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Raleigh Register
West Virginia Confederate Veterans Will Meet Here
Preparations Already Under Way For Their Entertainment September 5th.
August 1, 1918
West Virginia Confederate Veterans Will Meet Here
Preparations Already Under Way For Their Entertainment September 5th.
Beckley is to be the concentration point of all West Virginia soldiers of the Confederacy who still live on Thursday, September 5th. The annual state encampment of the old vets is to be held here on that day. A committee, headed by C. L. Beckner, is already at work on preparations to make their visit to Beckley one of the most pleasant of any of the state encampments ever held.
A feature of the encampment will probably be a bivouac of the old soldiers on the night of the 5th. Most of the attending veterans are expected to reach Beckley on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 4th. The 5th will be spent in entertainment and the business of the gathering, and on the 6th the heroes of the lost cause will disperse for another year.
On the committee of arrangements with Mr. Beckner are Captain James H. Lemon and J. O. Freeman. William Prince, of Prince, and I. C. Prine, of Beckley, are sponsors of the encampment, and they with the arrangements committee are planning entertainments for the visiting veterans that will be both novel and pleasing.
The coming of the veterans to Beckley for their state meeting stamps Beckley as a convention city of the first water. It will be the third state convention held here this year. First, in June, came the Odd Fellows state encampment, then in July the Loyal Order of Moose state convention, and now the annual state encampment of the Confederate Veterans. Our little mountain city is to be congratulated on these meetings.
Confederate Veterans Of State Here For Reunion
Vanguard of Grizzled Gray Army Arrived in Beckley Wednesday Afternoon.
September 5, 1918
Confederate Veterans Of State Here For Reunion
Vanguard of Grizzled Gray Army Arrived in Beckley Wednesday Afternoon.
Beckley is host this week to the annual reunion of the Confederate Veterans of West Virginia, the vanguard of whom arrived here Wednesday afternoon. The business session of the reunion is to be held Thursday, but most of the time of the visiting veterans will be spent in renewing acquaintances, making new ones, and swap[p]ing reminiscences of the desperate struggle of 1861 to 1865.
The committee on arrangements, composed of C. L. Beckner, Capt. James H. Lemon, and J. O. Freeman, has done its work well, and all the visitors will be well cared for during their stay in Beckley. The entertainment features of the reunion are being provided by Hon. I. C. Prince, of Beckley, and Hon William Prince of Prince. They are to consist of a big dinnenr [sic] at the Beckley hotel at noon Thursday, and an automobile tour of the country around Beckley, including visits to some of the big coal mining plants of this vicinity.
Commander Peyton of Ronceverte, is said to be too ill to attend the reunion, a circumstance that is sure to cause widespread regret among the veterans. His adjutant, C. L. Thompson, of Huntington, a brother of Hon. W. R. Thompson, is expected to be present, however, as is also Col. McChestney [sic], of Charleston.
Reunion headquarters will be in the grand jury room of the court house. As the veterans arrive they are to be escorted to the headquarters to be assigned to quarters during their stay in the city. Private families by the score have thrown their homes open to the visitors, and they will be assigned to the various homes as fast as they come in.
Everybody is asked to extend to the veterans the hand of welcome, and to make their stay in Beckley as pleasant as possible.
Welcome Heroes of '61-'65
September 5, 1918
Welcome Heroes of '61-'65
Beckley extends a hearty welcome to the Confederate Veterans of West Virginia, who are now gathering here for their annual state reunion, the vanguard arriving Wednesday morning in time to witness the departure of a younger company of heroes for Camp Lee to enter training for the great struggle in Europe. As the Old Boys stood and watched the young fellows march away with swinging gait there was in the hearts of all the little group a wish that they might join them in the present struggle for all that civilization holds dear.
Though they were the champions of a mistaken idea, and scarce a one but is ready to admit it now, the grizzled veterans of the war for secession are no less honored than the veterans of the north, hailed as preservers of the union.
They gallantly fought a good fight for their convictions of right, for which we honor any man or set of men. And they fought like men, not like savages. How nobly they and their chivalrous leaders stand forth in comparison with the present-day enemies of the nation and their hideous methods of warfare when we think of the charge of General Lee to his men as they prepared for the invasion of the north, "we war not on unarmed men, or on women and children," and when we remember how well his admonition was observed, we can say feelingly:
All honor to you, Heroes of the Lost Cause! Welcome to our midst, and may your stay be so pleasant as to linger in memory through the remaining years of your sojourn here.
Beckley Entertains Fine Gathering Of Confederates
Eighty Grizzled Veterans in Gray Attend Annual State Reunion Here Last Week.
September 12, 1918
Beckley Entertains Fine Gathering Of Confederates
Eighty Grizzled Veterans in Gray Attend Annual State Reunion Here Last Week.
The annual reunion of West Virginia Confederate veterans of the Civil War held in Beckley last Thursday was one of the most successful state gathering of the rapidly thinning ranks of gray that has been held in many a year. The register at headquarters showed that a total of eight of the remaining heroes of the lost cause living in this end of the state had journeyed for one more touch of elbows with the comrades in arms during the four terrible years when they endured untold hardships together.
That the reunion was a gladsome affair and afforded much pleasure to the old men was evident from the expressions on all their faces. The complimentary dinner served the Beckley hotel was a delightful feature not to the diners alone but to many local people who dropped in to witness the gathering. Their picture was taken grouped about the court house steps, and each man was presented with one of them.
The formal session of the vets was featured by an address by General C. C. Watts, of Charleston, in the course of which their fealty to America was again pledged. Resolutions also pledged their all to the cause of the United States in the present war, and struck out vigorously against the acceptance of a premature peace.
The resolutions follow:
"Resolved by the United Confederate Veterans of West Virginia in convention assembled in the city of Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia,
(1) That we look with patriotic pride and deep devotion to the record that the American solders are making and have already made of "heroism and valor" upon the bloody fields of France in the cause of liberty and humanity.
(2) That we pledge our persons and our property to the continued and vigorous prosecution of the war to final and complete victory, completing the overthrow of Prussian autocracy and righting in Berlin, the foul wrongs perpetrated upon mankind and womanhood by an insolent and brutal Germanic militarism.
(3) That we endorse the splendid and superb administration of our beloved president, Woodrow Wilson. We heartily and unqualifiedly approve his bold, courageous and Christian stand in this war, in behalf of civilization and humanity throughout the civilized world, which, "in the confidence of faith" the valor of our soldiers, we know will in due time triumph in favor of America and her allies.
(4) That we acknowledge with profound gratitude and a high sense of appreciation the splendid entertainment, generous hospitality and cordial greeting extended to us by the city of Beckley, the committee on arrangements, and the people generally of the city of Beckley and the county of Raleigh.
(5) That we recognize in the cordial fraternal greeting extended to us, a tribute of respect and affection for the cause to which we gave our all, and whose glorious memory we cherish with undying devotion.
(6) That we behold with civic pride the splendor of the city's business, educational and religious structures, as also the ample, elaborate, and artistic private residences of her citizenry.
(7) That we shall return to our homes in the different parts of the state feeling the better for having come to Beckley, and with lasting impressions of gratitude and good will toward her people and her committees both in and outside of her limits in the good county of Raleigh, as well as to those generous and devoted friends from the outside whose devotion to the cause has manifested itself in many beautiful and substantial ways.
(8) That the papers of the city and throughout the state be requested to publish these resolutions.
Respectfully submitted,
A complete list of the men attending the reunion is as follows:
T. R. WEBB, Forest Hill, W. Va., 26th Battalion, Camp Allen Woodrum.
M. C. HAYS, Ansted, W. Va., Co. K, 14th Virginia Calvary [sic].
W. M. FOSTER, Indian Mills, W. Va., Co. A, 60th Virginia Regiment.
J. B. THOMPSON, 26th Virginia Battalion, Camp Allen Woodrum, Talcott, W. Va.
W. J. SWEENEY, Ghent, W. Va., Co. D, 17th Virginia Calvary [sic[, Jenkins' Brigade.
LEWIS H. BROYLES, Red Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Lowery Battery, King's Battalion.
J. W. PUGH, Algoquin, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Virginia Battalion.
LEWIS LILLY, Mt. View, W. Va., Co. A, 36th Virginia Battalion.
G. W. SHUMATE, Bolt, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Virginia Battalion.
J. J. FULLEN, Salt Sulphur Springs, W. Va., Co. B, 26th Virginia Infantry.
PLES SLAYTON, Ansted, W. Va., 13th Artillery Battery.
A. J. HONAKER, Beckley, W. Va., Co. F, 45th Virginia Regiment.
J. A. FOSTER, Bellepoint, W. Va., Phil Thurmond's Rangers.
JNO. A. HANDLEY, Lewisburg, W. Va., Co. K, 14th Virginia Cavalry.
J. A. WIKEL, Bellepoint, W. Va., Co. C, 60th Virginia Regiment.
R. T. HILLERY, Ronceverte, W. Va., Co. B, 25th Virginia Regiment.
ALEX JOHNSON, Lewisburg, W. Va., Co. K, 14th Virginia Cavalry.
JOHN MURPHEY, Ronceverte, W. Va., Co. F, 19th Virginia Cavalry.
COL. W. H. CACKLEY, Ronceverte, W. Va., Co. F, 19th Virginia Cavalry.
GEN. C. C. WATTS, Charleston, W. Va., Co. C, Mosby's Calvary [sic].
DR. LAWRENCE CARR, Charleston, W. Va., 10th platoon Engineers.
C. L. PECK, Lick Creek, W. Va., Co. B, 37th Virginia Calvary.
C. M. FARRER, Levi, W. Va., Co. A, 36th Virginia Infantry.
M. H. SCAGGS, Ansted, W. Va., Co. C, 22nd Virginia Infantry.
WILLIAM PRINCE, Prince, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Virginia Infrantry [sic].
W. P. M'GRAW, Ansted, W. Va.
J. W. COINER, Pence Springs, W. Va., Chapman's Battalion.
T. G. CARDEN, Pence Springs, W. Va., King's Battalion.
W. P. HAYNES, Wolf Creek, W. Va., Thurmond's Rangers.
JUDGE A. N. CAMPBELL, Union, W. Va., Lowry's Battalion.
JAMES J. M'CHESNEY, Charleston, W. Va., Co. C, 14th Virginia Cavalry.
C. L. THOMPSON, Huntington, W. Va., Co. H, 22nd Virginia Infrantry [sic].
W. T. SHUMATE, Beckley, W. Va.
WILLIAM HINTON, Hinton, W. Va., Thurmond's Rangers.
T. J. HOLSTINE, Talcott, W. Va., Co. F, Edgar's Battalion.
RICHARD MARTIN, Hinton, W. Va., Co. D, 17th Virginia Cavalry.
ALLEN WISEMAN, Mingo County, W. Va., Edgar's Battalion.
J. E. HATCHER, Beckley, W. Va., 23rd Battalion.
J. H. CAMMACK, Huntington, W. Va., 31st Virginia Infantry, afterwards 20th Cavalry.
J. A. GUNNOE, Beckley, W. Va., 45th Virginia Battalion.
A. L. M'CLURE, Grandview, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Virginia Regiment.
W. J. H. FARLEY, Epperley, W. Va., Witcher's Battalion.
J. S. LESTER, Maynor, W. Va., Capt. Richardson's Co.
G. L. WILBURN, Mabscott, W. Va., Co. D, 7th Virginia Regiment (Pickett's Division).
WM. M. JOHNSON, Warden, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Virginia Infantry.
O. C. HARVEY, Sr., Beckley, W. Va., Co. I, 6th Virginia Regiment.
J. H. LEMON, Beckley, W. Va., 36th Virginia Regiment.
ELKHANNAH BRAMMER, Mabscott, W. Va., Co. I, 60th Virginia Infantry.
J. M. CREWS, Beckley, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Virginia Regiment.
G. W. GIBSON, Beckley, W. Va., Co. B, 24th Virginia Regiment.
C. B. MAHOOD, Oak Hill, W. Va., Stark's Battalion.
J. R. HUDDLESTON, Oak Hill, W. Va., 60th Virginia Regiment.
J. L. DUNCAN, Oak Hill, W. Va., Thurmond's Rangers.
T. P. SHAVER, Thurmond, W. Va., Edgar's Battalion.
P. T. BORRER, Princeton, W. Va., Davidson's Battalion.
T. C. MADDY, Talcott, W. Va., 26th Virginia Battalion.
C. R. CRAWFORD, Ballengee, W. Va., Co. F, 26th Virginia Battalion.
J. N. PREAS, Marshes, W. Va., 58th Virginia Regiment.
H. G. PRINCE, Tralee, W. Va., Co. E, 17th Virginia Cavalry.
E. D. GEORGE, Beckley, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Virginia Regiment.
J. G. ALLEN, Mabscott, W. Va., Huffman's Regiment.
J. M. REED, Glen Lynn, W. Va., Co. B, 43rd Regiment.
TAZWELL WORLEY, Beckley, W. Va., Co. G, 23rd Battalion.
W. L. SIMMONS, Jumping Branch, W. Va., Co. A, 54th Virginia Regiment.
S. C. COLEMAN, Beckley, W. Va., Co. C, 22nd Regiment.
GEORGE TAYLOR, Wickham, W. Va., 11th Virginia Regiment.
H. T. HANCOCK, Beckley, W. Va., Clark's Battalion, and 41st Virginia and Horton's Brigade.
J. D. GEORGE, Beckley, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Virginia.
H. C. THOMPSON, Mercer County, W. Va., Co. G, 24th Virginia.
CARRY LONEY, Boone County, W. Va., Co. I, 22nd Virginia.
E. B. STOVER, Sylvia, W. Va., 27th Virginia Battalion Calvary [sic].
S. B. HILL, Raleigh county, W. Va., Co. C, 45th Battalion.
G. A. KIDD, Wickham, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Regiment.
D. L. MAYNOR, Raleigh county, W. Va., Co. A, Clark's Battalion.
HUSTON DAVIS, Raleigh county, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Regiment
JAS. H. COOK, Raleigh county, W. Va., Co. A, Clark's Battalion.
T. C. TRAIL, Raleigh county, W. Va., Co. B, 37th Battalion.
ZENO GARDEN, Co. C, 24th Regiment, Kemper's Division.
B. F. LEWIS, Raleigh county, W. Va., Co. A, Clark's Battalion.
J. L. SOLESBURY, Raleigh county, W. Va., Co. A, 45th Regiment.
J. T. UNDERWOOD, Floyd county, Va., Co. A, 24th Regiment.
WILLIAM MAHOOD, Fayetteville, W. Va., 36th Virginia Regiment.
STEPHEN ARTHUR, Fayetteville, W. Va., Thurmond's Rangers.
J. H. CRAWFORD, Glen Morgan, W. Va.
JNO. W. BALL, Beckley, W. Va., Edgar's Battalion.
THOS. MEADOWS, Winding Gulf, W. Va., Co. C, 36th Virginia Regiment.
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Promoting literacy with mobile phones in rural Papua New Guinea
Last year I spent some time in Papua New Guinea (or PNG, as it is often called), where the World Bank is supporting a number of development projects, and has activities in both the ICT and education sectors. For reasons historical (PNG became an independent nation only in 1975, breaking off from Australia), economic (Australia's is by far PNG's largest export market) and geographical (the PNG capital, Port Moresby, lies about 500 miles from Cairns, across the Coral Sea), Australia provides a large amount of support to the education sector in Papua New Guinea, and I was particularly interested in learning lessons from the experiences of AusAid, the (now former) Australian donor agency.
For those who haven't been there: PNG is a truly fascinating place. It is technically a middle income country because of its great mineral wealth but, according to the Australian government, "Despite positive economic growth rates in recent years, PNG's social indicators are among the worst in the Asia Pacific. Approximately 85 per cent of PNG's mainly rural population is poor and an estimated 18 per cent of people are extremely poor. Many lack access to basic services or transport. Poverty, unemployment and poor governance contribute to serious law and order problems."
Among other things, PNG faces vexing (and in some instances, rather unique) circumstances related to remoteness (overland travel is often difficult and communities can be very isolated from each other as a result; air travel is often the only way to get form one place to another: with a landmass approximately that of California, PNG has 562 airports -- more, for example, than China, India or the Philippines!) and language (PNG is considered the most linguistically diverse country in the world, with over 800 (!) languages spoken). The PNG education system faces a wide range of challenges as a result. PNG ranks only 156th on the Human Development Index and has a literacy rate of less than 60%. As an overview from the Australian government notes,
"These include poor access to schools, low student retention rates and issues in the quality of education. It is often hard for children to go to school, particularly in the rural areas, because of distance from villages to schools, lack of transport, and cost of school fees. There are not enough schools or classrooms to take in all school-aged children, and often the standard of school buildings is very poor. For those children who do go to school, retention rates are low. Teacher quality and lack of required teaching and educational materials are ongoing issues."
[For those who are interested, here is some general background on PNG from the World Bank, and from the part of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade that used to be known as AusAid, a short report about World Bank activities to support education in PNG from last year and an overview of the World Bank education project called READ PNG.]
If you believe that innovation often comes about in response to tackling great challenges, sometimes in response to scarcities of various sorts, Papua New Guinea is perhaps one place to put that belief to the test.
Given the many great challenges facing PNG's education sector,
its low current capacity to meet these challenges,
and the fact that 'business as usual' is not working,
while at the same time mobile phone use has been growing rapidly across society,
might ICTs, and specifically mobile phones,
offer new opportunities to help meet many long-standing, 'conventional' needs
in perhaps 'unconventional' ways?
A small research project called SMS Story has been exploring answers to this question.


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Hey Zhen,
Yeah, I'm looking to hit as well.
Hi Kyle: where do you normally play. I have access to Arroyo Seco Racquet Club and Whittier Narrows Tennis Center as long as there is a court. otherwise i am hitting around the area on any open court. I would prefer hit somewhere on public court for the first time. feel free to text or call me 323-377-3043. Hope to set something up for next weekend. my email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
I can play around those areas. What are some names of some parks of some open courts?
Let me know if you want to hit, Zhen.
Hi Tim: When would you be available? I am looking at next weekend if that works. Please text me or call me at 3233773043. my email is email@example.com. The message services here is too slow.
I'll let you know around Friday, and I got your info. Looking forward to the hit!
Thank Tim. Looking forward to it as well.
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If you are new to BigData concepts you can start with this
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I've gone of many pore covering products over the years because I find most of them quite heavy and can cause spots!! I'd rather have a few visible pores then get a load of blackhead, you know?
Nevertheless I thought Etude House's Goodbye Pore Ever range extremely cute in a Benefit kinda way. There are 2 products in the range, the Primer Essence in a tube and a Pore Primer Stick. I bought both:
The Essence which is in the tube is moisturising, can be used over a larger area, and controls oil and hides pores.
The Stick can be applied under or over make up and hides pores also but is more concentrated for a lot of coverage. Both are very silicone-y.
Both of these products are quite mini:
Because of the portion sizes (ahem) these are definitely just for spot application, not for all over.
The Pore Primer Stick is mini sized, like a lip balm. It is really like a solid lip balm type stick:
There's no scent I can detect, it feels like you are polly-filla-ing your pores which is cathartic but also quite sad because I think about the pore pores suffocating away! It works very well though!
The essence is a surprisingly lightweight white lotion. It is really not heavy and lightly blurs out the pores but not to a major extent. It seems to smooth the surface but it doesn't 'hide the holes' so much! This smells a bit floral to me – it's fine.
Here are the results of using the stick. It's pretty good. If you had great skin bar pores you could so use this on it's own. Under foundation well…it didn't make it sit very nicely at all.


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MCNA Comments Submitted to DOJ
Music Creators North America, Inc.
210 Jamestown Park Road Suite 100 Brentwood, Tennessee 37027 615 742 9945
July 15, 2016
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Hesse United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Re: Review of ASCAP/BMI Consent Decrees and Related Issues Dear Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Hesse:
The following comments are submitted by Music Creators North America, Inc. on behalf of a global coalition of half a million songwriters and composers from the United States, Canada and our global sister organizations, in response to the request from your Division for reaction to its oral report to us regarding the ASCAP and BMI consent decrees.
We begin by stating once again that we strenuously object to the timetable set by the DOJ for the submission of these comments. Unlike the many multi-national, billion-dollar corporations identified by your Division as "interested parties" concerning this matter (including one of the world's richest, most powerful and influential corporations, Google), our coalition of music creators does not have and cannot afford to maintain an army of antitrust attorneys and experts to immediately prepare a detailed analysis and refutation of the solely telephonic report we were given by DOJ.
We have asked several times for a reasonable extension of time to research and comment, made even more crucial by the fact that many of our individual members are on concert tours during the summer months and unable to be reached or canvassed. Your Division has offered as the explanation that because DOJ has received such intense criticism over its leaked comments in the press, it desires to get its official comments on the record as soon as possible. We do not consider that a valid reason for refusal.
Nevertheless, we were given just a few days to prepare a critique on conclusions that it took the DOJ two years to reach, and to which we have been given no written access. We have been forced therefore, to make our comments brief and to the point:
As noted in our public statement (attached), the ONLY solace that may possibly be taken by music creators from the DOJ's articulated intentions has been its decision not to approve so-called "partial withdrawal" by music publishers from ASCAP and BMI. Allow us to be clear that we do not regard this narrow point as negating in any way the damage inflicted on our community as described in the numbered points above. We simply acknowledge that the DOJ took the time to understand that granting such a privilege to music publishers would eviscerate the abilities of creators to defend themselves against an increasing lack of royalty transparency, resulting in serious additional losses to songwriters and composers.
We have addressed the insidious dangers of permitting partial withdrawal in our more formal past submissions, and see no reason to repeat those specific admonitions in these brief comments. We do take this opportunity to reiterate, however, that permitting partial withdrawal would make a grave situation for music creators infinitely worse, and we urge the DOJ not to change its position on this crucial issue at any time in the future, absent the imposition of extraordinary safeguards acceptable in advance to the music creator community.
In closing, we are disappointed, frustrated, and frankly bewildered by DOJ's positions, and believe that they will further compound the indignities, unfairness, and financial losses that songwriters and composers have faced in recent years. We therefore ask that the DOJ fully and carefully reconsider its positions, including its position vis-a-vis whole work licensing, prior to publicly announcing them in final form.
Rick Carnes
Eddie Schwartz
The international coalition of music creators, for the purposes of this letter, consists of the following groups:
Music Creators North America (MCNA):
The International Council of Music Creators (CIAM)
A Statement From
Music Creators North America
210 Jamestown Park Road Suite 100 Brentwood, Tennessee 37027
International Coalition of Music Creators Expresses Dire Concern Over "Unworkable" DOJ Solutions
July 7, 2016, Washington, DC: Following two, hour-long telephonic briefings on July 5 and 7, 2016 by the US Department of Justice, a large international coalition of songwriters and composers is expressing bafflement and frustration over the DOJ's apparent decision to leave unchanged the antiquated, WWII-era ASCAP and BMI consent decrees. After the briefings, the coalition, which represents nearly a half a million American, Canadian and other music creators from around the world, was left with far more questions than answers.
"The DOJ has refused to address the issue that these consent decrees are needlessly perpetuating the inability of songwriters and composers to earn a viable living, artificially driving performing rights royalty rates downward toward zero rather than upward toward fair market value," said a group spokesperson. "Our economic viability is imperiled, which threatens to deeply harm the future progress of musical culture and the arts as encouraged under the US Constitution. Are these results really acceptable to DOJ?"
The songwriter and composer groups also made explicitly clear to the DOJ that they consider inexplicable its decision to require ASCAP and BMI to engage in "full work licensing," if so demanded by copyright users like YouTube, Google and Spotify. "This is an unworkable solution to a problem that does not exist," said the coalition spokesperson. "It's an arbitrary and capricious mandate that could cost music creators tens of millions of dollars in administrative costs, and might destroy their ability to collaborate with one another unless they are affiliated with the same performing rights society. It is ill-conceived, ill-considered, and leaves us with nothing but confusion and concerns that even DOJ acknowledges have legitimacy."
The songwriter and composer groups, however, did note their agreement with the DOJ's decision not to extend to music publishers the requested ability to partially withdraw catalogs from ASCAP and BMI in order to directly license musical works in the digital realm. "As we repeatedly stressed to the DOJ throughout two years of dialog, partial withdrawal without guarantees of upstream transparency and other protections would be a complete catastrophe for songwriters, composers, and small publishers. We take some solace in the fact that the DOJ at least understands the vital importance of this issue to creators, and urge that it continue to do so in the future."
The coalition's intention to submit written comments to DOJ is complicated by the Department's unwillingness to release its preliminary determinations in writing or to extend the deadline for such submissions until the end of the summer, a period in which creators on concert tours would be especially hard-pressed to participate in the process. "It took over two years for the DOJ to come to a decision that it informed us by telephone," said the coalition spokesperson, "and yet it insists that we submit our written concerns within an arbitrary two week window."
Coalition members also vowed to continue to actively reserve the right of every music creator to oppose any action taken by music publishers to withdraw works from ASCAP or BMI without the explicit authority of the songwriters and composers of those works. "For over a century, individual songwriters and composers have had the right --unless explicitly agreed otherwise-- to independently determine who represents the performing rights in their works," said the groups. "That right is generally the source of our most important income stream, and we are not going to let this crisis be used to take it away."
The international coalition of music creators, for the purposes of this statement, consists of the following groups:
Music Creators North America (MCNA):
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Victoria Gibb of Azusa Pacific (Calif.) has been named the first NAIA National Women's Swimmer of the Month for the 2011 – 2012 season, the national office announced Wednesday. Gibb was selected based on her performances in the month of January and was chosen out of a pool of candidates nominated by NAIA women's swimming & diving programs.
The Glendora, Calif., native won all five individual events she competed in between Jan. 14 – 28 and was part of four relay teams that also placed first during that time period. In a dual meet with Biola on Jan. 14, the 2011 NAIA All-American claimed first in three events: the 100-yard butterfly (1:00.28), the 500-yard freestyle (5:22.07) and the 200-yard medley relay (1:54.06).
She followed that up with four more top finishes at the Soka (Calif.) Invite on Jan. 21 where the junior paced the field in the 100-yard butterfly (1:01.09), the 100-yard freestyle (55.01), the 200-yard medley relay (1:56.14) and the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:44.20). Then in her final performances of the month at the Pacific Coast Swimming Conference Time Trials on Jan. 28, Gibb clocked a time of 1:00.71 to take the 100-yard freestyle and collaborated on a first-place time of 8:12.38 in the 800-yard freestyle relay.
The next Swimmer of the Month award will be announced on Feb. 22.
Nominees: Renata Cabral, Union (Ky.); Cheyenne Coffman, Fresno Pacific (Calif.); Nicole Wilson, Oklahoma Baptist.
2011 Composite Award Winners
Feb. 1: Victoria Gibb, Azusa Pacific (Calif.)


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'Super-Duper Tuesday'
Notes on the coverage of what MSNBC's Chris Matthews called "Super-Duper Tuesday":
John King with his Telestrator on CNN, creating a dizzying symphony of expanding, contracting, moving, encircled images on a map. It's a showy bit of technology that's best in small doses.
Over on CBS Jeff Greenfield has a telestrator, too. "He's a John Madden wannabe," Katie Couric says.
Way too much information on the screen on MSNBC, needless overkill on a night when less is often more.
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann nailed the Clinton campaign strategy regarding Massachusetts, citing "the law of diminishing and reinflating expectations." First, predict a poor performance, then celebrate the better than expected performance.
Olbermann also pinpointed what he called "the media momentum war," as usual displaying a keen awareness for the perceptions behind the news that influence the news. He often adds more to the discussion than the rest of the media pack combined.
On CBS, Couric was stuck with weak graphics while ABC gave Charlie Gibson moving pictures of each candidate rather than static numbers. A weird Big Brother screen in front of the ABC team was unnerving. Couric nimbly teased Jeff Greenfield for an interruption: "while you're turning off your cellphone why don't you weigh in, Jeff?" She said the touch screen in front of her was helping her hone her ATM skills.
Brian Williams' more formal style on NBC seemed respectful of the occasion if dated at the same time. Tim Russert, in overdrive since "Today" more than 12 hours ago, continues to salivate. "Polls are closed, can't wait for those results!" His excitement is contagious.
CBS' Bob Schieffer, who has announced plans to retire after the 2008 election cycle, got in a self-referential joke about age being "a real asset for McCain."
The panting countdown to California continues as the night wears on and Matthews in particular looks like he needs to towel off and chill.


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Chasing Great
All Black captain Richie McCaw has lived his dream with characteristic precision and calculated determination. He's 34 and perhaps the best rugby player ever. But the dream is almost over. He is old by professional sport standards and everyone is asking when he's going to retire. Before his career ends Richie McCaw sets his sights on a risk-all attempt to win the Rugby World Cup back to back. No team has won it a second time in a row. No captain has won it twice. He will either end his career on an impossibly high note or take a nation's dreams down with him. Chasing Great follows Richie McCaw through his final season as he attempts to captain the All Blacks to the first ever-back-to back World Cup win. Until now Richie McCaw's achievements have been well documented, but little is known about the man himself. He has never courted the media and remains intensely private. Chasing Great takes the audience inside his world for the first time and what emerges is a very personal insight ...
Genres: Biography, Documentary, Drama, Sport
Actor: Stuart Barnes, Tom Benge, Aston Bentham, Briea Bentham, Casia Bentham, Kaleb Bentham, Michelle Bentham, Rick Bentham, Charlotte Brewer, Maddison Brogan, Ben Brown, Andrea Bruce, Schalk Burger, Dan Carter, Liam Coe
Director: Justin Pemberton, Michelle Walshe
Country: New Zealand


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Tiffani S. LaNeave 4/24/2006 8:02:22 AMThis is too cool Brianne! I LOVE the comp and color here! And of course I LOVE images of babies in unusual places! Awesome work! #433187
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The University of Wisconsin (UW) System has created a seed fund that will help commercialize ideas and technology developed at UW campuses.
Dubbed Ideadvance, the fund is the result of a partnership between the UW System and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) and will be administered by the UW-Extension.
"Faculty, staff and students need access to this type of funding so that they can pursue their business dreams here in Wisconsin," said Governor Scott Walker, in a prepared statement. "This new partnership bridges the gap from an idea to the creation of a business and initial investment."
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Work related stress
The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines stress as "the reaction people may have when presented with demands and pressures that are not matched to their knowledge and abilities and which challenge their ability to cope." It is not a disease. However if stress is intense and goes on for some time, it can lead to mental and physical ill health (eg depression, nervous breakdown, heart disease). Workplace stress, if not properly managed, is associated with poor health and well-being, lower productivity and increased sickness absence.
Historically stress used to be divided into positive stress (eustress) and negative stress (distress). In this older view, "to be alive was to experience some form of stress". Nowadays the term "stress" is synonomous with negative stress and the word "pressure" or "challenge" is frequently used to describe positive stress.
What leads to work related stress?
Taking a simplified approach, stress can originate with work and/or personal sources. This stress can be reduced or offset by the support provided at work and/or from personal resources (family, friends etc). Equally this stress can be made worse or aggravated by lack of support from work or from staff member's personal resources. Excessive stress increases the risk of injury or illness.
It also affects personal performance and behaviour at work (and outside work). Managers can most effectively intervene by addressing work-related stressors: this is a requirement under the OHS Act. Managers can also provide support to their staff who are under stress, especially work-related stress. This may range from simply listening to a staff member and suggesting support through the Employee Assistance Program through to helping the staff member build their personal capabilities and resilience. Even when the major source of stress is personal (outside of work), managers can provide support to staff members through temporarily adjusting workloads or making other accommodations.
Risk factors
The United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive has identified six major factors in the workplace that can drive work related stress. These are:
- Demands – such as workload, work patterns and the work environment.
- Control – such as how much say the person has in the way they do their work.
- Support – such as the encouragement, development and resources provided by the organisation, line management and colleagues.
- Relationships – such as promoting positive working relationships to avoid conflict and dealing effectively with unacceptable behaviour.
- Role – such as whether people understand their role within the organisation and whether the organisation ensures that they do not have conflicting roles.
- Change – such as how organisational change (large or small) is managed and communicated in the organisation.
In Australia excessive work demands (demands) followed by workplace conflict (relationships) are the major cause of psychological injury in the workplace. This may be accentuated by a mismatch between the person's interpersonal and emotional competencies, their job skills, and the demands of the position they hold.
Frequently a seventh factor is included: work-life balance. This is the capacity and ability of individual workers to balance stress in the workplace with stress factors in their personal life. This may vary enormously over time due to a variety of reasons including mental health issues and disability.
View more detail on risk factors for workplace stress.
Information for staff
Managing stress
Managing work-related stress
Deakin seeks to control the risk of excessive stress. Among the ways excessive stress can be prevented is through:
- fostering a co-operative and supportive work environment (support)
- ensuring good communications within the team particularly where there are organisational and procedural changes (change)
- ensuring adequate preparation for new roles and responsibilities through risk assessment and training (role)
- enabling staff to report excessive workloads, interpersonal pressures, workplace conflict and symptoms of stress without fear of discrimination (relationships)
- recognising early signs of stress in workers and taking action to provide appropriate interventions (support)
- supporting workers in recovering from stress-related illnesses and managing the return to work after any period of sick leave so that excessive stress does not recur (support)
- developing sound management practice based on equality of treatment (relationships)
- effective workload allocation and feedback on performance (support)
- providing information and training to enable staff to develop their skills and maximise their contribution to the success of Deakin (control).
Preventing workplace stress
- Staff are provided with adequate and achievable demands in relation to the agreed hours of work
- Staff skills and abilities are matched to the job demands;
- Jobs are designed to be within the capabilities of staff
- Staff concerns about their work environment are addressed.
- Where possible, staff have control over their pace of work
- Staff are encouraged to use their skills and initiative to do their work
- Where possible, staff are encouraged to develop new skills to help them undertake new and challenging pieces of work
- Staff are encouraged to develop their skills;
- Staff have a say over when breaks can be taken
- Staff are consulted over their work patterns
- Managers are encouraged to support their staff and foster a co-operative and supportive environment
- Staff are enabled and encouraged to support their colleagues
- Staff know what support is available and how and when to access it
- Staff know how to access the required resources to do their job
- Staff members receive regular and constructive feedback
- Managers are able to recognise the early signs of excessive stress and take action to provide appropriate interventions
- Staff are supported while recovering from stress-related illnesses and their return to work after any period of sick leave is managed so that excessive stress does not recur
- Staff and managers promote positive behaviours at work to avoid conflict and ensure fairness
- Staff share information relevant to their work;
- The University has agreed policies and procedures to prevent or resolve unacceptable behaviour
- Managers are encouraged and enabled to deal with unacceptable behaviour
- Systems are in place to enable and encourage staff to report unacceptable behaviour
- Staff feel comfortable to report excessive workloads, interpersonal pressures, workplace conflict and symptoms of stress without fear of discrimination
- Managers ensure that, as far as possible, the different requirements placed upon staff are clear, consistent and compatible
- Managers provide information to enable staff to understand their role and responsibilities;
- Staff are encouraged and expected to raise concerns about any uncertainties or conflicts they have in their role and responsibilities.
- Managers provide staff with timely information to enable them to understand the reasons for proposed changes;
- Managers ensure adequate staff consultation on changes and provide opportunities for staff to influence proposals;
- Staff are aware of the probable impact of any changes to their jobs. Where possible, staff are given training to support any changes in their jobs;
- Staff are aware of timetables for changes;
- Staff have access to relevant support during changes.
Role of managers/supervisors
Role of managers and supervisors
Managers and supervisors play a key role in the prevention and management of workplace stress: directly through the organisation of work and indirectly through the work culture. It is essential that managers assist and support their staff in managing stress and therefore enabling staff to do their job effectively.
Work stress factors, personal circumstances, personal capability and supportive management do not operate separately. Even in highly motivated and well supported team, prolonged exposure to high levels of work stress or very difficult personal circumstances will lead to a higher risk of a stress related injury. However in the short term supportive leaders will be working to reduce excessive stress, providing opportunities for recovery or working with staff members to help them balance their personal and work situations. Equally in the longer term, the supportive leader will be building team capability and resilience. Supportive leaders also encourage a 'care and concern' culture that includes the early reporting of problems and an awareness of the risk factors leading to stress related illness.
The following tools and guides will assist managers and supervisors to effectively prevent and manage workplace stress. In particular the supportive manager is aware of and is sensitive to the current level of stress in the workplace, and has management competencies to keep it within reasonable bounds.
Guidelines and Information
- What is workplace stress? A guide to help managers and supervisors understand workplace stress and start your thinking about how it can be effectively managed.
- What can I do about workplace stress? A guide that discusses what managers and supervisors can do about stress in general.
- Where can I get advice or help? (PDF, 68.9 KB)
Building Manager Competency in Dealing with Stress
- Management competency framework: workplace stress This guide outlines a how excessive workplace stress can be prevented or addressed through early intervention. The guide focuses on management behaviours and actions that reduce the risks of excessive workplace stress.
- The manager's role in the risk management of workplace stress This guide provides advice and practical measures for the prevention and management of workplace stress
- Workers with mental illness: a practical guide for managers
The Australian Human Rights Commission has released a guide that will assist managers and supervisors to find the best way to maximise productivity while reducing the incidence of illness in their workplaces. The Guide provides information on how to appropriately support workers with mental illness.
It also provides information about how to develop and promote a safe and healthy work environment for all workers. The guide is intended to help managers and supervisors understand their obligations under Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and disability discrimination legislation and to understand mental illness and how to talk about mental illness.


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Made by John Aitken, American (born Scotland), c. 1760/65 - 1839. Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, American (born England), 1764 - 1820. Decorated by George Bridport, American (born England), 1783 - 1819.
Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Gessoed, painted and gilded tulip poplar and oak, silk upholsteryDimensions:
34 1/4 x 20 x 20 inches (87 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm)Curatorial Department:
American ArtObject Location:
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1986-126-6Credit Line:
Purchased with the gift (by exchange) of Mrs. Alex Simpson, Jr., and A. Carson Simpson, and with funds contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Raley and various donors, 1986
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In 1808, British-born architect B. Henry Latrobe completed the construction phase of the Philadelphia house he designed for merchant William Waln and his wife Mary Wilcocks Waln. The final element of this project was the interior furnishing, which Latrobe considered integral to the architectural scheme. For the drawing room, he ordered decorative painter George Bridport to paint scenes from "Flaxman's Iliad or Odyssey in flat Etruscan color, giving only outline on a rich ground."
This chair is part of the elegantly painted furniture Latrobe designed for the Walns' drawing room. Decorated in rich red, yellow, and gilt on a black ground and incorporating classical motifs and symbols, the set of drawing room furniture consisted of a pier table, Grecian sofas, a pair of card tables, window benches, and chairs. Its legs that curved inwards make the chair the earliest American example of a Klismos chair, a forerunner of the classical style that enjoyed widespread popularity in the late 1810s and 1820s. In addition to this chair from the Waln set, the Museum's collection includes six more chairs, a Grecian sofa, a card table, and a pier table with a mirrored back.


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On Talking to Parents and Students about Debt, Misadministrated Funds, and other College Issues
If you're a parent or guardian of someone debating or entering into college, I, an adjunct faculty member at a Chicago private, non-profit art school, have a few words of advice and some issues to consider for you and your new students, to accompany the recent article by Joe Fruscione at PBS NewsHour's Making Sen$s:
Make them think long and hard about whether they'd rather set themselves up a cozy little bunker in case the shit goes down (or they just can't find full-time work, which is exceedingly likely), or piecemeal work together like a patch on an Ellis Island jacket while owing tens of thousands of dollars. Tell them you aren't kidding.
Then tell them about principle, interest, and how debt breeds when you go through deferment, forbearance, or default, because the concepts are in a language foreign to them. But the answer is easy, they'll understand—like rabbits.
To those of you who imagine that faculty earn The Big Bucks, and that's why tuition is skyrocketing, it's simply not the case. Over 2/3 of those of us teaching your children are contingents, and of these, most are paid per course, per semester and make no more annually than your school district's paraprofessionals, minus their benefits. Tuition isn't funding the faculty or the classroom, but the Asst. Vice Interim Provost-In-Waiting's perverse dreams of a Triple A bond rating and unrestricted flex funds. Good luck finding the data, though. It's masked: the Higher Education Price Index from Commonfund Institute, the top manager of educational endowments, eliminates contingent faculty from their data, and US News & World Report fails to present ratios of contingent to full-time faculty for institutions (nevermind that instructional quality has no representation in these tainted reports). And if you think that decreased state funding is the only issue, it's much more complicated than that, and you can check out the Student Union of Michigan's blog to understand why a decrease in state funds does not correlate directly to an increase in tuition.
Surely you don't think that high tuition is just How It Is. Tuition, room, and board at private institutions increased 40% from 2001/2002 to 2011/2012 and 28% for public ones, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Imagine if consumer goods inflated at the same rate. Last April, coffee was on a scarcity list in Venezuela after their consumer goods price index jacked up 59.4% from March 2013 – March 2014. It's fair to say that higher education is in a crisis that needs intensive rehabilitation, as does our economy (of course).
So, think of what your grandchildren's student debt will be, then consider their inability to pay for an education. Think of Venezula's government implementing rations via a fingerprint security system. Imagine how these scenarios might relate to your childrens' ability to secure property, a future, raise a family, or do anything but live paycheck to paycheck as an indentured servant to the market.
I want to ask if you're angry yet, but I won't. Perhaps you should be. As your first-year student's adjunct composition professor who's been mired in the struggle for years, I am. I'm out for vengeance, and I want nothing more than for you and your children to join me. To stir the pot, I will teach them Aristotle's Rhetoric, which defines anger as "desire, accompanied with pain, for conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight that was directed against oneself or those near to one, when such a slight is undeserved." Higher ed has slighted all of us, we who have done nothing to deserve it. Now on to teaching the rhetoric that they'll need to fight for a better world, beginning with their colleges.


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Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences
Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences
Vol 41(18 Issues in 2018 ) Print ISSN: 0170-4214 Online ISSN: 1099-1476 Impact Factor: 1.180
Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences publishes papers dealing with new mathematical methods for the consideration of linear and non-linear, direct and inverse problems for physical relevant processes over time- and space- varying media under certain initial, boundary, transition conditions etc. Papers dealing with biomathematical content, population dynamics and network problems are most welcome.
Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences is an interdisciplinary journal: therefore, all manuscripts must be written to be accessible to a broad scientific but mathematically advanced audience. All papers must contain carefully written introduction and conclusion sections, which should include a clear exposition of the underlying scientific problem, a summary of the mathematical results and the tools used in deriving the results. Furthermore, the scientific importance of the manuscript and its conclusions should be made clear. Papers dealing with numerical processes or which contain only the application of well established methods will not be accepted.
Because of the broad scope of the journal, authors should minimize the use of technical jargon from their subfield in order to increase the accessibility of their paper and appeal to a wider readership. If technical terms are necessary, authors should define them clearly so that the main ideas are understandable also to readers not working in the same subfield.


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One-Sided Deal
15 November, 2010
Imagine a sheriff offering the head of a criminal gang the following deal: If you agree to stop stealing from your neighbours for three months, I'll give you cutting edge weaponry and block any efforts by other law enforcement authorities to restrain your criminal activities.'
Sounds absurd? Then how about this : in return for a three-month freeze of illegal construction in the occupied West Bank (but not in occupied East Jerusalem, where it may continue), Barack Obama has promised to deliver 20 F-35 fighter jets to Israel, a deal worth $3 billion. Moreover, his administration has vowed to curb action by the United Nations on the Goldstone Report, block anti-Israel UN resolutions concerning the Gaza flotilla raid , and defeat resolutions aimed at exposing Israel's nuclear programme at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
In such situations it's important to keep in mind that the sheriff (Obama) and not the gang leader (Netanyahu) is the major culprit.
This article appeared first appeared on the LRB blog. Neve Gordon can be contacted through his website www.israelsoccupation.info


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Photo of Mike Davis '82 courtesy of Harvard Athletic Communications.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – During halftime of its game against Princeton last month, the Harvard men's lacrosse team took a moment to announce a new award in the honor of a former member of the team.
In March 2009, the Harvard lacrosse community lost Mike Davis '82, a captain of the 1982 lacrosse team. Teammates of Mike, with the support of the Friends of Harvard Lacrosse, coaches, and the Athletic Department, established an award in Mike's honor.
Mike Davis was an outstanding player, teammate, and scholar. Along with his excellence on the lacrosse field, he graduated magna cum laude and was selected as the Scholar-Athlete for the entire Harvard Athletic program. In recognition of Mike's leadership qualities both on and off the field, the new award reads as follows:
The Mike Davis Award for Leadership
Presented to the outstanding leader of the Harvard men's varsity lacrosse team. In memory of Michael H. Davis '82, whose dedication, passion, toughness, and regard for his teammates left a lasting impression on those who played with him.
"We are honored to be able to present the Mike Davis '82 Award for Leadership to one our players every year," said John Tillman, the Frisbie Family Head Coach for Harvard Men's Lacrosse. "Mike was truly special and his teammates' desire to make this award a reality is testament to the type of person, teammate and leader that he was. He left a lasting impression on those he touched during his lifetime. I want to thank everyone who helped make this award a reality, especially Brian Edmonds, Chris Esmonde, Rich Doyle, Norm Forbush, Sheri Norred and Bob Scalise."
During his playing career with the Crimson, Davis, a midfielder from 1979-82, was a two-time All-Ivy League honoree. As a sophomore in 1980, he scored a career-high 22 goals and handed out eight assists for 30 points. Two years later, Davis netted 15 scores and dished out eight assists for 23 points. For his career, he scored 49 goals and added 21 assists for 70 points.
During his sophomore season, Davis helped Harvard post an 11-3 record and win the Ivy League title for the first time in 16 years. During the season, the Crimson which was coached by Bob Scalise, Harvard's Nichols Family Director of Athletics, earned a key win over three-time national champion Cornell. The Crimson also named New England (NEILA) champion and the squad's regular-season efforts were rewarded with Harvard's first-ever appearance in the NCAA tournament. The team's ranking of seventh in the nation still rates as one of the highest of any Harvard lacrosse team.
Prior to Harvard, Davis attended the Gilman School in Baltimore, Md., where he excelled in football and lacrosse and became interested in politics. He graduated from the Maryland Law School and went on to a career in politics and law in Maryland. He successfully led several of former Senator Paul Sarbanes' re-election campaigns and was a well respected political figure in Maryland. He was working at the Venable law firm when he died.


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Most farmers who have opened these massive corn mazes have create more of a Halloween attraction which have become destinations for both locals and people who drive for hours to experience them. Corn Mazes are created by farmers using GPS mapping out the maze, then farmers plant the corn, and finally once it starts to grow they pick the corn on the maze trail. Guests get lost in the corn for hours and have fun with both family and friends each Halloween.
Each Halloween hundreds of Halloween events for kids open each year in Louisiana. Do you want to pick your own pumpkins and bring the kids where Louisiana pumpkin patches includes other events like hayrides, corn mazes and more? Hauntworld.com helps you find simply the best and spookiest Halloween family fun in the state of Louisiana. Farmers across Louisiana have turned their family farm into massive Halloween events where guests are allowed to pick their own pumpkins, corn stalks, while having a fun Halloween Experience inside one of Louisiana's biggest and best Halloween Attractions. Corn Mazes have become a staple attraction inside these mega Halloween Attractions in Louisiana where farmers create detailed patterns in a corn field and guests must find their way through the maze of corn. Additionally one of the new traditions inside these Pick Your Own Pumpkin Patches in Louisiana is the hayride where guests board a wagon and farmers pull you around spooky sets.
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Some Halloween Attractions in Louisiana will feature a haunted house for kids in Louisiana and or simply a haunted house. Many of these Halloween Attractions in Louisiana will run daytime family oriented Halloween Attractions during the daytime and haunted houses at nighttime. Make sure you check their website to find out of the daytime events is different than nighttime events just in case you have young children. Haunted Houses in Louisiana on family farms are simply put another way for farmers to earn additional revenue which in turn helps keep the family farm from going under. Try to support your family farmers and visit their Halloween Attractions instead of taking the easy way out and visiting some mega retail store to purchase your pumpkins. Grab your family video camera and head out to a Halloween Corn Maze in Louisiana, and get out there and pick your own pumpkins in Louisiana.
Another new TYPE of attraction featured at many corn mazes and pumpkin patches are these zombie paintball hayrides, where guests get to shoot and kill zombies from hayrides. Zombies roam the fields of an old farm and you armed with paintballs blast away killing as many zombies as you can find! Lastly many farmers have embraced the concept of MUD RUNS, ZOMBIE RUNS, and different kinds of themed races. You should really look at these farmers attraction often because they feature so many different kinds of events all year long. Your local farms are now a lot more than farms from pick your own pumpkins, zip lines, mud runs, zombie races, paintball hayrides, to pony rides and more.
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Principle 1: Link instead of copying.
What's the best way to share an article with your students or colleagues? Many people are accustomed to scanning or saving the article to their computer, and then attaching that copy to an email, or posting it online in a system like Blackboard. Unfortunately, doing so means copying and distributing the article — both activities that are restricted by copyright.
To avoid those problems, it's far better to find or create a link (URL) that points to an authorized online copy of the article, such as one posted by the publisher. When you use the library's Link Generator, you assure that only authorized Health Science Center users have access to the copyrighted material, and that they can access it without problems both on-campus and off-campus.
Besides reducing copyright hassles, there are other advantages to distributing links instead of copied articles:
- Some email systems limit the number or size of attachments that users can send or receive, but links don't have that problem.
- Links don't fill up computer storage limits — such as those in a Blackboard course site — like PDF documents do.
Principle 2: Always acknowledge your sources.
Researchers and educators recognize the ethical importance of citing their sources in all scholarly work. The same principle extends to all teaching materials, writing and presentations you create — not only for quotes and text excerpts, but also every time you use images, videos, audio, or multimedia created by others. Citing your sources is not a substitute for making sure you have proper permission to use those sources — and it isn't a legal protection against an infringement claim. Nonetheless, it's an important example to set for students and colleagues, and some licenses grant permission to use material with the specific requirement that you acknowledge the creator or source of the material.
If you're not sure how to properly cite material you're using, we have some suggested tools and sources for you.
Principle 3: Seek permission to copy, redistribute or adapt material.
If you intend to copy, redistribute, adapt or perform a whole work or significant portion of it for your class, presentation, or project, you should always attempt to obtain permission from the rightsholder first. This includes not just text, but also audio, video and images, which are often reused in their entirety (or near entirety). You should document your request for permission before using the material, even if you don't receive a response to your request before you give your class or turn in your project.
If the material was published with a copyright notice (i.e. "© 2006 Sample Publishing Inc.") then it's easy to know where to send the request — contact the person or company shown in the notice. If not, then try to identify and start with the original author or publisher of the material — they can let you know if the rights have been transferred to someone else. The University of Texas at Austin's Copyright Crash Course includes a handy template for a permissions request letter that you can grab, fill in, and send.
Principle 4: Creative Commons makes it easy.
Many scholars and creators are happy for others to share, reuse and redistribute their work, and many don't want to require everyone ask for permission as described above. In 2001, a group of education experts, technologists, legal scholars, investors, entrepreneurs and philanthropists came together to find a way to address this problem, and called themselves Creative Commons. In 2002, the first Creative Commons licenses were released. These licenses allow creators to retain the copyright to their work, but release their work for the public to use, with a few conditions (or in some cases, with no conditions at all). The typical Creative Commons license allows anyone to reuse material, as long as they acknowledge the creator. Some Creative Commons licenses allow reuse for only noncommercial purposes, some only allow uses that maintain the work in its original form ("No Derivatives"), and some require that any new work that adapts the licensed material also be released with a Creative Commons license ("Share Alike").
For creators and authors who wish to allow others to share their work, Creative Commons licenses make it easy to ensure that their intentions are understood up front. For people searching for material to reuse and adapt, Creative Commons licenses make it easy to find that material and use it in a way that respects the creator's wishes or conditions. To choose a Creative Commons license and learn how to apply it to your work, use the "Choose a License" tool. We've also got some suggestions on how to easily search for Creative-Commons-licensed material that you can reuse and adapt for your own work.
Principle 5: Manage your own copyrights wisely.
Scholars are generally interested in ensuring the widest possible distribution of their work, to promote their own career growth and contribute to scholarship in their field. However, some publishers ask authors to sign over copyright in their work to the publisher as part of a publication agreement. This can inhibit authors' ability to reuse or distribute their own works to colleagues, students, or online repositories. If authors don't retain certain rights, it can also be difficult for them to comply with the terms of grants such as those from the NIH, which require authors to make their work available in a public repository (i.e. PubMed Central).
It is important for authors to understand that publication agreements are negotiable. Many authors have successfully renegotiated these agreements with publishers, have stricken problematic language, or have attached addenda that retain important rights for themselves — and publishers have accepted these changes.
It's critical that you carefully read any publication agreement that you are asked to sign by a publisher. If there is language you disagree with, cross it out and write in alternative language. You can also attach an addendum that spells out the rights you wish to retain. One example of such an addendum is the SPARC Author Addendum which is explained in further detail here.
Further reading:
Creative Commons. Creative Commons [Internet]. Mountain View (CA): Creative Commons; 2011. Available from http://creativecommons.org/
Harper GK. Copyright Crash Course [Internet]. Austin (TX): University of Texas Libraries; 2007. Available from: http://copyright.lib.utexas.edu
Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition. SPARC Resources for Authors [Internet]. Washington: Association of Research Libraries; 2011.
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I was told dsub's artist radio would work with a Madsonic server. However I can;t for the life of me figure out where this feature is on the client.
Can someone point mew in that direction; I would rather use Madsonic for this than Subsonic as Madsonic is great for managing my large music library.


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Just hear about Google+ Pages for brands and businesses and want to know how to set up one of your very own -- just like TiPb's done? Google makes it stone stump simple to do, so launch your favorite web browser, get a beverage ready, and follow along.
- Log in to your Google+ account
- Head on over to http://plus.google.com/pages/create
- Choose the type of brand or business page you want to setup - Local Business or Place, Product or Brand, Company, Institution, or Organization, Arts, Entertainment, or Sports, and Other.
- Each type has many sub-types so read carefully and choose the one that applies best.
- Fill in the name, website address, and agree to the terms of service.
- Choose a profile picture for your page and use the draggable handles to crop it just the way you want.
- Give you Page a tagline. Something short and snappy that conveys what it is and piques interest.
- Share your new Page with your personal account's circles, if you want.
- Start a conversation on your new page, connect it up to your website, and tell the world about it!
- And... you're not done. Creating a Google+ Page is just the first step. Now you have to share, hang out, and get all social with it!
Have you created a Google+ Page for your business or brand? Tell us about it in the comments and let us know if you have any tips on getting the most out of them!


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