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All I want to know is who maintains the public register of free music? If each of these defendants is paying for damages of a given song for an industry's worth of consumers, then surely that song is now trued-up and effectively public domain. So where's the register of music that's been bought for me so I can collect?
So where's the register of music that's been bought for me so I can collect?
The Pirate Bay dot org.
Not quite the same, but the U.S. had a fairly sane copyright registration system before signing on to Berne. It just makes sense that people who care about protecting their works would register and people who don't, won't.
I'd like to know how, when I search for "scatterbrain", which songs with that name are copyrighted, copylefted, or public domain? There are hundreds of songs with that name, all completely different. How is a downloader supposed to know whether or not he's infringing?
These are a bunch of guys who have a hard time understanding "shall make no law" and "shall not be infringed"
Say what? The RIAA may be evil, but I don't think they are trying to either enforce a religion or restrict your access to guns.
Well, not yet, anyway.
They obviously need to read RFC2119 then...
They obviously need to read RFC2119 then...
For those too lazy to look that up... it's the RFC that defines phrases such as "SHALL [NOT]" (as in "implementations SHALL NOT do X").
I have gained this from musicology: That I refuse Sony BMG music downloads, that others only avoid from fear of the law.
A link to an old slashdot article, and 2 links to legal documents - one of which is 32-pages long!
Now THAT makes for some interesting reading... well, this is definitely one time that I will RTFA!
Every time a defendant does anything in an RIAA trial, slashdot has to report it? He's already sentenced, it's over. This is just more general bleating about how unfair the award is. There's no reason Tenenbaum would get special treatment.. high damages paid to the RIAA have already held up in court and been denied further appeal..
To the best of my recollection (NYCL, a little help?), the constitutionality of the damages has never been challenged.
And even if it has, in one Circuit, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be challenged in another Circuit. Of course, if two Circuit Courts give different rulings on said topic, then it would almost certainly end up in front of the US Supreme Court.
it takes two different cases to get two circuits finding the opposite of one another. When that happens, the Supreme Court *MUST* hear the case(s) to resolve the discrepancy. It is one of only a few things that can force the Supreme Court to hear a case. Other cases are heard at the court's discretion from among those appealed after decision at the circuit level. Thus do constitutional lawyers decide who makes a good test case. The goal is to find a client with circumstances that will get the circuit to rule differently than another circuit, even if it's on a tangential aspect of the case. It's like hacking a bit.
When that happens, the Supreme Court *MUST* hear the case(s) to resolve the discrepancy. It is one of only a few things that can force the Supreme Court to hear a case.
No, it isn't mandatory that they resolve the circuit split. It is often convenient when they do, but it is not mandatory.
To the best of my recollection (NYCL, a little help?), the constitutionality of the damages has never been challenged.
Only one such motion has been made, in Minnesota, in Capitol Records v. Thomas. That motion is pending. This motion also makes arguments the other one had not made, and makes the due process argument a bit more clearly than the other one had, IMHO.
This is the first I've seen of:
and after seeing the original vs what was entered into evidence, it makes me want to redact a bunch of RIAA member company offers and then take them to small claims court for not following through with their promises.
In other words, some portion of
Point of order: He was not sentenced to anything, since this was not a criminal trial.
It really shouldn't be news that someone is making an argument in their case. Anyone can make an argument - that doesn't mean it's right. And the standards on due process for damages are pretty wishy-washy. So, while I'm not saying this wouldn't be good news if it were ultimately upheld, it's not really news that someone is bringing it up. 99% of all class actions are arguments made by plaintiffs' lawyers that are garbage, which never go anywhere.
If you don't like the story, you don't have to read it.
Now you tell me... I've got a backlog from 2006!
this is an argument many of us have wished had been made before, but until this time (as far as I know) it hasn't.
The problem was always one of standing. One does not have standing to make some of these arguments until one is sued in court by the copyright holders. Needless to say, most of us would rather not expose ourselves to massive financial risk simply to have an opportunity to make an argument or to put it more bluntly, the stakes were "too high". However, now that we have a few brave (or desperate) souls who are "stuck in the game" and "willing to make the argument", I agree that it is definitely one that is wo
This particular argument is news because A) It is an area of law that a lot of us care about and B) Because this is an argument many of us have wished had been made before, but until this time (as far as I know) it hasn't. So we want to pay attention to this case to see how it turns out. If you don't like the story, you don't have to read it.
The RIAA would not like the world to know about these arguments and defenses. Isn't that reason enough to want to learn about them?
I'd read somewhere that is was capped at $30k per copyright infringement, $150k for distribution of same.
I should think that, if true, the caps are there for rationality and that they're high to discourage infringement - but should never be used as analogous to a sentencing guideline.
Ray, I get the beef (from reading your info) about the judge being wrong in taking the defendant's statement of liability into account - but further, was it right to suggest those limits to the jury, in any case?
Thanks in advan
Since the cost per song is $.99, then it would be roughly $1.00 per song...
Since the downloader didn't share the files intentionally (software developers ought to make the default NOT share), and the fact that there is ZERO evidence that the files shared were actually downloaded, and since we know that "making available" isn't an offense (otherwise the RIAA would have to sue itself out of existence as there would be no pirating without them producing the content in the first place), then it would $.99 per s
And so far, they've been holding anybody who makes a copyrighted work available as any downloadable file (over HTTP, FTP, or any flavor of P2P) you're doing so willingly. Nobody's ever been able to prove that they unwillingly installed such file-sharing programs.
And so far, they've been holding anybody who makes a copyrighted work available as any downloadable file (over HTTP, FTP, or any flavor of P2P) you're doing so willingly. Nobody's ever been able to prove that they unwillingly installed such file-sharing programs.
The method of distribution doesn't matter at all.
unwillingly in this case would refer to, for example, downloading an
Copyright infringement was committed, however until you listened to the song, you were under the impression that you DID have distribution permissions for that song.
For music sharers, this type of claim would not at all be true, and it would be
Ray.....was it right to suggest those limits to the jury?
No in my opinion it was error. There was no basis for allowing anything above the $750 per infringed work minimum, and only the judge rather than the jury could have awarded less, so there was nothing for the jury to decide.
how is filing a motion newsworthy?
There have been ~40,000 cases; this is only the 2nd time such a motion has been made. The first such motion is pending.
that's the damages, folks.
That's the actual damages per download.
Factor in that distributing can lead to many downloads (especially if there is some concept of downstream culpability, and those people all distribute) and one MP3 can easily be downloaded many hundreds or thousands of times, and actual damages can reach those amounts.
Factor in punitive damages, which can be many times higher than actual damages, and the "correct" damages far exceed 99 cents.
Seriously if downloading one song can have you paying out, for example, $10,000 then surely speeding which can result in death should have a fine of $100,000 at the very least.
Please don't give any legislators new ideas. My last spedding ticket for 10 over cost me $300. I expect that to rise by the next time I get a ticket already.
In all seriousness though, I have thought about the law in the terms you mention often and have been surprised. For instance, I remember the first time I saw a sign that said $1,000 for littering (I live in California). At first I thought nothing of this until I later saw a sign, in the same town, that said $271 fine for running a red light at a busy intersection. Now, This was years ago so the numbers have probably changed but I remember being shocked at this discrepancy. Running a red, which could cost other drivers significantly (as in multiple thousands of dollars of damage as well as potential death) had a lower fine than throwing my straw wrapper out my window which, at worst, could what...kill a bird that was to stupid to tell paper from food and choked on it? Welcome to modern America, where the law doesn't make sense and nobody seems to give a damn. =)
If a 10 over cost $300 you were in a workzone or a school zone and you should have been fined twice as much. A first time speeding ticket in a school zone in my state is a class a misdemeanor with a $600+ fine, the second time it triples and the third time there is jail time involved. Workzones are double also but not handled under criminal statues.
There are a reason these fines are high and should be high, speeding in these two locations is much much more likely to result in fatalities and in the case of s
Children don't walk to school any more. There are too many boogiemen on the streets. Sad, but true. How will today's child admonish their children about how tough they had it. They don't even walk to school uphill, in the snow, one way.
speeding fines in finland are based on percentage of your last tax return
so if you are poor, your speeding fine is a pittance. but if you are the chairman of nokia, its over $100K
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1759791.stm [bbc.co.uk]
While I can get behind what you're saying, the facts you infer do not apply here - the defendant in TFA was supplying the songs, not downloading them.
Speeding tickets are a gold-mine for municipal budgets.
If you have a cash cow, you milk it gently. Not rip the udders clean off.
Enjoying a song without permission = $22,500
Growing a plant without permission = 5 years
Illegally disabling competition in a multibillion dollar market for years = a few days of profit
I think there's an inverse relationship here.
Trying to fight RIAA in the courts is a loosing effort. RIAA pay politicians handsomely, and generally gets the laws they want. If they temporarily loose in court, they just pay to have the laws changed, and than they win. The draconian penalties as well as the never expiring rights RIAA enjoy is an amazing perversion.
The only thing that is worse is that this can happen in a democracy, and few care.
If you argue "well, just pay the $0.99 on iTunes and stop whining" you misunderstand culture fundamentally. Humans as a species copy. From infants looking at their parents to musicians, architects, engineers and philosophers listening to others, we refine and produce. This is the essence of human culture. That companies can monopolize this flow is damaging to the progress of mankind.
We in the modern west have a problem, and I, for one, do not see an easy solution.
It used to be that making copies of creative works was a physical task that was the domain of professionals. As such, enforcing copyrights was relatively easy.
As soon as copyrightable creative works were representable in digital form, and computers became capable of copying them trivially, that changed utterly.
Copyrights exist so that creators of creative works can be given an incentive to create. Their creations, on the whole
It used to be that making copies of creative works was a physical task that was the domain of professionals. As such, enforcing copyrights was relatively easy.
A minor quibble: Making copies using state of the art methods was the domain of professionals. Most people didn't have their own printing press, but if you were literate and had ink, pen, paper, and time, you could still copy a book by hand. Even today, in fact, you could not compete with a CD or DVD factory if you were merely armed with a generic wri
Trying to fight RIAA in the courts is a loosing effort.
If the defendant wins the statutory damages argument in court on constitutional grounds then it will not have been wasted effort because it means that the copyright holders would have to get the Constitution amended to specifically allow for LARGE statutory damages for copyright infringement. It requires a super-majority vote in both houses of Congress and a super-majority vote of the states to amend the US Constitution. The RIAA may pay handsomely, but no amount of payola could muster that kind of suppor
The fundamental problem here is not that of copying, but the matter of justice in proportion to the crime.
Suppose, for example, we take the RIAA's argument at face value: Because she's shared these 19 songs, the RIAA companies will never make another sale from them. According to the RIAA, she owes them for the lost profits they would have made.
Even were this the case, the maximum cost of these 19 songs is the cost the RIAA paid to the artists to produce them. Here's a hint: it's not very much. Elton John once said that he could write a song in 15 minutes; even were he to charge a lawyerly-like rate of $500/hour, that would only be a few thousand dollars of labor. Even at the extreme end, this is two band-years worth of labor, which hardly costs the label a few million dollars.
In terms of actual damages, she probably resulted in no lost sales. Even before filesharing, I grew up in an environment where people simply taped songs off the radio, and bought the occasional LP. The type of people downloading from filesharing networks are the kind who wouldn't have bought the song no matter how much they like it. What the RIAA doesn't understand is that with the exception of the upper-middle and upper classes, most of America has become accustomed to getting their music for free, without paying a dime. If they can't get it for free, they just do without. It is almost never a lost sale.
What disturbs me most is that a jury could be convinced to grant a judgement of a few million dollars against her without any actual proof of infringement. They have no idea how many - if any - downloads actually occurred.
IANAL. I did skim part of the brief.
The brief states that between the time Napster came out and iTunes came out, there was no ability for consumers to obtain music legally via download, and that posed a lack of choice for "Digital Natives" who wanted to obtain music that way. The court recognized that period as an "interregnum period" during which I presume (again IANAL) that no one can be successfully prosecuted for copyright infringement for downloading. However because iTunes was encrypted from 2003-2007, the brief argues that the interregnum period should be extended until some time in 2007, when encryption-free digital music was available.
The two main arguments for that are 1) publishers released DRM-free music on CD, so they partially contributed to the proliferation of the recordings on P2P networks and must have been aware of it by 2004, yet continued to sell and promote CDs. (This seems awfully tenuous to me...the publishers were still trying to sell music, and by that point the digital market hadn't quite gotten to the saturation point where they could stop selling CDs, and CDs require DRM-free music), and 2) The brief cites a prior case in which a court recognized that care taken by the plaintiff to "protect" their IP made a fair use defense fail, and that had the plaintiffs failed to protect the IP, fair use defense might have worked. In this case, the brief argues that the plaintiffs did not take enough "care" of their IP because they released them DRM-free on CD, and so fair use defense might work. (To me that seems to be arguing a hypothesis - that the court in the prior case would have ruled differently if the plaintiff had acted differently - rather than arguing a precedent on an actual ruling. Also, the CD format requires DRM-free music, so I'm not sure what sort of choice the publishers had there short of breaking everyone's existing CD players. Digital being a newer format allows for new things like DRM.)
If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of fresh paint?


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"He took a little time to acclimate when I got him into New York and we weren't able to get him to the races up there," Brown explained. "He needed a little extra time. Since I shipped him down here, he's really done well. We're going to give him a shot in this race.
Pleuven, who will be ridden by Alan Garcia, will race with Lasix for the first time.
Brown's other Dania Beach representative is Request, a $400,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase who took the overland route on his way to a debut success at Belmont on September 21. The dark bay son of Dynaformer hasn't faced the starter since through no fault of his own, according to Brown.
"He ran well first time out and then we gave him a little freshening," Brown remarked. "He was entered in a stakes in New York and then they cancelled racing that day, so his schedule's been a little bit interrupted. But since he's come down to Florida he's trained well. He's another that deserves a shot in this race, so I'm going to run them both."
Request, owned by Paul Pompa Jr., will have Javier Castellano aboard.
Pleuven isn't the only Dania Beach entrant to have taken a trans-Atlantic flight. Here's Johnny, owned by Ice Wine Stable and trained by Wesley Ward, traveled over to France in August with heralded stablemate No Nay Never to race at Deauville. No Nay Never continued his unbeaten streak in the Group 1 Prix Morny, while Here's Johnny finished fourth in a stakes race at the Normandy course.
"I was bringing an American jockey [David Flores] over that hadn't ridden in France or on that particular course," Ward said. "So I wanted to bring a few other horses to give home some rides over that course, since the Morny is a very important and prestigious race."
Here's Johnny, a son of Colonel John, was purchased as a yearling for $220,000 in Ocala. He made a winning debut on the turf at Churchill Downs in June prior to his European adventure.
"After his first race, he had surgery for an entrapped epiglottis and it was a little quick to run him back in France, so I think that hindered his performance a little bit," Ward acknowledged.
The Florida-bred returned to the U.S. to finish second in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Stakes on September 14, then wired an off-the-turf allowance on Keeneland's Polytrack on October 6. In his most recent start, the bay missed by only a half-length in the Juvenile Turf Stakes going a mile at Gulfstream on November 9.
"I think he should've won the race, but he had some traffic trouble, he was carried out really wide," Ward said.
Here's Johnny will not be equipped with blinkers in the Dania Beach, according to Ward. He will be ridden by Kent Desormeaux.
Also in the mix is Bon Accord, who outran his 29-1 odds to finish fourth in the Grade I Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita on November 1. Antonio Sano trains the chestnut for Gelfenstein farm. Trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. will field Yes I'm Lucky, a 6 ½-length winner of the Laurel Futurity in September and most recently third in the Pulpit Stakes on November 30, a race that was rained off of the turf. Imaginethatmom, Cabo Cat, Mr Speaker and Hesinfront complete the field.


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The Persian Difference
Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia
University of California Press,272 pp., $49.95
Tony Blair said recently that the Islamic Republic may pose a "threat to our world security"; he also mused that he might one day be called upon to "do something" about Iran. Other Western leaders have criticized Iran's development of an ambiguous nuclear program, its influence in Iraq, and its venomous language toward Israel, and concluded that the Iranians have ambitions outside their borders.1
If Blair and others are right, and Iran has expansionist intentions, this would be a fascinating change. Since 1600, the Iranians (or Persians, as the Europeans knew them) have been largely confined to the same plateau, located between several mountain ranges, the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea, that they occupy today. As nationalist ideas arrived from Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Persians proved to be the best prepared of all Middle Eastern peoples to build a nation-state on the Western model, and among the least likely to invade their neighbors.
Now, despite periodic displays of unhappiness by Iran's Kurdish and Arab minorities, there is a strong belief among many modern Iranians that they, as Persian-speaking Shia Muslims of Indo-European descent, have a unique identity. (Iran's biggest minority, the Azeri Turks, are better integrated into mainstream society than the Arabs and Kurds.) Since the Muslim Arab conquest of the mid-seventh century, Iran has been repeatedly invaded. To a striking degree, the Persians' cultural identity helped them to avoid being assimilated by successive occupiers, but it also restricted their ability to expand their own political orbit to include neighbors who do not share the same identity.
The last time that Iran was a world power was when it was ruled by the monarchs of the Sassanid dynasty, who came to prominence at the beginning of the third century AD. They installed Zoroastrianism as the state religion, and were overthrown in the seventh century by the Arabs. In important ways, the Sassanids were successors to the greatest Iranian empire of all, the Achaemenid empire, which stretched, at its peak around 500 BC, from the Indus to North Africa. The Achaemenids' administration was both multicultural and multilingual; its provincial governors, called satraps, tended to promote religious diversity. In fact, it is hard to see much common ground between the sprawling Achaemenid empire and the centralized, doctrinaire state of Iran in this or the last century, either before or after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. The closest that the Islamic Republic has come to empire-building has been in its efforts to export its revolution to other Muslim countries in the 1980s, and these have failed badly. Not surprisingly, the revolutionaries found it hard to sell a political philosophy that is based on Shia exclusiveness and informed, despite Iran's claims to be advocating supranational ideas, by Persian chauvinism.
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Manchester City had substitute Edin Dzeko to thank after the Bosnian's late strike secured all three points against Fulham at Craven Cottage on Saturday.
The Premier League champions spent much of the second half searching for a winner after Sergio Aguero had cancelled out Mladen Petric's spot kick in the first half, and it was Dzeko's goal in the 86th minute that ensured City left west London with their first away win of the season.
After a tetchy opening five minutes it was Manchester City who got the first real shot of the game away, with Yaya Toure snatching his effort wide after Steve Sidwell had gifted possession away in the middle of the park.
However it was Fulham who settled into the game quicker, and with Hugo Rodallega and John Arne Riise causing Pablo Zabaleta endless problems down the right flank, it came as no surprise that the home side's opening goal came after another burst in that area.
Riise, allowed to run at Zabaleta who enjoyed scant protection from David Silva in front of him, tumbled on the edge of the area, with referee Mark Halsey pointing to the spot despite replays suggesting a free-kick may have been the correct decision.
Petric stepped up and slammed the ball home past Joe Hart to lift the roof off Craven Cottage. At that point, the Cottagers were good value for their lead.
That goal appeared to wake the Premier League champions from their slumber however, and soon enough City's talents in attack became apparent.
Silva, quiet in the opening twenty minutes, began finding space down the right hand side as well as drifting in field to kick-start his side, with Gareth Barry testing Schwarzer after the Spaniard left Riise dazed and confused down. A goal line scramble soon after had City players imploring Mark Halsey to give a goal, however replays showed that the man in yellow got the decision to not award it right.
There was an air of inevitability when the equalising goal came. Pace and movement was the key as Sergio Aguero benefited from some good work down the right, eventually tucking the ball home after Schwarzer had saved brilliantly from David Silva two minutes before half-time.
Fulham started brightly in the second half, with Damien Duff coming in to the game more, however the home side were pinned back into their own half as Silva led City's increasingly frequent attempts to take the lead.
Roberto Mancini was once more out of his seat after 54 minutes as Sidwell and Zabaleta came together off the ball in the area, only for Halsey to wave play on.
Aguero came close to bagging his second of the game only to see his looping headed effort drift just wide of Schwarzer's post in the 56th minute, with the Australian 'keeper seemingly losing sight of the ball in the process.
City's onslaught continued, with Tevez trying to wriggle free and fire off his shot from a tight angle, before Schwarzer spilled the resulting corner into Vincent Kompany's path, however the Belgian couldn't quite get his shot away before he was closed down and Schwarzer gathered at the second attempt.
Martin Jol attempted to stem the tide by sending young winger Alex Kacaniklic into the fray in place of Petric, with Hugo Rodallega moving to lead the line.
That didn't change the pattern of the game, and soon after Yaya Toure was driving City forward and trying to get the goal his side desperately craved, but the Ivorian's curled effort drifted over Schwarzer's crossbar with twenty minutes to go.
Roared on by the vocal home crowd, Fulham's first real foray forward in the second half came with 73 minutes on the clock. Bryan Ruiz, marginalised in the second half after a lively showing in the first 45, found himself in space on the edge of the City area some good work by Rodallega, and forced Hart into beating away his fierce shot.
That offered only brief respite for Fulham as City pushed forward once more, with Mancini throwing Mario Balotelli and Samir Nasri into the mix in an attempt to find a winning goal.
Silva, dropping deeper and deeper to gather the ball and spring City's attacks, forced Fulham to park the bus in order to protect the point. Balotelli cut a frustrated figure as his effort failed to test Schwarzer, while Yaya Toure couldn't find a match winner either.
City's final roll of the dice came as Edin Dzeko entered the fray, and it was the Bosnian who finally scored the goal that secured all three points for the visitors after 86 minutes. Gael Clichy's cross wasn't properly dealt with and Dzeko pounced, lashing the ball into the roof of the net to the relief of the sizeable travelling City contingent. Roberto Mancini, a frustrated figure for much of the game, let out a sizeable sigh of relief as his side secured a win that moved them up into 4th on twelve points, four back from leaders Chelsea.
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New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi signalled plans to carry out drastic and lasting changes in the working of the Congress to make it fighting fit ahead of a series of elections including the Lok Sabha polls. (Agencies) Latest News from India News Desk
After giving a patient hearing to the AICC Secretaries narrating their woes, the Amethi MP, whose Lok Sabha bioprofile describes him "strategy consultant" by profession, remarked that no one appeared happy about the state of affairs in the organisation and "we have to rectify" the situation.
"No one appears happy about the system as they feel it is unfair and that there are no rules and regulations and, therefore, there is uncertainty and we have to rectify the situation", Gandhi was quoted as saying by party leaders during the two-hour-long meeting with AICC office bearers.
Gandhi began his first formal interaction with AICC office bearers as Vice President which saw lot of fireworks, blame game and complaints of oneupmanship.
The young leader today said that he would go into depth of issues raised by the leaders and work to set things right.
An office bearer said that Gandhi suggested that he was for "drastic and lasting changes". He said that the primary task right now would be to face the immediate elections in various states including Karnataka and try to rectify the overall problems after that.
Gandhi made these remarks after an AICC Secretary lamented "lack of coordination" in the party and the growing confusion as "no one is knowing what the other is doing".
Besides, the Secretary said that there was no coordination between government and organisation as the party is not taken into confidence before making appointments on official committees.
With several office bearers yet to get a chance to have their say, he will be meeting them again on Monday.
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi signalled plans to carry out drastic and lasting changes in the working of the Congress to make it fighting fit ahead of a series of elections including the Lok Sabha polls.
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Thom Yorke Confirms Release Date for Atoms For Peace Album
Radiohead's Thom Yorke has finally confirmed the details for the release of the studio recording by his Atoms for Peace project. Amok will be released on February 26 by XL Recordings and will include artwork from longtime collaborator Stanley Donwood. The group also features Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea (bass, melodica), Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich (guitar and keyboards), Joey Waronker (drums) and Mauro Refosco (percussion). Yorke explains, "I'm still reeling from being on tour for much of the year but we are planning to get together and play etc next year ! We're figuring all that out right now. Atoms is a ongoing and open ended project, where it leads i know not for certain… which is what is nice about it." The tracklisting for Amok appears below.
Before Your Very Eyes
Stuck Together Pieces
Judge Jury and Executioner
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Perry given special invite to Valhalla PGA
Kentucky native Kenny Perry will realize his dream of competing one more time in his home state after The PGA of America extended a special invitation to the Blue Grass State's favorite son.
The PGA of America has announced that Kenny Perry, a Kentucky native and member of the victorious 2008 United States Ryder Cup Team in his home state, has been given a special invitation to compete in the 96th PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. PGA President Ted Bishop extended the invitation after Perry concluded play in the 75th Senior PGA Championship presented by KitchenAid.
Perry, a native of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, who lives and owns a municipal golf course in Franklin, will be making his third Valhalla appearance in a PGA Championship. In 1996, Perry lost to Mark Brooks in a playoff for the major championship. He tied for 30th in 2000, the last time the Championship was contested at Valhalla. The 96th PGA Championship is scheduled to conclude on Aug. 10, which is Perry's 54th birthday.
MORE ON PERRY: Read Perry's interview transcrip from the 2014 Senior PGA Championship
In 2008, Perry reached the pinnacle of his career when he earned 2 ½ points to help the United States reclaim the Ryder Cup from Europe, 16 ½ to 11 ½, at Valhalla.
PGA of America President, Ted Bishop: "The PGA is delighted to extend a special invitation to Kenny to compete once more at the PGA Championship in his home state. Kenny is an outstanding representative of the game and the PGA of America, and I'm sure he will experience another memorable week at Valhalla in August."
Kenny Perry: "To me, if I can get back there, it would be a great way to say 'bye' to everybody. It's kind of my way to retire. I've given 30 years of my life to the PGA Tour and it would be a great way to kind of end my chapter on the PGA Tour out there."


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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - Bo Wallace threw for 264 yards and two touchdowns in his Football Bowl Subdivision debut as Mississippi rallied to beat Central Arkansas 49-27 on Saturday night.
The 6-foot-5, 210-pound junior college transfer was nearly flawless in first-year coach Hugh Freeze's offense, completing 20 of 24 passes, though he did have one interception. Wallace also rushed for 82 yards and a touchdown.
Despite the comfortable final margin, the game wasn't easy for the Rebels, who came into the season on a seven-game losing streak. Central Arkansas led 20-14 at halftime before Ole Miss scored 35 unanswered points in the second half.
Donte Moncrief led Ole Miss with eight receptions for 104 yards, including a 53-yard touchdown catch from Wallace in the third quarter that pushed the Rebels' lead to 28-20.
Central Arkansas quarterback Wynrick Smothers completed 25 of 32 passes for 247 yards and two touchdowns. Jackie Hinton led the Bears with 52 yards on 13 carries.
Freeze came to Ole Miss promising a wide-open, up-tempo offense and the Rebels delivered early on a muggy night at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Wallace completed his first two passes and then rushed for a 25-yard touchdown on the first drive to give Ole Miss an early 7-0 lead.
But offense wasn't the problem for the Rebels in the first half. Defense was.
Central Arkansas, which plays at the Football Championship Subdivision level, moved the ball with stunning ease on the ground and in the air early in the game. Smothers - making just his second career start - completed 11 of 13 passes for 141 yards and a touchdown in the first half, and the Bears outgained the Rebels 237-231.
The difficult game brought back memories of one of the biggest disasters in Ole Miss football history - a 49-48 double overtime loss to Jacksonville State in 2010. That was the first loss to an FCS team in program history.
Thanks largely to Wallace, it's still the only one.
Wallace led the Rebels on touchdown drives of 74 and 75 yards in the third quarter to push Ole Miss ahead 28-20. The second touchdown was the 53-yard pass that hit Moncrief in stride - and the Rebels hope that connection will be announced often this season.
Wallace and junior Barry Brunetti entered the game in a tight, two-man quarterback race. Brunetti wasn't bad, completing 5 of 7 passes for 66 yards and a touchdown, but Wallace's quick throwing release and accuracy looked perfectly suited for Freeze's methodical passing offense.
Ole Miss finished with 565 total yards, including 330 through the air and 235 on the ground.
But the Rebels' defense wasn't nearly as impressive.
Linebacker Denzel Nkemdiche led the team with eight tackles, including three for a loss. Ole Miss had nine tackles for a loss as a team, but those big plays were offset by several blown coverages and missed tackles.
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Obama lauds DOD workforce, encourages budget resolution
Obama lauds DOD workforce, encourages budget resolution
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 2013 – President Barack Obama thanked the Defense Department workforce today in a video message and expressed his disappointment in Congress' failure to approve a budget, resulting in a government shutdown.
"As president, and as your commander-in-chief, I've worked to make sure you have the strategy, the resources and the support you need to complete the missions our nation asks of you," he said.
"And every time you've met your responsibilities and performed with extraordinary professionalism, skill and courage," Obama said.
Unfortunately, the president said, Congress has not fulfilled its responsibility and failed to pass a budget.
"As a result, much of our government must now shut down until Congress funds it again," Obama said.
Obama noted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other commanders would provide more information on how the shutdown will affect the DOD civilians and their families.
"Today, I want to speak directly to you about how what happens next," he said. "Those of you in uniform will remain in your normal duty status. The threats to our national security have not changed, and we need you to be ready for any contingency."
"Ongoing military operations, like our efforts in Afghanistan, will continue," Obama said. "If you're serving in harm's way, we're going to make sure you have what you need to succeed in your missions."
The president said Congress has passed, and he would sign into law, legislation ensuring those personnel receive their paychecks on time.
"We'll continue to work to address any impact this shut down has on you and your families," Obama said.
"To all our DOD civilians, I know the days ahead could mean more uncertainty, including possible furloughs," he said. "And I know this comes on top of the furloughs that many of you already endured this summer."
Obama said DOD civilians and their families deserved "better than the dysfunction we're seeing in Congress."
"Your talents and dedication help keep our military the best in the world," he said. "That's why I'll keep working to get Congress to re-open our government and get you back to work as soon as possible."
Obama said the shutdown is occurring against the background of broader changes with the war in Iraq over and the war in Afghanistan slated to end next year.
"After more than a decade of unprecedented operations, we're moving off a war footing," he said. "Yes, our military will be leaner, and as a nation, we face difficult budget choices going forward."
"But here's what I want you to know. I'm going to keep fighting to get rid of those across-the-board budget cuts – the sequester – which are hurting our military and our economy."
We need a responsible approach, Obama said, that deals with our fiscal challenges and keeps our military and our economy strong.
"I'm going to make sure you stay the greatest military in the world – bar none," he added. "That's what I'm fighting for. That's what you and your families deserve."
The president thanked the Defense Department for their commitment to protecting the nation.
"On behalf of the American people, thank you for your service which keeps us free," Obama said. "And thank you for your sacrifice which keeps our nation and our military the greatest force for freedom that the world has ever known."


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Pope Francis Issues 'Evangelii Gaudium' (The Joy of the Gospel)
American Catholic -- Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on sharing the joy of the Gospel is a call to faith-filled optimism, recognizing challenges but knowing that God's love and lordship will prevail, said Archbishop Rino Fisichella, introducing the text to the media.
The archbishop, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization, told reporters Nov. 26 that "Evangelii Gaudium" ("The Joy of the Gospel"), is "an invitation to recover a prophetic and positive vision of reality without ignoring the current challenges." (Full Story)
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The Bruins were off from practice today, but the players participated in the team's "Slice the Ice" charity event at the TD Garden.
For the first time since he was ejected from the Bruins' loss to Vancouver yesterday, Marchand addressed the media and spoke about the clip on Canucks defenseman Sami Salo that resulted in a game misconduct in the second period.
"The puck was going around the boards and I went to pick it up and was kind of looking over my shoulder," Marchand told the media in Boston. "I saw Salo coming in and I just kind of went down.
"It was unfortunate he got injured. I did go under him, but I felt the base contact was at about his hip point and that's usually a pretty legal hit from what I've seen in the past."
Marchand is scheduled to have a hearing with NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan Monday. Last season, Marchand earned a two-game suspension for a hit from behind on Columbus' R.J. Umberberg. Earlier this season, Marchand was fined $2,500 for slew-footing Pittsburgh's Matt Niskanen. So obviously he's a repeat offender and should be looking at at least a couple games out of the lineup. There was no update on the severity of Salo's injury as of after Saturday's game, but he did not return to the game after the hit.
Head coach Claude Julien after Boston's loss tried to spin the play as Marchand trying to protect himself from a potential blow to the head.
"We all have our opinions on what is going on with the game and the hits and everything else. All I'm going to tell you is that I always told my players that they need to protect themselves," said Julien. "The last thing I want my players to do is get hit and then end up with a concussion, and they have to protect themselves. Whether it's the right way or the wrong way, it'll depend on how the league looks at it. I'd rather have a guy take a two-minute penalty than turn his back to the play, stand up straight, and then get his face knocked into the glass and be out for maybe the rest of the year with a concussion, or maybe end his career like [Marc] Savard.
"So I think we have to really look at those kinds of things. In my opinion, if guys start protecting themselves the way Marchand did, maybe guys will stop taking runs at other guys because that's the consequences you end up paying for taking runs at guys, too. Who knows where we're going to go with this? I know we're all trying hard to fix that part of the game, but it's still there, and it's still not fixed."
The Bruins played without Marchand against Calgary and won 9-0 Thursday. So while he's a key player, they should be able to get by without him for a couple nights.


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UAE. One of the downsides of a globalised economy is that a crisis in one country would affect the entire world with effects varying across different regions.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region would be affected in numerous ways if the Euro zone slips into recession again.
Firstly, recession in the European Union (EU) would result in reduced oil demand and thus, reduction in the oil prices. This would directly affect the oil exporting nations such as Saudi Arabia in the MENA. However, this would prove to be an advantage for oil importing countries like Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Tunisia in the same region (Oil expenses account for around 17% of the Gross Domestic Product in countries like Jordan).
Secondly, the Euro zone crisis would result in reduced overall consumption as European consumers tighten their belts in the wake of the financial crunch facing the economy. This would majorly impact the MENA countries that export products and services to the EU. For instance, Morocco, Libya and Tunisia's trade with Europe accounts for over 50 per cent of their exports. At a lesser level, countries such as Egypt and Syria would also be hit where trade with Europe accounts for 20 per cent of their exports.
Thirdly, the European crisis has led to an increased international cost of borrowing with liquidity crunch and tightening of international credit conditions. This is due to the uncertainties surrounding the European Banks' balance sheets. Further, this would adversely affect the MENA oil importing countries such as Morocco, Egypt and Libya where European Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a main component of the gross FDI.
According to Frost & Sullivan, an increased cost of borrowing accompanied with reduced demand will have an adverse effect on the project returns. Increase in the interest rates may lead to rejection of projects owing to decreased returns (IRR and NPV).
Lastly, the economic crisis in Europe may also adversely affect the tourism industry in the MENA region due to reduction in the European consumption patterns.
Note: Perspective by Sheetal Kothari, Research Analyst, Business and Financial Services Practice, Frost & Sullivan.
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Independent contractors come with pros, cons
September 24, 2012
Many small businesses start out as a sole proprietorship with no employees. However, many find they will need some help pretty quickly. If that time is now for some of you, make sure you know the difference between an employee and an independent contractor.
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Many small businesses start out as a sole proprietorship with no employees.
However, many find they will need some help pretty quickly. If that time is now for some of you, make sure you know the difference between an employee and an independent contractor.
What is an independent contractor (IC)? An IC is considered to be in business for themselves. Other terms could be used, such as freelancers, consultants or entrepreneurs. The really important thing a small business owner should keep in mind is that independent contractors don't have the same legal status as employees.
When deciding whether to hire an employee remember that ICs are treated differently from a tax standpoint. With ICs employers pay lower taxes, and this appears very attractive to a small-business owner.
However, you should know that if you wrongly hire an employee as an IC, you may be required to pay hefty fees, as well as reimbursing them for wages that should have been paid under the Fair Labor Standards Act. You will also have to pay the government all of the back taxes that were due on a federal and or state level as well as Social Security, Medicare and unemployment.
The IRS provides information to help small business owners determine whether their workers are employees or ICs. Your accountant or attorney could assist you as well.
How much control does the worker have over how their job is done? Employees are typically controlled by employers in terms of when, where and how they work, what equipment they use and what training needs to be completed to do the job. ICs use their own tools, set their own hours and decide what method they use to complete the task.
If your small business controls how a worker is paid, whether expenses are reimbursed and whether they can seek business opportunities, they are likely to be an employee rather than a contractor. ICs can advertise freely, take on several jobs and set their own prices.
If a job done by a worker is a key aspect of the business and it is expected the relationship will continue indefinitely, they are an employee. Businesses that hire ICs expect the relationship will end when the job is completed.
Cost savings are probably the most compelling reason to hire an IC, as long as the position meets all of the IRS requirements. When hiring a contractor, you won't have to pay employee benefits, office space, equipment, insurance or payroll taxes. Using a contractor reduces liability to a business owner, who will not be as vulnerable to being sued for job discrimination or wrongful termination.
When hiring a contractor, you can choose from among those who are most skilled in a given area. This also means training will be less likely and the contractor can start producing and contributing immediately.
Because ICs are in business for themselves, they are likely to have multiple jobs going at one time. This means your job may not always be their priority. When ICs are used, there should be an understanding they will depart when the work is complete. This could create problems because your workforce is constantly changing, which can be disruptive.
Although hiring ICs can save a small business money, contractors with specialized skills could charge higher fees than you would pay an employee to do the same job.
"Business Tips" was written by Paul Howard, business development specialist and certified business adviser IV of Angelo State University's Small Business Development Center. Contact him at email@example.com.
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With the advent of the Holy Shield buff, there's simply no such thing as too much mastery -- except, you know, past the hard cap for raid bosses. That's too much. But! Up to that point, you should approach mastery the same way a grizzly bear approaches a tumultuous beehive: You want to inhale as much of that sweet, sticky mastery as you can before you get stung to death by the swarm.
I've talked about combat table coverage before in one of my first columns, and while not much has changed since then, the advent of a new tier has made complete CTC all the more attainable, and the introduction of the new Holy Shield has made it all the more desirable. The more normal hits you are able to take to the face, the less potent your Holy Shield is going to be.
We want to mitigate (har, har) that downside to the cooldown, and to do so, we need to stack as much mastery as we (safely) can. I add the word "safely" -- scare quotes and all -- because safety is key. If the mastery is the delicious treat, the ornery bees are the constant threat of scooping up too much mastery in your greedy paws and suffering from a survivability loss as a result. There's always a break point between just enough mastery and having so much that you're trading off too much stamina and avoidance for it. In the end, you'll have to feel that out for your own purposes.
That said, in this column, I'm going to outline four easy ways to boost your combat table coverage -- by hook or by crook -- so you can scrape your way to the magical 102.4% number. I'll go over an amazing addon that'll visualize the process for you, a spreadsheet that can remove the fog of war from the whole process and make gear choices much more transparent, proper consumable choices you can make, and more.


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Having gotten a first-hand report from a close friend about a meeting Gary Johnson held with a number of prominent Bay-Area libertarians last weekend, this seems like a good time to inject an optimistic counter to the pessimism engendered by Johnson's Weekly Standard interview.
My source in San Francisco tells me Johnson was actually quite adamant about foreign policy and even Israel in particular. As to the quote that seems to be an endorsement of humanitarian intervention, that sounds like rather a stretch. To take the example of a counterfactual, if America had opened the doors unconditionally to European Jews fleeing Hitler, that would have had "a positive impact on the situation" while avoiding war.
I have to say I've actually gotten quite excited thinking about a Johnson candidacy and what its impact could be in the last couple of days. To begin with, it could actually be a rather neat solution to the libertarian dilemma following the midterms. If Dan is right that the Republicans may grant Ron Paul the Chair of the Subcommittee on Monetary Policy precisely because it will keep him from running for President, this is a perfect opening for the torch to be passed to Johnson and put forward a relatively mainstream Republican that Rand can get behind.
Add to this a decent handful of House Republican endorsements, and also the fact that its been quite a while since we've heard much from Mitt Romney, who, even if he runs, his obvious phoniness could prove too much to bear. In such a scenario, Gary Johnson could become the desperate choice of the Republican establishment to stop Sarah Palin. Of course, Palin could also implode, in which case the establishment would rally to Romney to crush Johnson, but let's leave that aside for now.
It is therefore quite conceivable that Palin could win Iowa, Johnson New Hampshire, and the battle joined. The first point that bears emphasis in this scenario is that in it, there can be no doubt that the vast majority of self-identified tea party supporters will be squarely for Palin, turning a great many assumptions upside-down. Indeed, it would not be difficult for the media to spin Johnson as a "centrist" – Catoite on economics and culturally the anti-Palin to boot. The neocons, of course, would go berserk in this scenario, which is just another reason to relish it. The Kristol machine has become so invested in Sarah Palin, on top of all the damage to their conceit as self-styled "moderates" from the Bush years, that it will be very difficult for them to pivot back from the radical conceit they've adopted in the Tea Party charade.
It bears emphasis, however, that none of this is to suggest that for Gary Johnson to become the moderate or establishment choice would secure him the nomination, far from it in fact. Larison has consistently argued that the Republican establishment will win in 2012 as it always does, but there are reasons to think that this coming election could prove to be the exception to the rule, analogous to the Democrats in 1972. I have long been, and remain, agnostic about which will prove right, the point is only that there are multiple reasons for uncertainty. If anything, the lack of a candidate with the resources of Romney, especially one with the "radical" baggage of Johnson, would likely redound to Palin.
Much less, therefore, will I try to forecast what an Obama-Johnson general election race would look like. But the more important thing will surely be to build a future for principled conservatism. In my despair over the apparent trajectory of Rand Paul and the Tea Parties over the past year, one point which continued to gnaw at me was why I was demanding the perfect from conservatives while being willing to accept the less-and-less reasonably good from the liberals.
More recently, David Cameron's early start and agenda have seemed to me a fine example of the good as opposed to the perfect, but realizing this made me only despair further of any hope on this side of the pond. With many personal and policy affinities between them already, Gary Johnson may prove to be the American Cameron.


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Dr. Charles Harpe is a physician in the Park Ridge Health network. He has experience treating diabetes, cardiovascular disease, strokes, cancer and arthritic conditions. Harpe has published a book, "Naturvore Power." For more information on the "Naturvore" lifestyle, visit www.naturvore.com.
What type of doctor are you? What's your specialty?
I am trained as an internal medicine physician and have been board certified since 1996. But I also have extensive public health experience and expert knowledge in diet and fitness.
You've got some ideas about obesity in America. What do you think the issue is?
Americans fall victim to industrial food, medicine and technology that keep them sedentary and obese. There are also cultural peculiarities such as a prevalent notion that health can be manufactured and purchased (healthcare), or perhaps sustained through a new insurance scheme. It is sad to realize that the medical-industrial complex can so potently distract us from our innate power over health, while not providing an antidote for an unhealthy lifestyle. Many people stay trapped in illness as a result.
What do you think the answer to the problem is?
Stop being a victim. We can all do better. The CDC contends that at least 80 percent of chronic diseases, even cancer, are a result of the choices we make. Adults choose their exposures to foods, drugs and even most medical care in life, therefore they choose their health fate, whether it be for better or worse. Many of our cultural "treats," including American-style medical care, are consumed with little respect for their side effects.
What is your book about?
"Naturvore Power" is about my journey as a man and as a physician, wherein I reclaim my natural power. Woven into my chronology is a unique overview of the challenges Americans face with regard to their health. Speaking from experience, I convey a sense of urgency and desperation to our individual plights while illuminating the interplay between our culture and our physical nature.
One-half of the book details problems, but the second half of my book provides solutions — the most practical means for sustaining health. I want people to understand that they are the most powerful health agent in their life, much more powerful than a medical system will ever be. I aim to lift people up and stop the unnecessary suffering in their lives!
How have your ideas impacted you personally?
Eating as I do improved my exercise, my body, my brain and my ability to heal people professionally. Nothing I recommend or do personally is difficult, yet the fruits have been tremendous.
What would your message to the community be about their diet?
Avoid manufactured foods and embrace the foods of Mother Nature in their whole state. Move, move, move to strengthen your stance. Don't accept the notion that disease is unavoidable or that "chronic disease under optimal management" equates to health. Raise your expectations for life now!
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Dr. Charles Harpe is a physician in the Park Ridge Health network. He has experience treating diabetes, cardiovascular disease, strokes, cancer and arthritic conditions. Harpe has published a book, "Naturvore Power." For more information on the "Naturvore" lifestyle, visit www.naturvore.com.


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THQ recently shifted its corporate strategy towards fewer, but more focused releases. On the down side, this resulted in studio closures, project cancellations, and layoffs. Executive vice-president and CFO Paul Pucino spoke to investors at a technology conference today, and defended the company's decision.
"The two we just shut in Australia were working on games that aren't consistent with our strategy anymore - one on a movie tie-in, one on a kids' game," said Pucino said, according to Edge. "Our strategy now is bringing fewer, bigger triple-A titles to market: one or two original IPs each year, and sequelling them every two to two-and-a-half years."
The strategy places increased pressure to perform on the Montreal studio, which Pucino says "will grow from 150 to 400 employees in the next couple of years." This will help them make games for 40% less than other studios, according to THQ, and Pucino stressed reducing the cost of bringing games to market.
To put investors' minds at east, THQ expects the quarter ending December 31 to be one of its biggest, with heavy sales projected for Saints Row: The Third and uDraw for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The Montreal studio is working on at least two games, hence the heavy growth plan, and also gained the Homefront franchise.


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Our ADF&G is going to be needing lots of emergency orders for the future as they have commercially wiped-out our marine prey for juvenal king salmon. Ocean juvenal king prey has been reduced by 98 percent by commercial crab fisheries, therefore it is very likely that our kings are starving to death. Our ADF&G should know this but they do not. The ADF&G can only shout "It's natural low abundance!" There is a low abundance of prey for our juvenal kings but it's not natural, it's ADF"&G caused by excess commercial fishing for herring and crab along with excess commercial by-catch on adult kings.
1950 lower 48 east coast commercial fisheries caught so many cod that they caused their cod fisheries collapse by 1970. 1930 depression era farmers plowed up the grassy prairies but caused The Great Dust Bowl. World War II era dam builders produced cheap electricity but killed most of their salmon. The lower 48 west coast timber industry cut so many trees that they eroded and silted their river thus killing most of their salmon. 1990 lower 48 west coast commercial salmon fisheries caught so many salmon that they help cause their salmon fisheries collapse by 2000. Before 1980 Florida had a massive tarpon resource but they allowed excess commercial harvest of tarpon prey like blue crab, pink shrimp and toadfish, thus causing their tarpon to collapse by 1990. Many claimed these losses were the result of "a natural cycle." Excess commercial harvest has depleted Alaska's herring, crab and now king salmon resources. Our ADF&G is claiming "a natural low abundance" but we are compelled to ask if this is in fact "a natural cycle" or the direct results of the same excessive commercial activities and mis-management which has plagued our past?


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Volleyball Entertains Western Carolina and Appalachian State
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – With only six matches remaining in the regular season, the UNCG volleyball team welcomes Western Carolina and Appalachian State to Fleming Gymnasium for a pair of important Southern Conference contests. The Spartans and Catamounts battle Friday while the Blue and Gold faces the Mountaineers Saturday. Both matches are scheduled for a 7 p.m. start.
UNCG (13-10, 6-4 SoCon) enters the weekend in a four-way tie for third place with Western Carolina (16-8, 6-4 SoCon), Samford and Elon while Appalachian State (14-10, 5-5 SoCon) sits just a game behind the group in seventh. The top eight teams in the standings qualify for the league tournament.
The Spartans picked up pair of SoCon victories last weekend at home, defeating Wofford and second-place Furman both in four sets. Freshman setter Sara Hohman (Zionsville, Ind./Cathedral) was named the Southern Conference Freshman of the Week as she posted two double-doubles and set career highs in assists (54) and digs (22) against the Paladins. UNCG out-hit both teams by a combined .281-.129 while also racking up 14.25 kills, 13.38 assists, 1.50 aces, 16.75 digs and 2.69 blocks per set.
Since league play has started, the Spartans have put up some nice statistical numbers. In SoCon matches, UNCG ranks first in hitting percentage and opponent hitting percentage, second in digs per set and fourth in assists per set, kills per set, blocks per set and aces per set.
Individually, senior middle hitter Morgan Freeman (Virginia Beach, Va./University of Connecticut) and junior middle hitter Vicky Harley (Blythewood, S.C./Blythewood) are fourth and sixth in the league in hitting percentage, sophomore libero Katherine Santiago (San Juan, Puerto Rico/Colegio Adianez) is fifth in digs per set, Freeman is sixth in blocks per set and Hohman is eighth in assists per set.
Humphries paces the offensive attack for the Blue and Gold this season with 273 kills (3.14 per set) and is hitting .235 while Santiago leads the defense with 396 digs (4.55 per set). Freeman also tops the squad in aces per set (0.24) and blocks per set (0.86).
The Catamounts are coming off a three-set loss at Appalachian State Sunday, splitting the season series with the Mountaineers. WCU has cooled off recently, having dropped four of its last six after putting together a six-match winning streak in late September. Jordan Timmerman has emerged as the top offensive player for the Catamounts as she owns 299 kills (3.44 per set) and is hitting .227. Cristina Nazario has run the offense at the setter position to the tune of 887 assists (10.20 per set) while Morgan Cochran is the top libero statistically in the league with 535 digs (6.15 per set). UNCG and Western split a pair of matches last season with both squads winning on their home floors. The Catamounts lead the series between the programs 19-14.
Appalachian State is playing well as of late, entering the weekend on a three-match winning streak. Emily Corrigan is the top offensive option for the Mountaineers as she boasts 321 kills (3.57 per set). Lauren Gray is hitting a team-best .363 while Paige Brown takes care of the setting duties and is averaging 11.10 assists per set. Defensively, Meghan Mahoney anchors the back row and has tallied a squad-high 488 digs (5.42 per set). UNCG won both meetings between the schools last season and leads the series 22-21.
The Spartans head back on the road next weekend for a couple of rematches with Furman (Friday) and Wofford (Saturday). Both contests are slated for 6 p.m.


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Home funerals are legal and safe
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So rest assured you are not wrong in these conditions. But it sounds like that isn't the real issue here.
This is actually a situation where I think having two separate showers would be a kindness to the guests, not rudeness.
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I'm not exactly sure what this is - it appears to be crocheted, and it's quite long, over two feet. I suppose it could be a bookmark, but it seems a bit too fancy for such a humble task. Any guesses?
Found in (well, around actually, as pictured in the photo) "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham. Published by Garden City Publishing Co., 1939.
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10 comments:
- mim said...
Yes, it is crochet, and I guess not a bookmark, but a book belt (or just a belt for a child?)
- July 22, 2013 at 1:51 PM
- Kris said...
Looks like a belt to me.
- July 22, 2013 at 2:01 PM
- Elaine Jarvis said...
A Belt in the making?
- July 22, 2013 at 2:02 PM
- Patrica Ball Morrison said...
Perhaps a strap for a woman's over the shoulder handbag...cannot determine it its crochet, macrame or knitting...most interesting book mark, one could tie a book around and tote it along.
- July 22, 2013 at 2:23 PM
- Stacie said...
There are some knit or crochet patterns out there for bookmarks that wrap around the book. Like a fancier version of a normal bookmark. They usually have some sort of clasp, though.
- July 22, 2013 at 3:41 PM
- Stacie said...
Here's an example of the type I'm talking about:
- July 22, 2013 at 4:14 PM
- mejaka said...
Patricia, I would say crochet, as it looks very similar to a coverlet my mother spent years making; the pattern for that used some of the same stitches as I can see in this.
- July 23, 2013 at 10:32 AM
- hotclaws said...
I'd call it tatting.
- July 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM
- Jil Casey said...
I like the idea of it being a book holder/belt
- July 30, 2013 at 12:15 AM
- Synthia said...
The book "Of Human Bondage" was found tied up with a book belt. Am I the only one who finds that funny?
- August 31, 2013 at 11:46 PM


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Iraqi soldiers backed by tanks retook control of a Sunni town north of Baghdad on Friday after gunmen withdrew without a fight, although violence erupted at three Sunni mosques and clerics called for the formation of a tribal army to protect Sunni cities.
The Sunni gunmen had seized Suleiman Beg on Thursday after a firefight with security forces, one in a string of incidents that have killed more than 170 people in a spate of violence and clashes in Sunni Muslim towns in western and northern Iraq during the past four days.
The growing turmoil prompted UN Envoy to Iraq Martin Kobler on Friday to warn that the country is "at a crossroads."
Iraqi police and military officials said army units entered the town after negotiations with local tribal leaders.
The recent unrest in the country followed a deadly security crackdown on a Sunni protest in the town of Hawija four days ago.
In Iraq's predominantly Sunni provinces, anti-government rallies continued as preachers at protest sites called for the formation of tribal army that would protect Sunni areas from attacks by government forces.
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In Fallujah, Sunni cleric Ali al-Basra repeated the call to form a tribal army to protect Sunni cities. Several protesters held al-Qaeda flags aloft during the rally.
The new calls for Sunnis to take up arms could further raise the tension between the government and the Sunni minority. Maliki appeared on national television on Thursday to appeal for calm.
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"The country is at a crossroads," he said. "It is the historical responsibility of all Iraqi leaders to assume leadership and take bold initiatives, such as sitting together and calling in one voice for immediate restoration of calm and for a broad-based national dialogue."
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FITCHBURG -- Passengers whooped and cheered when the 1929 Ford Tri-Motor airplane came to a stop Monday afternoon, fresh from a sightseeing tour that lets modern passengers experience the thrills of the golden age of aviation.
The historic airplane is making figure eights in the sky over Fitchburg and Leominster today, giving 10 paying passengers at a time a chance to experience what aviation was like before climate-controlled cabins, tray tables and in-flight catalogs.
"The sound is a lot louder," shouted passenger Ray Crouse as his 20-minute flight touched down on the runway at Fitchburg Municipal Airport on Monday afternoon.
The thin aluminum walls fail to dampen the roar of the three engines, one located in the nose and another on each wing, and Crouse had to shout to be heard.
Crouse, 64, of Shrewsbury, came with his father and four brothers, all lifelong airplane enthusiasts and pilots. During the flight, passengers snapped photos and took short amateur videos from their seats.
"I'd do it again in a heartbeat," Crouse said.
The plane had to make sharp banks to stay within the area, and Crouse said the only bumps in the journey were from turbulence caused by the summer heat.
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"Back then, that was the only breeze you got," said passenger George Clem, 67, of Leominster.
An aviation and airplane-crew chief in the Marines during the Vietnam era, Clem said he was interested in taking the flight Monday because the C117 and C47 military passenger vehicles he worked with were forerunners of the Tri-Motor.
Fitchburg Mayor Lisa Wong attended the first flight Monday.
"Flying aboard the Ford was really wonderful, and I am happy that Fitchburg Airport can host this event," she said.
The plane is on a national tour through the Experimental Aircraft Association, which provided the pilot and co-pilot.
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The women's soccer team, having a tough season at 3-7 and having lost Friday night's conference opener against Charlotte, got some of what they needed Sunday with a 4-0 win over winless Old Dominion at Camp Mitch. Junior Ashleigh Shim scored twice, senior Nicole DiPerna and Junior Johanna Volz got the other two goals in FIU's first Conference USA win.
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In the NFL, Jacksonville safety Johnathan Cyprien had four tackles in Jacksonville's 37-3 loss to Indianapolis, one of which was of T.Y. Hilton. Hilton has five catches for 48 yards. Linebacker Antwan Barnes had a sack for the Jets in their loss to Tennessee. Look for Tourek Williams to get more playing time in San Diego now that Dwight Freeney's suffered yet another serious injury (that man does not have good fortune near Chargers colors). Offensive tackle Caylin Hauptmann was active, but didn't play for Seattle against Houston.
And the line on Saturday's football game at Southern Mississippi dropped to Southern Miss favored by 15.


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I have a Lincoln Vantage 300 with the Kubota engine. I really like the welder,but I wish it would rev up like the old SA-200's I used to run. They would almost instantly be at high idle when striking an arc,thus having the necessary heat/amperage right now. My diesel engine driven welder is not like that,it takes maybe about a second to be at high idle,thus a cold arc for that short time,sometimes resulting in porosity. Are all diesel engine driven welders like this? Thanks for any input.
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Something sounds wonky...
The vantage 400 perkins i had experience with didn't have any control of idle speeds that could be set by the welder. I think most of them run at 1800 rpm , then will grunt and snort and increase if necessary to maintain the set amperage. This was all done automatically by the machine itself. I have run lots of rental machine and company ones with the perkins engines , and they are as bulletproof as you can get. This is not to say the kubotas are not just as good, i ran a red-d-arc (lincoln classic 300 with the kubota and i couldnt tell any real difference. the pipeliner 200s with the kubota had some idle adjustment deal on them , but i never seen one, most were the perkins.I have a welding addiction
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I'm not familiar with your exact machine. But isnt there a switch to keep it on high?! Run - idle/run off!! Sometimes what I do when I'm welding pipe is... tap the electrode on the pipe next to the joint just enough to get my machine To rev. Then strike an arc and weld the joint. Or the grinder is usually right there I'll just flick it on n off too.
my classic 3d with the continental has no lag it goes to high idle immediately. I would think if your machine is slow to rev to high idle that you have a fuel problem. I would start by replacing the fuel filters. You may also have a problem with a lack of fuel delivery. This could be a plugged screen in the sediment bowl { if it has one** plugged lines or a weak transfer pump. It is also possible that you have an injection pump problem. Water is the worst enemy of injection pumps.
Originally posted by J hall View PostI haven't noticed any lag in mine. Has yours always done this?
Talked to a Kubota rep today about this and he mentioned that the Kubota was only a 22 horse engine powering the welder,and this could be the reason. I didn't think of it at the time but one of the engines available in Miller's Big Blue 300 Pro is only a 20.2 horse Kubota. It is also available with a 21.7 Cat or the 24.4 horse Mitsubishi.
Any difference with the air filter removed? Were the rings seated under load (like a load bank)? Have you pulled the injectors?
I don't have any solid knowledge of the electric side of that welder (where the potential problem could be), but way too much with the diesel itself.
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Ditto the video. Also, I had an issue with my TB a while back, that the idle up/idle down was erratic. Turns out that the bushing that the linkage turned on (whick is hidden from view) was sticking. Disassembled and cleaned/lubed it and it works fine. You might try operating whatever makes it change by hand and see how easily it moves.
Originally posted by J hall View PostWhat size of electrode/ wire are you lighting up when this happens?
Made a huge difference when I tightened the nut on the linkage where the solenoid arm connects to the arm on my injector pump. I think it must have been missed being tightened right from the factory. It always seemed to idle up slow,not now though. The way it was it also never achieved its top rated speed also. I can tell now it runs faster. Before with the solenoid fully extended,and with the loose nut,it allowed a lot of slop in the linkeage. I used to run 3/16 low hydrogen and it made the welder snort. I need to run some more of this to see the difference. But now its like a whole different machine. Thanks for all the input though guys.


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Santa Barbara, Calif. - Backed by a solid team attack and 18 kills from senior opposite Evan Patak, the UC Santa Barbara men's volleyball team opened its 2007 campaign with a 3-0 exhibition victory over Thompson Rivers University Tuesday at Robertson Gymnasium.
Game scores were 30-23, 30-28, and 30-20.
In the opening game, UCSB jumped out to a 10-3 lead as the Gauchos rattled off six straight points that included back-to-back kills from junior middle Theo Brunner, a 2006 All-MPSF Honorable Mention selection. Thompson Rivers, out of Kamloops, British Columbia, would close the gap to three at 18-15 on a service ace by Robin Schoebel, but that is as close as it would get for the remainder of the game.
UCSB, which hit .347 on the night, had its best offensive showing in game one by swinging at a .464 clip with 17 kills and just four errors in 28 attempts.
The Gauchos started strong again in the second stanza and rolled to a 6-2 advantage on a kill by junior outside Michael Fisher. However, the WolfPack picked up its momentum and had the game tied 9-9 as Schoebel had three kills and Troy Jaggard added a pair in the spurt. Hitting and service errors by TRU and three kills from Patak put UCSB back up by six points at 18-12. Several attack errors by the Gauchos allowed TRU back in the game and the WolfPack took its first lead of the night (23-22) on a miscue by Patak. Both squads traded points and the game was even at 28-28 before Patak iced the 30-28 win with back-to-back kills.
The WolfPack led by as many as three points early in game three before Brunner put UCSB up for good with a kill to give the Gauchos a 13-12 advantage. TRU kept close until UCSB rattled off four straight points on kills by Patak and senior middle David Kennedy and two hitting errors by Tony Zylstra, giving UCSB a 21-15 edge. The WolfPack never recovered and didn't close the gap any closer than five for the remainder of the deciding game.
Thompson Rivers hit just .138 in the third game and .168 for the match.
Patak's 18 kills was a match-high. He ended up hitting .375 with six errors in 32 swings. Both Brunner and Fisher hit .500 with Brunner amassing nine kills and Fisher eight. Brunner also added three blocks. Senior setter Bart Kowalski, who took a redshirt in 2006, returned to the floor and totaled 30 assists. Defensively, Fisher and senior libero Tyson Norton each finished with a match co-high six digs.
Two TRU players reached double figures in kills as Kyle Brewer and Schoebel each put down 10. Setter Colin Jaggard recorded 33 assists and both Jaggard and Brewer led the team with five digs apiece.
UCSB opens its regular season Jan. 5-6 as it hosts the 43rd Annual UCSB/Elephant Bar Collegiate Invitational. Also competing will be Cal State Northridge, Long Beach State, Pacific, Stanford, UC Irvine, UCLA, and USC. The Gauchos, seeded third, open play against sixth-seeded USC Jan. 5 at 1 p.m. in Robertson Gymnasium.


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