntu seeing as the device is wrong and the work in SUSE.
They seem pretty much neck and neck. The only shame is that I can't take the best of both but that is Linux for you.
Thats it for now
Ubuntu 8.10 (amd-64)
My dv4t comes with the following configuration:
- Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
- Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T5800 (2.0GHz)
- 14.1" diagonal WXGA High-Definition HP BrightView Widescreen Display (1280 x 800)
- 3GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
- Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
- 160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
- HP Imprint Finish (Mesh) + Microphone + Webcam
- Wireless-G Card with Bluetooth
- LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-RW with Double Layer Support
- High Capacity 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
- 5-in-1 media card reader
I partitioned the hdd and installed Ubuntu 8.10 (amd-64) from the live cd. The following worked out of the box:
Sound controls
Wireless control
Sound itself had problems though. I was also unable to play mp3's. I installed all the relevant codecs, still no sound. Tried converting the .mp3 file to .ogg. Still no sound. After that i realized that there was a faint repeated sound (the start up sound). After some googling, added "irqpoll" to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst . This solved the problem. On the whole I installed a lot of codecs before I realized it was a problem with the sound, so I am not sure how many I actually needed to install.
No problems with detecting USB drives. It even recognizes the windows partition. At install, I had imported my user account from Vista. So now it prompts me to authenticate when accessing the windows partition, and lets me use it. SSH works fabulous, you can add the remote server as a 'favorite' under 'Places' and then forget that it is actually a remote server location. Not tried remote desktop facility.
Pidgin worked but crashed every few minutes. A clean update solved the problem. I have to test the webcam and check VOIP. I also needed to update apt-get which brought a deluge of other system updates in its wake.
(*)There is still a problem with connecting to the univ network, which uses WPA/PEAP/MSCHAPV2. It connects to other 'regular' networks just fine.
(**) Works one way. I can transfer files from the computer to the phone, but not the other way round.
HP dv4t Ubuntu 8.04 install
I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my HP dv4t (2.4 P8600 Core2Duo, Nvidia 9200M GS 256MB, 3gig RAM, 320gig SATA HD Western Digital, Wifi Broadcom, Bluetooth, Intel IDT HD Audio).
Out of the box Ubuntu had trouble with the Ethernet Jack which I think is Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet) After a couple of reboots the jack was working. I think there is a problem with Ubuntu having trouble turning on the Ethernet port on reboot (looks like HP turns it off initially) and so maybe it was working when I started from a cold boot and then I downloaded updates and that seems to have fixed the problem.
Sound had problems on login with a repeated tone and sound not working properly (every tone got repeated several times on Madriva install the sound went nuts in the same manner and never turned off so I had to shut the machine down).
Ran no=acpi on the kernel boot option (type e when grub comes up select the kernel boot option type e again and add no=acpi at the end of the string) you can also edit menu.lst (google to find instructions) this fixed the sound problems and now everything works great headphone jacks and speakers.
Wifi I had to install the broadcom windows drivers (downloaded the HP vista drivers and extracted them) and used ndis wrapper. Problem here is that I have to go to hardware drivers under System Administration and deselect and select the Broadcom Wifi driver to get Ubuntu to recognize it again.
Graphics are low resolution only and no multiple display support out the box. I installed EnvyNG (awesome program) and installed 173.xxx version of NVIDIA drivers and that did the trick.
My main problem is suspend. When coming out of suspend I used to have the blank screen problem on other HP laptops which I fixed by editing the acpi support config file (google to find instructions), but when I did the same fixes with this laptop I get a bunch of text flowing by. My impression is that the graphics driver is having problems reinitializing, but not sure. I will keep trying fixes til I get this fixed.
Ubuntu is fast and stable and I would love to have it working completely to replace Vista.
That is all for now.


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Photo Flash: First Look at Marti Gobel, James T. Alfred and More in Milwaukee Rep's CLYBOURNE PARK
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, London's Olivier Award for Best Play and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Play, Clybourne Park is a wickedly funny and fiercely provocative new play about the volatile combination of race and real estate. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.
Clybourne Park is written by Bruce Norris, and directed by The Rep's Artistic Director, Mark Clements. The cast features Associate Artists Lee E. Ernst and Gerard Neugent, and Rep favorites Marti Gobel, Grant Goodman and Jenny McKnight. The cast also features 2010/11 Rep Acting Intern Greta Wohlrabe, newcomer James T. Alfred, as well as current Acting Intern J.R. Yancher. Clybourne Park is a co-production with Arizona Theatre Company.The Executive Producers for this production are Robert H. and Carol O. Manegold. Clybourne Park runs in The Rep's Quadracci Powerhouse from January 29, 2013 - February 24 , 2013 and opens on Friday, February 1, 2013.
Tickets for Clybourne Park are from $10.00 - $65.00 (prices are subject to change). Single Tickets for all of Milwaukee Repertory Theater's 2012/13 productions are on sale. Single Tickets can be purchased online at www.MilwaukeeRep.com, through The Rep's Ticket Office by calling 414-224-9490 or in person at 108 E. Wells Street. Group tickets are also available for purchase by calling Patron Relations Manager Christine Yundem at 414-290-5340.
To learn more about The Rep or its productions, please visit www.MilwaukeeRep.com.
Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow
Lee E. Ernst (foreground) and J.R. Yancher
Jenny McKnight, Greta Wohlrabe, Gerard Neugent, Marti Gobel and James T. Alfred
Marti Gobel and James T. Alfred (foreground) and Greta Wohlrabe and Gerard Neugent (background)
The cast
Grant Goodman, Marti Gobel, James T. Alfred and Greta Wohlrabe
Jenny McKnight and Lee E. Ernst

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GIMME SHELTER- Dark shadows: How to avoid outage ouches
Eddie Medeiros
Never Dark Whole House Generators LLC, 434-975-3275
Q: Several of my neighbors have recently installed power generators in their homes. I'm not bothered by the occasional need for canned food and candle-lit dinners. Should I invest in a generator?
A: Yes! Even short-term power loss can result in serious inconvenience and extensive property damage. The cost of a generator will more than offset the expense of a prolonged outage.
Loss of heat and air conditioning can be very uncomfortable and may lead to frozen water pipes. Extensive water damage or flooding may result if those pipes crack. Your hot water heater won't run, and if your water comes from a well, you gotta have a generator to get water at all.
You'll be without home phones, Internet, security systems, televisions, and computers. Food will spoil in an un-powered refrigerator after several days, a very expensive and messy event. Finally, generators are critical for patients who rely on power medical devices like dialysis and oxygen machines.
When you buy a generator, your dealer will help determine how many watts will be required to run your critical circuits during a power outage. Our most popular model for the typical homeowner is the 16,000-watt model that costs $6,000-$6,500 including installation. It can power your home or business 24/7, for days, weeks, or months, and has a 20-year life span.
Choose a model that can detect a power outage and turn on automatically– especially important if you're frequently away from home.
After one family's freezer lost power, the food thawed, went bad, and then when the power came back on, the mess refroze.
To prevent their water pipes from freezing, another family kept some heat running during the winter even when they weren't using the house. Sounds smart, but when power went out, their pipes froze anyway. Once power was restored, water started shootin' everywhere because pumps don't know when pipes are broken.
We don't sell generators to homeowners who want to install them themselves because homeowners screw them up– an incorrectly installed unit can damage your main utility line and present a serious safety hazard.
But getting back to first causes. Why do people lose power so often? This area, particularly Earlysville, Ivy, and Zion Crossroads, is vulnerable to power loss because some of the major power lines have not been upgraded since they were built in the 1950s. Although some new lines are buried underground, they still connect to those main lines, which are above ground and thus vulnerable to damage, often from falling limbs or trees.
Our phones ring off the hook on every Monday after a big storm. The power company keeps me in business.
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Nation & World
As trial in 2005 Hariri assassination opens, Lebanese have more current worries
After nine years of investigation costing tens of millions of dollars, international prosecutors in The Hague on Thursday began to lay out their case against four Hezbollah members accused in the 2005 car bombing that killed a former prime minister and 21 others in downtown Beirut.
But while Sunni Muslims remain furious about the murder of their most prominent political figure, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, there were few signs here that the country is fixated on what is unfolding at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon so far away.
Several television stations ran extensive coverage of the opening statements by prosecutors, but few patrons seemed to be watching in cafes in predominately Sunni West Beirut and Christian East Beirut where televisions displayed the proceedings.
In Shiite neighborhoods, people watching TV were taking in the news of a suicide bombing in the predominately Shiite town of Hermel that killed four. The Nusra Front, an al Qaida-affiliated group that operates in Syria, took credit for that attack.
White House spokesman Jay Carney in Washington hailed the beginning of the trial, saying that the United States "strongly supported the tribunal's efforts to hold accountable those responsible for destabilizing acts of violence in Lebanon. The tribunal's work must continue unimpeded and the perpetrators of these acts must be brought to justice."
But Lebanese remained focused primarily on the deteriorating situation in Syria, which has begun to cross into Lebanon.
The two events – Hariri's assassination and the Syrian war – are not unconnected. Many believe Hariri was murdered because he opposed the ongoing Syrian military occupation of his country – by then, Syria had been in Lebanon 29 years – and his death sparked international protests that eventually forced Syria to withdraw. The killing exacerbated tensions between Lebanon's religious groups, which today generally have picked sides in the Syrian war – Sunnis, backing the rebels seeking to topple President Bashar Assad, and Shiites, who generally back Assad.
Many argue that after nine years, the importance of the Hariri killing has been surpassed by wars with Israel and a string of more recent and just as deadly incidents targeting Lebanon. Still, many remember Feb. 14, 2005, as the day when relations between Sunnis and Shiites, who overwhelmingly back Hezbollah, began to fall apart.
"We always respected Hezbollah and (leader) Hassan Nasrallah for fighting Israel and liberating the south," said Khaled al Fakhoury, a Sunni businessman. "But when all of Lebanon wanted Syria to leave and the response was to kill Hariri, we realized they weren't Lebanese, they're Iranian agents."
For its part, Hezbollah has denied that its operatives had anything to do with Hariri's death, an accusation that was lodged in a revised indictment that the Lebanon tribunal issued in 2009.
The trial, which is taking place under a mixture of Lebanese and international law, comes after a nine-year investigation that cost Lebanon tens of millions of dollars over the objections of Hezbollah and its Lebanese allies. The initial vote to establish the tribunal, which also has jurisdiction in a number of assassinations of anti-Syrian and Hezbollah political figures, almost pitched Lebanon into a violent abyss in late 2006, as Hezbollah and its allies resigned from the government before embarking on a multi-month campaign to overthrow the Cabinet – then controlled by Rafik's son Saad. Street fights between supporters of both sides were common, as were sectarian murders and, occasionally, spectacular public assassinations.
In opening statements, prosecutors stayed close to the revised indictment, which details phone records of a series of overlapping networks of prepaid cellphones only used to contact the other phones in the network. Those phones appear to have communicated as Hariri's movements were tracked and the bomb exploded next to Beirut's seaside cornice. Immediately after the assassination – which was claimed by a previously unknown militant group that never surfaced again – the network went dead.
Prosecutors claim they can link the phones' use to four alleged members of Hezbollah, including an infamous operative Mustafa Badreddine, who is widely considered to be a top military and intelligence operative for the group. None of the accused is in custody.
Describing the concentric series of phone networks allegedly used by the assassins, prosecutor Graeme Cameron said that from the end of December 2004 until Feb. 14, 2005, "the phones of the co-conspirators were almost always" everywhere Hariri went. Cameron explained that investigators made that determination by linking the phones through various cellphone towers.
Badreddine and the other suspects live more or less openly in southern Beirut, a situation that highlights Hezbollah's rejection of demands for cooperation with the investigation and the Lebanese government's complete impotence in investigating major crimes or making politically charged arrests.
A commonly cited statistic on the streets of Beirut is the failure to ever arrest and convict anyone for a major political crime in a nation that has seen scores of them over the last 50 years.
"Everyone knows who did which killing but the government never convicts or arrests anyone," said Umm Atef, a Shiite supporter of Hezbollah who asked to be identified only by her nickname. "This is not a government that protects the rights of its people or protects the country from its enemies. It works for the enemies against the people, so why would they investigate? When they do try to arrest someone, it's for the foreigners" – a reference to allegations that Israel or the West drive anti-Hezbollah sentiment.
The impact of the trial itself – which is expected to last for months – on Lebanon remains to be seen. Most Lebanese already have made up their minds about the case, or remain too cynical about political violence to believe evidence.
"It's a show trial for the Jews," said Hezbollah supporter Abu Mohammed Maqdad. "We know this case is nothing but an excuse to blame Hezbollah when Israel killed Hariri. Just as we know Israel and the West sent al Qaida to destroy Syria to hurt Hezbollah and the resistance project."
Because of early missteps and a highly politicized environment after the killing, in which opponents of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon – and opponents of Hezbollah itself – greatly exaggerated and, according to many observers, manufactured evidence that was later discredited, prosecutors face a tough slog to convince the public that the results of the entire investigation will be credible.
One early report, first leaked and then formally released by German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, was based on an eyewitness who later recanted, claiming he was pressured and bribed by the Hariri family to implicate Syria.
The investigation's credibility also was damaged after prosecutors admitted they had no evidence against the four senior security officials – who ran the major security agencies at the time of the blast – who were initially arrested in the case. The officials were held for more than four years before being released uncharged.


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Fountain Brook Crossing: 2 Unbelievably BIG buildings
I hope you took the time to look at the architect's renderings of Fountain Brook Crossing. But keep in mind, it is nearly impossible to imagine just how BIG this set of proposed buildings is simply by looking at those drawings. They are presented using the roadway to give some sense of open space and perspective.
Even though I am a visual person, I too am having trouble envisioning what this will look like. The easiest way for me to convey the size and scope of this project to you is to compare it to what we already have.
Using the areal photo of the area and then superimposing the architectural drawing on top of the 2 acre site gives a better impression of how large the buildings really are. Remember, they are seeking an increase in floor area ratio from 30% to 140%.
You can see the Outback Steakhouse (pink) and Country Inns and Suites (reddish) to the north of the proposed Fountain Brook Crossing. They comprise a large building complex set back from Moorland Road.
But when you look to the south, to our plot of land in question, you now can immediately see it is literally filled with buildings!
The lighter pink represents the 18 foot high, one story parking garage structure. This compresses the equivalent of 4 acres of parking--400 spaces--into a two story (one underground and one above ground) parking garage building of about 210 feet by 380 feet in size. That is HUGE. (Mayfair's North Ave parking deck has 622 spots.)
On top of that sits the 125 foot by 268 foot large, 4 story, 97 foot tall glass and steel office building. Even BIGGER.
Notice how little grass (green) remains--much of this is the city's property. Notice that those pointed areas extend into what little green there is. These triangles are pretty tall too. Judging by people on the renderings, I am guessing the fountain walls are about 6 feet high, the planting ones are the same as the parking wall, 18 feet tall.
The driveways to the parking building will need to be ramped since there is parking topside too. Notice that the artist did not draw a car right up to the edge of the parking structure. I would guess that was not by accident. They no doubt were trying to downplay the fact that there will be cars visible to the street at 18 feet in the air!I then tried to compare this office building to other structures in the area. Since this will be a medical building, I thought, Elmbrook Hospital. Too big, you think? Take a look.
From an areal view, in the same ratio of resolution, I cut out Elmbrook's main building and the large, one story building in the front. I wondered how this would compare to Fountain Brook (I am just going to call it FBC from now on). I found putting Elmbrook onto the FBC site would actually give more greenspace! Plus, Elmbrook from the front is really only 3 stories on top of the 1 story, not 4 stories as FBC is.
When you look at the actual hospital, ask yourself how you would like to see something that size and that close to the sidewalk as your "Gateway" image for entering Brookfield. Remember FBC nearly FILLS the 2 acre site.
This one is in Bishop's Woods.
It has about 325 parking spaces and sits on about 7 acres. It only measures 75 feet by 260 feet though--about 40% smaller than our 125 by 268 foot behemoth (not to mention it is not built on top of a nearly 2 acre sized 1 story
parking structure!)
Notice how this BIG office building looks dwarfed when compared to the FBC building and parking structure.
My next question is, how tall is that parking structure and how close is it to the road
The developer told us that the triangular peaks or points come within 2 feet of the Greenfield side walk. Estimating that the walk is somewhere around 5 feet and the grassy strip on Greenfield is maybe 2 feet, that means those 6 foot tall fountain peaks and 18 foot tall planted peaks will be around 8 to 9 feet from the road edge.
I looked for structures we have that would represent this parking
structure wall in height. I estimate City Hall's 1 story section to be around 17- 18 feet tall. (A door is around 7-8 feet tall.)
Most one story structures will be about this height.
The retaining walls on Calhoun are not as tall as 18 feet, but they do convey the feeling of walls close to the roadway.Note that the car against the wall in the photo is larger than the rendering of the car in the artists depiction of the wall. This means the wall in the rendering is taller than the Calhoun retaining wall.
Don't forget that there will be that 4 story building on top of the parking structure.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Hope these pictures were a help to you.
Please do contact City Hall with your thoughts on this project and attend the Public Hearing Tuesday night at 7:45pm at City Hall. Email comments to email@example.com by Monday, Jan. 14.
Regretfully, I am unable to attend, but feel free to use any of these points if you agree.
Note the very narrow strip of snow to the left of the far end of the walk. Those 6 foot tall triangular shaped points with the fountains and the taller 18 foot tall planter triangular points will stop 2 feet from the right side of the walk.
FYI: During all the discussion, regarding the widening of Calhoun Road, Engineering told us that a 6 to 8 foot grassy strip between the walk and roadway was necessary for piling snow during the plowing process. Here this developer is requesting tall stone structures be placed just 9 feet from the road edge!
Links: Betterbrookfield, Brookfield7, Fairlyconservative, Vicki Mckenna


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XML, XSLT and DFSORT, Part Two - DFSORT
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Thanks to Scott Drummond for reminding me of last Autumn's DFSORT Function PTFs - UK90025 and UK90026. They're mentioned in the preview for z/OS Release 13 so now is not such a bad time to be talking about them. So let me pick out a few highlights: Translation Between ASCII And EBCDIC, And To And From Hex and Binary For a long time DFSORT has been able to translate to upper case (TRAN=LTOU), to... [More]
DFSORT Does JOIN
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For whoever got to my blog with this Google search here's how you sort data without a header: First you need to be using z/OS DFSORT Release 10 or to have applied the PTFs for UK90013 (July 2008). Second, the vehicle for doing this is ICETOOL rather than DFSORT itself. Use the new DATASORT operator. Here's an example: If you code DATASORT FROM(DD1) TO(DD) FIRST(3) USING(CTL1) and code a CTL1CNTL... [More]
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HEMET, Calif. — California narcotics investigators found a $1.5 million marijuana growing operation at a house and an unusual security guard — a 4-foot-long alligator named Wally.
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The Riverside County drug task force team moved in on the Hemet area house on Monday night and seized nearly 2,300 pot plants. The commander says agents also found the reptile, described as a "watchgator."
The healthy 55-pound American alligator was turned over to the Phelan-based Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary, since gators are illegal in California.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports 29-year-old John Nathan Donna, who lives in the home, was arrested and booked for investigation of marijuana cultivation and possession. He was released Tuesday on $100,000 bail.
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A somewhat amusing philosophical problem has popped into my brain, and I wish to explore it in this post. Amusing to me at least, whether it has occurred to others, I'm not sure because I haven't finished reading the internet (one day, I might), but I'll jump right into it. The physics of today points (not proves!) to a multi-verse. That is, if ever it is experimentally verified, our universe will not be the only universe that exists, but rather just one amongst an infinite number of universes. In essence, the copernican principle at its grandest scale. This theory, which goes by a few names; string theory and M-theory to name a few, is accounted for in some of our mathematical descriptions of the universe, and we maybe on the verge of paradigm-busting physical evidence to prove it. Now when I say accounted for, what I mean is that it is a logical extrapolation of theories that accurately describe the universe we are in. (The BBC's "What Happened Before the Big Bang" is an easily digestible primer on this, or this TED talk by physicist Brian C. Greene). Again though, the multiverse is a logical extrapolation of these theories, so when you hear people saying scientists invented the multiverse theory to do away with God, they are mistaken. The multiverse is a prediction of a theory that set out to answer questions about our own universe.
Tag: m-theory
Does God Have A God?
I consistently come across debates, books, and articles by Dr. William Lane Craig, where he make vain attempts at using science to prove God. I have no doubt that he is a very highly educated man, which can be deduced solely from his use of language, but he has the unfortunate bias of already being convinced of the existence of God before the science even comes along and so extrapolate out his bias for God and as such, does little more than shift around and use big words in eloquent sentences that sound logical, but which are anything but when critically explored. In every debate that I have watched of Craig, his logic and reasoning are almost fool-proof if no prior understanding of science is known, which luckily I have. Slightly off-topic but related. It seems to me, his language is far more linguistically robust (and dare I say, poetic) than that of the majority of the scientists that he debates against and I do believe that this use of language circumvents (at least partly) much of the intellect of the audience at times. When was the last time you heard of a scientist whip an audience into a fervor? I need not askwhen the last time you asked a preacher do the same thing, we've all seen on it, either on tv or in person.
Consider this example; really the only example that needs refuting and to which I will devote my time too, by Mr. Craig. His first, and singular point in regards to the existence of God in all of his debates is the scientific principle of causality; that this Universe has been caused i.e. it had a beginning at some distant point in the past, and that since causality cannot in essence cause an effect before it begins to exist, therefore there must be an external cause, by a transcendent being he calls God. However, in invoking that God created the Universe vis-a-vie cause and effect, he refuses to go one step further and ask 'What caused God?', and makes the assumption that God is timeless by way of a few logical and philosophical calculations. In doing this, he thinks that this notion explains the existence of God, and that it is more sound than not having a god.
My first thought when presented with this reasoning was, what is the difference between the Universe creating itself, as opposed to being created by an external personal entity? Well, for me, the answer is word magic. Especially when it is within the scientific laws of physics that a Universe can actually be spontaneously created from nothing according to Stephen Hawking's latest book, The Grand Design.
This theistic notion of beginning in itself doesn't make much sense from a scientific perspective (no matter how much Craig wants it too). As anyone who studied high school physics will recall, time is relative, and not an absolute function of the Universe. That is, to different observers in different places around the Universe, time is a different and personal thing, much as our own thoughts are. There is also nothing in the laws of physics that expressly say time moves forward, it is free to move backwards as well and I'm sure there are Universes in which time does indeed move backwards. Therefore, the concept of time and events having a definite beginning and a definite end cannot be assumed to be valid, and Dr. Craig's first assumption is that the Universe has a finite past. Although the Universe seems to have a beginning from our perspective, that does not mean that was the beginning, nor that there was nothing before it.
According to Stephen Hawking, the 4th dimension of time's inception was as a spatial dimension, this occurred when the Big Bang was small enough to be governed by both the Theory of Relativity and Quantum Theory, which eventually morphed into what we know as time. So, this being the case, prior to the morphing of the 4th spatial dimension into a temporal dimension, how could one define a beginning? For all we know (and perhaps more likely), it could exist like that for infinity, putting into question the notion of a finite past. Time is in essence, the material rate of change. Without a temporal dimension, can something be said to begin, that is to change from nothing to something, and then change continuously?
Pursuant to this, many scientists today are moving on from the notion of the big bang being the beginning, and there is tantalizing physical, as well as lots of theoretical evidence to suggest that we live in a multiverse, and our Big Bang and Universe are just small events and places in this Multiverse. According to the theory, there may be upwards 10^500 Universe's, and ours is but one among them. This is a number beyond any notion of imagination. As Stephen Hawking put it in The Grand Design, if you could count one integer per millisecond since the Big Bang, which is a thousand times a second for 13.72 billion years. By now, you would have only reached 10^20.
Since time is merely a dimension, and perhaps, not an intrinsic property of Multi-verse, than the issue of where did everything come from, or rather, what cause everything to spring forth, becomes in a sense, irrelevant. If time doesn't exist outside of our Universe, than what can be said of existence? It has been found that the total energy of the Universe, when added all together, is exactly zero. No word magic or tricks, literally ZERO. Does Cause and Effect still hold sway in causing into existence that which cancels itself out mathematically. What is true is that there is a lot more to be learnt, and we are still a ways off from fully understanding the Universe, how it came to be, and the greater multi-verse. I have made a few assumptions in my reasoning, but those assumptions (I like to think) are logical and will be what comes to pass. If that is not the case, then I am content with changing my argument based upon the new evidence at hand if it ever shows up. Something those that argue for the existence of God never do.
Naturally, once this new theory, M-theory becomes verified, validated and accepted, Craig will simply re-arrange and re-purpose his argument and move his transcendent cause back a few steps to suit his already defined and unchangeable notion of God, and twist the science in trying to solidify his conclusion, and persuade others who aren't very well-versed in scientific matters on the nature of existence.
According to this logic, merely extended a few extra steps (though he attempts to explain it away), God, the cause of our Universe, must Himself have a cause, and though he wishes it away with philosophical statements of grandeur, timelessness, and personality, doesn't make it so. So with this in mind, perhaps, God, like a majority of people on this insignificant speck of dust flying through space, believes in a God to explain His own creation, and the conundrum ever spirals upwards, each God believing in an ever greater God.
How different is this analogy to that little old lady who stood up in Bertrand Russell's lecture, after he had just finished explaining how the Earth revolves around the Sun, which in turn revolves around the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, and said that everything he just said was nonsense, that the Earth is flat and actually supported on the back of a turtle. To which he replied, "What is the turtle standing on?" too which she countered that it rests upon the back of another turtle which rests upon another turtle, and so on into infinity. I guess God is a turtle… She was just making stuff up that best agreed with her philosophical intuitions, much as Dr. Crag does at the intersection of theology, philosophy, and science where things get very, very murky.


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Fuzhou Open | 22 - 27 April 2014
Fuzhou, China, April 22, 2014 - Back-to-back qualification tournament wins from France's Yannick Salvetti and Jean-Baptiste Daguerre, including a hard-fought three-set victory over top seeded qualifiers Vitor Felipe and Evandro Oliveira of Brazil, secured them a spot in the men's Main Draw at the FIVB Beach Volleyball Fuzhou Open on Tuesday.
Salvetti and Daguerre made it through their first qualification match in the morning beating Inocencio Lario and Javier Monfort of Spain 2-0 (21-17, 21-18). In the longest match of the opening day, the newly formed French pair then stunned the Brazilian top seeds in three sets 2-1 (21-19, 16-21, 15-10) to book themselves a Main Draw position.
After dropping the first set, Felipe and Evandro upped their game in the second to level the match. In the deciding set, Salvetti and Daguerre jumped 9-4 ahead before the Brazilians cut the deficit to two points at 10-8. The French pair then managed to pull away again and on their second match point Daguerre secured the victory with a powerful spike.
"We played together just four or five tournaments, while the Brazlians used to win some World Tour events. They are a pretty good team. But today we took our chance and won," an elated Daguerre said after the match.
In their second match of the day, Jan Dumek and Premysl Kubala from the Czech Republic held off a challenge from Kazakhstan's Dmitriy Yakovlev and Alexey Kuleshov at the end of the first set to win 2-0 (21-19, 21-15) and earn them a spot in the Main Draw.
Leading 19-15, Dumek and Kubala were on the verge of taking the first set but the Kazaks fought back to make it 19-18. After Kluleshov served into the net, Dumek powered home a smash to finish the game on their second set point. In the second set the Czechs took control after 7-7.
Earlier in the day the Czech pairing beat Belarus's Aliaksandr Dziadkou and Yauhen Vishneuski 2-0 (21-15, 21-17).
"We knew that the qualification everytime was tough, but we expected this and were well prepared into the tournament. I think we did a good job today," said Dumek.
"Last tournament we played in Durban, we were the fourth. If we continue to play like this tomorrow, I think we can go quite far," he added.
Also advancing were two teams from Canada and one each from Russia, USA, Switzerland and Latvia.
The US$175,000 Fuzhou Open has attracted a total of
121 teams attending from 35 countries (66 men's teams from 29 countries and 55
women's teams from 25 countries).
The FIVB season-opening event see men's action running from Tuesday through Saturday and women's competition running from Wednesday through Sunday, using a format of a one-day qualification tournament to determine the final eight spots in each gender's 32-team main draw tournaments followed by round-robin pool play and a single-elimination bracket for the final 24 teams.
Fuzhou, capital of the Fujian province lies on the southeast coast of Chinese mainland and hosts the Open event for the second straight year.
In addition to the Fuzhou Open, two other stops are scheduled in China in 2014 on the FIVB international schedule: the FIVB Shanghai Grand Slam (April 29 to May 4) and the FIVB Xiamen Open (October 7 to 12). All three are double-gender events.
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27.04.2014 12:08:46
Walsh and Ross clinch Fuzhou Open gold
27.04.2014 10:50:13
Juliana makes successful comeback to FIVB World Tour
27.04.2014 05:27:36
Juliana and Antonelli to meet Walsh and Ross in women's final at FIVB Beach Volleyball Fuzhou Open
26.04.2014 16:17:48
Netherland's Meeuwsen expected to return to FIVB World Tour in May
26.04.2014 13:55:43
Defending champs Xue Chen and Xia Xinyi on course for gold at FIVB Beach Volleyball Fuzhou Open
26.04.2014 11:49:29
Italy's Nicolai and Lupo grab first FIVB World Tour title
25.04.2014 17:06:35
Samoilovs and Smedins through to semis at FIVB Beach Volleyball Fuzhou Open
25.04.2014 16:32:39
Talita and Lima labor into second round knock-out phase at FIVB Beach Volleyball Fuzhou Open
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24.04.2014 14:47:00
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24.04.2014 12:07:28
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23.04.2014 15:41:35
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23.04.2014 13:16:13
Laboureur and Sude storm into Fuzhou women's Main Draw
22.04.2014 18:05:19
Walkenhorst and Ludwig aiming to take final step
22.04.2014 17:01:00
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22.04.2014 11:38:34
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21.04.2014 20:43:00
Fuzhou Open starts Tuesday with men's qualifying
21.04.2014 15:20:09
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20.04.2014 23:55:20
2014 FIVB World Tour debuts with Fuzhou Open
20.04.2014 17:36:14
Phil Dalhausser looks to climb back to the top in beach volleyball
20.04.2014 10:42:25
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19.04.2014 09:43:34
Fuzhou Open Q&A: Get to know China's beach volleyball stars
18.04.2014 10:41:08
Venezuelans back in tandem for Fuzhou Open
17.04.2014 17:59:46
Thailand and Iran claim gold at latest Asian Beach Volleyball Tour event
15.04.2014 17:27:05
Alison and Bruno continue impressive form
15.04.2014 16:58:05
FIVB World Tour champs hitting top form
14.04.2014 18:21:12
Zurich glory for Swiss and German duos
13.04.2014 11:20:07
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02.04.2014 21:27:50
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2014 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour ready for more highlights in record-breaking year


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OTTAWA—Statistics Canada says Canadian businesses sold more than $136 billion in goods and services over the Internet in 2013, up from $122 billion a year earlier.
The agency says wholesale trade, manufacturing and retail trade accounted for 61 per cent of the value of e-commerce sales, similar to the 2012 results.
It says about 13 per cent of businesses sold goods or services over the Internet in 2013, up from 11 per cent in 2012.
Large companies, those with 100 or more employees, accounted for nearly all of the growth in the value of online sales in 2013.
These businesses were responsible for about $87 billion, or 64 per cent of the value of total online sales.
For businesses that sold online in 2013, almost a quarter of the value of their total sales came from Internet transactions.
Staples to close 225 stores as sales move online


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Chicago's "Bike the Drive" took place this past Sunday, May 29th and though Lake Michigan was shrouded in fog and mist, the most violent thunderstorms held off until the afternoon, preventing a total washout.
The ride has been held annually since 2004, with Chicago's main lakefront thoroughfare being closed to motor traffic the Sunday morning before Memorial Day. Riders start out at the intersection of Columbus Blvd. & Randolph Street in the heart of the downtown area and can choose to ride just the south leg to 57th Street , the north leg to Hollywood, or both, a distance of about 30 miles round trip. A pavilion with bands and food is set up in Grant Park for riders or spectators and volunteers supply food and bananas at rest stops at either end of the route.
This year, in preparation for the glorious view of the lake which wasn't to be, I rigged up a "helmet cam" using my iPhone and a holster carrier. I used the app Timelapse Pro to shoot the video, which worked out pretty well, though I could have done with a rain visor for the iPhone.
By the time we finished with the north route, the south leg was closed, which was just as well since the rains began shortly afterward. The ticket price of $45 ($55 if buying on the day of the event) goes toward the Active Transportation Alliance to promote bicycling safety and advocacy.
This year marks my second year taking part, and though the weather could have been better, I was happy that both my kids joined my wife and me this time around.


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The Amazing Race 2012 Recap: Episode 8 – We Was Robbed!
The Amazing Race 21 left fans hanging last week with a dramatic "to be continued" ending that left two big questions to be answered. Would James and Abba be able to continue on in the race after losing their bags and their passports? Who ended up last in the leg and might be the ones who went home on The Amazing Race 2012 next? Join us for live recap of the show tonight and find out with us what happened and who was eliminated on The Amazing Race 21 this week!Read More..>>


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Just a Pinch
By Janet Tharpe
"No self-respecting Southerner uses instant grits!"
Ahem, I beg to differ. This line from the film "My Cousin Vinny" may have made the legal case for the lead character, but it doesn't hold water in my way of thinking.
I also take goodnatured issue with the notion that Northerners aren't able to "get" this A.M delicacy.
There I was, sitting at my desk, writing a story on deadline and sipping from a tall cup of iced coffee, when I heard a comment that turned my head.
"Chris, I just have to tell you that I can't stand iced coffee," said my coworker, and occasional chef, Greg Summers. "Hot coffee is where it's at. I'll never figure out the appeal of that cold stuff. I just don't get it. Coffee is 'sposed to be hot enough to take hair off a hog's back."
Wendy Winn knew from the time she was a little girl what she wanted to be when she grew up – a performer.
A 2012 graduate from Andrew Jackson High School, Winn was part of the art-focused curriculum and had shown a gift t for music all through her school years.
Now a sophomore at Belmont College in Nashville, Tenn., Winn is studying commercial voice with an emphasis in music business and vocal performance in order to continue to pursue her dream of a career in singing.
Rita Vogel, the new director for the three Lancaster County libraries, envisions the library system becoming even more of a valuable resource for information and connections, assisting in the advancement of the people of Lancaster County.
"I want people to see the library as a place where they can find reason for hope," Vogel said. "I would like to train people to see what good information we have for them to use at their fingertips."
From release
The annual S.C. Botanical Garden Fall Plant Sale is Oct. 4-5 at the gardens on the Clemson University campus. The staff has assembled an extensive collection of unique and seldom-offered plant species that will thrive under local growing conditions.
Have you been faced with adversity, and challenge? How did you find your way through it? Each day, children are faced with challenges and struggles. One group in particular, is children who have been physically or sexually abused.
Annually, in April, efforts are made nationally to raise awareness of the abuse of children.
Michele Roberts
For The Lancaster News
The sixth annual "Lancaster Cooks: Look Who's Cooking," an evening that brings together good food with a great cause, is Sept. 24.
The event was started by chairperson Evelyn Springs, whose 11-year-old grandson with autism was the driving force behind her desire to get involved with programs that raise money for autism research.
Fall is on its way, and with it the foliage begins to turn, along with a slight nip in the evening air. And for my family and friends, it's football time.
The sport is big business in my part of the country - and everywhere else for that matter. Next to which rivalry is playing out on any given weekend, the most important part of the day is what's on the menu.
No football party is complete without something "buffalo" (at least in my eyes).
Getting plants in the ground is easy. Watering, weeding, feeding – well, these activities take a little time, but they're easy, too.
Knowing when to harvest your bounty is tricky, because it's not always obvious.
After all, how can you check on your potatoes without digging them up?
Here are some quick tips to keep in mind for picking some of the more popular garden vegetables.
Staff reports
The Pregnancy Care Center will hold its annual banquet featuring guest speaker Pam Tebow at 6 p.m. Sept. 19 at City of Light in Indian Land.
Tebow is the mother of NFL star Tim Tebow.
The Tebows lived for a number of years in the Phillipines, where Pam's husband, Bob Tebow, continues to have an ongoing ministry – the Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association (BTEA).
I've always loved summer. As a child, my perfect afternoon was swimming with friends and playing tag with neighborhood kids.
Now that I'm older, my summer afternoons have slowed down a bit.
It's about enjoying a glass of sweet tea and taking in the beauty surrounding the deck in my backyard.
Trayce Griffin isn't looking for fame and fortune. As a hair stylist of 18 years, she says she likes using her talents to help her clients feel good about themselves. Joining the staff of At Salon Dimensions when it opened some 10 years ago, she has a lot of loyal clients, evidence she's doing her job right, and that's satisfying for her.
Several local teachers recently took a nine-day trip to Panama City, Panama. The teachers included Bo Sylvia, a former Lancaster High School teacher and soccer coach, his wife Carol, retired math teacher at Buford High School; former BHS teacher Jeffery Moyer and his wife, Vicky, an artist and literacy instructor at the University of South Carolina Lancaster and Dr. Robert Hinson, a Lancaster High School English teacher, and his wife, Linda, retired from Charlotte Mecklenburg schools.
For bass singer Richard Sterban, the decision to leave J.D. Sumner and the Stamps in the early 1970s was a no-brainer.
"A lot of people who knew me questioned it, but it was an easy decision at the time," said Sterban, a member of the Oak Ridge Boys, who will perform at the University of South Carolina Lancaster on Sept. 6 as part of the 2013-14 See Lancaster SC Performing Arts Series.
I am going to relive a story I brought to you, oh, probably some three years ago about going back to school and how wonderful that time was for me.
I remember it well and as I worked and shopped over this three day tax-free weekend, I was oh so reminded of it and how hard it must have been for Mama to get everything for Cindy and I.
But no matter what the sacrifice, she and Daddy always did it and we had everything we needed to start the school year fresh and new. Enjoy the story once again and relive your own memories of those school days.
S.C. State Fair
The 2013 S.C. State Fair opens Oct. 9 and will return of all your favorite rides, concerts, foods, attractions and more.
General admission tickets and tickets for the Pepsi Grandstand Concert Series, which include admission to the fair, are for sale online at www.scstatefair.org.
Admission tickets and ride vouchers are also available at Bi-Lo stores. Starting this year, children 5 and under, active and retired military personnel and military dependents (with proper ID) get free admission to the fair.
StatePoint Press Release
No one likes to think about worst case scenarios, but being prepared for them is crucial to quickly recover in the event they occur.
But there's good news – new technologies and tools are making it easier to protect yourself and your loved ones from all kinds of emergency situations.
Your home
When is the last time you replaced your home's windows?
From Release
Glenda Gaither Davis, a native of Great Falls and the daughter of the late Walter and Fannie Gaither, has written and published a book that was released on July 24.
Davis lives in Atlanta, Ga., and is a retired educator.
She graduated from Elizabeth Heights High School, Claflin University, Atlanta University and studied at Georgia State University.
Davis was a member of the 1961 Freedom Riders and is often seen on film on local PBS stations.
Matlene Lowery
Special to The Lancaster News
Words alone could not describe the atmosphere that surrounded the 16th biennial Lancaster Training School/Barr Street High School class of 1963 reunion, held July 5-7 at the Hilton Hotel in Charlotte Executive Park.
The LTS/BSHS reunion is held every two years, and this was my first time attending with my sister, who graduated in 1959.
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BATAVIA – Two West Chicago men face charges of criminal damage to property and criminal damage to government property after police say damage was caused to a private business and city-owned property in Batavia.
Edgar R. Aguilar, 24, of the 200 block of Neltnor Boulevard, and Roberto Gonzalez, of the 29W100 block of Donald Drive, each face one count of criminal damage to government property, a Class 3 felony, and one count of criminal damage to property, a Class 4 felony, according to a news release from the police department.
The incident occurred shortly after midnight on Friday, Oct. 18, in the 0-99 block of North River Street in Batavia. Police responded to a report of damage to the front door of a private business at 17 N. River St. Police found that a large cement garbage can, which was later determined to be property of the city of Batavia, had been smashed through the front door, states the release.
The garbage can had been rolled down the pedestrian stairs of the city parking deck located at State Street and North River Street prior to being smashed into the window. The damage to the city's property included the garbage can, as well as the stairwell on the parking deck.
Police Detective Sgt. Shawn Mazza said he did not know their motive.
"What I suspect happened is they were heading back to their car and they were just being stupid. They basically rolled this can down the stairs," he said. "Fortunately, now one was coming up the stairs or coming around the corner."
Mazza said the can rolled across North River Street and crashed into the door of the business. The two men then got into their car and left, he said. Police estimated damage to the door of the business, alone, to be about $1,200.
Mazza said police tracked down the two men through a witness and video surveillance images.
Both Aguilar and Gonzalez have posted bond and are scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 17 at the Kane County Judicial Center in St. Charles.
West Chicago men charged with damaging city property in Batavia
BATAVIA – Two West Chicago men face charges of criminal damage to property and criminal damage to government property after police say damage was caused to a private business and city-owned property in Batavia.


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(AP) — The Illinois House Wednesday approved a measure to allow physicians to prescribe marijuana to patients with specific terminal illnesses or debilitating medical conditions.
Lawmakers voted 61-57 for legislation that creates a four-year pilot program that requires patients and caregivers to undergo background checks, limits the amount of marijuana patients can have at a time, and establishes cultivation centers and selling points.
The legislation now goes to the state Senate, where a version of the bill was approved in 2009. Senate President John Cullerton's spokeswoman said this week that he supports the legislation.
Gov. Pat Quinn hasn't said whether he would sign the measure should it reach his desk.
Supporters said marijuana can relieve continual pain without triggering the harmful effects of other prescription drugs. They touted the legislation as a compassionate measure that would save patients from the agony caused by illnesses such as cancer, multiple sclerosis and HIV.
"I know every single one of you have compassion in your heart, this is the day to show it," said Rep. Lou Lang, the sponsor of the bill. "... Let people feel better, let them have a better quality of life."
The bill lists more than 30 medical conditions for which patients can be prescribed marijuana.
The legislative proposal prohibits patients from growing their own marijuana. Instead, the state must approve 22 cultivation centers, as well as 60 dispensaries where patients could buy the drug after getting a prescription from a doctor with whom they have an existing relationship. The legislation sets a 2.5 ounce limit per patient per purchase.
Lang, a Democrat from Skokie, said the bill is the strictest in the nation. Still, opponents say the program would encourage the use of marijuana for recreational purposes.
"It's going to cause confusion in our communities," said Republican Rep. Mike Bost of Murphysboro. "... I guarantee you that we will be back adjusting this legislation or we would be back in this floor for the legalization of marijuana."
Lang and other supporters have been trying to legalize medical marijuana for several years. A measure that had cleared the Senate failed in the House in 2011, when six Republicans and 50 Democrats voted yes.
Quinn on Wednesday said the bill's sponsor hasn't reached out to him to build support on the measure.
The Democratic governor said he was recently visited by a veteran suffering from war founds who was helped by the medical use of marijuana. Quinn said he was "impressed by his heartfelt feeling" on the issue.
"I'm certainly open-minded to it," he said.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes.
A report issued earlier this month by the Pew Research Center poll showed that 77 percent of Americans say marijuana has legitimate medical uses.


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I've been asked to provide a few recipes for spicy side dishes of a milder nature, so I cooked up this flavorful millet dish for dinner tonight. If you're into heat like I am, increase the amount of cumin and cayenne slightly, and add a dash of turmeric. It goes well with vegetables and bean dishes. Include a small bowl of yogurt with the meal, as yogurt has a cooling effect.
|Indian-Style Millet with Browned Onions and Green Beans
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Adapted from Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian: More Than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the World
Cuisine: Indian
Published on March 23, 2007
Spicy Indian-style millet cooked with browned onions and green beans
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Children's workshop: sign up!/
The Oxford Film Festival is pleased to work with Oxford Acting Studio and the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council to present a FREE WORKSHOP for children on Saturday, February 23, 2013. The workshop is free, but registration is required. [Registration for the workshop has now closed.] Each group is limited to 15 students. A wait list will be kept for those interested after the class is full. Please notify us if your child will be unable to attend. Registration will be confirmed.
- Group #1 (9 to 11 year olds) -- Drop off begins at 845 a.m. and pick up ends by 10:45 a.m.
- Group #2 (12 to 17 year olds) -- Drop off begins at 10:30 a.m. and pick up ends at 12:15 p.m.
Location: Powerhouse Community Arts Center (413 S. 14th St., Oxford) Instructors from Oxford Acting Studio: Rhes Low (OAS director), Anna Donnell


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Sharon Dolovich
Professor Dolovich is a leading expert on the law, policy and theory of prisons and punishment, and teaches courses on criminal law, the constitutional law of prisons, and other post-conviction topics. Recent publications include "Forms of Deference in Prison Law," 24 Federal Sentencing Reporter 245 (2012), "Exclusion and Control in the Carceral State," 16 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 259 (2011), and "Cruelty, Prison Conditions and the Eighth Amendment," 84 N.Y.U. Law Review 884 (2009).
Professor Dolovich has been a visiting professor at NYU, Harvard, and Georgetown, and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She recently served as Deputy General Counsel for the Los Angeles Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence, which was charged with investigating use of force in the L.A. County Jail and making recommendations for institutional reform. She served as a consultant during the settlement phase of Johnson v. California, 543 U.S. 499 (2005) (the U.S. Supreme Court case concerning racial segregation in the California prisons), and as an expert witness in a challenge to the policy of racially segregated lockdown in the California prisons. She has testified before both the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons and the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission.
Professor Dolovich has conducted a landmark empirical study of the LA County Jail's practice of segregating vulnerable prisoners for their own protection. The first article growing out of this research, "Strategic Segregation in the Modern Prison," 48 American Criminal Law Review 1 (2011), received the Ezekiel Webber Prize and a 2012 Dukeminier Award. The second, "Two Models of the Prison: Accidental Humanity and Hypermasculinity in the L.A. County Jail," appears in volume 102 of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Among other projects, Professor Dolovich is currently focused on a critical examination of Eighth Amendment doctrine as it applies to prison sentences and prison conditions. Works in progress include "Eighth Amendment Decency" and "Some Puzzles about Eighth Amendment Deliberate Indifference."
Other major articles include "State Punishment and Private Prisons," 55 Duke L. J. 437 (2005), and "Legitimate Punishment in Liberal Democracy," 7 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 307 (2004). The latter was selected for the 2004 Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum as the best article in both criminal law and jurisprudence & philosophy, the first article ever to be selected in two categories. In 2005, she was honored by the Cornell University Program on Ethics and Public Life with its Young Scholar Award.
Professor Dolovich has also written in the field of legal ethics. Her article, "Ethical Lawyering and the Possibility of Integrity," appeared in volume 70 in the Fordham Law Review.
To listen to Professor Dolovich discuss the phenomenon of "pay-to-stay" jails and prisons on NPR's All Things Considered, click here: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=215219732&m=215219727
To see Professor Dolovich discuss the safety implications of the landmark Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Plata, click here: http://youtu.be/rU6dGBoAjX4
"Teaching Prison Law," Professor Dolovich's 2012 essay in the Journal of Legal Education, which argues that prison law and other post-conviction topics should be a standard component of the criminal law education of future prosecutors, defense counsel and judges alike.
Click here to read Professor Dolovich's recent interview about the future of the California prisons, published in Boom: A Journal of California.


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An exhibit about structure
Three artists use concrete, bronze, clay in distinctly different ways at Artpace.
Austin-based sculptor Jeff Williams' new Artpace installation offers a kind of road map to safety concerns about our infrastructure in a way that is unsettling and, at the same time, visually elegant.
Four diving board-size concrete slabs are interwoven at right angles, then clamped tightly near their edges by steel bars on threaded steel rods bored into the floor. The intense pressure has caused the bottom two slabs to crack and crumble where they meet at a crossroads in the middle.
"For the past couple of years, I've been thinking of different ways of making sculpture," Williams says of "Tension and Compression," the centerpiece of his installation "There Is Not Anything Which Returns to Nothing" at Artpace. "I've been looking to other fields, including architecture and engineering."
For "Tension and Compresion," Williams consulted the Ferguson Structural Engineering Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin, where they stress concrete for bridges and overpasses in order to make them safer from wear and tear, as well as terrorist attacks.
"The general public is probably not aware of the risks associated with bridges and other transportation infrastructure," says associate professor Eric Williamson on the lab's website. "But the good news is that many people are taking a close look at how to improve their safety."
Williams says he "took the idea of stressing material that is familiar to us in our built environment to a breaking point, the point of which is actually kind of terrifying."
A Massachusetts native who earned his master of fine arts degree from Syracuse University in 2002, he is a former visual arts fellow at the American Academy in Rome. The young artist has had solo shows in New York, Philadelphia and Mexico.
What fascinates him about the process is "the thing that is compromising the concrete is also what's holding it up."
Over the course of the exhibition, which extends to Jan. 8, the concrete should "compromise" even further, although nobody, including the artist, is sure how much. It will literally crumble under its own weight, although rebar reinforcements will keep it from collapsing completely, a statement on the transcendence — and resilience — of our cultural integrity.
Williams, who also includes photography and video in "Returns to Nothing," as well as a floor-based sculptural "fountain" dealing with our understanding of archaeology and geology whose centerpiece is a large chunk of fossilized rock, is one of three artists in Artpace's International Artist in Residence 11.3 exhibition.
Curated by Russell Ferguson, chairman of the art department at UCLA, the show also includes Glasgow artist Graham Fagen's multimedia installation "Under Heavy Manners," and New York artist Frank Benson's "Extrusions."
"Although this is not a thematically chosen group, I think you can see that these three artists share an interest in materials and structure," Ferguson says.
Speaking in a thick burr, Fagen explains that as he was flying over from the UK, he was "thinking about the relationship between Scotland and the Americas."
"And one of the things I was thinking about was the relationship between Scottish teeth and American teeth," he says.
Teeth? Yes, in "Heavy Manners," Fagen was thinking specifically about the way in which a dental examination was elemental to the peculiar institution of slavery, and more generally of the mouth as a portal to our perception of a person's value.
"People in the slave trade would often gauge someone's health, and their worth, by getting them to open their mouths and looking at their teeth," he says.
Fagen, who represented Scotland in the 2003 Venice Biennale, breaches themes of bodily perception and self-worth in works such as "Tongue Behind the Teeth," a black-and-white "portrait" of his own mouth drawn by probing his own teeth with his tongue. The linear work brings to mind a rudimentary X-ray.
A four-minute video loop captures four people — white, black, Hispanic and Asian — examining each other's hands and faces with their fingers, to the accompaniment of a cellist sawing the droning tune of Scottish poet Robert Burns' "The Slave's Lament."
"I wanted to show compassion and some sense of humanity, and how close that can be to how we do violence," Fagen says. "And these gestures are similar to the way we harm each other."
The installation culminates with "Our Shared, Common, Private Space," a bronze impression, again in black and white, of Fagen's own teeth, similar to a set of dentures, suspended head-high above a pedestal. It's an eerie reference to that "private interior which is common to all of us but at the same time completely unique."
"It's what we all use to eat, to sustain us, as well as to make our place in the world, to communicate," he says.
An up-and-coming young artist who has recently exhibited his lifelike, ultra-realistic bronze portraits in Brazil, Greece and Italy, Benson came to San Antonio for his three-month residency with a camera, a clay extruder and a desire "to make work that was very immediate, using material that was very direct."
Working in brown and black clay, Benson used his extruder — a device that employs dies and pressure to push out clay forms in distinctive shapes — to make ribbon and pipe fired forms that he has carefully positioned on waist-high, specially constructed pedestals in a grid format.
"I was coming off a two-year project making a figurative piece" — called "Human Statue (Jessie)" — "from a very convoluted process using photographic samples of a model's body to make a bronze casting. So the residency was a way to explore a new medium for me — fired clay — and work in a hands-on manner."
He combines these works, using simple machinery and fundamental materials, with large color photographs of local models and basic geometric elements of the Central Library, just down the street from Artpace, mounted on nearby walls.
"I was fascinated by that building and the bold color of it," says Benson, who will be artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa in 2012.
"While I do view this as finished work," Benson says of "Extrusions," "it's almost like studies — 3-D preliminary sketches — for future sculptural work."
"International Artist in Residence 11.3," featuring work conceived and created during a three-month residency by Frank Benson, Graham Fagen and Jeff Williams, remains on view at Artpace, 445 N. Main Ave., through Jan. 8. For more information, visit www.artpace.org or call 210-212-4900.


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"When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden came forth last year with U.S. government spying secrets, it didn't take long to realize that some of the information revealed could bring on serious repercussions — not just for the U.S. government, but also for U.S.-based companies. The latest to feel the hit? None other than Apple, and in a region the company has been working hard to increase market share: China. China, via state media, has today declared that Apple's iPhone is a threat to national security — all because of its thorough tracking capabilities. It has the ability to keep track of user locations, and to the country, this could potentially reveal "state secrets" somehow. It's being noted that the iPhone will continue to track the user to some extent even if the overall feature is disabled. China's iPhone ousting comes hot on the heels of Russia's industry and trade deeming AMD and Intel processors to be untrustworthy. The nation will instead be building its own ARM-based "Baikal" processor.


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The Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, located in Central New Mexico, includes ruins of the Pueblo Indian villages of Quarai, Abó, and Gran Quivira (Las Humanas) as well as the associated mission complexes established by the Spanish in the 17th century. The Pueblo Indians of the Salinas Valley area were descendants of two ancient southwestern cultures, the Anasazi and the Mogollon. From about 1000 to the 1600s, these three villages operated as major regional centers of trade with Indians from the Plains, the Pacific Coast, and the Great Basin. Inhabitants traded agricultural products such as maize, piñon nuts, beans, squash, salt, and cotton goods for dried buffalo meats, hides, flints, and shells. By the 17th century, the Salinas Valley was one of the most populous parts of the Pueblo world.
The Pueblo society was divided into different clans, with the female as the center of each clan. They lived in large, stone, apartment-like complexes with hundreds of rooms, surrounding courtyards or plazas. Residents used the rooms for sleeping, for storing food and clothing, and for protection from bad weather. They performed daily activities on the roofs and in the plazas. Kivas, underground structures used for sacred ceremonies and rituals, dotted the plazas. Communal spirituality was very important in Pueblo culture; they felt that participation in the rituals by the entire group maintained the universal harmony that allowed plants and humans to flourish.
Beginning in the 16th century, exploration and colonization by the Spanish greatly influenced the lives of the Pueblo Indians. The Spaniards entered New Mexico in 1598, under the direction of Juan de Oñate, with the purpose of establishing a permanent colony to bring wealth to the Spanish empire. However, the Spaniards quickly learned that New Mexico was not going to be a land of great wealth, and the King of Spain, under the direction of the Pope, agreed that the colony would serve primarily as a missionary effort to Christianize the natives of the New World. The missions established in the Salinas Valley were self-sufficient communities that included the Indian pueblo (village), a church, convento (friars' quarters), work areas, and the pueblo's fields and hunting and gathering areas. Indians received regimented instruction in Christianity as well as European crafts and husbandry in an attempt to bring them into Spanish society.
The early years of the missionary effort were peaceful. The friars lived among the Pueblo Indians, preached in the native languages, and did not attempt to destroy their native religion. The Pueblo Indians accepted the Christian God as one of their many gods. A system called encomienda was put into effect in which ranking citizens (encomenderos) were appointed by the governor to provide protection, aid, and education to Indians and military support for the government in return for the privilege of collecting tribute from the Pueblo Indians. However, in the mid-17th century, the tone of the friars' missionary efforts changed and they began an attempt to extinguish the native religion. Resistance from the Pueblo Indians and conflict with the Spanish civil authorities thwarted the friars' conversion process and contributed to the decline of the missions. Documents from the 1600s tell of strife between missionaries and encomenderos, who complained that the friars kept the Indians so busy studying Christianity and building churches that the encomenderos could neither use Indian labor nor collect their tributes.
The ruins at Salinas Pueblo Mission National Monument remain as a testament to the friars' efforts and the Spanish colony. Although the Spanish were in the Salinas Valley for less than a hundred years, some changes brought by the Spanish were beneficial. Wheat and wheat bread, fruit trees, and grapes were introduced. Cattle, goats, and sheep became a fixed part of the economy. Craftsmen began working metal, and the Spanish influenced Pueblo black-on-white pottery with European styles.
By 1670, famine, raids from other American Indian tribes, and epidemics forced both the Pueblo Indians and the Spanish to abandon their settlements. Today, you can visit the remains of the pueblos and the mission churches to see the result of the earliest contact between the Spanish and the Pueblo Indians.


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How to Choose Relevant Financial Literacy Plans
Record debt, skyrocketing foreclosures and a large number of people suffering from financial stress…sound familiar? Many of the problems people face today could have been avoided if they had received a practical financial education.
Teens and young adults tend to learn more from practical financial literacy lesson plans. Having a practical financial literacy curriculum as support will help you teach important guidelines to your child. This allows them to be more financially responsible in the way they deal with everyday finances as well as long-term expenses. It is essential that you instill your spending habits in your children in order to get the ready for their financial independence.
Many schools have started offering a financial literacy curriculum to their students, either in the form of economics classes or classes geared specifically towards preparing students financial responsibility in college or independent living.
In light of the current financial situation it is vital that we arm our young people with the financial information they need to be successful in the financial real world. If you want to make a lifelong difference in a child's quality of life then choose an engaging and relevant financial literacy course. But, how do you choose a financial literacy curriculum that students will actually implement? That is the question that will be answered in this article.
Studies indicate that less than adequate financial training has a negative effect on students. They report boredom and confusion which in turn turns them off to learning more about money matters. The instructors had good intentions when they begin implementing the financial education course; regrettably, the financial lesson plans had a negative effect instead.
To ensure your financial education class makes a lasting difference in students lives it is important you choose a financial literacy curriculum that are designed to keep the students engaged and motivated to learn more. The following are seven ways to help you choose the most effective financial literacy lesson plans in order to help your students live a life of financial freedom.
1) Review the Curriculum Designers Background. Most financial literacy curriculum is written by people who have not had significant money or business experience. Make sure the financial education lesson plans you choose have been designed by a team of experienced professionals. Look for curriculum that is developed by a team of financially successful entrepreneurs and teachers that have a track record of curriculum development experience. Finding a curriculum that combines top teachers with business leaders will put you immediately on the right track.
2) Find Curriculum that Motivates & Educates. Having reviewed hundreds of financial literacy lesson plans and talked to thousands of youth many of them have been turned off 'learning about money'. Many students have complained about past financial literacy classes being boring and confusing. A well designed financial literacy curriculum, taught properly, can be a rewarding and entertaining experience. A good test is to review the curriculum late at night and see if it passes the snooze test.
3) Find Lesson Plans that Grow with Students. In a perfect world financial lessons would be taught over time and your students would build their money skills over time. Since this is a luxury most educators will not receive, it is important to choose curriculum that builds on the prior lessons and covers the key principles that make up the foundation knowledge of their education.
4) Lesson Plans Cover the Mental Game of Money. Talk to any financially successful person out there and the majority will agree that the mental game of money serves as a foundation for our financial decisions. It is also well documented that the average person makes most of their financial decisions because of emotional responses, not logic. That is why it is critical that the financial literacy curriculum you choose covers the mental game of money.
5) Financial Success Training Curriculum. The ultimate goal of financial literacy lesson plans is to help our youth reach the level of financial success they desire. Implementing curriculum that focused on providing real world money lessons will not only keep students interested but will also put them on track to achieving financial security.
6) Practical Education before Theory Based Memorization. While the more advanced financial theories should be taught it is important to emphasize practical financial lessons that translate to the real world for students. The advanced theories will can be taught once the practical financial curriculum has been mastered. Considering the fact that over 40 million Americans do not have bank accounts, locate curriculum that walks students step-by-step through basic account structure and includes activities that helps to build their financial foundation.
7) Teach with Entertaining & Engaging Curriculum. By the time a student graduates high school many have sat through more than 10,000 classes. There is not much time to teach financial literacy, so it is exceptionally important that it stands out from the thousands of other lectures students must sit through. Choose curriculum that engages the students with activities, multi-media, celebrities, movement, props and other tools to help our students internalize financial literacy lesson plans so they benefit from this knowledge throughout their life.
Maximize the effectiveness of your time and financial literacy class by getting financial literacy curriculum designed to get students excited to learn about money. The confidence that a practical financial education can bring to students will have long-term positive benefits that affect many area of your student's life.


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Academic round-up
Although legal academics primarily write and teach about the law, they sometimes also serve as the driving force behind litigation. Golan v. Holder, scheduled for argument on October 5, is just such a case. (Disclaimer: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., the sponsor of this blog, serves as counsel to petitioners in this case, but the author of this post is not affiliated with the law firm.)
The plaintiffs in Golan challenge a federal law that restored copyright protection for foreign works that had fallen into the public domain, including Shostakovich"™s Symphony 14, Cello Concerto, Stravinsky"™s Petrushka, Prokofiev"™s Peter and the Wolf, and Hitchcock"™s 1932 film "Number 17," along with millions of others. The federal statute was itself a consequence of the United States"™s decision to join the Berne Convention on Literary Property, which requires signatories to give copyright protection to foreign works if the country of origin still protects those works, even if they were already a part of the public domain in the United States.
The plaintiffs (now petitioners) argue that the First Amendment"™s free speech guarantee bars Congress from restoring copyright protection for works that were in the public domain, and thus had become available for publication, performance, and copying without limitation until the federal statute snatched them back. Although the Court"™s 2003 decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft held that Congress has the authority to extend copyright protection under the Copyright Clause of the Constitution, the petitioners argue that Eldred does not give Congress the authority to re-impose copyright protections after a work has entered the public domain. (A thorough preview of the case can be found here.)
The case has garnered considerable academic attention. Articles by Professors Elizabeth Townsend Gard and David Olson focus specifically on the Golan case. Chicago-Kent Law School has devoted a forthcoming symposium to this Term's IP cases, including the Golan case. (Chicago-Kent Professor Edward Lee was formerly counsel for the plaintiffs.) Professor Julie Cohen has posted on ssrn a book chapter about the tension between commodification and public domain more generally.
Academics aren"™t just writing about this case, however; they are also litigating it. As described here, the plaintiffs include professors who were restricted from teaching these now-copyrighted works to their students. The case was brought by Stanford Law School"™s Center for Internet and Society, now working together with the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. Beating considerable odds, these litigators convinced the Court to take the case over the Solicitor General"™s opposition. A flurry of amicus briefs have been authored by, or filed on behalf of, law professors.
So for those of you who aren't thrilled by legal scholarship (a topic I addressed in my last post), it's worth noting that law professors and law schools also devote their time to litigating cases. Though of course they are sometimes criticized for that as well.
Recommended Citation: Amanda Frost, Academic round-up, SCOTUSblog (Aug. 24, 2011, 2:53 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/08/academic-round-up-75/


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theresa wrote: I think "fantastic possibilities" is what he went looking for -- and found -- in the most unlikely of places; Las Vegas. I believe the American Dream is not necessarily reaching nirvana, it's the possibility, the chance to reach that goal.
Agreed, theresa. And that is what I find so interesting in the perspectives of our posters outside of the US.


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Nick McKenna needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 26 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
We are looking to get a homepage designed for LeinsterSupporters.com. We are looking for clean and professional design. You can read more about what we are trying to achieve in our brief and wireframe.
Please see the brief and wireframe for more information about our design:
Brief: http://pmck.net/ls/leinstersupports_brief.pdf
Wireframe: http://pmck.net/ls/ls.png
We would like the finished design to be far superior to these Leinster Rugby themed sites:
- Leinster Rugby
- Leinster Fans
- Leinster Sports Travel (site may be temporarily down)
- Blue and Gold Colour Scheme
- Same structure as provided wireframe
- Heavy emphasis on Leinster Rugby theme
- Crisp and Clean Design
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