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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Six of the Best!
Sola's Note: After watching the 1939 movie "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" the other night, I began reading up a bit on corporal punishment in England's public schools. Now abolished, it is interesting that discipline problems seem to be on the rise. Here in America, while there are a few school districts that employ corporal punishment with a wooden paddle, the practice is dying out. And discipline problems are on the rise. The following was written by a retired headmaster in England. An interesting perspective.
A Headmaster's Recollections
In the mid 1960s I was appointed headmaster of a boys' secondary modern school in the English Midlands (this was before the days of general comprehensivisation, when state pupils who failed to get into the local grammar school were consigned to the less academic 'secondary mod'.)
The school had a reputation for ill discipline and poor examination results (echoes of today?) and the last headmaster had taken early retirement. I had been given the top job at a relatively young age on the understanding that I would stop the rot - so I knew that my career was on the line.
I called a grand meeting of the staff and told them the steps I intended to take. First of all, there would be strict enforcement of the school's rules concerning uniform, which were being widely flouted. For example junior boys were supposed to wear caps, but as often as not ignored this requirement, whilst the older boys presented a lamentable appearance with loose ties, turned-up blazer collars, non-regulation shoes and so on. All this would have to change, for in my opinion if a boy did not take a pride in his uniform he could hardly take a pride in his school.
The previous headmaster had had the power to cane but had seldom exercised this right - and when he did had carried out his duty in a half-hearted manner. This had led to a growth of unofficial corporal punishment by staff members, using rulers, slippers or whatever came to hand. I made it very clear that all such unofficial CP was strictly forbidden and that only the headmaster would give corporal punishment, using the officially sanctioned cane as supplied by the local education authority.
I announced that I would be compiling a list of 'caning offences' which would be widely publicised throughout the school. The boys would be given a week's grace to absorb the new rules. If my memory serves me correctly the offences in the list included disrupting classes, persistent latecoming, misbehaviour in assembly, fighting in or out of school, smoking, bullying, vandalism and persistent infringement of the uniform regulations.
For the first few days I think that the entire school was in a state of shock. I had the feeling that the boys were sizing me up - trying to guess whether I was bluffing. At the end of the week of grace I read the list of offences out in assembly and showed the lads a cane, stating that it was entirely up to them whether they ever saw it again. This was followed by several days of excellent behaviour (long serving members of staff could hardly believe their eyes!) before the hard core of troublemakers began to reassert themselves. It wasn't long before a steady stream of offenders began to appear at my door. Each and every boy received a talking to and was then caned.
Experience had taught me that it was no use 'sparing the rod'. If you did, word would soon get about the school that you were 'soft'. Since the object of a caning was both to punish and to deter a boy from reoffending, it needed to be made as unpleasant as possible. The object was to instil a fear of the cane into offenders and amongst potential offenders.
I kept strictly to the local authority regulations. There were no whackings across PT shorts or on the bare. To a schoolboy the cane is quite painful enough across his ordinary school trousers, believe me, especially when given with a modicum of expertise. I usually gave three or four strokes, or six in the case of persistent offenders. The maximum I was permitted to inflict under the rules was eight, but I saved this ultimate sanction for the very worse cases.
I never let a boy off his punishment, however much he might plead or promise to behave in future. I can remember cases of lads almost breaking down in tears just at the sight of the stick, and then making the most almighty fuss during their punishment - but I always made sure they suffered their allotted dose. The majority were much more stoical, however, accepting that they had been 'found out' and taking their medicine as bravely as they could.
As to the modus operandi of beating, I invariably positioned the offender over the back of a low chair, which presented the target area at an ideal angle. I made sure that I had plenty of room to swing and always aimed the cuts at the middle and lower part of the backside. Generally, I applied the cane with a will, with the proviso that younger pupils received their punishment with a lighter type of cane. The older boys were subject to a heavier senior model and six of the best with that cane was certainly no picnic, even for the toughest lad.
In the first half of that term my canes were in use several times a day, but later on things settled down, as I had expected they would. Now that a clear framework of discipline had been established, with sure and feared punishment for offenders, the school could function much more smoothly, with teachers being able to get on with their job of teaching, rather than to have to waste time keeping order. After all, any boy who disrupted a class knew that he could be sent to me for a caning - and that the experience would be extremely unpleasant.
As time passed by I was called upon to wield my canes rather less frequently and corporal punishment functioned much more as a general deterrent. I remember anti-corporal punishment campaigners claiming that caning was ineffective since examination of punishment books showed that the same boys were being beaten over and over again. I would agree that there are such persistent offenders within any school; on the other hand, in my experience there were many lads who seldom broke the rules again after the shock of their first caning. And in addition there were all those who were deterred from misbehaving in the first place by a healthy fear of the cane.
With British schools in their present state I sometimes wonder whether it was a mistake to abolish corporal punishment. Whatever they might say when bragging to their chums, in my experience the vast majority of schoolboys greatly feared the cane. But how many nowadays fear detention, extra work or even suspension in the same way?
20 comments:
- sheber said...
I am slightly repulsed by your obvious pride in inflicting pain for compliance. Since you are in the field of education, perhaps you might want to study the evidence of mental health and child development professionals regarding this practice? Just a suggestion...
- Solameanie said...
Who are you addressing? Me or the headmaster?
If it's me, yes..I do believe in corporal punishment, although I wouldn't take it as far as the British caning system, necessarily. And quite honestly, I don't have much respect for these mental health and child development professionals that you cite. You can find other professionals out there who disagree with them. Besides, having an entire generation on ritalin (especially boys) ought to tell you something.
Generations of children (including me) got spanked for misbehavior and we're just fine. And it did keep order in the classroom. It's only this over-socialized, hyper-feminized culture that has a problem with it. We've had the last 30 years or so to do it your way, and its been an appalling disaster.
But it's generally no use trying to argue with people who hold your position. You have a decided worldview, and you'll impose it come hell or highwater.
- Solameanie said...
I should say this also. I take my marching orders from Scripture, not child development experts. I think the Creator knows more about child development than anyone else. And Scripture has plenty to say about the rod of correction.
didn't paul once think that violence was once the best way? break the law, pay the price type of thing... then Jesus came and changed something about him?
- Solameanie said...
Apples and oranges, I think, Jonny. Paul also said in Romans 13 that the state bears the sword for a purpose. You don't use a sword to spank, you use it to execute or wound. A personal change in heart accomplished by the Holy Spirit through the power of the Gospel is separate and distinct from disciplining a misbehaving child or youth. Discipline is intended to correct as well as punish.
I don't think anyone (at least I don't) advocate spanking for anything and everything. But it is appropriate for some offenses. And, as schools across our countries can attest, there is a serious discipline problem. Here in the States, a teacher can't much more than say "boo" to a student for fear of a lawsuit. The students know it, and get away with murder.
says more about the legal system and administration than the youth?
- Solameanie said...
I think there's certainly enough blame to go around for everyone. Regardless, we've done it the "expert" way for 40 years . . . detention, reprimands, time-outs, demerits, suspensions, expulsions. While these methods work for some, many if not most laugh at them. "Detention? Big deal." They curse at the teachers, sometimes even physically attack them. Expelling them is the worst thing the school can do.
When I was in school and before then, talking in class, chewing gum and occasional fighting were the worst things that happened. Now, we've got sexual assaults, knifings, drug use and a host of other things happening in schools that most kids never would have dreamed of doing years ago. It is a genuine problem, and the left's method of dealing with it just hasn't worked.
BTW, don't be offended or knee-jerk in your reaction if I happen to criticize something going on with youth. Although my mother tells me I was an old man from my birth, I was actually young once. Believe it or not, quite a few young people your age agree with me on this, much to the horror of the establishment.
- Gilbert said...
Remember Dr. Spock? Wow. What damage his book caused. I was one of his victims, in the sense that I didn't get disciplined properly.
Spankings? Wish I had more of them. But I must also say that discipline begins in the home. The schools shouldn't have to deal with the worst of this, anyway.
- Solameanie said...
I can't imagine you even needing a spanking. Unless, of course, you blow a forecast and cause me to miss a good derecho.
Having just recently retired after working 35 years in public schools, I can assure you that hitting students is not necessary to maintain classroom discipline. In fact, it might in some cases work against it. If paddling were so successful, it wouldn't be needed more than once and that is clearly not the case based on the number of students who are repeatedly paddled. If you do your homework you will find that even students who ended up shooting up their schools usually came from paddling districts and were often the recipient of the paddle in those districts.
Being a good educator who is prepared, knowledgeable and motivating goes a long way in assisting with the maintenance of discipline in the classroom. To suggest that discipline is on the decline because paddling is on the decline clearly shows a naive and uninformed assessment. To support hitting students demonstrates a mean-spirited approach devoid of creativity. Glad I did not work with you as a teacher and would never have wanted you as a teacher in my school as a principal.
- Solameanie said...
I normally don't respond to "anonymous" comments with no profile, although I see you do i.d. yourself as "Dennis." I could reciprocate and say I wouldn't want you as a principal in my district. The stats pretty much speak for themselves about the decline of discipline in schools, and to blame paddling for school shootings is patently ridiculous. Funny how so many generations before managed to take their punishment at school and not end up gunning the place up.
I'm hardly uninformed after years of watching this stuff and covering this stuff in the media. You can name-call all you like with the typical elitist attitude of professional "educators" and use terms such as "naive" and "mean-spirited" all you like. You know nothing of me, my heart or anything else about me.
I'd like to see school districts across the country show me some of this much vaunted "creativity" you talk about. Try Nashville on for size where teachers are afraid to even enter the classroom.
I got caned only twice, when I was 14 and 15. The second time I reckon the headmaster must have used the senior cane. I got a full six of the best and it stung like hell, the pain was excruciating and my poor backside was throbbing heavily all afternoon. I was heavily bruised, but unlike in the comic books, I still managed to sit down, albeit rather gingerly.
I don't regret being caned now, all these years later. It was an "experience" if nothing else, and taught me never to get caught smoking on school premises again.
I think they were crazy to ban it. They need some sort of deterrent. Detention and suspension are no deterrent to young lads with attitude problems. I didn't have an attitude problem and our headmaster only dished out caning rarely. Hardly anyone got caned more than 2 or 3 times in the whole course of their school career, which just goes to show what a deterrent it really was. And as I say, the second time when he really laid it on, was unforgettably painful. No way was I coming back for more!
I certainly learned my lesson: don't get caught smoking on school premises ever again! And I didn't resent the headmaster for beating me so severely. My punishmen was for a third offence, I'd already had 3 strokes the year before and had been warned what would happen if I got caught again.
After that 6 of the best I never got caught smoking again, because I stopped doing it!
- Solameanie said...
Thanks for sharing, Simon. It is amazing that of all the posts on my blog, this one seems to keep generating comments eons after I posted it.
I have always thought a caning (or spanking) ought to be a last resort, but always an option. Unfortunately, there are people who have bought entirely into the Spockian "permissive" attitude toward child-rearing, and we can see the disaster it's been.
i WAS AT A MODON SCHOOL IN THE EARLY 60S SIX OF THE BEST WAS SOMTHING i DID NOT WONT TWICE
- Solameanie said...
Thanks for sharing, Anonymous.
I can't remember now if I posted this earlier on the comment thread (this caning post is nearly 3 years old now), but here in the States when I was in elementary school (back in the 60s as well), a principal would typically give a student one or two swats with a wooden paddle. That's it. Very rarely would someone get more than that. And there was also very rarely any bruising or even red marks afterward. But when you hear the accounts of those opposed to corporal punishment, they always bring out the rare horror story to make their case.
When I was in junior high school, there was one gym teacher who would give boys what he called a "reminder" when they got out of line -- a single swat with a wooden paddle. I never got one, but most boys who did laughed afterward and said it really didn't even hurt.
The way some people talk, you'd think we were waterboarding kids and putting bamboo shoots under their fingernails. Nowadays here, the students run the schools and teachers are afraid to even speak sternly to them for fear of getting beaten up by the students or lawsuits from the parents. It's ridiculous.
A recent thing coming into some junior schools is ex soldiers being trained, as every other teacher is trained, and then put in the classroom to teach. Their own background and discipline works on the pupils and on the other teachers. No cane though. Teachers should be taught how to instil discipline, but corporal punishment should not be banned. Bullies get away with beating up smaller kids, and getting away with it. Why should there be one rule for the big kids and one for the small ones.
As long as there is no possibility of injury, corporal is ok and a reasonable deterent. We did not get the cane at school but the head teacher was quite capable of giving an open handed swat across the backsidewhen necessary. He was consistent in his behaviour, so no rancour from us. I grew up and became quite large and muscular and met him. He was a normal sized man and he looked a bit scared. I just said ' hello Mr Hutchings', passed the time of day a bit, and carried on walking. He had not been a bully, he had always been justified, he did what he thought was best, and he seemed to get results.
I do tlike the idea of the soldiers in charge though. They produce some startling results just with their presence. The children do not seem to dislike them because they know exactly where they stand.
i went to a secondary school (mixed sex sec modern) in south east england during the 70s - plenty of cp being administered then - i only got the slipper 5 times and the cane twice - fairly low total for 6 years! to be honest i was really scared about getting the slipper or the cane! But of course i did - usually to do with playing football or being in the wrong place with the wrong people at the wrong time. I did get a well deserved 4 of the best for drinking a can of light ale in the street at lunch time. god did it hurt; the weals were really vivid and swollen. my final slippering, when i was nearly 16 was the worst - 6 spanks across just my pe shorts for being with a group of lads who managed to drop a training weight off a balcony in the sports hall - i was blameless but still got the whacking.
earlier in my school career i got two slippering from the pe teacher over the horse which was kept in a small alcove just off the main gym and used (it seemed) solely for punishing transgressors in pe lessons - i can still smell the leather top it had!
- Solameanie said...
Thanks for sharing, Martyn. It amazes me this 2008 post still gets responses. Btw, my middle name is Martin. I much prefer the British spelling. Why didn't my parents do that?
- Solameanie said...
BTW, as an inside joke of sorts, when the band Genesis had their 1982 reunion with Peter Gabriel at Milton Keynes, the title of the show was called "Six of the Best." No doubt recalling the bands' formative years at Charterhouse.
I was caned regularly at school and there is no doubt that regularity makes one more accustomed to it. I was brought up with caning and still need it. Regulation @ mail .com


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Edith De Chiara:
July 10 - October 16, 2001
Reception: September 20 from 5:00-7:00 pm
Edith De Chiara's mixed media works probe the complexities of nature, the passage of time and interior states of mind. This exhibition focuses on recent worka series of collages, drawings, and works on canvas begun six years agoin which she explores thread as a metaphor for line. De Chiara references nature as a source of imagery, creating a calligraphic, gestural line that physically describes the external world while evoking mood and alluding to the internal emotional life. These intimately scaled works hint at landscape, plants, rocks, microscopic organisms and the cosmos.
Among the earliest from this series, a group of works entitled Bound /Unbound (1999), probes emotional and psychological territory in visual terms. Coinciding with
De Chiara's retirement, these works explore a range of feelingsfrom the sense of disorientation one experiences when released from the constraints of schedules to a metaphorical look at the "push and pull" of human relationships. The surface is literally stitched in these works. The thread creates a forceful, controlled line, drawn with a needle in a classically feminine medium. Some of these lines are well ordered and regimented; and others burst free in literal "loose ends."
De Chiara's work throughout is involved with process and materials. She works primarily on paper that is often mounted on board or wood panel. The process begins with staining, using inks and watercolors to prepare the paper surface before the thread is introduced. The palette is earth toned. Encaustic or cheesecloth is added in
Detail from Gestural Impulses, 2001
some works to enrich and reinforce the ground. The latter imparts the look of a papyrus scroll or ancient parchment. Sometimes the ground preparation includes rubbings from the surface texture of earlier works, physically connecting the new works to the series. This technique can be seen in the Bound/Unbound group and in works such as Circular Pathways, 1999. The white lines produced by the rubbings provide an indirect drawing methodology as well as a visual progression from earlier work.
Found objects are also included. De Chiara at various times
has included leaves, stems, and seeds. In Silver Dollars #2, 1999, she incorporates
a seedpod from the lunaria plant found in her garden. In Circular Pathway, 1999,
De Chiara has added lengths of crocheted thread. Their tight clusters and loosely
formed loops create a meandering line, a reminder that destinations are not
always plotted as the shortest distance between two points.
More recently a frayed satin coat lining offered a new material to explore. In works such as Gestural Impulses, 2001, skeins of lines are developed by ripping the fabric and applying it to the surface with jade glue. Illusions of space emerge. The structure is open and one loses a sense of the vertical and horizontal plane in a boundless space. This change allowed De Chiara an opportunity to draw without stitchery while maintaining the controlled line of the earlier works. In other works such as the Linescape series (2000), the thread which describes the growth and structure of plants, almost seems subject to the effects of sun, water, and gravity.
De Chiaras drawings are marked by the texture of the thread and their surface imagery records the physical process of their making. Built in successive layers, they bring to mind archeological stata and suggest the passage of time.
Edith De Chiara, well-known art educator and author retired from Lehman College in 1996 where she taught for twenty-eight years.
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Detail from Untitled, 1997
Linescape1, 2000


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April 24, 2008
The Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies at Wabash College will host a car wash to benefit Building a Healthy Future. The car wash will take place from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. on Saturday, April 26 at the National Guard Armory in Crawfordsville. A $5 minimum donation will be asked.
Building a Healthy Future is a plan to help build a skate park and playground equipment for Milligan Park. All donations from the car wash will go the skate park.


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Here is the statement issued by the International Cycling Union over Lance Armstrong's decision to end his fight against doping charges and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency's call to strip Armstrong's seven Tour de France titles:
"The UCI notes Lance Armstrong's decision not to proceed to arbitration in the case that USADA has brought against him.
The UCI recognizes that USADA is reported as saying that it will strip Mr. Armstrong of all results from 1998 onwards in addition to imposing a lifetime ban from participating in any sport which recognizes the World Anti-Doping Code.
Article 8.3 of the WADC states that where no hearing occurs the Anti-Doping Organization with results management responsibility shall submit to the parties concerned (Mr. Armstrong, WADA and UCI) a reasoned decision explaining the action taken.
As USADA has claimed jurisdiction in the case the UCI expects that it will issue a reasoned decision in accordance with Article 8.3 of the Code.
Until such time as USADA delivers this decision the UCI has no further comment to make."


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Super Monkey Ball Bounce Trailer: Those Crazy Monkeys Go Mobile
AiAi, MeeMee, Baby and GonGon are going to roll their way onto mobile devices and tablets quite soon.
Peggle meets Pachinko in this new spin-off to the Super Monkey Ball series that Sega just announced. Super Monkey Ball will be coming to iPod touch, iPad, iPhone and Android devices later this summer. With over 120 levels of Panchiko/Peggle-like gameplay, you must slide, bounce and rebound your way to greatness. Choose one of seven primate favorites in order to rescue the other monkeys, face off against Professor Boscis and navigate your away around challenging puzzles.
This proves to be a drastic change from the last time we saw the series with its Super Monkey Ball: Banana Splitz 2012 entry on PS Vita. If its anything like its predecessors, we have a feeling that Super Monkey Ball Bounce will utilize gyroscopic controls if your device has them. Make sure you aim-and-shoot accurately, because Super Monkey Ball Bounce will get bananas when it comes out this summer.


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Universal principles in revolutionary times
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I remember a Russian diplomat in Geneva in the 1980s telling me that his country believed strongly in the centrality of human rights. It was just that back in the USSR the hierarchy was different from countries on the other side of the iron curtain: individual rights mattered, but less than people's collective rights to health, education, jobs and so on.
I was not much impressed; and the collapse of the Soviet Union soon gave the lie to that regime's paternalistic take on the relative significance of different categories of rights – political, social and economic.


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Happy Birthday Dave Davies - founder of The Kinks and highly original guitarist, whose innovative playing style influenced Psychedelic Rock, Heavy Metal, Punk Rock and Brit Pop.
Mr Davies continues to make wonderful music and has just released a fab new CD Fortis Green 2, a follow-up to his 1999 release, named after the district in London where Davies was born, sixty-six years ago. The album is exclusively available at Dave Davies homepage.
Happy Birthday Dave Davies and long may you continue to make music.
Dave Davies - 'Fortis Green 2' promo
The Kinks - 'Got My Feet On The Ground - written and performed by Dave Davies
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text: Weed Management Answers March 11, 2011 08:25 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Farm Journal Editors Email A general knowledge about weed biology and understanding how herbicides work is important to preserving herbicide technology. The following questions and answers were developed with help from these weed scientists: Mark Bernards, University of Nebraska; Kevin Bradley, University of Missouri; Aaron Hager, University of Illinois; Robert Hartzler, Iowa State University; Peter Sikkema, University of Guelph; Christy Sprague, Michigan State University; Daniel Stephenson, LSU AgCenter; and Bryan Young, Southern Illinois University. What is a weed? The term generally refers to any plant growing where it is not wanted or intentionally sown. A plant is considered a weed when it interferes and has negative effects on a crop. A weed typically competes with crops for water, light, space and soil nutrients. Some weeds serve as hosts for crop disease and insects. Others, such as black nightshade or wild garlic, can impact crop quality. How do herbicides kill weeds? Herbicides work by interfering with essential processes necessary for a plant to live. The active ingredient within the herbicide formulation binds to a particular target site or sites within the plant, usually an enzyme or protein essential to plant growth and development. This causes toxic metabolic consequences that eventually lead to the death of the weed. What factors impact herbicide performance? Spray coverage, application method, herbicide rate, environmental conditions and weed size to name a few. What is herbicide mode of action? Mode of action (MOA) is how the herbicide controls the plant. It describes the metabolic or physiological process impaired or inhibited by the herbicide. What is herbicide site of action? Site of action is the specific location within the plant where the herbicide must bind to exert its mode of action. It is where the herbicide acts within the plant. Why is the difference between mode and site of action important? While understanding herbicide mode of action is important, classifying herbicides by site of action is a more useful way to describe herbicides as weed resistance issues surface. For example, the mode of action category "amino acid synthesis inhibitors" would place the herbicides Pursuit (imazethapyr) and Roundup (glyphosate) in the same family. Classification by site of action is more distinct and allows growers to more accurately rotate herbicides. The Weed Science Society of America groups products with similar sites of action together by group numbers from 1 to 28. This number is an easy way to identify products and premixes. What is herbicide resistance? It's the naturally occurring inherited ability of some weed biotypes to survive a herbicide treatment that should, when properly used under normal conditions, effectively control a weed population. Changes in weed populations begin when a small number of plants within a species, called a biotype, have a distinct genetic makeup that makes them less susceptible to a herbicide. It's possible for multiple weed biotypes to exist in a single field. When a farmer continues to apply a particular herbicide or fails to change other cultural practices, the resistant biotype continues to survive, mature and produce seed. Globally, there are 352 herbicide-resistant weed biotypes; 130 of those are in the U.S. Is resistance different than tolerance? Yes. Some weeds are naturally tolerant to herbicides. For example, most grass species have some tolerance to 2,4-D herbicide. Are some weeds more likely to become resistant? There are some characteristics that seem to lead to the development of herbicide resistance. They include: large amounts of seed produced per plant; high levels of germination of those seeds; capable of cross pollination; several weed flushes per season and a high frequency of resistance genes. Weed seed dispersal also play a role. A weed such as kochia can tumble for miles spreading seed. What is cross resistance? Weeds can become resistant to herbicides with the same site of action. The site of action often is structurally changed to prevent herbicides binding within that group. For example, weeds resistant to atrazine can develop resistance to simazine—both are photosynthesis inhibitors. What is multiple resistance? A weed is able to survive treatment from more than one herbicide group. Waterhemp biotypes, for example, that are resistant to four herbicide families occur in some states. However, that does not mean every resistant weed is resistant to more than one herbicide product at the same time. What are the first symptoms of resistance? Because weed control is rarely 100% effective, herbicide resistant populations can easily go undetected. As the ratio of resistant to susceptible weeds increase, irregular patches of a single weed species begin to appear and spread in subsequent years. Surviving weeds of the problem species may be in close proximity to dying plants of the same species. What should I do if I notice small weed escapes? Reducing weed seed production is always a good idea. Consider spot herbicide applications, row wicking, cultivation or hand removal. Back to news


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Now who uses cameras more than Asian people? Of course that is a racist and stereotypical assumption, but I am Asian and I am allowed to make racist and stereotypical assumptions as they refer to me! I am mostly a videographer myself, but many, many, many members of my family are straight up photo addicted. And my Asian friends sometimes get so hopped up on taking pictures that that they get 'picture drunk.' They try to get people to pose together, staggering further and further back to get a better shot, to include all the faces in the frame, to make sure nothing is growing out of someone's head in the background, or to make sure something is growing out of someone's head in the background. Like drunks, they are in their own universe, not knowing or caring when they are about to knock into some unsuspecting bystander. If they aren't in the frame, they don't exist. They shouldn't exist. All they care about is the picture, and not that your drink is going to be spilled everywhere. All they care about is the shot. They are high on the frame and getting something good to put up on their facebook so they can tag away! So it upsets me to no end that some of these newfangled face detection cameras are actually racist! Asian people using them are told by the camera that the subject blinked – when in truth, this is how our eyes are!
I have had it with the inherent racism in so many different types of products. I can't wear a sleeping mask, even though I must sleep many times during daylight hours because of my work schedule. Almost every kind of sleeping mask I have ever tried pushes my eyes back into my skull. I don't have deep eye sockets. My eyeballs are seated at the front of my face, which is common in most Asian faces. And so I stay awake all day long when I desperately need sleep. Because of racism! I have never had a pair of glasses fit properly because I don't have a raised bridge on my nose. My nose will not support eyewear. It's like the world would rather I not see. I don't wear sunglasses because of this bizarre phenomenon. It seems that 1/4 or more of the earth's population is in the same boat as I when it comes to glasses. We are the boat people who are not supposed to sleep, not supposed to see, and not supposed to take pictures to witness what is happening to us!
If you can find me a non-racist pair of glasses, a sleeping mask that will not hold my head hostage and a face detection camera that understands that Asian people are not 'blinking,' then you will have found the beginning of true progress.


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If you find lamb too rich and maybe too strong for your taste, give these spiced burgers a try. The lamb burgers here are lightened and brightened by the addition of cilantro and mint to the patty mix, and if you want to lighten it even further, you can add some lime juice to it. To get it all just right, serve the burgers with the cooling herb salad and tart-sweet tamarind vinaigrette.
Tamarind paste is the brownish-reddish pulp in the pod-shaped fruit of the tamarind tree: you can buy tamarind pods at Asian and Latin American markets and scrape out your own paste, but you can find jars or cans of prepared tamarind paste there, too. Tamarind has a pleasant sweet-sour taste and is very commonly used in cooking throughout Southeast Asia, India, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Even if you've never used tamarind yourself, you've probably had a taste of it somewhere along the line, as it is used commercially to flavor candies, jams, chutneys, and soft drinks.
Oyster sauce is a Chinese condiment, used as a dip and in stir-fries and marinades. The best brands come from Hong Kong, but you may find domestic brands right in your local supermarket. Once opened, the container should be refrigerated. If you can't find oyster sauce but have some hoisin sauce, use that instead. It's different but nice.
These brightly flavored spiced lamb burgers are best cooked over a charcoal or wood fire, but they can be seared instead in a cast-iron pan, or cooked under an oven broiler. Maxine, one of my testers, set off her smoke alarm broiling her burgers in the oven, though, so you might want to start up the grill.–Cindy Pawlcyn
Spiced Lamb Burgers with Vietnamese Salad
- Quick Glance
- Serves 6
- For the tamarind vinaigrette
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons tamarind paste
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 6 tablespoons olive oil
- For the spiced lamb burgers
- 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 1/2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 1/2 serrano or jalapeno chile, seeded and minced
- 2 tablespoons chopped mint leaves
- 1 1/2 tablespoons minced cilantro leaves
- 1/2 sweet onion, minced
- Juice of 1/2 to 1 lime (optional)
- 1 pound ground lamb
- For the Vietnamese herb salad
- 2 scallions, white and light green parts only, cut into 1 1/2-inch julienne
- 2 Thai or serrano chiles, seeded and julienned
- 1/2 bunch basil, any kind, small leaves only
- 1/4 bunch cilantro, leaves only
- 1/4 bunch mint, small leaves only
- 1/2 bunch chives, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 1 bunch ancho cress or watercress, leaves only
- 1. To make the vinaigrette, combine the sugar and water in a small saute pan. Cook over medium heat, stirring, until the sugar has dissolved. Add the tamarind and soy sauce, and stir until smooth. Remove from the heat and whisk in the olive oil. Reserve until needed.
- 2. To make the spiced lamb burgers, first combine the garlic, oyster sauce, chile, mint, cilantro, onion, and lime juice, if desired, in a large bowl and mix well. Then mix in the ground lamb meat, making sure everything is well combined. Divide the mixture into 6 equal parts, or 12 if you want to make mini patties.
- 3. Moisten your hands with water before forming the patties, as this makes it easier. Shape the patties with the palm of your hand more than your fingers, and make them flat but not too thin: 1/2 to 3/4 inch thick is ideal, otherwise the burgers will overcook before they caramelize nicely. Regular patties should be 2 to 3 inches in diameter, minis about 1 1/2 inches.
- 4. When you're ready to serve, cook the lamb burgers to the desired doneness, about 1 1/2 minutes per side for rare, 2 minutes for medium.
- 5. Combine all the ingredients for the salad and toss it with just enough of the vinaigrette to coat. Serve the dish with the salad piled alongside or on top of the lamb patties and an extra drizzle of the vinaigrette over all.
If you make this recipe, snap a photo and hashtag it #LeitesCulinaria. We'd love to see your creations on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.


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Volume 43 introduces a number of new topics and revisits some familiar territory. The Web 2.0 world of social tagging and folksonomies is opened up for the first time in these pages by a first-time ARIST author, Jane Hunter, who provides a judicious assessment of the challenges and promise of collaborative classification. Karine Barzilai-Nahon, another first-timer, critically deconstructs the concept of gatekeeping, a perennial in the literature of information science. Her contribution is particularly noteworthy for turning the spotlight on the oft overlooked "gated," without whom, it need hardly be said, the much vaunted gatekeeper would be at something of a loose end.
Peter Willett is no stranger to ARIST, having co-authored a chapter on chemical structure processing in 1989. His comprehensive review of similarity methods in chemoinformatics (note the shift in nomenclature) shows how techniques for handling chemical information and data have evolved over the course of the last twenty years, propelled in no small measure by advances in machine learning and data mining. Chemical informatics is today a recognized sub-field within academia, straddling informatics, chemistry, and information science. Another emergent sub-field is geographical information science, its ramified literature reviewed here authoritatively for the first time by Jonathan Raper. Willett read Chemistry at Oxford, Raper Geography at Cambridge, so perhaps it is not altogether surprising that they should have been in the vanguard of chemical information science and geographic information science; no less significant from the perspective of future historians of information science is the fact that they hold chairs in the U.K.'s leading information science/information studies programs, at the University of Sheffield and City University (London), respectively. The developments they describe show that information science contributes productively to both theory and practice in cognate fields, while also ingesting ideas and techniques from outside—a growing trend that has been described recently in some detail (Cronin & Meho, 2008).
Changes in our field's nomenclature are nothing new. The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology began life as American Documentation. Having said that, the U.K.'s leading publication, Journal of Documentation, has persisted with its original title despite changes in ownership and prevailing fashions. In the past few years, there has been a mini-renaissance of interest in documentation as evidenced by the series of conferences organized by the Document Academy, a "loosely coupled international network of scholars, artists, and professionals, in various fields, interested in the exploration of the document as a useful approach, concept and tool, in Sciences, Arts, Business and Society, in general" (see thedocumentacademy.org). Whether we are witnessing a "document turn" in the wake of the cognitive and other such "turns" is debatable (Cronin, in press) but it is nonetheless refreshing to see Anglo-American scholars such as Michael Buckland and Ron Day, along with a hearty band of European and Nordic colleagues, going back to first principles and to the foundational writings of some of the field's pioneers, notably, Paul Otlet and Suzanne Briet. In the present volume, Niels Winfeld Lund raises the deceptively simple question, "What is a document?" The answer, naturally, depends on whether one is focusing primarily on the physical form and characteristics of a document, on the textual and semantic nature of a document, or on the social function and significance of a document. The ontological toing and froing is sure to continue.
In addition to traditional documents (and document collections), information specialists now routinely develop and manage a host of digital media, including structurally complex Web sites. What principles can be applied from traditional classification theory to facilitate the organization of multimedia information products and spaces? How can Web sites best be designed to ensure easy and effective use? And what exactly is meant by "information scent"? These are a few of questions addressed by Elin Jacob and Aaron Loehrlein in their chapter on information architecture, a term that has recently gained traction both within and outside the information science field, as evidenced by the creation of special interest groups, conferences, and certified courses.
Ontological problems of another kind are the focus of Neil Smalheiser and Vetle Torvik's chapter. The central issue can be framed thus: "Who exactly is Chen?" When there are thousands of authors with the same name, be it Chen or Smith, bibliographic confusion is assured. This is a real problem for information retrieval and Web searching, where incomplete or potentially ambiguous information can result in decreased retrieval performance and misattribution (on sloppy citation in general see, for example, Lee, Kang, Mitra, Giles, & On, 2007). The issue may seem trivial, but if your name is Chen and some of your citational credit is going to another Chen, then it quickly becomes a personal, nontrivial matter. The scale and intractability of the author name disambiguation problem are explicated here for the first time, along with a variety of techniques for reducing ambiguity.
I recall a conversation with Don Swanson in his office at the University of Chicago in the early eighties in which he described the possible link between Raynaud's disease and fish oil, though I confess that at the time I didn't grasp the potential significance of his work on logically related but not interconnecting data sets (e.g., Swanson, 1986); others—including Neil Smalheiser mentioned earlier—did. Twenty years on and there is a considerable body of research on what has come to be known as literature-based discovery (LBD), much of which has centered on the medical literature. Ronald Kostoff has published extensively on the subject of literature-related discovery (LRD), which includes LBD and also literature-assisted discovery (LAD), and here, with a (for ARIST) record-breaking number of co-authors (two of whom are medical doctors), he provides a forthright review of the subject, one that in draft form elicited uncommonly sharp reactions from our reviewers.
From the very beginning, ARIST has included chapters on information use and users, although today's preferred descriptor seems to be human information behavior (HIB). A great deal has been written on the subject of information seeking over the years, as Karen Fisher and Heidi Julien's bibliographic review makes clear, but there is a regrettable lack of cumulation and coherence. Models, frameworks and proto-theories are sourced from near and far (see Fisher, Erdelez, & McKechnie's [2005] compendium) but the whole is considerably less than the sum of the parts. Fisher and Julien may not concur with my assessment. They do, however, acknowledge that researchers in this busy sub-field seem to be talking earnestly to themselves; there are very few citations to the HIB literature from scholars outside information science which raises questions about the credibility of the sub-field.
Alesia Zuccala also reviews some of the information seeking literature as a prelude to exploring the implications of Open Access (OA) for lay persons. The OA movement, previously reviewed in ARIST by Carl Drott (2006), is as an initiative—and here I am oversimplifying—launched by and for the scientific community, the aim of which is to remove all barriers to accessing and disseminating scholarly information. But it also has potentially far-reaching social and economic entailments. Zuccala considers the implications of open access for non-experts, basing her analysis of the advantages and possible drawbacks on relevant research in the fields of both the public understanding of science and also science communication. This is a subject on which more needs to be said, and one that we shall likely revisit in the not too distant future.
As ARIST goes to press, so too does a Special Issue of the Journal of Information Science (34[4], 2008), edited by Adrian Dale and Alan Gilchrist, to celebrate what would have been the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Institute of Information Scientists in the U.K. This 250-page review of developments in information science includes chapters by many authors who have graced the pages of ARIST. I commend it to you, not least because it provides additional confirmation that our field remains keenly aware of its intellectual roots and alert to emerging trends in the wider information sphere.
Cronin, B. (in press). The sociological turn in information science. Journal of Information Science, 34(4).
Cronin, B., & Meho, L. I. (2008). The shifting balance of intellectual trade in information studies. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59(5), 551–564.
Drott, M. C. (2006). Open access. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 40, 79–109.
Fisher, K. E., Erdelez, S., & McKechnie, E. F. (Eds.). (2005). Theories of information behavior. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
Lee, D., Kang, J., Mitra, P., Giles, C. L., & On, B.-W. (2007). Are your citations clean? Communications of the ACM, 50(12), 33–38.
Swanson, D. R. (1989). Online search for logically-related noninteractive medical literatures: A systematic trial-and-error strategy. Journal of the Association for Information Science, 40(5), 356–358.


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British actress Elizabeth Hurley left Perth, Australia, on a sour note on Wednesday when she turned on a reporter who was firing questions at her sports star fiancé Shane Warne at the airport.
The couple was preparing to jet out of the city after his cricket team, the Melbourne Stars, lost to rivals Perth Scorcher when TV journalist Caty Price tried to quiz Warne about the defeat.
An angry Hurley then stormed up to the reporter and clipped her heels with her suitcase, before growling, "Oh gracious me, do you always stand right in the middle of people?"
Undeterred, Price asked the "Bedazzled" star, "How do you feel about last night's game Liz?", prompting Hurley to swing round and say "I feel that you should [bleep] off."
Explaining the incident on network Channel 10, Price said, "He (Warne) did not say much and then Liz clipped the back of my heels and said 'Don't you know it is rude to stand in front of people.'
"Then I asked her what she thought of the game last night, she spun around on her heels and mouthed close up to
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Now, to be fair, I have talked about pieces of this in my last article. In fact, I've been harping on two aspects of this: the use of Google+ (which I'm going to shorten to just G+ from here on out) and becoming an authority in your market.
The problem with the whole "authority" thing is that it can take time. What I want to do with this article is help you get some good rankings quickly.
Actually, what I want to do with this article is help you to absolutely crush it on Google.
The thing is, the new Panda update, followed by the Search+ changes, have made it so that anyone doing any kind of business without a G+ page is foolish.
Understand that before the Panda update I was a little G+ agnostic. There just wasn't enough going on, and some of the "sharing" features (such as the +1) didn't seem to be getting enough usage. However, with the growth of G+ has come more sharing. Not only that, but the Search+ additions have made it worthwhile to actually offer an incentive for +1s.
On my own G+ page I'm doing this as well, by giving people who +1 and add me to their circles a special report containing information that I'll never give anywhere else.
All of that is a long way of saying that G+ is now important for businesses of any kind. As with Facebook, it allows an impressive level of engagement with your customers.
For the purposes of this article, however, G+ can receive preferential search treatment. The emphasis here is on the word "can," as it's important to make sure that you do things correctly.
Not only that, but G+ being so completely spidered by the search engine means that posts you create on G+ that are important, and get heavily shared, will be "findable" years down the road. In fact, great posts on G+ can easily "take on a life of their own" and be spread and shared around in ways that simply are not possible with Facebook.
Not only that, but the "circles" concept allows you to segment people in ways that are frankly awesome, besides being incredibly intuitive. Imagine having one circle that is prospects or leads, and another that is customers. You can now vary what each sees through their G+ streams based on their relationship to you. In other words, you can give different information to a prospect than to a long time customer.
With the background information out of the way, let's talk about how you can absolutely crush your competition on Google.
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AJ Kohn of the BlindFiveYearOld has an amazingly complete post regarding search optimization of G+ profiles and pages.
If you want to pretty much own Google for relevant search phrases, it starts with making sure your profile is well optimized. Some of the things in your profile matter, while other things don't.
Search phrases that are relevant to your business should show up in your introduction and/or in your employment sections. Understand that (at least for now) the "employment" can be more than just the name of your business; it can include tasks. As an example, if you're a painter, besides putting the name of your company, you can also list "painter" in the employment section, and "painter" in your introduction.
Next, you'll want to get as many people adding your profile to their circles as possible. The more people that add you, the more likely it is that you'll appear in searches. I even give incentives for people to do this. Get your friends and family to create G+ accounts and add you to their circles. Contact past customers, let them know you have a G+ page, and see if they'll add you. When you have done business with someone, offer to give a discount to them if they'll add you. The more people that put you in their circles, the better.
The more people that put you in their G+ circles, the more likely your profile will show up prominently in searches for phrases that matter to you (phrases that should be contained in your introduction and employment sections).
Next, take phrases that are important to you and post some really good content on G+. Unlike Facebook, there is no limit to the size you can make a post — at least, none that I have found yet, and I've had clients post some really long stuff.
Posts like that tend to get lots of +1s, which means the post itself can show up prominently in searches on top of your profile showing up. That now means your profile can rank well, and individual posts can rank well on top of it.
When you do that, make sure that the search phrase shows up in the first sentence, and then naturally throughout the body … and finally, again in the last sentence. That will tell the "relevancy engine" within Google that your post should rank well. Again, get as many +1s as you can (fiverr.com is great for this).
Next, let's look at the "Pages" feature of G+. Create a page and title it the keyword that you are targeting. Again, provide incentives for people to add you to their circles and +1 your page. This is most easily done by having some good content on your page worthy of people +1'ing it and adding it. However, offer some kind of report, or a special discount or something to people that do.
This can help your page to rank well also. Notice what is happening here. You can get your personal profile to rank well, a post to rank well, and your G+ Page to rank well.
You can help this to happen even faster by implementing the Link Wheel concept I talked about in a previous article.
In fact, once you throw link wheels into the picture, and using fiverr.com to get +1s to those, you can begin to see good rankings for your G+ Profile page, individual posts across your G+ Profile, individual posts on your G+ Pages, your G+ Pages, posts from your link wheel, and so on.
I am not kidding that I have local clients where they have three items that show up in the local search area — and then the entire rest of the first page, and some of the second page as well, is nothing but their pages.
It creates the perception within the market that they are the only real company, and everyone else is just an "also ran." This allows them to completely own the market. One client (a chiropractor) went from struggling in a tiny little dumpy office to having multiple docs working for him in a premium location in a single year.
The idea here is to utilize G+ and its various features, along with +1s and circle adds to get Google to see you as important in your market. Add into that the "verification" of your pages, having Google view you as an important author so that you show up that way as well, and your "control" of Google search can be extremely complete.
Now throw in the syndication of content out to other sources (see my other articles for how this can be done quickly and easily), Facebook likes, and so on.
Here's the thing: few people actually do any of this stuff. That means that those few that do, can dominate the searches, and through that, quickly dominate their entire market area.
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Frederick Walter Couch, aged 28, arrived in Jamaica in 1886, according to a notice in the Gleaner of November 10th of that year. He left behind him three children and their mother, to come to Jamaica as a master tailor in the employ of Richard Recuero, whose business, El Fenix, was located at 117 Harbour Street.
We don't know how and when Frederick met Ida. They were married 6 May 1891 at St. George's College, then located at 26 North Street, by the Rev. Fr. Patrick J. Hogan, S.J. Frederick stated that he was a bachelor, a merchant, aged 31 … he was actually 33 … father, Frederick Couch, and gave his address as Lilias Cottage, Hope, St. Andrew. Ida was listed as a spinster, age 21, of 101 Harbour Street. No father was named on the record but Joseph Da Costa was one of the witnesses along with an Agnes Maud MacDonald.
Frederick had apparently parted company with Recuero and Company, a provisional order of bankruptcy having been filed against the company according to the Gleaner of October 20, 1891, and had entered into partnership with Octave Lay of 29 King Street.


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Congratulations on the Ace tonight Caleb!!! Also, I'd gladly pay another dollar to see Jose's chain out on 17 again!
According to the spreadsheet that is supposed to be kept by the league directors, there is only $647.50 in the ace fund. Sad, I too thought that it was over $1000....huh......
Oh for God's sake - do we really need to start another freakin' b%tch session. Damn it is getting really old, and I thought it would settle down after the departure of someone eastbound.Take it offline Jack!


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The University of Kentucky have announced that Rachel Newman Baker will take up the role of senior associate athletic director at the school.
Newman Baker joins the school after leaving her post as managing director of enforcement for development and investigations with the NCAA.
The announcement, made on Tuesday, confirmed the Kentucky native had left her former post after 12 years.
UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart said he was delighted to have secured the services of Newman Baker, who will begin work in Kentucky on July8.
"As college athletics continues to change, it is important that we support and protect our coaches, student-athletes and program at the highest level," he said.
"Rachel brings a wealth of experience on a national level and a fondness to return home to Kentucky. We are excited to have her, Brandon and their girls join our family," Barnhart said.
"To have Rachel work with one of the most respected compliance directors in the country in Sandy Bell gives the University of Kentucky great confidence as we move into these challenging times in college athletics."
The ukathletics.com press release also confirmed Newman Baker will report to Sandy Bell, the executive association athletics director for student services, and serve as the liaison between the compliance office and Kentucky's football and marketing offices.
Newman Baker leaves the NCAA after graduating from her post as director of agent, gambling and amateurism activities in 2011.
"Over the past 12 years at the NCAA, I'm proud of the work we did to promote student-athlete well-being while upholding the integrity of college athletics," she said.
"I'm looking forward to applying my skills and knowledge in my new role at the University of Kentucky under the leadership of Mitch Barnhart and Sandy Bell. I have the utmost respect for the standards of excellence by which they and their staff operate the UK athletics program.
"My family and I are excited to return to our home state and I can't wait to be back on a college campus alongside the student-athletes, coaches and administrators."


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50 Cent Says The Movie Industry Will Get New Laws Passed That Will Help The Music Industry
from the say-what-now? deptHmm. Last fall, we wrote about 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson's) excellent appearance on CNBC, where he said he didn't worry about file sharing because he saw it as a part of the marketing:
"the people who didn't purchase the material, they end up at the concert."That seemed rather forward looking of him. Now, however, he seems a bit more ambivalent. Copycense points us to an interview with 50, where he at first notes that the music industry is doing fine... but then busts out the claim that they need to pass new laws to help the industry:
"I don't think the music business is dying," 50 says in the interview. "I think we're just experiencing technology and we just have to pass new laws, eventually, to change how music is being distributed. There's no lack of interest in great material, I don't see people 'not' going to the night club or enjoying themselves when the song comes on. It's just about re-developing what the music business is. It's easier to download a song that's three minutes long, probably about three or four seconds for you to download it, it's easier to steal...The technology is so new and what we're actually doing on the web that we have to develop that."But... uh... wasn't he just saying that the file sharing acted as marketing for his other lines of business? He seems to go back and forth between recognizing this and saying that new laws are needed, even though it's not clear why. Then he claims that those new laws are coming... just as soon as Hollywood learns that movies are being shared online (apparently 50 hasn't paid attention to what's popular on the file sharing sites these days):
"And those things won't actually happen, the effective laws won't happen until it starts to damage film. When you got your blockbuster film doing $120 million in a weekend and then that blockbuster film that they spent $120 million comes out and nobody goes to see but everybody watched it because they could pull it off their computer and see it on HD at home on a theater. They'll change those laws."Except, uh, those movies all can be downloaded, and are downloaded... and people still go to theater, just like they "still go to the night club" or to concerts, because of the social experience of going out. It's why some of the most successful movies are also the most downloaded. It's why even as it's quite easy to download a film (contrary to what he appears to believe), box office results keep hitting record highs. And, it's not like the MPAA isn't working hard to try to change those laws, but (thankfully) there doesn't seem to be enough appetite for the type of massive copyright changes the MPAA would like to see.


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