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Asher and Tecumseh claimed the top swine awards in the county Junior Livestock Show.
By Mike McCormick
Contestants from Tecumseh and Asher captured the top honors in the swine competition of the Pottawatomie County Junior Livestock Show here this week.
Blake Kennedy, a freshman at Tecumseh High School, and a member of the Tecumseh FFA chapter, claimed the grand championship swine award for the second consecutive year.
Chase Eckart, a sixth grader at Asher and member of the Asher 4-H, showed the reserve grand champion swine.
Kennedy and Eckart automatically qualified for the premium sale which was held Friday night, the event which concluded this year's show.
Kennedy also had shown the grand champion doe goat in the show earlier in the week and he had claimed the Intermediate goat showmanship award as well. He earned the Intermediate showmanship award in the swine competition too.
Kennedy is the son of Regene and Todd Kennedy.
Eckart, 12, is the son of Patrick Pierce and Amy Eckart. He's in his third year of showing and this was third time for him to compete in the county Junior Livestock Show with the first time for him to place this high, he said.
Kennedy's grand champion swine award was sponsored by First United Bank Shawnee, First United Bank Tecumseh and Triangle Sales. His Intermediate swine showmanship award was sponsored by Shawnee Tag Agency & Don's Plants.
Eckart's award was sponsored by Pottawatomie County Farm Bureau.
Winning the senior showmanship honors in the swine competition was Lacie Underwood, a junior at Tecumseh High School and a member of the Tecumseh FFA chapter. Sponsoring her award was the Heart of Oklahoma Exposition Center.
Seth Jackson, 12, and a sixth grader at Bethel Middle School and a member of the Bethel 4-H Club, won the junior showmanship honors in the swine competition. He's the son of Mike and Hollie Jackson. His award was sponsored by Georg Fischer Central Plastics, LLC.


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Located in the heart of Gilbert, this spa hotel is 0.8 mi (1.2 km) from SanTan Village and within 6 mi (10 km) of Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch and Big League Dreams Sports Park. Hale Centre Theatre and Gilbert Historical Museum are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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This smoke-free hotel features a full-service spa, a restaurant, and an outdoor pool. Free WiFi in public areas is provided, as well as free self parking, free airport drop-off, and a free shopping center shuttle. Additionally, a fitness center, a bar/lounge, and a poolside bar are onsite.
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In addition to a full-service spa, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Phoenix - Gilbert features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
Business-related amenities at this 3.5-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 10000 square feet (929 square meters) include conference space. This Art Deco hotel also offers spa services, gift shops/newsstands, and a fireplace in the lobby. An area shuttle within 6 mi, a shopping center shuttle, and a shuttle from the hotel to the airport are complimentary for guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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- Elevator/lift
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- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 10000
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Laundry facilities
- Total number of rooms - 121
- Television in common areas
- Number of floors - 4
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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Pasadena, Calif., Feb 24, 2013 / 04:03 pm (CNA).- Pope Benedict has been a leader devoted to ecumenical efforts, according to a professor of Christian history and ecumenism at Fuller Theological Seminary, a Protestant school in Pasadena, Calif.
"I have appreciated his commitment to ecumenism," Cecil M. Robeck, Jr., who is also a minister in the Assemblies of God, an ecclesial community in the Pentecostal tradition, told CNA Feb. 19.
Robeck participated in the third inter-faith gathering at Assisi with Pope Benedict in 2011, and corresponded with him when he was still prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
After the warmth of John Paul II's pontificate, Robeck said there was some apprehension in the Protestant world that Pope Benedict might not "carry on in the way John Paul had."
Yet Pope Benedict "pretty much set everybody at ease by re-committing himself" to ecumenical efforts, Robeck said. He reported that in a July 2011 Pope Benedict greeted a Pentecostal group during an outdoor address, which "for me was a very affirming kind of thing."
"He's the first Pope we've heard make a verbal statements in his speech welcoming the Pentecostals, wishing us well and saying how important he felt the (Pentecostal-Catholic) dialogue was," Robeck remembered.
Robeck said Pope Benedict's three-book series on Jesus of Nazareth was warmly received by Pentecostals. "Benedict really won them over with his three volume series on the life of Jesus; that's a very important contribution he's made to the evangelical community."
"Here at Fuller that series is held up quite highly by faculty members," noted Robeck, and the series has helped pastors and church leaders to "recognize the level of his scholarship, and identify with the message he brings…they see him as providing really good comment on the New Testament."
Robeck noted his personal regard, as a Christian historian, for Pope Benedict's reflections on the Fathers of the Church. He also said the Pope's commitment to the new evangelization is "very important," and that "Benedict has been an important figure in helping all of our churches to rethink the question of evangelism."
Pope Benedict's efforts to reach out to various communities, particularly the Russian Orthodox and the Society of St. Pius X, has given Robeck "a great deal of hope that Benedict's concern about unity, is a real concern."
Robeck also noted that "Dominus Iesus," a declaration written in 2000 by Pope Benedict when he was Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "really spoke to the concerns of evangelicals and Pentecostals by calling once again for a conformity to the 'middle,' with his reiteration of Jesus Christ as the only way, the truth and the life."
"Dominus Iesus," which emphasize the salvific universality of Christ and the Church, "was a very important document…very much appreciated by evangelicals and Pentecostals," Robeck said.
Pope Benedict's efforts at ecumenism were also praised by a Russian Orthodox bishop, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who said his pontificate has seen a "positive dynamic" in Catholic-Russian Orthodox relations.
He praised the Pope's staunch opposition to the "dictatorship of relativism" and said that his "traditionalism and conservatism…are of credit for millions of Christians, both Catholic and non-Catholic, who seek to preserve traditional Christian spiritual and moral values."
In 2009, Pope Benedict achieved a landmark in ecumenism and reconciliation with his apostolic constitution "Anglicanorum coetibus." This document allowed Anglican converts to join the Catholic Church in groups and preserve elements of their spiritual and liturgical heritage.
That initiative, as well as others, led Father John Zuhlsdorf, who writes an influential blog, to start calling Benedict "the Pope of Christian Unity" in Oct., 2009.
Pope Benedict's efforts for Christian unity have not been solely outside the Catholic Church, but within it as well.
In 2007 he wrote a motu proprio "Summorum pontificum" which gave all priests the right to say the Mass as it was in 1962, prior to the Second Vatican Council. It recognized that Vatican II did not abrogate the previous liturgy, and helped to harmonize the Church with her past.
The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, which is in full communion with the Pope and which celebrates the Roman rite as it was in 1962, said Pope Benedict, "a tireless apostle of Church unity….ever mindful of the restoration of the sacred, reconciled the Roman Church with its two-thousand year liturgical patrimony."
Pope Benedict also launched a series of doctrinal discussions between the Vatican and the Society of St. Pius X, a priestly fraternity founded in 1970 to form priests in response to supposed errors that crept into the Church following Vatican II. The discussions are currently at a stalemate, and the Vatican awaits a definitive response from the Society.
The Society said Feb. 11 that it "expresses its gratitude to (Pope Benedict) for the strength and the constancy that he has shown toward it in such difficult circumstances, and assures him of its prayers for the time that he wishes to devote from now on to recollection."
"Following its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the Society of Saint Pius X reaffirms its attachment to eternal Rome…and to the See of Peter."
"It prays that, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the cardinals of the next conclave may elect the pope who, according to the will of God, will work for the restoration of all things in Christ."


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Celtic striker Gary Hooper hailed his side's progress to the last 16 of the Champions League as "a dream come true", with their 2-1 victory over Spartak Moscow proof that "we're never written off".
The Scottish champions had been favourites for elimination when they were drawn with the Russians, Barcelona and Benfica but sealed second spot on Wednesday with an emotional home win plus the Portuguese outfit's 0-0 draw at Camp Nou.
Hooper, who scored the first goal before Kris Commons thrashed home a late, match-winning penalty, told Sky Sports after the game: "It means a lot – it's a dream come true.
"We knew we had to win and the performance was great, we defended better in the second half and it was a great penalty from Kris.
"We're never written off. Home games is our game and it showed tonight – and the away game against Spartak, as well, we played really well and won the game [3-2]. So keep watching and we'll keep winning!
"You never know," the Englishman replied when asked how far the Bhoys can go in the competition. "At home, we can beat anyone, I think – we showed that against Barca and then tonight – but we've got to take it game by game and wait for it."
"It's fantastic," added captain Scott Brown. "The lads worked so hard.
"For the last five minutes we never thought the game was going to end but it's credit where credit's due; we worked really hard, we created chances and we scored goals.
"We knew we were good at home and the fans were just phenomenal – they kept us going the whole 90 minutes."


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I'm a bit late with these, seeing as it is now the 4th of May! I am posting these now so that it doesn't get any later.
I seemed to cram a surprising amount in to April, happily there was a lot of crochet and a lot of family time. I worked on my ripple again after having a break from it for a couple of months and I tihnk I have finally made it the desired length. Now it's just awaiting a border. We had a flying visit down to family in Dorset, passing Stonehenge as we did so. We had lots of rain (some that made me feel cosy and homey, and some that did not!), and we had Easter where I consumed far too much chocolate (lots more than in previous years, hmm wonder why) and Andy's dad visited to help with the tiling in the bathroom. April was also the month where I had my 20 week scan, and I was finally able to share the news of Tiny Tin Bird with you all :-)
Another rainy photo, saved for posterity because it was so lovely and fresh walking home in the rain like that. I had a cuppa at Lucy's house, the market had baby plum tomatoes back for ONE DAY and I managed to get some, I also snagged a Gerbera for my windowsill which makes me enormously happy. I worked like a demon on some granny squares and LOVE them so much. The sun did shine a few times so I made sure to get evidence. I made lots of vegetable and lentil soup with ginger, which is my current favourite thing. I had lovely visits from Rach, and from Katherine and Phoebe, and most importantly we HAVE A SHOWER AGAIN! and a new sink as well.
Phew! Busy month or what?
Right now, I am Not At Work, hurrah! My mum and grandma are visiting and are staying in a hotel in nearby Ilkley so I am off there in a little bit to spend the day with them. Even better, I have the WHOLE of next week off too and am going back home with them! Hurrah! Andy is staying here and I will miss him lots but at least he will be able to feed the rabbits :-)
I'm not sure if I'll get to blog while I'm away, it does depend on whether I can remember my logins when I get there as I'll be using my mum's laptop (can't cope with lugging mine home again on the train.)


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NEW YORK – The Columbia field hockey team conducted its annual end-of-year banquet on Saturday, April 6 in the Milstein Hospitality Pavilion at The Campbell Sports Center to celebrate team and individual accomplishments from the 2012 season.
Here's a list of this year's award winners.
Most Valuable Player – Gabby Kozlowski
"Every member of this program is valuable in some shape or form," said head coach Marybeth Freeman. "However, Gabby was able to control the tempo of the game with her commanding presence and holds both herself and the team accountable. Not only did she make valuable contributions, including setting a new program record for career goals, but she challenged her teammates to take their skills to the next level and in turn making them better athletes and this program stronger as a whole."
Most Improved Player – Bridget DeSandis
"Bridget is detail oriented, willing, and wanted to learn," Freeman stated. "She listens to what the staff was asking of her both technically and tactically and took it upon herself to focus on adjustments needed to be successful."
The Field Hockey Award – Christie O'Hara
The Field Hockey Award is given annually to the player, selected by her teammates, who has contributed the most to elevate the level of the Columbia University Field Hockey program.
The Lion Pride Award – Lauren Skudalski & Liz Malone
The Lion Pride award was established in 2005 and is awarded to the player(s) who best exemplifies the characteristics of Perseverance, Respect, Intensity, Dedication and Effort, not only on the field, but in the community and with her teammates as well.
3-Touch Hockey Award – Katie DeSandis
3-Touch Hockey, a philosophy instilled within the Columbia Field Hockey Program, became an award in 2010. This award identifies a student-athlete who combined athletics, academics, and community into their life on a daily basis.


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City Council and Redevelopment Agency Meeting Agendas
The City Council will meet to continue deliberation on the Comprehensive Plan - Package 2 (LU 13-0045) on Tuesday, December 10, at 4:00 p.m. in Council Chambers. Following deliberation, the Council recess and reconvene as the Lake Oswego Redevelopment Agency (LORA) at 6:30 p.m. After the LORA meeting, the Council will hold a study session on the proposed 2014 Master Fees and Charges. Meeting agendas and packet materials are available online.
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So, Instagram is kind of a big deal, but how can you make it work for your ecommerce brand?
Here are 4 ways to leverage Instagram for your business.
1. Run a Campaign or Contest
When it comes to user-generated content, let's just say you can never have too much of a good thing, and there's no better way to do it than running a campaign or contest on Instagram.
Unless you've got the brand recognition of a Nike or Starbucks, this is a great way to incentivize and get your customers to share their purchases and what they love most about your brand.
Getting started with running one is pretty simple:
- Choose the right incentive by giving away something people want
- Pick a campaign hashtag with both simplicity and uniqueness in mind
- Have a theme that gives your campaign a point of focus
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A great example of a brand doing Instagram contest marketing right is Michael Kors. They run a contest where users have a chance to win one of three limited edition timepieces when they upload a photo flaunting one of their watches with the hashtag #mktimeless.
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Incentivizing your Instagram account with contests is great way to build engagement and make your account more interesting and valuable to your audience.
2. Add User-Generated Instagram Photos to your Product Pages
This is a great way to demonstrate to current or prospective customers that your products are not only popular but purchased regularly courtesy of a well-known psychological phenomenon known as "social proof", a concept we covered in-depth in our post on psychological triggers that increase sales.
The gist of it is that being social creatures, we have a tendency to like things other people we can relate to also like. Why not give your prospective customers product images of actual customers using and loving your product in addition to the glossy models and fancy product images?
Here's a great example of this concept in action from Free People:
To add Instagram photos to your product pages, check out Olapic, one of the services that's also mentioned above.
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Nothing says engagement like giving your followers the ability to see what happens behind the scenes and giving them a chance to like and comment. It's analogous to inviting someone over for dinner, it oozes with feelings of brand loyalty or perhaps one step further going into brand intimacy that consumers are looking for given the never ending array of options.
For example, Threadless gives its Instagram followers not just insight into how they work at their office but how their t-shirts get printed.
Going behind the scenes gives your customers a more personal experience, something that makes it very worthwhile to do on an ongoing basis.
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Sure you can continue having those crisp, clean, and faded white backgrounds for your actual product photos on your website, but Instagram gives you an opportunity to promote your wares in creative and real-world ways. This gives your followers an opportunity to see your products in a context they can relate to in their day to day lives.
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Instagram is partnering with Shopify to offer easy product tagging in 2017.
For example, Nike, which is rated the top brand on Instagram, puts its latest sneakers as they would look in real life yet captured by Instagram, giving its followers the opportunity to like and comment on them.
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Premier League: England boss Roy Hodgson hails 'magician' Sir Alex Ferguson
Roy Hodgson has paid tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson after he claimed his 13th league championship with Manchester United.
Last Updated: 23/04/13 6:18pm
Ferguson secured the title on Monday after a 3-0 win over Aston Villa, and Hodgson was the latest to add his praise for the veteran United chief.
"It is incredible, the most incredible thing is being able to do it, year after year," he told Sky Sports.
"There is no doubt there is a certain lack of appetite that comes with winning things, it is very difficult to be as hungry for your second title as you were for your first so it must be even harder for your 25th title, or whatever it is if we take all Alex's titles together.
"And we are talking about someone with incredible ability and an incredible ability to keep himself fresh, just how many teams has he rebuilt? His teams have won 13 league titles and goodness knows how many cups, so there is not much we can say really other than we would all like to know how he does it and we would all like to know the secret.
"And if we talk about magic in football the only magicians I know are people like Sir Alex Ferguson who year after year keep producing incredible performances from his teams and players and keeps building teams from the ashes of the previous teams."
Hodgson was speaking at the National Football Centre, where England's first ever manager has been celebrated.
Hodgson and the centre's chairman David Sheepshanks revealed a new statue of Sir Walter Winterbottom, who would have turned 100 last month.
United legend Sir Bobby Charlton insists thoughts have already turned to retaining their crown next season.
"Alex will already be planning next year," said the 75-year-old. "As soon as we won against Villa, his thoughts will have been on next year.
"We've got quite a busy tour of Asia and Australia in the summer and then when they come back from that it will be the start of the campaign to win the league again and who is to stop him?"
Ferguson, 71, has flirted with retirement in the past but shows no sign of calling it a day at the moment having clocked up 26 years at Old Trafford.
"He never talks about it and I wouldn't deem to talk about it myself, really," said Charlton.
"What I want is for it to continue the way it is at the moment.
"But we all get older and Alex will get older, the decision will be made and it will be a sensational performance because he has a great talent for winning.
"He wants to win and I think some of the newspapers would love to find out what Alex is going to do with his future. But I can't help you, because I don't know.
"And I don't ask any questions, either, just in case I trigger something!
"But he's been marvellous and everything that Manchester United wanted. He's been a major success and is the greatest manager there's ever been. It's unquestioned.
"But if you wanted to find out when he's going to change and have someone else in command, the only person who will ever give you a proper answer is Alex."
Charlton, who visited St George's Park to attend the unveiling of a bust of legendary England manager Sir Walter Winterbottom, cannot praise Ferguson's methods highly enough.
"He is such a motivator and he's in control totally of his squad," he said. "I'm happy just to say 'on you go, Al, you just do it the way you've always done it'.
"It shows in the performances and the goals that we're scoring. We have lots and lots of goalscorers now and most of them are pretty young, so the future looks pretty good.
"He reads the game and knows the game. He finds that young players are really important in the future of the club.
"Then when you've got someone like Robin van Persie, at 29, he has been a success. Alex wants the younger players who come through to be that successful too."
Van Persie has admitted his wonder volley at Old Trafford last night was his best goal for United.
His boss believes the sublime effort deserves to clinch the goal-of-the-season prize.
And whilst Van Persie accepts there was an element of good fortune about his effort, the former Arsenal man recognises it was a special strike.
"It is hard," Van Persie told MUTV. "Maybe if you look at the day, the occasion and the importance of the goal it was my best one.
"It was a great pass from Wayne (Rooney) for a start. He had to spot my run because I went in front of Ron Vlaar.
"It was straight into my path. I was counting my steps. The only thing I had to do was time it right and keep my body straight, level with the ball.
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It's been a while; time for a catchup!
June and July I mostly spent cleaning up Shark. HotSpot's existing JITs, client and server, both inline pointers to objects in the native code they generate. These pointers need to be visible to the garbage collector, both so it knows the objects are live and so it can rewrite the pointers if it moves the object. This is trivial for client and server, as they both have access to the native code they generate: each method's code is accompanied by a list of pointer locations within it. Shark, on the other hand, has no access to its generated native code other than knowing its address and size. Pointers can't be inlined in Shark — it can't tell the garbage collector where they are — so Shark had to load all garbage collected object pointers from other places, generally wherever the interpreter stored them.
This caused no end of problems. Aside from requiring more loads than the other JITs (at least one per object, and sometimes three or four) Shark had to mirror huge chunks of the interpreter. It had to cope with objects that were loaded in the VM (so the compiler could see them) but not cached in the interpreter (where the compiled code could see them). Because Shark wasn't behaving like the other compilers, HotSpot's compiler support layer would break in all kinds of exciting and imaginative ways. Finally, the method used by the server JIT to optimize interface calls to virtual calls and virtual calls to direct calls could not be used. Aside from the obvious speedup, Shark can only inline direct calls, so reducing virtual and interface calls to direct calls exposes them to the inliner. Calls in Shark have a lot of overhead, so this would have been a big win.
Sometime in May I figured out how to fake inlined object pointers. HotSpot's compiler interface expects the compiler to generate native code into a
CodeBuffer. Shark, of course, uses LLVM, which generates code into a buffer it allocates. Shark had a HotSpot code buffer, but it didn't do a lot with it. Now, every time Shark has an object pointer to inline, it writes it into the HotSpot code buffer where the garbage collector can see it. The generated code then loads the object pointer from the code buffer whenever it needs it. The pointer is still not inlined — there's still a load required — but now it's always only one load. Not a big speedup in itself, but it meant the remaining interpreterisms could be removed, which fixed the support layer breakages and allowed me to copy the interface-virtual-direct call optimization code more or less directly from the server compiler. Everything got a lot more stable, a lot more clean, and a little bit faster in the bargain.
During August I began the (long!) process of preparing Zero for submission to OpenJDK proper. It took some time to get started, but the patch has now gone through a couple of cycles of being reviewed by the HotSpot team: the code has been reformatted, the build system has been almost completely rewritten, and a bunch of other things got changed. It's still ongoing, but the HotSpot part of the patch seems close to acceptance and the much smaller remainder will hopefully be reviewed soon. I've been ramping up my testing with each step: this one bootstrapped and built itself on 32-bit x86, x86_64 and 32-bit PowerPC, and has bootstrapped itself and is in the process of building itself on 64-bit PowerPC and 64-bit zSeries.
Also in August, Ed Nevill released his assembler interpreter for ARM. It replaces part of Zero with hand-crafted assembly language, making OpenJDK 2-8 times faster on that platform.
After the Zero patch is accepted, my next task will be getting Zero certified on 64-bit zSeries. I won't have a lot of time for Shark until that's done, but I have one last thing I want to do before I step aside for a couple of months. Xerxes Rånby posted some benchmarks of Zero, Shark, and the assembler interpreter on ARM; Shark is gratifyingly faster than everything on five of the tests, but considerably slower than the assembler interpreter on the other four. I'm not happy with that!
On the tests where it's slower, Shark is showing very little improvement over Zero, which suggests that these benchmarks are not spending a lot of time interpreting bytecode (which Shark would have compiled and made faster). I suspect these benchmarks are spending a lot of time in JNI calls. Back in February, Ed Nevill posted some profilies he had made to figure out why some interpreter improvements he had made had had very little effect; those profiles seemed to imply that the VM was spending a lot of its time setting up JNI calls. Zero uses libffi for this, and we at Red Hat have long suspected that libffi is slow.
HotSpot's JITs have the capability to "compile" JNI methods. This sounds odd, as JNI methods are already native code; what's actually getting compiled is the interface between the JVM and the native JNI code. If Shark could compile JNI methods, whenever HotSpot found a hot JNI method it would be able to replace its generic, one-size-fits-all interface code (using libffi) with an LLVM-generated interface custom built specifically for that method. I'm going to spend a week or so making Shark able to compile these methods, before I descend into zSeries TCK hell…


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Springfield, FL---The Rutherford boy's soccer team notched it's second win of the young season with a win on the home field against Wakulla in a non district match Tuesday night.
Both teams took some shots in the first half, but nothing found the opponent's net.
In the second half, Rutherford's Cesar Jurado would find the back of Wakulla's net and that would turn out to be the only goal of the match, which ended 1-0. The Rams record moving to 2-0-3 on the season.
The video attached shows the following:
The Rams in white trying to break the scoreless tie in the first half, Tyler Le gets the indirect kick, lobs it towards the front of the net, but the War Eagles goalie there to smother it.
On the other end, the Rams kicking it back to goalie Andrew Mask who tries to clear it, but that's intercepted and sent back his way, but Jacob Martinez's shot is too high.
Rams later with good ball movement, Aldo Gomez kicks it it, then blocks the attempt to clear it, ahead to Cesar Jurado who tries to center, that's knocked out, eventually the Rams Sebastian Beletic takes the shot from way out, and that sails high.
Jurado would however connect for a ¶goal in the second half and that would be all the Rams need, as they win 1-0.


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ICY poles are at the ready – Eureka Swimming Complex is the only outdoor pool open today amid a heat surge.
The City of Ballarat's four other outdoor pools – Buninyong, Wendouree, Black Hill and Brown Hill – are scheduled to open on Saturday, the first day of summer but two days short of this summer prelude.
Weatherzone experts tip Ballarat's November heat record will rise today, potentially passing the 37.3C temperature set in 1982.
Ballarat's hottest November day since was 37.2C in 2006.
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Widespread temperatures across the state are predicted to fall between the mid to high 30s. The Mallee is expected to swelter near 45C.
Ballarat YMCA chief executive officer Malcolm Healey said more than 1000 Ballarat people were expected to visit Eureka Pool today.
Extra lifeguards are at the ready and Eureka will open its giant slide today from 4pm after safety checks were finalised yesterday ahead of schedule.
Warmer weather this week and today's forecast has people scrambling to buy anything to cool them down.
Tanya Daniels The Good Guys store manager Laurie Evans said customers had been streaming in from as far as Ararat and Stawell to ensure they were armed to combat the heat.
"All we've been doing is selling fans. It seems everyone waits until the hot weather is forecast to come in here to buy them," Mr Evans said.
"Portable air conditioners, a lot of fans especially for bedrooms, evaporative coolers because they're cheap and split systems are all selling well."
Cold Rock Icecreamery franchisees Robyn and David Harmer were making extra mixture yesterday to ensure everyone who wanted an ice-cream got one.
Ms Harmer said today would be no different to any usual summer day, but the warmer weather was good for trade.
Ambulance Victoria yesterday issued a reminder for people to take care of themselves and their neighbours – particularly the young and elderly – to stay out of the sun and take adequate breaks in the shade if you work outdoors.
"One of the things that really concerns us is when people over-exert themselves on hot days, especially those working for prolonged periods in the sun and those exercising," Ambulance Victoria acting group manager Brett Drummond said.
Greencross vet Nicky Stone said the same should go for pets.
Ms Stone suggests two drink bowls for dogs, in case one gets knocked over, whether they are inside or outside pets, and that they have access to lots of shade and cool spots indoors and out.
The region's sport has already started to take precautionary action.
Ballarat Cricket Association's round one Twenty20 bout between Wendouree and Brown Hill has been moved to the Bulls' home at Progress Park where there is more shade.
Meanwhile, the CFA is in the consultation phase for fire restrictions for the region and hopes to release more details early next month.


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|2012-09-12, 08:00
|Link #721
Underweight Food Hoarder
In the end, it's still a lurer + healer + dps + tank team requirement to beat dungeons in this game without dying.
|2012-09-12, 08:29
|Link #722
Salt Levels Critical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Edit: Also, a question for engineers or anyone who knows a high level engineer. I am going for a PvE flamethrower + elixir build. I already have the full 30 points in Firearms for the Juggernaut talent and 25 points in Alchemy for the 15% flamethrower damage and 1% damage per boon bonus. What I'm not entirely sure of is where to put the rest of the points. Is the 30 point backpack regeneration talent in Alchemy worth it? If not, would it be better to put the last 15 all into Explosives for the power boost? Or is power easy enough to make up for with gear that skipping out on a talent and ending 2 trees on a 5-point number is a bad idea?
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|2012-09-12, 14:06
|Link #723
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Did AC story mode last night with 4 people, 3 40's and a 30 and for the most part it was decently challenging, except for the boss battle with 2 lovers. That one was just ridiculous, we ended up just suiciding in from the way point 2 at a time to make sure the boss doesn't reset.
Melee bosses are manageable, even if they have large AoEs. However, damage from caster bosses are ridiculously hard to mitigate, since kiting/cripple etc doesn't work. They hit just as hard (2-3 shot people) and the skills that work on mitigating ranged damage are on much longer cooldowns. Then there's the fact that there's 2 of them.
Not going to do explorable mode dungeons until I'm 80 as those tier 3 trait skills are absolutely critical for some of the builds I want to run.
|2012-09-12, 15:11
|Link #724
Underweight Food Hoarder
Explorable mode isn't that hard. It's just the select few that are terribly designed that it's easy for some classes and impossible for other classes. By 'that' i mean waiting to be level 80. They are still harder than story mode and you wanna be 5~10 levels higher than the dungeon.
|2012-09-12, 19:32
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2012
|2012-09-12, 22:10
|Link #726
Did someone call a doctor
Join Date: Apr 2007
Age: 34
AC Story was interesting. Did it with a couple of friends, I think our problem was we approached it with a similar mindset of other MMO dungeons. We were able to complete it without too much trouble (Lovers fight, wtf.. lol) but we did seem to get downed quite a bit. More than what I'd expect to be considered a 'great' run.
|2012-09-13, 10:20
|Link #729
Salt Levels Critical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Same. I've checked the price of some of my greens on the TP just in case and they are almost never more than a few copper above the vendor price, which is really pointless when the listing fee is considered. I basically vendor anything worth 80 copper or over and salvage the rest (this isn't a strict rule for me but I've found it works pretty well based on the TP prices of the materials I'd likely get from salvaging.) I've been pretty lucky and gotten two Black Lion Salvage Kits from completing daily quests so I'll be good for a while in getting useful sigils off of gear.
|2012-09-13, 10:26
|Link #730
Know who you are
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Resides within the depths of Ned infested Glasgow
You should try using it with the stuff you don't need.
Should maybe give a read up on wiki.
Haven't gotten around to trying yet as I was just salvaging everything I got but saving a few items to try it out.
|2012-09-13, 12:28
|Link #731
Underweight Food Hoarder
Anyways, thanks for the mystic forge link. I've been too busy with pvp and pve on my multiple characters to really look into this stuff.
My new lv80 Wellmancer in WvW has been using a level 46 weapon this entire time. I only just yesterday bought an invader lv80 exotic weapon (badges of honor) which does more than twice the damage of what my necro was using before. He's still holding a terribly underleveled OH dagger and staff. I think I'll go make a mystic staff once I get 50 skill points.
Someone's been caught on live-streams and screenshots for fly-hacking, teleport hacking and boon-hacking in WvW. What's funny is arena-net responded saying players should use the report feature. A-net doesn't realize they disabled right-click on enemy targets in WvW and there's no way to know their names or report them. FAIL xD
|2012-09-13, 14:39
|Link #732
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
I take my words back : Sword/Pistol Thief is REALLY powerful. I can kill a Centaur Lieutenant all by myself by running around him and swiping my sword between his legs, dealing 400 damage every 3 blows, 1000+ damage every pistol whip.
I mean, who doesn't want to hit crits at extra 10% damage 50+% of the time?
|2012-09-14, 11:42
|Link #734
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 29
Well just ended my contract work today, so I am out of job and have some free time to play.
Managed to skew to level 30 by repeatedly killing the Centaur Overlord at Kessex Hills. Total of 2700exp per run, that is the fastest way to level from 24 to 30.
|2012-09-14, 12:09
|Link #735
Salt Levels Critical
Join Date: Oct 2007
|2012-09-15, 19:40
|Link #737
Know who you are
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Resides within the depths of Ned infested Glasgow
Winged set.
Should be able to pick up some cheap blue ones off TP for transmuting.
Or if your high enough in tailoring, 4th tier I think you can craft some but obviously that's gonna cost alot more if your not at that level yet.
|2012-09-16, 01:00
|Link #738
癸亥 (guǐhài)
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ
Age: 34
my character Xefi, the ranger. i play on the Sea of Sorrow server. and....more
scenary pictures.
sitting down and enjoying the world. after looking at it closely, the world is pretty BIG. ;p
|2012-09-16, 04:13
|Link #739
Underweight Food Hoarder
Lost by 2 pts in semi finals Q__Q
Another one which was finals was a loss by 17 pts.
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ROCK FALLS – Rock Falls High School Assistant Principal Mike Berentes will become the school's next principal.
Wednesday night, the school board promoted Berentes, 41. He will take the new job July 1, replacing Principal Ron McCord, who is becoming superintendent. Jane Eichman is retiring as superintendent.
Officials said they had yet to draft Berentes' contract, so they could not give the amount of his salary.
John Brackemeyer was the only board member to vote against the promotion.
He also was the only one to oppose McCord's superintendent's contract. McCord, whom the board selected in January as superintendent, will get paid $120,000 annually under a 3-year contract.
The members supporting Berentes and the superintendent's contract were Harold Wagner, Merle Gaulrapp, John Howard and Howard Janssen. Tom Cushman and Tim Nehrkorn were absent.
After the meeting, Brackemeyer declined to comment on his votes.
"I'll let it go for now," he said.
Berentes, a Rock Falls High alumnus, was hired in 2010. He previously was Freeport High School athletic director. His father, Mike Sr., was a coach and athletic director at Rock Falls High School.
The board voted on Berentes and the superintendent's contract after a 1 1/2-hour closed session in which members said they discussed personnel and student disciplinary issues.
After the closed session, the board voted to expel a student for the rest of the school year. Eichman declined to give the reason.
At the end of the meeting, board member Harold Wagner, who decided against running for re-election in April, told his colleagues that he enjoyed working with them. He had a special request for Brackemeyer.
"Would you do me a favor? My granddaughter is graduating. Will you give her her diploma?" he said. "She knows you."


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As of this writing, the following regions of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) have planned 2008 Regional Conferences for the fall; all are open to non-members and offer an engaging dialogue about the medium and the industry (I wish I could be in the audience at ALL!), as well as time to share your work with your peers. Some offer scholarship assistance and exhibition opportunities as well. Non-members are encouraged to attend. The SPE National website has a map indicating what states are designated within each region but of course you are welcome to attend any and all of these conferences. Scroll down to find a conference near you, and if details are not posted here, check the region's website.
I encourage you to attend!
The following information is from the REGIONS link on the SPE WEBSITE:
Northeast Region: "conference information coming"
Mid-Atlantic Region: November 7-8
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Technocracy: image production/distribution/consumption
Techno-lust vs. Technophobia
Quoting Nicholas Bourriard "The art of postproduction seems to respond to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age."
In this age of postproduction, how do imagemakers and institutions respond to this shifting landscape, creating alternative models for exhibition and education? How do those involved in the making, exhibiting and selling of images respond to the eradication of the boundary between production and consumption? How does imaging technology (camera phones, webcams, photo and video blogs) affect our capacity as imagemakers to navigate through the cultural chaos extracting new forms of production a.k.a art? Or does this proliferation of technology yield a return to traditional modes of production?
Andres Tapia-Urzua–Art Institute of Pittsburgh
Colette Copeland–SPEMA Chair
Southeast Region: November 7-9
THEME: "Transition"
CITY, STATE: Asheboro, NC
HOST INSTITUTION: Randolph Community College
CONFERENCE LOCATION: Photography Imaging Center, Randolph Community College
HOTEL INFO & RESERVATION RATES: Coming soon on the conference website
CONFERENCE CHAIR(S): Greg Stewart
CONTACT INFO: firstname.lastname@example.com (336)-633-0325
MAJOR SPEAKERS: Keynote Address: Tom Rankin, Director, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke Univ.; Honored Educator: Dr. Richard Zakia, Professor Emeritus and author, Rochester Institute of Technology; Joyce Tenneson, photographer and author; Johnny Horne, photographer and astronomer; plus much more!
SCHOLARSHIP & EXHIBITION INFO & DEADLINES: The conference will also include a faculty and student exhibition to be curated by Randolph Community College faculty members, Chuck Egerton and John Rash. Check the conference website for details.
South Central Region: October 30 – November 1, 2008
Theme: Allegory & Identity (no further details posted on the SPE NATIONAL website as of this writing)
Location: Memphis College of Art and University of Memphis – Memphis, TN
Click here to view complete details on the conference website.
Midwest Region: November 6-8
Theme: Imag(in)ing the Future of Photography: The Photographic and the Digita
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Keynote Speaker: Marvin Heiferman; Honored Educator: Dawoud Bey; Featured Imagemaker: Penelope Umbrico; Invited Speakers include artists Kelli Connell, Michelle Grabner, Brian Ulrich and Barbara Tannenbaum, Director, Akron Museum
Southwest Region; October 17-19
Theme: "Transformation"
Location: Ouray, Colorado (Southwestern CO)
Keynote speaker: Tom Fischer, Dean of Academic Affairs, Savannah College of Art and Design tomfischerphoto.com
Featured Speakers:
Gregory Cradick Executive Director Working With Artists gregcradick.com, workingwithartists.com
Jeremias Paul Assistant Professor of Photography Southern Utah University momentism.com
Jennifer Loshaw, Ridgway Arts Project Coordinator and the Ouray Chamber Executive Director Jenniferloshaw.com
Jack Mosley Digital Printing Expert, Formally with the Rocky Mountain School of Photography
Jay Kinghorn Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert, ASMP Speaker
Photography has seen many forms of transformation in the medium alone, but how do we as creative individuals define transformation in the world of political dialogue, digital inspirations and employment possibilities? What happens when you graduate? How do we keep up with the world of continuous transformation while looking for a job, looking to show work, gaining tenure? How do we find our spiritual voice in our work, in our art? How do these issues transform our possibilities? This conference will break down the issues with a series of round tables, panel discussions, workshops, lectures and numerous photo opportunities.
Society for Photographic Education South West Region is proud to invite you all to attend this unique conference, designed for those who love photography and desire to unite in a supportive artist community.
For more information call Jennifer Loshaw – 970-325-4746 or email email@example.com
Lodging options in Ouray:
Please see Ouraycolorado.com for additional information on this location.
West Region: November 13-16
Theme: INSPIRATION
Location: San Francisco, California
The SPE West Region will hold its annual conference Inspiration, November 13-16, 2008 in San Francisco, CA. Events will take place at Academy of Art University, our host institution and throughout San Francisco.
The act of inspiring; quality or state of being inspired – An inspiring or animating action or influence – Something inspired, as an idea – A result of inspired activity – A thing or person that inspires – The drawing of air into the lungs; inhalation – Theology – A divine influence directly and immediately exerted upon the mind or soul –The divine quality of the writings or words of a person so influenced.
Conference Co-Chairs: Erika Gentry and Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin
CONFERENCE DETAILS – For updated information visit: www.spewest.org
Keynote Speaker: Alec Soth (Magnum)
School Sponsor: Academy of Art University (AAU)
Thursday Nov 13th: Alcatraz Night Tour & Stephen Wirtz Gallery Reception
Friday Nov 14th: SFMOMA Curatorial Tour, Opening Reception, Student Awards & Featured Speakers
Saturday Nov 15th: Conference Presentations, Keynote Speaker, Portfolio Reviews, Student & Member Show & Exhibit Fair
Sunday Nov 16th: SPE Brunch, Student & Member Show, Rayko Photo Wetplate and Digital Workshops OR Photograph San Francisco Fieldtrip
Hotel Information – Please let the hotel you are reserving rooms for the "Society for Photographic Education Conference":
Hotel Rex, San Francisco
562 Sutter St
San Francisco, CA 94102
Reservations: (800) 433-4434 OR www.thehotelrex.com
Attendee code: spewest (make sure to mention spe)
Cancellation Notice: 72 hrs in advance required
Cost:$149 per night (+14% hotel tax) $20 each addtl. person, 4 people maximum
Deluxe Queen or Deluxe Full/Full – King availabe for addtl. $20
Prices guaranteed until 10/12/08.
Valet Parking: $35 a night but Hotel Rex is walking distance from BART.
Northwest Region: No conference will be held this fall.


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Libs announce plan to stimulate development
The Tasmanian Opposition is promising to scrap what it calls "developer fees" if it wins Government next year.
The Liberal leader Will Hodgman says the merger of Tasmania's three water and sewerage authorities will save about $5 million from the budget's bottom line.
He says because of that saving, the Government can afford to waive a one-off payment currently levied on new developments, for utility providers to check whether a new connection is needed.
Mr Hodgman says the change could kick-start a building boom.
"The waive would start immediately, and that would ensure that developers are able to invest quickly, take the handbrake off our economy, and get our economy moving in the right direction," he said.
"Currently they are levied on developments of all sizes, not just major ones, like the Myer redevelopment, but hundreds of subdivisions around Tasmania," Mr Hodgman said.
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Dear Editor:
On Nov. 25, a special meeting of the West New York Board of Education will be held at 4 p.m. in the Conference Room at the Administration Offices at 6028 Broadway, West New York. This meeting will be of great importance to all residents of the city, especially to parents whose children will become the beneficiaries of an open election and to our seniors who know the value of a good education in times such as these and the importance in spending money wisely not on overpaid and unqualified personnel.
The first positive step in giving West New York residents back their city was done on Nov. 5 when the people spoke and made West New York history by voting to have open Board of Education elections. Now, the Board of Education will discuss the procedure they will undertake to make this historic event a reality for the future of our children and our City.
It is rumored that members of the Roque Administration are instructing Board of Education members not to attend in an effort not to have a quorum resulting in no official actions taken.
I ask all residents to please attend this important meeting. We have come this far together and we are attracting more and more people like us each day that are no longer afraid to speak out for what is right and what is in our best interest. Let's see who the puppets are. Let's make sure the Board of Education acts upon what we the people have been asking for. We have already made West New York history. Now let's make it right for our city and let's get the process for this change going.
See you on the 25th at the Board of Education Meeting.
Jose Munoz
Freeholder 7th District


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As she thumbed through an album filled with pictures dating back to the early 1970s, Ann Skwarek shared memories with younger co-workers about her 40 years of working as a nurse in Advocate Lutheran General Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.
Over time, the incubators shrunk, the monitors became more useful and the space for the tiny babies grew bigger -- from seven beds in the original "High Risk Nursery" to 54 beds today.
"It was always challenging because we were at the forefront of neonatal medicine so you felt like you were learning all the time and progressing all the time," the Prospect Heights resident said. "Even to this day, there are changes every day."
Co-workers, old friends and family members stopped by the unit Thursday to celebrate Skwarek's upcoming retirement on Nov. 1. Among the attendees was the unit's clinical manager, Pam Jones-Gibson, who said Skwarek will be truly missed.
"She always stays calm, she's a team player and really focuses on the quality of care," Jones-Gibson said.
Skwarek started working in the unit just a few weeks after it opened its doors in 1972. She was a young mother looking for part-time work and the up-and-coming neonatal field interested her.
"There's a pure innocence about infants and their resiliency is amazing," she said. "They can be so, so sick and then turn around and be perfectly fine. I've seen many miracles, so that kept me going."
Many of those miracle patients and their families stay in touch with Skwarek and her colleagues -- at first through letters, nowadays through emails and pictures. Some, like a man now 30 years old who was extremely sick when he was born, even make emotional visits to see Skwarek and her co-workers.
"He's an ER doctor now," she said of the patient. "It was so unusual at the time that he survived because he was so critically ill. At the time, the resources and the technology were different from how they are today ... and the fact that he did survive and made it was by the grace of God, truly."
Of course, there are babies who don't make it. Skwarek said deaths are incredibly difficult to handle, but just like the technologies in the unit have changed, the support has too. There is now spiritual help, a bereavement counselor, and programs for families who have lost a child,
"We didn't have that in the beginning, not at all," she said. "We had a little bit of a knowledge of it. If a baby was dying we'd hold it; we knew that was the right thing to do. But now there's more. We take footprints; we take a lock of hair; we let the parents wash the baby -- anything they want to do to have their memories of their child."
Despite the ups and downs of the job, Skwarek said she truly enjoys forming deep bonds with families and knowing, through her experiences with them, that her work is meaningful.
"You have to love this profession, being a neonatal nurse, in order to be here as long as I have," she said. "It's just such a rewarding and fulfilling career that I couldn't actually see myself doing anything else. You come in every day knowing you could make a difference in someone's life."


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Maybe people who are extremely offended at common yard decorations for various holidays should move to one of those super restrictive HOAs where it's prohibited. You don't get to project your more-than-average sensitivity onto everyone else.
The parents are being SS. Helping set up would probably help. But I expect the parents hysteria is then real cause of the fear.
DD2 had nightmares easily. We don't celebrate Halloween much in our country but I can imagine that a yard full of creepy things plus fog machine would have set her off. Personally I would have been a bit more active in my parenting and nicely asked the neighbours if they would mind if we came over and had a good poke about so that she could see everything was plastic/rubber. They would have been well within their rights to say no, but IME letting the kid get hands on and explore is the most effective way to treat fears. It would never have crossed my mind to ask them not to decorate.
I have a very observant toddler who adores her little water squirting monsters but is freaked out by the billboards for scary movies she sees around town. I'm actually kind of mad about some of those advertisements but I don't want to get too far off topic. But in this case it totally depends on the decorations. Tombstones and a skeletons a witch or other "classic" Halloween icons are nothing to worry about but when you start seeing knives stuck into dummies, chainsaws or fake puddles of blood I would say something to the neighbors. I think if it doesn't get a PG rating it belongs on the back porch or inside. People go too far with the gore and I'm not interested in desensitizing my kid to that kind of crap because there are people in the world that think it is "fun". Just to be clear I'm not anti-decoration ... but this neighbor admitted to being "gruesome" and if she's being true to the word that is too far for the front yard. Just because the majority on her block is above the age of 8 doesn't mean that everyone is. I think prudence was off the mark on this one. Boo.
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Is this a joke? Laws are not "Science" or "useful Arts" as defined in the Constitution. They are practical communications between the government and its people. Since the government is both serves its people and is funded by its people, it cannot hold a copyright. This has been recognized at the Federal level for... oh... ever. ( 105. Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works [cornell.edu])
I'm all for state powers, but this is simply rediculous. Even if we assume a valid legal theory exists that allows states to hold copyrights over works created by public officers, laws themselves are still not considered works of art or science any more than a memo reminding my wife to get milk is considered copyrightable.
Of course, being a lawyer and/or lawmaker is a skilled trade. So the argument could be made that the text is the result of those skills. I still don't think it can be copyrighted, but let's say a judge disagrees with me. Well then, what of fair use? The people must have access to laws in order to obey them. Thus laws must be communicated in the open to all citizens under the fair use doctrine.
Under the 4 point balance test, the nature of the works (i.e. laws) is factual and thus not allowed copyright protection. (see: Time Inc. v. Bernard Geis Associates) The purpose of reproducing the laws is that it is information required by the public. The amount copied is irrelevant in this case, as the entirity of the law is required information for every citizen. Last but not least, the value of the law should only be in its improvement upon society, not a dollar value placed upon its reproduction. Coming back to the point the citizens PAID to have those laws created, it only follows that they should not be further charged to obtain copies of them.
"I'm sorry, your honor, I didn't have enough money to know what laws I broke.
Stop giving them ideas!
I'm only half joking too. It wouldn't surprise me if a state sooner or later started demanding a special and mandatory tax for giving its citizens access to its laws, or demanded a fee from lawyers who shared information about laws with their clients.
Now, I hope he goes after county health regulations for FORCE the counties across the country to once and for all MAKE AVAILABLE not only the regulations/ordinances that say what must be done in order to obtain the permits to operate restaurants and businesses, but also to records of WHAT equipment and fixtures are approved.
I knew a team of young, ambitious Asians (4-8 people) in the Central Valley who in 2000-2001 were trying to open an internet cafe. They hired a respected architect, followed all the know/anticipated rules, and STILL the county planner/permits office kept sending them back to correct things. They even added MORE space than required for ADA-protected patrons and were made to rip out work completed in order to please the county. It was rumored that the head had a friend also opening an internet cafe and he was helping out his friend have less competition. How? Well, if he kept sending them back to do rework, he could burn up their cash and force them to quit. But, these kids were resourceful, determined, and NEEDED to form a business to make money to pay for school and to live.
It is QUITE FUCKING SPECIOUS for counties to deny access to records of APPROVED coffee machines, ice makers, display fridge units, toilet heights flexibility ranges, hand rails range of heights for wheel chair users, reach-in fridge units, and so on. Every time a county planning/permits office functionary rejects plans or revisions to be redrawn, it costs the entrepreneur money in attorney's fees, architect's fees, county inspector fees, time and money lost on start-up delays, and the appearance of entrepreneur unprofessionalism in the eyes of would-be patrons chafing for a place to open its doors. Money is even lost when a toilet 1/2 inch too high is tossed out for another one.
It is as if these people pay gate-keeper of the beholden information as if to mask racism or any other -ism used to suppress or oppress anyone not liked, anyone who demands to be respected, anyone who challenges the county's decision on the plans or modifications not significantly differing from originally-approved plans. I realize, too, that many counties these days computerize the floor plans of EVERYTHING BUILT, ostensibly to facilitate firefighters and law enforcement. Yeh, like they really need to know WHERE the business/home vault is, or if there is a sanctuary from burglars/robbers/cops/et al.
If all that stuff is in a database, then virtually ANYONE following the then-current ordinances should be able to walk into the planning office with a set of complete working/construction drawings without having to fuck around weeks on end wondering why the hell they are losing tens of thousands of dollars before they even open to the public. If such obstructive officials DO exist, they should be sued, THEIR assets taken or frozen or transferred to the aggrieved, and possibly, the offending officials should be jailed post-haste and barred from EVER AGAIN serving in a public official/functionary position in the COUNTRY not just the county.
They got their shop opened up, but they paid dearly for it in money wasted. I gave them a copy of my own internet cafe business plan (spread sheet/stock rotation planning/customer flow modeling & employee head count to cope, and 2 of my new, paid-for computers just to help them out because i was fucking incensed that they were going through that shit. I wasn't going to be able to get started, but boy I was going to make sure I helped them out any way I could before and after startup.
You do know the inspectors and such just weren't being bribed properly, don't you?
They're not holding out to mask some "-ism", they're holding out for cash. They aren't getting the few hundred or whatever it may be) they expect, so they're punishing your friends with thousands in construction do-overs. Yes, local politics is quite corrupt, just about everywhere.
How do you know? Have you worked in or with local governments "just about everywhere"? Or are you just presenting some random libellous navel-gazing as fact?
Someone I used to know back in the day built a porch add-on to their house. As everyone knows, there's plenty of codes to follow. He went down to city hall, got the necessary paperwork and guidelines, and built his porch. A month later, the city came and demanded that he knock it down, as it was too close to the road.
He told them where he got the records, from city hall itself. He showed them the copies he made showing the rule he supposedly broke (too close to the road). The city told him that the book was old, and the law had since been revised. He got the whole "It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'"
In the end the city made him remove the porch and he never built it back. Eventually, he sold his house and moved.
The worst part about it is that the city couldn't be bothered to keep its laws publicly-available, but they can sure as hell enforce them.
How many of you know the laws of your own city? What about important laws, such as traffic laws? Do you know, down to the letter, what your major and minor traffic laws are? What about self-defense? Do you have to run from an attacker or can you reasonably defend yourself if attacked? This is what I hate about laws in general. Rarely are they concise and simple to understand, but its difficult to get the exact text of the law in a lot of places.
"I'm sorry, your honor, I didn't have enough money to know what laws I broke.
"It is illegal to be poor. Off to the spice mines with you!"
The dutch have a great solution to ignorance of the law. Dutch citizen are legally obligated to be familiar with the law. Pleading ignorance of the law is admitting a crime!
What is the extent of "familiar" in this context ? The entire legal code of pretty much any country is too vast and nuanced for even an expert with years (if not decades) of experience to understand, let alone the layman.
The only people who seriously believe "ignorance of the law is not a defense" are those who wish to use it as a tool of oppression.
Oh, man. Don't get our hopes up!
Uh oh, looks like Spain might have beat you to the punch... [wikipedia.org]
Nothing for it but to head to court!
Is this a joke?
Yes, parts of government increasingly look like a joke and not serious business, let alone representation of its citizens (and not: subjects).
But you basically already answered that by elaborating on the common sense you'd expect to be applied to matters like that, but didn't find.
Yes, parts of government continuously look like a joke and not serious business
There, fixed it for you.
No, it's the result of allowing the people to elect the person who spends the most on a campaign.
"Government, please correct my broken business model."
And I would say that putting it into a law explicitly removes the copyright.
Yes, I am asserting that legislators can place ANY document of any sort into the public domain by incorporating it into a law or the legislative record. Legislators do this all the time to dodge copyright claims against whistleblowers.
The memo to get milk is MORE copyrightable than the laws.
The only way a law could be copyrighted is if they were works of art (poems or some such) and assigned to an individual or corporation (IE, not a government). And in that case if it belongs to an individual, how could it be a state law?
Your post made me think two things.
1) Don't corporations own most of our laws?
2) How awesome would it be if all laws were required to be in the form of a limerick?
2) How awesome would it be if all laws were required to be in the form of a limerick?
It could be cool:
The act of ending a life
When aggrevated by previous strife
Or in the course of a crime
Shall result in a time
Spent as a large convict's wife.
Having little understanding of my state's governance, I would hazard a guess that this isn't something that's been thought out by anyone of a very high rank. This seems more like a mid-level management decision, or rather the equivalent of that in government. In other words, this seems like bureaucracy doing it's thing, not using common sense as that generally gets you in trouble. It's not suprising to me anyway that a "mid-level" bureaucrat would copyright the laws without having a reason to do so. Why not, it's taxpayer money.
That could be naive: I'm suggesting it's not california government out to trip you up because you have to follow laws you can't know about so much as california government not being able to put their shoes on before they tie them. I admit I'm prone to believe in government incompetence before government conspiracy.
I would hazard a guess that this isn't something that's been thought out by anyone of a very high rank...
Two thoughts occur to me. First, most laws are of that caliber. It's well known that at the Federal level, legislators haven't, and in many cases, would not be capable (due to the sheer volume of many bills), read the laws they are voting on.
The second thought is that even if it were thought out by someone of high rank, it would probably wouldn't help.
The trick they try to do is contract state work out to private companies and then allow those companies to have the copyrights.
This is informative: Veeck vs. Southern Bldg Code [uscourts.gov] (case no. 99-40632-cv2):
The issue in this en banc case is the extent to which a
private organization may assert copyright protection for its model
codes, after the models have been adopted by a legislative body and
become âoethe lawâ. Specifically, may a code-writing organization
prevent a website operator from posting the tex
Exactly. How do the creators of this portion of the law think their laws are not public domain? You know, 'government for the people by the people'; therefore any law created by the government is for and by the people and thus public domain.
>Exactly. How do the creators of this portion of the law think their laws are not public domain?
Like the rest of them, I guess they want to sell you an expensive licensed copy they produce themselves.
The people must have access to laws in order to obey them.
Communist! Laws should be kept secret so that terrorists can't abuse them. Whenever someone is arrested they should have to prove that what they did is not illegal; if they can't afford to buy official Law Books they are obviously parasites expecting to get something for free.
Ignorance is Freedom!
I wouldn't keep prodding Arnold like that.
Come with me if you want to live.
> It is illegal to copyright the law since people are required to know it.
Copyrights on laws may be unenforceable but they are not illegal.
I'd ask this question: who owns the copyrights? I'd say it's the taxpayers
If a law is unenforceable, how can it be a law?
It's illegal to commit suicide, but, what's the punishment and how can you carry it out? Therefore, you can infer that it is not actually illegal. (the attempt might be on the other hand)
The punishment is that, if you commit suicide, your death was caused by your commission of a crime, and therefore you're treated differently by insurance companies and such.
Its actually not illegal to commit suicide in many jurisdictions.
In places where it is illegal, its primarily to give the government more ability to intervene.
Copyrights on laws may be unenforceable but they are not illegal.
I sure am glad you popped up to split that hair. Without comments like this, where would we be?
I'm confused, why are you saying its not illegal?
According to the link posted at the top, it is very clear that copyright protection is NOT available for laws specifically.
US.Code-Title 17.Chapter 1.Section 105:
"Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."
This clearly states that the government is permitted to receive and hold copyrights for any work that is not created by the United States government (such as from a musical group or author) but works written within the government (such as tax forms and US codes) are NOT protected.
Is there a code that can be sited that contradicts this?
This law is a work of the California state government, not the U.S. Government, so that section doesn't automatically apply.
well you see there is a nasty loophole in federal copyright law. works by the (federal) government may not be copyrighted, but for instance, say a private law firm was contracted to produce a law, say a law on how copyright affects online, and before submitting the law they copyright it, and include all rights to use it 'as part of their work contract' now a law about online copyright, is now copyrighted so that individuals can be sued by a lawyer for reproducing his 'copyrighted' law on internet copyright.
so nasty lawyer then proceeds to sue the shit out of a couple dozen companies that make it their business to disclose information on pending and current bills before the senate, so that these companies can be forced to not disclose important details of how the law was written (it's copyrighted, and no rights are available to anyone but the government) or else be shut down by greedy corrupt politicians who specifically wanted the details of the law private, and others public so that everyone thinks the law was all goodness and sunshine, but really changed the law so that copyright holders can essentially with a single letter win by proxy trials in small claims against online copyright infringers, the portion of the law where specifics were copyrighted.
basically it allows a law all about protecting the children and what not from pedos to contain a clause that because it's all copyrighted not be disseminated and do something like put 10 billion dollars into a an unrelated bridge to nowhere in alaska, that is gold plated.
very bad precedent, laws shouldn't be copyrighted not even by lawyers who work on them. too much incentive to bury copyrighted sections that because they're copyrighted nobody will disseminate them, because the moment they try to they're shut down... copyrighted sections that might be extremely unpopular(or downright dangerous) in an otherwise very popular sounding bill. such as say, a law allowing the president to privately execute any judge on any federal court including the supreme court, and instantly name a successor, and under the law the cause of death is officially 'heart attack' caused of course by lethal injection.
This view by certain US states that laws are copyrighted material is plexing to me. The laws are written by people, on materials, that are funded by the taxpayer. Therefore, laws are PUBLIC property.
And what point does copyrighting ones' laws serve? Is it about publication rights? If ignorance of the law is no excuse, then why is access not free to all.
This happens all the time. The judiciary doesn't want to deal with people - they want to deal with lawyers.... who get paid by the people.
I once had to fight a ticket in a small town traffic court. I requested a deposition via registered mail, and in my state, if the deposition isn't sent within 30 days the ticket becomes defective. It had been almost 2 months, and I still didn't have it.
As my court date approached, I took the issue up with the town clerk (who only worked a few hours, four days a week). She had never heard that they needed to send out the depositions before the court date (kind of hard to defend oneself without knowing the officer's account), but said she would take it up with the judge. In the meantime, I sent the court, again by registered mail, a notarized motion to dismiss on the grounds that the ticket was defective.
After another week of trying, the secretary finally caved and gave me the judge's work number (he owned the gas station in the town). He was unclear on the particulars of depositions, so he pushed my court date back and then he added:
"You know, you're not really following the proper procedures."
"OK. What are the proper procedures?"
"I can't tell you."
So, it comes as no surprise that government wants to hide laws from the people.
"I can't tell you."
So, it comes as no surprise that government wants to hide laws from the people.
You're drawing the wrong conclusion from that exchange.
The judge in your contested ticket can't provide you with legal assistance in preparing or executing your defense or otherwise pursuing litigation on that matter.
What you should have done was contacted an attorney, law school, or legal aid clinic in the area for help.
He wasn't hiding anything from you. In fact, what he said was helping you, although you apparently missed it. He was telling you that you were not conducting yourself in compliance with t
In Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress International [google.com], the 5th Circuit held that laws are not copyrightable.
I didn't read the opinion but I'm pretty sure they had precedent.
The 5th Circuit does not include California. California is part of the 9th Circuit. If the two courts disagree on a particular substantially similar issue, then it can be sent to the Supreme Court of the United States to be decided finally. This is the whole point of the Circuit Courts.
What bothers ME is this line from the summary above:
Malamud wants California to sue him, which is almost a given if the state wants to continue claiming copyright.
This sounds like the usual misunderstanding. Copyright, unlike Trademark, remains in force even if not actively defended. The holder of the copyright could lay low forever, and only sue those who they want to sue. If the submitter did indeed think that the copyright holder might lose their exclusive rights due to inaction, I have to ask, WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND? Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Secret. They all have very different legal semantics.
Malamud wants California to sue him, which is almost a given if the state wants to continue claiming copyright.
This sounds like the usual misunderstanding. Copyright, unlike Trademark, remains in force even if not actively defended. The holder of the copyright could lay low forever, and only sue those who they want to sue.
If they don't sue him, he'll publish all their laws online and the issue becomes moot.
I imagine if California thinks there is a real copyright claim, they'll sue before that happens.
That would mean that "ignorance of the law" IS a valid excuse.
That would mean that "ignorance of the law" IS a valid excuse.
Don't be ridiculous; it means you'll have to pay an additional licensing fee to read the citation against you.
That would mean that "ignorance of the law" IS a valid excuse.
No, it's just an indication of which way we're going.
You've broken a law we can't tell you about, but you're guilty anyway. You're not allowed to tell someone else we've arrested you for the law, since the law precludes that. We can't give your lawyer a description of the law or the charges against you because the law precludes that.
Sadly, I think that's the PATRIOT act.
No, it's just an indication of which way we're going.
You've broken a law we can't tell you about, but you're guilty anyway. You're not allowed to tell someone else we've arrested you for the law, since the law precludes that. We can't give your lawyer a description of the law or the charges against you because the law precludes that.
Sadly, I think that's the PATRIOT act.
It's not the PATRIOT act because the PATRIOT act is published. But there is proof of such law in Gilmore v. Gonzales. [wikipedia.org]
I'm generally against more laws, but if there ever was a constitutional amendment I could get behind, it's that all laws should be available to the public without charge.
I'm generally against more laws, but if there ever was a constitutional amendment I could get behind, it's that all laws should be available to the public without charge.
How sad of a commentary on the American legal system that people see a need for a constitutional amendment to ensure that citizens can read laws.
Stop it, just. Stop.
Spreading that kind of FUD is harmful.
That is not what is going on here.
Lexus-Nexus claims they control the copyright becasue they have a contract to maintain those laws.
This is naturally incorrect and a company trying to use FUD to maintain a perceived monopoly.
Carl Malamud is aiding the terrists! If the laws are freely available to be known by the public, the terrists will find out and obey them to avoid being caught!
Until quite recently many states (Pennsylvania being the last) did not post their laws online at all or make them available to the public for free. In many cases the only way to get access to the actual laws was to purchase a copy from the state's legal publisher or look them up in a legal library, (which exists on ever street corner). This is as true for statutes of the type that Malamud is focusing on as caselaw which is an essential facet of law in the U.S. and other Common Law countries.
Efforts to change this have routinely been fought by legal publishers who hold lucrative monopolies on the publication of laws and their dissemination. There also exists a generational gap in many cases with a generation accustomed to having the law on paper not really understanding why one would look online.
So ironically what Malamud is doing is not "fighting for the norm" of freely accessible laws but fighting for something new. While many people are fond of the cant "ignorance of the law is no excuse", for most of recent U.S. history laws have been hidden.
Good luck to him.
I thought this *was* the gimmick -- a given state claims copyright on the state laws laws, rules & statues and then sells a license to these to some legal publisher like Thomson/West or LexisNexis, either for cash money, free services or whatever. A handy agreement that makes a buck or two, gains some free access and helps protect a nice little monopoly for West/Lexis.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they had a special law passed to claim only commercial for-profit copyright, and bestow 'free' statu
The statute excludes from copyright protection ideas, procedures, processes, systems methods of operation, or information in the public domain. . . . If an idea is susceptible to only one form of expression, the merger doctrine applies and Sec. 102(b) excludes the expression from the Copyright Act. As the Supreme Court has explained it, this "idea/expression dichotomy strike[s] a definitional balance between the First Amendment and the Copyright Act by permitting free communication of facts while still protecting an author's expression."
What the author of the TFA did get right is that there is no right to copyright the text of particular laws. The court in Veeck did an excellent job describing the history of attempts to copyright laws, so I simply quote it below:
Excluding "the law" from the purview of the copyright statutes dates back to this nation's earliest period. In 1834, the Supreme Court interpreted the first federal copyright laws and unanimously held that "no reporter has or can have any copyright in the written opinions delivered by this Court. .
." Wheaton v. Peters, 33 U.S. (8 Pet.) 591, 668 (1834). The case arose when one of the Court's official reporters was asserting copyright protection for his annotated compilations of Supreme Court opinions. The Court distinguished between the reporter's individual work and the Justices' opinions. The Court's rejection of copyright for judicial opinions paralleled the principle -- recognized by attorneys for both parties -- that "[s]tatutes were never copyrighted."(3) Based on the acknowledged and incontestable analogy with legislative acts, Wheaton held unanimously that "the law" in the form of judicial opinions may not be copyrighted.
The same broad understanding of what c
Hold up a minute. You say:
In the most famous Supreme Court case on this topic, Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co., 499 U.S. 340 (1991), the Justices held that no one can hold a copyright in a particular phone number. However, a company can collect tens of thousands of phone numbers, organize them alphabetically, and then claim a copyright in the finished product (i.e., the phone book).
But that's NOT what the Supreme Court said, at not the way I read it.
[55] Because Rural's white pages lack the requisite originality, Feist's use of the listings cannot constitute infringement.
So you CANNOT claim copyright on a simple alphabetical listing of names and phone numbers because it is not original or creative enough.
This was covered last April by William Patry (author of the text, Patry on Copyright), perhaps the most distinguished copyright attorney on the planet, see: http://williampatry.blogspot.com/2008/04/oregon-goes-wacka-wacka-huna-kuna.html [blogspot.com]
IMNHO, this kind of action, whether by California or Oregon, is an abomination, anathema to the idea of rule of law.
From Banks & Bros. v. West Pub. Co., 27 F. 50 (C.C.D. Minn. 1886):
[I]t is a maxim of universal application that every man is presumed to know the law, and it would seem inherent that freedom of access to the laws, or the official interpretation of those laws, should be co-extensive with the sweep of the maxim. Knowledge is the only just condition of obedience. The laws of Rome were written on tablets and posted, that all might read, and all were bound to obedience. The act of that emperor who caused his enactments to be written in small letters, on small tablets, and then posted the latter at such height that none could read the letters, and at the same time insisted upon the rule of obedience, outraging as it did the relations of governor and governed under his own system of government, has never been deemed consistent with or possible under ours... Each citizen is a ruler,--a lawmaker,--and as such has the right of access to the laws he joins in making and to any official interpretation thereof.
That article is so full of inaccuracies it's astounding.
First: with the exception of the Building Code, California's laws (regulations, specifically) are not copyrighted. They're also free on the Internet, and can be downloaded for free, and saved on your local computer for free. A Google Search for "california regulations" will give you a variety of free sources, including the state's own Office of Administrative Law.
Except for the Building Code. Here the article's alarmist tone (and Malamud's apocalyptic stance) are entirely justified. The California Building Code was written by the International Conference of Building Officials, and the ICBO owns the copyright. It's stupid, and probably illegal, but that's the way things stand.
The 5th Circuit case someone mentioned is a similar circumstance. But unfortunately (for those of us in California) California is in the 9th Circuit, so the 5th Circuit's decision doesn't apply.
Oh yeah, here! [slashdot.org]
7 years ago? God I'm old.
Unfortunately, many Slashdotters are misreading Section 105. That section of the Copyright Act applies only to the Federal government, NOT the several states, nor to local (county, municipal or borough) governments. I absolutely disagree with a state government claiming copyright on its own laws, but it is technically possible.
I have seen in other posts this Veeck case cited. I haven't read the whole thing, but just the summary tells me that the issue came down to a private company claiming copyright on laws that were codified by a legislature. That is not the same as a state claiming copyright in a document (any, document, including the text of a law) it has created. A Westlaw v. Lexis case (see "Legal Disputes" section here) [wikipedia.org] upheld copyright years ago on the entire work simply because Westlaw put casebook style page numbering in their version of the legal text. All Westlaw was doing was taking the government work and matching up the page numbers in their electronic version!
Like I said, I think this type of conduct is reprehensible from a state, but not technically illegal. Malamud is really (IMHO) banking on the PR nightmare of Cali actually filing a copyright infringement suit against him.
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