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And once one group of corporations gains the ability it's only a matter of time before they want other excuses.
What actual monitoring is going to be happening? The ISP is going to sniff my packets? So what, my torrents are encrypted. The only way they're going to determine if I'm sharing copyrighted material is by connecting to the tracker and seeing my IP as a peer. But they've been able to do that for years, and have been doing that for years. What more can they actually do?
What more can they actually do?
Redirect to crappy "educational" videos and throttle your connection. Haven't you been paying attention.
Assume any encrpyted traffic is a copyright violation.
After all, if you didn't have anything to hide, you wouldn't be using TERRORIST TOOLS.
You fucking scumbag.
What actual monitoring is going to be happening?... The only way they're going to determine if I'm sharing copyrighted material is by connecting to the tracker and seeing my IP as a peer.
That is exactly what they are doing. According to the Center for Copyright Information [copyrightinformation.org] the process is:
1. Companies that own music, tv shows, and movies join peer-to-peer networks and search for media that they own.
2. They confirm that the titles are indeed copyrighted content.
3. They collect the IP addresses making the con
There is also the fact that if people's subscriptions are cut, it will get people to do what ISPs fear, and that is to hit the VPN services. What CAS appears to do go after the "casual" user. However, if their account is on the line, they will be joining the ranks who are using encrypted tunnels for virtually all their communications..
Once VPNs become a standard thing (just like antivirus programs), ISPs now lose all passive tools, and are forced to act in an active manner. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of the following as the next step:
1: VPNs throttled or randomly disconnected. Throttling can be undetectable and it becomes a word against word argument with a quite uphill battle against the subscriber.
2: Active prohibition of VPNs who don't log, with consequences to accounts due to TOS violations.
3: A ban of VPNs altogether (Pakistan is doing this.)
4: A requirement for subscriber machines to pass a "healthcheck" before being allowed on the Net. This "healthcheck" would require software that prohibits IP forwarding/masquerading/connections to VPN addresses.
5: Similar to #4, except with mandated "anti-pirate" software. Picture an antivirus scanner, except for detecting VPN software, cracks, patches, P2P apps, and proxy software, shutting the computer down and phoning home if it is found.
6: TPMs and trusted boot paths to make #4 and #5 work better, with automatic permanent blocking of the machine off the Net if tampered with.
7: Another round of DMCA laws to support #4-6, and to further keep #1 from being provably detected.
I hope the backlash from this makes SOPA look tame.
I live in China
Furthermore, if you appeal the warning you will be required to pay $35 to state your case. Have the ISPs have had enough of RIAA pestering, or are they siding with RIAA?"
What do you think, genius?
Of course they're siding with the cartels...and they've figured out a nice little side earner while they screw their customers.
why would you argue your case though with them though?
1. They aren't going to do anything, but mail you letters and eventually throttle you for a couple of days.
2. The only argument these "people" will listen to is the one that comes from behind a gavel.
Waste of $35 if there ever was one.
It's not necessarily a waste of $35, since if they are unable to verify the alleged infringement, you get the $35 refunded, and the "strike" is removed.
Just how many claims do you think will be overturned by a group of people that were picked by the same people who made the claim?
In particular, when the entire evidence of infringement for these claims consist of an IP address, a date and time, and the name of a torrent, exactly how are you going to prove that you didn't infringe? When the party making the claim of infringement doesn't even have to prove that the named torrent was their copyrighted content (much less any of the other things needed for infringement, like proving uploading), how can you possibly defend yourself? Even if you aren't running any bittorrent software at all, how can you prove that? And, if you are running bittorrent software, how can you prove that you were not part of that torrent at that time?
This is one of the many problems with "guilty until proven innocent"...often you have to prove a negative, and sometimes that can't be done.
This is one of the many problems with "guilty until proven innocent"...often you have to prove a negative, and sometimes that can't be done.
FYI: "Guilty till proven innocent" is a concept of Criminal Case Law and has no role in Civil Litigation, where you must only show "probable cause". And even then, this is not a Civil Action, this is a wholly private action by a Private Enterprise to terminate your service agrement with them for supposedly braking that service agreement.
And off hand, I can't think of any way to sue them in Civil Court, since they are the ones claiming "breach of contract" and unless you have a home business or can show othe
FYI: "Guilty till proven innocent" is a concept of Criminal Case Law
Not in the US, it isn't.
and has no role in Civil Litigation, where you must only show "probable cause".
Civil lawsuit outcomes are based on "preponderance of evidence"...in layman's terms, who is "most right", not "probable cause". Regardless of how the determination of liability at the end of the trial is done, you can still sue anybody for anything with no real evidence that they did anything wrong. With far less than "probable cause", civil litigation can reach the discovery stage, at which point you better have deep pockets if you want to continue a defense.
The major difference in a lawsuit and this system is that evidence is not assumed to be valid in a lawsuit...it must be proven. For example, if the plaintiff claims to have evidence of infringement on a computer, the defendant would be able to get to see that computer (usually via a neutral third party) to verify that the alleged evidence does exist and was collected in a proper manner. This discovery might allow the defendant to show that the evidence is faulty in some way.
All this is absent from the "six strikes" system, which assumes that all evidence against the alleged infringer is valid with no possibility for a mistake. Because of this, the term "guilty until proven innocent" applies. Unfortunately, there is really no way to prove innocence once you start with the assumption that all evidence indicating guilt is valid and not subject to rebuttal.
Verify to who's satisfaction, theirs? I'll give you my opinion. For $35 you can have me judge that opinion and tell you I was right all along.
Finally an incentive I needed to get a seedbox and VPN in a country far, far away.
If one side has to pay to participate in the "trial", and the other doesn't, then one side has an incentive to just suck it up, and the other side has no disincentives to stop.
Just like DMCA takedowns. If there is no penalty for filing, companies will just robo-spam.
Captcha: tedious, just like the appeals process will be.
* If the appeal is successful, the $35 is refunded to the appellant (and you can bet the AAA will charge the respondent, since they want to cover their costs).
* The fee is also refunded if the Copyright Alert is withdrawn by the copyright owner.
* The $35 fee is waived if your income is less than 3 times the federal poverty level (that is, $33,510 for a family of 1, more for more people).
There are costs on both sides. The *AA are paying DtecNet to send the strikes in the first place, and if you appeal it will cost them more than $35 to put together the paperwork to argue with you.
The *AA are paying DtecNet to send the strikes in the first place, and if you appeal it will cost them more than $35 to put together the paperwork to argue with you.
I sincerely doubt that printing out an IP address, date and time, and torrent name will cost $35. This is all the "evidence" they have, and it's unknown whether you will get to see it unless you ask for a review. The "alert" might be nothing more than "you've been a bad boy" with no details.
And once that happens anything you do or say while on that ISP will be monitored.It may be under the guise of copyright infringement but the result is you're being monitored at the deep packet level. So when you tweet about how much you love Julian Assange and how much you support Wikileaks and the EFF, and when you hit the donate button, not only can they cut off funding to these organizations but they can cut off your internet as well.
Six strikes? No clue if they will look at some people with more scrutin
I'm sure there are plenty out there trying to force a false positive right now.
Hi. I've got three trials running right now:
One is downloading off The Pirate Bay's top 100 list, and then dumping the torrents on a scratch disk. No encryption, all in the clear.
The second is doing the same thing, but all encryption options are enabled, and torrents/DHT are pulled through Tor, so only the (encrypted) bittorrent traffic is being relayed through.
The third is to previously-uploaded torrents that have the naming convention of the same top-100s, and the same apparent contents (file sizes, etc., ) but are public domain video.
And yes, I do plan on suing the pants off my ISP if they flag the third -- and then getting a petition passed around my neighborhood asking our local representatives to demand the system be turned off, or the permits for our cable providers be yanked with immediate effect. And yes, I know the Public Utilities Commissioner is supposed to be in charge of such things, but the PUC will wipe their arse with any petition... this is going straight to the city and state representatives, with the words "We will vote your sorry ass to the curb if you allow this." It tends to get better results.
The petitions are already printed off and sitting next to me.
Are they getting involved? Perhaps share a copyright-free file, get people to download it, get reports raised against it, get complaint, ignore complaint, get to 6 strikes, then ask the ISP to take further steps against them. A few million people doing that at the same time should be fun.
I suggest you join the Effector [eff.org] mailing list, and have a good strong look at Demand Progress [demandprogress.org].
I should also point out Move to Amend [movetoamend.org] while I'm plugging these. This one's actually been introduced to congress.
I don't normally eat popcorn but some good'ole fashioned jiffy pop made over the stovetop while reading tales of ISPs being sued for playing judge, jury and executioner is gonna be fun.
It's crap and all, but it's not that crap. Termination is not an end result.
Merely a temporary bandwidth throttle and a sternly worded letter. As well, "repeat offenders will not be perused as they are not the kind of people we can reach" (paraphrased from memory)
Your ISP's TOS says they can do anything to you.
This is both the RIAA and the ISPs winning with users losing. The ISPs can point to this system to get the RIAA off of their backs. The RIAA can point to this system in courts to try to further pinpoint end users to sue.
However, as the summary points out, the end user must pay $35 to challenge "strikes" against them, and while they are refunded the full amount, if they win, there is nothing else won, nor is the ISP punished for false claims. In other words, the user assumes all risk even if they know that they are innocent.
While I imagine that this system might catch a few pirates out there, I suspect that the errors related to this system will lead to far more collateral damage than it even supposedly fixes. And I am strongly against pirating, but this system screams of looming problems to be faced by the innocent like myself. As someone that has been hit with a "gotcha" notice from a previous roommate's downloading, I know the problems that this will cause. In my case, my roommate was reasonable and he did not continue the practice after I showed it to him and explained that I would not "go down" for it.
How many people can we expect to be burned by this before we have an online petition in Congress? If we're lucky, then maybe this is the start of turning ISPs into dumb-pipe utilities. But we're not lucky.
How many people can we expect to be burned by this before we have an online petition in Congress?
Lots, considering that Congress participates in no such program.
Love the idea, though.
It's called "email your representative". It exists today, and so few use it.
Ah, yes.
About as effective as the We The People petition site.
Source: I write my Congresscritters regularly, at least once per quarter. The boilerplate responses make great birdcage liner.
And, of course, the expenses the ISP incurs to process this will get passed onto the consumers in their bills.
Which means the consumers will end up paying for the ISPs to police copyright on behalf of the *AAs.
What an awesome outcome for the *AAs.
However, as the summary points out, the end user must pay $35 to challenge "strikes" against them, and while they are refunded the full amount, if they win, there is nothing else won, nor is the ISP punished for false claims. In other words, the user assumes all risk even if they know that they are innocent.
Maybe. If the $35 if refunded in the full amount to the end user, who is paying for the arbitration service? If the ISP's detection system erroneously flags a few thousand people, and each of the claims has to be considered, some one is going to be paying for the man-hours of the arbitration work. It's not clear who is bearing the risk of the costs of false claims.
That's a fair point, but I suspect that the service probably hopes to pay for itself with people getting caught trying to game the system. It's possible that you are right and that the ISPs might end up footing a significant bill--one that that they will surely pass onto normal user's monthly bills--by sending out too many false claims.
At the very least, your point provides some incentive for the ISPs to be accurate to minimize costs even if they plan on passing the buck.
the end user must pay $35 to challenge "strikes" against them
Any chance they'll find a way to refund the time wasted appealing this garbage too? Or am I asking too much?
However, as the summary points out, the end user must pay $35 to challenge "strikes" against them, and while they are refunded the full amount, if they win, there is nothing else won, nor is the ISP punished for false claims. In other words, the user assumes all risk even if they know that they are innocent.
I'm more interested in what happens when you lose your challenge, to you have to just accept it or what happens if you take it to court? Defamation of character, harassment, false accusations, take your pick. Or is this one of those wonderful "binding arbitration" aka kangaroo courts that are binding and final?
Anyway, as long as you got choices I would suggest to not contest and simply cancel your subscription on first notice as long as you got choices. Even if you only have a couple to choose from the ISP
Anyway, as long as you got choices I would suggest to not contest and simply cancel your subscription on first notice as long as you got choices. Even if you only have a couple to choose from the ISP and you're going to is another six-strike ISP they will still hate that much more than anything else.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you don't live in the USA. The vast majority of customers here have only 2 choices - telco or cableco and the telco choice is usually butt-slow DSL.
Verizon has even colluded with comcast to stop building out any new fibre installs that would have competed with comcast's internet service business, and that's with the FCC's blessing. [stopthecap.com]
In my case, my roommate was reasonable and he did not continue the practice after I showed it to him and explained that I would not "go down" for it.
So tell me genius, if a civil suit was filed against you and your roommate then denied that he infringed any copyright, how exactly you would prevent yourself from 'going down' for this? The burden of proof lies with you to prove that you didn't download it, 'cause it sure looks to them like you did. It's not like they're going to confiscate your computer to do a forensics investigation on it to prove you're guilty, they already have your IP address showing that you did it (not that that proves a fucking th
The burden of proof lies with you to prove that you didn't download it, 'cause it sure looks to them like you did.
In the courts I think the burden of proof is on the plaintiff.
It's not like they're going to confiscate your computer to do a forensics investigation on it to prove you're guilty...
AFAIK that is exactly what they tend to do.
A defendant in *ANY* sort of case or trial that does not have an accompanying countersuit assumes all risk, even if they know they are innocent. The disincentive for them to frivolously charge innocent people, however, is that when those people win their appeals and get their fee completely refunded, somebody's going to be coming after the ones who made those accusations to pay the bills for that appeal process. And it's going to be a lot more than $35.
And they know who has been naughty and nice. You get six strikes. Six chances. Deep packet inspection, and they know what sites you like to visit and probably what you say too.
Deep packet inspection versus SSL, who wins?
Seems more likely they'll have machines sitting around on popular trackers grepping for IP addresses from blocks they own. At least if they want it to be even sort-of effective.
Deep packet inspection versus SSL, who wins?
Seems more likely they'll have machines sitting around on popular trackers grepping for IP addresses from blocks they own. At least if they want it to be even sort-of effective.
That depends on the quality of the certificate authority and the implementation of SSL. It also depends on what the ISP does. SSL doesn't protect anything port 443. What good is that going to be for other ports? The only way users can protect themselves is by using a VPN.
SSL is used on non-443 ports all the time. It's not just for HTTPS.
I'd assumed that's what encrypted Bittorrent traffic uses, though looking in to it farther it appears they use something else. It is used for encrypted peer-to-tracker communication, though. Either way, telling what a user's downloading over encrypted BitTorrent protocol is non-trivial without a peer connected to the same tracker.
Just remember, the music industry saw growth and "profit" in 2012, the first time since 1999, before this copyright protection went in place.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/26/4031912/music-industry-grew-revenue-for-first-time-since-1999 [theverge.com]
http://247wallst.com/2013/02/26/music-industry-posts-first-profit-since-1999/ [247wallst.com]
Verizon offers a sweet deal for FIOS if you're a new customer, so you sign up for the Triple Play, pay $80 per month, and then cancel, because you've used up your six strikes...
Then sign up for Comcast, get a sweet deal because you're a new customer, pay $50 per month, and then cancel because you've used up your six strikes...
Wash rinse repeat....
As long as you have two internet providers to choose from. Rural areas still only have one choice, if any.
Then sign up for Comcast, get a sweet deal because you're a new customer, pay $50 per month, and then cancel because you've used up your six strikes...
How about not giving money to ISPs like that in the first place? Out here we have sonic.net, one of the last remaining great independent ISPs (especially since Speakeasy sold out). They treat their customers like adults, and on the rare occasion that I've needed technical support, a knowledgable real person answers the phone on the first ring.
(Disclaimer--no affiliation other than as satisfied customer, blah blah blah.)
It's as simple as that. CORP POWER.
If I'm paying extra for a higher speed, how can they throttle my connection, based on an ALLEGED infringement..??
Sit down, shut up, and be thankful They are giving you anything, consumer.
How many people just don't bother with the content anymore, and don't bother switching to a legal alternative either?
Thats what would happen in my household. When Hulu took a crap, my mainstream media consumption pretty much flatlined. I can live without TV, movies, or RIAA music. And if I really want it I'll get it second hand for a deep discount.
All of the cable companies obviously rely heavily on the media companies for their content on the cable channels but so to do Verizon (with FiOS TV) and AT&T (with u-verse TV).
The ISPs need to do this to keep their friends in the content industry happy and providing them with the content they need for their TV setups.
just file a allegation ageist all IP's and do it say 10 times and this will die.
This is awesome! Up until now I've been paranoid about getting sued by the MPAA every time I torrent something. Now I'll get 5 warnings first? That's great!
Major internet service providers today will start monitoring the internet traffic to their customers' computers
False. The ISPs will not be monitoring traffic. The *IAA will monitor bittorrent and report IPs to the ISPs. Not that this isn't still bad, but at least get your facts straight in the first sentence of the summary. Even TFA got it more or less right:
Under the new program, the industry will monitor "peer-to-peer" software services for evidence of copyrighted files being shared.
Industry, as in the *IAA, not the ISP.
Shay-zus, there's no level so low these fucks won't stoop to it, is there?
Check this gem out, from the "How Do Content Owners Know About My Activity?" section:
CCI's content partners – companies that own and develop music, movies and TV shows – join peer-to-peer networks and locate the music, movies or TV shows they have created and own. Once they see a title being made available on the peer-to-peer network, they confirm that it is, in fact, copyrighted content.
After confirming that a file appears to have been shared illegally, content owners identify the Internet Protocol (IP) address used by the computer making the file available. Each IP address belongs to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), so content owners notify the ISP to which the address is assigned and the ISP then passes a Copyright Alert on to its customer.
No personal information about consumers is shared between the content owners and ISPs, and ISPs are not involved in the process of identifying copyrighted content.
Riiiight... 'cuz, we all know, ISPs and the MAFIAA are certainly trustworthy entities, who would never misuse people's personal information, or god forbid, lie to support their goals.
Best part: When you mouse-over the phrase "Internet Protocol (IP) address" in the second paragraph, this is what pops up:
A unique set of numbers associated with individual computers connected to the internet
Do they not realize that's a blatant lie? Or do they expect us to not realize it?
My favorite, however, was the "How do I find Movies and Music Legally" link - it takes you to a page with links to...
Wait for it...
RIAA, MPAA, and ISP websites!
And if you'll -- buy -- that
I've got some ocean front property in A-ri-zo-na
From my front porch you can see the sea
I've got some ocean front property in A-ri-zo-na
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What's not to believe? That it will be refunded if the appeal is successful, or that appeals would ever be successful?
If the latter, what's the basis for believing that the appeal process wouldn't be successful, if neither the appellant nor anyone else using that person's internet connection ever did what was being alleged?
Isn't this like saying it's ok to put a webcam in my house in case I do something wrong?
Just wondering where this slippery-slope leads... (shrug)
They're either the same companies (Time-Warner cable), or they're in cahoots (Verizon with their NFL deals, Comcast with their sports networks).
At a minimum, they ask you to pay for things (HBO comes to mind) that you could, admittedly illegally, torrent. They make more off of your cable subscription than they would for just the raw bits for you to take what you want.
So it should come as no surprise that they're willing to sign up for this.
They're either the same companies (Time-Warner cable), or they're in cahoots (Verizon with their NFL deals, Comcast with their sports networks).
I'm surprised that it has taken so long for someone to mention this. This is not a case of ISPs "going along" or "being on the side of" the RIAA/MPAA. The 6 major ISPs who are pulling this crap ARE the RIAA/MPAA. Every one of them owns or is owned by movie studios, TV networks, record companies, etc.
money to a corporation to defend myself against allegations they make against me is the day I have the service removed, report my credit card lost, and tear up the last month's bill.
The "three strikes" baseball analogy was supposed to make it EASIER to understand. "Five or six strikes" has passed up strained and become just plain stupid.
There are a couple of problems with what they are doing here.
#1 Illegal wire tap:
I use my internet connection for both telephone and mail. That being the case deep packet inspection is both opening my mail and tapping my phone line. There are many federal laws broken here.
#2 Disclosure of CPNI:
There are FCC regulations and mandates about sharing customer proprietary network information without consent. Your ISP needs your consent to share network usage data with a 3rd party. I have received no communication or notice from my ISP.
Here is the form you can use to file an FCC privacy complaint:
https://esupport.fcc.gov/ccmsforms/form2000.action?form_type=2000B [fcc.gov]
If we get a large number of people making formal complaints against their ISPs for breech of privacy the FCC will be at the very least annoyed. They might even do something about it if we are lucky. This can be used as the groundwork for the upcoming court battles I envision.
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The North Reading Citizens for Equality says the town is in direct violation of Title IX requirements, citing the lack of a varsity softball field on the high school campus in a detailed 40-minute presentation to the School Committee on Monday night.
There is now a varsity baseball field and a smaller practice field at the high school at 191 Park St. Because of the on-campus proximity, baseball players have access to both locker rooms and bathrooms. However, the girls' softball players practice and play at a field at the middle school, located 2.5 miles away.
There are no bathrooms, no locker rooms, and the school does not provide transportation or travel reimbursement.
Last March, the town was presented with a plan for a new high school/middle school. The proposed project, 50 percent funded by the state, included a softball field at the school. The proposal passed with a super majority, through Town Meeting.
But in September, the School Committee recommended to the Secondary School Building Committee to remove a softball field in favor of a practice baseball field.
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Casoli highlighted several infractions that are in direct violation of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education: lack of locker rooms and bathrooms, and also raised a few other issues: practice time, conditions of the field, and outside resources.
The baseball team can practice immediately after school, but the softball team must wait until classes at the middle school are done.
A tarp covers the baseball field during poor weather and the winter, it has an irrigation system, and is freshly seeded. The softball field does not, and upon request, the team was denied permission to work on the field themselves.
In her presentation, Casoli cited the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C., which said the situation in North Reading is "a clear violation of Title IX."
The School Committee said that it would review the matter.
The new school is not scheduled to be completed until the fall of 2015.Pat Bradley can be reached at email@example.com.

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FELTON, DE -- Jaielyn Belong is a sophomore at Lake Forest High School in Felton, Delaware. "She is a good student," said her mother Betty Belong. "She's a book worm and has occasionally gotten in trouble for reading during class."
Five weeks ago, she welcomed baby Adrian Amir Belong into her arms at over eight pounds. Baby Adrian now weighs a whopping 10 pounds thanks to his mom who is exclusively breastfeeding him with the hopes of breastfeeding him for at least one year as is the current recommendation by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Jaielyn, now a teen mom, will soon be returning to school to continue her high school career with the support of her own mother, family and a host of local moms. There's only one catch:
"I feel the school is discriminating against my decision to breastfeed my son," she said. A sentiment which is seconded by Betty who feels the school is bullying Jaielyn.
The nurse, a counselor and a school administrator recommended Jaielyn only breastfeed her son before and after school hours. This recommendation would not be changed regardless of whether or not a doctor's note is able to be obtained. This would mean Jaielyn could not pump for or nurse her baby for over eight hours every weekday.
This recommendation goes against Delaware law which reads:
31 Del. C. § 310
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a mother shall be entitled to breast-feed her baby in any location of a place of public accommodation, wherein the mother is otherwise permitted.
Some view going to school as the job of a teenager, which would mean the Reasonable Break Time For Nursing Mothers in the Fair Labor Standards Act would also be important to this case, see the bottom for the full text. It states:
Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 19384 (29 U.S.C. 207) is amended by adding at the end the following:
''An employer shall provide a reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for 1 year after the child's birth each time such employee has need to express the milk; and a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk."
Even so, "The school nurse called me on Thursday and told me they will not be able to accommodate my daughters need to pump or store milk during school hours," said Betty. "They said the electric pump is noisy and will draw attention to my daughter. Pumping milk is time consuming. They're not even sure she'll be pumping milk when she says so."
According to Betty, the nurse added that her refrigerator was for medicinal only and that she believes Jaielyn would need to be supervised. "Her peers may tease her," the nurse told Betty.
Local La Leche League (LLL) leader, Heather Felker said, "It seems illogical that a place cannot be found for this teen to pump. If a teacher requested an area to pump, by law one would need to be provided. The teens mother also mentioned that there is a Bayhealth clinic on site."
Felker, who has alerted the LLL organization as well as the Delaware Breastfeeding Coalition of the situation, said Jaielyn "has shown great maturity by taking responsibility for her pregnancy and now her son. She chose breastmilk as the healthiest possible start for her son, and as a cost saving measure for her family. By not supporting these choices, the school is sending a negative message."
This negative message goes against the Lake Forest High School Student Code of Conduct which reads: "All Lake Forest students shall behave in a manner that promotes a school environment that is nurturing, orderly, safe and conducive to learning and personal/social development."
"I only want what's the very best for him and it is scientifically proven, breast milk is the best choice," Jaielyn said.
Her mom added, "My daughter's body made this milk for him and she wants him to have what's all natural and made just for him. My daughter just wants to be able to do her academic studies and care for her son's nutritional needs.
"When our children go through life and make positive choices we have to follow through and do what we can to help," Betty said in support of her daughter's breastfeeding decision. "I'm so proud of the choices she's made and I have to help in any way I can. I thought I was fighting a losing battle, but knew I wasn't giving up without one."
by spooky415January 30, 2013 at 3:42 PMI understand what their argument is...but unfortunately, a student is not the same thing as an employee.
by Anonymous 2January 30, 2013 at 3:43 PMWhy not independent study?
January 30, 2013 at 3:44 PM
Regardless of age, any woman should have accommodations to be able to pump in order to feed their baby.
The school is being ridiculous. Do they want this kid to get on WIC and put more stress on the taxpayers by getting formula? Do they want to financially strain her or her parents more by having to buy it?
It makes no sense. Let the girl pump for goodness sakes! She is trying to do the right thing by breastfeeding and continuing her education and these fools are trying to put a big road block in her plan for success.
by NowImAMom...January 30, 2013 at 3:44 PM
That is absolutely wrong.
January 30, 2013 at 3:44 PM
They should allow her to pump and store her milk. Our employers are supposed to do it for us, so the school should do it for her. I know it isn't ideal circumstances, but she is doing the best she can.
by Anonymous 3January 30, 2013 at 3:44 PMThat's too bad... No wonder so many of them drop out.
by Anonymous 4January 30, 2013 at 3:45 PM
She needs to suck it up and figure something out
"her peers may tease her" if they are not teasing her for being a 15 year old mom, I doubt they will care about her pumping. I think she should absolutely be able to pump, 15 minutes in the clinic once or twice a day is all that would be needed. Also, if she goes 8 hours without pumping or feeding, she will end up with mastitis and will probably miss a whole week of school


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Journal frieked's Journal: A car stereo that can kill you? Cool
Submitted this story, it got rejected:
Troy Irving's 18-year-old Dodge Caravan has a hell of a sound system: 72 amplifiers--you got it, 72--and 36 big 16-volt batteries to put out the 130,000 watts of power needed to rumble his nine 15-inch subwoofers. To put that into perspective, the most powerful production-car audio I know of is the $230,000+ 2003 Aston Martin Vanquish's 1,200-watt system. Irving carries $80,000 worth of audio alone, in a vehicle that is worth, admittedly, slightly less than the Maybach. Must be fun to ride down Main Street with the windows rolled down, right?


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AN ACT to amend and reenact §17C-15-46 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the use of child safety booster seats for children under eight years of age unless the child is at least four feet nine inches tall or taller.
§17C-15-46. Child passenger safety devices required; child safety seats and booster seats.


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- Mercedes
Hamilton plays down Rosberg's German allegiance
Lewis Hamilton has poked fun at Mercedes team-mate and title rival Nico Rosberg's allegiance to Germany ahead of his home race at Hockenheim.
Team-mate Rosberg was born to a German mother and Finnish father, 1982 champion Keke, but has spent the majority of his life in Monaco. Despite the fact Rosberg races under the German flag in Formula One, Hamilton does not think this will give him an edge at Hockenheim.
"To be honest Nico has never actually been in Germany, so it's not really his home race," Hamilton said. "I remember when we were in karting he didn't stand next to a German flag - ever! We had to go on the start line and all the drivers would stand next to a grid girl.
"They would be holding a flag or a sign saying Hungary or whatever, and he always stood by Monaco. He never stood by Germany. I've known him growing up in Monaco, so I know Monaco is his home."
Despite this, Hamilton acknowledges the fact that Rosberg will be the subject of the pre-race attention in Germany as he was at Silverstone.
"He definitely will because undoubtedly he's German, but he's German - Finnish, from Monaco, or whatever. So he'll get that support in Monaco and Germany, and he's always had great support there.
"He'll have a busier week there than I will, just like I did ahead of Silverstone. But it's always good to beat others on their home turf, so it would be great to win in Germany."


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Joining us now is our multimedia editor Flora Lichtman who is - welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY, of course.
FLORA LICHTMAN, BYLINE: Thanks.
FLATOW: We'll have a backend. We have our Video Pick of the Week today, sort of an oldie goldie, right?
LICHTMAN: Yeah. But it's related. So we thought we would bring it up. It's a hairy quest scientific question. I'm just going to fill it with bad jokes. It's about the physics of Rapunzel's hair, is the topic of this week's video pick. And we talked with Kelly Ward, who's a senior software designer for Disney, and she had studied hair modeling in school. And I didn't even know this was a field you could study, but it just sort of gets to what we were talking about - become really good at something. And then she found out that Disney was making this movie about Rapunzel, and it was like the dream fairytale ending for a student of hair modeling.
FLATOW: So it was the film "Tangled" and she - and in your video pick, she talks to you about how she had to mathematically model the hair and different...
LICHTMAN: It's a - yeah, it's a really complicated question, it turns out. So we have over 100,000 strands of hair on our real heads. In this movie, they look at - they sort of boil it down to over 100, but even that is a really complicated question. I think Tony DeRose could probably talk about this better than I could. But, you know, it's the problem that they bump into each other and the static. I mean, how do you think about this problem of hair movement?
DR. TONY DEROSE: As you said, there are about 100,000 hairs on a human head. There are many more on an otter.
FLATOW: Is that why we don't see many otter movies?
DEROSE: That's why we don't see many otter movies - yeah. But if you can capture the essential motion of about 100 hairs or so or 200, then you can kind of do in-betweening for the hair and get the basic motion at dramatically lower simulation cost.
LICHTMAN: And, you know, I mean, that's the one thing that Kelly mentioned, that it takes a long time to render this kind of stuff, right? Can you give us a sense of how long it takes to actually output a shake of the head?
DEROSE: Well, the outputting isn't so time-consuming, but doing the light simulation of how light interacts with all the hair and how the hair shadows each other, that's extremely computationally intensive.
FLATOW: Give us - how long for a second or two of - Steve, how long would it take?
DR. STEVE SULLIVAN: It could be overnight for a single frame.
FLATOW: Overnight for one frame.
SULLIVAN: Yeah. Depending on the creature and what's going on. Another interesting aspect of this is why we have to get the physics right so it's kind of believable. We have to then put controls on top so animators can make the hair perform, because what you see in the Rapunzel footage is that hair is doing something that real hair couldn't do. It needs to express something about the story there. So a lot of the challenge for our technologists is to come up with interesting controls for the animators to create performances out of physically-based things.
LICHTMAN: Yes. This is exactly what Kelly Ward said. If you actually had Rapunzel's hair, you'd be dragging around 80 pounds.
SULLIVAN: Right.
FLATOW: Right.
LICHTMAN: You wouldn't get that.
FLATOW: I'm Ira Flatow, and this is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. Who wants to talk about the uncanny valley? Anybody? Steve?
JAMES CAMERON: Oh, boy. The uncanny valley, that was the terrain that we had to get across in order for "Avatar" to be a success. You know, I always said, you know, we're going to try to catapult ourselves across the uncanny valley and land with our fingertips embedded in the opposite cliff, try to pull ourselves over. That was the challenge for the whole team on "Avatar."
FLATOW: And what was the big challenge? Why was it so changeling?
CAMERON: Well, all the main characters, you know, or most of the main characters in the film were going to be done completely with CG. So we had to really feel like in order for us to have the correct emotional impact on the audience, the audience had to believe that the creatures that they were seeing, which were largely humanoid, were real. They couldn't be thinking that it was good CG, or we'd be doomed. And, you know, so we had the problem the so-called deadeye syndrome that we had to get over unfortunately.
You know, Weta Digital at the time was one of the leaders in creating a very kind of liquid beautifully refractive eye. And I always felt that the problem was around the area of the mouth, the kind of neuromuscular interaction around the mouth that forms the expression is so complex. And I always felt that that's where most CG characters broke down, not around the eyes. So I actually encouraged them to spend a lot of time and energy in that area as well.
FLATOW: Yeah. Because if you don't get stuff like that right, it sort of comes out creepy looking, doesn't it?
FLATOW: I mean, the audience has a little bit of problem with it. It's almost real but not really real.
CAMERON: Right. Well, the uncanny valley refers to a dip in positive response. It's actually meant to be, you know, kind of an X-Y graphing. On the Y-axis, you've got positive response to what you're seeing. And on the X-axis, it's from left to right. It's as you're approaching looking human. And so there's a point where kind of animated animals and a talking moose and so on at the left side of the graph. They're all fine because they're humanoid to the extent that they're doing human behaviors, but they don't look human.
Then as you start to approach looking human with things like androids and, you know, synthetic rubber flesh on Japanese robotics experiments and even things like corpses where there's no movement, we start to get a very negative effect, so the curve dips. And then it comes up again sharply as you exactly approach the look of a true living human.
FLATOW: One last question before we have to go. Is the story still matter? The story, you know, does the animation and visual effects overwhelm the story so much that the story doesn't really matter anymore? Well, I'll ask Jim. Jim, what do you think?
CAMERON: Well, look, I mean, I think we all know the answer to that question. People respond to stories. And, you know, they respond to human interaction and to emotion. And they want to have an emotional response themselves. And so I think we've seen the big hollow kind of clanking but quite beautiful and quite difficult visual effects extravaganzas that didn't work. And I think we've seen films that were much more modest in their effects goals that did work, you know?
So I think step one is you've got to cast it right. You've got to have a great script. And you've got to be - yeah, and you've got to be telling a well-modulated human story throughout. Then you can start to layer on the visuals and the imaginative elements, you know, to any extent and certainly my stuff has been, you know, with an awful lot of that...
FLATOW: All right.
CAMERON: ...but you still have to have the basics first.
FLATOW: All right. Thank you very much for joining us, James Cameron, Tony DeRose, Steve Sullivan and Craig Barron, thanks to all for taking time to be with us today.
SULLIVAN: Thank you.
DEROSE: Thanks.
FLATOW: We're going to take a short break. We'll be right back after the break. Stay with us.
FLATOW: I'm Ira Flatow. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright National Public Radio.


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Tired of the frigid weather and constant criticism of Chicago Public Schools, Kenwood Academy High School students recently decided to show the world how truly "happy" they are.
And, as it turns out, their happiness is contagious.
A video of students singing and dancing in the hallways to Pharrell Williams' infectious hit "Happy" has become a minor YouTube sensation, drawing nearly 14,000 views – more than seven times the school's population – in just a few days. Produced last week on the South Side campus, teens perform for the cameras alongside teachers, security guards, administrators and the school mascot, Billy the Bronco.
"I'm very, very surprised by the reaction," Principal Gregory Jones, who dances enthusiastically in his office during the video. "I knew the kids here would watch it, but I didn't think anyone else would. Now we're getting phone calls from alumni who have seen it and I'm getting text messages from all over the country."
Students approached assistant principal Karen Calloway with the idea of making the video after she played "Happy" over the school's public address system earlier this month to honor Kenwood's six Gates Millennium Scholarship finalists. When the teens explained they wanted to create a sunny video to combat the brutal winter and the bleak view of the city's public schools, administrators agreed to play the song between class periods for several days so the teens could get enough footage.
Schools across the country – including Amundsen High School in the Lincoln Sqaure neighborhood – have produced similar videos recently. Looking to establish its own identity in the crowded field of Happy homages, Kenwood's version strives to celebrate the people that set the school apart.
Hundreds of students appear in the finished product, including the six Gates finalists and a student who school officials say has nearly a $1 million in scholarship offers after being accepted to some of the country's top schools.
The six-minute video also features a fancy editing trick with school swim team, the English department performing a line dance and Bronco Billy busting a move with random people on 53rd street. It finishes with Kenwood's choir singing their own rendition of the uplifting song.
The video's producers, seniors Reginald Jones and Jalen Jackson, said they initially had to cajole their classmates into participating. Most embraced the idea, however, after Jones donned the bronco costume and danced merrily with them.
Jones – who, like Jackson, plans to study filmmaking in college – had low expectations when he posted the video on YouTube last week. Before Kenwood's "Happy" hit cyberspace, his most popular video had received just 147 views.
"It's cool to see how many people have been sharing it," he said. "I've heard from someone in (Kenwood) Class of 1971 and all these other graduates. A friend of mine sent it to someone in Brazil. It shows what kind of community we have here."
Jones and Jackson said the most rewarding part has been seeing how, well, happy the video has made people.
"The video captures the culture and community at Kenwood," Calloway said. "It shows we're a happy place."
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Game #13
Yale Bulldogs (3-9, 0-0 Ivy League) vs. Bucknell Bison (8-5, 0-0 Patriot League)
- January 5, 2013 • 4 p.m.
- John J. Lee Amphitheater (2,532) • New Haven, Conn.
- Video (Fee): http://www.YaleBulldogs.com/links/al7bsy
- Live Stats: http://www.YaleBulldogs.com/links/nk3o2k
- Yale Game Notes in PDF
- Bucknell Game Notes in PDF
- Follow @YaleWBBDawgz on Twitter
Opening Tip
Yale welcomes Bucknell to the John J. Lee Amphitheater for the final home game of the non-league schedule on Saturday. The Bulldogs are looking to extend their success over the Bison with the hope that it leads to the first victory of the new year. After losses to Marist, Georgetown and Sacred Heart, Yale is looking to snap a three-game losing streak against a much-improved Bucknell squad that went just 5-25 last season. Yale is led by sophomore guard Sarah Halejian, who is leading Bulldogs in scoring (13.2 points per game) and assists (3.2 assists per game). Junior guard Janna Graf is leading the Bulldogs in rebounding (5.3 rpg.) and steals (27 total steals) and is second on the team in scoring (12.2 ppg.).
Scouting Bucknell
While on paper, many of the players on the Bucknell roster have returned from last season, this is not the same Bucknell team that Yale squared off against a year ago. Bucknell struggled in almost every area of the game and finished the 2011-12 season with a 5-25 record. With Aaron Roussell taking over as head coach, the Bison have begun to flourish. With just two freshmen joining the squad this season and four returning starters and 10 total returning players, Bucknell has already surpassed last season's win total and will come to Yale on Saturday with an 8-5 record. The Bison are markedly in several areas, namely in point production and rebounding. The Bison are averaging nearly 12 more points a game (51.3 in 2011-12, 63.2 in 2012-13) and nearly 10 more rebounds per game (35.4 to 45.2). Six of Bucknell's eight wins this season have come against non-league opponents that beat the Bison last season. Junior co-captain Shelby Romine is leading the Bison in scoring (14.4 ppg.), while senior co-captain Lindsay Horbatuck is the leading rebounder (10.6 rpg.).
Series History
In a series that dates back to the 1993-94 season, Yale and Bucknell have met seven times, with the Bulldogs holding a 5-2 series advantage over the Bison. After three games in the mid-1990s, the series was renewed in the 2008-09 season. Since then, Yale is 3-1 over Bucknell. With a 69-48 win at Bucknell last season, Yale secured the most lopsided win of the series. In fact, four of the seven games in the series have been decided by 10 or more points. Yale is 4-0 in those games, with an average margin of victory of 17.5 points per win. In games decided by fewer than 10 points, Yale is 1-2 against the Bison, with the only win coming on Dec. 5, 2009, in a 54-50 victory at Bucknell. Yale is 3-1 at home against Bucknell and 2-1 in games played at Bucknell.
Connecticut Connection
Lindsay Horbatuck, Bucknell's senior co-captain, has been a solid post player in her four seasons in Lewisburg. The Avon, Conn., native recently joined Bucknell's 500 points-500 rebounds club, and currently holds career marks of 559 points and 618 rebounds. She has recorded double-digit rebounds in 24 games in her career, including seven times this season. She also has 11 career double-doubles. She is currently leading the Patriot League in rebounding with an average of 10.6 rpg. She is also averaging 8.5 ppg., which is fourth on the team in scoring. In Bucknell's most recent game, Horbatuck recorded a career-high 19 rebounds. However, in her three previous games against Yale, she has averaged just 2.0 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.7 steals.
Scoring Push
In 30 games last season, Bucknell scored 60 or more points just five times, going 3-2 in those five games. The Bison have turned things around after finishing the 2011-12 season at 5-25. At 8-5 so far this season, they have already surpassed last season's win total, and they have reached the 60-point plateau seven times with a 6-1 record in those games. The Bison have scored 70 or more points four times this season, all victories, which is a score that they did not reach in any game last season.
Rebounding on Rebounds
In 2011-12, Bucknell averaged just 35.4 rebounds per game, outrebounding just 10 of their 30 opponents. A big reason for Bucknell's reversal of fortune is the big improvement in its rebounding numbers. Through 13 games, the Bison are averaging 45.2 rebounds per game, an improvement of nearly 10 rebounds a game. The Bison have outrebounded 12 of their 13 opponents, including their last 11 straight opponents. If the season were to end today, that mark would rank sixth in the program record book.
Celebrating History
The 2012-13 season marks the 40th season of women's basketball at Yale University. In 1972-73, women's basketball appeared on the Yale scene as a club sport and became a varsity sport the following year. The Bulldogs made an impressive Ivy debut, finishing second in the League in 1974-75. In 1976, Louise O'Neal was hired as the first full-time women's basketball coach and Yale won its first Ivy League championship in 1978-79. The Bulldogs have won 441 games since their debut. A total of nine men and women have coached women's basketball at Yale, and there have been 35 women who have been named captain in those 40 seasons. In its 40 seasons, the women's basketball team has seen one player win Ivy League Player of the Year award (Tonya Lawrence, 1988-89), four Ivy League Rookies of the Year (Sarah Halejian, 2011-12; Melissa Colborne, 2006-07; Katy Grubbs, 1995-96; Mary Kalich, 1991-92), 18 players on the All-Ivy League First Team, and 17 players score more than 1,000 career points. Throughout the season, Yale will be celebrating the program's historic achievement.
Comeback Halted
Yale's bid for its first win over in-state rival Sacred Heart since 1979 fell just short on Jan. 2 as the Pioneers used a late 13-2 run to secure a 67-62 win over the Bulldogs in Fairfield. Yale trailed by as many as 15 points before mounting a charge in the first half to close the gap to 37-32 at halftime. Yale's deficit increased to 47-38 with 14:40 remaining, but the Bulldogs staged a stunning comeback that turned that deficit into a 55-52 lead just 6:18 later. Sacred Heart responded with a 13-2 run that turned Yale's 55-52 lead into a 65-57 deficit with 41 seconds left. The run allowed Sacred Heart to secure its 11th straight win over Yale. Janna Graf scored 18 points to lead the Bulldogs. Sarah Halejian was held to nine points. It was the first time this season that Halejian failed to score in double figures.
Sugar Not Sweet to Yale
Yale visited the nation's capital but struggled to make history as Sugar Rodgers scored 38 points to lead Georgetown to a 90-67 win over the Bulldogs on Dec. 28. Janna Graf matched a season-high with 18 points on six 3-pointers to lead Yale, while Sarah Halejian recorded 15 points, a career-high nine assists and five rebounds. Yale tried to stay within striking distance in the second half. Georgetown twice pushed its lead to 20 points, but the Bulldogs managed to trim that deficit down to 11 points, 76-65, with 3:25 left on Graf's sixth 3-pointer of the night.
Yale Owns OT
Sarah Halejian scored a team-high 17 points, including four of Yale's six points in overtime, to lead the Bulldogs to a 66-62 overtime win at St. Francis Brooklyn on Dec. 8. It was just the third overtime game for Yale in the eight seasons under head coach Chris Gobrecht. The only other overtime games coached by Gobrecht were a 70-66 double-overtime win at Dartmouth on Feb. 13, 2010, and a 77-73 overtime win over visiting Quinnipiac on Dec. 21, 2008. Yale is 6-0 in overtime games since the 2003-04 season. Halejian was the key to the win as 14 of her 17 points came after halftime. Janna Graf had 15 points and seven rebounds. The win was Yale's first on the road this season.
From Way Downtown
Yale's 3-point shooting prowess is among the best in the nation, according to the NCAA. The NCAA released its latest statistical rankings on Dec. 31, and Yale was ranked No. 11 among the nation's 343 Division I schools in 3-pointers made per game with 8.4 3-pointers per game. Yale was No. 29 in the nation in 3-point shooting percentage (35.7 percent). On the defensive end, Yale's 3-point shooting defense was ranked 48th in the country. The Bulldogs were holding teams to just 26.2 percent.
Third Career Award for Graf
For the third time in her Yale career, junior guard Janna Graf was named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Dec. 10, following wins over Fordham and St. Francis Brooklyn. Graf earned the award after averaging 16.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 3.5 steals in the pair of wins. On Dec. 4, Graf tallied 18 points, six rebounds and five of Yale's six steals to lift the Bulldogs to a 67-53 win over Fordham. At St. Francis Brooklyn on Dec. 8, Graf closed out her week with 15 points, seven rebounds, three assists and two steals in helping to lead Yale to a 66-62 overtime victory. Graf set a new career-high with five steals against Fordham. She also matched a career-high with five made free throws in a perfect 5-for-5 showing at the foul line against Fordham. Graf has picked up her defensive play of late. She has 11 steals and 15 defensive rebounds in her last three games, an average of 5.0 rebounds and 3.7 steals per game in that span.
Historic Victory
Janna Graf picked a great time to play her best game of the season to date. The junior guard set a new season-high with 18 points on 5-of-7 shooting to lead Yale to a 67-53 win over Fordham on Dec. 4. Graf also had six rebounds and five steals. It was Yale's first win over Fordham since a 92-74 win in New Haven on Dec. 9, 1986. Fordham had won the previous six meetings with Yale. The Bulldogs dominated for the final 26:44 of the game. Yale outscored Fordham 17-8 over the final 6:44 of the first half to take a 31-29 halftime lead, with nine of those points coming from Graf. Yale then used a 17-5 run late in the second half to open up an 18-point lead (65-47) to put the game out of reach. Yale shot 25-for-50 from the floor (50.0 percent), 7-for-14 from behind the arc (50.0 percent) and 10-for-11 from the foul line to secure the victory.
Gobrecht Climbing the Yale Ranks
Yale's 67-53 win over Fordham on Dec. 4 improved the Bulldogs' overall record to 2-4 on the season, but the victory also gave Chris Gobrecht her 80th victory as Yale's head coach, moving her into sole possession of second place on Yale's all-time coaching victories list. She moves past Diann Nestel (79-78) and after the win at St. Francis on Dec. 8, Gobrecht is now 26 wins behind Cecelia DeMarco (107-127), Yale's all-time winningest head coach.
Gobrecht on "Inside Ivy League Basketball"
Yale head coach Chris Gobrecht was the latest Yale representative on the Ivy League's on-demand radio shot. In her interview, Gobrecht discussed Yale's improving play of late, the importance of Yale's four freshmen to the team's success in 2012-13, and the current state of the Ivy League. To hear the interview, visit blogtalkradio.com/insideivyleaguebasketball.
Scoring Points
- Yale has scored at least 75 points three times this season, but is just 1-2 in those games, an 84-82 win over Houston before a 95-80 loss at DePaul and an 83-75 loss at Northwestern. Yale scored at least 75 points on seven occasions in 2011-12, all victories (vs. Holy Cross, at FDU, at Houston, vs. Baruch, at Brown, at Dartmouth, vs. Cornell). In 2010-11, Yale scored 75 points only three times, all in victories (vs. Florida State, vs. Harvard, at Harvard).
- In the NCAA's Dec. 31 statistics update, Yale is ranked No. 11 among the nation's 343 Division I schools with 8.4 3-pointers made per game.
- Yale is No. 29 in the nation in 3-point shooting percentage (39.0 percent).
- Yale is No. 38 in the nation in free-throw shooting percentage (74.2 percent)
- On the defensive end, Yale's 3-point shooting defense is ranked 48th in the country. The Bulldogs are holding teams to just 26.2 percent.
- Junior guard Janna Graf is 31st in the nation in 3-point shooting percentage (41.7 percent) and 74th in 3-pointers made per game (2.27).
- Yale leads the Ivy League in 3-pointers made per game (8.5).
- Yale is second in the Ivy League in 3-point shooting percentage (35.4 percent), defensive 3-point shooting percentage (26.1 percent) and free-throw percentage (73.4 percent).
- Yale is third in the Ivy League in scoring (65.2 points per game) and offensive rebounds (13.8 orpg.).
- The Bulldogs are 2-3 at home this season and 1-6 on the road.
Next Up
Following Saturday's game, Yale will close out the non-league portion of the 2012-13 schedule with a visit to Northeast Conference opponent Bryant on Jan. 16. It will be Yale's fourth game this season against a team from the NEC. So far, Yale is 1-2 against NEC foes, with the only win coming in a 66-62 overtime win over St. Francis Brooklyn. Yale is 1-1 against Bryant in two meetings, with a 77-71 home win on Jan. 13, 2009, and a 69-62 loss at Bryant on Jan. 18, 2010.
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Go get 'em, Johnny. Stick that ASG snub to Manuel.
Good guys:
Taveras 8
Hairston Jr. 6
Votto 3
Phillips 4
Gomes 7
Hernandez 2
Bruce 9
Encarnacion 5
Cueto 1
The other team:
Rollins 6
Victorino 8
Utley 4
Howard 3
Werth 9
Dobbs 7
Feliz 5
Ruiz 2
Hamels 1
And @ WT leading off, yet again, vs a lefty. *sigh*
Chat is open!
"Bring on Rod Stupid!"
And, like normal, Willy T fouls the first pitch off, then flies out weakly to RF. 1 out.
JHJ takes an 0-2 pitch, breaks his bat and missed the LF line by about 2.67 inches...foul.
Then a lazy can 'o corn, F-8. 2 down.
Votto does what Votto does...single thru the hole on the RH side.
BP, F-8. That's that. thru 0.5, 0-0.
Falls behind Jimmy Rollins 3-0 and goes full, but still walks him...
Then Victorino goes yard after falling behind 2-0 on him. 2-0 Phillies. This isn't going well.
This place use to be fun
Cueto has no control today.
Falls behind Utley 3-1...
Then Utley chases one about a foot inside and low, full count...
Fouls off the next one...
And the next...
And the next...
He gone lookin'.
One out, finally.
Second straight game that has been all but over after two batters. This crap is just no fun to watch.
4 batters and he's yet to throw a first pitch strike. After his last outing, which despite the numbers, was pretty horrible, this isn't boding well for he or the Reds.
3-1 to Howard. He just can't throw a strike w/ any consistency...
W/ the shift on, Howard lines a shot to SS, which is really EdE, 2 outs.
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Sec. 4, 86 Stat. 1320, as amended, 88 Stat. 1067 (16 U.S.C. 1704)
(a) The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) is a program of summer employment for young men and women, aged 15 through 18, who work, earn, and learn together by doing projects which further the development and conservation of the natural resources of the United States. The corps is open to youth of both sexes, and youth of all social, economic, and racial classifications who are permanent residents of the United States, its territories, possessions, trust territories or commonwealths.
(b) The Youth Conservation Corps Act of 1970 (Pub. L. 91-378) provided for a 3-year pilot program to be carried out on lands and waters under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior. Public Law 92-597 amended the 1970 Act to include a pilot program (beginning in fiscal year 1974) of grants to States to assist them in meeting the cost of Youth Conservation Corps projects on non-Federal public lands and waters within the States. Public Law 93-408 made the Youth Conservation Corps program permanent.
(a) Terms used in these Regulations are defined as follows:
(a) The purpose of the Act is to further the development and maintenance of the natural resources of the United States by American youth and in so doing prepare them for the ultimate responsibility of maintaining and managing these resources for the American people. The Departments of Agriculture and the Interior have stressed the following three equally important objectives of the Youth Conservation Corps as reflected in the law:
(1) Accomplish needed conservation work on public lands.
(2) Provide gainful employment for 15- through 18-year-old males and females from all social, economic, and racial backgrounds.
(3) Develop an understanding and appreciation of the Nation's environment and heritage in participating youth.
(b) These objectives will be accomplished in a manner that will provide the youth with an opportunity to acquire increased self-dignity and self-discipline, better work and relate with peers and supervisors, and build lasting cultural bridges between youth from various social, ethnic, racial and economic backgrounds.
(c) Each YCC project will have, to the maximum extent possible as determined by the Secretaries' representatives, the following characteristics:
(1) A properly balanced and integrated environmental work-learning program in which environmental knowledge and awareness derives principally from meaningful work activities on public lands.
(2) A mixture of youth of both sexes from various social, economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds which is representative of the youth residing within the recruiting area.
(3) A group-living component, both in residential and nonresidential programs, wherein enrollees have an opportunity to relate to each other and to staff during nonworking hours in activities which promote social interaction and group learning (e.g., evening cookouts, overnight or weekend camping).
(4) An enrollment of sufficient size (not less than 10 enrollees) that will permit social interaction and group learning. The program encourages
State programs must meet all of the requirements of section 4 of the act. Section 4 of the act which applies to the grant program reads as follows:
Sec. 4(a). The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall jointly establish a program under which grants shall be made to States to assist them in meeting the cost of projects for the employment of young men and women to develop, preserve, and maintain non-Federal public lands and waters within the States. For purposes of this section, the term "States" includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and American Samoa.
(b)(1) No grant may be made under this section unless an application therefor has been submitted to, and approved by, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture. Such application shall be in such form, and submitted in such manner, as the Secretaries shall jointly by regulation prescribe, and shall contain—
(A) Assurances satisfactory to the Secretaries that individuals employed under the project for which the application is submitted shall: (i) Have attained the age of 15 but not attained the age of 19, (ii) be permanent residents of the United States or its territories, possessions, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, (iii) be employed without regard to the personnel laws, rules, and regulations applicable to full-time employees of the applicant, (iv) be employed for a period of not more than 90 days in any calendar year, and (v) be employed without regard to their sex or social, economic, or racial classification; and
(B) Such other information as the Secretaries may jointly by regulation prescribe.
(2) The Secretaries may approve applications which they determine (A) meet the requirements of paragraph (1), and (B) are for projects which will further the development, preservation, or maintenance of non-Federal public lands or waters within the jurisdiction of the applicant.
(c)(1) The amount of any grant under this section shall be determined jointly by the Secretaries, except that no grant for any project may exceed 80 per centum of the cost (as determined by the Secretaries) of such project.
(2) Payments under grants under this section may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement and at such intervals and on such conditions as the Secretaries find necessary.
(d) Thirty per centum of the sum appropriated under section 6 for any fiscal year shall be made available for grants under this section for such fiscal year.
The following administrative requirements must be met:
(a) Recruitment and selection will be conducted in accordance with a Statewide plan designed to assure:
(1) An equal opportunity for both sexes, for all urban and rural youth regardless of social, economic, ethnic or racial background, with special outreach efforts toward minority, disadvantaged, non-public school youth, and youth having left school before graduation;
(2) That selections will be made on a random basis, without consideration of race, creed, religion, or national origin. Each project should be assigned as near as possible an equal number of slots for males and females;
(3) That enrollees have attained age 15 by June 1 but not age 19 by August 30;
(4) That not more than 10 percent of the enrollees in a project have been YCC enrollees in previous years and all returnees be designated as youth leaders and paid $1.50 per day in addition to their hourly rate of pay.
(b) To the maximum extent practicable, enrollees should be selected from an area within 1 day's surface travel from their home to a residential YCC project.
(c) Capital outlays for facilities should be kept at a minimum. No grant is to be made for construction of residential facilities other than to provide temporary facilities and their necessary basic infrastructure, and necessary renovation or modification of existing facilities.
(d) Operation of a project or session will be for a minimum of 26 consecutive calendar days. Projects during nonsummer periods may be authorized by the Secretaries when it can clearly be demonstrated that enrollment will not interfere with the established educational systems.
(e) The enrollee is an employee of the grantee or subgrantee. Depending on grantee's or subgrantee's work-week, grantees will insure that enrollees are engaged in up to 40 hours of work-
(f) To arrive at the enrollee weekly pay rate, the Federal or State minimum hourly wage (whichever is higher) should be multiplied by 30 hours per week, or 75 percent of the number of hours in the grantee or subgrantee established work-week, if less than 40 hours. To the maximum extent possible, the grantee should apply the same meal and lodging deduction as used by the Federal program.
(g) The Federal Government will cost-share as part of the grant enrollee pay based on up to 30 hours per week; any cost based on enrollee compensation for more than 30 hours per week will be assumed by the grantee or sub-grantee and will not be part of the grant.
(h) Grantees must provide for an effective accident control, health, and safety program. As a minimum, grantees shall follow U.S. Department of Labor Bulletin No. 101, "A Guide to Child Labor Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act."
(i) Grantees will have a financial management system which will provide the information called for in attachment G of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circular A-102 (formerly FMC 74-7).
(j) "Request for Advance or Reimbursement," as outlined in OMB circular A-102, attachment H, item 4(a), will be used to obtain an advance to start and/or maintain the program. It can also be used to obtain a reimbursement during or at the end of a project. An advance, not to exceed 1 month's needs, may be made after approval of the grant application.
(k) Grantees will prepare a "Financial Status Report" required by OMB circular A-102, attachment H, item (3)a. This report will be prepared on a cash basis. Instructions and forms will be supplied each grantee at the time of grant award. Grantees shall require similar reports from all subgrantees and contractors to facilitate their own reporting to the grantor agencies. The Financial Status Report will be prepared as of December 31 of each operating year. This report will be forwarded in time to reach the Secretaries by March 31 of the following operating year.
(l) Allowable costs under the grant program are defined in FMC 74-4 and OMB circular A-102.
(m) Records retention and custodial requirements for records are prescribed by attachment C to OMB circular A-102.
(n) A budget revision is required in advance when the scope of the grant is to be changed through (1) addition or elimination of a project, (2) reduction in the State's grant program of 5 percent or more of enrollees, and/or (3) determination that the grantee will not utilize Federal funds in amount in excess of $5,000 or 5 percent of the Federal grant, whichever is greater. A budget revision must also be submitted when the State's matching ratio is reduced. No budget revision may be submitted later than March 31 following the end of the operating year. Procedures in attachment K of OMB circular A-102 will be followed.
(o) Grantees shall comply with the provisions of attachments N and O of OMB circular A-102 in regard to nonexpendable personal property and procurement standards.
(p) The Secretaries or their designees shall periodically review the conduct of the program of the State.
(q) Grantees will supervise those projects in the State being administered by subgrantees and contractors. Subgrantees and contractors will be required to operate in accordance with the procedures outlined in these regulations and the grant agreement with the State. Periodic inspection of subgrantee projects will be made by the grantee under the direction of the program agent or his designee. Grantees or subgrantees may contract with any public agency or organization or any private nonprofit agency or organization which has been in existence for at least 5 years.
(r) Grantees will meet the financial audit requirements of attachment G to OMB circular A-102 and will require the same of subgrantees. Copies of audits will be made available to the Secretaries upon request.
(s) Grantees shall provide accidental injury compensation and tort claims
(t) If the grantee fails to comply with the grant award stipulations, standards, or conditions, the Secretaries may jointly suspend the grant, in whole or in part, pending corrective action. Subsequent to or during any period of suspension of the grant, the Federal Government shall not be obligated to reimburse the grantee for any incurrence of obligations for suspended projects other than direct pay of enrollees and then only for a period of time which both the Secretaries shall determine to be reasonable. In addition, the Secretaries may jointly terminate the grant, in whole or in part. Termination shall be effected by notice of termination. Upon receipt of a notice of termination, the grantee shall:
(1) Discontinue further commitments of grant funds for the terminated project(s).
(2) Cancel all sub-grants or contracts, where possible, scheduled for payment with funds budgeted for the terminated project(s).
(3) Within 90 days after receipt of the notice of termination for the entire grant, supply either of the Secretaries with a financial status report, along with a refund check for any unused portion of funds advanced, or a request for reimbursement for allowable expenditures incurred in the grant program.
(a) Of the amount available for Youth Conservation Corps projects, 30 percent will be allocated for State projects. All States will be given an opportunity to participate in the program. Allocated funds not needed by a State will be reallocated, based on the merit of proposals submitted in accordance with paragraph (c) of this section.
(b) Pursuant to section (4)(c)(1) of Public Law 93-408, States may receive grants up to but not to exceed 80 percent of the cost of funding any project from the Federal Government. The combined Federal/State costs of individual projects and other program expenses as established in the grant application determine the Federal/State cost-sharing ratio. Matching State costs can consist of either direct expenditures or services of an in-kind nature.
(c) Application for Federal Assistance (Standard Form 424) will be used by applicants in applying for grants under this program. Application forms will be supplied to Program Agents. Only a Program Agent may submit an application. A single grant application must be submitted for the entire summer program within each State. A separate application must be used for non-summer projects. A non-summer project is defined as one which extends beyond September 30, or begins prior to May 1.
(d) The Secretaries have designated individuals for each State who will jointly represent them. Grant applications (original and two copies) must be submitted to the designated reresentative of either Secretary. January 1 has been established as the deadline date for acceptance of applications for each operating year. Names and addresses of designated representatives will be furnished to each State. The Secretaries' representatives must jointly approve grant proposals. Approval or disapproval of proposals will be documented by a formal letter to the Program Agent. The Secretaries' representatives will also be available for technical assistance and will monitor the program.
Grant application must be made using the Office of Management and Budget approved form (SF-424) entitled "Federal Assistance." Specific instructions and requirements which must be followed are included in the Secretaries' State Grant Procedures Handbook. General instructions for completing the form by part numbers are:
(a) Part I—(SF-424 Cover Sheet, Sections I and II) shall be completed.
(b) Part II—(Budget Data). See YCC State Grant Procedures Handbook for definitions of cost categories and for budget narrative instructions.
(c) Part III—(Program Narrative Statement). Complete a separate description of each project, which will include the following information (Items 13, 14, 15, and 16 may be consolidated, if common to all projects):
(1) Project number.
(2) Project name and address.
(3) Project location (nearest city or town and county).
(4) Name of grantee, sub-grantee and/or contractor.
(5) Land Ownership class(es) benefiting from the program—State, county, municipal or other non-Federal public lands (identify).
(6) Number of male and female youth planned for project, including youth leaders.
(7) Type of project (7-day residential; 5-day residential; non-residential; other).
(8) Length of session(s) (e.g., number of weeks) and proposed beginning and ending dates per session.
(9) Cost of project.
(10) Description of living conditions, if residential project (types of facilities, age, condition, tents, cabins, dormitories, food service).
(11) Project staff (number and position titles).
(12) Work-learning program. (Describe major projects, planned units of production if applicable, and any constraints that are anticipated. Explain how environmental learning will be integrated into projects.)
(13) Complete calculation for daily rate of enrollee pay, including deduction for food lodging.
(14) Description of health and safety program.
(15) Description of enrollee recruiting and selection system. (The Statewide recruiting and selection plan may be substituted.)
(16) Description of staff recruiting and selection system, including affirmative action measures to be taken.
(d) Part IV—(Assurances) is preprinted within Attachment M, Exhibit M-5, OMB Circular A-102, and is to be included as part of the application. The following assurance is not preprinted and must be included by the grantee in the grant application: The grantee agrees to administer tests and questionnaires; conduct interviews; submit enrollee statistical and work accomplishment data; and otherwise assist the Federal Government in collecting information.
(a) Monitoring and reporting of program performance will be in accordance with Attachment I of OMB Circular A-102.
(b) The reporting and/or recordkeeping requirements contained herein have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget in accordance with the Federal Reports Act of 1942.
The decision by both of the Secretaries' representatives on grants to individual States will consider the following:
(a) The amount of grant funds allocated to the State.
(b) The quality of the proposed program in terms of meeting program characteristics and objectives.
(c) The overall cost per enrollee 8-week position.
(d) Actual prior performance of the State in administering YCC projects.
(e) The performance of the grantee in meeting the conditions of the grant and the requirements of OMB Circular A-102 and FMC 74-4.


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