text:
k.d. lang
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|k.d. lang
k.d. lang in 2006
|Background information
|Birth name
|Kathryn Dawn Lang
| November 2, 1961
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
|Consort, Alberta, Canada
|Country, pop, folk, adult contemporary, jazz
|Singer-songwriter, record producer, actress
|Guitar, vocals
|Years active
|Bumstead, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, Nonesuch, Elektra Records
Lang has won both Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances; hits include "Constant Craving" and "Miss Chatelaine". She has contributed songs to movie soundtracks and has teamed with musicians such as Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Anne Murray and Jane Siberry.[1] Lang is also known for being an animal rights, gay rights, and Tibetan human rights activist. She is a tantric practitioner of the old school of Tibetan Buddhism.[2] She performed Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" live at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada. Previously, she had performed at the closing ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. Lang possesses the vocal range of a mezzo-soprano.[3]
Early yearsLang was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the daughter of Audrey and Adam Frederick Lang.[4] She is of English, Irish, Scottish, German, Russian Jewish, Icelandic, and Sioux ancestry.[5] When Lang was nine months old, her family moved to Consort, Alberta, where she grew up with two sisters and one brother on the Canadian prairie.[6] Her father was a drug store owner and left the family when she was twelve.[6]
After secondary school, Lang attended Red Deer College, where she became fascinated with the life and music of Patsy Cline and ultimately determined to pursue a career as a professional singer.[7] She formed a Patsy Cline tribute band called the Reclines in 1983, and they recorded a debut album, Friday Dance Promenade at Sundown Recorders which was owned by Larry Wanagas who immediately dropped everything to become her personal manager. The first band featured Stu Macdougal on keys, Dave Bjarnson on drums, Gary Koligar on guitar and bassist Farley Scott. The Reclines regularly played the legendary Sidetrack Cafe, a local venue that featured live bands six nights a week. In 1983, Lang presented a performance-art piece, a seven-hour re-enactment of the transplantation of an artificial heart for Barney Clark, a retired American dentist.[8][9] A Truly Western Experience was released in 1984 and received strong reviews and led to national attention in Canada. In August 1984, Lang was one of three Canadian artists to be selected to perform at the World Science Fair in Tsukuba, Japan (along with other performing and recording contracts throughout Japan).[citation needed]
Singing at country and western venues in Canada, Lang made several recordings that received very positive reviews and earned a 1985 Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist. She accepted the award wearing a wedding dress and made numerous tongue-in-cheek promises about what she would and would not do in the future, thus fulfilling the title of 'Most Promising'. She has won a total of eight Juno Awards.
In 1986, Lang signed a contract with an American record producer in Nashville, Tennessee, and received critical acclaim for her 1987 album, Angel with a Lariat, which was produced by Dave Edmunds.
Career riseLang first earned international recognition in 1988 when she performed, as "The Alberta Rose", at the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics.[10]
Lang's career received a huge boost when Roy Orbison chose her to record a duet of his standard, "Crying, " a collaboration that won them the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1989. The song was used in the Jon Cryer film Hiding Out released in 1987. Due to the success of the song, lang received the Entertainer of the Year award from the Canadian Country Music Association. Lang would win the same award for the next three years, in addition to two Female Vocalist of the Year awards in 1988 and 1989.
1988 marked the release of Shadowland, an album of torch country produced by Owen Bradley. In late 1988, Shadowland was named Album of the Year by the Canadian Country Music Association. That year she also performed "Turn Me Round" at the closing ceremonies of the XV Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta, and sang background vocals with Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt for Orbison's acclaimed television special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night.
In 1990, Lang contributed the song "So in Love" to the Cole Porter tribute album Red Hot + Blue produced by the Red Hot Organization. In 1998, she contributed "Fado Hilário" to the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the same organization.
Grammy Awards and mainstream successLang won the American Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her 1989 album, Absolute Torch and Twang. The single "Full Moon Full of Love" that stemmed from that album became a modest hit in the United States in the middle of 1989 and a Number 1 hit on the RPM Country chart in Canada.
In 1989 she sang a duet, "Sin City", with Dwight Yoakam on his album Just Lookin' for a Hit.
The 1992 album, Ingénue, a set of adult contemporary pop songs that showed comparatively little country influence, contained her most popular song, "Constant Craving. " That song brought her multi-million sales, much critical acclaim, and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Another top ten single from the record was "Miss Chatelaine". The salsa-inspired track was ironic; Chatelaine, a women's magazine, once chose Lang as its "Woman of the Year, " and the song's video depicted Lang in an exaggeratedly feminine manner, surrounded by bright pastel colors and a profusion of bubbles reminiscent of a performance on the Lawrence Welk show.
Lang received a writing credit for the Rolling Stones song, "Anybody Seen My Baby?", whose chorus sounds strikingly similar to "Constant Craving". Jagger and Richards claimed to have never heard the song before and when they discovered the similarity prior to the song's release, were flummoxed as to how the songs could be so similar. Jagger then soon discovered his daughter listening to a recording of "Constant Craving" on her stereo and realized he had heard the song before many times but only subliminally. The two gave Lang credit, along with her co-writer Ben Mink, to avoid any possible lawsuits. Afterwards, Lang said she was "completely honoured and flattered" to receive the songwriting credit.
Lang contributed much of the music towards Gus Van Sant's soundtrack of the film Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, and also did a cover of "Skylark" for the 1997 film adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. She performed "Surrender" for the closing titles of the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, having previously worked with Bond composer David Arnold on his album, Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project.
In 1996, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
In 1997, Drag, an album of cover tunes dedicated to 'smoke' (specifically cigarette smoking) was released, although the album cover and booklet photographs show Lang in a man's suit, referring to crossdressing as another possible meaning of the word 'drag'. The songs on Drag include "Smoke Dreams, " from the '40s, Steve Miller Band's "The Joker, " "Smoke Rings, " the theme from the cult movie Valley of the Dolls, and 8 other smoke-themed songs.
Lang ranked No. 33 on VH-1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll in 1999 and No. 26 on CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music in 2002, one of only eight women to make both lists. The others were Linda Ronstadt, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Lucinda Williams, and Emmylou Harris.
In 2003, she won her fourth Grammy Award, this time for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her collaboration with Tony Bennett on A Wonderful World.
On subsequent tours, critical acclaim continued to come her way. In 2004, Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote: "Few singers command such perfection of pitch. Her voice, at once beautiful and unadorned and softened with a veil of smoke, invariably hits the middle of a note and remains there. She discreetly flaunted her technique, drawing out notes and shading them from sustained cries into softer, vibrato-laden murmurs. She balanced her commitment to the material with humor, projecting a twinkling merriment behind it all."[11]
In the same year, Lang released Hymns of the 49th Parallel, which featured cover versions of songs by iconic English-speaking Canadian singer-songwriters: Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Ron Sexsmith, Jane Siberry, and Neil Young.[12] According to the Canadian Record Industry Association (CRIA), in April 2006, the album went platinum in Canada selling over 100,000 copies. In December 2007, the album reached double platinum status in Australia selling over 140,000 copies.
Also in 2004, she sang the song "Little Patch of Heaven" for the Walt Disney Feature Animation film Home on the Range.
On July 29, 2006, Lang performed her hit "Constant Craving" at the opening ceremonies of the Outgames held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
In 2006, Lang paired with singer Madeleine Peyroux on a cover of the Joni Mitchell song, "River", for Peyroux's album, Half the Perfect World. That same year Lang was featured in Nellie McKay's second album, Pretty Little Head, singing with McKay in "We Had it Right". As well, Lang sang a version of The Beatles' "Golden Slumbers" for the Happy Feet film soundtrack. She also sang a duet with Ann Wilson on the Heart singer's solo album Hope & Glory covering the Lucinda Williams song "Jackson".
In 2007, she teamed up with one of her childhood idols, Anne Murray, on a remake of Murray's hit, "A Love Song", to be featured on Murray's album, Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends. The duet was recorded in Los Angeles, California.
On February 5, 2008, Lang released an album of new material entitled Watershed.[13] It was her first collection of original material since the release of her 2000 album, Invincible Summer. An article in which lang is interviewed states that "when she isn't working, [lang] is mostly a homebody, living quietly with a girlfriend she refers to as 'my wife' — they are not legally married — and her two dogs."[14]
On November 11, 2009, Lang entered into a domestic partnership with Jamie Price whom she had met in 2003. After separating on September 6, 2011, Lang filed for a dissolution of the partnership in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, on December 30, 2011.[15]
Lang's first complete greatest-hits collection was released on February 2, 2010, on the Nonesuch label as Recollection.
In 2010, Lang was in Nashville, working on a new album, titled Sing it Loud. The Nonesuch album was released by k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang in a spring 2011 release. The band toured North America in summer 2011.[16]
In 2012, Lang moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon.[17]
On April 21, 2013, during the 2013 Juno Awards, Lang was formally inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.[18] She is notable for praising Canadians and "letting your freak flags fly" during her acceptance speech.[19]
Film and television appearancesAustin City Limits. Lang played the lead in the 1991 drama film, Salmonberries, and also co-starred with Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd in Eye of the Beholder (1999). She had an uncredited role as a lounge singer in 2006's The Black Dahlia. She has also made guest appearances on the sitcoms The Larry Sanders Show, Dharma & Greg, and the famous coming out episode of Ellen. She appeared on the Christmas special of Pee Wee's Playhouse, where she performed the song "Jingle Bell Rock. " She also made a guest appearance on the "Garbage" episode of The Jim Henson Hour, and in 2008 appeared on Rove McManus' live hour show, Rove.
Lang performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra for an intimate crowd at 18th-century church LSO St Luke's in London on February 3, 2008.[20] First aired as part of the BBC Four Sessions, the concert was released as a DVD entitled Live In London in 2009.
On February 12, 2010, she performed Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" at the Olympics Opening Ceremony in Vancouver, British Columbia. In early May 2010, Lang filled in at the last minute for Susan Boyle at the Australian TV Logie Awards to reprise her Winter Olympics performance of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", receiving an extended standing ovation. In 2010 she sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" with Matthew Morrison in a Christmas episode of Glee, and is featured on Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album. In February 2013, she appeared in Season 8 of the CBS sitcom, How I Met Your Mother, as herself.
2014 and BroadwayLang made her Broadway debut as the "Special Guest Star" in Broadway's After Midnight, replacing Fantasia Barrino and to be succeeded by Toni Braxton and Babyface. She appeared from February 11 to March 9, 2014.[21]
Activismcame out as a lesbian in a June 1992 article of the LGBT news magazine The Advocate,[22] has championed gay rights causes.
She has supported many causes over the years, including HIV/AIDS care and research. Her cover of Cole Porter's "So in Love" (from the Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate), appears on the Red Hot + Blue compilation album and video from 1990 (a tribute to Cole Porter to benefit AIDS research and relief). Her 2010 Greatest Hits album, Recollection, also includes this cover of "So in Love". Lang also recorded the song "Fado Hilario, " singing in Portuguese, for the 1999 Red Hot AIDS benefit album "Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon, " a traditional fado from Portugal.
She is an animal rights activist. Her "Meat Stinks" campaign created much controversy, particularly in her hometown, in the middle of Alberta's cattle ranching industry.
Lang appeared on the cover of the August 1993 issue of Vanity Fair photographed by Herb Ritts. The cover featured Lang in a barber chair while model Cindy Crawford appeared to shave her face with a straight razor.[23] The issue contained a detailed article about Lang which observed that she had thought that she would be ostracized by the country music industry when she came out as a lesbian. However, Nashville was accepting, and her records continued to sell. When she appeared in an ad for PETA, Nashville was less impressed, owing to the relationship between country music and cattle ranching.[24]
In April 2008, Lang spent time in Melbourne, Australia, as a guest editorialist for The Age. This was in connection with her support for the Tibet human rights issues. On April 24, 2008, she joined pro-Tibet protesters in Canberra as the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay made its way through the Australian capital.[25]
In 2011, Lang was inducted to Q Hall of Fame Canada in recognition of the work she has done to further equality for all peoples around the world.[26]
|Teresa's Tattoo
|Eye of the Beholder
|The Black Dahlia
|Lesbian Bar Singer (uncredited)
|The Larry Sanders Show
|k.d. lang
|The Last Don
|Dita Tommey
|k.d. lang
|After Midnight
|Special Guest Star
RecognitionOn June 3, 2008, it was announced that she would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.[27]
Awards and nominationsLang has been nominated for the following Grammy Awards and has won four to date:
- 1989
- Grammy Award—Best Country Vocal Collaboration for "Crying" (shared with Roy Orbison)
- 1990
- Grammy Award—Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Absolute Torch and Twang"
- 1993
- Grammy Award—Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Constant Craving"
- Grammy Award nomination—Song of the Year for "Constant Craving"
- Grammy Award nomination—Record of the Year for "Constant Craving"
- Grammy Award nomination—Album of the Year for "Ingenue"
- 1994
- Grammy Award nomination—Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Miss Chatelaine"
- 1995
- Grammy Award nomination—Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "Moonglow" (with Tony Bennett)
- 2003
- Grammy Award nomination—Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "What A Wonderful World" (with Tony Bennett)
- 2004
- Grammy Award—Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for "A Wonderful World" (shared with Tony Bennett)
- Grammy Award nomination—Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for "La Vie En Rose" (with Tony Bennett)
Main article: k.d. lang discography


text:
+92 213 4371389-90
About us
Concerned Board
Contact us
Study in United Kingdom
The United Kingdom, consisting of Great Britain (England, Wales, and Scotland ) and Northern Ireland , is twice the size of New York State. England, in the southeast part of the British Isles, is separated from Scotland on the north by the granite Cheviot Hills; from them the Pennine chain of uplands extends south through the center of England, reaching its highest point in the Lake District in the northwest. To the west along the border of Walesa land of steep hills and valleys—are the Cambrian Mountains, while the Cotswolds, a range of hills in Gloucestershire, extend into the surrounding shires.
Important rivers flowing into the North Sea are the Thames, Humber, Tees, and Tyne. In the west are the Severn and Wye, which empty into the Bristol Channel and are navigable, as are the Mersey and Ribble.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, with a queen and a parliament that has two houses: the House of Lords, with 574 life peers, 92 hereditary peers, and 26 bishops; and the House of Commons, which has 651 popularly elected members. Supreme legislative power is vested in parliament, which sits for five years unless dissolved sooner. The House of Lords was stripped of most of its power in 1911, and now its main function is to revise legislation. In Nov. 1999, hundreds of hereditary peers were expelled in an effort to make the body more democratic. The executive power of the Crown is exercised by the cabinet, headed by the prime minister.
England has existed as a unified entity since the 10th century; the union between England and Wales, begun in 1284 with the Statute of Rhuddlan, was not formalized until 1536 with an Act of Union; in another Act of Union in 1707, England and Scotland agreed to permanently join as Great Britain ; the legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland was implemented in 1801, with the adoption of the name the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 formalized a partition of Ireland; six northern Irish counties remained part of the United Kingdom as Northern Ireland and the current name of the country, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was adopted in 1927.
Stonehenge and other examples of prehistoric culture are all that remain of the earliest inhabitants of Britain. Celtic peoples followed. Roman invasions of the 1st century B.C. brought Britain into contact with continental Europe. When the Roman legions withdrew in the 5th century A.D. , Britain fell easy prey to the invading hordes of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes from Scandinavia and the Low Countries. The invasions had little effect on the Celtic peoples of Wales and Scotland. Seven large Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were established, and the original Britons were forced into Wales and Scotland. It was not until the 10th century that the country finally became united under the kings of Wessex. Following the death of Edward the Confessor (1066), a dispute about the succession arose, and William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England, defeating the Saxon king, Harold II, at the Battle of Hastings (1066). The Norman conquest introduced Norman French law and feudalism.
All original academic documents (Matric, F.A, B.A,) first will be attested from the related board then IBCC, FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The passport should be valid for two years.
The first two pages of the passport copies should be attested by the NOTARY PUBLIC.
Medical should be issued by any Govt. hospital and will be attested by the FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Bank Letter will be issued by the bank in which the student or his father, mother, or brother is maintains his account. If the student does not have his personal account then the copy of affidavit will be attached with the bank letter. Bank letter should be attested by the FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The police character will be issued by the related police station and then should be attested by the FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Our Consultancy Regarding Study Visa
Minimum Qualification Matric
Minimum 4.0 Bands IELTS
Get admission in Internationally recognized & Reputable Colleges
Part time work Permission
Free visa File Preparation
Free Guiding
No age Limit
No study Gap issue
Copyright © 2013 - All Rights Reserved - Sajid Enterprises

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Next door to his shop, a storage facility is being built, and Skordilis believes that the pile driving on the site is causing cracks in his foundation and making his building structurally unstable.
According to Skordilis, one day a car was on a lift and the vibrations from the work next door were so intense they caused the vehicle to fall off and crash on the floor.
"Thank god no one was there," he said. "Someone could have gotten hurt."
Construction has been going on since March, and Skordilis quickly noticed cracks in the floors of his building.
Skordilis said that he has called the Department of Buildings at least a dozen times, and a representative from the office came out three times.
During one of those visits on July 17, an inspector issued Skordilis a summons for cracks in his building, a broken ventilation pipe and "failure to maintain building walls or appurtenances due to foundation operations at the adjacent premises."
Skordilis wrote a letter to Derek Lee, Queens Borough commissioner for DOB, after receiving the summons to complain. He has yet to receive a response.
In the meantime, Skordilis purchased 13 pieces of steel to reinforce his building.
"We're trying to support the building so it doesn't collapse," he yelled while one of his employees hammered the object into place in the basement of the facility last week. "This is not right."
The contractor, Storage Construction Company, dismisses claims that the work is damaging the auto shop.
"The cracks had been there prior," said a consultant for the project. "There has been no damage done to his building."


text:
HLS Connect
HLS Connect is an Online Alumni Directory and Advising Network that provides alumni and current HLS students with the opportunity to connect, network and explore the HLS community that exists around the world.
Alumni Directory
- View profiles and search for alumni by name, class and location
- Update and manage your contact information so other alumni can find and contact you
Advising Network
- Query the database of advisors by name, location, class year, current or past employment, practice setting, practice area, type of work and advising topics
- Create a profile and volunteer to serve as an advisor to other HLS alumni and current HLS students
Questions? Please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (617) 495-3114.


text:
Myth 1: "If it's published openly on the Internet, I'm free to copy and repost at will."
Some people confuse the fact that a work is "publicly accessible," available for anyone to read or download on the Internet, with the idea that it's in the "public domain," and thus not subject to copyright protections. In fact, those two concepts have nothing to do with one another. Nearly all work published on the Internet is subject to copyright protections.
Copyright applies to all "original works of authorship" as soon as they are fixed in some tangible form of expression. As soon as you click "save" or "publish," you have created a copyrighted work, and you own the copyright on that work until or unless you give, sell, or sign some or all those rights over to someone else. So every work of original creation that is written, recorded, notated, drawn, photographed, or otherwise captured — including a work published on the Internet — is protected by copyright.
Myth 2: "If I'm using it for educational or noncommercial purposes, it's 'fair use' and I don't need to seek permission."
Not all educational or noncommercial uses automatically qualify as "fair use". Although the law sets out purposes and factors to be considered when judging whether a use is fair or infringing, the ultimate judgment would lie in a court's interpretation. Examples of activities that courts have found "fair" include: "quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; … reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson…" [Register of Copyrights, 1961, quoted in US Copyright Office FL-102, 2009]. In the same document, the Copyright Office explains that "[t]he distinction between fair use and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined. There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission. Acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not substitute for obtaining permission."
So the "fair use" doctrine may be a defense against infringement claims for a one-time use of a limited amount of material used for teaching, scholarship, or research, if you don't have time to receive permission in advance of the use. However, you should always attempt to obtain permission from the rightsholder if you will be copying significant portions of a work, redistributing it, or creating a new work based upon it — and you should document your attempt to get that permission before using the material.
Fortunately, here at the Health Science Center, you have a couple of alternatives that you can use to avoid the need to seek permission:
- You have access to an enormous amount of material through the library, so if you can link readers to that content online instead of copying or distributing it, you do not need permission. By using the library's linking service, you will assure that only authorized Health Science Center users have access to the copyrighted material. You can learn more about how to link to library material here.
- If you're sharing published materials such as journal articles or book chapters with other UT System employees, students or colleagues, your use may be covered by the UT System's Academic License from the Copyright Clearance Center. You can learn more about the Copyright Clearance Center Annual License here.
Myth 3: "If it doesn't include the ©, it's not copyrighted."
Since 1989, a copyright notice is not required for a work to be covered by copyright protection. Registering copyright with the US Copyright Office gives rights holders the option to pursue damages in court for infringement, but it is also not required for a work to be protected by copyright. All original works of authorship are protected by copyright as soon as they are fixed in tangible form, whether or not they include a notice or are registered.
Myth 4: "If it's out of print, it's out of copyright."
Even if an item is out of print, it still is subject to copyright protections during a certain amount of time. That amount of time has varied through the years, but in the US, nearly all works published since 1923 are still under copyright protection. Current works will not enter the public domain for a long time: works published since 1978 are generally subject to copyright protections until 70 years after the author's death. This document from the Cornell Copyright Information Center breaks down the duration of copyright under US law for different works and circumstances.
Myth 5: "If I wrote it, it can't infringe anyone else's copyright."
Generally, authors own the copyrights on works they create. However, authors sometimes sign publication agreements with publishers without reading and negotiating them carefully. Some publication agreements involve the transfer of rights from the author to the publisher, which could prevent the author from copying or distributing the material in some cases. It's important for authors to always read and understand publication agreements before signing them, and to negotiate them with publishers if the terms are unfavorable.
Further reading:
Bailey J. Copyright myths [Internet]. New Orleans: Plagiarism Today; 2011. Available from: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/stopping-internet-plagiarism/your-copyrights-online/3-copyright-myths/
Jassin LJ. Ten common copyright permission myths. New York: CopyLaw.com; 2011. Available from: http://www.copylaw.com/new_articles/copy_myths.html
Templeton B. 10 big myths about copyright explained [Internet]. [n.p.]: templetons.com; 2008. Available from: http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Return to main page of "5 x 5 x 5: What students & faculty need to know about copyright"
Tags: Copyright


text:
Our Fitness Blog
My toughest trainer yet….
I really wanted to spend some quality time with my son this week, and have a chance for him to ride his bike, get outside and breathe fresh air! Work can tend to keep me inside more than I want sometimes…I'm sure you too! So, the day was cloudy and I really wanted to take advantage of the fact that it wasn't too hot! We went to the local school's track and had great time. Jackson is a huge 9Round fan and knows Mommy loves working out, and it's always a proud moment when he will emulate me and my husband by copying push-ups or squats. He's a strong little guy too! (I like to think he gets that from his mother.) He has even told me he wants to do a "fun run" the next time I do a 5K.
Sometimes when you feel like no one's watching, remember, our little guys and little girls are!
After losing my post-baby weight with 9Round and 9Round Nutrition, I'm really motivated to be a healthy example for both my children, (ages 13 and 6) and so yesterday, we ended up turning a little bike riding into a full on training session. I told Jackson that I would jog beside him (really a brisk walk) as he rode his bike and whenever he told me "GO!" I would stop and then either do 10 push- ups or 10 lunges (trainer's choice), and he would keep riding. Then I had to catch up with him by sprinting. We did this for about one mile, and we had a fantastic time, making sure he hit every puddle with his bike along the way.
Later, he asked me to switch places and let him get off his bike and do push-ups and I would keep going. Then, he ran to catch up with me. The fun is written on his face!
The most beautiful part was when I said great workout and that we were finished, he said, "Let's run one more lap!" Honestly, I had kind of already mentally "checked out" and really didn't WANT to do another lap, but do you think I was going to tell that to my eager, encouraging little sweetheart? No way! We ran it together, and he ran it like a champ. What an inspiration. It's in his blood…push people when they don't want to do any more and show them their greatness! (Wonder where he gets THAT from?!)
In short, it wasn't really a brutal workout by any stretch, and yet, the next day I was SORE! I was really surprised. I must have had more fun that I thought!
Honestly, it's easy to forget you're working out with this cutie pie looking back at you.
The same thing happens at 9Round Fitness, really. We make it so much fun that you can forget how hard you're working! The mental aspect of exercise is so important.
I mean really, how effective can texting while on the elliptical machine be?!
Nothing against traditional weight loss machines, but…seriously? At 9Round we keep your mentality distracted in a GOOD way. One minute you're toning your legs and arms, or lifting that booty and the next you're down blasting that core and abs! Full body isn't boring! It's the only way to do it in my opinion, and so, Jackson and I created a 9Round-ISH workout together on the track this week. We were high fiving and sweating when we left.
I'm having the best time with him at this age, and if he wants to stay 6 forever, that might just be fine with me ;)
-Heather "The Hero" Hudson
"Are you LIVING, or just not dying?"


text:
abatardi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
NüYü (pronounced "New You" and meaning 'fruit treat') is a company that has been involved with the newly discovered maqui berry for the last 2 years.
- primarily 35-50 year old women looking for a healthy lifestyle.
- people who are interested in things like superfruits, organic/exotic/natural ingredients, etc.
Product Name: NuYu Maqui Energy Max
- "NüYü" should be small be still easily visible -- there is no logo for NuYu currently so a simple abstract icon / typeface is sufficient for this. It should include the dots over the u's.
- "Maqui" and "Energy Max" should be on separate lines
- Primary Color: mid to deep purple shade (be creative with complimentary colors)
- Should incorporate some type of graphical representation (drawing, photo, etc.) of a maqui berry itself somewhere on the label.
Size requirements: 7 3/4" wide by 2 5/8" tall and go onto a bottle. The "primary panel" that is visible without rotating the bottle is approximately 2 1/4" to 2 3/4" wide. The rest will be used for text informational panels and nutritional content.
- please show just the label itself or mocked up on a powder bottle (example attached)
Finished deliverable needs to be in PSD format. If designer can deliver an Illustrator (AI) version, that is a plus.


text:
Tadpole Adaptive necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 124 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
Tadpole Adaptive
Tadpole Adaptive is an online retailer specializing in mobility equipment for children with special needs. We specialize in selling wheelchairs, standers, walkers, sitters, car seats etc. We are a new startup and are preparing to enter the marketplace with our online store launch very soon.
We are looking for an amazing logo to help brand ourselves. We want something clean and fresh, perhaps even cartoony, as we are selling products to children--well actually, the parents will be the ones doing the actual buying.
Obviously, we want a tadpole in the design, we have experimented with a green tadpole design with big cartoony eyes and we do like that idea.
Hopefully we can use the tadpole character as a spokesperson.
Parents of children with special needs. We also want kids to proudly display the logo on clothes and other merchandise. We want children with disabilities and their families to feel comfortable with our brand.
What we want:
A simple vector (must be vector) designed logo in preferably green and grey (we are open to other color combos) we want the tadpole to be expressive and fun looking.
Here is something we like:
We are open to the look of the "Tadpole Adaptive" text part of the logo. In our sketch-ups we had the tadpole character in both the "d" and the "p" as those letters sort of look like a tadpole, this is not necessary however.
"Tadpole Adaptive" can be capped or lowercase, whatever works best in the design.
We are open to different fonts, as long as it is easy to read.
We like logos the have stroke in either the lettering or the background.
Since our target market is children with disabilities we are open to having the tadpole reflecting disability in some way...we'll leave it up to you but he could have a crutch, or be in in a wheelchair...there are many possibilities, perhaps this isn't even necessary.
Feel free to use/improve upon our existing Tadpole concept--or come up with your own!
Bonus points if you can think of a clever tagline with the logo! Think change, adaptability, how using specialized equipment can improve a child's life who has a disability, etc.
Also, we will be using the tadpole "character" in other marketing without the text, so please make sure we can use him independently.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


text:
Receive 10% off your first order plus a FREE pattern worth up to £3.99 when you sign up to The Knitting Network newsletter for free today.
Terms and conditions apply.
Price Match Promise*
Best price or we'll refund the difference*
Same Day Despatch*
Aim to despatch orders placed by 4pm*
Free Royal Mail Delivery*
When you spend £20 or more
Exclusive Patterns
As seen in


text: Seller: hongshanculture (12.249) 99.5%, Location: ZHENGZHOU, Ships to: Worldwide, Item: 223386320674 Store category Sign Up Now ! You may also like PURE FENG SHUI OLD AGATE TIBETAN DZI BEAD PRAYER PENDANT *LOTUS* Product Description SIZE:40x14x14mm Payment Delivery details Terms of sales About us Contact us Payment Notice:1.Please allow 1-5mm differences due to manual measurement.2.Due to the light and screen difference, the item's color may be slightly different from the pictures. Please understand and make sure you don't mind before you bid. Shipping Timefirst,Welcome combined transport! A payment within 5 days after auction ends will be highly appreciated.shipping UK and AU and USA 7-15 business days to deliver.Other country delivery usually takes 20-40 business days. If the item is lost in transit. Or damaged.Bear all the losses by the seller.or any problem,just send message to us.we will do the best help you.We 100% guaranteed quality.We do our best to provide an accurate description and realistic pictures. But colors may appear slightly different to each user due to individual monitor.Thanks & Happy bidding! Type: pendant, Primary Material: agate, Region of Origin: CHINA, Age: Post-1940


text:
Travelers Reap Spoils of Airline Industry Arms Race
Competition along the New York-California routes is upping the ante for airlines as they rush to offer a flood of new comforts and amenities once found only on international trips. Scott McCartney looks at who's offering what, and what kind of deals travelers can find. Photo: Delta.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the ... it's up to the beest live I'm Simon Constable ... they allied companies are rushing to install flat beds in the cross country plans will Street dolls Matt Seat columnist Scott Makani says ... it's on homes Rice an e joins us now from Dallas to tells all about it ... still ... I do like the idea ... of flats ... lie down seats if you like bands in applying why is this happening ... it is so much money to be had on these routes ... indeed it's really done a lot more competitive ... people really do ... like what it's going to fly it does make a difference you don't slide down to see the Tinsley ... Nisa international ... caliber beds flying ... on domestic routes ... primarily in New York to Los Angeles ... it and ... it was and is doing to get people to ... pay business class fares ... even in the case of American ... that a first class fares and ... it seems to be working ... mind up about how much this costs this is an iPhone or box more as it is quite a long haul ... yet it can be indicted the slippery so it is why ... there is room for for business class ... and about forty five hundred dollars ... an American first class ticket in the last minute can be over six thousand dollars ... and then you have what it yet ... but you can see the the exclusivity ... in ... the entertainment company ok and to financial companies will pay ... on ... it you know a lot of people do ... by twelve hundred R coach tickets in hand with their elite status get upgraded to that ... community treats the upgrade was an international route ... say that a miles or or certificates Delta will give it to you if you're one of the top levels for free ... but but on the most part people are paying to get into these cabins and that's very different ... than the rest of the country where nobody its first class tickets and when everybody gets their Maya Gray ... that's not really the case on on trends converts ... Europe and the pound is sleeping on that awful all lying down on the job I should say ... that is the one test that some of the state's right ... in line ... that's a ... pretty good sleep because I admits ... to not to the flying ... um but yes I actually bought the United and Delta ... on flatbed ... American in and JetBlue is coming in with this um ... quite surprisingly ... the exterior ... it's ... really a trend of the inning when ... with a little mini suite that people can buy ... but the United in until the experience on ... both to both expensive ... and ... I and so ... you know very similar to what to get on an international trip but it's by Towers Watson and it was ... past and present something that unites a Festivus like a slice of pizza ... killing and narrow win out of this to happen is in your column thank you Brian much Scott McConnell the will Street gentle ...


text:
Customer Reviews
All reviews are from people who have redeemed deals with this merchant.
What You'll Get
A mattress's softness and large rectangular shape make it useful for cradling human bodies or being stuffed into the billfold of a giant after you've stolen all of his enormous credit cards. Spend some time with a large, soft quadrilateral with today's Groupon: for $499, you get a queen-size 10-inch Nature's Dream memory-foam mattress from Mattress Hero (a $1,299 value). Shipping is included for the contiguous 48 states; additional charges apply for shipping to Hawaii and Alaska.
Nature's Dream mattresses hug horizontal humans with 10 cushy inches of eco-friendly memory foam that contour deeply to support all body types. Below the washable hypoallergenic velour cover lies a 2.5-inch layer of foam blended with a soy bio-application that helps to dissipate heat while minimizing the cratering effect many memory-foam mattresses suffer through time. Underneath the 2.5-inch layer, a thick, durable comfort core helps slumbering citizens retain citizenship and voting rights in the land of dreams. Aside from providing comfort, the mattress's thick layers of memory foam greatly reduce motion transfer, which leads to more uninterrupted sleep for couples and fewer concussions for jumping monkeys. Click here for a list of frequently asked questions.
The Fine Print
Promotional value expires Dec 4, 2011. Amount paid never expires. Limit 1 per person, may buy 3 additional as gifts. Limit 1 Groupon per order. Not valid until 11/22/11; must redeem by 12/4/11. Online only. Any returns must occur within 14 days of receiving product. Ships within contiguous U.S. only. Multiple shipping addresses require multiple purchases. Ships in 2-6 weeks. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.


text:
45 members16 Comments 1 Like
Gracie has not received any gifts yet
Gracie, this is going out only to my friends on Tennisopolis. I'm trying to build some buzz on facebook for Tennisopolis. I couldn't think of anything extremely clever, so I figured giving away cool stuff always works! I need your help today; just LIKE the post our our fb page for a Verdasco autograph. And stay tuned, we're going to be having more giveways on fb in the near future.
Here's the link to our page:
Thanks, Mark
© 2019 Created by Mark / The Mayor. Powered by


text:
What's the value of
your home?
Use our tools
to find out
Neighborhood reports
Get a detailed report showing market trends in your neighborhood, including recent listings, sales prices and average time on market.Get a report
Find a Mover
Find a Mover
Mortgage rates
Powered by thefinancials.com
Mortgage calculator
Get a detailed report showing market trends in your neighborhood, including recent listings, sales prices and average time on market.Get a report
Rent vs buy
How big is an acre? What is an option?
Do I need hazard insurance?
Take a look at our real estate glossary to learn definitions of common words and phrases used in the industry.
National market update
Existing-Home Sales Rise Again in January
Washington, DC, February 23, 2011 The uptrend in existing-home sales continues, with January sales rising for the third consecutive month with a pace that is now above year-ago levels, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. More... Read more
Home Price Stabilization Seen in Most Metro Areas during Fourth Quarter, Sales Up
Washington, DC, February 10, 2011 Home sales rebounded in 49 states during the fourth quarter with 78 markets – just over half of the available metropolitan areas – experiencing price gains from a year ago, while most of the rest saw price weakness, according to the latest survey by the National Association of REALTORS®. More... Read more
National housing indicators
Existing home sales ()
5.36 million units*
Existing home median price ()
Housing Starts ()
596,000 units*
New home sales ()
284,000 units*
*Seasonally adjusted annual rate. Source: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.
National economic indicators
Home ownership
4th Qtr 10
4th Qtr 09
The homeownership rate in the fourth quarter 2010 (66.5 percent) was lower than the fourth quarter 2009 rate (67.2 percent). In the Midwest, South, and West, the homeownership rates were lower than a year ago, while the Northeast showed no significant change from the corresponding fourth quarter 2009 rate.
New home sales
Jan 11
Dec 10
Sales of new one-family houses in January 2011 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 284,000. This is 12.6 percent below the revised December 2010 estimate of 325,000.
Source: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
How much is your home worth? Get a real-time report on the value of your home. Start now
Regional market updates
View market statistics for your region.
Click on the links below to view data from two different industry sources. Choose information on local prices & state sales from any of 178 metropolitan housing markets prepared by the National Association of REALTORS® or information on sales & price activity from local area markets in 25 states prepared by Clarus MarketMetrics.
Local Prices & State Sales
Local Sales & Price Activity
Disclaimer: The views, opinions, statements and/or ideas expressed in this Message Section do not reflect the ideas, policy, position, views or opinion of Move,Inc.
Consumer tips & hot properties
Molly Maid Offers Spring Cleaning Tips
Practical Cleaning Tips to Reduce Stress and Frustration During Spring Cleaning Season.
Ann Arbor, MI, February 17, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Molly Maid, the leader in residential cleaning and the company behind more than 1.4 million cleans last year, is encouraging households to take on the dreaded task of spring clean up. More...
Read more
Celebrity Jennifer Aniston's $42 Million Home in Beverly Hills is for Sale
According to Forbes.com, Jennifer Aniston is selling her "South Pacific inspired urban santuary" in Beverly Hills. Take a look inside. More...
Read more
$100 Bathroom Makeover
Tips for grouting tiles, painting walls Q: I'm looking to add a little pizzazz to my bathroom. Since I was recently laid off, I've got more time than money. Depending on how the job hunting goes, I may have to sell my home. That's not in the foreseeable future, but you never know. More... Read more
Outshine the Competition with Key Fix-up Work
Make cost-effective home improvements to outshine the competition with key fix-up work.
First impressions are lasting. Some buyers won't even look at the inside of a listing that doesn't have good curb appeal. More...
Read more
Homeowners' Backyard Flooding Dilemma Solved
The recent construction of their new home was everything the homeowner's wanted, except for the flooding and water issues in the backyard. More...
Read more
Surround Yourself in Natural Light
19th Century Georgetown Townhouse has Glass Ceiling Kitchen. It's like having your coffee in the park plus 3 bedrooms, 3 full/3 half baths, period furnishings with added glass ceiling kitchen. More...
Read more
Existing Home Statistics
View statistics based on national data, regional data and data gathered from 159 cities & metropolitan areas.
National Statistics
Statistics by City or Metropolitan Area
Regional Statistics
Source: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.


text:
Peter Ainsworth needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 150 designs submitted by 46 freelance designers.
We have recently created a new software application for the investment management industry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invest…management) called Fundipedia. Fundipedia is a SaaS (Software as a Service) delivered customised database application with built in workflow processes, audit trails and reporting for manually generated data about investment management products that is typically maintained (poorly and inefficiently) on multiple spreadsheets. Fundipedia is designed to ensure that firms can improve their client service by knowing their own products better and will also help them to meet regulatory requirements and improve the process of managing this vital data. The attached file is the draft flyer that explains the product.
Our target audience are investment management firms, for example Fidelity, INVESCO, JP Morgan, BlackRock. Therefore our logo should appeal to professionals who would work in these organisations, who we believe to be serious but progressive.
We are looking for a logo to represent our new software application – Fundipedia.
Ideally we would like the logo to incorporate an "F" that is designed in such a way that the F could be used separately and still be associated with the Fundipedia brand.
The logo will not carry a tag line. We wish for the logo to be distinctive, cool, smart and elegant.
Logos that we like can be found on http://www.atlascs.co.uk and http://www.cfamglobal.com. You will notice that the logos are simple but effective.
You're welcome to experiment with the logo and try a range of fonts, colours and textures. All we would ask is that you keep our application and target audience in mind.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .png and layered .psd (RGB)
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


text:
Chackaklak needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 58 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
We are looking for a stylish and sexy logodesign for an adult portal that will be launched next year.
Adults worldwide
The logo needs to display quality and class and should have a sexy look.
We want to differ from most of the existing adult sites by being stylish and "high class".
Please no obscenity in the logo, maybe a woman's silhouette or such would be good, but it can also be a mascot of some kind or something abstract. We are open to all kind of ideas!
Once again the domain is: privatesexfiles.com
The main content will be video, so that also might be something to play with...
Let your creativity do the magic :)
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


text:
West Virginia's "Throwbacks"
by Dan Cincotta
Unlock the secrets of two ancient, native fish species which the Wildlife Resources Section is restoring to West Virginia waters.
Attack of the Alien Invaders!
by Frank Jernejcic
What effects can non-native fish and diseases have on our state's aquatic ecosystem?
What I Did Last Summer
Janet Clayton
Leeches and snappers and crayfish. Oh, my! Find out what a DNR biologist came across last year.
Setting Some Limits Helps Fish Populations
Zack Brown
Understand why the DNR limits the size and number of fish anglers take.
West Virginia 's Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Program
Kathy Leo
The Wildlife Resources Section uses federal dollars to enhance habitat, improve public education about wildlife, and inventory the state's wildlife resources.
Strength in Numbers
Brian McDonald
The DNR works with universities, federal and state agencies, and nonprofit organizations to collect information on unique plant and animal communities.
Field Trip: Pipestem State Park
Wildlife Diversity Notebook: The Five-lined skink
Mountain State Flora: Sedges Have The Edges


text:
Real-time video enhancement
Improved visibility under water
Simple upgrade of existing video systems
Make better decisions in fog, haze, rain, snow, lowlight and under water
You can find LYYN products in many different applications. The common denominator being the need for enhanced real-time visibility. The main markets are the SubSea and the Security & Surveillance Industries.
LYYN develop and market plug-and-play products for real-time video enhancement
for simple upgrade of existing video systems
for integration into other manufacturers products
Read more ›
Try LYYN video enhancement for yourself with the Lyynifier post processing app for iPad and iPhone.
Your Name (required)
Your Email (required)
Your Message
Ideon Science park
22370 Lund
Phone: +46 46 286 57 90
Operations and Sales:
Gunnar Sjogren
Phone: +34 60 665 88 01


text:
I write things here that interest or amuse me, and that I think are worth sharing. They might be topical, or 'cold case', educational or trivial; the only rule is that they will have something to do with genealogy.
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Shopping Saturday - Fortnum and Mason
This seemed like an appropriate choice for 'Shopping Saturday' this week, since the podcast of Selling history: the role of the past at Fortnum and Mason has just gone live on The National Archives website. The talk was given by the company's archivist, Dr Andrea Tanner, who has researched Fortnum's history extensively. Fortnum's is one of several businesses that can claim to be the oldest department store. Their foundation date of 1707 certainly beats all comers with regard to date, but it traded as a high-class grocer for more than three centuries, only adding clothing and household departments in 1925.
Of course, the first this the genealogist wants to know is 'Are there any staff records?', and, sadly, the answer is no. This is not particularly unusual, as you may already know if you have ancestors who worked in the retail trade; it is much easier to find out about the kind of work they did than the details of any individual person's service. But shops and shopping have always been a part of everyday life for everyone, or at least for someone in their family, so we all have some connection with shops. Realistically more of us are likely to be descended from the servants or employees of Fortnum's customers than from the customers themselves - it is a little on the exclusive side.
If you are in London the distinctive building on Piccadilly is worth a visit - even if you don't go inside, the building's exterior is very attractive, and when the magnificent clock chimes the hour, the figures of Mr Fortnum and Mr Mason come out, give each other a dignified bow, and then retire. You will find a brief history of Fortnum and Mason on their website, where you will learn that they were the first British retailer to stock Mr Heinz's exciting new product - baked beans! You can also see a video of Fortnum's world record-breaking scotch egg, and follow the progress of the Fortnum's bees in their roof-top hive via the Bee-cam.
Posted by Audrey Collins at 00:41
Labels: London, Podcasts, Shops, The National Archives
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
It's mid spring in Southern Oregon and my little garden is producing lettuce like crazy. A few weeks ago I planted a bunch of different varieties of lettuce, spinach and chard and with the cool wet weather we have had lately, they really have taken off. With the abundance of lettuce available, it's time for me to start preparing fresh and healthy spring salads for my family.
I have to tell you that it's rare that I purchase store bought salad dressings anymore. I prefer to make homemade vinaigrettes and dressings as opposed to using store bought ones. In my opinion, homemade dressings are easy to make and taste incredibly fresh and delicious. Trust me, once you get the hang of how to make your own salad dressings and vinaigrettes, I seriously doubt that you will ever go back to using the store bought stuff ever again…
My little garden. I planted several types of lettuce. There's broccoli and snow peas in the back…
A close up of an onion blossom…
A pail full of fresh picked lettuce and spinach from my garden ready to be drizzled with Champagne Mango Vinaigrette.
If you never heard of or even seen Champagne Mangoes before, listen up… Champagne Mangoes are an exotic fruit that are a gorgeous shade of golden yellow when perfectly ripe and are smaller in comparison to the other green and red colored mangoes you see in the store. Champagne Mangoes are sweet, juicy and delicious. Whenever I am fortunate to find them at my local grocery store, I hoard them like nobody's business. They are hands down one of my favorite type of fruit.
The original Champagne Mango Vinaigrette recipe that I found came from here. The original recipe was created by Chef Wayne Elias of Mark's Restaurant in West Hollywood, California for Ciruli Brothers' champagnemangoes.com. Chef Wayne Elias' Champagne Mango Vinaigrette is a brilliant combination of fresh champagne mangoes, champagne vinegar, pepper and a hint of sage. I slightly adapted Chef Wayne Elias' recipe with the addition of 1 Tbs fresh orange juice. Champagne Mango Vinaigrette is wonderful drizzled over fresh picked lettuce or grilled fish. The best way to describe Champagne Mango Vinaigrette is like having liquid sunshine on your salad. Enjoy! Tessa
- 1 Champagne mango peeled, seeded and diced
- 2 Tbs champagne vinegar
- 1 Tbs orange juice
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/8 tsp ground sage
- salt to taste
Add all ingredients to a blender and puree. Taste and correct your seasonings. Makes about 4 servings.


text:
Coincidence? Or Chicago-style strong arming by the Federal Government? Or both?
Just days after Washington D.C. approves online poker gambling, the Justice Department, FBI hands out indictments to three major online poker sites charging them with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offenses. (via The Hill)
"Executives at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker have been charged with bank fraud and money laundering. The FBI shut down three of the largest poker websites Friday in what appears to be the largest crackdown on illegal online gambling to date. Eleven executives at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker have been charged with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offenses. Prosecutors are seeking to immediately shut down the sites and recover $3 billion from the firms."
A related L.A. Times story explains how "the bust" went down, the effects among online gamblers, and the ramifications of the Federal law passed in 2006 under the direction of then Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist when he added the measure to a port security bill.
"The FBI had shut down two of the sites, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars, by Friday evening and were working to do the same with the third, Absolute Poker. Online visitors were greeted with a message saying, "This domain name has been seized by the F.B.I. pursuant to an Arrest Warrant," and an enumeration of federal anti-gambling statutes and penalties.
An estimated 8 million to 10 million Americans play poker online for money; thousands of them earn their living on the sites, according to a players advocacy group.
Congress tried to shut down the industry by enacting an anti-gambling law in 2006, but most sites found ways to work around the vaguely worded measure. Since then other members of Congress have proposed bills to legalize Internet gambling, but they have failed to reach a floor of either chamber.
"These defendants concocted an elaborate criminal fraud scheme, alternately tricking some U.S. banks and effectively bribing others to assure the continued flow of billions in illegal gambling profits," Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement.
The 2006 law did not directly outlaw online poker sites, but instead barred businesses from taking payments for "unlawful" online gambling, leaving the definition of what is unlawful to others."
And Bill Frist motives were certainly questionable at the time, still leaving online gambling sites wondering how the law was to be interpreted:
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, in pushing the measure through Congress as part of a port security bill just prior to adjournment last weekend, seemed more intent on pleasing social conservatives than truly gutting online gambling.
Joseph Kelly, a law professor at Buffalo (NY) State College and an attorney for online gaming concerns, calls the law "highly unenforceable." The act makes it illegal for banks to transfer money from customer accounts to online gambling firms. But for the most part, bettors don't pay their online bookies directly. Payments usually are routed to offshore firms through an online intermediary such as Canadian-based Neteller, the biggest money-transfer firm in this sphere. In addition, American banking lobbyists insisted that the most basic form of payment be exempted if the industry was to support the law. That's the good old-fashioned check — both paper and electronic versions — whose volume made them impossible to monitor. So checks are exempted.
Fast forward to the new king of "legal" online poker:
The District is becoming the first U.S. jurisdiction to allow Internet gambling, trying to raise millions of dollars from the habits of online poker buffs and acting ahead of traditional gambling meccas like New Jersey and Nevada. Permitting the online games was part of the 2011 budget and a 30-day period for Congress to object expired last week, said D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown, who authored the provision. The gaming would be operated by Intralot, a Greek company, and would be available only to gamblers within the borders of the District.
……………The move to legalize the games comes despite a 2006 federal law that effectively banned Internet gambling. The law basically prohibited banks and credit card companies from processing payments from gambling companies to individuals. But the law is murky, and gambling experts say it created enough grey areas to open the door for a deeper expansion into the multibillion dollar industry.
"There was really no clear law that said we could not do this," Brown said Wednesday. D.C. hopes to tap those millions to help offset budget cuts and help social services programs, Brown said.
Jeff Ifrah, a lawyer whose firm represents online gaming companies, said he was dubious about any revenue estimates since they naturally assume that online poker players will migrate from their favorite site to a new one endorsed by a state. "Players are really loyal in this industry," Ifrah said. "You really have to ask yourself what is the incentive a player is going to have to leave a trusted site with global competition to play in a site that's untested and kind of unknown and doesn't offer you the same level of play." (emphasis mine)
Oh boy, the "incentive" was initiated by the full thrust of the DOJ and the FBI, who are playing their hand just like a skilled poker player. But, has D.C. stacked the deck? The whole "deal" reeks of Federal Cronyism, and I'd "bet" others are asking questions about the timing of the FBI bust, and who else might have been "sitting at the table".
Related story via Hot Air December 8, 2010 by Ed Morrissey—Harry Reid is either fuming over these developments or might have been well aware of them—who knows?
This post was promoted from GreenRoom to HotAir.com.
To see the comments on the original post, look here.


text:
Final Fantasy Cosplay
Auron Cosplay
Auron is the brooding, wise character from Final Fantasy X that retrieved Tidas from the past to help destroy sin. These cosplay costumes are extreme quality and will make you the talk of the con.
Happy Cosplaying Otaku!
No products matching your query have been found in our store at the moment.
Please bookmark this page and come back soon to see if we have what you want.
You may also like to select one of the alternative country flags at the top of the page to show similar items available to you from other eBay stores.
Subscribe to our RSS feed for related items to get them delivered straight to your email address or RSS reader by clicking the orange RSS icon to the left of this message.
What is RSS?
View more Auron Cosplay items on eBay
Or subscribe to our RSS feed for Auron Cosplay items.
Or subscribe to our RSS feed for Auron Cosplay items.


text:
The Saturday Showdown continues on time this week. Each week we'll pick a topic, flip a coin to see which OT writer gets which side to debate, and then we present it to you. This week? Whether or not the Xbox 360 Elite will prosper.
Ben: The rumors have been confirmed and put to bed: the Xbox 360 Elite is coming at the end of April for $480. The main upgrade is the black color... I'm only half kidding. The real draw here is the 120GB hard drive and the addition of HDMI output. This makes the 360 more competitive with the PS3 on a per-feature basis, which gives Sony fewer talking points to use while they're trying to claw on top of the gaming heap. The $480 price point can only be described as strategic. I have a sneaking suspicion that at that price they're able to break even—if not turn a profit—and still be less expensive than the increasingly hard-to-find at retail 20GB PS3 model. Microsoft is keeping their two previous configurations, so now consumers have three choices when contemplating a 360 purchase. I just don't see the downside here. If you don't need the extra storage, go with the $400 system, but if you want to fully utilize your shiny new HDMI receiver and download as many 1GB+ demos you want, this is a good upgrade. Microsoft adds more features, and still keeps the lead in terms of pricing. So what is there to complain about?
Frank: The rumors of a black 360 persisted for so long that I'm wondering if Microsoft simply bit the bullet for the sake of meeting the drooling market demand. However, I've got to say that despite the sexy black finish, the 360 Elite is really not that great of a deal, and I don't think it'll do that well. Judging by the general reaction of others, I'd say I'm not alone. First and foremost, I think the whole HDMI thing is overrated. For something being touted as one of the pivotal updates to this "new" hardware, it's something that very few people are actually going to make use of. It's a strategy that appeals only to the high-end videophiles—a strategy that I believe Sony tried to do with the PS3, only to have serious troubles from the outset. Moreover, the price point seems to be a little high. This new version should have been the same price as the Premium, taking the place of that SKU and bumping the Premium down into Core range (since the Core is all but useless given the new direction of downloadable content that Microsoft is dedicated to). Really, the only thing that makes the Elite worth buying is the simple fact that once you realize how overpriced the 120 GB hard drive is, you realize that you might as well go ahead and buy the Elite.
Ben: HDMI may very well be overrated, but if you are a videophile or simply enjoy the simplicity of the HDMI cable, it's nice to have, and again this is yet another option when you're looking to buy a new console. Also, some HDTVs (I'm looking at you, Sony) will only do 1080p through HDMI. I just don't think that there is ever going to be a time when having more choices is a bad thing; if it turns out that the market won't bear a third choice for the 360, then Microsoft will either pull it or drop the price. If you do want to use your 360 as a media center, then the bigger hard drive and HDMI are nice additions. As for being overpriced, I think you're underestimating how much Sony has moved the bar in terms of what we consider to be overpriced. The highest 360 option is still less expensive than the lowest Sony option, and the advantages Sony has been touting are now gone. Microsoft gets to say that if the consumer thinks HDMI and large hard drives are important, than Microsoft has a system for them that's still less expensive than the PS3. It's a very shrewd strategic move, and it takes some of the wind out of Sony's sales. Is it the best possible deal for the consumer? Probably not, but Microsoft offered what they needed to at a price that they can still claim is competitive.
Frank: See, I don't really consider the PS3 overpriced; especially not at this point. Now, had the Xbox 360 Elite come packed with the HD-DVD player, then I'd be thinking twice about the PS3's price point. However, given that Blu-ray is currently doing just fine, I really think the PS3 is the better value. Naturally, the problem with this logic is that you obviously can't get the 360 games on the PS3, but in terms of bare-bones value, I think the PS3 has the 360 Elite beat by a long shot. The only, and I repeat, only thing that makes the 360 Elite even fathomable is, as I mentioned, the ridiculous price of the stand-alone hard drive—and I don't care what Microsoft says to justify such an atrocity. Ultimately, a competitive price isn't necessarily going to drive sales, especially when the product is fundamentally flawed. Then again, perhaps I'm underestimating how much the color black is worth to some people—Apple gets away with charging extra for it, so why not Microsoft. You've raised a point I find hard to dispute, which could be further extended by considering the numerical difference between the 60GB and 120GB hard drives. To us, that's a nominal difference easily rectified by the fact that you can slap in your own HDD into the PS3. To the average mom or pop, though, those numbers will be a statistical difference worthy of a bullet-point. Were it only the videophiles buying the Elite, then I'd wager it would be getting pulled or at least marked down pretty quickly. Alas, black is always the new black, and thus it's highly likely that the product will prosper.
So what do you think? Is the 360 Elite worth the money, or just another "redesign" looking to cash in on the new color?


text:
(Address Confidential)
Delavan, Wisconsin 53115
Listing Office: Keefe Real Estate, Inc.
Disclaimer: The data relating to real estate for sale on this website comes in part from the Broker Reciprocity Program of MetroMLS. Real estate listings held by brokerage firms other than @properties are marked with the Broker Reciprocity thumbnail logo and detailed information about them includes the name of the listing brokers.
The Wisconsin city of Delavan was once home to clowns, elephants and the "Greatest Show on Earth." For nearly 50 years, Delavan was home to 26 circus companies, serving as the winter quarters of the U.S. Olympic Circus, the largest…Learn More
School Assignment Data provided by the National Center for Education Statistics
View More Area Schools
No Nearby Public Transportation Found


text:
State police report attempted suicide
JONES TWP. - The Ridgway-based Pa. State Police report investigating an incident of attempted suicide that occurred on March 1 at 2:15 p.m. on Glen Hazel Road in Jones. Twp., Elk County. According to police, the incident occurred as a 49-year-old known female of Johnsonburg, took pills and deliberately drove off of the road and struck a tree. The woman was transported to the Elk Regional Health Center for treatment. Police were assisted at the scene by the Wilcox Fire Department.
Local Social Media Posts


text:
Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries
The fine folks at Counterpoint Press sent me a copy of Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries for my review. So here goes.
First off, the by-line on this thing is a doozy. Here's what it says under the title:
Translations and
Commentaries by
Nishiari Bokusan,
Shohaku Okamura,
Shunryu Suzuki,
Kosho Uchiyama,
Sojun Mel Weitsman.
Kazuaki Tanahashi, and
Dairyu Michael Wenger
You always know the extent to which a movie is going to be a piece of garbage by the number of names in the writing credits. One writer can make a good movie with a specific point of view and something interesting to say. When movies are written by committee the committee always succeeds in removing anything worthwhile about the story and replacing it with whatever they've agreed on will appeal to, as well as avoid offending, the greatest number of people.
This book is the product of a large Zen institution. I almost wrote that it was the product of the San Francisco Zen Center (SFZC). But the inclusion of material by Kosho Uchiyama and Shohaku Okamura widens things even further. Uchiyama and Okamura stem from the same root lineage as the folks at SFZC*, but do not belong to that institution itself. Because of its association with a big institution I was a little worried whether I'd be able to give this book a good review.
My problem with a lot of the stuff that comes out of SFZC these days is that it tends to be watered down. This was the trouble with their edition of Dogen's Shobogenzo (Treasury of the True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo). It's not that it's a bad translation. In fact it's one of the best around. But it's also a translation by committee. That committee sat together and worried about a lot of fairly ridiculous "problems" with the text such as whether or not the phrase usually rendered as "kingly bodhi tree" might be considered sexist. Which is the sort of thing you'd expect a bunch of uptight middle class liberals from San Francisco to wring their hands about. Thus in a number of areas of the text, rather than giving you what Dogen actually said, they give you what a bunch of uptight middle class liberals from San Francisco are comfortable with him saying. Fortunately they generally restrict themselves to fairly innocuous changes like making "kingly bodhi tree" into "royal bodhi tree," which I admit is pretty much the same thing. But still, the flavor of their translation is Rice-a-Roni (the San Francisco treat) rather than the kind of plain boiled rice Dogen would have served you.
Anyway, that's not what's going on with Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries. So just forget I said any of that stuff. The reason there are so many authors in this book is because it is a compilation of three commentaries, each of which has two or three authors or editors attached. The first is by Nishiari Bokusan, who was the teacher of Shunryu Suzuki's teacher Kishizawa Ian. This is translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Mel Weitsman. Tanahashi is Japanese and speaks English but is not an ordained Zen teacher. Weitsman is American and does not speak Japanese but is an ordained Zen teacher. So one can guess that Tanahashi is responsible for the actual translation into English while Weitsman made it sound more Zen and that the two of them hashed out the translation to make sure the final piece was true to the original. Though I can't help wondering if they also removed any offending sexism or suchlike in the process.
The second commentary is attributed to Shunryu Suzuki, author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind and the first abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center. But Suzuki himself never prepared any commentary on Genjo Koan as such, at least not for publication. He did, however, give a number of lectures on Genjo Koan over a period of six years. So Michael Wenger and Mel Weitsman went through those lectures with the assistance of Jeffrey Schneider and stitched together a Frankenstein monster commentary that reads as if it were a single piece. They did a good job. It's very hard to spot where the sutures and the bolts in the neck are in this version. But, again, I can't help wondering what Suzuki himself would have made of it. I've heard that while he was happy with Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, which was put together in a similar fashion, he thought it was more what his students heard him say than what he actually said. I'd guess he'd feel the same way about this piece.
The final commentary is the purest. It was prepared as a single piece by Kosho Uchiyama and then translated by Shohaku Okamura. Okamura was not only a direct student of Uchiyama but is a Japanese Zen monk whose English is at such a high level that he didn't need help in preparing a readable translation. I suppose he had an editor, just like any English speaking author would. But this is still Okamura's own vision of the piece. So even though Uchiyama himself didn't approve it, we can be pretty sure this is very close to how he would have said things if he'd been able to speak English.
That being said, I find Suzuki's portion to be the most readable and easy to understand, while Bokusan's runs a close second. Unfortunately Uchiyama's commentary comes off a little too stilted and scholarly for my taste. This doesn't seem to be Okamura's fault since Okamura's sketch of Uchiyama's life, which precedes the commentary, is highly readable and very warm.
Although Uchiyama's commentary is the most scholarly-sounding of the three, none of these are really scholarly commentaries. A scholarly commentary on Genjo Koan would tell you about Dogen's life, about what was going on in Japan at the time, about Dogen's use of language, about the background of the various quotations he uses, and so on. In this book you get just enough of that stuff to follow along. These are commentaries by Zen practitioners whose main intent was to help other Zen practitioners deal with their practice.
In that, I feel these are very useful for those of us who practice Zen in the West today. Granted all three commentaries are by older Japanese men. But none of these commentaries are so ancient that they feel removed and distant from us the way a really old commentary might. The earliest of the three is Nishiari's, which dates from the early twentieth century. The most recent is Uchiyama's, which dates from the 1970s. They are all, therefore, modern looks at the 800 year old Genjo Koan. Contemporary life even intrudes into the commentaries themselves when Shunryu Suzuki refers to the traffic noises outside the hall in Northern California where he delivered his talks and relates this directly to what Dogen was writing about hundreds of years before cars were invented.
Some might feel this makes the commentaries less valuable since they are so far removed from Dogen's time. One could complain that people so distant from the author's own era can't possibly know what he was talking about. But I don't feel that's the case. It's more important that all three of the commentaries are by practitioners. What's more, like us, these practitioners have to deal with the kinds of things Dogen never had to deal with.
It's funny to me when people act like we, today in the West, have so much more trouble practicing Zen than the folks in Asia hundreds of years ago. In spite of traffic noises and blaring boomboxes, we really have it a lot easier than people in Dogen's time did. They had to deal with wars and famines and political uprisings the likes of which are seldom encountered by any of us these days. The distractions we have to deal with are, admittedly, a lot more attractive and easily available than those of Dogen's time. But our excuse for not practicing is because there are so many more websites to look at and besides there's a guy upstairs practicing Jimi Hendrix licks, rather than because we're about to starve to death since the rice crop failed and the Mongols are burning down the village. It's really no contest. We've got it very cushy by comparison.
The commentaries in this book are by people who understand the unique nature of the distractions to practice contemporary people face. Though they may not be as hip and pop culture savvy as the trash I put out, they're very useful to anyone serious about pursuing Zen practice in our time.
*Some people in the comments section insist that this is wrong. However, Michael Wenger says the following in his introduction, "(Nishiari Bokusan's) commentary is the first in this collection. In fact, all of the other commentaries in this volume are in his lineage." Until I find further clarification I'll take Michael Wenger's word on the matter.
Don't forget, if you want to practice some Zen, beginning Sunday January 15th 2012 I will be hosting Zazen every Sunday night at 7 pm at the Akron Shambhala Meditation Center. Maybe I'll even give you my take on Genjo Koan. The address is:
133 Portage Trail Ste. 202
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio


text:
You're probably hitting the pumpkin patch this week in search of the perfect candidate for your jack-o-lantern masterpiece. Think you've got carving skills? We want to see them!
Carve an Eat'n Park-themed design into your pumpkin, and send us a picture for a chance to win a $100 Eat'n Park gift card!
The top designs will be posted to our blog and Facebook page, and our three favorite entries will receive gift cards. Enter here before October 25.


text:
Some of you may remember me posting about him before..he was my sister's ex's dog.
Well turns out today that his brother took the dog to a friends house and Spot got into a figh with the friend's dog and did some serious damage to their dog so they called Animal Control and they made him put Spot to sleep
Spot didn't have to die but this is what happens when these dogs wind up in the hands of irresponsible morons who have no business owning any dog let a lone a bully.
His kids took it pretty hard.


text:
SNF Labmembers Wiki
This wiki site is for and by the SNF lab community. It's a resource for working inside the lab, serving as a dynamic reference as well as historical archive. For more general topics about SNF (such programs in education, how to join, directions, history) please see the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility Home Page. A login is not needed to view public information, only to contribute. If you are a labmember wishing to contribute, contact an SNF staff member for access.
Document Actions


text:
maryme needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 234 designs submitted by 51 freelance designers.
PriceDumper.com and it's international sisters are basically shopping search engines with little price comparison functionalities.
we generate more than 5 mio users per month worldwide. most important markets are US, UK, France, Germany.
pricedumper is not focussed on a certain retail section. you can search for about any product.
since theres no certain focus to a specific topic site needs to be suitable for any person or product.
well most important target of course is the most shopping affine group which are women age 30-50
i provided wireframe for 2 pages with needes elements, 3rd is just adaption.
you're FREE with colors, design elements whatsoever, but please stick closely to structure and content of site. and always follow rule form folloes function!
we need several designs for similar websites therefore we will buy best 3 designs! contest reward is only for winner, 2nd and 3rd will get 800 $ each!
(1) Home page
- make 1 example teaser for christmas season (upper left area in wireframe)
- home page can be colorful and friendly and fun to get people going and enjoying the site
(2) search result page
- design needs to work in 1024x768
- on that resolution top 5 products should still be visible
- make product section in the middle stand out, so that there is a clear focus on the products NOT navigation or filter
- help user find what he's looking for, no over-designing or useless elements
(3) product comparison site
- again help user find the info he's looking for
- stick to structure at http://www.pricedumper.com/offers/8…tendo-Wii/


text:
cost-benefit analysis(redirected from Cost/benefit analysis)
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Financial, Acronyms, Encyclopedia.
Related to Cost/benefit analysis: Cost Benefit Ratio
cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
a type of economic evaluation of medical care expense. It compares the expected monetary benefit derived from different health interventions with the expected cost of providing each of the interventions to determine the best or most profitable option.
cost-benefit analysisCost-benefit evaluation Clinical trials A form of economic analysis from a social perspective, in which the costs of medical care are compared with the economic benefits of the care provided, with both the costs and benefits being expressed in monetary units; the benefits evaluated include projected ↓ in future health care costs and ↑ earning as a result of the intervention of interest. Cf Cost-effectiveness analysis.
cost-benefit analysis,
n the comparative study of the service or production costs of a service or item and its value to the subject.


text: Working on a Master Bedroom Project . . . May 24, 2010 I've been working all weekend on a master bedroom project featuring the fabrics and carpet above. I'm happy with the selections I made and am excited to present my project this morning–needless to say, I'm a bit light on posting. In the meantime, if you want to see some great thrift store finds you must pop over to AB Home Interiors and check out the stuff Amanda found while on vacation last week (at her parent's lake house, no less!). Lucky for her she has access to a trailer, so she's bringing it back home to show it a little love. As much as I love Atlanta, she's got me wishin' I was living in Missouri! 🙂 Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Related 12 Comments on Working on a Master Bedroom Project . . . Design Esquire May 24, 2010 at 8:59 am (9 years ago) I love what you selected! I can't wait to see how you bring it all together. Reply Jesse May 24, 2010 at 9:19 am (9 years ago) What a pretty palette! Reply autumn May 24, 2010 at 11:20 am (9 years ago) LOVE the sisal and the ticking mixed with that beautiful yellow trellis-y fabric. YUM!! Reply alissa May 24, 2010 at 11:51 am (9 years ago) Beautiful upholstery Dayka! Hope your presentation goes well!Alissa Reply Mrs. Chic May 24, 2010 at 11:52 am (9 years ago) I like the fabrics and colors alot very pretty and classic Reply Haven and Home May 24, 2010 at 12:05 pm (9 years ago) Ohhh I love what you chose! Reply Karen@StrictlySimpleStyle May 24, 2010 at 1:58 pm (9 years ago) Very elegant. I'm sure they will love it! Reply Hello Lover... May 24, 2010 at 2:26 pm (9 years ago) Can't wait to see the finished project! Reply paula May 24, 2010 at 2:40 pm (9 years ago) love the palette. you must be having a blast. Reply Averill May 24, 2010 at 7:11 pm (9 years ago) Great fabric selection! Really love the paisley — for some reason I've been so attracted to it lately. Where are you planning on using what fabric? Reply P.S. I love this... May 25, 2010 at 1:16 am (9 years ago) Love all the texture! Can't wait to see the finished room. Reply L. Duncan May 25, 2010 at 9:03 am (9 years ago) I had to come check out the fabric first! Very nice girl;-) I love the colors, patterns, and textures!Now let me head back up to that gorgeous bedroom plan of yours and leave a comment! Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment *Name* Email * Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.


text:
Transfer from Geneva airport to Talloires
24h/24 Informations and Reservations: ☎ +41 78 820 08 10 / Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
We provide private transfers from the Geneva Airport to Talloires . Our drivers will provide a personal welcome (meeting outside of baggage claim) on all airport pickups. We are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Make your reservation to Talloires now and see why we are quickly becoming Geneva's most popular chauffeur company.
S-Class Mercedes
A luxury flagship car of both exterior and interior beauty
E-Class Mercedes
A model of comfort and capability embodying refinement
V-Class Mercedes
A status symbol synonymous with both comfort and class.
Range Rover
The world standard of luxury and capability
Infos / Quotes – Get in touch with us
Geneva airport - Talloires
Distance: 65 km / Estimated travel time: 1h


text:
Indexes speed up searches by effectively reducing the number of entries a search has to check to find a match. An index contains a list of values. Each value is associated with a list of entry identifiers. Directory Server can look up entries quickly by using the lists of entry identifiers in indexes. Without an index to manage a list of entries, Directory Server must check every entry in a suffix to find matches for a search.
Directory Server processes each search request as follows:
Directory Server receives a search request from a client.
Directory Server examines the request to confirm that the search can be processed.
If Directory Server cannot perform the search, it returns an error to the client and might refer the search to another instance of Directory Server.
Directory Server determines whether it manages one or more indexes that are appropriate to the search.
If Directory Server manages indexes that are appropriate to the search, the server looks in all of the appropriate indexes for candidate entries. A candidate entry is an entry that might be a match for the search request.
If Directory Server does not manage an index appropriate to the search, the server generates the set of candidate entries by checking all of the entries in the database.
When Directory Server cannot use indexes, this process consumes more time and system resources.
Directory Server examines each candidate entry to determine whether the entry matches the search criteria.
Directory Server returns matching entries to the client application as it finds the entries.
You can optimize search performance by doing the following:
Preventing Directory Server from performing searches on non-indexed entries
Ensuring that cache sizes are appropriately tuned
Limiting the length of an index
For a comprehensive overview of how indexes work, see Chapter 9, Directory Server Indexing, in Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition. For information about defining indexes, see Chapter 12, Directory Server Indexing, in Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition.


text:
Chicago - 2013by Joe Martin '06 • October 7, 2013 Share:
The Wabash Club of Chicago spent this year's WABASH Day making brunch for families that were staying at the Ronald McDonald House in downtown Chicago as part of their Meals for the Heart Program. The Ronald McDonald House relies on volunteer groups to bring in and prepare all of the meals that they serve and the group was excited for the opportunity to flex their culinary muscle and reminisce of their days of making meals for large groups in their fraternity houses.
The menu included parfaits, breakfast sandwiches, French toast, pancakes, a variety of egg casseroles, sausage, bacon, hash browns, and fresh fruit. In total they served 45 people breakfast and had enough leftovers for people to pack to-go boxes. After brunch they were given a tour of the 16 floor facility and were able to learn more about the great work that the Ronald McDonald House is doing for families that are receiving treatment at the Lurie Children's Hospital.
Group photo: Ben Esbaum '07, Kara Zambrana, Matt Schulz '06, Bri Martin, Joe Martin '06, Jeff Sostak '06, Chris Woodside '06, Jen Sostak, Sam Borrelli '07, Emily Borrelli, Mark Dewart '74, John Dewart '10, Boyce Evans '08


text:
Call of Duty: Ghosts' Drill Instructor Voice Pack Goes Full Metal
Sergeant Hartman is planning to gouge out your eyes and make you his new Gomer Pyle in this newest Voice Pack coming out for Call of Duty: Ghosts
Golden Glove Nominee R. Lee Ermey has returned to the snarling, random-insult-hurling character that made him a household name in Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War film 'Full Metal Jacket.' While Ermey was acting at the time, he drew strictly from his experience as a real-life Drill Instructor who served during Vietnam, where Ermey also served as a Staff Sergeant and Gunnery Sergeant for the United States Marine Corps.
Ermey will be providing his iconic, angry voice to the Drill Instructor Voice Pack, which will change out all of your in-game multiplayer alerts to his commanding voice. Infinity Ward intends to release the Drill Instructor Voice Pack on Apr. 22 exclusively on Xbox Live (for both Xbox 360 and Xbox One). The Drill Instructor Voice Pack will launch on other consoles for Call of Duty: Ghosts at a later, unannounced date. Just make sure you don't forcibly choke yourself in anticipation -- Ermey will probably order you to do it later.


text:
Life in Argentina often feels like a roller coaster ride. Whether or not the director intended to include this subtle metaphor in his short film, these classic scenes of Buenos Aires with a mind-bending twist will leave you breathless, just like a true heart-stopping amusement ride should.
[Click here if you can't view the embedded video.]


text:
This is a lovely, albeit thin (only 26 pages!), magazine. Recipes are clearly set out with photos accompanying each stage of the recipe. I can imagine it would be invaluable to someone just starting out baking – particularly as each issue is accompanied by a piece of silicon bakeware. Issue 2 came with a spatula and pastry brush.
I haven't baked anything from issue 2 yet, but have already made the Mediterranean tarts from issue 1 for Mr CC's and my dinner – very tasty they were too! Both issues I have seen contain recipes that I want to bake; while that sounds an odd thing to say, I increasingly find that cookbooks are getting too fancy and losing touch with what people at home actually want to cook - this magazine doesn't and has lots of lovely sweet and savoury recipes.
On the Baked & Delicious website (link given above) it says that due to the huge success of issue 1, issue 2 is being released early – hopefully this is evidence in a surge in popularity of home baking!


text:
You are hereHome ›
Narrow Search
Earth and space science
Filters: Your search found 1 result.
Sort by:
Per page:
Now showing results 1-1 of 1
This is an activity about the magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth, and the interplanetary magnetic field, or IMF. Learners will engage in a question and answer dialogue, make connections using bar magnet examples and overhead transparencies, and... (View More) ultimately write an assessment of concepts learned. This is Activity 1 in Session 3 of the Exploring Magnetism in the Solar Wind teachers guide. (View Less)
Audience: Middle school
Materials Cost: $1 - $5 per group of students
Materials Cost: $1 - $5 per group of students


text:
Sascha816 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 63 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
We are going to launch a new Techblog called Techlounge in the next 4 weeks. It's a crowdsourcing project of various german techbloggers (we will start with a german version, an english one will follow)and we are focusing on hard/software, social media, green technology, webpolitics, events (barcamps, etc.)and a little bit of startup scene.
It's all about the lifestyle and to let people know that it's cool to be a geek!
early adopters, web addicts, geeks...
in general it's about people who are using the web as a daily tool to get all the information they need. what's the coolest smartphone? we will let you know!
Which internet service is hot? we have the answer!
Don't get it wrong, we are not planning a mashup, engadget, techcrunch copycat, it's about passionated techbloggers and web-activists writing about their experiences and ideas
well we need a stylish logo. Our theme will be based on this fundament here:
The techlounge logo should be very inviting, like a lounge and of course we would also love to use a short version of it (maybe just TL)for our business cards.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.