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Obama Administration Considers Joining Publishers In Fight To Stamp Out Fair Use At Universities
from the pure-insanity deptOkay, this is really quite unfortunate. In 2011, we wrote about an important copyright case involving three publishers suing Georgia State University for daring to have "e-reserves" that allow professors to make certain works available to students electronically via the university library. Nancy Sims, copyright librarian for the University of Minnesota, wrote a guest post summarizing the case for us as follows:
The publisher-plaintiffs are suing over the way instructors (and possibly others on campus) share course readings like academic articles and excerpts from academic books. They are objecting both to readings posted on course websites (i.e., uploaded by instructors and accessible only to students registered for a course) and readings shared via "e-reserves" (i.e., shared online through university libraries, usually also with access restricted to students registered for the course). The publishers claim that sharing copies of readings with students is not usually a fair use, that faculty can't really be trusted to make their own calls about what is or is not fair use, and that permissions fees should be paid for most of these uses.Thankfully, last year, we wrote about how the district court issued an astounding 350-page ruling that basically said that most of these electronic reserves were clearly fair use. We had some issues with the way the judge went about the analysis -- often coming up with random and arbitrary standards for the amount of a work that could be used while remaining fair use, but, on the whole, it was good to see the judge support fair use relatively strongly (and, in some cases, to not even get to a fair use analysis by saying that the use was allowed as "de minimis" copying).
Of course, no matter what happened, the other side was going to appeal. We're getting closer to the appeals court hearing the case, but something interesting popped up last week. In a somewhat surprising move, the Justice Department jumped in and asked the court for some more time for the filing of amicus briefs from concerned third parties, because it was considering weighing in on the case. The Justice Department? Why should it be interested in a dispute concerning whether or not public university libraries are engaged in fair use by making works available to students?
In digging into this, we've heard from a few sources that it's actually the US Copyright Office that has asked the DOJ to weigh in on the side of the publishers and against the interests of public univerisities and students. Yes, the same Copyright Office that just promoted a former RIAA VP to second in command. I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
Let's be clear: it is flat out ridiculous that the Obama Administration may be supporting the publishers here. Two out of the three publishers are foreign publishing giants, and it would be supporting them against a public university library tasked with helping to educate students. The entire purpose of copyright law is supposed to be to promote the progress of learning. The copyright clause in the Constitution used "science" but back in that era "learning" and "science" were effectively synonymous. The very first Copyright Act in the US was actually titled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning." Current copyright law is explicit that fair use covers this sort of situation:
the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.And yet... these publishers, along with the US Copyright Office and (perhaps) the DOJ, would like to ignore all of this, and reject fair use in such public learning centers? It is ridiculous. Oh, and did we mention that the lawsuit by these publishers is really being funded by the Copyright Clearance Center (who, shockingly, would be in charge of collecting fees for such uses...) and the American Publishers' Association? If the Obama Administration wanted to appear any more in the pocket of "Big Copyright" and against the public interest when it comes to learning and education, I'm not sure of any better position to take.
This is just a year after the SOPA fight, and it appears that the Copyright Office, led by Maria Pallante, who was a massive supporter of SOPA, has not learned the lesson of that debacle. It would be a travesty if the Justice Department listened to such an out of touch position and argued that the court should reject fair use in such scenarios.
It would be a complete embarrassment for an Obama administration that has argued that improving our education system is a key policy issue to turn its back on education by having its Justice Department argue against a public university library and students, and in favor of a blatantly self-interested copyright collection agency, funding some foreign publishers, trying to shake down students for extra money to learn. Just the fact that the US Copyright Office is supporting this and asking the Justice Department to make this move is a sign of how screwed up the Copyright Office is today. And it remains unclear why this is even an issue that concerns the Justice Department at all. Since when is access of students at a public university to educational materials an issue that should be of any interest to the Justice Department?
For what it's worth, we've heard that the people in the Justice Department who are considering its position are talking to various government agencies and officials over the next few days to determine what its final position should be. We would hope that the Justice Department, and the wider Obama administration (including the Copyright Office), take into account what happened last year when SOPA was put forth and the government sought to use copyright law to limit the public's rights. It would seem unwise to then take a position that might stir up significant interest, specifically when it involves something as ridiculous as supporting foreign publishers over public university students seeking reasonable fair use access to educational materials, as is clearly supported by the Copyright Act.
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Crack a beer and melt the cheese, the Madison SQL Saturday is this weekend. Don't wait any longer because you don't want to end up on the waiting list. Getting off the waiting list can be tough – and involves a light saber duel with Jes Borland (Blog | @grrl_geek) – and YES, she has a light saber. And NO, she doesn't look like Yoda. SQL Saturday is that special time of the weekend to learn about SQL Server and network, and unlike user group meetings, it only comes once a year. I'll be there with my mini-me's… will you?
For those attending, if you have the interest, I'll be presenting my session from last year's PASS Summit:
Discovering the Plan Cache
Execution plans are stored after execution in the plan cache. This metadata about how queries are executed can provide insight into how your SQL Server environment is functioning. By using XQuery to browse and search the plan cache you can find potential performance issues and opportunities to tune your queries. This information can be used to help reduce issues related to parallelism, shift queries from using scans to using seek operations, or discover exactly which queries are using what indexes. All of this and more is readily available through the plan cache. In this session we will explore the plan cache and start you on the road to discovery.
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Immortals director Tarsem Singh tells us how he's making a "Caravaggio meets Fight Club" movie. Plus we asked Henry Cavill and the film's other stars about their heroic flaws — plus we had to ask Cavill about Superman.
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Henry Cavill:
You play Theseus in Immortals, what Theseus' flaw?
Cavill: Theseus' flaw is his rage, simple as.
And how does that get in the way of his end quest, and what is his end quest?
Cavill: His end quest? Oh goodness me, there's no actual end quest — it's revenge which he goes out to achieve. And that then evolves and changes into a realization of what the greater good is, and its importance. But I suppose his rage affects him in an obvious way, it blinds him to a lot of sense.
Tarsem is a very visual director, how is he going to change this genre?
Cavill: Just the way that this film looks, from the footage I've seen it's like Tarsem said right in the beginning he wants to create a "Caravaggio meets Fight Club" [movie], and it looks like an oil painting, it's fantastically beautiful. I think that kind of thing coupled with visceral violence is key. It's going to change the way we look at this film.
We're very excited about you playing Superman, how are you going to buck the stereotype that Superman is a boy scout?
Cavill: Goodness me, it's very early days yet, there's only so much I can say at this very early stage so I'm going to have to dodge that question for now.
Will we finally have a sexy Superman?
Cavill: I think that's all down to opinion, I hope so!
Tarsem Singh
What was the one stereotype about Greek Gods that you wanted to change?
Singh: The idea that all gods that were wise had to be old. I think that when they fight it works in paintings... but on film that just looks hokey to me. So I just said no, they obey the laws of physics. They are more like Batman then they are like Superman. They can dive down and not get hurt, they can kick people's asses in a physical sense, but not in a supernatural sense. So when that came in I just said, make the gods young, you never see gods young. Wisdom is associated with age. If a deity wanted to look 80 or 20, what would he choose? The answer is 20. So they can be as old as they want to be, but they look young.
Every superhero has a flaw, what are the Immortals flaws?
Singh: Just go and read any Greek thing and it will tell you. Greek myths, what do they do? Sleep with their kids, get angry at each other, you name it... Man is a big enough monster.
Isabel Lucas
These characters are kind of the original superheros, every superhero has a flaw, what's your character's flaw?
I think Athena's archetype, we've always known her and referred to her as being the virgin goddess. She was so driven and focused on peace in those times, I think that maybe the weakness of Athena is that she wasn't so much in her heart, she was more in her head. She never had a lover, she was never in love with anyone. It's kind of sad.


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Bowman Properties plans for redeveloping the former Magarity Ford site at 8200 Germantown Ave. include a mixed-use building on the corner of Germantown Avenue and Hartwell Lane that will feature retail along the Avenue with condominiums above, all anchored by a Fresh Market grocery store.
The Bowman proposal was formally unveiled at the April 19 meeting of the Chestnut Hill Community Association's Development Review Committee. While committee members and neighbors in attendance posed questions about traffic, noise and environmental conditions on the site, the proposal was positively received.
"We hope to present something over the next couple weeks, which we believe that Chestnut Hill will embrace," said Bowman's representative, attorney Matt McClure.
The retail area is envisioned as small storefronts, similar to those in Chestnut Hill now. In addition to the mixed-use building, a row of nine townhomes will be built facing Pastorius Park on the rear of the property along Shawnee Street. McClure described the project as an exciting new development that will reenergize Germantown Avenue.
Fresh Market, a North Carolina-based boutique supermarket chain with 125 stores in 18 Southern, Midwestern, mid-Atlantic, and New England states, features stores inspired by "open European style markets."
According to a site plan displayed at the meeting, the proposed parking lot design shows traffic exiting onto Hartwell Lane. In order to keep traffic from going through the neighborhood behind the site, Bowman proposes to reverse the one-way direction of Hartwell Lane eastbound, toward Germantown Avenue. Traffic is now one-way westbound, coming off the avenue.
"Cars coming off the property will have to turn left," said project architect Stan Runyan. "There are 85 parking spaces, and that kind of traffic coming back to the neighborhood would put a lot of stress on those small streets."
McClure told the committee that the traffic engineer would be present for the May meeting. The traffic engineer, Pennoni and Associates, is currently collecting data for a traffic study that will look at two components: trip generation, or the number of cars the new store will attract to the Avenue, and an analysis of how the change in direction of Hartwell Lane will impact the neighborhood. Included in the study's recommendations could be a traffic light at the corner of Hartwell and Germantown Avenue.
Designing the site to locate parking on the side and rear of the property was a point of contention in the negotiations with Fresh Market, who wanted their store right on the Avenue.
"By locating the parking on the side and in the rear, they are buying into Chestnut Hill urbanism," Runyan said.
Because the property is located in two zoning districts – one commercial, one residential – McClure indicated Bowman's intention to divide the property into two parcels, A and B. Parcel A would include the area for the commercial development. Currently zoned C-7 (which prohibits residential uses), Bowman will ask for a rezoning to the C-3 Mixed Use Development zone, which does allow for residential use. Parcel B, now R-5, would be rezoned as R-10B to allow for the proposed townhome portion of the project.
While no elevation drawings were presented, there were questions about the height of the proposed structure and its compatibility with the surrounding buildings. McClure explained that the building would be designed to comply with the proposed C-3 Mixed Use Development zoning.
McClure pointed out that several buildings in Chestnut Hill, such as the Chestnut Hill Hotel, the J.S. Jenks Elementary School, the Bell Atlantic Building, and the Women's Auxiliary Exchange are "iconic" or landmark buildings that don't conform to zoning.
"It is not unusual to have a diverse group of buildings in Chestnut Hill," McClure said." The idea is to make sure that what you are proposing is compatible and sympathetic to its surroundings."
Committee member Ned Mitinger asked about the environmental status of the site, referring to its extensive history as an auto dealership and service facility.
"It's a clean site," said Seth Shapiro, Nauset Group principal consultant and project manager. Shapiro explained that the property had gone through several rounds of testing, including tests to check for leaks around two underground storage tanks that will have to be removed during the demolition phase of the project. "We wouldn't have bought it without those assurances," he added.
One near neighbor expressed concern about an excess of truck traffic and noise from deliveries. Shapiro explained that the loading bay on the side of the building was designed to be enclosed, shielding the neighborhood from the noise associated with loading and unloading.
Shapiro said that written into the lease with Fresh Market was an understanding that the store would receive only one major truck shipment a day. He added that any truck traffic on and off the site would be significantly less disruptive than the car carriers that once unloaded cars along Germantown Avenue.
Most of the questions about the site were followed by general statements of support about the project. One resident of Mermaid Lane, Adam Ganz, expressed his desire for a good boutique market with reasonable hours and good selection.
"As the opposition gets on board at these meetings, I urge the committee and the association to consider what's good for the betterment of Chestnut Hill as opposed to the few with an ulterior motive," he said.
The committee took no formal action on the proposal.


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Tickets for Blackhawks 2014 preseason home games on sale Monday at 10 a.m.by Chicago Blackhawks / Chicago Blackhawks
The Chicago Blackhawks announced today that single-game tickets for the team's 2014 preseason home games at the United Center will go on sale on Monday, Aug. 4, at 10:00 a.m. Fans will be able to purchase tickets on chicagoblackhawks.com, by visiting any Ticketmaster location or by calling (800) 745-3000. Chicago's home preseason slate will feature three Original Six opponents: the Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens.
The Blackhawks begin their 2014 preseason schedule on Tuesday, Sept. 23, when they host the Detroit Red Wings at the United Center. Chicago will also host the 2014 Eastern Conference champion New York Rangers on Friday, Sept. 26, and the Montreal Canadiens, who reached the 2014 Eastern Conference Final, on Wednesday, Oct. 1. All three home preseason games will begin at 7:30 p.m. CT. Chicago will travel to Detroit on Thursday, Sept. 25, Edmonton (at Saskatoon) on Sunday, Sept. 28, and the New York Rangers on Friday, Oct. 3, during the preseason.


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Recently in my French class we learned about Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, so hearing about a crazy lady attacking a Gauguin painting really rustled my jimmies. She called it evil and called the two topless women in the painting homosexuals. Don't even get me started on the whole "radio in her head" thing.
It's acts like this that makes me feel sorry for our country. Blatant acts of homophobia and prudishness that could damage what others would call culture and history are uncalled for. Speak your mind, write a letter to the editor, blog. Don't attack it!
And the women in the painting weren't even doing anything vaguely homosexual. One was carrying a platter. The other one wasn't.
It's obviously symbolism. And the way she seems to connect homosexuality with evil is heartbreaking.
Now I'm not surprised at how the news shows reported it. They want viewers like any other show and don't want to deter anybody. What shocked me was what they mentioned about the reactions of the 2004 summer Olympics opening ceremony in Athens, where they displayed bare-breasted statues of Greek goddesses.
First we had to be subjected to the breast of Janet Jackson in the [Super Bowl and] now an even more gratuitous display of pornography an [sic] indecency during what was suppose [sic] to be another family viewing event.
Wait what?
How can people be so disgusted and/or offended by seeing a naked breast? One person just outright said "My children saw an exposed breast during the opening ceremonies" as if they hadn't seen one before.
What these people don't seem to realize is how insulting they are to others and their cultures. At the Olympics, they were displaying artifacts of their great history. In Tahiti I wouldn't think it would be too uncommon to be half-nude. And there are many other French paintings that could be considered more "evil". Manet's Olympia anyone?


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IGERT Graduate Student Adds to Critical NASA Discovery
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Research by Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering graduate student Kaitlin Keegan has added critical information to a NASA annoucement today regarding melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet. "According to satellite data, an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July," according to the NASA release.
Keegan is an engineerig PhD student and a fellow in the Dartmouth IGERT polar enviromental change program. She studies the physical properties of the top layers of the ice, the firn, at Summit as well as NEEM, an international ice core project in Northwest Greenland. According to Keegan, the last time such a melt occured at Summit was in 1889.
"I have been focused on the melt layers present in both firn cores [Summit and NEEM] because they occur very infrequently," Kaitlin wrote on the Dartmouth IGERT blog a few days after a run of unusually warm weather created the remarkable opportunity to watch the melt occurring. "At Summit, there is only one other melt layer besides the melt layer from this past week and this previous melt layer dates to 1889."
Keegan and Mary Albert, a professor of engineering at Thayer and Executive Director of the NSF Ice Core Drilling office, are working on a paper on the topic.


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New hopefuls are announced as the deadline expires for the class of 2013 to land jobs.
The federal government has selected its new crop of finalists for the Presidential Management Fellows Program, just two days after the ill-fated class of 2013's one-year deadline to find jobs expired.
The PMF class of 2014 no doubt hopes they will have better luck obtaining their two-year agency appointments than did their immediate predecessors, whose federal job prospects suffered as a result of sequestration, furloughs and a government shutdown. The Office of Personnel Management said 317 out of 663 finalists in 2013 received appointments by the deadline of April 8, 2014, or about 48 percent of last year's group. In February more than two-thirds of the 2013 finalists hadn't received jobs yet in the federal government.
An OPM spokeswoman said the agency works closely with agencies each year to get PMFs placed, but ultimately it is up to the agencies to determine their hiring and placement needs.
The prestigious fellowship program attracted 7,000 applications for the 2014 cycle. Officials selected 609 new finalists this year on April 10. Making that cut though doesn't guarantee a job, just an opportunity to compete with a smaller group of applicants for the coveted two-year agency appointments. The class of 2014 has until April 10, 2015, to accept and start a PMF appointment.
"I think they are going to have similar issues, but not to the extent that 2013 did," said Jeremy Furrer, a 2011 fellow who earlier this year helped draw attention to the plight of 2013 PMFs having a hard time getting hired because of circumstances beyond their control. Furrer predicted the 2014 crop also will have to grapple with agencies' budgetary and hiring constraints, but the government isn't likely to shut down again anytime soon, and furloughs will be less prevalent now that sequestration has been partially repealed for 2014 and 2015. "2013 was a particularly bad year, everything was stacked up against them," Furrer said of last year's finalists. Fifty-five percent of the 2011 finalists in Furrer's class received appointments, as did 47 percent of the 2012 class.
Furrer said he knows one 2013 finalist who spent nearly the whole year searching for a job until she eventually landed an appointment on April 7 – a day before the deadline. Once a finalist receives an appointment, he or she is usually offered a full-time position at the end of the two years. "It's very unlikely that you don't get converted at the end of it, unless there is a problem," Furrer said.
The extremely competitive PMF program, formerly known as the Presidential Management Intern program, gives current graduate and doctoral school students and recent degree recipients the opportunity to work for two years at a federal agency, earning the full pay and benefits of a General Schedule Grade 9, 11 or 12. Fellowship finalists are not guaranteed an appointment, however, and as of late February 2014, just 213 2013 finalists had received jobs. The final tally was higher, since agencies like the Labor Department stepped in to try and hire more finalists just before the deadline, Furrer said, and OPM recently held a job fair for the group to boost hiring.
OPM in February rejected an appeal from 2013 finalists and PMF alumni to extend the deadline for last year's class past April 8.
"This has been a very difficult budget year and positions are not guaranteed when applying for the PMF program," OPM Director Katherine Archuleta wrote in a Feb. 19 letter announcing that decision. "However, based on the experience of the class of 2013, I plan to take a closer look at the program and work with agencies to examine ways we can improve the number of placements for PMFs."
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Interview of Madam Nighat Jahan H.M. Cork's G.B.S.S. (English Medium) Muslimabad Karachi
Moneeb JuniorSep 04, 2013
Madam Nighat Jahan our school's pride and respect. It is an honor for me that she gave me a chance to take her interview. By this, you can imagine her good and...


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International Microfinance Project in Tanzania - Monthly Reports
Monthly Reports from 2016
This month, the Microfinance project has faced with several changes. Sedef left in the beginning of the month, PierAlexandre and Noémie are still working in the project.
Monthly Reports from 2015
General training would be to maintain even after the volunteer who proposed this course leaves, and organize a new courses depending on women's needs and necessity.
In May we had two new volunteers. This month, we focussed on book keeping and English training for the groups. We also covered the marketing training questionnaires given by Pia, a previous volunteer from Italy.
Group meetings have been constant and successful in April. We had good attendance across the board, even (surprisingly) from Tupendane. The new members are showing up regularly and seem eager to participate and learn.
March saw a very short-lived influx of volunteers to the micro-finance group. Both Kristal and Pia arrived and left within the month. Although only here for a short time, both volunteers were able to quickly become acclimated and understand the different aspects of the micro finance project, which translated to them both being able to effectively contribute.
One issue that arose during February was the need to continue working with certain groups that already completed repayment of their fifth loan. In order to complete the training of those groups, we devised a new document that will be used as loan applications but more closely resembles an actual business plan.
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Tom sent me this article from the Wall Street Journal.
Nearly four million more people have left the Golden State in the last two decades than have come from other states. This is a sharp reversal from the 1980s, when 100,000 more Americans were settling in California each year than were leaving. According to Mr. Kotkin, most of those leaving are between the ages of 5 and 14 or 34 to 45. In other words, young families.
The scruffy-looking urban studies professor at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., has been studying and writing on demographic and geographic trends for 30 years. Part of California's dysfunction, he says, stems from state and local government restrictions on development. These policies have artificially limited housing supply and put a premium on real estate in coastal regions.
"Basically, if you don't own a piece of Facebook or Google and you haven't robbed a bank and don't have rich parents, then your chances of being able to buy a house or raise a family in the Bay Area or in most of coastal California is pretty weak," says Mr. Kotkin.
While many middle-class families have moved inland, those regions don't have the same allure or amenities as the coast. People might as well move to Nevada or Texas, where housing and everything else is cheaper and there's no income tax.
And things will only get worse in the coming years as Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown and his green cadre implement their "smart growth" plans to cram the proletariat into high-density housing. "What I find reprehensible beyond belief is that the people pushing [high-density housing] themselves live in single-family homes and often drive very fancy cars, but want everyone else to live like my grandmother did in Brownsville in Brooklyn in the 1920s," Mr. Kotkin declares.
[…]Meanwhile, taxes are harming the private economy. According to the Tax Foundation, California has the 48th-worst business tax climate. Its income tax is steeply progressive. Millionaires pay a top rate of 10.3%, the third-highest in the country. But middle-class workers—those who earn more than $48,000—pay a top rate of 9.3%, which is higher than what millionaires pay in 47 states.
And Democrats want to raise taxes even more. Mind you, the November ballot initiative that Mr. Brown is spearheading would primarily hit those whom Democrats call "millionaires" (i.e., people who make more than $250,000 a year). Some Republicans have warned that it will cause a millionaire march out of the state, but Mr. Kotkin says that "people who are at the very high end of the food chain, they're still going to be in Napa. They're still going to be in Silicon Valley. They're still going to be in West L.A."
That said, "It's really going to hit the small business owners and the young family that's trying to accumulate enough to raise a family, maybe send their kids to private school. It'll kick them in the teeth."
A worker in Wichita might not consider those earning $250,000 a year middle class, but "if you're a guy working for a Silicon Valley company and you're married and you're thinking about having your first kid, and your family makes 250-k a year, you can't buy a closet in the Bay Area," Mr. Kotkin says. "But for 250-k a year, you can live pretty damn well in Salt Lake City. And you might be able to send your kids to public schools and own a three-bedroom, four-bath house."
According to Mr. Kotkin, these upwardly mobile families are fleeing in droves. As a result, California is turning into a two-and-a-half-class society. On top are the "entrenched incumbents" who inherited their wealth or came to California early and made their money. Then there's a shrunken middle class of public employees and, miles below, a permanent welfare class. As it stands today, about 40% of Californians don't pay any income tax and a quarter are on Medicaid.
It's "a very scary political dynamic," he says. "One day somebody's going to put on the ballot, let's take every penny over $100,000 a year, and you'll get it through because there's no real restraint. What you've done by exempting people from paying taxes is that they feel no responsibility. That's certainly a big part of it.
And the welfare recipients, he emphasizes, "aren't leaving. Why would they? They get much better benefits in California or New York than if they go to Texas. In Texas the expectation is that people work."
California used to be more like Texas—a jobs magnet. What happened? For one, says the demographer, Californians are now voting more based on social issues and less on fiscal ones than they did when Ronald Reagan was governor 40 years ago. Environmentalists are also more powerful than they used to be. And Mr. Brown facilitated the public-union takeover of the statehouse by allowing state workers to collectively bargain during his first stint as governor in 1977.
Mr. Kotkin also notes that demographic changes are playing a role. As progressive policies drive out moderate and conservative members of the middle class, California's politics become even more left-wing. It's a classic case of natural selection, and increasingly the only ones fit to survive in California are the very rich and those who rely on government spending. In a nutshell, "the state is run for the very rich, the very poor, and the public employees."
Another Wall Street Journal article I just spotted talks about how states with low income taxes have much higher population growth rates than states with high income tax rates.
Over the past decade, states without an income tax have seen 58% higher population growth than the national average, and more than double the growth of states with the highest income tax rates. Such interstate migration left Texas with four new congressional seats this year and spanked New York and Ohio with a loss of two seats each.
The transfer of economic power and political influence from high-tax states toward low-tax, right-to-work ones is one of America's most momentous demographic changes in decades. Liberal utopias are losing the race for capital. The rich, the middle-class, the ambitious and others are leaving workers' paradises such as Hartford, Buffalo and Providence for Jacksonville, San Antonio and Knoxville.
Illinois, Oregon and California are state practitioners of Obamanomics. All have passed soak-the-rich laws like the Buffett Rule (plus economically harmful regulations, like California's cap-and-trade scheme), and all face big deficits because their economies continue to sink. Illinois has lost one resident every 10 minutes since hiking tax rates in January. California has 10.9% unemployment, having lost 4.8% of its jobs over the past decade.
Now these blue states may raise tax rates again. In California, a union-backed ballot initiative would raise the state's highest tax rate to 13.3%. Union-funded groups in Illinois aren't satisfied with last year's income tax rate hike to 5% from 3%, so they now want to go as high as 11%. That would put them in the big leagues with California and New York. And in Oregon, lawmakers are considering raising the highest rate to 13% from 9.9%. In all of these states, proponents parrot Mr. Obama, insisting that the rich can afford it.
They can, but they can also afford to save hundreds of thousands or more each year by getting out of Dodge. Every time California, Illinois or New York raises taxes on millionaires, Florida, Texas and Tennessee see an influx of rich people who buy homes, start businesses and shop in the local economy.
Republican governors in Florida, Georgia, Idaho, North Dakota, South Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin and even Michigan and New Jersey are cutting taxes to lure new businesses and jobs.
Asked why he wants to reduce the cost of doing business in Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker replies: "I've never seen a store get more customers by raising its prices, but I've seen customers knock down the doors when they cut prices."
Georgia, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma are now racing to become America's 10th state without an income tax. All of them want what Texas has (almost half of all net new jobs in America over the last decade, for one thing).
This is important because voters need to understand that when you tax and regulate people, they don't just sit there are take it. The same thing can happen at the national level if we pursue the same policies. People just move their money and businesses out, and eventually, themselves. If young people want to vote for socialists because of abortion, gay marriage and environmentalism, they may find themselves without jobs – without enough money to even support a family.


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Eric Karros joins KCAL team
In case you missed it, Eric Karros has joined KCAL as part of the Dodgers' pregame show. This is great news for Dodger fans, who will get to hear Eric's insights throughout the season. For those of you who have heard him on ESPN, you know that he's very good at analyzing the game and he's a true professional.
As a player, you could always tell that Eric would be a good broadcaster someday and it didn't take long for him to wind up back with the team he knows best. We're glad he's back in the family and that he'll be around quite a bit this season.
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E.K has a bright future behind the mic.
I had hoped he would be the third man in the booth/ Way to go, EK!
It is certainly great to have Eric Karros back with the Dodgers! I agree that he will have a great new career in broadcasting, and I look forward to the contributions he will make to our 2006 team! Go EK!
Way to go E.K., It is great to have you back where you belong. I just wish we could
bring back another sorely missed member of our Dodger family, Ross Porter. Ross' voice was almost as synonomous
with the Dodgers as that of the great Mr. Scully. What I wouldn't give to hear "would you like to take a shot at
Dodger trivia?", and the never forgetable "Mmmm Hmmm!"
I have been trying to get this info. out for a long time, Eric Karros is the icon picture for MLB, just like Jerry West is the icon for NBA basketball. It,s easy to find out ,just go back to the baseball arcives on channel 5 or 11 or 13 whichever station was sponsoring the dodger games then. It was when he just starting playing for the DODGERS. Somebody please look this up, I think it a tribute to Eric and the DODGERS if this is prpven (and this info I'm giving is correct I've been behind this for all this time. email@example.com
That's wonderful! I have always admired Eric and I think he will do a fine job!
Sell the team!
You could start here. I was practicing stuff here the other day.
Thanks, Dodgereric….much better 😉
Surprise, surprise…McCourts can't reach settlement in their divorce case. Another f*cking day wasted!
Here are the results of the ESPN fan poll about owners that I posted a while back. I think you can guess the outcome!!
Sell the team McBroke!!! Take your sleazy wife, inept GM, and crummy training staff, and get the hell out.
Well said Mr. Jhall!!!!
Thanks Nelly!! Hope your having a wonderful day!!
It's Friday with one more Friday to go, and a holiday in between…. four more wake ups 🙂
I hope you are doing well too Jhall!!!
Good for you Nelly!!! Doing alright out here!!!
I agree…SELL THE TEAM!!!!!
Hi'Ya Trumom!! Hope you are also having a great day!!
You're back on attendance watch tonight Trumom!!! I hope the fans make a statement and stay away.
I'm thinking they will make Dodgereric very proud 😉
Good to see you too, Jhall. I almost thought nobody was visitng ITD anymore…lol I also think Josh has abandoned us.
LOL!! I think everyone needed a couple of days away from the shit pile to clear their heads!!!
ITD should be known as "Inside The Dungheap" until McBroke is gone. LOL!!!
LOL…right. Inside the Dungheap, it shall be!
If Mattingly keeps Dre out again tonight in favor of Gibbons, I will be very pissed off! Fans come to see Andre, not Jay!!!!
You guys are as hard to find as a clean restroom at Dodger Stadium!
LOL!! Or Josh Rawitch!!!
Josh has not abandoned us, he is just out of the office.
Well I am off to my happy place in a few. No matter what, I back the boys are back in town.
red mark: I am glad All the boys are back in town. The boys include Vin Scully 🙂
You have that right. Vinny may be the only reason to tune into a game these days.
Tonights lineup: Furcal; Blake; Dre; Matt; Gibbons; Loney; Barajas; Carroll and Garland.
Thanks Trumom!!!
Think about it; you swap out Uribe for Carroll and you pretty much have the lineup the Dodgers would have started the season with had Gibbons been available.
I was hoping Jerry would be playing tonight but, it's okay. I'm beginning to think Jay is to Donnie what Juanpy was to JoJo.
LOL!! Yep, DonDo has a clown crush on Gibbons!!
( 🙂 )
Maybe Dodgereric needs to update his version of "I Got You Babe" for Gibbons. It was a Joe/Juanpy love song. Now it can be a Donnie/Jay love song 🙂
We all love Josh (maybe except Bear) and just hope he still has a job.
Yes, we do!
I agree 🙂
I have a happy place too 🙂
LMAO!!! I'll bet your happy place doesn't put money in McBrokes pocket.
It sure doesn't! 😕
Keep those SEATS EMPTY, fans!
Stick it to the McCourts!
Where is that thread the last time I posted here? It was STT talking about the offense that scored around 20+ runs that night in RC I think that was the farm system and I was talking about how baseball reference listed all the draft picks and all the stats those draft picks accomplish in the major.
RIP Margo Dydek(yeah only 37 yrs old) and Jeff Conaway.
lol 7-6 scored in Texas but the only problem those aren't our offense and they playing in a hitter park.
Oh yeah and they only played 2 innings so far
Very, very empty….those that ar there saying, "Where are all the people?" 🙂
So bad, she says: "If you hear yelling, it's me!"
Wow!! Dad will be pleased!!
Gagland pitching makes me queasy.
The two rusty nails leading off for us makes me queasy too 😉
No kidding!!
Might be in need of Pepto tonight…lol
I wonder if Beav is in his Happy Place? LOL!!!
I'll bet he is 🙂 I love my happy place!
I know for sure he in NOT at the Ravine!
How lucky can the Giants get? Since Bochy get ejected they scored 5 runs and that rookie Crawford hit a GS.
He's a hottie! Would look much better in Dodger Blue, however 🙂
He can join me at my happy place!
No clue about my posted from 5:32? I need to see if anyone reply to it.
Shad, most of the threads we've been using are from Feb, 06. The last one was Frank Chats or something like that.
Yeah I know but couldn't remember which month it was.
Nice play Andre!!
Gibbons couldn't do it!
No, that's a double for sure if Gibbons is in right field!!
Wow wasn't the Astros down 6-0 at one time.
That terrible 1 pitch from Adams and a GW HR's from Moose after the Padres just tied it up in the top of that 9th.
Good evening all.
Well, it's all set for the NHL finals Bruins vs. Canucks.
The garden is rockin in beantown.
Hope the Mavs take the Heat in the NBA finals.
WTG Loney! It's been a loooong drought!
Holy Shit!! Loweeney finally nailed one!!
lol no fucking way did that just happen?
Party On VL!!!
Party…where's the party?!
At your Happy Place!!! LOL!!!
Nice shutdown inning everytime we scored the opponent do the same.
LOL…my amusement park! Reminds me of Seinfeld 🙂
Wow no censor there at least. WTG Loney his 2nd of the year. The world must be ended soon.
Loney 1st HR's since Apr 6 ad yeah that was the 6th games of the season.
Just trying to replenish some bodily fluids lost today Wally. Consuming mass quantities. It was 107 here today. Supposed to be even hotter tomorrow!
Sounds like a good plan my friend!!
Where you at?
I'm in Ohio. 70's here today.
The left armpit of west Texas (Permian Basin).
Also known as Odessa at this point in time. . .
I spent a summer in San Antonio at Ft Sam Houston many years ago. Awfully damn hot!!!
I remember that Wally. I just didn't know where vl4 live at? How close is that to Houston?
Aaay – oooh – waay to go O-hi-yo!
But my city there was gone!! Love the Pretenders!!
San Antone is a GREAT party town! Ranks up there with Austin. OK to visit, but I couldn't stand the humidity for too long. At least it's dry here with humidity less than 10% most of the time.
It wasn't too bad for me since I'm used to high humidity here in the summer also. Always cool on the River Walk!!!
Houston's over 500 miles to the south-southeast.
Draw a straight line from El Paso to DFW. It's just about half way.
D-backs on a helluva roll coming back from 6 runs down to win over the Stro's.
Kirk Gibsons' got those boys believin'!!! I wish he was our manager!!
Me too! Donnie is a Jo-Jo clone!
I know I'm an inning late but damn Ross got thrown out by Fielder. Where is the Giants defense where they known for giving up gift runs?
lol the Giants stole that win.
Actually that Fielders got thrown out by Ross.
Fielder got thrown out by Ross.
Josh how about installing an edit feature to?
I'm so glad Fuckal is back!
Sigh!!! Our savior!!
Surely you jest! LOL
Is this seat taken?
Hi'Ya Beav!!
Trumom wants to visit your Happy Place!!!
Hell, I'd like to visit my happy place too, but the wife's got a headache.
Finger Puppet time!! LOL!!
🙂 🙂
Finally! Where the hell have you been?!
Looks like the crowd is better than we had hoped for…however, it is the first game of the series and, the guys have been gone for a while. Still, not what you'd expect for a Friday night.
Actually, the crowd looks piss-poor!
I see we're mashing again tonight – 2 hits already…
…and against a guy with an ERA over 6.00.
Ain't no stoppin' us now.
Vasquez have better career numbers vs us than his numbers this season not a big surprise to see us having 2 hits.
Can't say as I've ever stopped in Odessa VL, or Midland either for that matter, though I did stop in Pecos to see the buffalo. Been in Big Springs and Abileen too. So what did I miss by not stopping in Odessa?
Nothing but high winds, and wild fires as of late.
Which one smells like a refinery – Odessa or Midland?
I'm a bit windy myself 🙂 And, yes, I'm on fire!
Wally, I'll let you take this one…
Pffffffffffffft!!! TRUMOM!!!
Sorry about that….just trying to amuse myself..this game isn't much fun right now!
Are you missing Cruces at all?
Actually, I do miss it. Never thought I would, but I do.
Boy! Hanley's numbers have dropped ALOT!
Uh, oh….here we go again.
Garland is just a right handed version of Lily!
How come you've never heard of half these Marlins and yet they're putting up numbers our guys could only dream of?
Not to mention they also do it on a fraction of the Dodger payroll.
Proving you don't have to have a huge Yankees type payroll if you have somebody at the helm that knows talent and believes in young guns vs. old hasbeens.
Can't pin this one on Garland so far!! The offense needs to get the bats out of their asses!!!
I give you permission…go take them out!
I'll watch 🙂
That's Pentlines' job!!
lol of course you can and lead off walk kill.
Thanks Andre!
Wah-Hoo Andre!!
You may not like it with Donnies demeanor.
He'd probably just lay there. . .
Gosh you should visit the Giants mlb board they always say F this F that to there players and coach.
Yeah Ethier I guess the extra rest help lol.
Oh boy, here we go!! Good job Garland!!!
Sweet!! I hope we get to see Rubby tonight!!
Rubby Dub-Dub 🙂
You're not naming your finger puppets now are you?
Yes I am! lol
Yeah Elbert another dp.
This suck Elbert was drafted at a SP and we're using him as a reliever and since his called up he's been very impressive than the prior 30 games combined going back to 2008. He was a good hitting pitcher in college that would've also made him a waste in the bullpen.
Oh, no…why Fidel?
What a waste!!
At least we get Fuckal out of the game!
I thought he'd be gone with Blake back off the DL.
I wonder who is gone?
Maybe Mitchell?
I would hope they would put Gwynn in in left!!
Yeah, it was Mitchell!!
Gwynn is in left…then, why didn't he hit instead of Castro?
Ever think of how much better off this franchise would have been had Ned not signed anyone named Juan?
Big 50 getting ready.
Why in the hell is Castro still on this team??????
Wait a second Donny PH Gibbons for Castro? I'd rather see Gibbons striking out.
Boggles the mind doesn't it?
I love playing Boggle.
Come on Rubby Baby! You can do this!
As much as we don't want Gibbons on this team I would've had done that even though Choate is LH.
You can still put Gwynn in LF and dang come on Rubby.
Cool rundown!!
Dobbs suck with Phillies last year.
Rubby drub drub laid a little turd in the tub.
And, Raffy is the big shit!
Too small of one to sink the little Ty-D-bowl man in his little boat. . . just a ripple!
That dp was so late to bad we could've gotten that when Ramirez got that lead off walk.
Jeez, this team would be better off with Castro batting leadoff.
Don't make Rubby a reliever is really a waste that he should probably be a SP for us in 2013.
Its Ned's job to fuck up the young guys by trying to make them something they're not – McDonald, Elbert, Lindblom, Rubby…
Let's get Rubby a walk off win.
Could actually have a pretty good starting staff in 2013-14 if Rubby and Lee make it.
Rubby seems better without runners on base. He's learning.
Vinny….waiting for yout o give me the attendance. Are they too embarrassed to let us know?!
*you to
Way to go Casey and Andre!!!
I love Tolleson and Armes numbers so far. We have some good pitching talent just hope they are not going to be bust. You can easy fill the 3rd-5th spots and Broxton/Kuo spot in the bullpen.
Oh yeah and probably late bloomer Guerra from that 2004 draft class. I don't understand why some of the expert said our minor leaguer suck when we have good talent down there and how do they ranked the system. Is that the entire minor league system or the double A and triple A combined? I could understand we ranked low bases on the higher minor league system and not those rookie one.
OOOH NOOOO! Not Navarro!!!
Yep, and the blind squirrel just found his nut!
Woo-Hoo, win streak!!!
Wow…way to go Navarro!
Damn where Sands?
OMG The blind squirrel got a nut!
A walk off!
lol I knew Navarro wouldn't screw that up.
You still bite Navarro we want Ellis.
Game was never in doubt once Navarro was up there. 🙂
This game is always full of surprises. WAY TO GO NAVARRO!!!
You ever notice that it still takes the other team screwing up for us to get a win now and then?
lol I won't complaint if I was you.
Attndance: 34,407
Thanks Trum( . )m!!!!
🙂 🙂
Yeah right!
*attendance…..it's been reported that even though a certain amount of tickets are sold, there are loads of no-shows. That, by itself, takes tons of money out of Frank's pocket.
Do they still some sort of counter when you get in. That probably the numbers they get while selling those tickets.
I wonder if the Marlins gussing our attendance to.
Sands better still be on this team and it did look like Mitchell was send down.
They should let the 9th play all out so we kill our risp numbers and bases loaded number.
Confirmed: Frank McCourt meets Dodgers' May 31 payroll
Damn shame. Now we're stuck for another 19 days.
lol did you guys really think he wasn't going to make it.
I'd like to make him a finger puppet!
Wow tru did he waited until the game was done to give us the attendance?
He never did…had to go to game wrap 😉
Not that he would care a tinker's damn, and not that his chances to hang on have improved much, but if he manages to stick, I will switch to the Angels.
Game 25's attendance (2010): 35,355
Today's attendance courtesy of : 34,407
Greater than last year = 5 / Less than last year = 20
9th straight game of negative attendance
2010 attendance (26 games) – 1,122,590 (43,177 average)
2011 attendance (26 games) – 943,417 (36,285 average) #9 in MLB
Drop of 179,173 total
Average drop of 6891
Extrapolated for 81 games – 558,193
Projected 2011 final attendance – 2,939,107
2010's final attendance – 3,562,318 (#3 in MLB)
Next game's (27) attendance in 2010 – 35,333
This news should galvanize the fan boycott a little more.
I guess now we're living 2 weeks at a time until something happens one way or the other. Manny has a $6 million payment due in June. Whether it's the first or second payment, I don't know. What with the June 22 court date looming, this is all going to make mid-late June very interesting.
E – I've read Manny's is due the SECOND (of course) payday in June.
Tonight's attendance will no doubt include the dogs allowed in the RF pavillion. I see they will charge the dogs the regular ticket price. Will they get a doggy bone too?
Other than dogs, let's keep the SEATS EMPTY.
When considering the attendance, the season ticket holders don't really count for much, other than money they spend at the stadium once they're there. Their ticket money has already been spent or borrowed against way back when they paid for their tickets. The cash flow is getting low any way you look at it.
It doesn't surprise me that Frank could make one payroll, maybe even a few more. With all the outstanding loans he has, he has to be paying millions in loan charges every month. I wouldn't be surprised if he's falling behind on some of those in order to make the payroll, because none of those lenders can take over the team right away. My suggestion would be that he don't pay Manny – f*** the idiot for trusting Frank on a deferred payment contract to begin with. Of course, I never liked Manny any better than I did Frank.
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I remember when Eric used to give us the IR/IS numbers last year and it was around 41% but what the heck happen 28% this season? Of course those 9th innings numbers are ugly. Of course Troncoso and Hawksworth mess those numbers up a little bit.
Oh yeah last year were guys like Sherrill 41%, Miller 50%, Troncoso 59%, Schlicting 41%, Ramon Ortiz 36%, Broxton 50%, Dotel 83% those numbers were bad. The bright spot that Belisario was at 23%, Weaver 21%, Kuo 29% and Taschner 20%.
Jansen was at 50% and Monsterious and Elbert 100% on 2/2. Link was 1/0 which was 100% and McDonald 2/1 which was 50%.
We had the best bullpen in 2009 that average was around 29% and McDonald was the only one that had a 50% ratio.
Good Day ITD. I'm very happy today. Why? I don't know…just a good feeling. Enjoy your Saturday and perhaps we will meet at game time. GO, DODGERS, GO!!!!
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Network Ranks Top 10 For VOD
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NEW YORK - October 2, 2012 - Behind the strength of Oxygen Media's diverse programming slate, the network delivered a strong third quarter ranking #20 among all ad-supported cable entertainment networks in its key demo of women 18-34, according to Nielsen. Fueled by a unique slate of original series such as "I'm Having Their Baby," "The Glee Project," "Girlfriend Confidential: LA" and "Bad Girls Club," the network averaged 405,000 total viewers. In addition, this month marked Oxygen's youngest September ever with a median age of 35.3 (1.4 years younger than September 2011). For more information, visit www.oxygen.com and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/OxygenPR.
Third quarter saw the thought-provoking docu-series "I'm Having Their Baby" strike a chord with viewers and become Oxygen's highest rated new series of 2012 averaging 806,000 total viewers, 381,000 adults 18-34 and 324,000 women 18-34 on a Live +7 basis. This marked double-digit growth across all key demos with a 30 percent increase among women 18-34, 29 percent increase among total viewers and 16 percent increase among adults 18-34, compared to the same time period last year. Behind the series, Oxygen was the #3 cable network on Mondays at 11pm in women 18-34 throughout the season. This led the network to quickly greenlight season two, which is currently in production and will premiere in 2013.
Increasing momentum, the critically acclaimed second season of "The Glee Project" landed winner Blake Jenner a seven episode role on "Glee" and ended with a series finale season high of 821,000 total viewers.
Amplifying such success, fan-favorite "Bad Girls Club" remained dominant in its ninth season averaging 2.2 million total viewers, 1.4 million adults 18-49, and one million women 18-49 on a Live +7 basis. Behind season nine, Oxygen is the #1 cable network on Mondays at 10pm, out-delivering ABC and CBS in women 18-34.
To top off the third quarter, the series premiere of "Girlfriend Confidential: LA" (9/3/12) strengthened the female-skewing channel's Monday night lineup propelling Oxygen as a top five cable entertainment network among women 18-34 in the 11pm hour.
Source: Nielsen Media Research, Time period data based on Most Current Data: Live + 7 through 9/16/12, blended with Live + Same Day through 9/30/12. Cable ranks includes ad supported cable entertainment networks, and excludes non-ad supported networks (e.g., pay cable, Disney), sports, news channels and networks that air in less than 50% of the daypart, cvg rating. All program data= LS data, unless otherwise indicated. VOD=Rentrak, among all TV entertainment networks, Total HHLD transactions 6/25/12-9/16/12. Social=Bluefin Signals, 6/25/12-9/26/12, rank based on total comments vs. all television networks in reality genre, prime.
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Oxygen Media is a multiplatform entertainment brand that delivers relevant and engaging content to young women who like to "live out loud." Oxygen is rewriting the rulebook for women's media by changing how the world sees entertainment from a young woman's point of view. Through a vast array of unconventional and original content, including "The Glee Project," "Best Ink," and "Bad Girls Club," the growing cable network is the premier destination to find unique and groundbreaking unscripted programming. "The Glee Project" is a winner of a 2012 Gracie Award which honors programming created for women, by women and about women for "Outstanding Reality Show." A social media trendsetter, Oxygen is a leading force in engaging modern young women, wherever they are, with popular, award winning features online including www.OxygenLive.com, the real time social viewing party that is also available as an app for the iPhone and iPad. Oxygen is available in 80 million homes, and can be found online and on mobile devices at www.oxygen.com. Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/OxygenPR. Oxygen Media is a service of NBCUniversal.


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UPDATE: Sunday – 10/27/2013, 9:20pm ET:
WASHINGTON – Howard County police announced via Twitter Sunday evening that Officer Steven Houk, who was shot last week after an altercation with a suspect, has been released.
We're happy to report that HCPD Ofc. Steve Houk has been discharged from the hospital! Big thanks to the outstanding staff at Shock Trauma!
— Howard County Police (@HCPDNews) October 28, 2013
The suspect wanted in connection with the shooting was taken into custody last week following a multi-agency manhunt.
Stephon Prather, 29, was spotted by police while walking along Route 1 at about 8:45 a.m. Thursday. He surrendered to officers and was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Stephon Prather, 29, of no fixed address, was taken into custody Thursday morning. (Courtesy Howard County police)
Prather, of no fixed address, is accused of shooting Officer Steven Houk, a two-year veteran of the Howard County Police Department.
Prather was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg. (Photo courtesy of WJLA)
The shooting occurred after police received a call at about 4 p.m. Wednesday from a business in the 9500 block of Route 1 reporting a man with a gun. Police say three officers responded and confronted Prather, who immediately started firing.
Houk, 30, was struck and taken to a hospital in serious condition. Howard County Police Chief William McMahon says in a news release that Houk's "prognosis is good."
"We are relieved that our efforts throughout the night resulted in the apprehension of this suspect before he could hurt anyone else," McMahon says.
Officers returned fire at the suspect, but police say Prather ran into a nearby wooded area.
Police say they did not find a weapon when Prather was taken into custody, but will be searching the wooded area for a gun.
Officers from Anne Arundel, Montgomery and Prince George's counties, along with Maryland State Police and Laurel police, assisted with the search for Prather. Police say Route 1 still my be closed periodically while the investigation continues.
Prather has had trouble with the law before. In 2006, he faced a mountain of charges: six counts each of attempted murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault. That was in addition to charges of use of a handgun in a crime and conspiracy to attempt murder.
The charges stemmed from a dispute between Prather and members of a family.
Under a deal with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree assault and and was set to serve five years.
But in late 2007, Prather's sentence was reconsidered. A judge agreed to turn Prather over to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for substance abuse treatment.
Court records show that by early 2009, Prather had been discharged by a nonprofit rehab program, Second Genesis, Inc.
See tweets sent out as the situation unfolded below:
N Laurel Community Center on LOCKDOWN as police hunt for gunman who shot a Howard County officer this afternoon. @ http://t.co/cGuiyqiQPW
— Darcy Spencer (@darcyspencer) October 23, 2013
BREAKING- Search underway for suspect in police shooting, 9500 blk Wash Blvd #HowardCo #Laurel pic.twitter.com/9fWaAL3KyN
— Charlie Bragale (@charlienbc) October 23, 2013
Dogs are out looking for a suspect here in Laurel. pic.twitter.com/dhi68uaL9W
— Ari Ashe


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If you thought Mars was red, think again. When Curiosity gave the planet a New Year's clean, she removed some of the red dust which covers the surface of the planet—and what lurks beneath is white.
Her appropriately named Dust Removal Tool—kind of like a motorized wire brush—cleaned a spot of the planet for analysis. It revealed a little patch of rock—now known as Ekwir_1— in the Yellowknife Bay area of Mars' Gale Crater. Turns out under all that red dust, it's actually kinda pale. [NASA via Popular Science]


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DetailsIPGAC Seals Sponsorship Support From Enjoy Jakarta & Indonesia Port Corporation
Enjoy Jakarta will title sponsor next month's Indonesia PGA Championship for the second year in row, with Indonesia Port Corporation partnering for the first time in presenting role.
Two-time Major winner John Daly from the United States has also confirmed his participation in the event - to be played from March 27 to 30 at Damai Indah Golf – Bumi Serpong Damai.
Adding to the spectacle is the fact that the US$1 million Enjoy Jakarta Indonesia PGA Championship presented by Indonesia Port Corporation, will be jointly sanctioned by OneAsia and the Japan Golf Tour Organization and will be the opening tournament of the season for both Tours.
A stellar line up of players from both Tours is expected to enter the tournament which was won last year by Korean Choi Ho-sung.
In the inaugural edition of the event in 2011 Australian Andre Stolz beat Indonesian number one Rory Hie by one shot.
Enjoy Jakarta, the government's tourism portal, are an enthusiastic and generous supporter of golf in Indonesia and are delighted to be continuing their backing of the country's richest golf tournament.
"With comprehensive regional television coverage, a world class field and an outstanding venue Enjoy Jakarta's partnership with the Indonesia PGA Championship reaps huge reward," said His Excellency, Governor of DKI Jakarta, Ir. Joko Widodo.
"Through this tournament we are able to showcase to the region the wonderful appeal that our nation's capital boasts and its tremendous value as a golfing destination."
The event marks the first time the Indonesia Port Corporation, the state corporation responsible for the governance, regulation, maintenance and operation of ports and harbours in Indonesia, has sponsored a golf tournament.
"This tournament provides Indonesia Port Corporation with a great opportunity to promote our services throughout Asia," said Bapak R. J. Lino from IPC.
"One of our key corporate values is integrity and this is certainly evident by our decision to sponsor the Indonesia PGA Championship, an outstanding sporting event that our country can be proud of."
Fan favourite Daly will be making his debut in the tournament and thrill the crowds with his trademark power play.
The 47 year old's two greatest accomplishments are his 'zero to hero' victory in the 1991 PGA Championship, and his playoff victory over Italian Costantino Rocca in the 1995 Open Championship.
According to official performance statistics kept since 1980, Daly in 1997 became the first US PGA Tour player to average more than 300 yards per drive over a full season. He did so again in every year from 1999 to 2008, and he was the only player to do so until 2003.
Damai Indah Golf, the brainchild of well-known Indonesian real estate developer and business baron, Ir. Ciputra, consist of two international championship courses in completely different and challenging surroundings: Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD) course, located in the West Java satellite city of BSD; and Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIK) course, located along the Java Sea in North Jakarta.
Among Jakarta golfers the Bumi Serpong Damai is commonly referred to as BSD. It is situated alongside the impressive Cisadane River that is back-dropped by the up-market housing estates of Serpong.
For the third consecutive time the tournament will be promoted by World Sport Group (WSG) who will draw on their vast experience in sponsorship, media and event management to ensure an outstanding event is staged.
WSG also promote the Emirates Australian Open, the Thailand Open and the Singapore Open.


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With another 600-plus player evaluations now in the books, the second phase of the spring evaluation period is complete. Camps and combines across the country are now coming to a close, and on-campus college camps are in full swing. We've now had several months to evaluate and re-evaluate the 2015 class based off sophomore and junior film study, as well as in-person scouting to see how prospects pass the eye test.
New additions to the ESPN 300 are well into the double digits, which resulted in several changes throughout the rankings. As usual, some prospects will move up or down relative to the movement from other prospects and the new entries. Here's a look at the big movers in the updated ESPN 300:


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Gwen Stefani Welcomes Baby Boy!
He's here! Gwen Stefani welcomed her third son on Friday, Feb. 28.
The news of the baby boy's birth was confirmed by Us Weekly.
Stefani, who was stylishly dressed throughout her gestation, is already mom to sons Kingston, 7, and Zuma, 5. Those two are easily some of the best-dressed tots in Hollywood. Dad is her husband of 11 years, Bush rocker Gavin Rossdale.
Many fans hoped Stefani, 44, would have a daughter to whom she could bequeath her enviable closet. But she shared the good news that it would be another boy when she joined Instagram last month.
With four men in her nuclear family, she remains the Queen G.
The No Doubt singer had planned to expand her brood a few years ago, but claimed that "it didn't really work out." She didn't further elaborate.
Congrats to Gwen and Gavin, and to Kingston and Zuma on their baby brother.
UPDATE: The name of Gwen and Gavin's new baby has been confirmed: Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale.


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