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Rydeen Mobile Electronics introduced MV411, its new class of mirrors, during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this past January. The MV411 is a sleek, OEM-grade mirror housing that supplants the factory mirror to add a 4.3-inch color screen for rear-view and front-view cameras. Today, the company announced that the two models that make up the series have completed quality control testing and are now shipping from Rydeen's Torrance, Calif., warehouse.
The MV411 series replaces the popular MV311 series, which houses a 3.5-inch screen. The newer series offers a larger landscape image of what's behind the vehicle, using screens that disappear behind the mirror glass when not in use.
"Whenever you're designing a product for the vehicle, you have to take into account how much convenience it affords the driver while weighing the potential consequences of driver distraction," said Phil Maeda, president of Rydeen. "With the MV411 series, we felt the move to a wider screen gives the driver a larger field of view at a glance, and therefore better ability to assess and react to obstacles more quickly."
Like its predecessor, the MV411 series features two models. The MV411S includes the housing with built-in monitor that provides inputs for up to two cameras, one of which switches automatically when the vehicle is put into reverse gear. In addition, it includes the company's VSM-A mirror mount, which allows it to easily replace the factory mirror in most vehicles. The MV411T adds a two-zone temperature display (inside and outside) with Fahrenheit or Celsius measurements, as well as a directional compass.
Both mirrors are available standalone or as part of packages that feature one of Rydeen's high-quality cameras:
- MV411SKM / MV411TKM – MV411 Mirror / Monitor with MINy™ Camera and VSM-A mounting stem
- MV411SKL / MV411TKL – MV411 Mirror / Monitor with MINy™ LED Camera and VSM-A mounting stem
- MV411SKH / MV411TKH – MV411 Mirror / Monitor with MINy™ HD Camera and VSM-A mounting stem
- MV411SKBL / MV411TKBL – MV411 Mirror / Monitor with License Plate Bar, choice of cameras and VSM-A mounting stem
- MV411SKD / MV411TKD – MV411 Mirror / Monitor with DUO™ Camera and VSM-A mounting stem
- MV411SKF / MV411TKF – MV411 Mirror / Monitor with Custom Ford® Cam and VSM-A mounting stem


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Bubba Brown, Junior Schlager and Skeeter Wright first met while serving time in a Turkish prison back in 1962. They became fast friends after discovering each had a passion for anything cooked over an open fire. Once deported back to the US the boys set off on a world tour to learn everything they could about outdoor cooking. From the Aborigines in South America, the Zulu Tribe in Africa, the Albinos in Albania, to the Solomons on Solomon Island they have witnessed all tricks of the trade. Junior's mother swears their barbecue is the best on her street and Junior's mother loves to swear! Their friends rave it's not all that bad!
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Bypassing the XSS Filters : Advanced XSS Tutorials for Web application Pen Testing
Hi friends, last time, i explained what is XSS and how an attacker can inject malicious script in your site. As i promised earlier, i am writing this advanced XSS tutorial for you(still more articles will come).
Sometimes, website owner use XSS filters(WAF) to protect against XSS vulnerability.
For eg: if you put the <scirpt>alert("hi")</script> , the Filter will escape the "(quote) character , so the script will become
<script>alert(>xss detected<)</script>Now this script won't work. Likewise Filters use different type of filtering method to give protection against the XSS. In this case, we can use some tricks to bypass the filter. Here i am going to cover that only.
1.Bypassing magic_quotes_gpcThe magic_quotes_gpc=ON is a PHP setting(configured in PHP.ini File) , it escapes the every ' (single-quote), " (double quote) and \ with a backslash automatically.
For Eg:
<scirpt>alert("hi");</script> will be filtered as <script>alert(\hi\)</script>.so the script won't work now.
This is well known filtering method, but we can easily bypass this filter by using ASCII characters instead.
For Eg: alert("hi"); can be converted to
String.fromCharCode(97, 108, 101, 114, 116, 40, 34, 104, 105, 34, 41, 59)so the script will become <script>String.fromCharCode(97, 108, 101, 114, 116, 40, 34, 104, 105, 34, 41, 59)</script>. In this case there is no "(quotes) or '(single quotes) or / so the filter can't filter this thing. Yes, it will successfully run the script.
String.fromCharCode() is a javascript function that converts ASCII value to Characters.
How to convert to ASCII values?
There are some online sites that converts to ASCII character. But i suggest you to use Hackbar Mozilla addon .
After installing hackbar add on ,press F9. It will open the small box above the url bar. click the XSS->String.fromCharCode()
copy the code into the <script></script> inside and insert in the vulnerable sites
For eg:
hxxp://vulnerable-site/search?q=<script>String.fromCharCode(97, 108, 101, 114, 116, 40, 34, 104, 105, 34, 41, 59)</script>
2.HEX Encodingwe can encode our whole script into HEX code so that it can't be filtered.
For example: <script>alert("Hi");</script> can be convert to HEX as:
%3c%73%63%72%69%70%74%3e%61%6c%65%72%74%28%22%48%69%22%29%3b%3c%2f%73%63%72%69%70%74%3eNow put the code in the vulnerable site request.
For ex:
hxxp://vulnerable-site/search?q=%3c%73%63%72%69%70%74%3e%61%6c%65%72%74%28%22%48%69%22%29%3b%3c%2f%73%63%72%69%70%74%3eConverting to HEX:
This site will convert to hex code: http://centricle.com/tools/ascii-hex/
3.Bypassing using ObfuscationSome website admin put the script,alert in restricted word list. so whenever you input this keywords, the filter will remove it and will give error message like "you are not allowed to search this". This can bypassed by changing the case of the keywords(namely Obfuscation).
For eg:
This bypass technique rarely works but giving trial is worth.
4. Closing TagSometimes putting "> at the beginning of the code will work.
This will end the previous opened tag and open our script tag.
Conclusion:From above article, it is clear that XSS filters alone not going to protect a site from the XSS attacks. If you really want to make your site more secure, then ask PenTesters to test your application or test yourself.
Also there are lot of different filter bypassing technique, i just covered some useful techniques for you.


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from Dynamo Salem
on Fri 7/3 22:10 ET
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Isn't there a cart around here that serves booze or
from Arrows SC
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Could we be staring at a repeat of the Women�s World Cup Final? After fifteen minutes the US had a commanding 4-0 lead and never looked back. After four holes, Mohawks is already eight strokes under par and has a five stoke lead. Mohawks added another double-eagle on the long par three. (Don�t question it, just go with it.) It was his second double eagle and fourth score under par in four holes. FC Byrd Turgler chipped in from short distance to birdie the hole, and sits in second place, five strokes back. El f�tbol es as� slipped from second place into third with a bogey.
Redneck SC landed the hole�s only eagle to get back to even score for the round.
Three teams are tied at the cut line with a score of five over par. cYber warriors and Damn Dirty Apes both dropped another stroke on four. Plattsburgh United had all sorts of problems on the fourth hole. It started when he mistook a nine iron for a six, and sent his tee shot soaring over the hole onto the seventh green. When all was said and done, Plattsburgh was staring at a triple bogey and a share of the bottom of the table.
I will not post any updates for holes five and six, as I will be out of the country, across the pond.
from Mohawks
on Mon 7/6 21:10 ET
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Still plenty of time for me to blow this lead! Hopefully I can
keep rolling
from Shaolin Mystigods
on Tue 7/7 14:03 ET
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Todd, you need to find yourself a pickup soccer game
like Rory McIlroy did.
from Arrows SC
on Sun 7/26 8:04 ET
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I've updated the Masters scorecard for holes 5 and 6.
from Seattle SC
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Need those top two guys to mess up, already 8 strokes behind the leader. from Arrows SC
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Mohawks still leads the field after seven holes at nine under par, but the gap has narrowed to only three strokes. FC Byrd Turgler sits at six strokes under par and has the leader in sight.
Top Shelf fired a hole-in-one on the short par four to post a double-eagle and move below par for the front nine for the first time. SDFC Macross posted an eagle on seven and moved into third place, five strokes behind the leader. El f�tbol es as� also eagled the seventh and now sits three under for the round.
There are two holes left before we cut one golfer. Right now cYber warriors sits below the cut lone. The bogey on seven put the warriors at seven over for the round. Dynamo Salem flubbed the tee shot, and the next one, and ended up with a triple-bogey. Dynamo�s score for the back nine is six over, and in danger of missing the cut.
from Shaolin Mystigods
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Dynamo Salem has been flubbing tee shots because he
spends his evenings stalking Klinsmann and looking
for a clean shot.
from C�nicas AC
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You were right David, I just had to mention something about
Klinsmann using the Gold Cup to make tests to Matt during our
round through the back holes yesterday, for he to get all enraged
and starting to break irons and hitting the ball like a mad man in all
directions, like he was playing baseball. Thanks for the tip!
from Arrows SC
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One more hole remains on the front nine. After next week, one golfer will be sent packing. Damn Dirty Apes placed his approach shot deep into the kitty litter in front of the green on the par four eighth hole and struggled to get out. After a few flubs he landed in the cup with a double bogey, sending DDA below the cut line at eight over par. Plattsburgh United also registered a double-bogey to sink to seven over par. Cyber warriors climbed out of last place with an even par but still sits at seven over. It�s likely that after next week, one of these three will be gone.
Mohawks continues with the hot club. His approach shot rolled into the cup for an eagle. Mohawks is now eleven strokes under and leads by five over FC Byrd Turgler, who managed only a par. SDFC Macross also parred the hole and remains in third place. The top scorer for the hole and the double-eagle went to C�nicas AC. His double-eagle lifted him to even par for the round.
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C�nicas gives JK too much credit and gets a double eagle?! Justice was not served ;-) from Weirder Bremen
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Are there any pro golfers on the tour with
Mohawks? Just seems a little incongruent to me.
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The front nine is in the books. One team failed to make the cut, and will not join the others on the back nine. Damn Dirty Apes needed to make up a point to avoid the cut but managed only a par. Cyber warriors flirted with the bottom spot but registered an impressive eagle on the par four ninth hole to stay in group.
At the top of the board, Mohawks scored below par again with a birdie to remain in the number one spot at twelve stroked under. FC Byrd Turgler played the hole nicely with a par, but now sits six strokes behind in second place.
For comparison to last year�s historic tournament, FC Chunkers was 13 under at the turn, but only four strokes ahead of Laws.
Dynamo Salem gave us the best shot of the day, a straight hole-in-one from the tee. DS flirted with the cut line through the eighth hole, but the three-under score gave DS some breathing room. Real New Britski registered the other eagle and is making a run at the leaders, moving to three under for the round.
Everyone grab a beverage, but be quick about it. The back nine starts this week.
from Dynamo Salem
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See what happens when I go on vacation. from C�nicas AC
on Sat 8/15 16:31 ET
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OK, I had kept silent until now (you know I am not one for
complaining), but after this week's result, I cannot stand it anymore
and must voice my complaint: Holes. The grass has at least a hole in
each one of the 18 lanes. I have been doing my best to avoid them,
but I am accidentally losing a lot of balls into those holes. I noticed
and appreciate how the organization has been signaling them with
flags (flags that somebody has also been removing), but I think that
by this time you could have made an effort to fill them.
Poor organization.
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5 Alarms Guaranteed to Get You Out of the Sack
I have always been impossible to wake up in the morning. In fact, my mom loves to recount the stories about how the only way to get me out of bed was to pour cold water on my forehead and soak my pillow. (That's right, Ma. Now the whole world knows!) Nowadays, thanks to a little post traumatic stress from my waterboarding mother, I can usually rise and shine on time. But for those still in need of a little jolt in the AM, check out these five great devices that are sure to get you out of the sack and up on your feet.
1. Carpet Alarm Clock A bedside carpet embedded with a LCD clock. To turn off its alarm, you must physically step on the carpet.
2. Sfera Retracting Alarm Clock A radio alarm clock that hangs above your head and, when set, gradually dims in light intensity and fades music as you fall asleep. When the alarm goes off in the morning, you must give the Sfera a whack to continue snoozing. But each time you do, the Sfera retracts closer and closer to the ceiling until you must finally stand up to shut it off.
3. SnūzNLūz When you snooze, you lose! This alarm clock uses wifi to connect to your online bank account and automatically contributes money to an organization of your choice each time you hit snooze. Select an organization you really hate to make sure you don't sleep in! — this ThinkGeek original product was an April Fool's joke (but it isn't such a bad idea!)
4. Aphelion When this alarm clock goes off, it hurls a ball across the room. You must first find the ball and put it back in place to activate the snooze function. Unfortunately, this alarm is just a concept at the moment. Similar alarms do exist, like the Flying Alarm Clock, but they aren't as pretty too look at.
5. Tocky Touch Rolling Alarm Clock Then, of course, there's little Tocky who rolls off the bedside table, forcing you to jump out of bed and run after him. Annoying? Yes. But he makes up for it in cool points with his touch sensitive interface, bright colors, voice recorder and mp3 options.


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Demand the UK grant asylum to female Nigerian activist
Aderonke is a Nigerian activist seeking refugee status in the UK.
Aderonke is a Nigerian activist seeking refugee status in the UK.
There is only one way to stop corporate power and greed, achieve a true democracy, realize peace, and reach justice:
In the Ivory Coast, a 10 year-old slave boy carries a fifty pound bag of cocoa beans. He accidentally trips over a rock
Many animals are held captive to perform and live in gruesome habitats- the exact oppisites of the wild.
We are all helping each other with causes - Mostof the Causes are personal and help our Cases - This Cause Helps all of
Chevron, guilty of dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste in the Amazon, is suing those who speak out against it.
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George Zimmerman is a dangerous, violent person and should NOT be licensed to carry a weapon.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. really knew how to throw a "huddle." After all, it had practice.
Back in 2006, Goldman GS, -0.80% decided that it would be a great use of the investment bank's research department to meet with investment bankers and traders. So began the practice in which tips from sell-side analysts became tchotchkes for favored clients.
On Thursday regulators from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and Securities and Exchange Commission emerged from their own huddle with Goldman. But it wasn't traders and bankers, it was Goldman's attorneys.
The call: a $22 million fine, a censure and a Goldman acknowledgment that it "neither admitted or denied the charges."
Really, FINRA and SEC? $22 million and a promise it won't happen again? Investors could understand if this was a first offense. But Goldman and first offense haven't been in the same sentence since 2007.
Investors who weren't privy missed out on some market opportunities, according to FINRA: "Certain transactions effected in an account in advance of changes in published research that warranted review based on their size or profitability and/or atypical trading for that account, and certain spikes in trading volume that immediately preceded the addition of stocks to the firm's conviction list." Read FINRA statement on Goldman 'huddle' settlement.
That's a lawyers way of saying Goldman clients got the goods before you did through their public reports. Those clients traded on it.
Also, Goldman peddled inside tips less than three years after it paid $110 million to settle charges of conflicts of interest between its investment bank and its analysts. See background on global research settlement.
And yet in 2003 and 2006 the result was the same::High rollers got insider schwag, investors were left holding the bag.
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TUSCALOOSA, AL (AP) - University of Alabama authorities say the students arrested as part of a massive drug sweep centered around the school will be referred to its judicial affairs process.
University spokeswoman Cathy Andreen said that after the judicial reviews are completed, students will receive sanctions up to and including expulsion.
The students also face criminal charges. Authorities say the drug sweep resulted in the arrest of about 100 people.
The West Alabama Narcotics Task Force began a series of busts early Tuesday. Authorities say more than two dozen students were arrested on the Alabama campus, many of them in residence halls.
Officials say 99 people were arrested in all, with charges including sale or possession of marijuana.
Authorities also confiscated small amounts of cocaine, LSD, ecstasy and prescription medications.
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1. We're not the ratings champ we used to be
Not so long ago, reality TV ruled the Nielsen ratings. Catchphrases from various shows — "You're fired!" (from "The Apprentice") and "You've been voted off the island" (from "Survivor") — became part of the American lexicon, and cable and broadcast networks rushed to roll out new variations on the formula.
But these days, the genre itself appears to be on the chopping block — or, at the very least, it's losing some of its ratings luster. Consider the announcement that "American Idol," the talent competition that became the most-watched TV show (reality or otherwise) for a record eight consecutive seasons (2003-04 through 2010-11), is ending its 15-year run in 2016 following a steady decline in viewership. But it's far from the only show that's seen such a slide: "Survivor," the most-watched show in 2000-01, finished in 25th place in 2013-14. And what about "The Apprentice"/"Celebrity Apprentice" franchise? In 2013, "Celebrity Apprentice" failed to crack the Nielsen top 50, ranking a lowly 84th.
TV industry insiders and observers say the decline in many reality shows is simply the nature of a cyclical business: Viewers embrace one genre, only to move on to another one after a while. (Remember how nighttime soap operas — a la "Dallas" — were all the rage in the '80s?) "The novelty has worn off," says Germar Derron, editor of LooktotheCookie.org, a site about pop culture.
But others counter that the genre has plenty of life in it, with such reality favorites as "The Voice" and "Dancing with the Stars" now landing in the Nielsen top 10. ("The Voice," for example, landed in seventh place in the 2013-14 season, drawing an average weekly audience of 14.5 million viewers.) If anything, they say, it's harder for individual reality shows to stand out because there are so many more of them — the viewership remains, but the audience is spread thinner.
And the emergence of new reality shows points to the fact that networks and producers have faith in the genre, too. "People who are waiting for reality TV to gasp its last breath are going to be waiting for a long time," says Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture at Syracuse University.
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NASCAR Reinstates AJ Allmendinger
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A.J. Allmendinger has been reinstated by NASCAR after completing its "Road to Recovery" program.
Allmendinger was suspended in July for failing a random drug test a month earlier. His backup "B" urine sample also tested positive for a substance NASCAR has not revealed. He has said he tested positive for a prescription drug, Adderall, typically used to treat attention deficit disorder. He said he took it because he was tired.
Allmendinger was released by Penske Racing after the "B" sample failed. Team owner Roger Penske had Allmendinger at the IndyCar season finale last weekend as his guest, and said Allmendinger is a viable candidate for rides in both NASCAR and IndyCar.
Penske also said he'd consider hiring Allmendinger again.
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Funeral services for Gary Allen Pickens Jr. 21 will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Emmanuel Baptist Church with Reverend Stephen Horn officiating. Interment will follow at Jehovah Cemetery.
The son of Gary Allen Pickens Sr. and Kimberly (Stoughtenborough) Myles, Junior was born on December 25, 1991, in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and passed away on March 26, 2013, in an Oklahoma City Hospital.
A lifelong resident of Ardmore, Junior was baptized at an early age at the Sunrise Baptist Church. He graduated from Ardmore High School. Junior was a former member of the Milo Roundup Club and enjoyed basketball, listening and making music but most of all making his mother laugh. Junior was employed with the Flying J Truck Stop.
He leaves to cherish his memories his mother and step-father, Kimberly Myles and her husband, Kenneth of the home; father, Gary Pickens Sr. and his wife, Rhonda of Ardmore; son, Devion Pickens of Ardmore; brother, Josh Pickens of Ardmore; adopted sister and brother, Georgette and Tiwoni Shanklin; grandparents, Vernell and Vergie Stoughtenborough of Ardmore and Sammie Pickens of Ardmore; host of aunts, uncles and other relatives.
Pallbearers will be: Kemien Murray, Jamelle Knight, Tayvon Lewis, Jaron Godwin, Lance Epps, Calvin Knight, James Stubblefield and Dijon Davis.
The family will receive friends at the Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home Monday evening from 6-8 p.m.
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Mass. panel: No profanity on rapper's headstone
LYNN, Mass. (AP) — Commissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones.
Sonny Santiago, 23, was a rapper who died in a car crash in February. Commissioners at Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn this week unanimously rejected his family's request to inscribe his gravestone with a song verse that included profanity.
The commission became aware of the language when the company inscribing the 3-foot tall memorial submitted drawings to commissioners.
Pine Grove Cemetery regulations posted online state that "the cemetery office must approve all inscription work on monuments."
"We've never had a problem like this before," commission Chairman Arthur Dulong told The Daily Item of Lynn (http://bit.ly/10kALVH ).
City officials contacted the family about the inscription and they agreed to have the gravestone inscribed with a different, profanity-free verse from a song Santiago wrote, said Santiago's sister-in-law, Angela Ventola.
"Everything got changed," she said. "Those words are not going on."
The commission's dispute with Santiago's family is not over. The family added a 3-foot by 8-foot decoration made from mulch and rocks on his gravesite shaped like the number "1." Uno was his performance name.
The family has been asked to remove the decoration because it does not conform to cemetery rules.
Santiago's mother, Ana DeJesus, said the family will comply with the request — but she's not happy about it.
"I feel like we paid for the spot," she said. "We want to be with him. It's not fair."
Information from: The (Lynn, Mass.) Daily Item, http://itemlive.com


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Decorating the Campsite
We like turning our campsite into an outdoor atelier, of sorts, with clothes pins, twine and the fruits of some of our messier outdoor art projects. Let the glue and paint and sparkles fly.
Bubble Painting
Paper, straws, cups each 1/3 filled with watered-down, non-toxic paint (if the paint is too concentrated, the bubbles will leave less of a mark). Add several drops of dish soap to each cup.
Spray Painting
Watercolour paint, water, watercolour paper, and pump sprayers.
Mixed Media — Night Camping Scene
Dark construction paper, glue, sparkles, scissors, old magazines, pastels and found sticks /soil/pebbles from around camp.
Pre-printed templates (found here), construction paper, old magazines, glue, sparkles, scissors, and pencils with erasers and stick pins.


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Copyright advice
Any help with this is hugely appreciated.
My band have been asked to have one of our tracks included in an upcoming feature film soundtrack. As part of this, the producer is asking for proof of copyright ownership. The track is part of a release that we registered through both Tunecore and CDBaby. During the process, I also tried to register the ISRCs through the PPL, but they said there was a duplicate claim already made. Since at the time it was just our closest friends who knew about the music we were making, I had assumed that the duplicate claim was due to registering it through other services. I've had a look through those sites and can't find anything meaningful there which states that the copyright claim is ours.
The producer has warned us that we should get this registered with the Electronic Copyright Office (eCO) in the USA as soon as possible, but I'm just wondering if this is necessary.
Is there any way I can find out whether or not I have registered the copyright on the tracks we've released?
Joke replies also welcome as they'll bump this and make it more likely to be seen by someone who may know something about this.
Get on the phone to PRS/MCPS
they're very helpful.
Cool thanks
Will do that
Not really my area but your producer's advice to get the copyright registered in the USA seems sound to me
In a lot of jurisdictions (such as the UK) it is not necessary to register copyright - it is automatically assumed to subsist as soon as the work in question has been recorded. Obviously proving who actually created the work in which the copyright subsists can be problematic, but effectively it 'exists' in the UK as soon as the work has been set down. In your case the registering of the song with Tunecore and CDBaby would certainly help, but it sounds like you need to get to the bottom of the duplicate claim for the IRSC as soon as possible.
I'm assuming from the post that the main issue for you (and the producer) is the existence of copyright in the USA. I don't have much knowledge of US copyright practice, but I know for a fact that they do have a system of copyright registration there and for this reason it seems sensible to register it, provided the Electronic Copyright Office is the correct forum to do this.
What you have to remember is that the producer of the film has to cover his back; he cannot use a song for which rights have not been cleared and risk the owner of the copyright coming after him once the film is out. My worry for you would be that if you don't register the copyright in the US he may simply elect not to use your band's song and go for a song where the copyright is fully and correctly registered.
Hopefully there might be a US copyright expert who posts here who can advise further, but if not and you can wait until this afternoon (when they wake up) I'm happy to call one of our US associates to talk it through if that would help
Dan you are helpful beyond all comprehension
Thanks so much for the post! The registration fee for the US registration is only $35 for the release, so I think I'll get that done regardless of the situation and as you say, the last thing we want to do is end up losing this opportunity due to something simple like this.
That's ok - happy to help
Am actually calling someone in the US this afternoon anyway re something else so will run this past him. If he has anything important to add will let you know
Hi maosm
Just talked to the US guy and he confirmed that the eCO system is the correct way to register your copyright in the USA so this would seem to be the way to go. He mentioned that the form could be a little tricky so he's sending me through his FAQ and standard guide stuff that he gives to his firm's clients. If you want to PM me your email I'll send it through to you when I get it from him
Hey Dan
That'd be great, thanks! PM'd!
``The registration fee for the US registration is only $35 for the release``
I know that's not a lot of money in the scheme of things, but what a rort to have to pay to get `official` recognition of your authorship.


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Twelve teams played Saturday in the first day of the Dixie Junior Boys State Tournament at Bluffton's Oscar J. Frazier Park.
The double-elimination tournament will finish Thursday evening.
Beaufort County was eliminated after a 14-4 loss against McLeond Park on Monday evening.
To find out more information about the tournament, go to bcgov.net/PALS/dixieboysbaseball. The County Channel is playing some of the games live online as well.


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Watching Peter Sellars rehearse is to observe a man possessed. Last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, L.A.'s reknowned theater director was fine-tuning "Nixon in China," which opens Wednesday. The new production of the John Adams opera, about the pre-Watergate president's historic meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1972, will mark, at long last, Sellars' debut at the Met. It will be broadcast live in movie theaters worldwide Feb. 12.
Working on a scene in which Premier Chou en-Lai greets the Nixons in the Great Hall of the People, an ornate banquet room, Sellars raced across the stage like Puck, wearing a polyester shirt left over from "Starsky & Hutch." In one fluid motion Sellars placed chorus members at precise points on the stage, instructed them how to toast with brio and reminded them of the musical cue that told them when to sit down. Clapping his hands, he spurred them through another run-through, exulting, "Seize the time, seize the day!"
In a quieter scene, as Pat Nixon (soprano Janis Kelly) was alone in her regal hotel room singing, "I come from a poor family, I treat each day like Christmas," Sellars instructed her to make the hotel bed herself. Adams, who is conducting the opera and who has collaborated with Sellars for 25 years, was moved by the director's suggestion. "It's the sort of deeply imagined detail that makes Peter's work so humane and separates him from almost all other directors who work in the operatic world," he said.
What also separates Sellars, 53, from other directors is a sensibility best defined as Brecht meets Fellini with an essence of Buddha. And maybe a dash of Attila. "Peter has an extremely strong will and doesn't negotiate on lots of things," said Adams. "I can think of one general manager who wanted to produce one of my operas and the only thing he could say up front is that it wouldn't be Peter Sellars."
Adams wouldn't say who that general manager was, though in 2008 it could have been Met general manager Peter Gelb. Then, in a decision Adams said resulted in "very, very hurt feelings," Gelb chose British director Penny Woolcock over Sellars to helm Adams' opera "Doctor Atomic." Initially Sellars had been slated to direct, but Gelb felt Sellars' original 2005 San Francisco Opera production was short on drama in the second act.
"I don't remember all the steps along the way," Gelb said, referring to his discussions with Sellars about changing "Doctor Atomic." "But at a certain point we agreed it wasn't going to work. There were different opinions about how to fix the second part." But, Gelb added, "I have great respect for Peter's work. What he's done with 'Nixon in China' is masterful. It's full of adventure and wit and sense of occasion. It's one of the most brilliant things he's done."
After a rehearsal, Sellars plopped down in a red velvet audience chair in the Met for an interview. In conversation he does perorations on art with as much kinetic energy as he brings to directing. Personal questions, though, do have a tendency to bring him to a four-measure rest. Did in fact Gelb's decision to go with another director for "Doctor Atomic" hurt his feelings?
Sellars frowned. "Uh, you know," he said slowly. "Let 100,000 flowers bloom, to quote Mao." He laughed. "There should be as many versions of 'Doctor Atomic' as there can be." After all, he continued, "A weak piece of art is only what its creator thought it was. But with a great one, every generation finds new things. It has more to say, not less, over time."
Plugging great art into current events has been Sellars' modus operandi since he was a kid in Pittsburgh, when he concocted existential puppet shows with Harold Pinter plays. A rebel with a Dadaist cause at Harvard, he graduated to create productions of "The Marriage of Figaro" figuratively set in a swanky New York apartment and "The Merchant of Venice" in a racially taut Venice Beach.
Sellars' politically charged productions have long caused opera critics to harrumph and English professors to scurry for the exits. Such is the fate of the provocateur. But in 2009 New York critics assailed his "Othello" at the Public Theater with such ferocity that if words were electric they would have made Sellars' hair stand on end — that is, if it didn't already. Sellars had to admit that one hurt.
With President Obama on his mind, Sellars transformed the James Earl Jones-ish Othello into a placid leader under assault from a regular-Joe Iago, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sellars also changed the gender of a minor character to allude to the rape of women soldiers in today's stressed American military — a theme he and soprano Dawn Upshaw will reprise on June 10 at the Ojai Music Festival in a production of new songs by contemporary composer George Crumb.
"When they hate you that much, and the vitriol is so out of proportion to what you are actually doing," Sellars said of the critical reaction to "Othello," "you see an exact mirror of the intemperate political climate we're in right now. So I take the criticism as its own merit badge."
Southern California audiences have experienced the 5-foot-4 Sellars' oversized talents since 1990, when he arrived to direct the culturally diverse Los Angeles Festival. For years Sellars has taught a course called "Art as Moral Action" at UCLA and, "in one of the most important things in my life," produced and promoted art with both inner-city kids and the skid row performance group Los Angeles Poverty Department, which he called "the most important theater company in America."
In December, Sellars will join the L.A. Phil and another one of his favorite collaborators, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, to premiere "Orango," a long-lost opera by Dmitri Shostakovich about the rise and fall of a Russian power broker who is part man, part ape. Sellars is currently dreaming up ideas for a semi-staged version of the opera's prologue, in which the title character appears in a circus cage.
Sellars directed the premiere of "Nixon in China" at the Houston Grand Opera in 1987. In fact, the opera was his idea. In 1983, Sellars walked up to Adams at a New England music festival and said, "I've always wanted to meet you, would you like to do an opera called 'Nixon in China'?"
Times music critic Mark Swed has described Alice Goodman's libretto as one of "breathtakingly elegant and pointed formal poetry" and Adams' score as "bursting with Minimalist invention, big band swing and an updating of operatic techniques."
"We made 'Nixon in China' during the second Reagan administration, when there was a very intense freeze on the liberal voice in this country," Sellars explained. "Where were the American values that stood for generosity, openness and a possibility for moving forward?"
Irony of ironies, progress could be found in the conservative's trip to China. "It was intense to suddenly recognize one-fifth of the planet," Sellars said. "What level of denial does it take to miss that? What does it mean to finally acknowledge something right in front of you? The power of that recognition is incredible. So the opera was hopeful in a difficult time."
The years since the premiere of "Nixon in China" have brought forth one example after another of Nixon's racism and Mao's political murders. "All these revelations have added much more dimension to the opera than when we wrote it," Sellars said. Accordingly he has given the Met production, through nuances in singing and acting, a darker hue than ever before.
"And how's this for karma?" Sellars continued. "'Nixon in China' is coming together in the same week that China's President Hu is visiting Washington. What's at stake in the U.S.- China relationship has never been higher."
At the same time, he said, America has never felt more adrift. "Everything fake is now labeled authentic. Guantanamo prison is called 'Camp Justice.' How does 'justice' mean justice again? How does 'democracy' mean democracy? The job of an artist is to take these words that have been poisoned and detox them, restore some shred of their real meaning and power."
Sellars was proud and grateful, if not savoring a little revenge, to finally have the Met, opera's grandest stage, to make his point. Thanks to live broadcasts, he said, "Nixon in China" "will speak across the country and world in a really powerful way. It's the right moment for it. Again."
Watching Peter Sellars rehearse is to observe a man possessed. Last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, L.A.'s reknowned theater director was fine-tuning "Nixon in China," which opens Wednesday. The new production of the John Adams opera, about the pre-Watergate president's historic meeting with Chairman Mao Zedong in 1972, will mark, at long last, Sellars' debut at the Met. It will be broadcast live in movie theaters worldwide Feb. 12.


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The Garden of England gets a taste of the exotic
This year's scorching summer has not only been welcomed by sunbathers; the region's fruit farmers are also celebrating. And among the apples, blackberries and plums, a new crop is about to enter the food chain.
Deep in the Garden of England a grower has decided to grow an exotic fruit on a commercial basis - and is hoping grocers and supermarkets will bite.


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One Laptop Per Child Isn't Quite Dead Yet
Fans of the One Laptop Per Child program were shocked and saddened to hear of the organization's imminent demise this week. There's only one problem: OLPC isn't actually dead. Despite what some blogs are reporting, the organization is alive and well… just not as alive and well as it once was.


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If you're lucky enough to create a product she loves - a mention on her show just might make you a millionaire!
CNBC's Carl Quintanilla explores The Oprah Effect and how she turns no names into brand names.
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of the American Society for Information Scinece
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Volume 25, No. 2
December / January 1999
Improved Internet Access:Guidance from Research on Indexingand Classification
by Bella Hass Weinberg
Heting Chu of Long Island University organized an Annual Meeting session entitled Improved Internet Access: Guidance from Research on Indexing and Classification. Wallace Koehler of the University of Oklahoma served as moderator for the session, sponsored by ASIS SIGs/CR, CRS, ALP and IAE; I was reactor.
Though unable to attend the meeting, Marisa Urgo of KRA Corporation submitted a paper entitled A Shape for Internet Information: An Alternative Metaphor for Web Site Information. Professor Koehler read an excerpt and directed the audience to the full paper at
Urgo believes that Web sites are unique and hence require alternative methods of indexing (see section II).
Shaoyi He of Long Island University presented Hyperlinks as Index Terms: Exhaustivity, Specificity and Beyond, of which the lead author is Heting Chu. They compared the links on the home pages of Web sites of five organizations, including ASIS. They examined the number of links as a percentage of the number of words on a page, as well as the consistency and specificity of the terminology.
Philip Smith of Ohio State University discussed The Use of Classificatory Knowledge Structures to Guide the Design and Evaluation of Search Interfaces. He pointed out that most search systems engineers do not have an information science background and proposed that experts from our field develop a list of generic tasks for information retrieval to assist such designers.
Wallace Koehler then presented Classifying Web Sites: Site Metrics and URL Characteristics as Markers. He demonstrated how elements of URLs, such as country codes, can be used to derive information about the content of Web sites. The full paper will appear in Journal of Library and Information Science.
Two of the four papers were not based on traditional indexing methods; one applied traditional index evaluation techniques to the Web's linking structure, and the last focused on search interfaces. In reacting to these papers on improved Internet access, the primary author I cited was King Solomon (849-797 B.C.E.), who in his collection of observations on life, entitled Ecclesiastes, made three points that are germane to a discussion of organizing the Web. These provide the outline for my paper.
In this limited space I cannot develop any theme in depth; therefore I indicate through brief bibliographic references where you can "read more about it."
I. The Making of Books Is Without Limit (Ecclesiastes XII:12)
Koehler suggested that the Web is unindexable by traditional methods because of the huge number of sites on it. In 800 B.C.E., however, King Solomon considered the number of books excessive. Information explosion was frequently used in the decades preceding the Internet. Today the perceptions are common that print is declining and that most new documents are issued in electronic form, but Charles Meadow's Ink into Bits (1998) shows that more books are being published now than ever before, and the number of journals is increasing slightly.
Many people predict that everything ever published will soon be converted to machine-readable form and mounted on the Web. Rebuttals to such predictions of the paperless society, notably Walt Crawford & Michael Gorman's Future Libraries (1995), contain estimates of the number of pages of books that would have to be digitized, which still exceeds the current number of Web pages. The authors show that full conversion is not economically feasible.
Koehler estimates that there are two million Web sites. That sounds like a tremendous number of files to catalog, and some have given up on the task. Let us compare this statistic with the number of catalog records in the major bibliographic utilities. The Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) and the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) have 30 million and 39 million unique bibliographic records, respectively. Both networks contain records for a variety of media, and each of these documents may be compared to a Web site.
Information science evolved from the documentation movement, an offshoot of library science that focused on providing access to the information in parts of documents, i.e., indexing. Users would like detailed access to individual Web pages, but catalogers consider their number overwhelming. To place this challenge in perspective, we note that DIALOG, the largest vendor of electronic indexes, provides access to 200 million unique records. Positing an average of 8 descriptors per article yields 1.6 billion humanly assigned index terms in DIALOG databases.
If one-fourth of nonfiction books have indexes, and each has 1000 index entries, that's a lot of human content analysis for the printed record. The estimate that 25% of books contain indexes is a conservative one that falls between the 9% of indexes found by Hans Wellisch in his study of incunabula, books published before 1500 (The Indexer, April 1994), and Bishop, Liddy and Settel's statistic of 82% for contemporary English books (Indexing Tradition and Innovation, 1990), which would not be true for the global scene.
While book indexes preceded the printing era, electronic bibliographic records go back only about three decades – to the founding of OCLC and Medlars. Librarians and indexers have created an amazing number of records in that brief period. It is expected, however, that the cataloging of Web sites be done instantaneously. There is the widespread perception that robots automatically index Web sites with the speed of light, but a study in Information Technology and Libraries (September 1998) shows that some search engines take more than three weeks to visit a site. Many indexing services beat that, and the Library of Congress manages to provide Cataloging in Publication (CIP) data in 14 days – prior to the publication of a book!
CIP is not provided for all books, and the view that not all Web sites merit cataloging was expressed in a Library Journal article on "Cataloging the Net" (October 1, 1998). This echoes James Anderson's point made at a prior ASIS conference – not all documents deserve human indexing.
Another point on quality: Libraries do not retain everything they acquire. Multiple copies of bestsellers are rented during periods of high demand, but not kept. Paperbacks are displayed, and pamphlets are stored in file cabinets, but neither form gets full cataloging or is kept permanently. The management of ephemera is germane to the Internet.
II. There Is Nothing New Under the Sun (Ecclesiastes I:9)
Urgo claims that "Web sites are unique. They have little in common with our familiar forms of information: books, periodicals, etc. Because of their qualities, alternative methods of classifying and indexing Web sites should be explored . . . ." She notes that the components of a Web site have different functions, as do the rooms of a dollhouse. (The Web version of her paper includes an image of a dollhouse.)
The parts of Web sites described by Urgo are analogous to the departments of a magazine. In designing an index to a periodical, one considers the indexability of the various components, e.g., letters to the editor and book reviews. Hans Wellisch's Indexing from A to Z (1996) deals with this under the rubric of indexable matter. The journal was invented in the 1600s, and the index to multiple journals in the 1800s. We have a lot of experience in dealing with this format.
Many Web sites contain single texts structured much like books and pamphlets. Marshall McLuhan's thesis, "The old is the content of the new" [Understanding Media (1964)], applies here. ASIS Director Dick Hill taught me the term shovelware: machine-readable text that is shoveled onto the Web, without considering whether it is appropriately structured for the medium or up-to-date. Multimedia Web sites are often considered radically different from traditional documents, but librarians have substantial experience in cataloging pictures, sound recordings and even electronic files.
Web sites are also considered unlike traditional documents because their content may change, but scholars have dealt with such changes for centuries. Koehler pointed out the variation inherent in the oral tradition. In the preprinting era manuscripts were copied by people, not Xerox machines. The human factor introduced errors, but there were other sources of variation between copies of a work, notably censorship. Codicologists still study such differences, and the research is facilitated by digital libraries.
Many assume that printed copies of a single edition of a book are identical, but the phenomenon of "corrections at press" is familiar to bibliographers. If an error was noticed in the middle of printing, pieces of type were switched, but the pages with the error were not discarded, and some copies of the book would have them (Ronald McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography, 1928, Ch. 6). Scanning technology helps in the identification of these variations. With newer printing techniques such changes are rare, but an errata slip may be inserted into a book after printing. Catalogers note these in bibliographic records (Olive Swain, Notes Used on Catalog Cards, 1940).
CIP data is often prepared from proofs of the preliminaries to a book; changes may subsequently be made by the publisher to every descriptive element, such as title. After publication, the subject of the work may be reinterpreted. Revised CIP is common.
Web sites that are frequently modified are comparable to printed serials. Librarians track the new issues and deal with title changes, mergers and splits of journals.
Indexers have tremendous experience in dealing with changes to text. Book indexers usually work while the author is reading proofs. Because a book may be revised and repaginated during this process, indexers keep a record of the terms assigned to each passage, which facilitates revision of index entries if spelling changes: renumbering of locators when a passage is shifted or deletion of entries if a section is removed. Loose-leaf publications constitute a challenge for indexers, but expertise in dealing with their revised pages exists, particularly in the legal indexing community. The Library of Congress's Subject Cataloging Manual (5th ed., 1996) exemplifies a well-indexed loose-leaf publication.
Indexers of technical documentation often work with electronic documents, using embedded indexing software, specifically to allow for revisions. Hidden text records the index entries assigned to a given passage, and the indexer modifies the entries as the document is revised. Nancy Mulvany's Indexing Books (1994) describes the index revision process in the print and electronic environments.
From the world of journal indexing we note Medline's indexing of retraction notices following the discovery of scientific fraud (Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, October 1989). The original text remains in the journal, but the retraction notice indicates a change in the status of the article from a peer-reviewed work to an invalid document. (We should apply this system to the Web!)
Web sites are also considered different because their location changes, but that is like the reclassification of a book in a library. Librarians know how to control all the references to a call number in a catalog and revise them when the number changes. My 1996 ASIS Proceedings paper suggested applying these control mechanisms to the problem of changing URLs. The disappearance of a Web site may be compared to the withdrawal of a book from a library. When books are stolen from libraries, the decision has to be made whether to retain the catalog records. This is analogous to recording Web sites that no longer exist.
A final point on change: Librarians and indexers continuously update classification schemes, subject heading lists and thesauri to reflect literary warrant – the actual documents that require content analysis; this experience can be applied to the indexing of the ever-changing Web.
III. There Is No Recollection of the [Knowledge of the] Former [Generations] (Ecclesiastes I:11)
Koehler noted that computer scientists are reinventing the organizational systems of librarians. The verse from Ecclesiastes reflects the basic theme of Phil Smith's paper. Along with his outline, he sent me an article from ACM Transactions on Information Systems (July 1989) containing many ideas that can be applied to the design of interfaces for Web searching. Many people think that the concept of interface design is very recent, but Smith's 1989 paper cites a review of the literature on that topic, by D. Thompson, published in JASIS in 1971.
King Solomon's verse has been echoed in other recent works: Trudi Bellardo Hahn demonstrated in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science (April/May 1998) that all of the search capabilities found on the Internet were invented in the early days of online systems. F.W. Lancaster's Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice (1998) reminds us of this as well. Marcia Bates' article in JASIS, November 1998, also reviews research that should be applied to the design of indexing/access systems for the Internet.
In this brief session it was not possible to review all indexing and classification structures that are relevant to the organization of the Internet; I focused only on one – the alphabetico-classed system, which is alluded to but not named in Bates' review. Bates observed that when end users input a general subject heading, such as Psychology, they expect to be shown topical subdivisions that are narrower terms of it, e.g., Visual Perception. Alphabetico-classed systems have been deprecated in both cataloging and indexing in favor of alphabetico-specific headings; yet the highly successful Yahoo! system is essentially an alphabetico-classed system. Alternatively, it can be viewed as a controlled vocabulary that displays narrower terms. Alphabetico-classed systems are discussed in John Metcalfe's Information Indexing and Subject Cataloging (1957) and in an exchange between Ben-Ami Lipetz and me that was collected in Subheadings: A Matter of Opinion (1995).
Chu & He's analysis of hypertext links in terms of exhaustivity and consistency is commendable for its application of well-established indexing constructs to the Internet. This promises to be a fruitful area of research. My structural analysis of the Web sites they selected differs from theirs, however. First, it may not be appropriate to analyze the hyperlinks of organizational Web sites in terms of consistency. My university is implementing a standard format for faculty home pages, but no one has legislated uniformity in the structure or vocabulary of the Web sites of unrelated organizations.
Second, I do not consider the rubrics on home pages to be index terms. Instead I compare them to the headings in the table of contents of a book or magazine. The hyperlink saves you the minimal exertion of turning from the contents page to a later page. The indexing literature discusses whether section headings should be converted to index entries. Many should not, and others have to be reformulated. One hyperlink analyzed by Chu & He has the anchor "Go Shopping." While this is a catchy phrase for a button, it is not likely to be indexed under G, but rather under S.
The URL underlying a hyperlink to an external Web site is essentially a footnote. The link saves you the trouble of physical document retrieval – assuming the URL is correct. Links from a node of text to other pages of a Web site may be viewed as cross references. This concept can be explained through a sample entry from Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971): An asterisk before a name or term indicates the availability of a full article on that topic. A hyperlink saves you the effort of turning to another page or volume, but both structures are basically see also references. This approach to hypertext is found in Challenges in Indexing Electronic Text and Images (1994).
In HTML there are no typed links, and so we cannot automatically differentiate between see and see also references. XML, Extensible Markup Language, promises this capability, but its increased complexity may lead to greater inconsistency in the organization of the Web.
Koehler suggests analyzing the structure of URLs to classify Web sites automatically. His analogy with the field of diplomatics is charming, but inferences about the content of a document from its external form can go only so far. Recently I received a scroll tied up with a ribbon. While diplomatics would suggest it is a will, this scroll holds the menu of a kosher wedding!
Subject analysis is the stepchild of the metadata literature. Much attention is devoted to descriptive fields, such as creator of a Web site. Subject fields are given a token nod in discussions of metadata, and facile comments are made about automatic vocabulary switching when different thesauri are used (Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, October/November 1997).
Subject indexing was called a "sticky wicket" in Trudi Bellardo Hahn's 1991 primer on this topic. In the context of the Web, subject indexing is even stickier but we will have to face this challenge: automatic full-text indexing and relevance ranking are not doing the job.
I reject the view that the Web is totally different from the types of documents that catalogers and indexers have handled in the pre-Internet era. The primary problem I see is economic: catalogers have traditionally created records for materials that their libraries own.
Book indexers are hired to add value to publications that will be sold, while journal indexers are paid to create thesauri and analyze documents for a database producer who charges for access to the resulting product.
Nobody owns the Internet, however, and users are reluctant to pay to consult an electronic index to find out which Web sites are relevant to their interests. It is difficult to recognize the effort that goes into creating an index that is easy to use.
OCLC has asked volunteers to contribute catalog records for Web sites to InterCat. This database documents 45,000 sites, a fraction of the total number. The redundancy of library Web pages that identify key sites for a discipline is being recognized. Perhaps librarians will stop devoting time to this activity.
The skills of indexers are being applied to the organization of Intranets, proprietary sites protected by firewalls. Search engines with a profit motive, such as Northern Light, employ indexers to add value to quality publications and make their money from document delivery.
Koehler discussed selective search engines, which may be compared to indexing and abstracting services limited in scope to a single discipline. Each service covers a piece of the bibliographic pie. Dividing up the work may ultimately be the best approach to indexing the Internet.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The 20 Laws of Saving Money
HelpSaveMyDollars.com's The 20 Laws of Saving Money aim to save you the MOST amount of money each month. Try to incorporate as many of these laws as you can into your life.
Law 1: Change Your Thinking – This may sound like more of a psychological law than a financial law, but it is very important. Change your thinking simply means that in order to save money, never say the following statement: "Oh, it's only a few dollars!" NO! A few dollars here and a few dollars there will add up to lots of money––money that should belong in an emergency savings fund or money that should be put away for retirement and not used for purchasing unnecessary items. Regardless of how cheap the item is you want to buy, if you don't need it, don't buy it.
Law 2: Forget the Original Cost – You're in the clothing store and you are eyeing a beautiful new shirt that normally sells for $100, but is on sale at a final cost to you for $30. That's a 70% discount, which sounds great. But, if you don't have that $30 to "throw away" on a new shirt that you really don't need, then you should not buy the shirt, regardless of how much of a discount or bargain the store is offering you.
Law 3: Be Wary of Financial Advisors – Many, not all, financial "advisors" will advise you and encourage you to buy certain investments from them. You will most likely pay a very high commission to the advisor for these investments when you could have purchased these same investments (e.g. stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities) with very little to no commission, say at a discount brokerage firm. In this case, they are not financial advisors, but simply folks trying to sell you a product and who are looking out for their own best interest instead of yours. You should not only make sure that you are not getting ripped off from these commissions, but also make sure the information and advice your financial advisor is telling you is correct, up-to-date and accurate. If you don't trust your financial advisor, it is best to get a new one and follow your instincts.
Law 4: Indulge at Home – Those die-hard coffee lovers who buy coffee at a coffee shop for $5 everyday are spending $150 per month and over $1,800 per year on a cup of coffee alone! Outrageous! To save money and still enjoy your cup of joe, brew fresh coffee at home and bring it with you in a portable coffee cup to work so you can skip the daily (or bi-daily) coffee shop visit—and save money at the same time!
Law 5: Read it Online – If you subscribe to a newspaper or a magazine, it is best to cancel the subscription now! This is because in most cases, the same news articles or similar ones are posted on the publication's website, which is free for you! Save money by reading your favorite newspapers and magazine articles online.
Law 6: Lose the Gym Membership – It is so important to exercise to avoid health problems in the future. However, paying money to exercise may cause financial "health problems" too. Instead of paying to use the treadmill, go out to your favorite park or around your block for a run or jog. For lifting weights, dumbbells cost under $20 and work just as well as the ones at the gym.
Law 7: Go to the Library – New books can be expensive and since you only read the book once, there's no need to spend $20-$30 on a brand new book when you could take-out a book for free at your local library.
Law 8: Shop at Department Stores – You will save so much money in gasoline for your car if you shop at stores that cover all the basics: grocery, clothing, electronics, pharmacy and more. This way, you won't have to use up all of that gasoline by driving to each individual store. Department stores allow you to accomplish most of your shopping needs at one location! Good for your wallet and the environment.
Law 9: Eat In – Restaurants are expensive and although they can be fun experiences, the bill that comes at the end of the meal can be painful. It is extremely important to limit the number of restaurants/take-outs you utilize so you can save money. Bring your own lunch to work every day in order to stop spending $10 per day for lunch at the café. Open up the grocery store's circular and whatever foods are on sale is what you should buy to prepare for dinner that week.
Law 10: Make a List at the Grocery Store – And stick to that list! If you need milk, butter and eggs don't come out of the supermarket with orange juice, chocolate and potato chips. Not straying from your list of the items you NEED, will prevent you from spending money on foods that are frivolous. Also, it is important to not allow the foods you do purchase to sit in the back of the refrigerator and become spoiled—it will cost more money to replace these spoiled items.
Law 11: Clip Coupons – The Sunday newspaper is a great source for fantastic money saving coupons. There are also several online websites that offer free coupons. Also, check the manufacturer's website for direct coupons. Be sure to not let them expire.
Law 12: Sale Means Quantity – Whenever an item that you normally need and use is on sale (e.g. soap, paper, non-perishable items, pens) buy the largest quantity of that sale item as possible. This will ensure that you never pay the non-sale price for any of your essential products.
Law 13: Replace Light Bulbs with Compact Fluorescent Light (CFLs) – CFL bulbs use much less energy than those regular incandescent bulbs. Less energy means a lower electric bill. CFLs last longer (sometimes up to 6 years) and are better for the environment. They may cost a bit more than the regular light bulb, but they will eventually light up your wallet (pay for themselves) in a few years.
Law 14: Turn it Off – After you've finished watching the news or your favorite primetime show, do your bank account a favor and shut off the television. Also, don't keep the computer running overnight—it is not good for the computer nor will it save you money. Plus, to save even more money on your electric bill, unplug cell phone chargers when not charging your cell phone—the charger still uses electricity even when it's plugged into the outlet with no phone.
Law 15: No Cash, No Way – This law applies to credit cards. Unless you cannot eat without using your credit cards, try to use cash only on all of your day to day purchases (which should be very little!). This will for sure keep you out of debt (which will increase your credit score and eliminate the awful thought of interest accruing on your credit cards when a balance remains on them). Plus, you will spend less if you use cash because psychologically you are physically removing cash from your wallet, which visually shows your depleting cash supply—rather than using a piece of plastic as a way to purchase things.
Law 16: Never Use A Real Estate Agent – If you are selling your home or trying to rent it out, you can save a ton of money by selling your home by owner. Real estate agent fees can cost you as much as 4 to 6% of the selling price of the home, or if you're renting the house out, the agent's fee is usually 15% of the first year's annual rent. Although selling by owner will mean you will have to run the open houses, who knows your home better than you? NO ONE! Plus, there are tons of websites, which will allow you to list your home on the site for free or for a minimal charge. With determination, a great brochure to hand out to prospective buyers, and a professional yard sign, your home is bound to sell. Remember, you only need one buyer!
Law 17: Negotiate! – Whether you are buying fruit from a fruit stand off the street, buying a home or car, or buying a new pair of sneakers, ALWAYS ask for a lower price! You have nothing to lose––the worst thing the seller can say is "no"! For in-depth tips on HOW to negotiate, click here
Law 18: No More Paper Towels – You would be surprised how much you spend on paper towers each year! While paper towels are an easy way to clean up a mess or dry the dishes, they don't come cheap! Instead of paper towels, buy 10 to 15 washcloths (which costs less than a pack of paper towels) and use those to clean, dry your hands and dishes. Save money and trees!
Law 19: Invest in Stocks For The Long-Run – If you have money invested in the stock market, and you need it within 10 to 15 years, take it out of the market immediately!With the highly volatile and unpredictable stock market in this day in age, it could take decades to regain your losses. That's why stock market investing is best for the long-run.
Law 20: Re-Gift – Gifts can be very expensive. In this economy, there is no need for gifts. Try to not give gifts––call the person and show them your love in lieu of an expensive gift that will get you deeper into debt. If you absolutely insist on giving a gift, try to give the person a previous gift you've once received (re-gifting). This will save a lot of money and still put a smile on the recipient's face! Also, don't spend $4 on an expensive card––make one for free on the computer or by hand. Remember, it's the thought that counts!These are The 20 Laws of Saving Money! If you follow these laws in some way, shape or form, money will flow your way. It's as simple as that. There's no magic here. However, Uregardless of how troubling your financial situation is, never give up. It's up to you to fix it and that's what HelpSaveMyDollars.com is trying to help you do! Use our Expense Calculator to create a budget that works


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Glorious Peaches, 15 Ways: 15 Summery Peach Recipes
Oh the sweet aroma of summer-fresh peaches. There really isn't anything like it. Peaches, perhaps more than any other fruit, belong purely to summertime. There's no out-of-season substitute for a truly glorious peach. And right now is the time to indulge in those end-of-season peaches, so we are bringing you a roundup of 15 favorite peach recipes. Peach bellinis, peach hand pies for the lunchbox, a cookie-topped peach crumble, and more!
What are your favorite peach recipes?
• 1 Peach and Cornmeal Upside-Down Cake
• 2 Gluten–Free Peach Crisps
• 3 Peach and Thyme Polenta Tart
• 4 Individual Peach Ginger Hand Pies
• 5 Fresh Peach Crumble
• 6 Peach and Spice Tea Muffins
• 7 Roasted Peaches with Dessert Wine
• 8 Fresh Peach Frozen Yogurt with Only Four Ingredients
• 9 Peaches and Cream Jello
• 10 Grilled Peaches with Bourbon Vanilla Whipped Cream
• 11 Summer Peach Salsa
• 12 Chunky Peach Pancake Topping
• 13 Peach, Plum, and Ginger Jam
• 14 Whiskey Peach Smash
• 15 Peach Thyme Bellini
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KemPharm Supports Recent FDA Recommendations for Hydrocodone-Containing Compounds and Abuse-Deterrent Opioids
"Opioid-based therapeutics manage pain very well, but safe-guards and technological enhancements are needed to mitigate a clear abuse risk," Travis C. Mickle, Ph.D.
Feb 14, 2013, 10:33 ET
NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- KemPharm, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of new, safer therapies to treat pain, offered its support for the recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendations to curtail the potential abuse of opioid-based therapeutics.
In two separate actions, on January 25, 2013, the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee (DSaRM) voted in favor of reclassifying hydrocodone combination products from Schedule III to Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, and on January 10, 2013, the FDA issued a draft guidance to assist pharmaceutical companies in the development of abuse-deterrent formulations of opioids.
Travis C. Mickle, Ph.D., president and CEO of KemPharm, commented, "Opioid-based therapeutics manage pain very well, but safe-guards and technological enhancements are needed to mitigate a clear abuse risk. The recent FDA actions clearly speak to this issue, and KemPharm welcomes the 'call-to-arms' as we advance the development of our lead compound, KP201 (benzhydrocodone)."
Mickle continued, "The more stringent hydrocodone classification and the opioid abuse-deterrent development guidelines will undoubtedly serve to focus our industry, but advances in technology will be the ultimate factor in effecting positive change. This is KemPharm's rationale for developing KP201. Benzhydrocodone, which is chemically different from hydrocodone, has demonstrated the potential to reduce drug abuse and diversion as well as prevent opioid-induced constipation (OIC), while maintaining the same pain relieving effects of current market leading drugs."
KP201 is in development for the treatment of acute moderate to moderately severe pain with a new drug application (NDA) expected to be filed in Q2 2014. Recently assigned the nonproprietary name, "benzhydrocodone," by the United States Adopted Name (USAN) Council, KP201 represents the first novel pain therapy of the morphine class to be developed in a number of years with an officially recognized new chemical structure.
About KP201
KemPharm's most advanced opioid-based drug candidate, KP201, is composed of hydrocodone chemically bound to a ligand. The Company previously reported positive Phase 1 clinical data, which confirmed that KP201 is metabolized in man as predicted, releasing hydrocodone into the bloodstream at amounts equivalent to the reference listed drug, Norco®. This data supports a 505(b)(2) regulatory pathway for KP201 in combination with acetaminophen.
KP201 has unique physicochemical and pharmacological attributes that may deliver additional patient benefits, including reduced potential for abuse and reduction or elimination of opioid-induced constipation (OIC). Importantly, intact KP201 was not detected in systemic circulation, suggesting that minimal additional studies could be justified to determine the impact of KP201 exposure in the body.
KemPharm has worked diligently with its manufacturing partner, Johnson Matthey, to successfully and efficiently scale up KP201 active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) in anticipation of a commercial launch. KP201 is on track for an NDA submission to the FDA in 2014. KemPharm is actively seeking a strategic development partner with the expertise to take KP201 through regulatory review and commercialization.
About KemPharm
KemPharm is focused on the discovery and development of NCEs to treat serious medical conditions through its proprietary and broadly applicable LAT prodrug approach. KemPharm utilizes its LAT prodrug technology to generate improved versions of FDA approved drugs. KemPharm's business strategy includes seeking strategic development partners following rapid clinical proof-of-concept demonstration in a Phase 1 trial. KemPharm also plans to explore discovery stage alliances with industry leaders, leveraging its prodrug know-how and LAT technology. KemPharm is primarily focused on developing candidates for pain and other central nervous system disorders. www.kempharm.com
For KemPharm, Inc:
Media / Investor Contacts:
Christal Mickle
Jason Rando / Claire Sojda
Tiberend Strategic Advisors, Inc.
SOURCE KemPharm, Inc.


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Aww Prudence , you're a pretty little piggy!!! I once had an Abyssinian! Congrats on being POTD! I hope you have fun!
Dog of the Day
Cat of the Day
Pet of the Day
Aww Prudence , you're a pretty little piggy!!! I once had an Abyssinian! Congrats on being POTD! I hope you have fun!
Forever in my heart...
Miss Prudie, you are such a pretty girl! You enjoy your healthy diet and the yummy treats your daddy serves you, and you show your mommy how happy you are by purring, squeaking, giving kisses and cuddles! I like your long, pretty coat and your hula skirt!! Happy Pet of the Day to you!
I've been Boo'd ... right off the stage!
Aaahh, I have been defrosted! Thank you, Bonny and Asiel!
Brrrr, I've been Frosted! Thank you, Asiel and Pomtzu!
"That's the power of kittens (and puppies too, of course): They can reduce us to quivering masses of Jell-O in about two seconds flat and make us like it. Good thing they don't have opposable thumbs or they'd surely have taken over the world by now." -- Paul Lukas
"We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." -- Persius, first century Roman poet
Cassie's Catster page: http://www.catster.com/cats/448678
Hi Prudence! Happy piggie Pet of the Day to you, sweetheart! What a precious Hawaiian piggie you are, Prudence, a beauty inside and out with a swirly 'do to die for! I've been mom to a couple of Abby piggies over the years (my Moon had your same coloring and markings), but none had a "hula skirt" as impressive as yours! But one trait you and my piggies do share is a sweet and loving personality, along with a love for purring and popcorning! That says to me that you are one pampered, contented, much loved girl (daddy's girl), and understandably so! You're as sweet and loving as they come, Prudence, and your parents lucky indeed, having a furkid as joyful and cuddly and loving as you! Thanks for the big smiles, sweet little one! Enjoy your big day on center stage, chowing down on all of those yummy fresh fruits and veggies, enjoying a little sunshine and fresh air out in your garden, and tonight, cuddling up with your parents on the couch for a little TV! Lots of love, cuddles and kisses to you, precious Prudence, our very special and most deserving Pet of the Day!
Star,Tigg'r , Mollie and the10 Gallon Gang!
And my Rainbow Bridge Furangels...Jingles, Cody, Fritz, Chessa, Satin, Buddy, Lizzie, Oliver, Squeaker, Moonbeam, Rosie, Ruby~
Prudence what a beauty you are!!!
What wonderful pictures of you!!! You certainly made me smile. I love your hula skirt!!! It was a treat to meet you today. Please thank your family for sharing you with us. I hope you are enjoying lots of yummy veggies and fruits today.
Congratulations, sweet Predence, on being our very special Pet of the Day!!!
No matter what anyone does, someone some where will be offended some how!!!!
Grandma (RB), Chester, Angel, Chip
Leonardo (RB), Luke (RB), Winnie, Chuck,
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Welcome to the Financial Aid page for Ursuline College Accelerated Program (UCAP) Students. Please click on the links below or on the right to access specific Financial Aid information. Aid is awarded to UCAP students based on enrollment for each of the three terms within the semester. Students taking one 3-credit hour course each term in a semester will be considered to be 3/4 time enrollment (9 credits). Aid is disbursed at the point the student becomes half-time or 6 credits - this is typically at the beginning of Term 2.
Types of Aid
Grants are need-based funds that do not have to be repaid.
These funds must be repaid, usually after graduation. To learn about various loan options, visit the loan information pages.
UCAP Financial Aid Newsletter


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STOCKTON - Willie Douglas spends a lot of time each day contemplating the deeper issues of life: faith, love and racial harmony.
STOCKTON - Willie Douglas spends a lot of time each day contemplating the deeper issues of life: faith, love and racial harmony.
To that end, his daily regimen includes late-night prayer, early morning Bible reading and daylight walking all over town.
The 62-year-old retired juvenile probation officer does so without apology.
"There is so much suffering," Douglas said. "What can we do to make it better? I'm always pondering. Life's not fair. There are one or two ways to look at it: It's either good vs. evil or hatred vs. love.
"And evil is a monster."
For more than two decades, Douglas, an ordained minister, has chosen to fight against hatred, devoting himself to goals aimed at improving racial harmony in Stockton and San Joaquin County.
For his efforts, Douglas will be honored Jan. 20 with a Hall of Fame Award as part of the community's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration.
Douglas and his wife, Karen, have four adult children and three grandchildren. He has been active for years with the local, state and national NAACP.
When Douglas speaks, it's in soft tones and with lofty ideals. The Record sat down with him earlier this month for 10 Questions:
Question: Why are you so active in so many groups?
Answer: It's not of my choosing. It's the calling of a higher authority. It's the spirit of God within me.
Q: What is it, then, that drives you?
A: I have a passion for liberty and happiness for all. It bothers me that so many people are without opportunity. I want to be of service. I want to be someone who can make things better.
Q: You are involved in so much (Black Family Day, Juneteenth, NAACP, Black History Month, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Gospel Center Rescue Mission). How do you keep track of everything?
A: My kids remind me and help me keep tabs. And I'm motivated. I want to bring light and be a positive influence.
Q: These are tough times in Stockton. What are some of the solutions as you see them?
A: Officials and city leaders need to get more involved in community events. They make decisions, but they're not integrated with the residents. We need more collaboration. And the police used to be more involved in the neighborhoods, and now there's no interaction.
Q: What's your favorite place in Stockton? Your favorite thing to do?
A: I don't really have a place. I like walking through different neighborhoods. Sometimes I'll start near my home off Benjamin Holt and walk down Pacific Avenue to the southside.
Q: How about a favorite Stockton restaurant?
A: I'm not picky about food. Arroyo's restaurant is one of my favorites. And I like the Chinese takeout at Food-4-Less.
Q: What makes you laugh?
A: I'm really not much of a person who is into comedy. (pause) I guess the other side of creation: animals and their behavior. Even with my three grandkids, I try to be a little serious with them.
Q: If you had a free Saturday afternoon without distractions, what would you do with it?
A: I'd be like the Apostle John on the Isle of Patmos. I would try to envision a new tomorrow - when the kingdom of God comes. I'd try to envision what John envisioned. I'm looking for a better tomorrow.
Q: We're about to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. How are we doing?
A: There is so much confusion about what has transpired. He definitely was a person who was called to bring peace to all people. But we're still dreaming. When we get together in Stockton to celebrate, it's still a lot of black residents. Where are the other people? That's how I measure how far things have come.
Q: What's the best thing about living in Stockton?
A: The seeds I've planted here and the pitchers of water that help them grow. Stockton gives me a sense of direction. There are beautiful flowers of people here. Stockton is life. I'd fade away without it.
Contact reporter Kevin Parrish at (209) 546-8264 or email@example.com.


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Jeremy Sher's new one-man show, "Crow," about a man's solo voyage across the North Atlantic, involves elaborate and imaginative use of video, an expansive sound design and, according to Walkabout Theater, some 1,200 feet of rope. It does not, however, sail along with sufficient attention to storytelling.
The piece, written and performed by Sher, appears to be loosely based on the experience of Donald Crowhurst, one of those amateur adventurers who injudiciously took part in a solo, round-the-world race sponsored by a British newspaper in the 1960s. But the unnamed character played by Sher is, to say the least, elliptical. Despite vague references in the text to the British race, he seems to be an American, with a wife and four kids. And although it feels as if the era of the Golden Globe Race, it's never clear when or where the man is lost on the seas. Specifics are few.
In fact, precious little is clear, beyond the vague sense that the piece wants to evoke some of the feelings of being on one of those solo races, lost with your own demons and only a sea gull for a conversation partner. Probing the minds of such lone adventurers — and there have been many, of both genders and a variety of ages — is a valid artistic enterprise but there's not much consideration here of the moral dimension of a family man's attempting such quests, nor what adversity reveals in an individual. Just because a play is about a character whose mind is meandering does not necessarily give the play itself carte blanche to mimic the central character's mind with impunity, especially since Sher's character at the end of the piece does not seem appreciably different from the guy at the start. In other words, he takes no recognizable voyage.
Over the course of a 105-minute play that feels rather longer than it should, Sher certainly does plenty of work, turning the Richard Christiansen Theatre into a fair representation of a vessel at sea. Text and sound suffuse director Scott Bradley's production, often with images showing up on parts of sails or in other intriguing locales.
But there's a real disconnect between the movement and the action surrounding the rigging and the lack thereof in the actual performance. In a show such as this, the nurturing of some sort of an emphatic response from the audience surely is crucial. Alas, though, Sher feels invulnerable and thus one cares little for his fate.
So, we have a new work here, and an interesting idea. Better now to get away from the rope that ties this show into knots — and actually start communicating from the high seas.
Twitter @ChrisJonesTrib
When: Through June 17
Where: Richard Christiansen Theatre at the Biograph, 2433 N. Lincoln Ave.
Running time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Tickets: $28 at 773-871-3000 or walkabouttheater.org


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Fatal traffic accident in Nederland
A fatal accident in Nederland today left one man dead and his wife injured, police reported.
According to a news release from the Nederland Police Department (NPD), on May 23 at approximately 2:29 a.m., Nederland Police responded to a call of a one-vehicle traffic accident in the 2200 block of Canal Avenue. On arrival at the scene of the accident, officers located a 2001 Jeep overturned in the roadway. The driver of the Jeep, who was identified as 39-year-old Jerry Eden Marshall of Pt. Neches, was found to be deceased. His wife Brenda Michele Marshal, 46, is undergoing treatment at a local hospital. The preliminary investigation indicated the Jeep was traveling westbound on Canal Avenue, left the roadway, ran into the ditch, and then overturned back onto the roadway, according to police. Justice of the Peace Tom Gillam is conducting an inquest and has ordered an autopsy.


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A 29-year-old Savannah man was found guilty of murder and related charges in the 2008 shooting death of his stepfather.
A jury Friday found Farren Scott Johnson guilty of murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime in the incident that occurred May 28, 2008, said Daniel Baxter, Chatham County District Attorney's Office spokesman.
In the trial, assistant district attorney Frank Pennington explained to the jury that on the day of the murder, Johnson and 43-year-old Clarence Alston were watching television when, without being provoked, Johnson shot Alston four times in the head with a .38 caliber firearm, Baxter said.
Johnson then walked into the front yard and awaited his mother's arrival from work. Johnson explained the incident to his mother, who called 911 about 8:40 p.m., Baxter said.
Responding police officers took Johnson into custody.
Johnson's attorneys claimed their client was not guilty by reason of insanity, but the jury returned a verdict of guilty, but mentally ill.
Baxter said Johnson will serve his sentence - to be handed down by Superior Court Judge Michael Karpf at a later date - in prison, where he will receive mental health treatment.


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Earth : Europe : Baltic states : Lithuania : Dzūkija : Druskininkai
Druskininkai is an official resort in Lithuania since 20 Jun 1794 when King Stanisław August Poniatowski declared it as a sanative area.
The name comes from the Lithuanian word druska which means salt. There are 12 mineral springs, which water is used for balneologic procedures and drinking. Spa mud baths, applications and tampons are prepared from the peat extracted at Didžiasalis peatland in the neighboring district. The resort climate is another positive health factor, it is characterized by a high level of air ionization (-0.63), gentle and warm microclimate (average low temperature in winter about -6°C, average high temperature in summer about +20°C, relative humidity 70%, prevailing SW winds with an average speed of 2 m/s). Special feature of the resort is its air enriched with phytoncides of surrounding vast pine forests that have a significant impact on a successful course of treatments. There are 8 spa/rehabilitation centers and 2 spa centres within the Druskininkai Aquapark complex.
For more information, contact the listing above.
Get in
Regular buses from Vilnius and Kaunas are the way of getting here with the ticket setting you back in the region of 20-30 LTL. There is no railway line to Druskininkai. The one can be seen on the older maps has been abolished.
Basicaly there are two companies operating on Vilnius-Druskininkai and Kaunas-Druskininkai routes: Kautra [5] and Druskininkų AP [6] (Druskininkai Bus Fleet).
Both Vilnius and Kaunas buses take approximately 2.5 hr and depart every 1-2 hr between 05:30 and 19:00.
Druskininkai municipality web site lists 47 places to eat. There may some more places appear, or some may disappear. The life goes on and things may change a little, however one can be always sure that there is some place to eat at least in 5 minutes distance from anywhere in the town.
Once you're there, think about your health as probably you have not too much time to do that before. And think that this is the place of 12 mineral springs, the water of which can help to heal your disorders. This place is for this. Other places are for else.
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MORGEN AL IN HUIS met DPD of bpost / PostNL GRATIS LEVERING vanaf € 99 (België & Nederland)
Optimal for Duty, casual or undercover use. Fabric is very comfortable and elasticity for active movement. This is one of the best laminated softshell fabrics around. Great for cold weather use due to the Gridtech and Strom/tex technologies used in this fabric. Specifcations:
* This product is not 100% water-proof due to the seems can not be tapered because of the fabric construction