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Robert Anthony Jackson of West Grove was arrested for sexually assaulting two boys.
A registered sex offender was taken into custody by Pennsylvania State Police Avondale on May 22 in connection with a series of sexual assaults that occurred between February 2013 and May 19. Police say Robert Anthony Jackson, 53, of West Grove, assaulted two boys, ages 6 and 9, at a home on Summit Avenue in West Grove while he was supposed to be caring for them. He was charged with involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault and related offenses. He is a sexual offender under Megan's Law and is required to register with the state police. He was taken to Chester County Prison in lieu of $1 million bail.
Pennsylvania State Police Avondale officers apprehended three serial shoplifters after viewing surveillance video of incidents that occurred between May 2 and 13. The three suspects were charged with stealing merchandise from the T.J. Maxx store in East Marlborough Township. Arrested were Matthew Ryan Wilkinson, 21, of West Grove; Francis Rivera-Perez, 23, of Kennett Square; and Hector Morales, 36, of Avondale.
Kennett Square police reported that a home in the 200 block of South Walnut Street was burglarized on May 6 sometime between noon and 6:33 p.m. The resident said nothing appeared to be missing. The investigation is continuing.
A home in the 500 block of Kenview Avenue in Kennett Square was burglarized on May 8 between 10:30 a.m. and 5:17 p.m., according to police. The resident said $40 in change was missing.
The garage of a home in the 200 block of Columbra Street in Cochranville was targeted by burglars on May 21 at about 1 a.m., according to a report by Pennsylvania State Police Avondale. Police say two males in their 20s and wearing black hoodies entered the garage and the homeowner's van looking for valuables. Nothing was taken and the two fled. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 610-268-2022.
On May 19 at about 4:15 p.m., an armed robber stole about $200 from the Concord Pet Food and Supply store on Newark Road in New London Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police Avondale. The suspect was described as in his 20s or 30s, about 180 pounds, with dark hair and a beard. He was wearing black clothing and a ski mask when he robbed two clerks at gunpoint and then fled on foot toward State Road.
Pennsylvania State Police Avondale say that a man stole three sterling silver bracelets from a display case at A Dressy Deal Consignments (816 W. Baltimpore Pike, West Grove) on May 18 at about 1:33 p.m. and fled in an older white or cream-colored BMW. A possible registration number was taken at the scene and police are investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 610-268-2022.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested by Kennett Square police for possession of a controlled substance on May 6 after he was stopped while walking on the railroad tracks at Center Street and Las Rosas Drive. He was referred to juvenile probation.
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PITTSBURGH -- Lefty reliever Luis Avilan experienced some trouble when he attempted to test his left hamstring by jogging early Thursday afternoon at PNC Park, but the Braves will attempt to wait at least three more days before deciding whether he will need to be placed on the 15-day disabled list.
"We're trying to hold on," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "He's making a little bit of progress. [Head athletic trainer Jeff Porter] told me he went out there and really couldn't run. But obviously, we'll try to keep him progressing the best we can. If we get in a situation where we play 12 innings today and we need the extra arm tomorrow, we'll make the move."
Avilan seemed destined for the DL when he fell to the ground before throwing a pitch in the ninth inning of Tuesday night's win over the Royals, but his mobility has improved over the past two days, and the Braves are holding out hope that he is simply dealing with a slight strain and the effects of a bad hamstring cramp.
"I feel so much better," said Avilan, who has established himself as a reliable and versatile middle reliever while compiling a 2.01 ERA in 36 career appearances.
The Braves are willing to go through the four-game series against the Pirates with one less available arm in the relief corps, but Gonzalez said his bullpen will definitely not be short-handed when the Braves begin a three-game series against the Rockies at Coors Field on Monday.
Thus, if Avilan has not made adequate improvement by Sunday, the Braves will likely have to promote a pitcher from their Minor League system.
"It's one of those situations where we'll try to be as patient as we can as long as he is making progress and as long as we don't need him," Gonzalez said. "You don't want to put him on the DL for 15 [days] when he could come back in six or seven. But come Monday, if he's not progressing the way we want him to progress, we don't want to go into Colorado with 11 [pitchers]."


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As pundits debate how Barack Obama will tackle guns, climate change, immigration, and the debt ceiling in his newly inaugurated second term, press freedom advocates are left questioning how the U.S. president will handle another, no-less-controversial issue: the treatment of whistleblowers and officials who leak information to the media.
The president's record on this subject has been notably mixed. It started off promisingly enough: on the 2008 campaign trail, candidate Obama voiced broad support for whistleblowers, declaring on his website, "Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled." Shortly after the inauguration in 2009, the administration stated its goal of being the most "transparent administration in history."
But supporters quickly grew disenchanted, as the government repeatedly invoked executive privilege, fought freedom of information requests, and--most disturbingly to press freedom advocates--aggressively went after whistleblowers who leaked classified information. The Department of Justice has spearheaded six prosecutions of officials charged with leaking information to the press under the 1917 Espionage Act, double the number of all previous administrations combined, according to news reports. While no one has been targeted for publishing leaked material (though Julian Assange maintains he might be), reporters have been subpoenaed to testify, sparking renewed battles on a reporter's right to protect confidential sources. One of the most high profile cases, involving a subpoena for New York Times national security reporter James Risen in a CIA leak probe, is still pending. Meanwhile, press groups and transparency advocates allege that the tendency toward secrecy and whistleblower crackdowns has reached all branches of government, including the Supreme Court and the Food and Drug Administration.
Late last year, after winning re-election, Obama offered an olive branch to his critics when he signed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement act. The legislation extended protection for government employees who reveal waste, fraud, or abuse within the federal government by closing judicial loopholes, according to news reports, and was hailed by whistleblower advocates, who had been pushing for the measures for over a decade. Obama even issued a Presidential Policy Directive to reverse Congress's decision to exempt national security intelligence officers from the new rules. However, when the president signed another bill which would extend some of these measures to government contractors, reactions were mixed to his accompanying signing statement, which some argued would create a wide loophole in application of the law. (It is worth noting that these laws are meant to protect whistleblowers who denounce abuse within the system, such as to their superiors--not to the media.)
Obama's legacy on this subject will depend on how the legislation is implemented. But it is hard to reconcile the two competing images of the president. On one hand, Angela Canterbury, director of public policy at the Project on Government Oversight, told The Wall Street Journal: "He's done more to affirmatively protect whistleblowers than any other president." (Later, though, Canterbury criticized the president's signing statement with the contractors' bill). The Obama administration has also been lauded for encouraging whistleblowers in the private sector. On the other hand, former CIA agent John Kiriakou, who is scheduled to be sentenced at the end of this month to two and a half years in prison, will be the first official from the agency to serve jail time for leaking classified information. Kiriakou pleaded guilty to leaking the identity of a secret agent allegedly involved in the CIA's covert rendition program to a reporter, who did not publish it.
The distinction comes down to the government's national security concerns, Richard Moberly, a law professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law, told The Wall Street Journal. In the administration's assessment, according to Moberly, a whistleblower is someone who reveals government malfeasance, while an employee who disseminates classified information is a "leaker," in the most pejorative sense of the word. Lucy Dalglish, Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland and the former executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, took this explanation one step further in a segment on Al-Jazeera: "In the eyes of the administration, if you pass classified information to a reporter you are not a whistleblower. You are a felon."
Many blame the administration's tough stance on the fallout from Wikileaks. The government has argued that much of the information that Wikileaks disseminated was not of public interest, and in other leak cases, that it harmed national security. Most journalists and press freedom advocates acknowledge that some information does constitute a security risk and deserves to be classified. But as The New York Times noted, even many government officials acknowledge that too many documents are unnecessarily classified. Moreover, many of the biggest scandals, whether from the Vietnam War or the post-9/11 era, originated with leaked classified documents and detailed abuse that clearly amounted to issues of public interest. As Edward Wasserman, the Knight Foundation professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University, said in the same Al-Jazeera segment, "The distinction between a leaker and a whistleblower is how inconvenient the leak is...it doesn't address the core issues of whether secrecy is being used excessively to keep information that belongs in the public domain away from the public." Many commentators have pointed out that Obama's administration doesn't appear to mind security leaks related to success stories like the Stuxnet worm or the drone attacks "kill list." As the magazine Mother Jones asked, "If the president does it, it's legal?" (Officials, meanwhile, insist there is no war on whistleblowers, merely that leak cases, which previously would have depended on forcing a journalist to testify, have become easier to prosecute in the age of email, according to The New York Times.)
Advocates for whistleblowers have expressed fear that the crackdown on leakers is, perhaps unintentionally, laying the groundwork for prosecutions against journalists under future administrations. Whether or not this is the case, it may be creating a chilling effect in the here and now. In a 2011 blog about online journalism around the world, CPJ's Danny O'Brien wrote that small international online news services "don't get press passes or invitations to press conferences, but they can still pore over official documents and act on whistleblower tips. That makes protecting sources even more important. Intimidation of sources can be the easiest way to threaten or limit the impact of these sites." There is double-speak in the administration repeatedly voicing support for the role of a free press in democracy even as it tries to lock up officials who leak sensitive information to the media--officials upon whom journalists depend to perform that same watchdog role.
On a broader level, a continued crackdown on whistleblowers could be harmful to the United States' image as a defender of press freedom. As CPJ wrote in a 2010 letter to the president and Attorney General Eric Holder urging them not to prosecute Assange, the majority of imprisoned journalists around the world are jailed on anti-state charges, including publishing information that governments deem secret. Historically, CPJ has been proud to point to the United States as a place where journalists may not be jailed because they published something that offends government officials.
While in New York in November to accept CPJ's 2012 Burton Benjamin Memorial Award, Alan Rusbridger, editor of the U.K.'s daily Guardian, told an audience at the Paley Center for Media that, when he and The New York Times's Bill Keller discussed publishing the first batch of Wikileaks documents, Rusbridger said: "We have the memory stick, you have the First Amendment." Later, in his acceptance speech, he said, "In a networked world, [citizens in repressive countries] can use the kind of solid protections you enjoy here in America to publish truths that would be forbidden in their own countries." In his second term, Obama has the opportunity to clarify his record on whistleblowers and make sure the U.S. maintains its image as an example to anyone, anywhere with a memory stick and an injustice to reveal.


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I'm interested in the barycentric subdivision of a poset $P$, defined as the face poset of the corresponding order complex $\mathcal F(\Delta(P))$ (or alternatively, the poset of chains in $P$ ordered by inclusion). Actually, I'm interested in the subdivision of small categories, but I'm also happy understanding the poset case.
I was wondering if the functor $sd:\mbox{Poset} \to \mbox{Poset}$ has a right adjoint. I am aware of the Ex functor, which is right adjoint to the corresponding functor of simplicial sets. Can one define a similar object for posets?


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I cannot figure out where my code is wrong and why I keep getting this error on the auto-fill to last row.
I want to Enter two formulas into two rows starting from row 10 to the last row.
Dim xlApp As Object
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Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
With xlApp
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strFormulas(1) = "=SUMIF(Charity_Line20!$A:$A,E10,Charity_Line20!$D:$D)"
strFormulas(2) = "=SUMIF(Charity_Line22!$A:$A,E10,Charity_Line22!$G:$G)"
lRow1 = .Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(.Rows.Count, "U").End(xlUp).Row
.Range("V10:W" & lRow1).AutoFill = strFormulas
I have been hat this for a good hour, and I cannot see where I am wrong and it is not working.
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When Los Angeles author Robert Landau first published his book about classic rock 'n' roll billboards of the Sunset Strip, he made his readers an offer: pass along any info on the whereabouts of Paul McCartney's head and you'll get a free signed copy of his book. More than four decades later, that prankster, now in his 60s, contacted Landau. "He took it when he was 16, and it was still hanging in his living room," joked Landau, who traveled to the man's home in the San Fernando Valley to pose with Paul in 2012.
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Good 'cue requires zesty sauce to smother the meat and to lick off your fingers. But consensus ends there. Some like their sauce watery, others prefer it thick. There are tomato-base believers, and those who adhere faithfully to the vinegar-based doctrine.
Bon Appétit names five barbecue sauce champions, all made by seasoned barbecue competitors.
Big Bob Gibson Championship Red Sauce
Big Bob, Alabama barbecue legend, makes his sauce sweet and chunky. $4.75, from bigbobgibson.com
Peg Leg Porker Memphis Wet Sauce
Thick, herbal, and earthy from Tennessee BBQ powerhouse Carey Bringly. $7.98, from lobels.com
Britt's Barbecue Red Sauce
Another Alabama pitmaster James Britt is quite a BBQ champ. This one sounds subtle, "roasty apple flavors with a pleasant hint of spice." $5, from brittsbarbecue.com
Wee Willy's World Champion Original Barbecue Sauce
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Memphis Championship Barbecue Original Sauce
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The University of Buffalo's School of Architecture and Planning seems especially respectful of nature. After the success of their bat tower, a beautifully-designed structure for a bat colony that the bats themselves seem to love, the school's architecture and urban planning grad students moved on to designing new spaces for bees. According to the school, a massive and thriving colony was living in an abandoned, derelict office building in Buffalo owned by Rigidized Metals Corporation, a metals manufacturer. When the president of the firm was visiting the old space, which is targeted for rehabilitation, he discovered the gigantic hive. Instead of calling the exterminator, he decided to launch a design competition to find the colony a new, safer home. They've since moved into the grad student's winning design: the 22-foot-tall Elevator B, a "free-standing steel, glass and cypress tower."
The bee colony had been living in the walls of the old office for some time. Given the hive was humongous — and therefore a successful home for the bees — the students didn't know if the bees would actually move. The students decided to use hexagonal shapes, inspired by natural honeycomb, and mimic the tubular design of the nearby grain silos. Inside the bee tower, a "bee cab" or elevator made of cypress and glass was created. The shape was designed to provide the colony "protection and warmth."
The bees did indeed make the shift, and now there's safe access for both bees and people. "The bees will enter the cab through holes near its top, about 10 feet above the ground in its raised position. The cab can be lowered to the ground to permit the beekeeper to attend to the health and safety of the bees." Furthermore, the glass wall enables people to better interact with the colony. "The bee cab typically will be in a raised position to allow visitors to step into the tower, look up and watch the colony through a glass window."
Bees are under enormous pressure. The Scientific American reports that one-third of all honeybee colonies have died out in the past six years. Possible culprits include viruses, mites, the spread of unnutricious plants, or pesticides. Now, two studies have recently implicated insecticides in colony deaths. The issue is very serious for us as well: without bees, there won't be much agriculture. "They pollinate about one third of U.S. crop species, including almonds, apples, grapes, soybeans, cotton, and others, the failure of which could lead not only to food shortages, but also to large economic hits for farmers—and consumers."
Beyond building hives bees like, landscape architects, designers, and gardeners of all kinds can help support these hard workers of the natural world by eliminating the use of chemical insecticides and incorporating the plants bees love. The College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, has created a list of these plants.
See the details of the Elevator B design and more photos.
In other news from the natural world, scientists discovered that the shark fin soup beloved in many parts of Asia is not only terrible for sharks but also for people. The New York Times reports: "Shark fins contain high levels of a potent neurotoxin that scientists have linked to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's." Demand for the soup leads to about 73 million shark deaths annually and the destruction of the delicate food chains in marine ecosystems.


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Free tours give behind-the-scenes look at Preakness
Tourists can check out track, race contenders
While they may be over for the year, people across the region this week got a glimpse of what it's like behind the scenes at Pimlico Race Course as the horseracing industry gears up for the Preakness Stakes.
Famous former jockey Jerry Bailey and several others have been giving Sunrise Tours at Pimlico this week. The free tours from 6-9 a.m. give everyone who comes a unique behind-the-scenes look at the industry.
"We try to get as many people -- like, 20 people -- in each tour. We have eight tour guys, and we all walk and talk fast, like me," joked tour guide April Smith.
The tours cover a lot of ground -- from the track to the stakes barn -- for picture-taking opportunities of the contenders.
"It's thrilling, because it's something that you don't necessarily ever see on race day. So, it's really neat," said tourist Kate Cameron.
"I'm seeing the jockeys, and they're telling me about the history of the race and the track," explained young tourist Carson Amoit.
Steve Rothblum is with trainer Doug O'Neill's team and works every day with Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another. Rothblum has spent the past few days talking with racing fans.
"Anything we can do to create interest in horse racing and to put faces on the stars of the game is a gotta-do deal," he said.
Another must-do: Seeing the Budweiser Clydesdales. But for everyone who comes, it's a really fun way to be a part of Preakness.
"I think they're part of history, and it's great to be here," another tourist said.
The Sunrise Tours are now over for the year, but they'll be around next year for those who are interested.


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Talk:Regular expressions
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26 Oct 2012 - All of these libraries are terrible. They're unmaintained, fail to compile, have cumbersome APIs, are monadic when they should be pure, use arrays and indices instead of lists, and in the worst case, use a funky combination of Either and Maybe at the same time. Not only is there no de facto regex library in Haskell, all of them are terrible.
Can we find a decent, modern Haskell regex library and promote it above the others?
04/08/2011 - Section 2: There is a reference to Bryan O'Sullivan's blog that has some tutorials on regular expressions (pertaining to the =~ operator) except this is horrendously out of date as the libraries have changed a lot since it was written. Argue for removal or link to alternative tutorial?


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Recording Industry Persecution Complex: Claiming EMI's Plight Is Due To File Sharing
from the um,-no deptBas points us to a bizarre opinion piece for NME (which is usually a bit better than this) in which recording industry insider Alan McGee posts a near factless diatribe claiming that EMI's recent takeover by Citigroup proves that "downloading has murdered the music business." There's almost nothing accurate in McGee's piece. It's fantasy-world writing where people just make up stuff. Let's dig in a bit:
First things first: EMI is still a great British label. I mean, it owns the Beatles back catalogue! So why is it in the hands of a bank? It's just economics. Guy Hands bought it in 2007, at the height of the market, when people were paying stupid prices for everything, not just labels.Ok. So we agree. Guy Hands (well, really his firm Terra Firma) paid way too much for EMI in 2007. Frankly, that's the reason for EMI's plight today. Terra Firma got infatuated with the names on EMI's roster, didn't understand the recording industry at all, and got suckered into paying way over a reasonable price, and then couldn't handle the debt load. It had nothing to do with people paying stupid prices in 2007. People weren't paying stupid prices for record labels -- just Terra Firma. And that's because they didn't really understand what they were buying.
The trouble is, now everyone has woken up to the reality, which is that illegal downloading is murdering the music business.So much incorrect in such a short sentence. First, I don't think anyone views the industry's situation much different in 2011 as they did in 2007. File sharing was rampant then as it is now. The struggles the recording industry were facing were already quite clear in 2007 (hell, they were clear in 1997 to people paying attention). Second, the only part of the "music business" struggling is the record labels. Nearly every other part of the music business has grown massively over the last decade. Third, there is little to no evidence that "illegal downloading" is the cause of any serious problems. Yes, it does act as a substitution in some cases, but as we've seen over and over again, when musical acts embrace file sharing in conjunction with a smart business model, they end up making more money. So, no, "illegal downloading" is not the cause of EMI's problems. EMI's inability to adapt to a changing market, combined with a massive debt overload was the issue.
I actually think Guy Hands didn't do a bad job. He was just personally unfortunate. He came along at the wrong time. Shit happens. It was a time of affluence of abundance. Then the world economy turned upside down, Lehman Brothers went broke, and the world changed. The market crashed.Huh? The market crash had nothing to do with the troubles facing EMI. Nor does McGee show how the two are connected. As with his earlier claims, he just insists it's true with no proof.
EMI's problems should be a wake-up call. How did they get into this mess? It all comes back to the impact of illegal downloading. We have to change the legislation in this country and come down much harder on piracy.First up, we've already discussed why the impact of unauthorized file sharing was not the problem, but more importantly, countries around the world have been changing legislation plenty over the last decade to come down much harder on "piracy" and it's done nothing to improve the lot of the record labels. Is McGee totally unaware of the Digital Economy Act in the UK? Rather than recognize that such laws have been passed and have not helped the record labels, McGee just wants more protectionism. That old line about the definition of insanity being doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results may apply...
Otherwise guys in little bands starting out now are never going to be the next Rolling Stones.Wait, so the only options are failure or the Rolling Stones? And that statement is a ridiculous one either way. What we've seen (and been documenting for years) is that things are much better for bands starting out today than in the past because they don't need to win over the gatekeepers. They can find their own audience. They can create their own business models and make a living -- unlike under the old system, where you either hit it big or you gave up and went back to your day job. As for who will be the next Rolling Stones, I have little fear that the general nature of human psyche will continue to find new acts to turn into superstars.
And, should we even mention just how much money the Rolling Stones make from touring, which is an industry that has actually been helped by unauthorized downloads in building up larger fanbases of various bands?
When you download an album illegally, it's not the record company guys that get fucked -- those people are still on massive salaries -- it's 19-year-old kids, it's guys in bands making £100 a gig.Wait, what? In this very same paragraph you claimed the totality of EMI's problems were due to unauthorized file sharing, but then just a few sentences later you claim the record labels aren't impacted. Keep it together, McGee. As for the impact on the 19-year-old kids making £100 per gig, they can actually be massively helped by file sharing, because the more people who know and like their music, the more people will be willing to come out to their gigs, so maybe they'll start making more than that £100.
When I came along in the 80s and 90s, I was lucky to be in a market where people bought music. Now If I wanted an album, I could just go on some torrent site and download it. You've got to give bands a chance, let them develop. In the 80s, bands started dodgy, then they got good. The bands I worked with – Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, even Oasis -- it took them a few years to go from being OK to being good. These days bands don't get the chance, they just get dropped.Again these are statements that appear to imply some sort of causal relationship, but fail to show any. What does the fact that people bought CDs have to do with letting a band develop? I mean, if it really takes so much time for a band to develop, then doesn't that mean people shouldn't be buying their early music anyway? And the final line highlights the crux of the problem: it assumes that the only way to succeed today is by signing to some big label. So if that label drops you, you're screwed. And yet, we're seeing over and over again that musical acts are being amazingly successful without a label (since they don't need to make nearly as much money as they have to on a label to make a damn good living). In fact, we're seeing bands celebrate being dropped from their labels, because it means more freedom to develop and the ability to make more money.
There's only one independent label, post-Creation, that's really been phenomenal, and that's Domino. Laurence (Bell, owner) is a genius. He's touched with gold dust. Whether it sells or not, he's got the magic touch.This is a total non sequitur. What does the fact that there's been a good indie label have to do with file sharing or EMI?!? Furthermore, "whether it sells or not," seemed to be the whole point earlier in the article. Now it doesn't matter? Finally, to say that there's only been one good indie record label suggests a level of ignorance to what's actually going on in the music world today. There are a bunch of fantastic indie labels out there. Perhaps McGee should get out more.
As for me, if I ran EMI, I'd get legislation changed and make a profit by stopping piracy.Can someone -- anyone -- explain how getting people to stop downloading creates a profit anywhere? Getting people to stop downloading doesn't magically make them start buying. And it's not like EMI hasn't been among the efforts by all the major record labels to get legislation changed for years, and all of that has done absolutely nothing to stop file sharing. It's pure folly to suggest that there's some sort of magical legislative move that will stop unauthorized file sharing and create "profits" at the same time.
What will do that, however, is smarter business models -- something that McGee never even seems to consider. Thankfully, reading through the comments on that article, nearly everyone is pointing out all of these points to McGee, though I doubt he'll ever read any of them.
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If something is plugged in, it has a direct connection. The past has a relation of contrast woith the present, but the relation is broken by the use of the tense. The present perfect bridges past and present.
Then every tense is decontextualised as it must have a relation to the present time. By the time we use a tense, it must have a relation to the present time. It goes without saying.Originally Posted by tdol
It follows that every tense is plugged in the present. The twin towers collapsed in 911 is a past for example, but as we mention it now, it is plugged in to the present. Those who claim the case, in Simple Past, has no relation to the present must be out of his mind. By the way, I am sure that Simple Past "I ate dinner" can answer 'Are you hungry'.
Then the three tenses are all plugged in the present, as all are used by the present time:
I eat dinner.
I have eaten dinner.
I ate dinner.
As you said, they all are decontextualised, so it is puzzling why we can use every tense to refer to the present. :(
If something is plugged in, it has a direct connection. The past has a relation of contrast woith the present, but the relation is broken by the use of the tense. The present perfect bridges past and present.
Do you mean I have eaten dinner means I am still eating now? Or what? Try to tell me and let me check Simple Past I ate dinner.Originally Posted by tdol
On the other hand, Simple Present really bridges past and present, because my present habit I eat dinner comes from the past.
What a confusion and hardship in the basic part of English!!
- Tdol: Ron, are you hungry?
Ron: No, I ate dinner just an hour ago.
What does this commonest dialogue tell use? :POriginally Posted by RonBee
It tells us that we use the past with 'ago'.
Do you mean I have eaten dinner means I am still eating now? Or what? Try to tell me and let me check Simple Past I ate dinner.
If I say I have eaten dinner, I am describing a past action that I see as having current significance. I am not eating dinner, but I am probably digesting it.
On the other hand, Simple Present really bridges past and present, because my present habit I eat dinner comes from the past.
The simple present can be seen as existing outside time or as being of the past, present and future.
I find it often that when you explain one tense, you seldom do comparison with others, while it is my intention to compare them. You usually wait for me to do the job. If you do some comparison, you will not say such thing as above. What is then about Simple Past? Are you sure that if yesterday there was a great earthquake in our place that claimed many lives, because of Simple Past, it is of no current significance? It is absurd that we use a tense to denote it is of no current significance at the present?Originally Posted by tdol
If it is not significance to the present, why do I say it at all?
If it is not significance to the present, I don't care about what has been said?
I guess you want to say Simple Past expresses of course current significance, but much more than Present Perfect. But why didn't you speak up? If people do comparison themselves, they will not talk about current significance or current relevancy.
I realized a case of habit:
And you took it as the usual way of all Simple Present cases:Originally Posted by Shun
It is simply not true. You know of the manner of a dinner, so you describe about it and take it as the function of Simple Past. That is, you have over-generalized a case of Simple Present. However, what about the usual Simple-Present uses being always seen in newspapers:Originally Posted by You
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Ex3: The reality remains that Tung [Hong Kong Governor] will be at the helm until and unless Beijing leaders think otherwise.
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They happen today, the day the news printed. How can anyone ever regard them as, in your words, "existing outside time or as being of the past, present and future"? Not everything in Simple Present is dinner, and this is a big problem to your explanation.
Why can we say the three tenses at the present is a mystery:
I ate dinner.
I have eaten dinner.
I eat dinner.
What then is the difference between the use of the three tenses?Originally Posted by tdol
I eat dinner at eight- statement of fact, implying that this is my normal time for dinner.
I ate dinner at eight- statemnt about dinner on an occasion in the past. This does not implyu that this is my usual time.
I have eaten dinner- a recent past action


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Gorge run on Friday - I am very very cold, stop admiring the Falls and lets move it! It is difficult to understand now (well, not really, but to feel how outsiders feel) how lucky we are to live where we do. That's why I love having people visiting, I can see it all with new eyes! I wish somebody has guts to go to Russia with me, may be I can re-awaken my interest to mother-country:)
Considering if I ever want to jump off this thing and disappear in the whirlpool of Multnomah Falls. Or may be at least send my ashes here when I am ready...
Lush trails, something we are spoiled by here in PNW and very proud of! Follow me, I dare you!
We call it "rockfield", but Texans find it only mildly a challenge.
I promise I can lead us up to Larch! Well, may be not, we all know by now I am a master of getting lost myself and those fools who tags along with me...but in theory there is a trail where I stand, and may be I do remember what I am supposed to see around?
We met a hiker Ron who turned around at that last 2M intersection, and chatted a bit. I want to be like him when I grow up. It always amazes me (coming from Soviets) how many older people are active and living full live with nature envolved. Something I am not used to growing up.
Ron took the only picture where we are together.
If you think I have a GPS navigator - that would be a nice (and useful) guess but far from the truth. I was just making a phone call to Alex to check up on him.
We made it up! Have to say, I was really proud of my navigational skills and the fact that we decided to come up here. Well, ok, my navigational skills certainly were magnified by Larry's mountaneering skills and his ability to steer me back to follow some vague steps instead of suncups.
Where are the views? We are supposed to see Mt. Hood, Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams on each of four corners of this observation point. Well, that was the intention for going up here. At least it was warm when we reached it.
It's on the way DOWN from Larch where I managed to take us off course (if the course even existed) because I tend to let things go as they come while just enjoying the "free fall" feeling. Lucky for me, when I was at the point to make a decision to turn around and retrace the steps, Larry proposed to keep going in a direction of whatever sun position felt correct, and it turned out we were a mere 5 minutes away from the trail.
Catch me if you can! I love this trail so much...
Larry's practicing his downhill skills. He kept up, not that I was trying to shake him off, because I could if I wnated to:) Nah, I am just shwoing off here.
Just fooling around on the way, trying to impose some new skills on my poor guest.
Sneak peek at the Columbia River and WA side of the Gorge.
Re-supplying at the top of Angel's rest, the sun is fully glowing by now and the air is nice and warm. Actually, I felt hot, but Larry laughed it off at me.
Last downhill at the end of our Gorge run, you can make it a good 6 mile stretch down with a few bumps on the way - can we have better training ground to trash the quads?
Oregon Shore trip on Friday night. Lookout to Sea Lion Rock Formation. While the one afar does look like a Sea Lion ( and has real ones groaning around), the closer formation remids me an alligator.
The view on Canon Beach with its prominent features standing tall in the ocean water (very famous for postcard pictures).
You think this is where my sickness got worse? I was freezing! But it was nice to feel alive...
Sunset on the magnificent Oregon Coast, Pacific ocean plays with colors even on cloudy days.
Central Oregon adventure begins. There is no water in Smith Rock trail system, so you better fill up before you go. Locals do loops, or make the park's entrance their middle point of the long run.
Isn't it worth driving 3 hrs to see? I'd take it over home-sitting any day, sick or not!
Welcome to our hills, you know, the ones that some folks can run, but most puff and huff while hiking:)
Monkey Face rock-climbing Mecca is overtowering the valley.
Larry thinks it's cold when it's 70F, but at least we have dry air!
Just plugging along, soaking the sun. We got blessed with the weather, and the thunderstorm started as soon as we finished our adventure.
Remember The Scar trail from my Rumble weekend, the one that only Eric Skaggs was able to run all the way up? I am back! I really didn't think it was that bad for the second time around, after I did this "lil' hike" with Mike in April.
Larry tries to run parts of The Scar and now has a new respect of what we call "hill" comapring to Austin trails.
The Scar up-close and personal. Scary, huh?
We made it to the top of The Scar and were treated with fantastic views on the valley below.
Ridgeside trail - best running in Smith Rock park, nice slightly rolling terrain with easy footing.
Monkey Face from another side, getting back to the car at the end of the run. I think I am tired now, and the caughing drives me nuts.
This snake crossed the path right in front of my feet and I almost died of a heart attack while jumped high in the air. I have no idea what it was, nor do I want to...
Bumping into Krissy, Karen and John at Smith Rock wasn't totally unexpected - I knew we'd see somebody for sure. It was a nice little chat.
"The Scar" trail from afar distance to give a perspective.
Mt. Hood on the drive from Central OR - the beauty of the state. A pure gem, indeed.
Timberline lodge
That would be it. I did dress up once to go out to eat, I swear, I wasn't always wearing running gear! The food was great, the drive(s) almost un-noticed, and I wish it could always be a weekend. But it's not - what I think is a good thing. Just like here in Portland we love the sun and have such an excitement when it comes out, if it were a vacation all the time, I wouldn't have appreciated it so much. On this note, I got all my Anatomy books required and it's time to really begin to study. I also had registered with ACE for Personal Training certificate and got all the studying material from them too. Now that it's all paid for and here ready to be taken on as a challenge, I am kind of overwhelmed with my decision of life changes, but I've done overwhelming changes before, so all it needs is juts a first step. Now if I only can squeeze a few hours of sleep in my days...it'd be nice!


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I do like to help folks out when I can, but I am not looking to move any of my signed cards at this time. I still need to add a few myself to try to complete the Topps run. Probably won't finish because of the 67, but worth trying. I think I still need 66 & 72 as well, but may have picked up a 66/. Sad, but can't remember now.
Hi Curt,
I�m still looking for an autographed 1963 Topps Brooks Robinson in pen. Any chance you�re willing to trade/sell the one you have? There�s several out there, but they are light in pen. I�d like to finish the regular run and then start another run in all sharpie, but would like to finish this one first; I�m inpatient I know. If not, it�s all good. This is really the first side project I�ve stuck to...(hopefully to the end).
I�m still looking for his rookie in pen as well and I let one get away, which I regret now. Should have paid what the seller was wanting, but waited and it was later sold.
Hopefully your Dodger collection is going strong. Any interesting new pickups? I�ve picked up a few low dollar items lately, but really like them as much as some of the expensive things. Seems like there are a few more Brooks/Orioles collectors here recently since most of the items are going for more than I�m willing to pay.
Talk to you later!
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Hi everyone
I am very new to linux, but following threads on here have managed to get my pi up and running Gambas 3.21.
I am quite familiar with VB6, and was hoping to use this knowledge to play around with Gambas on the pi, which seems to be going ok so far.
What I would like to do next is controlling I2C devices from Gambas, has anyone had any success with using Gordon's WiringPi library with Gambas?
If so would you be able to give me some idea of how to start (test program or example) please.
I have no C knowledge at all, and have always used Windows and the VB6 enviroment for programming and developing code, although I have hardware design experience and microprocessor programming in assembler (8051 / PIC etc).
I have trawled the www but can't seem to find anything relevant.


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Opinion: Not Jack Kemp's Heritage Foundation
Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on why Congressional Republicans should support repealing the medical device tax, against the advice of a prominent Washington think tank.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... hundreds died down ... very deeply now and so one issue that is on the table that is the medical device tax on revenues not profits of these companies ... it's a two point three percent tax ... he thought it could all conservatives inside the Beltway ... conservatives who actually want to keep the tax ... may keep editorial page editor Paul to go with me now to talk about this fall ... we had an editorial in this morning's paper saying that ... the Heritage Foundation ... which is not only for smaller government and Lauren flatter taxes ... wants to keep this tax won ... go figure ... well I mean if you ask them do you wanna keep it at tax they would say ... all of the things people from the likes of KO ... but that the political strategy is that they don't want any changes in Obamacare ... that approval to Obamacare because they think that it ... reduces the coalition the size of the commotion for total repeal ... and they're also focused is part of this debate ... on the funding and Elaine Obamacare and they think that ... that just ... repealing a punitive tax like this is small beer and so ... who cares ... corporate cronyism my well as interstate is a fair amount of tyranny basically there ... and doubt ... the corporate cronyism argument is nonsense ... it's full ... I mean since when is removing a punitive tax crony capitalists ... I mean the government punishes and industry news site ... as a conservative what's the punishing that Squali capitalism now that's nonsense is ridiculous ... and that that's one of the reasons we did the tornado ... was to go after this argument ... because there's a lot of economic nonsense that is creeping into the right ... as they get to be ... so disoriented ... as part of this debate and focus only on something they can't achieve immediately which is to repeal Obamacare ... they've messed other opportunities ... and even ... creepy in some some some some some bad economic accounts Apple's goal is for my attacks like this ... you ... mean ... anybody who benefits from the innovation of the American medical devices industry ... I mean this is a two point three percent tax nonprofits ... on revenue ... so if you are ... entrepreneur who created to devise ... a new cell uh hundred dollars worth of ... the product ... you'll pay two point three percent at the present whether you make good on onthe hundred dollars for a sales ... so did Johnson Johnson's the Medtronic's the big companies ... they have enough cash flow to pay debts it's the smaller entrepreneurial companies who really suffered the most although even the big companies are having a cutback on R and D ... the cons devices tend to be sold as part of packages to big provider groups hospitals doctors ... so what happens is that it's very difficult for them to immediately raise their prices and pass them along to ... consumers but its attacks on American intervention in the innovation ... its attacks on the American life sciences industry ... and it's it's ... it's maths ... yet well you know that the conservative movement is going off the rails when he deals with foreign on the left agrees ... that this is a unit that is that we need to get the title to her case it's a half its constituents topics its constituent politics because a lot of these device companies are in Massachusetts and so ... okay well let's hope that the GOP is listening editorial page editor Paul GBO militants at so far ... thank so much ... of the show ...


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Laker superstar Kobe Bryant passed NBA Hall of Famer Hakeem Olajawon in scoring to take eighth place among all-time NBA scorers Friday. But that's not the biggest news coming out of the two-time world championship Laker's hometown this weekend.
Jeannie Buss – the Lakers president, daughter of the most successful owner in sports history (Jerry Buss) and girlfriend of the most successful coach in NBA history (Phil Jackson) – has become the first team executive to openly call for a contraction of the NBA. Commissioner David Stern hinted at the idea last year and mega-uber court overlord LeBron James was severely criticized a month ago for suggesting as much.
The idea is controversial, counter-intuitive to some, and exactly what is needed say others.
"Leave it to Lakers president Jeanie Buss to step to the forefront and articulate a tough, difficult suggestion that just so happens to make absolute sense for the National Basketball Association as it enters a crucial labor stage and another crossroads in its 65-year history," writes Vincent Bonsignore, sports columnist for the L.A. Daily News. "We agree with her 100 percent."
Too many mediocre teams?
Bonsignore goes on to opine that there simply are not enough quality basketball players to fill the current 30-team format which is fielding too many mediocre teams such as the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Charlotte Bobcats.
Consider the great teams of NBA past, say Bonsignore and others.
During the glory days of Celtics vs. Lakers mania, the Celtics boasted Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish on the front lines vs. Kareem Abdul Jabbar, James Worthy, and Michael Cooper, not to mention such luminaries as Magic Johnson and Byron Scott in the L.A. backcourt vs. hall-of-famer Dennis Johnson and Danny Ainge for Boston.
Don't forget the Philadelphia team with Julius "Dr. J" Erving, Moses Malone, Andrew Toney, Maurice Cheeks, and Bobby Jones. Or the Milwaukee Bucks with Marques Johnson, Bob Lanier, and Sidney Moncrief.
Exorbitant prices for basketball snoozers
Such teams with so many luminaries made for more constant great-team matchups and the occasional wimpfest a very rare occurrence. Now, the once-occasional sleepfest is a regular occurrence – all the more devastating to fans paying exorbitant prices for tickets, food, and parking.
The NBA grew from 24 teams to 29 between 1988 and 1995 and added a 30th in 2004 but attendance has not followed. Of those 30, 11 are averaging lower than 16,000 per game and eight are below 14,000.
"Nearly two decades later we are left with a watered-down league filled with a bunch of mediocre clubs behind a few good ones," argues Bonsignore.
Jeanie Buss made her comments in a recent interview with the online Wall Street Journal.
"I would hate to see us lose teams, but I think contraction is something we have to consider," she said. "We may be in some markets we shouldn't be in."
The fallout has sizzled ever since.
"(Twenty-four teams) is really a great number at one time," coach Phil Jackson said at press conference. "You could play five in your division and four in your conference and you could really set up division rivalries with such a thing like that."
The L.A. Daily News agrees.
"By eliminating six teams, you would greatly enhance the chances we'd be seeing those sorts of groupings again, just as we did two decades ago," the paper said in its lead Sports story Saturday, topping the piece with the four-inch headline "NO PAIN, NO GAIN."
[Editor's note: the original version of this story misspelled Erving and misrepresented Jeannie Buss's relationship with Phil Jackson.]


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Saturday, November 1, 2008
Festivities, Somewhat
There was a paradeand a whack-o-lanternand trick-or-treatingand tree climbingand more tree climbingand just general awesomeness
and for me, 46 papers to grade, many of which are not at all awesome by any stretch of the imagination.
Here's a little thing I look forward to every weekend, however: the Dover Sampler. I don't remember how long ago I signed up for this, but every Saturday morning in my email in-box I receive a secret link to a site with free pages from Dover books--mostly coloring book pages, which the girls enjoy immensely, but sometimes simple mazes or puzzles or activity pages. Some recent favorites were pages from a birds of America coloring book, a butterfly alphabet coloring book, a famous ballets coloring book, and an activity page on learning to tell time.
To show you how additionally cheap/awesome I am, I'll tell you that whenever one of my print cartridges is almost out of ink, I set it aside and put it in just to print out coloring pages and cutting templates--the kids don't care if their free sample Cats of Siam page is inked in black or pink, don't you know.
Another way in which I'm cheap/awesome? I've never bought my children a coloring book, much less a Dover one.
P.S. Check out my review of earth-friendly children's books over at Eco Child's Play and my tutorial for sewing appliques onto denim buntings over at Crafting a Green World.
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I get the Dover Sample emails too, but my boys have never liked coloring books or coloring, so I don't even know why I don't quit the list.
That is a great way to save on ink cartridges! You are definitely cheap-awesome (I think you coined a new term!).
- November 2, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- julie said...
You don't quit the list because it's free!
You never know--one day maybe you will have a use for a page of Swiss Alps clip art, and then there you go!
Seriously, I feel the same way about printing on my printer that my grandpa feels about opening the refrigerator door--every time I print something, I can just feel the pennies clinking down the drain. I have a pretty nice printer on account of my photography, and ink is expensive!
- November 2, 2008 at 9:23 PM
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As an example of the kind of thing I'll be showing (hopefully) lots of people tomorrow, here's a salad I made yesterday using ingredients foraged on a walk that lasted slightly longer than an hour:
From left to right; top to bottom:
Ground Elder, White Dead-Nettle, Yarrow, Primrose leaves/flowers
Cleavers (aka Goosegrass), Dandelion, Gorse flowers, Sorrel
Chickweed, Hairy Bittercress, Bramble (Blackberry) Shoots, Ribwort Plantain
All are edible raw, but as an experiment I tried steaming them all together for just over a minute, thinking this might make more nutrients available by breaking down cell walls etc.
Then serving straight away with a little olive oil drizzled over the top:
Not all of the plants responded well to this. Gorse and Hairy Bittercress all-but lost their flavour (especially a shame with the latter), the bigger leaves went just a little too soggy for my liking (Sorrel did its usual blanching thing, retaining its nice sour flavour though). On the other hand I think the bramble shoots could've done with a little longer. Yarrow, Cleavers, Chickweed and (most of all), Ribwort Plantain benefited most from the process, at least as far as my taste buds were concerned. The whole dish gave me stacks of energy though, which was felt mostly by some poor guy innocently wheeling his bins out when I body-checked him at practically full pelt, running home down the hill(!) … ::gulp:: Sorry mate!
Another potential benefit of steaming would mean I could include Stinging Nettle in the above mix (heat disables the stings). As it happens I ran out of them making the promised soup:
Ingredients: 1 onion, 1 potato, some nettles, fried in butter & oil (nettles added only for the last couple of minutes):
(I added some garlic and half a chopped carrot for good measure.) Then pour approx 1.5l boiling water over the lot and crumble in a stock cube:
Simmer for 20mins-1/2 an hour, then finally blend with one of those wand thingies and you're done:
I forgot to add salt and pepper. Crème Fraîche is a nice addition at the end, too. Also my soup was a bit watery, which could be solved (I'm guessing) either by adding less water or by putting in more nettles or other veg.
Do this: it's good for you!