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Danilo Gallinari's missed layup in the pressurized last seconds of the Nuggets' game on Saturday at the Los Angeles Lakers could reasonably be dismissed as nothing more than an unfortunate circumstance – the basketball gods simply blowing the ball off the rim at a bad time. He'll get many more chances this season and beyond, and is sure to make many more than he'll miss.
Fair enough.
But right now, what that miss helped to represent is the overall issue of making plays when it counts. It is the Nuggets single-biggest red flag. For all of their new faces, these Nuggets generally have the same strengths and weaknesses of last year's post-Melo trade team, the most troubling of which is collapsing when it's winning time.
To this point, the Nuggets have had two chances to win close games and are 0-for-2.
Against the Lakers, the Nuggets were up 87-84 with 3:40 remaining. Then this happened:
– The Lakers outscored the Nuggets, 8-2
– The Nuggets shot 1-for-8 during that span, 0-for-3 from the free throw line
– The Lakers shot 2-for-6 during that span, 4-for-5 from the free throw line
The Nuggets lost, 92-89.
And that is what it is, except two nights earlier at Portland the Nuggets were tied at 98 with 5:57 remaining. Then this happened:
– Portland outscored the Nuggets, 13-4
– The Nuggets shot 1-for-8 during that span, 2-2 from the free throw line
– Portland shot 5-for-9 during that span, 1-for-1 from the free throw line
The Nuggets lost, 111-102.
And maybe that could be dismissed as well, if this hadn't happened against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game 5 of the first-round playoff series between the two teams last season. The Nuggets were up seven, 89-82, with 4:39 left in the game.
And then…
– Oklahoma City outscored Denver, 18-8
– The Nuggets shot 1-for-10 during that span, 6-for-8 from the free throw line
– The Thunder shot 6-for-11 during that span, 4-for-5 from the free throw line
The Nuggets lost the game, 100-97, and the series 4-1. They lost three of the four games by four points or less.
This season, in both instances, Danilo Gallinari – the player the team would like to see grow into a starring role – has had a rough go. He's gone a combined 0-for-6 in the stretch of the games against the Lakers and Portland, splitting those an even 0-for-3 apiece.
But this isn't a Gallinari issue alone.
In a league where the best teams aren't separated by much, particularly in a conference with as much parity as the rough-and-tumble Western Conference, what those are able to do when minutes grow short, matters. It matters to have a defined plan down the stretch. It matters to know what players and plays you can go to when you simply have to have a bucket.
This season is in its infancy, which means the Nuggets have more than enough time to figure things out. But they must figure it out in order to reach their full potential. Until they do, the Nuggets will be uber-entertaining and win a bunch of games, but will find success always has a ceiling.
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Not a Kubrick but a Ciboys, I have never seen these before. Ciboys STARWISH Figure Strange figures.
Very unique. I kinda like them. So I see a Stormtrooper, Yoda, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, and 3PO. I think the last guy is Luke... who's the purple dude?
Nice stuff, I am not sure if I will get these guys yet will all the stuff coming out this year. How are they compared to a Kuby as to size, roughly the same height?
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O God, You are my God; early will I seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.—Psalm 63:1
And here's a little prayer that was made by Lady Julian: "O God, of Thy goodness give me Thyself, for Thou art enough for me, and I may ask nothing that is less and find any full honors to Thee. God give me Thyself!"
We make out that a revival is everybody running around falling on everybody else's neck and saying "Forgive me for thinking a bad thought about you. Forgive me for that nickel that I forgot to pay back." Or we say a revival consists of people getting very loud and noisy. Well, that might happen in a revival, but the only kind of revival that would be here when the worlds are on fire is the revival that begins by saying, "Oh God, give me Thyself! For nothing less than Thee will do."
"Anything less than God," Julian said, "ever me wanteth." I like that little expression. Translated into modern English it means, "It won't be enough." The Attributes of God, 32.
"Oh God, of Thy goodness give me Thyself.... Amen."
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merrysxm needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 59 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
Frootie Juices
40 something mum of teens, recently arrived in grey UK after 30 odd years in the Caribbean and South Africa (don't ask why!). I've worked in Butterfly Farms and Spa's (with Juice bars), mainly tourism based in the Caribbean, advertising and photography in South Africa.
I'm starting a juice / smoothie / health snack bar in a gym in Haywards Heath, West Sussex (because there isn't one). It will be a small operation starting with a portable cart and stands but its in an ideal position on street level ... so the opportunity to grab passerby's as well as the gym customers is there for the taking ... but I need something eye catching, colorful and fun to do the job!
I don't want to ram health benefits down throats of customers, I want to create a young, light atmosphere with a nod to the benefits, to encourage high returns and word of mouth ... come to the juice bar and lighten up your day with a giggle at the same time (much needed in the winter of the UK)
- Gym members and athletes - focussed on getting their desired results, good nutrition plays an enormous role in this
- Parking and walk by's - generic indeed but within that group would be:- mothers with young children/teenagers who wish to encourage better choices when shopping on the high street; older folk who are interested in trying something new, reasonable, tasty and nutritious
- Office and shop workers - quick, healthy meals on the run
- Healthy eaters and Vegetarians who are looking for alternatives from the usual plethora of coffee bars that saturate the town
- 20-50 yr olds interested in maintaining their figures etc.
- I like the idea of Mexican design for this concept - see cover of "Mexicolor Design" book attached - a colourful look for Haywards Heath indeed
- not elegant, prissy or overworked
- Bear in mind I'll have to share gym's logo on window signage ... see http://www.blueskypt.co.uk for logo (orange and deep blue colours)
- I want to use pistashio colours - lime green and pink/purple - for the interior because I want to avoid using the usual pastiche of orange/green (the great favourite for juice bars) - the logo colour scheme doesn't have to be those pistachio colours but hopefully complementary
- i like Andy Warhol's 50's line drawings of shoes, fruit etc (his magazine designs before becoming famous) - perhaps incorporating a line drawing of a lemon to dot an "i"?
- also like his use of block colour in the silk screen portraits
- okay with breaking the words into two lines or one line
- I wish to use this design as the basis for all my marketing and hopefully I will expand this business into a micro-business tour de force!
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mwolverton needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 56 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
Cathedral Partners is a web 2.0 website for connecting buyers and sellers of privately held companies. We are redeveloping our webportal and website and building them on a new platform. We need a new design and look to give to our Developers to turn into our home page and front-end pages. We need this immediately so that they can integrate it for a very public launch in 4 weeks. Speed is very important!
Cathedral Partners http://www.cathedralpartners.com
Cathedral Partners is a web 2.0 website for connecting buyers and sellers of privately held companies. We are redeveloping our webportal and website and building them on a new platform. We need a new design and look to give to our Developers to turn into our home page and front-end pages. We need this immediately so that they can integrate it for a very public launch in 4 weeks. Speed is very important!
Our users will be executives who need a simple, professional, clean, navigation-friendly design without information clutter. Pictures of people working, money, etc are not important to us or our users. They are all about digesting meaningful content. They will loose patience immediately with a design that attempts to be clever or cute at the expense of allowing them to find and digest content quickly and easily. It needs to be professional, simple, and easy and we want them to start searching our "community" immediately.
the two main things that we need people to do is 1. sell a business through us or 2. buy a business through us. Those two things need to be the most obvious things on this site.
We would like to use blue and green as our new colors. Blue should represent Buyers. This means that the buyers tab (and other buyer specific things) should probably be blue. Sellers will be green.
We like the blue and green shades used by WebEx. This will provide a good example http://support.webex.com/support
. Feel free to play with the colors but these should be a safe bet for you. We are ultimately looking for 2 equal colors that are inviting yet professional.
Our original colors were red and grey. You should feel free to change the colors of our logo as well. It is located here http://michaelwolverton.com/cathedr…rslogo.jpg
The font is Microsoft Yi Baiti' just change the colors from red and grey to blue and green or whatever you suggest.
Microsoft Yi Baiti' but feel free explore other similar, professional fonts.
The four templates:
1. Home Page:
Here is the template for our new new Homepage http://www.michaelwolverton.com/homepagenew
please expand the page if it is blurry to you.
Our logo will be on the upper left hand side with login, password and telephone number, and a "contact us" button for email (not shown on the template) on the right.
Two tabs, labelled "Buy a Business" and "Sell a business" should be found between the logo and the login information. You can experiment and move these tabs to the right if it looks better and feel free to round the edges or improve upon he tabs. We want them to be inviting.
The majority of this page will be a a flash box/element that you DO NOT need to create. You need to build everything around the flash box but just leave space for us to insert the flash piece.
We are debating the idea of adding a tag line at the top of this page. It may be something like this "Buy or Sell a private business". Feel free to include this under the logo or to the right of it...or leave it off. It is up to you.
The seller tab should be green & and the buyer blue. Please feel free to experiment with different shades and tab styles. Our logo will also need to be redesigned to match the blue / green color scheme.
2. Seller page
Here is the template that will be used for both the "buyer" and "seller" page. This template is an example of the seller page http://www.michaelwolverton.com/sellerpagenew
Feel free to experiment with moving the "steps" (create a deal, approve matched investors, register) to the top of the page and moving the "stats" to the left.
- Getting Started - Create a Deal: The seller page has four elements: left hand side navigation menu, the 3 steps of getting started, the form, a getting started button and statistics from our solution. This is the default page after selecting Sellers from the home page.
Please experiment with different layouts while also maintaining the green color theme. For example, we would like to see a design that has the 3 steps organized horizontally rather than vertically.
Users should clearly be able to tell visually (I used dark Green with larger font) that I am on the getting started menu item in the Seller Tab. Feel free to use "white space" as long as they are aware that they are on the seller tab.
Users should clearly understand which step of getting started they are on.
Here is the template that will be used for the matches (of prospective buyers) that appear after you post a company for sale http://www.michaelwolverton.com/sellermatchesnew
- Getting Started - Review Matches: We would like to see a design that maximizes the readability of the matches table.
Here is the template that will be used for written content http://www.michaelwolverton.com/sel…enefitsnew
This page will have written content on it. There is a possibility that we will have screen shots of our solution on this page as well.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The National Rifle Association will be the title sponsor for the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Texas next month.
NRA's sponsorship with Texas Motor Speedway was announced during the track's media day Monday. The April 13 race, the first scheduled night race of the season, will be known as the NRA 500.
The deal comes at a time when the NRA is involved in a renewed debate on gun violence in the wake of the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
This is not the NRA's first title sponsorship in NASCAR. The group sponsored a Nationwide race at Atlanta last September.
TMS president Eddie Gossage says the NRA has been involved for several years as a partner of the Speedway Motorsports Inc., which owns the track.
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As Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood battles to regain the power it lost when former President Mohammed Morsi was deposed last month, Egyptian Christians are once again in the Islamists' cross-hairs.
According to an Associated Press report, many among the Muslim Brotherhood and its backers blame Egypt's Christians for somehow masterminding Morsi's downfall.
While events in Cairo are more controlled (for now) thanks to a larger army presence, Christians residents in southern Egypt are under daily assault.
Assiut is a large city on the Nile that Joseph, Mary and the infant Jesus likely visited during their flight from King Herod two thousand years ago. Nearly half of its one million residents today are Christian. But they live in constant fear of an increasingly agitated Muslim majority.
The AP article describe recent and frequent anti-Christian marches through the streets of Assiut. During these demonstrations, Muslim children, under the direction of their elders, daub violent anti-Christian graffiti all over the town's main streets, while the adults chant threatening slogans against the followers of Jesus.
The Christians' only recourse is to hide, as local authorities are too weak to take on the popular Muslim Brotherhood gangs.
Many of the Christians said they are certain the situation will soon evolve into property damage and physical attacks, even as the world looks on and does nothing.
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31243, Hymns, Redeemer of Israel, no. 6
1. Redeemer of Israel,
Our only delight,
On whom for a blessing we call,
Our shadow by day
And our pillar by night,
Our King, our Deliv'rer, our all!
2. We know he is coming
To gather his sheep
And lead them to Zion in love,
For why in the valley
Of death should they weep
Or in the lone wilderness rove?
3. How long we have wandered
As strangers in sin
And cried in the desert for thee!
Our foes have rejoiced
When our sorrows they've seen,
But Israel will shortly be free.
4. As children of Zion,
Good tidings for us.
The tokens already appear.
Fear not, and be just,
For the kingdom is ours.
The hour of redemption is near.
5. Restore, my dear Savior,
The light of thy face;
Thy soul-cheering comfort impart;
And let the sweet longing
For thy holy place
Bring hope to my desolate heart.
6. He looks! and ten thousands
Of angels rejoice,
And myriads wait for his word;
He speaks! and eternity,
Filled with his voice,
Re-echoes the praise of the Lord.
Text: William W. Phelps, 1792-1872; adapted from Joseph Swain, 1761-1796. Included in the first LDS hymnbook, 1835.
Music: Freeman Lewis, 1780-1859
Exodus 13:21-22
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Kuali OLE was founded by a partnership of research libraries led by IU, which now includes the Bloomsbury Library Management System consortium, Lehigh University, Duke University, North Carolina State University, University of Chicago, University of Florida, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University. The partners have pooled resources and expertise with investments from the Mellon Foundation to develop Kuali OLE.
The OLE project was launched in 2009 with a $2.3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation and matching funds from the Kuali OLE founding partners. With this latest grant, IU has now received more than $4 million from Mellon for the project.
The OLE team will work to expand the community of libraries partnering with the project and fine-tune the software for a version 2.0 release later this year. The University of Chicago and Lehigh University will be the first to implement OLE this summer.
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In one of the year's most closely watched congressional races, Republican Dan Benishek and Democrat Gary McDowell are batting to succeed Bart Stupak as the representative of Michigan's First District. We wrote about that race here.
It may be a close contest. A poll released by the McDowell campaign a week or so ago had Benishek leading McDowell 41-38, which is within the margin of error.
Third party candidate Glenn Wilson, a conservative, was preferred by 12 percent of respondents. Since third party candidates often fade on election day, Benishek may be a better position than the poll suggests.
McDowell may also suffer by virtue of having endorsed the idea that medical care for seniors nearing the end of life is a resource that needs to be rationed. McDowell seemed to agree with an audience member who referred to this bit of left-liberal dogma as an "inconvenient truth." Let's hope that it proves inconvenient for Gary McDowell.
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Sonos Swings Into Google's Playground
Apr 10, 2014 3:29 PM PT
A new partnership between Sonos and Google means that users of the Google Play Music app for Android now can stream music to their Sonos speakers directly from the app itself.
Available in 25 countries, the new capability effectively eliminates the need to use Sonos' Controller app as an intermediary. It represents Sonos' first such integration partnership with a major music streaming service, but it likely won't be the last, Kristen Bender, Sonos' senior product manager for music services, told TechNewsWorld.
"In betting on streaming, we look to bring thousands of services to millions of music lovers worldwide," Bender said. "While we started with Google Play Music, we look to provide this same experience to users across multiple services."
For now, however, the capability is Android-only -- "no date has been set at this time for further consideration for iOS," she said.
'A More Immediate User Experience'
Sonos originated in the PC era, when music typically was stored on local hard drives, so "it made sense to sync from there," Mark Mulligan, media analyst with MIDiA Consulting, told TechNewsWorld.
While the majority of listeners still do things that way, "things are changing, and Google Play is aimed at changing that," Mulligan pointed out. So, in many ways, "this is a recognition of the fact that we're moving into the post-PC era."
From a user-experience perspective, "it is much more easy and elegant to be able to play directly from your phone -- it's a more immediate user experience," he added.
'Google Is Playing Catch-Up'
Systems like Sonos and others "are a growing way for audiences to consume music," agreed radio futurologist James Cridland. "Most of them have access to Spotify, Rdio and other music services, so Google is playing catch-up here: This move will just put Google Play Music on a similar footing to the other services."
The unavailability of Google Play Music on Sonos surely has dissuaded some Sonos owners from signing up for the Google service; conversely, "its availability on Sonos should mean current Google Music users will consider a Sonos system in future. This is a win-win for the two companies," Credland told TechNewsWorld.
In general, Google Music has appeared to be "a hobby" for Google and "something they haven't taken too seriously," he added. "It still lags behind Rdio and Spotify for social features."
Both competitors have a multiplatform strategy, for example, and Spotify in particular is available on a large number of devices, he pointed out.
So "this deal does indicate that Google is taking its music product more seriously," Credland concluded.
'A Win for Both Companies'
Sonos, meanwhile, is "facing more competition in the whole-home wireless streaming market these days, as companies such as Samsung, Apple, Bose, DTS and Qualcomm have launched or announced their own flavors of wireless streaming," Chris Boylan, editor-in-chief at Big Picture Big Sound, told TechNewsWorld.
Two things that set Sonos apart, Boylan suggested, are "integration with a large number of different streaming apps -- Spotify, Pandora, Internet Radio, iTunes and now Google Play Music -- and ownership of the complete user experience.
"With Sonos, you don't have to piece together a system or worry about complicated set-up for multiple components," he explained. "You just download the Sonos Controller app, buy a Sonos speaker, connect the speaker to your network by pressing a couple of buttons, and you're done. Everything else is controlled by the Sonos app."
Now, with support for Google Play Music, "you can send your Google Play playlist directly to any Sonos speaker -- it doesn't stream the music through your phone or tablet, so you don't have to worry about WiFi dropouts or having your music interrupted by system sounds or an incoming phone call," Boylan added. "It's very similar to Apple's AirPlay, but for Android devices instead."
That, in turn, adds up to "a win for both companies," he concluded, "as it makes it easier for current Sonos owners to stream from their Google Play Music accounts, and it allows Google Play users to easily send their music anywhere in their homes without the range limitations and inherent drawbacks of a Bluetooth connection."


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One in the eye for the BPI...
...and the CPS and the Police. Wounds being licked all over the place.
Alan Ellis, the former admin of music BitTorrent tracker OiNK, was acquitted of conspiracy to defraud by a Middlesbrough court today. In a landmark trial, the 26-year-old stood accused of making $300,000 in user donations from the invite-only service, which members used to share high quality and pre-release music. Ellis' …
"He had been arrested in a dawn raid by Cleveland police in October 2007, acting on intelligence from the BPI."
So the BPI called their tamed police on this guy, no doubt after some serious lobbying to get it the political will, then and this is the unforgivable bit, they filmed it.
It is one thing to make these cop shows which show raids on dealers who have a load of drugs in their kitchen or something, but it was far from clear that this was an open and shut case.
Sue the Police and BPI !
Au contraire, mon brave.
I think the jury very clearly understood the situation. They did was the Judge-in-the-RIAA-Pocket decided not to do in Sweden, listen to the actual arguments and submissions from the BPI. This is a verdict that shows, where 12 good men and true are involved, legal justice can be served.
The full costs for the trial, and the Cleveland plod overtime, and the damages claim that Oink should submit, should directly be billed to the BPI.
"The defendant made nearly £200,000 by exploiting other people's work without permission. The case shows that artists and music companies need better protection."
The case shows no such thing. The jury said "not guilty", so he is not guilty, so the BPI's allegations were without merit. Yet they persist. Defamation charges, anyone?
I really don't care that other jurisdictions think deep-linking and providing search services can make the small man liable (but it apparently doesn't do that to google?), or rather, I do, and I think they are criminally wrong. No wonder the BPI likes them.
"The defendant made nearly £200,000 by exploiting other people's work without permission. The case shows that artists and music companies need better protection."
No this is just WRONG. He made £200,000 by getting people to register with his site. He did not charge for downloads. He did not censor what was put up for downloading. Just like Google in that respect.
The BPI should be sued for damages over this, as well as damages done to his reputation and loss of income on what has BEEN PROVEN TO BE LEGAL.
NOT been proven to be ILLEGAL
There's a huge difference. The prosecution didn't prove their case with respect to the charges that were brought. Quite how making money by providing exactly the service that was being paid for constitutes conspiracy to defraud is beyond me - surely they'd have stood a better chance on something along the lines of aiding and abetting or one of the other conspiracy offences...
Am I the only person here that thinks this wasnt really the correct outcome? He was blatantly taking the piss and making a profit from running the site. Almost every single torrent on there was for copyrighted content, he was morally vastly in the wrong. Legally speaking, he's as guilty as goodle but with more focussed intent.
I cant believe everyone here thinks this is the correct moral outcome?
there is a distinct difference between moral and legal. This guy did nothing illegal. I bet you can use google to search for child pornography. Should we arrest the google owners? MSN will no doubt have links to bomb making sites encouraging people to blow up others. Should they be locked away too?
They went about it the wrong way and paid the heavy price for it.
are neither here nor there.
The BPI chose to fight this on a Legal battle field, more over one that they had stacked heavily in their favour.
The fact that they are claiming he is guilty after the court declared his innocence speaks volumes about their real respect for the law.
The moral issue it is not really what's being supported as far as I can see, it's the legal issue.
The fact is, he did not provide the files themselves, it was entirely user driven. Had they found him guilty for the actions of the userbase, it would have had an earth-shatteringly negative effect on the internet as a whole, and would effectively mandate every website owner that allows user-generated content to monitor and censor all of said content.
It should be painfully obvious by now, that this simply isn't practical for any site with a fairly large userbase, and I'm sure you can understand, this would be a "bad thing".
While I don't dispute that his intent was very probably less than honourable, the fact is, this was still the best outcome for theat irritatingly vague concept of "the greater good". The BPI's mistake was going after him, instead of the actual infringers themselves who used the site. It appears to have been a gamble on their part to try to sidestep the difficulties in identifying the site's members and proving their guilt, whilst still making some money out of it.
As a result of all this, I'm pleased with the outcome of the case. I just hope that people learn from this, and instead of trying to take out service providers, focus instead on those who are actually committing the acts of piracy.
"Almost every single torrent on there was for copyrighted content, he was morally vastly in the wrong. Legally speaking, he's as guilty as goodle but with more focussed intent."
So is every torrent through BT, and they are making a profit carrying that traffic. The question before the court is, "Is that fraud". As far as I can see, the answer is no, and the only reason for trying a fraud charge was because the police could then seize the money under the proceeds of crime act. WTF were they thinking, fraud!??
As to whether its moral to run a bit torrent tracker. If you make it a crime to run a torrent tracker, then you need to go arrest the BBC, whose iPlayer was originally a torrent based player.
You may not like that smugglers use the ferry to bring their goods in, but just because it's easier to go after the ferry operator doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.
BPI should have gone to court to seize the log files for copyright infringers using the site, then pursued them, but he was just such an easier target, and it appears the police thought they could use the TV to pre-demonize him enough to make it a sure win.
This is the right outcome, even the most healthy outcome.
It's just a pity that no business could ever set up in the UK if they may face a copyright claim, no Flickr, not YouTube startup, no MP3 ripping software even, because the police would raid their offices, seize their assets and shut them down on malicious 'fraud' charges.
the web site was every bit as Immoral as the BIP (RIAA) conduct their own affairs.
RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, PRS, IFPI, ASCAP, Ect:
# Sony BMG
# Warner Music Group
# Universal Music Group
MPAA, MPA, FACT, AFACT, Ect:
# Sony Pictures
# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)
# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)
# The Walt Disney Company
# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)
# Paramount Pictures Viacom—(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)
And these companies are all owned by these few, these are the companies that dictate our culture by promoting theirs & blocking indie artists:
# BMG (sony)
# Time Warner
# Viacom
# News Corp (Fox)
# General Electric
RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio
"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free ... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"
He should sue the BPI for making a false allegation against him and the police for turning it into a media circus. Their comments are libelous.
If Google was a UK startup company then the BPI would be sending the police after them, and the police would be releasing private details of Googles bank accounts, and inviting the TV cameras in to film the raid, in operation 'approved by the Queen'.
He has common carrier status, they know this and the choice of name 'Arc Royal' suggests the police knew he had common carrier status even at the start.
Just because he was an easier target for them to go after, doesn't excuse their actions, they need to go after INFRINGERS, not the family of infringers, not ISPs, not Blogs, websites who link to infringment, INFRINGERS.
Part of the problem with the jury is they'll either not be technical enough to understand and could therefore be swayed by a convincing argument they don't understand, or if they are technical enough they're probably at it themselves.
The same applies to the judges, although as we've seen with TPB some know too much.
"This is a hugely disappointing verdict which is out of line with decisions made in similar cases around the world, such as The Pirate Bay."
Ah yes, the Pirate bay trial, where the defence was amending the charge sheet as the trial was underway, AND the judge was found to be a member of a pro-copyright lobby group and it WASN'T a conflict of interest.
So they're disappointed that it wasn't a kangaroo stitch up and the correct legal principles were followed?
Expect TDL(tm) to be taken out for dinner on a lot mor yachts in the near future
I suspect the only reason he did win this case is because it was a criminal prospecution with a jury trial. I think the next move we will see will be for the BPI to sue him in civil court for secondary and vicarious infringement - a case he will find much more difficult to win.
I woudl suggest he files for costs and loss of earnings as soon as possible so he can defend the next inevitable step by the BPI.
By the way my thumbs down was with regards to what will happen next, not the judgement in this case.
The BPI were stupid to go for a criminal prosecution, they faced a huge risk with a jury trial especially for conspiracy to defraud.
If they wanted to win they should have gone the litigation route and vicarious infringement, it would be difficult for him to argue he did not benefit financially and would probably have concluded with a judgement against him with far higher damages than the criminal case would have got them.
Thankfully the BPI went the sensationalist route and paid the consequences for being stupid - but as I said, I don't think he is off the hook just yet.
If that criminal libel act is still in force, he should go after them hard. When the court says he is not guilty and they repeat a blatant libel like that in the face of a court decision, he needs to go for a slap down.
The BPI would find out how little support this has in the UK. How many YouTube users think that Google should be arrested for fraud because users post copyright material on You Tube?
Their position is undefended and it would give everyone the opportunity to discuss what Mandelson is up to with his 'Digital Economy Bill', AKA 'Ban YouTube, Torrents, MP3 ripping software, etc. Bill' and pretend that's somehow good for Britain and not just Mandelson and his yacht owning friends)
So your logic is that the jury were either too stupid or that they do it themselves?..
The Fraud Act 2006, if he was indeed charged under it, requires a number of criteria to be met, which of the section 2-4 of the Act could possibly apply -- did he make false representation, failed to disclose information or abused his position???
... but they closed it to comments, so here goes one last time:
"A man who ran an illegal pirate music site which allowed 21 million downloads had almost $300,000 in his bank account when police raided his home"
So, there we have it, the *real* market value of 21 million downloads (presumably each one being an entire album) is actually about 1.4 cents per download/album, or 0.9 of our British pennies.
That's right, an entire album is worth only a fraction of a penny in ad revenue and donations, and we're to believe the industry is losing £1.7billion? Did someone order a reality check?
I just saw a BBC News hit piece about how his site made him £20k in savings, and they were making him out to be some kind of despicably wealthy arch criminal. £20k is toilet paper to the people who run this country, but if the prols are ever caught with that much money in one place, god help them.
It stinks to high heaven.
World -> BPI (in fact *PI)
Absolutely no member of the public (at least none I have ever met) like you, the work you are doing, or have any respect for your organisation.
Even Stephen Fry is his latest podcast has listed his dislike to the *PI actions.
Along with the RIAA nonsense and the shouting vocal "labels" they're pissing all over our existing copyright laws, criminalising millions, and all this to support their own business and profits... and astonishingly the various governments are buying into this. I bet they thought they'd become near-omnipotent.
Whether or not the accused is/was morally repungant is neither here nor there. The BPI aren't angels and they aren't doing anything in OUR interests, only their own. It is time they got bitchsplapped. Our laws exist to provide a framework of sanity in our civilisation. They don't exist to be trampled on by greedy wealthy corporations with vested interests.
This is the correct moral outcome. There is nothing wrong with making money from a website, regardless of its users use it, ask Mark Zuckerberg. Would you jail Australian poppy growers because someone took their poppies and made heroin from them instead of codeine? Do you prosecute road builders because people exceed speed limits? The fact of the matter is he made a website for the free exchange of music. If anything illegal was occurring because of his site it was down to the users. If he was to be found guilty, then Virgin Media, BT and all the other internet service providers are also guilty. Since they charge users to transmit data using their hardware and some of that data is transmitted illegally. I am generally opposed to intellectual property rights in most forms. How is it right that a musician can record or perform a song once and be paid multiple times and tell you how to play it? If a farmer grows a potato, we do not have to pay multiple times for it and there are no imposed restrictions on how to cook or eat the potato either. I also object to the TV (tax) licence for similar reasons. We pay a fee to the (taxman) BBC, who then play a song multiple times and pay royalties for each broadcast, a song goes to number 1 mostly on the strength of this. We are effectively paying the BBC to advertise for record labels which we then pay again to buy their music. I personally believe that anyone who pays their TV (tax) licence or subscribes to Sky or Virgin should be able to download what the hell they like, as they have already paid for it multiple times through subscription or licence fees, adverts and so on.
echoing others as usual but while "The defendant made nearly £200,000" - yes, so? how much do you think Google makes from ads despite allowing people to search for torrents, warez, mp3s or anything else where the destination you are sent to may not be entirely legitimate? A tad more than that I am sure. :)
Well done that court.
"The case shows that artists and music companies need better protection."
So I guess they'll be flying the Evil Lord Mandelson off on an all expenses paid trip to the Caribbean. He'll still be around no matter who gets in at the next election so keeping him sweet writing a few more advertorials for the copyright biz in The Times will still be cheap publicity even if he can't direct government policy to the same extent.
Mandelson and Badgers? I feel sure Matthew Parris will announce the connection on Radio 4 shortly.


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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Things to do with wild strawberries: Wild Strawberries and Cream
In every person's life there comes a time when they've got almost 1,5 kilograms freshly picked wild strawberries (Fragaria vesca, see a gorgeous photo by a talented Estonian photographer here) at hand. I'm no different. It happened to me in 2006, in 2007, and again about a fortnight ago. K. and I spent just under 2 hours on our secret wild strawberry field, we barely covered a plot larger than a large kitchen, and we had a 3 litre jar of wild strawberries between us. What can you do??!
Well, one of the easiest things to do (and one of my favourite childhood memories) is following. I've given a 'recipe' below, but you really do not need one. It's healthy, summery, quick, and oh-so-very Estonian (unless you pick 'smultron' in Sweden, or 'ahomansikkoita' in Finland, or 'Walderdbeere' in Germany, or 'fraises des bois' in France, and so on, in which case this dessert would be very Swedish or Finnish or German or French, and so on, of course.)
PS It is especially nice when done with wild strawberries that you've picked yourself. But if that's tricky, then use the ones from a friendly market vendor instead..
Wild strawberries with milk or cream
(Metsmaasikad rõõsa koore või piimaga)
Serves 1
half a cup of wild strawberries
half a cup of single cream or whole milk
2 to 3 tsp sugar
Place the wild strawberries into a glass and sprinkle with sugar. Crush slightly with a wooden spoon.
Pour over milk or cream and eat with a small spoon, stirring as you go.
18 comments:
- angelica said...
I love wild strawberries, and while I like them best the way they are, your dessert looks really delicious!
- 9:33 pm, July 16, 2008
- katiez said...
I like them for lunch with yogurt - a bit of sugar is nice....
I need to find a place to pick them.
Now, how many did you eat before filling your 3 litres????
- 10:36 pm, July 16, 2008
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
This perfectly illustrates that simplicity is sublime.
- 12:25 am, July 17, 2008
- Alanna said...
I'm still waiting for that moment :-)
- 3:11 am, July 17, 2008
What can you do? You can invite us all over!! I have never had this particular problem, alas.
- 3:26 am, July 17, 2008
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
The rabbits eat most of our strawberries before we ever get to pick them! So it's off to the farmers' market if I'm to have enough to make this dessert.
- 3:34 am, July 17, 2008
- Brilynn said...
Ooooh you're just trying to make us all jealous! (And succeeding I might add! Send those berries this way...)
- 5:35 am, July 17, 2008
- ChichaJo said...
This is perfect! I would eat this too as a child...just regular strawberries though, and not ones I was lucky enough to pick for myself! I love hearing about your foraging jaunts...something I dream of doing :) If I do that where I live all I'm likely to find would be an old shoe!
- 12:39 pm, July 17, 2008
- Juc said...
Oi kuidas tahaks sinna salamaasikakohta saada. Lucky you! :)
- 7:23 pm, July 17, 2008
- DaviMack said...
"In every person's life there comes a time when they've got almost 1,5 kilograms freshly picked wild strawberries."
Umm ... no. Not really. Only for those lucky enough to live somewhere with wild strawberries, I think. Or to visit when it's the right season, and to have time enough to go berry picking, I guess. ;)
Nice seeing you - wish we could have stayed longer, and gone out to some of the wild places, rather than staying in the city!
- 11:09 pm, July 17, 2008
- lobstersquad said...
that was mean. even though I´m munching on slices of excellent melon from more or less down the road, it´s still not fair. the idea of 3 litres of wild strawberries...
- 9:59 am, July 18, 2008
That's also what I do with the strawberries we get from our local market.They're grown here in cooler upcountry Waimea or Volcano. Right now the problem is what to do with excess pineapple, lychees, and mango.
Jam or wine or chutney...
- 11:09 pm, July 19, 2008
- Lisa said...
I saw your flickr pictures about jam too. I'm crazy about wild strawberry jam and would like to see your recipe please?
- 5:33 am, July 21, 2008
- vernanda said...
ma jalutasin eile titte lohusalu kandis ja korjasin ka teise käega metsmaasikaid. ei jõund ära kiruda, et topsi kaasas polnud. aga et neid süüa sai, m´aksab ka midagi.
- 3:09 pm, July 21, 2008
Wild strawberries are ideal to keep in deep fridge - simply pack them into freezing box with small amount of sugar. In winter they will be just like freshly piked - but you must eat them immediately after thawing, before the taste turns bitter.
- 4:03 pm, July 21, 2008
- David said...
When I was in Nice, someone was selling a case of fraises des bois, French wild strawberries, for 2€ a basket.
I am still kicking myself for not buying them. That's a lot of jam!
- 12:27 pm, July 23, 2008
- Jeanne said...
Wow - 3l of wild strawberries!! I was counting myself lucky picking just a handful in Chamonix earlier this summer. In fact, I am still pleased as punch that I can even recognise them in the wild ;-) Love the simplicity of this dessert - sometimes simple really is best.
- 5:47 pm, July 31, 2008
- Pille said...
Angelica - well, but one can only eat a limited number (say, half a litre?) of fresh wild strawberries at once :)
Katie - I like them with yogurt, too - and wild strawberry jam is nice with yogurt.
Susan - indeed:)
Alanna - well, just come over next summer!
Charlotte K - my 'MIL' is very protective about the secret wild strawberry field, so not sure I'd be allowed to invite lots of people over, you know :)
Lydia - how dare they!?!
Brilynn - I have no idea what you're talking about :) (PS They don't travel well, as they're rather fragile).
ChichaJo - the pudding would also work with ripe sweet regular berries.
Juc - no ei saa öelda, ei saa...
DaviMack - no?
lobstersquad - next summer, eh?
Claudia - glad to hear you've got access to wild strawberries. Re: pineapple, mango, lychees - well, I never get excess of them!
Lisa - I told about the jam last summer, but might do a pictorial again.
vernanda - siit moraal - alati haara tops kaasa, kui loodusesse lähed :)
Anon. - freezing berries is a good idea, but I am very scared they turn bitter ;(
David - 2 Euros a basket doesn't sound so bad at all!!
Jeanne - I saw your Chamonix pix - weren't they lovely?!
- 10:58 am, August 04, 2008


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My rating: 3 of 5 stars
What on Earth does Naz find in Karissa? She is as stupid as they come and her abilities to hold up a conversation about anything worth talking about equal zero. She is 18, for Christ's sake and the guy is 36 and has seen it all. At one point he even says to her he doesn't want girls, he wants to be with a woman. So what is he doing with Karissa?
The sex, seemingly shit hot, is described in such a lacklustre way it borders on boring. Apart from the fact there is nothing sensual about it – even though I recognize a certain potential, but it is never fully carried out – the kinks are quite a bit over the top considering the girl is so young. If I was asphyxiated without expecting or desiring it I'd be severely distressed (to put it mildly). There is no foreplay to speak of, unless you count him getting on top of her (or vice versa) as sufficient stimulation. The guy just enters her and starts pounding – and this is described as being with a real man, instead of a boy, wow! Not to mention the fact that they use no condoms from the word go and the contraceptive device they use (before she tells him she is on the pill) is coitus interruptus.
If a girl gets her sexual education from this book she is doomed.
Super unrealistic plot (I don't mind), the heroine is TSTL (I hate), the hero just my type (just add some sexual enlightenment, even though I admit he is perfect for the heroine). I am divided. I found it strangely unputdownable, still shook my head about myself.


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A tubby suburban dad watching hunting and adventure shows on TV and wondering could I do that? This is the chronicle of my adventures as I learn to learn to Forage, Hunt and Fish for food that has lived as I would wish to myself - Wild and Free.
Thursday, 22 August 2013
Deer Stalking In Wiltshire Pt2
I'm 'real life' friends with a few readers of this blog, occasionally I get the time to do a bit of hanging-out with them. HunterX and I did a bit of unsuccessful Deer Stalking together and this year we've been fishing and having our two-man reading circle, [or as there are only two of us participating should that be hunting-book-tennis?].
HunterX has joined a wonderful deer stalking lease. Where as youngest member its fallen to him to set up the larder and highseats. He roped your pal SBW and our new friend HunterY into helping prepare for the season.
As per usual women, work, and kids conspire and we're a little behind time by the time we all have a clear saturday for the work party. It's also the hottest day of the year and the bracken is both high and crawling with Ticks.
I have to hand it to HunterX he is one of only two people in town who get up earlier than me, sitting outside my place at ungodly o'clock. Chipper as you like. HunterY on the other hand keeps the same hours as Elfa and seems completely non-plussed when we rock up at his flat to collect him on the way out of town. So much for 'we leave before dawn'.
The drive is the usual stuff: animals I've shot, places I've shot them, eccentric deerstalkers I know, cunning plans that have worked out, cunning plans that have not worked out, calibres I would own if I could, knifemakers and knife design. the proper proportion of rusk in an english sausage, and we're soon on the ground.
The last leaseholder has taken his tree stands on to the next place so we spend the morning measuring up and the afternoon strapping highseats to trees. There's a lot of cutting back to be done but thankfully we're joined by another member GentlemanD who has pretty much everything from the Stihl catalogue, all in perfect working order so no fires or nasty surprises this time.
Once the seats are done we drop the tools back to GentlemanD who it turns out has a giant pile of heads in his backyard. Really well over a couple of cubes of them, this guy has shot a lot of big Fallow. GentlemanD lives up to his name and is kind enough to give me the rather wonderful Fallow head at the top of the page. Fallow do get a fair bit bigger than this, but usually only in deer parks, this chap lived wild and free until GentlemanD's super custom .243 brought him home to dinner.
So much for me and HunterY's woefully optimistic 'it'll only take an afternoon'
The next couple of saturdays are a little more tense as we have to overcome a few electrical and plumbing conundrums in the cowshed. Quite a few baking hot hours later the chiller hums to life, the scales are hung, the hoist works, and the fly zapper zaps. All good.
As the afternoons cool off and our work is done for the day, we set off on a few practice stalks with an unloaded rifle. The Fallow are still in mixed sex groups and are taking advantage of the closed season to munch their way through the tenant farmers crops. Stalking without glass you can really see the value of stalking with glass, in one memorable encounter we stalk a Doe and follower, who then become two spaniels before swishing their tails to confirm their shetland pony-ness. We dryfire at a couple of opportunities, blow a couple of opportunities by stumbling about in heavy workwear, and generally look forward to the Fallow buck season's start on the 1st of August.
On the way home we stop off for Kebabs [keybobs for readers in the USofA] at HunterY's 'bab shop of choice. London has a lot of Kebab shops and they run the gamut from; processed mechanically recovered meat - which means a pressure washer and a sieve - to sublime hunks of incredible lamb, stacks of quail and chicken marinated in angel's tears. All served with a hand-cart full of salad and flat bread made in front of you. The really good ones serve offal too, great quivering lumps of liver, and what are those white things?
HunterY "Testicales, lambs balls dude"
SBW "Great! mark me down for some of them"
My first few attempts at ordering are taken as piss-taking by the guys behind the counter and are greeted with much hilarity, only when regular customer HunterY intervenes do they end up on the Mangal (grill).
HunterX suddenly morphs from roughty-toughty-hunting-dude to big-girls-blouse and sits, looking on, appalled. HunterY tries one and agrees that "they taste like brains, just with a more meaty texture"
More stalking and eating soon
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You account reads like a script for a 3 Stooges film. At least you all managed to arrive safely back home.
I can see why GentlemanD allowed you to take that poor quality Fallow buck head home. I usually leave such split palmed trash back at the gralloch site, tucked into the hedge or at the base of some tree.
Wild Fallow are very poorly managed in the UK. Thanks to a combination of a to long buck season and not enough does being culled.
- 23 August 2013 at 10:31
- The Suburban Bushwacker said...
Still not really up to speed with this are you.
But your concern for our wellbeing is of course appreciated.
You seem reasonably articulate so I'm wondering if you make a habit of belittling your hosts decore?
Interesting observation I'd be interested to hear more.
You seem to oscillate between narcissistic attention seeker and character with something to say. Start your own blog.
- 23 August 2013 at 22:43
Fret not I'm as "up to speed" as I need to be. Its always good to read that even the most incompetent and inept arrive home intact.
IMO Anyone that even contemplates putting such a poor specimen on show that they have no personal connection with its harvesting is a prime candidate for some serious rib poking.
"narcissistic attention seeker"... hardly! However I readily admit to being first in line with a comment or observation on any subject that interests me. I enjoy a good discussion or debate. I wouldn't know where to start as far as starting a blogs is concerned. I seriously doubt that anyone would want to read it if I managed to did start one. LOL
The debate regarding how to improve the over all management of the UK fallow stock has been going on for sometime. IMO its the most mismanaged deer species in the UK. Due to a number of contributing factors starting with a too long buck season.
- 25 August 2013 at 15:09


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(Reuters) - Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Chuck Noll, who helped transform the team into one of the league's dominant franchises and became the only NFL coach to win four Super Bowl titles, has died at the age of 82, the National Football League said on Friday.
Citing the Allegheny County Medical Examiner, media reported Noll died of natural causes at his home in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, in the presence of family members.
Noll, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993, coached the Steelers for 23 seasons from 1969 until 1991, guiding the franchise to Super Bowl wins in the 1974, 1975, 1978 and 1979 seasons. Overall, he built a 209-156-1 record in all games, including a 16-8-0 post-season record, which is one of the best in league history.
In his first year at the helm the Steelers finished 1-13. Three years later, the Steelers reached the AFC championship game and two years after that they won their first Super Bowl.
"Through shrewd drafts and strong guidance, Noll helped team owner Art Rooney and the Steelers shed their 'lovable losers' image," according to a biography on the Pro Football Hall of Fame's website.
"He quickly established a building program with an emphasis on the annual college draft to realize the ultimate goal of an NFL championship."
This emphasis on the draft helped to build the fabled "Steel Curtain" defense and a powerful offense in the 1970s featuring defensive tackle "Mean Joe" Greene, quarterback Terry Bradshaw, and running back Franco Harris, among other Hall of Famers.
Noll graduated from the University of Dayton and went on to play seven seasons as a so-called messenger guard and a linebacker for the Cleveland Browns in the 1950s. He was an assistant coach for nine years before joining the Steelers.
Noll was a "tremendous technician in the individual fundamentals of football, which was something very important to him," Denver Broncos coach John Fox, who coached defensive backs under Noll for three seasons from 1989 through 1991, said in an interview published on the Steelers website in February.
"He was very calm, very technique and fundamental-oriented," Fox said. "He was not a screamer. He wasn't up or down. I think his biggest thing is that he was the same guy every day. He was not an ego guy like, 'Look what I'm doing.' He was a great mentor, I know that."
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CROSS-COUNTRY, Suffolk County meet, Class B boys race, 2 p.m., Class B girls race, 3:20 p.m., Sunken Meadow State Park, Kings Park.
GIRLS SWIMMING, League III meet, Hauppauge High School, 4:30 p.m.
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Saturday, November 5
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RUGBY, Connecticut Yankees vs. Montauk, Herrick Park, East Hampton, 1 p.m.
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BOYS SOCCER, playoffs, first round, John Glenn-Miller Place winner at East Hampton, 2 p.m.
GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, county Class A tournament, second round, at site of higher seed, 5 p.m.
BOYS VOLLEYBALL, county Division II tournament, first round, Sayville at East Hampton, 6 p.m.
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GIRLS VOLLEYBALL, county Class A tournament, championship game, St. Joseph's College, Patchogue, 8 p.m.
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January 27, 2006
The range of topics boggles the average mind, spanning the humor of Dave Chappelle, the search for historical Jesus, and a bevy of chemistry and biology projects with titles even difficult to pronounce. The Sixth Annual Celebration of Student Research, Scholarship, and Creative Work drew a huge crowd to Detchon Hall Friday.
"I'm always very amazed by the variety of projects our students come up with and how articulate they are in explaining the results," said Todd McDorman, chairperson for this year's Celebration. "I'm also very impressed with the sophistication with which they explain their information.
"They are working as scholars in their respective fields and teaching the rest of us, those who come from other academic disciplines, about their findings."
The Celebration is divided into two parts: oral presentations and performances along with poster presentations and exhibits. The exhibits included art work and many poster presentations. (See Celebration photo album.)
Six of the Wabash students who worked in the Present Indiana internship program last summer presented their work. The program is funded by Lilly Endowment to raise awareness and understanding about the Hoosier state's cultural and historical heritage.
The wide variety of Celebration topics is one of the often-mentioned attractions.
Vu Quang Tran, an international student from Vietnam, did research on international students at Wabash College. He had a summer internship at Georgetown University which spurred his interest in the recruitment of international students at Wabash.
"Having talked to admissions counselors, faculty, staff, and students about this process at Wabash, I have some suggestions to make international student recruitment more efficient and matching up with the college's mission on education," he wrote.
His suggestions include more varied recruitment materials, Internet downloads of recruitment materials, and for Wabash to actively recruit at international college recruitment fairs.
Wabash students in suit and tie waited anxiously at each table as fellow students, faculty or staff approached. Many enjoyed sharing their research with members of the National Association of Wabash Men and members of the Board of Trustees. Both groups were holding campus meetings January 27.
"It was great because it gave me an opportunity to stand up to present my work and see what it was like to take something I've worked really hard on and see other people's response to that," said Travis Ross'06. "It went a lot better than I thought it would and it was a lot of fun."
Ross gave an oral presentation titled: "One in Christ or Quietness and Submission: Contextual Exegesis of Pauline Doctrine on the Role of Women in the Early Church."
Still, it was the variety of presentations that struck most attendees.
"I heard some very interesting things from a psychology student today," Rhetoric professor McDorman said. "I listened to a chemistry student's presentation. Both have much different perspectives than what I hear on a daily basis and they sounded very well informed and educated."
Hewitt is Wabash College Director of New Media/Web Editor.
In photos:
Top Right: McDorman listens to Matt Boston explain his project: Identity Formation as Evidenced in Self-Defining memories from the Freshman and Senior Years.
Lower left: Tran talks about Wabash recruiting materials.
On home page: Philip Ramilo '07 explains his artwork to David Hadley.
On faculty/staff and alumni homepage: Ben Nguyen Tang Le '06 talks about his project: A Macro-Economics Analysis of the revaluation of the Chinese RMB"


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but I really hope this isn't a re-pack of the Tin set.
I don't like the idea of more Jango heads for OT Troopers
Quote from: Artoo on October 21, 2006, 06:07 PM but I really hope this isn't a re-pack of the Tin set. Same here.I'm actualy afraid of how the new trooper can turn out. The torso on the Tin one is awful.
I can handle the torso but the pin head is what Im worried about.
I hate Jango just as much as anyone else around here, but I fail to see how this is a bad thing. Even without ever taking the helmet off, it should look better than the current VOTC Stormtrooper's (which is a little under-sized), and it'll mean more play value for the kids and others who don't care who's face is underneath. And yeah, it should make it much easier for customizers interested in making their own "So-and-so in Stormtrooper Disguise" figures.To sum up: Sure, Jango sucks balls, but even his head under there is better than an actual ball on a stalk, like we've got now. They've taken a figure that's adored throughout all of message boardom, improved it, and are releasing it for several bucks less than what the original cost. Surely there's dozens of other issues to complain about, than this. . .
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Paddington, a bear from Peru who now lives in London with the Brown family, is living a happy life. However, things go very wrong when a new neighbor's self-centeredness and criminal ways wind up with Paddington behind bars.
The films starts with Paddington wanting to get his Aunt Lucy (Imelda Staunton) in Peru a very special gift for her fast-approaching 100th birthday. He spots a rare, beautifully detailed pop-up book of London at the local antique shop and takes on a variety of odd jobs, including window washing and cutting hair in a barbershop, in order to earn enough money to buy the book and send it to her.
Unfortunately, Paddingtons new neighbor, has-been stage actor Phoenix Buchanan (Hugh Grant), also wants the book, because he believes if he has it in his possession, he can find a secret treasure. He steals the book, but frames Paddington, who is arrested and taken to prison, where he makes friends with the guards and his fellow inmates, because, as Henry says, "Paddington looks for the good in all of us, and somehow he finds it.
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If times were tough—I mean, really tough—would you sell your body for money? In her Salon column "Pinched," Tracy Clark-Flory reports that more women are entering the sex industry due the recession, including Marie, a 30-year-old former white-collar professional with a degree, who now operates out of hotel room and has "been paid more times than she can count, or cares to count," for acts ranging from sensual massage to sex itself.
We already knew that sex still sells during a recession—sex toy sales are up, lingerie sales are booming, and sex workers—from prostitutes to strippers—aren't being as adversely effected by the economic downturn as other businesses. But otherwise professional women who never considered a career in sex work suddenly taking it all off to make ends meet? Is this really a trend?
Clark-Flory writes:
The difference in these dark days is that middle-class advantages, like a solid college education and professional work experience, don't offer the same level of protection that they once did from being pushed to make such a choice. Not to mention, it's easier now to make the decision because the Internet has bulldozed the barrier of entry into the sex industry. Just a few clicks away from Craigslist's job board is an array of immediate, cash-upfront adult gigs.
In other words, things like Craigslist's Erotic Services section and online porn have made it easier and supposedly safer for the average person to get into sex work, without having to troll the streets in the middle of the night or work under the employ of a pimp.
With that in mind, if you were in extremely dire straits and could not find a job that paid the bills, would you consider becoming your own boss and selling your body to make ends meet?
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The diagram below shows the creation of the EAD in Archivists Toolkit (AT) during processing. The archivists consider the copy in Archivists Toolkit to be the copy of record; however, we have found that reloading EADs containing links to component items modifies the links, and reexporting modifies them further. So we have altered our workflow. While the EAD in AT is the copy of record for analog material, the delivery EAD (containing the links to digitized content) will be stored separately. Every time EADs are modified by the archivists, they must go through the item-level linking process again.
1) EADs are exported by archivists from Archivists Toolkit and placed in the "new" or "remediated" folders in the share drive S:\Special Collections\Digital_Program_files\EAD directory.
2) Every Friday night, a script called "getEADs" ( /in /srv/scripts/storing/EADs_auto/) picks up these EADs, makes a datestamped directory in the "uploaded" directory there on the share drive (for example, "uploaded_new_20100803"), copys the EADs to the corresponding "uploaded" directory (so the archivists will know what was picked up when), puts a copy into /srv/deposits/fromSC/, and then places them in an "notInDbase" directory on libcontent (under /srv/deposits/EADs/).
3) When content is digitized, the EAD may already be online. So the most recent makeJpegs upload scripts pull a copy of the corresponding EAD (if it exists) and places it in the /srv/script/eads/LINKME/ directory.
- EadModsTester checks in the /srv/script/eads/LINKME/ directory for EADs corresponding to newly uploaded digitized content. If found, and there's not a new version of it waiting to be linked, it adds this to those in /srv/deposits/EADs/notInDbase/.
- Many EADs come to us with embedded Word or PDF encodings, and some contain ampersands. These need to be corrected before they go online. The next script, "EadModsTester" (in /srv/scripts/eads/) runs through these new EADs to replace these values, and puts the new version into /srv/deposits/EADs/unlinkedASCII/ to be used for linking.
- Then it parses the EAD to locate box and folder numbers and itemIDs (all with corresponding ref values), and hunts through the web directories for MODS with item identifiers that correspond to the itemIDs, or for MODS within this collection (pulling box and folder values).
- This script then outputs a tab-delimited text file for each collection into which it can identify linkable content, into /srv/scripts/eads/linkrefs/ ; this file specifies the reference identifier in the EAD, the existing EAD box_folder value, the normalized EAD box_folder, the existing MODS box_folder value, the normalized MODS box_folder, and the MODS identifier if a match exists for an itemID value.
- This script also outputs a few other files, such as problems found in EADs (see /srv/scripts/eads/output/).
More discussion of the linking from EADs can be found in Linking_out_from_EADS.
4) "linkInContent" uses the linkrefs files created by eadModsTester, and while referencing the EADs in /srv/deposits/EADs/notInDbase/, it pulls from /srv/deposits/EADs/unlinkedASCII/. If MODS box/folder values are indicated, this script goes through the Acumen directories to locate the corresponding items (otherwise, utilizes the item identifier if in the last column). It creates PURL links for each of these, parsing through the EAD to add them in the correct location, including adding boxes and folders if necessary. The linked version is placed in /srv/scripts/eads/LINKED/ ; if this process is successful, it is then written back to /srv/deposits/EADs/notInDbase, overwriting the deposited version. If no links are added, the version in the unlinkedASCII folder is written to the notInDbase folder, again overwriting the deposited version.
5) "EadsToDbase" pulls from /srv/deposits/EADs/notInDbase/, updates the database (including replacing changed title and abstract); the values in the database appear in the online collection list (collection list), so it also puts the EADs live online in Acumen, and moves the copy from notInDbase to /srv/deposits/EADs/new/ for archiving.
6) "waitCheckEADs" checks to see if the EAD has changed from the last version cached. If not, it is deleted from the deposits directory. If so, it checks to see if this collection has been released into LOCKSS (and on what date). If it has, the script asks if you are going to go ahead and archive; if you say yes, the script will copy the existing manifest to one ending in "_LOCKSS_$date" where $date is today's date. We need this because LOCKSS collects each version of manifest, and we need to know how many bytes we have in the preservation architecture, as it impacts our costs. Try NOT to archive to a collection frequently, or within 2-3 weeks of release to LOCKSS.
7) Remove RelocateManifests. Uncomment $test = 1 in relocatingEads and run it.
8) Check moveme & relocateManifests to verify that the manifests will be written correctly, and verify in move me that the Eads are going to be copied over to the correct place. Be sure to look at end of relocateManifests for Manifests that need to be created by hand (for new holding areas), as well as to check what is being added to existing holder Manifests.
9) Comment back in $test = 1; and re-run relocatingEads."relocatingEads" pulls from /srv/deposits/EADs/new and locates where the EADs go in the archive, versioning as necessary and linking them into existing LOCKSS manifests, or creating new ones as needed.
9.5) Check parentMans output for any manifests that need to be created for new holding areas. If any are identified, create them to match the format of all other holding area Manifests, and insert the links captured for you in parentMans.
10) Run Checkem to verify that they have been copied over correctly and deleting the Eads in the deposits.
11) Check directory to make sure nothing is left /srv/deposits/EADs/new. If anything is left in this location, there is a problem and you need to figure out what it is.
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Birmingham new boy Andrew Shinnie admits it was tough to leave Inverness
Andrew Shinnie has admitted it was a tough decision to leave Inverness for Birmingham City.
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Midfielder Shinnie will join Birmingham on a three-year deal when his contract in the Highlands expires this summer.
The 23-year-old admits he was torn over whether or not to leave Scotland, but concedes the chance to move to the English Championship was too good to turn down.
"It was a difficult decision and I thought about staying another year, but this is a great opportunity for me," said Shinnie. "I just thought at my age, I will be 24 in the summer, a three-year deal in a good league like the Championship was the right decision."
"I have always wanted to test myself down south and I have a good opportunity to do that next year.
"Birmingham have always shown a big interest in me and watched me 15 times this season. I think they wanted to do something in January but, while that didn't go through, they made it known they still wanted me.
"They are a big club with brilliant training facilities, a good stadium and a great manager so they sold it pretty well to me."
Shinnie admits the chance to enhance his prospects of becoming a regular in Gordon Strachan's Scotland squad also played a part in his decision to move to Birmingham.
"Another good reason for moving is it might help me with Scotland," added Shinnie.
"A lot of Scotland players at the moment are based in English leagues. It can be harder to get in it from the SPL and hopefully if I go down there and do well I will get a few more call-ups."


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the Obama administration is weighing sharp new cuts to the U.S. nuclear force, including a possible 80 percent reduction in the number of deployed weapons.
Even the most modest option would represent a bold disarmament step in an election year and is likely to raise the hackles of Republicans who worry about a smaller military force. Such cuts would be in line with President Barack Obama's 2009 pledge to try to eliminate nuclear weapons.
No final decision has been made, but the administration is considering three options for lower numbers of weapons than the current treaty limit of 1,550 — ranging from about 1,000 to about 300. That's according to a former U.S. official and a congressional official. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because the strategy has not been publicly announced.