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Missing student 'a very responsible young lady'
"She's a very responsible young lady," says Diane Scribner Clevenger, the pastor of the Roanoke church that missing Virginia Tech student Morgan Dana Harrington attends.
"It's just a time of shock," says Scribner Clevenger. Best known to the Harringtons as "Reverend Diane," she is serving as a family spokesperson while Morgan Harrington's parents, Dan and Gil, have uprooted their lives in Roanoke to assist with the Charlottesville-based search for their 20-year-old daughter.
Harrington came to Charlottesville with a group of friends to see the Metallica concert at John Paul Jones Arena on Saturday night–- but she left the event before it ended, according to UVA Police spokesperson Melissa Fielding.
"We've definitely received some calls that confirm what we have about her travel patterns that night," says Fielding, who notes that police are also following up on calls about possible sightings of Harrington.
UVA Police sent out a release the night following the October 17 concert indicating that Harrington was last seen wearing a black t-shirt with tan letters that spelled 'Pantera' across the front. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman was also clad in a black mini skirt, black tights, and knee-high black boots, according to the release, which noted that she stands 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs approximately 120 pounds.
Virginia Tech spokesperson Mark Owczarski says that Tech has distributed info, including a front-page mention at vt.edu, to assist in the search for the interdisciplinary studies major.
The State Police, which is assisting, revealed that Harrington and a friend had traveled from Tech to James Madison University in Harrisonburg to meet another friend, and after the trio arrived at the concert Harrington "became separated from her friends and was unable to reunite with them."
Recent concerts have certainly tested the ability of friends to connect. At the recent U2 concert, for instance, Verizon cell phone users experienced hour-long delays in the delivery of text messages.
Back at the family home in Roanoke, Reverend Diane says the the young woman she has known for 13 years is a "child of God," who wouldn't leave her family worried. Harrington made an 8:30pm call to a friend on her cell phone, says Reverend Diane, declining to speculate whether foul play was involved.
"There's an odd series of events," says Reverend Diane. "We're all just staying as hopeful as we can."
UVA Police urge anyone with knowledge of Harrington's whereabouts to contact the Department at 434-924-7166
–originally posted 8;06am –last updated 1:17pm October 23 (to correct spelling of mother's name) –original headline: Metal fan from Tech disappears –10:14am headline: Missing Tech student seen outside arena
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I am so worried about this young girl. I just can't understand why her "friends" that she was with, didn't speak to the security guards and tell them about her being missing. Also, why they didn't immediately contact her parents. Surely they know more than they are telling. They just haven't reacted to this in a way that I would hope friends of my children would. They should be questioned about what is normal for her in this type of situation. Maybe she had gone to meet someone and before she met them she was abducted. The police should check her computer to see if she had been talking with someone that planned to be there that night.
re ââ?¬Å?Are young White girls the only missing people?"
This is a local paper. This is a local story. I don't know who you are or where you live, but this happened in Charlottesville, Virginia where this small paper is also located. I bet most of the people posting comments to this forum are locals.
Also, this just happened this past weekend. It's "news".
Are there any people missing from the various demographic groups you listed from Charlottesville? If so I think the media reports on them WHEN IT HAPPENS. This happened on Saturday at a big rock concert.
A 9 year old boy recently died of swine flu. Again, local story. This is a local paper and reported on it.
Your agenda isn't necessarily incorrect, but I don't see why the hook should cover a story in Atlanta. I don't see why the Hook is responsible for the national media's attention to this story.
go to sleep everyone and stop making up things unless you know all the facts.
If many people keep up with local, state and national news on a daily basis, it will drive them crazy to see what the world we live in has become. There's a 7 year old girl missing for 3 days in Jacksonville, Florida right now. Here's the disturbing part -- 75 known sex offenders in a five-square-mile radius have been interviewed.
75????? In a 5 mile radius???? The numbers were quite alarming at first when I viewed them. But I now see it's not unusual at all. In a 7 square mile city such as Charlottesville, there's 117 offenders listed. And this number doesn't include those that are currently incarcerated.
While I think most of us pray for Morgan's safe return, any and all of this proves what I have said for a long time -- Charlottesville is not a safe place to be after dark.
people are evil. what she was wearing said it all, easy target. tattoos and body piercing are a dead giveaway, did she have them??? please young ladys stay in groups when your out. this liberal area gives the creeps a long leash to do there evil. may god be with her.
It's Natalee Holloway all over again...
Mr/Mrs/Miss This is really sickening, you're playing the racist card when there is nothing racist here. I recall all the local media covering the young black pregnant girl that was missing in Fork Union not long ago. And it remained in the news until she was finally located.
If Morgan was pink, blue, green or orange, you would see the exact same coverage that's currently taking place.
REALLY...another young White girl is missing!! NOOOO WAAAY!! It's a good thing there are no young Latino girls missing, no young Black girls missing, no young Asian girls missing, and HEAVEN FORBID if there are any young boys missing in America...of ANY race!
For the love of God we need to demand better from our ridiculously biased media. Either equally report missing people of both genders and all races, or don't report anything at all. Are any of you the least bit sick and tired with the coverage of young White girls only?
Talk about being offended. How offended do you think the parents are of all the other kids missing in this country with 24-hour news coverage, radio shows, code Adam, all of the highway signs, blogs and internet posts, and they get nothing. No attention at all. With the amount of information sharing that is done on a 24-hour basis with our media, are you really saying young Black, Asian, and Latino boys and girls can't get any attention?
Look folks, even with all of the sarcastic comments, the truth is that every one of us wishes and prays for a positive outcome. It could have been the sister/girlfriend/friend/daughter/relative of any of us. A couple of weeks ago, my cousin was stabbed 21 times by her boyfriend down in Atlanta Georgia, but that didn't get national coverage. By the grace of God she is ok and he is in custody. The point is that bad things happen all the time. We don't wish it on anyone, and we don't want it happening to any of us. In the media, if it bleeds it leads. I'm very confident the media can care less about all the damage they do to our society by reporting so many negative stories. Do whatever it takes to shock viewers and get the ratings so Big Pharma will pay them the BIG BUCKS to put their ads on between stories.
But seriously, ask yourself ââ?¬Å?Are young White girls the only missing people?"
i went to high school with this girl. she's really smart and very nice to everyone. stop being rude. there are people who love her and your rude comments aren't helping this situation.
I think all of you should quit being so rude her parents don't need to read those things
In response to Just a reply....your comment was not only completely false about her selling her body but completely inappropriate...I went to high school with her and currently going to college with her and I am good friends with some of her close friends...this is a serious thing that is scaring the living daylights out of many people and to say things like she needed to sell herself on the streets is totally out of line...this is not a joking matter and instead of saying stupid comments like that you should be praying for her safe return...think before you post some outrageous comment especially if you don't know the person.
Rude? I'm sure her parents realize that one of two things has happened, 1) she is safe and will explain her whereabouts sooner or later, or, 2) something terrible has happened.
I'm sure everybody hopes we can read soon about her, her friends, and her family being reunited.
yall really need to watch yourselves with this. this girl is missing and should be be dragged through this. you all need to look at it as if it was your daughter that was missing. unless you are a heartless fool, then you would be worried as well and be more than willing to help. show some respect people.
Not Your Drama Llama, I doubt if press spokespersons at the various cop shoppes work weekend hours.
Just pray she is OK.
What does the water taste like in Neverneverland? I've always wondered.
She probably ran off with the band as a groupie.
That's someone's daughter.
just a reply, if my daughter has a pimp who has beaten her, destroyed her cell phone and caused her to not arrive home safely, that is the time the cop shoppe needs to get involved and start looking for her. Not 24 hours later when they take a missing person report. :)
Furthermore, I am trained at recognizing alcohol and drug use, and/or abuse. The first time this happens she knows her brand new car will be taken away.
"That's someone's daughter."
You're skills of deduction are amazing.
Concerned, I know the concept is pretty much long gone and a thing of the past, but some parents still exercise absolute control over their teenagers.
I know where my daughter is and what she is doing 24 hours a day. And I will continue to know until she's at least 18. At 18, the law says she is responsible for her own safety, health and well being.
"If my 17 year old daughter still living at home and going to school, who doesn't use drugs or alcohol, hasn't come home or called by midnight at the very latest, there's absolutely a 100% chance that foul play is most certainly involved."
According to what you know! Maybe she does drugs and you just don't know about it. Maybe she needed to hit the streets and sell her body to support her secret drug problem and her pimp made her work a little extra. Maybe she didn't call you and let you know that she would be running a little past that midnight curfew because her pimp beat her with her cell phone and it is now broken, in the gutter, just like your suburban American dream.
C'mon, haven't you seen Traffic? This stuff happens.
If she's been missing since Saturday night, why are we just hearing about it TODAY? Doesn't that kind of hinder any attempts to find her?
She probably wasn't considered missing till Sunday- I believe they wait 24 hours unless there is evidence that something serious has occurred. Unless it involves a child of course
This thread contains way too much "unverified information" and way too many"potentially libelous statements". Is the concept of common decency completely obsolete?
Like most people in this community, I hope this young woman is safe and home with her family soon.
I have known Morgan since I moved to Roanoke about 15 years ago. We have been friends ever since. And hearing this type of news is very upsetting. She was with her friends at a concert and things like getting separated are going to happen. And that's what happened in Morgan's case. Morgan is a wonderful person and wherever she is, hopefully she is safe. Her family, friends, and myself are wanting her to come home unharmed. Her family is in my thoughts and prayers at this time and I hope that nothing bad has come to her. Please keep her and her family in your thoughts and prayers.
The below was posted on the Channel 29 News web site. If it's true, JPJ shares in the blame for whatever happened, IMHO. The policy is stupid!
"Morgan came to the concert with so called friends. During the concert she started feeling sick, so she went outside to get some air. JPJ would not let her back in due to policy. When the concert was over her "Friends" could not find her, so they left and went back to Tech. Security found her pocket book and items in the parking lot and called her parents. The parents in turned called the friends and they told her they could find her and left and came back to Tech. The parents then called the police back. The State Police and FBI and now part of the investagation."
And that in itself is a major problem, St Halsey.
In a worst case scenario such as an abduction, rape and murder, it's a certain time period before the cops will even get involved. In 24 hours a criminal can have the body 3 or 4 states away and buried.
If my 17 year old daughter still living at home and going to school, who doesn't use drugs or alcohol, hasn't come home or called by midnight at the very latest, there's absolutely a 100% chance that foul play is most certainly involved. There's no need to wait 24 hours to file a missing person report. This "protect and serve" thing is very questionable with certain policies the cops have in place.
Virginia Tech sure has taken a beating, with the crazed gun man, and recent park murders, sure hope this doesn't end in another VaTech tragedy. The way these kids stay connected with texting and cell phones, I'd be worried too if I were friends or family.
lbhokie, you didn't pass reading comprehension, did you? I was commenting on Gasbag Self Ordained Expert's comment and making an extreme hypothetical reference to their daughter to prove the point that parents do not always know what their kids are up to. So far, I have not commented at all about the missing woman from the Metallica show.
Now I will. I hope she is safe and that she is found as soon as possible. I wish only the best for all real world humans and animals. I mean that sincerely.
As for hypothetical situations/persons, I do not care, because they are NOT REAL.
so CHO is dangerous since its liberal? what type of f--ked up logic is that?
maybe obama abducted her, is that what you really wanted to say?
re:"3. She was wearing a short mini skirt, black tights and knee high black boots. Why would anyone wear a mini skirt to a heavy metal concert?"
The old, "she was asking for it" meme. The South's "morals" rear their ugly head once more.....
Morgan is a great girl. I went to high school with her my freshman and sophomore year at LBHS. So whoever says she "ran off with the band groupies" is an idiot. She's a very intelligent young woman, and would NEVER do such a thing. So please don't make stupid comments if you don't know what you're talking about. Just keep her in your prayers and hope for her safe return. Also we're having a vigil for her this thursday so please keep praying!
Also, one more thing to clarify. The three girls were going to the concert in Charlottesville and then heading back to JMU, which is only about 45 min away. There are parties there every night Thurs-Sat. And its only about an hour and 15 min back to the part of Roanoke where she lived at most. This is very out of character for her. Hopefully she's okay and will come home very soon
It is not out of the question that if she was abducted that the kidnapper could be reading this blog. These are individuals that are mentally ill, and of course, I hope this is not the case, but if it is, and someone is possibly reading this, there is help for those who cannot control themselves in this way, and there is forgiveness, so best to release Morgan and get the help that is available for these types of illnesses. The agony of a parent going thru this type of situation is beyond my comprehension, and I hope that she will be returned safely to your home.
May we all turn our thoughts in that direction, and if someone was responsible for abducting her, may they also seek help and end this ordeal for the family.
i hope and pray this young woman is found and is safe.
however, to many of those posting, y'all is not a word. they should teach that at va tech.
you guys dont know her. She is a great person. Just as the article says she was really responsible. It was a metallica show. of course its gonna get crazy. and because of this they shouldnt have waited so long to put news out about her. Please just pray for my friend! she has a good heart!
Does JPJ have cameras at the entrances? One would thing with all the cameras in our society and being that JPJ is new they would have been installed. If they aren't they should be! Even a gas station that didnt cost 130 million can afford cameras!
several things just don't make sense to me.
1. Why would her friends live Charlottesville without her? Unless they knew she was a wild girl and hooked up with someone so they weren't concerned because she done this before.
2. She was at a Metallica concert wearing a Pantera t-shirt. BOth are MAJOR heavy metal groups. I doubt she heard that music at Rev. Dianne's church.
3. She was wearing a short mini skirt, black tights and knee high black boots. Why would anyone wear a mini skirt to a heavy metal concert?
4. JPJ shouldn't be at fault for not letting her back in. Once you exit the building you can't go back in everyone knows that. Her friends shouldn't have let her go by herself. Unless they were intoxicated themselves.
I don't believe that she was an "angel" and that may have been the picture she portrayed to her parents and Rev. Dianne. I hope she hasn't been harmed and that she is in the tour bus somewhere.
Maybe UVA should rethink the policy for not allowing those who exit the building to return. Common sense tells me denying re entry to any woman is just plain stupid,especially in the dark of night. I know UVA is aiming to stop people from going to cars (alcohol/drugs). I suggest allowing returns. If they act up or display impaired behavior, then arrest them.
Don't you remember when young black boys began to disappear in Atlanta? That was a top story for months.
This story is hot because the missing person just went to a concert and disappeared with no previous hint of problems. There were plans for the next few days so that there was no reason she should have vanished.
She was with friends who can testify as to her sober and standard mental condition. But witnesses recount someone matching her description fell and could not speak when she got up. She was so effected that the witness thought she was stoned.
Another person said she was seen walking along a highway later.
Until there is a reasonable resolution the story will remain in the news cycle.
i pray she is found. actually, a black mini and boots is what you do wear to a heavy metal concert.
the "friends" are key to this: the leave on a 2 hour trip home without her? never report her missing to police?
girls leaving girls alone at end of parties or trips is unconscionable. simply no excuse.
considering that most of the headbangers were inside the concert, who the hell was outside that she could get mixed up with? cops are all over the place at these shows, particularly heavy metal. i bet they had more police on duty than normal.
I find it absolutely absurd that JPJ Arena has a no re-entry Policy at concerts, or any event for that matter, without adequate security measures to protect patrons at the venue who have been refused re-entry. It has just been reported on NEWSPLEX that this was the case. Shame on you! JPJ, as this burden clearly falls on your shoulders now. If she had her ticket stub for which she probably paid too much. She clearly should have been allowed entry. Hell, even the sleaziest Nightclubs "hand stamp" We now have a slight 20 year old girl who is missing mostly because of your egregious negligience. It was reported that after Ms. Harrington was refused rentry she contacted friends inside. Foolishly, JPJ did nothing to ensure her continued safety until the end of the event, or until friends came to meet her.
This negligience and Cavalier attitude make me so angry I could just spit. Change this absurd policy today!!
cookieJar--- Subliminal Distraction is explained in first semester psychology under the physiology of sight. If you did not take psychology have someone you trust explain it to you.
Interviewing her roommate and others she studied with would confirm or eliminate it.
When you look at other student cases they have been found in days weeks, or months. Ron Tammen has been gone fifty years. It is too soon to determine what happened. There is not enough information in published accounts.
Are you smart enough to speak to the Design, Engineering, or Psychology department at VTech about this?
Mr/Mrs/Miss Hmmmm...., I hope you are wrong. Katie Worsky disappeared several decades ago, July 12, 1982 to be exact. While the remains were never found, the murderer was brought to justice and convicted. The community just doesn't need this foolishness once again.
I wonder where Glenn Barker is nowadays?
Some friends, huh?
When did this become about everyone else? No...no parent knows EVERYTHING their kid does, even if they think they do. My parents thought they did and trust me....if they did then I wouldn't be here now. If you are a control freak you are more likely to loose control of your kids in the long run.
The best thing anyone can do or say here is to BE VIGILANT, KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR THIS GIRL, LISTEN TO WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT MAY LEAD TO HER RECOVERY AND PRAY FOR HER SAFE RETURN OR ANY KIND OF CLOSURE FOR HER FAMILY.
Good luck to the rest of the world that thinks a young person doesn't have their own personality and secrets. I think this girl was unfortunate and became a statistic, lets just hope she surfaces.
Everyone! This is a serious matter. She really is a great person whom I have known for many years! Everyone just needs to lay off one another and hope that shes ok. I really hope nothing bad has happened she is a great friend to all and we all miss you here at Tech.
I am shocked and appalled at how ridiculous a thread could become in response to a missing individual, which is a very serious matter. It brings me to tears to think that people on here have time and evil energy to waste bantering about misconceptions and insulting one another when there is a daughter, a friend, a human being MISSING. I hope that you all learn what is truly important in this world and pray for this young woman and her family and friends. We need prayers. And hope. Not immaturity and irrelevant banter.
Please pray.
Yes, it is a serious matter. But I also doubt the Hook News Blog comments section is the front line in the search for Morgan. I think all friends of Morgan and those concerned for her safety should pray privately, as Jesus would, for her safe return.
Matthew 6:5-6 but thou when thou pray, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy father which is in secret, and thy father which seeth in secret shall reward thee.
Apart from the genuine comments on here regarding Morgan's well-being and safe return, everyone else is heartless. Get off here and stop bashing each others grammar, and word choices. Stop making up scenarios about things that aren't happening. This is real, and very serious.
Her family may read these comments, how would all of you fools feel if this was your child missing and these were the kind of comments being posted?!
Morgan is a daughter, a sister, a friend...She is missing and the Harrington's lives are turned upside down, as well as her friends.
Please, just hope/pray for her safe return.
Soon, an announcement from LK Tucker about a revolutionary perpetual motion machine that government and industry are conspiring to keep hidden. VT shooter Cho was a secret agent , etc..., blah, blah, blah....
Here come the loonies!
it is early to speculate what happened.her purse was found in the parking lot along with her cell phone,the battery was removed.
Britt, I have a few questions for you. It was reported by Mr. Rader with the State Police that Morgan's cell phone was found without the battery but that was not unusual for her. Can you help me understand why that was not unusual for Morgan?
And do you know when and where Morgan and all the girls ate before the concert? Or did they plan to eat afterwards somewhere in Harrisonburg? Was there a particular party where Morgan and the group were planning to attend at JMU after the concert? Do you know of anyone from UVA whom Morgan would have expected to attend that party too?
you are going down the wrong road at the wrong time. its time to wait and see what develops.
Yeah GSOE, some parents still do exercise absolute authority over their teenagers. It always works out just fine. I'm sure YOUR daughter will turn out fine, just fine.....
"Reportedly, Murray was homeschooled in a deeply religious Christian household, and he attended, but did not complete, a missionary training program at the YWAM Arvada facility in 2002."
Back off a bit here and let this news do what it can to help get that girl back home rather than being yet another platform for your ranting. Maybe someone here does know something. Wouldn't you hope for the same if your daughter were the one missing?
I wouldn't have to be ranting if people didn't submit silly ramblings such as pimps taking cell phones and beating girls up. :)
These disappearances all seem to start the same way. Popular student, in good health, no mental health problems, disappears leaving possessions behind. Brian Shaffer was seen on video tape minutes before he vanished.
Some are certainly crime or accident victims and a few are later found suicides without explanation,(Compton, Morse, Ga. Tech.) but another small group return or are found in altered mental states.
Virginia Tech has not warned students about a little known problem discovered because it caused mental breaks for office workers. The cubicle was designed to deal with the vision startle reflex to prevent what is still today believed to be a harmless episode of confusion.
Cho, the mass shooter, created the "special circumstances" for this problem. A variety of outcomes is possible but efforts to determine if she had Subliminal Distraction exposure should be made. If so she could be almost anywhere she could have traveled without a passport.
Students and other adults have been recovered in from a few days to many months. Although they have amnesia most victims appear and function normally otherwise. It is called Dissociative Fugue. Fugue is diagnosed after someone is found but not much is known about the first few days and weeks of an episode.
Wake up all of you
Put your agenda aside. If you want to render a 19 year old helpless , take the battery out of her phone and make her think she can not get in touch with her friends.
Now give her a ride to find them and this gets really dark.
Curious, the only fact anybody needs to know is that the young girl is still missing. My heart skipped a beat last night about 7:30 p.m. when I noticed a girl in Five Guys on the downtown mall. I had to pause and take a good look at the girl for about 30 seconds to make sure it was not Morgan. Sadly enough, it wasn't her.
I don't know her or her family but this makes me sick deep into the pit of my stomach. I sit here looking at her pictures, praying to God that she does not end up like so many other missing people...dead or at the hands of some crazy pervert. I hope she is out there alive, on her way home.
If you don't have children, I suppose it may be hard to feel empathy in this situation..but for me, seeing her father break down on TV is truly unbearable. My God, I pray she comes home soon.
A police news release today confirms she had a small facial injury. There was a report that she fell to get that injury and could not communicate when she stood. The witness thought she was drunk or stoned. Another person saw her inside the restroom crying with the injury. Friends and independent witnesses verify she was not using drugs or alcohol.
Now we know she walked across two parking lots alone. Others there relate "limited interaction" with her. No one assaulted her. But there is no explanation for the abandoned purse with the cell phone inside with its battery removed.
She may have been grabbed after she left the concert area. But there is no proof.


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Prior to that 2010 Court ruling, top executives were barred by federal law from using corporate funds to instruct, induce, intimidate or otherwise push workers to support particular candidates. No more, thanks to the five Supremes. Having been given a legal pass, bosses have openly and aggressively conscripted employees to be political troopers for corporate-backed candidates.
For example, CEO David Siegel of Westgate Resorts, a major peddler of time-share schemes, warned his 7,000-strong workforce against voting for Obama. To do so, he wrote in a letter to each of them, would "threaten your job." Obama, Siegel declared, planned to raise taxes on multimillionaires like him, which would give him "no choice but to reduce the size of this company."
Likewise, Dave Robertson, president of the Koch brothers' industrial empire, notified 30,000 workers that they would suffer assorted "ills" if they helped re-elect Obama. In case that message was too subtle, Robertson helpfully included a slate-card of Koch-approved candidates for them to take into the polling booth.
Of course, corporate chieftains say they're not making threats — just suggestions. As Boss Siegel disingenuously put it: "There's no way I can pressure anybody. I'm not in the voting booth with them."
But, of course, he can see (or be told by watchful managers) if any employee dares to sport an Obama campaign button, bumper sticker or lawn sign. And he can find out if any rebellious worker has gone to a Democratic Party event, volunteered in the wrong campaign or made a donation to Obama (now there's a chilling irony — under Citizens United, Siegel can secretly shovel a million bucks or more straight out of the corporate treasury into an anti-Obama campaign group, but a regular person's $200 donation has to be disclosed for all to see, including the boss).
So, sure, this is America, where we're all equal as citizens — you, me and the Fortune 500. And don't forget that you're perfectly free to defy the guy who can fire you for whatever reason he makes up — or for no reason at all. Good luck with that.
For a rich example of unbridled boss power in today's political process, harken back to August, when Mitt Romney appeared on a stage with a group of Ohio coal miners arrayed behind him. "I tell ya," the clueless candidate cheerfully exclaimed, "you've got a great boss."
That would be Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, who'd previously held a $1.7 million fundraiser for Romney. But if Mitt had just turned around and seen the scowls on the soot-smeared faces of the Murray miners, he would've had a clue that they didn't quite share his enthusiasm for their "great boss."
One reason for their grumpiness is that they hadn't volunteered to be there, but had been directed by Bossman Bob to attend. Also, Bob was docking them a day's pay for "taking the day off" to serve as stage props for Mitt's campaign. In effect, they were compelled to donate to the Republican. That'll make you grouchy.
As uncovered in an investigative report by The New Republic, such involuntary support is routinely demanded from the salaried employees of Murray Energy. They get hit up again and again for donations to Romney and such other designated candidates as Sens. Rand Paul, Scott Brown, Jim DeMint, and David Vitter.
Murray himself sends dunning letters to employees' homes, specifying to each one how much to give and instructing them to send their checks directly to corporate headquarters. Staffers there maintain a list of those who did as told — and those who didn't. "If you don't contribute, your job's at stake," one employee bluntly explained. "There's a lot of coercion," he adds, "They will give you a call if you're not giving."
Indeed, Murray deploys his lieutenants to squeeze the laggards — as the boss put it in one letter to them last year: "Please see that our salaried employees 'step up,' for their own sakes." And, in another letter this March, he pointedly named names: "I do not recall ever seeing the attached list of employees ... at one of our fundraisers."
After Romney's "great boss" statement, he added that Murray "runs a great operation here." Yeah — a political shakedown operation by the 2012, court-sanctioned, corporate version of political bossism. If you needed another reason to support a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United, there it is.


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As the Pirate Party in Germany seems to be taking off in local elections (reaching 13 percent of support in a recent national poll), some German artists are increasingly voicing their frustration with a political group that they say doesn't represent their interests, according to an article published Friday in the German magazine Der Spiegel.
After being founded in Sweden in 2006, the political philosophy has since spread worldwide. It's had the most success thus far in Germany, although adoption in the United States has been much slower.
The magazine concluded that the Pirate Party, "is the first left-wing party to have a considerable number of intellectuals not for, but against it."
The tempest in a torrent seems to have begun about a month ago, after Sven Regener, a Berlin-based musician and author, lamented the Pirates' politics on Bavarian public radio. Others have stepped up to agree with his sentiment, including "film director Doris Dörrie, publisher Carl Hanser Verlag's literary director and author Michael Krüger and author Julia Franck."
Take the case of Hans Magnus Enzensberger, an award-winning 82-year-old essayist, poet, and author who has been at the forefront of many German political movements in recent decades.
"Political? No, politically there's nothing there," he said in an interview with Der Spiegel. "And certainly nothing revolutionary. It's actually surprisingly bourgeois. Like our grandparents, who were happy when they could get something for free."
Enzenberger, though, wasn't done. "I wonder why they don't go the bakery and say that they'd rather not pay," he added. "Why does it have to be against us, the authors?"
Of course, Pirates would argue that they're not against paying for stuff—and that paying for bread, a non-digital good, is very different than paying for an MP3. In fact, Peter Sunde, one of the founders of The Pirate Bay, also created Flattr, a startup that makes it easier for people to financially support websites they like.
As an adjoining interview in the same magazine reveals, there seems to be a great disconnect between the established media and music culture, and the young digerati.
"We derive our demands from the technical realities of the Net," said Christopher Lauer, a Pirate member of the Berlin state parliament. "For us they are like laws of nature. That's why you and many other people often have difficulty understanding us."


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The piano has always been a musical instrument first and foremost, but at the same time the need to win acceptance has meant its appearance has had to take account of its surroundings. So pianos have always reflected the furniture styles of their day. Once the internal layout of the piano, whether square, upright or grand, had become firmly established, the casework could be used to make an aesthetic statement. The true art-case piano is an art form in its own right.
Broadwood, London 1879. In 1879 the painter Edward Burne-Jones was asked by a friend, William Graham, to design a piano which he could give as a wedding present to his daughter Frances. Burne-Jones commissioned Broadwood to build a grand piano with a traditional harpsichord-like shape, supported by a trestle stand, that would be in keeping with the Arts and Crafts movement he was establishing with the craftsman and poet William Morris. Burne-Jones himself painted the lid, which shows mother earth.
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Allow me to introduce to you to my close friend, protector & social deflector…. Avoidance.
Avoidance has been my fire blanket for as long as I can remember, so much so that I don't want to fold it up, pack it away, or even consider it not being my 'go-to' comforter.
I think I learnt this skill early on in life as growing up we had many people coming in & out of our home due to the job my parents had. We often had people sitting at a dinner table not knowing each other & sometimes not knowing us either. We were 'briefed' beforehand & given a rundown on how this person landed up in our home & at our table & were also provided topics to avoid due to it's sensitivity or inappropriateness towards our visitor. Hence, the dinner dance I grew up with was created – the very essence of avoidance & masking uncomfortableness. There were times I recall my brother & I almost performing for these people to break the silence, encourage conversation & topics of interest or just talking amongst each other in the hope that the deafening silence & awkward social situation would be drowned out by our banter. We actually used to call each other 'social lubricators' & it became instinctual when our services were required.
Over the years, I perfected avoidance so much so that performing became a breeze & it also manifested itself into a mask. I hoped as my confidence grew & as my strived to achieve my hopes & dreams socially & professionally, that I would be better confronting people & situations. However, it wasn't to be. And sadly, as my depression increased in it's frequency this was just something that I just didn't have the energy or room to work on. My avoidance isn't prejudiced either as it involves both situations & individuals so all my bases are covered in terms of any potential conflicts.
I don't know what my issue with avoidance is & how I've become so resistant to confrontation. What am I afraid of? What's the worst that can happen? Isn't confrontation just standing up for myself? I'm not a weak person, nor a pushover, so surely this should come easily! Am I just wilfully ignorant?
I want to get to the bottom of this. I really do as I feel it holding me back to the person I want to be for myself & for my family. So, what is my issue exactly? Is it feeling overwhelmed at the time of confrontations & not saying what I want to say? Is it that I think of things to say after the fact & get angry with myself for not thinking of them at the time? Is that my excuse for not even starting the conversation that needs to be had? Am I scared what the other person will think of me? If they're my good friends I shouldn't care & the friendship is supposed to strengthen. And If we're not good friends, then I shouldn't even bother, so it's not avoidance rather disinterest. Am I scared about the unknown outcome therefore not even wanting to find out? Is it a control thing – that I can't control the outcome, my feelings etc?
And then I start thinking: what lesson I am teaching my kids by all this avoidance? Is this the kind of role model I want to be to my children? If I want people or my kids to have respect for me then surely I need to be able to genuinely respect myself & be content with my life's decisions. Is my avoidance a form of self-respect sabotage? Is my fear born out of self-preservation? How do I go about & what do I need to do to give myself permission to be vulnerable enough to stop this tango of avoidance? If I want to be the best version of myself, then surely something needs to change in my thinking.
Like my realisation that the word 'forgiveness' had the word 'give' in it, the word avoidance has the word 'dance' in it. This is perfect for me as I actually see myself dancing around topics & hop stepping about in order to deflect from the real issue. In actual fact, I would rather dance instead of facing a confronting, uncomfortable or excruciating event.
At the beginning of this post, I called avoidance my 'fire' blanket as opposed to a safety blanket. Is there really going to be a wall of fire thrown at me for standing up for myself? Do I really have to snuff it out before it starts to sting? Is this how I view confrontation – that the consequence is me being told off, questioned or hurt? Are all confrontations going to be an attack on my character? Is that how I see confrontation – as personal attacks? At the end of the day confrontations & arguments are just words. They're just noises that come out of peoples mouths & form things called words which we use to communicate to each other. It's all it is. I can make these words bounce off me or go right over me depending on the level of value I hold in the relationship with the person in conversation with. Surely this is nothing to be fearful of!?
I'm sure there are some people that see & view my avoidance as a weakness & an area in which they can exploit & take advantage of. Surely this alone should give me the motivation & impetus to make a change & stop dancing around the real issues. And I need to be honest too & admit that I'm not proud of this personality trait, so this together with my feelings of exploitation just have to be the architects of change.
I really don't know the answer here, but I hope that exploring my thoughts & feelings in this space will provide me with some insights & in time possible paths of exploration.
Does anyone else have issues with confrontation? Have you managed to overcome your fears? What have been your strategies? I'd love some tips.


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Stamford's pennies from heaven
STAMFORD -- The women sang soft and sweet, "Don't you know each cloud contains pennies, pennies from heaven," as they waited for firefighters Nick Tamburro and Brian Teitelbaum to pick up their collection of coins Tuesday morning at the Adult Education Center on Washington Street.
It's a song that fit the moment in this city where schools, firehouses and businesses have been collecting money to build a playground in memory of Jessie Lewis, a Newtown first-grader slain in his classroom more than a year ago.
Jessie was the boy who yelled "Run!" to his classmates when the shooter's gun jammed that December day that left 20 children and six staff members dead. Stamford, through The Sandy Ground: Where Angels Play Foundation is collecting money for the effort to build 26 playgrounds in honor of those killed. The project was created to help communities recover from physical damage done by hurricane sandy and the emotional damage from the tragedy in Newtown. Organizers hope these playground will help sustain childhood in our communities.
"The response has been awesome," Tamburro said. He and Teitelbaum were visiting city schools and picking up the coins students had been donating for the playground project. He explained that Stamford is actually collecting money for the next project. "We're paying it forward."
Everywhere he went, he said, people pitched in and he and Teitelbaum had to haul out forty-pound bags of change, taking it to First County Bank to be counted.
At the Adult Education Center, more than 30 students gathered in the media center to hand over their funds to the firefighters, thanking them for the opportunity to participate. Teachers Linda Paolina and Teresa Cavaliero sang "Pennies from Heaven" to pass the time.
Unofficially, Tamburro said Rippowam looked like the school to beat, collecting about $3,200, but he said the official counts were still being done.
More InformationPennies from Heaven
Every time it rains, it rains pennies from heaven
Don't you know each cloud contains pennies from heaven?
You'll find your fortune's fallin' all over the town
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love, you must have showers
So, when you hear it thunder, don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me
Every time, every time it rains, it's gonna rain pennies from heaven
Don't you know every cloud contains lots of pennies from heaven
You'll find your fortune's fallin', baby, all over the town
Be sure, be sure that your umbrella is upside down
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers
If you want the things you love, you've got to have showers
So, when you hear it thunder, don't run under a tree
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me
Lyrics according to azlyrics.com.
Superintendent of Schools Winifred Hamilton said she felt honored that Stamford was selected as a site for one of the playgrounds, the parents felt comfortable about it and she was glad to have the schools participate.
"This is something that rocked the hearts and minds of every parent and person in this community," she said. "This is something that affected us all."
She was glad the city and schools responded to the challenge to raise funds for the project.
"We do what we can to give as much as we can," she said.
The schools agreed.
"It was great. People were bringing in their spare change," said Newfield Principal Lisa Saba-Price. "The kids did embrace it."
She said every classroom had small containers for kids to drop change into and staff also contributed.
Tamburro said he was seeing the same thing from other schools and people really wanted to be a part of this.
The Adult Education Center originally wasn't on the list of schools that were participating, but Maritza Garcia, the center's administrator heard about the collection after it started and said it was something her students would like to be a part of.
"They're generous people. It's for the kids," she said of the students that attend classes to learn English and get General Education Degrees. This is their community and they want to show it and be a part of it. Many are immigrants and many have children in the schools, so they gave multiple times. First giving some money to their kids and then donating at the center.
Adult Education raised $1,021.
Angelica Rodas was one of the Adult Ed students that gave at the center and also provided money for her children to give.
"It's to help the community," she said. "I gave, because I live here. Everybody needs to help."
The collection continues Wednesday and a final tally, being conducted by First County Bank, is expected by Friday.


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Clean Water Around the Globe
August 01, 2016
We North Americans have unparalleled access to clean water. Clean water is such a given that we have the luxury of judging water based solely on its taste. We can simply assume that our tap water, across this entire continent, is clean and safe to drink. It's astounding, really. The idea of not being able to find any clean water to drink is almost incomprehensible to us. This is not the case, however, in many other parts of the world. In fact, 795 million people —one in nine people across the globe— live without access to clean, drinkable water.
As we continue our look at Clean Water, having looked at the history of and process of water treatment and purification in Part 1 and Part 2, this month we will begin to look at some exciting innovations in providing clean water to people who need it.
First, we turn our attention to Lima, Peru, our neighbor far to the south, on the Northwestern coast of South America. Lima is at the northern edge of the Atacama, the driest desert in the world, which means that the almost nine million people in the metro area see almost no rainfall at all — perhaps a half-inch of precipitation annually. Citizens of Lima are desperately in need of clean water; however, one thing they have plenty of is water vapor. Situated near the Pacific coast, Lima's humidity level averages around 83% and is often at 100%. So, since there is so much water in the air, engineers at Peru's University of Engineering and Technology designed an unusual and innovative tool to create potable water — a billboard that creates clean drinking water from humid air.
This is a real thing — a billboard that creates up to 26 gallons of water a day out of thin air (or, in this case, it might be fairly thick air). The billboard contains air condensers that cool the air and condense the water vapor to liquid water. Here is a diagram of how it works:
This billboard cost around $1200 USD, and could certainly be replicated and utilized in many parts of the world. To offset the cost of additional billboards, they could even be used in the manner in which they are typically used — for advertising.
Next month, we will look at more innovations in producing clean water, and efforts to provide clean water to all people, all across the globe.
Time Magazine, "Finally, A Billboard that Creates Drinkable Water Out of Thin Air"
Popular Mechanics, "A Billboard that Condenses Water from Humidity"


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FOCUS Enhancements' FireStore FS-4 HD line of Portable DTE recorders is the latest extension to its industry-leading FireStore family of DTE studio rackmount, shoulder mount, and SD handheld recorders. The FS-4 HD delivers HD and DV acquisition solutions from the field to the editing room, enabling videographers to record HDV or DV streams directly to disk from leading HD video camcorders and decks including Sony's HVR-Z1U HDV camcorder and JVC's GY-HD100U ProHD camcorder via FireWire. FireStore then connects directly to Mac/Windows-based editing systems, allowing video professionals to edit content directly from the FS-4 HD. Users can choose from the most popular NLE file formats including standard definition Avid OMF, Canopus AVI, Matrox AVI and more, as well as high definition 720p or 1080i MPEG2 transport streams (.m2t). "
The new FS-4 HD DTE recorders feature a 40GB (3 hour) internal disk drive and the FS-4Pro HD recorders offer an optional 80GB (6 hour) internal disk drive, all in a small, shockproof chassis. FS-4 HD recorders are lightweight, weighing about one pound including the battery, and are only 1.5-inches thin. Videographers can easily mount the unit to their camcorder using the optional hot-shoe clip-on adapter or attach it directly to their belt. The FS-4 HD features a removable Li-Ion battery pack, sixteen front panel buttons with VTR-like controls, a back-lit status LCD display, multiple control modes, a six second retro-cache, user definable function keys, extensive playback features and support for HDV and DV25 based DTE.
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FireStore FS-4 HD, FS-4Pro HD 40GB and FS-4Pro HD 80GB recorders are available through the worldwide FOCUS Enhancements dealer and distributor networks for a US MSRP of $999, $1,395 and $1,795, respectively. FireStore FS-4 SD models are upgradeable to HD in the field by purchasing a simple download for a US MSRP of $299. For more information on FOCUS Enhancements and its products, visit www.focusinfo.com.


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Microstamping Taken Down to the Wire
Mention stamping and what typically comes to mind are high volumes of parts with required finished-size tolerances relatively simple to maintain. But what about the tiny, complex stamped parts such as electric contact connectors, measuring 0.030 by 0.150 in. and with features as small as 0.012 in. that must be stamped to overall dimensional tolerances within ±0.0005 in.?
Scenic Tool produces
connectors to overall dimensional tolerances within ±0.0005 in., stamped
on high-speed presses at up to 1200 strokes/min. Approximately 90
percent of the shop's electrical-connector stampings run reel to reel.
Now imagine having to manufacture the intricate tooling necessary to stamp such small components—at Scenic Tool and Stamping Inc., in Campobello, SC, it happens every day. Although the shop completes a wide range of job sizes, its expertise is in microstamping—and the tooling needed for that process. The family-owned full-service tool-and-die shop and progressive-die stamper builds and runs dies for customers. With an elevated level of precision capability, Scenic Tool specializes in providing microstamped electrical connectors for the automotive and electronics industries.
In 2011, the firm produced slightly fewer than one-billion electrical-contact connector stampings for its various customers, with individual order volumes ranging from 50 to several million pieces. Most connectors are tiny and complex, and stamped from very thin material. And while also producing connectors to exacting tolerances is more than enough of a challenge, the shop's customers continually request that they be made even smaller.
Smaller, More Precise Tools
As the size of many consumer products continues to shrink, the components inside them shrink as well. This means that the tooling needed to produce those stamped components has to, in turn, be smaller than ever, as well as more precise and have superior surface finishes. These are manufacturing demands that Scenic Tool overcomes using precision wire-EDM technology.
"Wire EDM is at the heart of our shop," says Scenic Tool president Mike Blackwell. "We design tooling according to the capabilities of that technology. With the ability to cut parts using wire diameters down to 0.002 in., we easily can meet customer requirements for smaller, more precise microstampings, while also reducing overall processing times for the tooling. And most importantly, our wire-EDM machine (a GF AgieCharmilles CUT 2000 model) allows us to generate the extremely high-quality surface finishes critical for microstamping tooling."
With its wire EDM, the shop easily achieves surface finishes of 0.2 Ra. And, according to the company's CNC and EDM manager Eric Blackwell, the necessary settings and parameters for doing so are built into the machine's control, so the shop rarely goes through any trial and error processes. Additionally, the machine provides twin-head automatic wire changing, a feature that allows the shop to optimize cutting speed and economize its use of high-end small-diameter coated wire.
From Milling to Jig Boring, Hardening and Wire Cutting
Much of the tooling components at Scenic Tool are produced for production tooling or for replacement parts for customers. The shop also designs and manufactures assembly equipment, as well as provides spare tooling. Parts, made mostly from tool steels and carbide, begin as saw-cut blocks of raw material. Machining operations can start either with manual or CNC milling, then include jig-boring or threading of holes before parts go to heattreating. Once hardened, parts are rough-ground and either finish-ground or wire-cut.
Scenic Tool's GF AgieCharmilles CUT 2000 wire-EDM machine achieves surface finishes of 0.2 Ra. With automatic wire-changing technology, the machine allows the firm to easily switch between wires of different sizes and materials, allowing it to optimize roughing and finishing operations while also conserving the use of high-end small-diameter coated wire.
The shop sometimes wire-cuts multiple parts in one setup, but most often workpieces are run one at a time because each part can require as many as 20 different cavities. With the machine programmed to move from cavity to cavity, typical burn times range from 30 min. to 5 hr. or more.
With automatic wire-changing technology, the CUT 2000 lets Scenic Tool easily switch between wires of different sizes and materials, allowing it to optimize roughing and finishing operations while also conserving the use of high-end small-diameter coated wire. Eric Blackwell describes one of many applications at Scenic Tool where automatic wire changing plays a key role in reducing processing time for carbide punches. Previously the punches were cut using only 0.004-in.-dia. wire for roughing and finishing the 1.750-in.-thick parts. Eric now runs the rough pass much faster, using 0.008-in.-dia. wire. Then the machine automatically changes to the smaller-diameter wire for the finish pass.
According to Eric, the CUT 2000 automatically makes wire changes in less than 2 min., and is designed to determine the exact center location of its V-guides. The operator only has to enter the desired wire diameter into the machine's control, and the guides compensate for the difference between one wire diameter and the next.
Most importantly, adds Eric:
"The machine is als aware of wire center to maintain exact part location and size once a wire-diameter change has occurred and cutting resumes. When we first looked at the CUT 2000, we were a bit skeptical as to how well the twin-head wire changing would work. We run small-diameter zinc-coated steel wire with high tensile strength, and the machine's wire changer quickly and smoothly goes from that to standard larger-diameter brass wire."
Three-Point Guiding
The CUT 2000 uses patented GF AgieCharmilles Universal Wire Guide technology. Two stationary three-point V-guides—an upper and lower—accommodate a range of wire diameters from 0.002 to 0.012 in. Additionally, the machine includes dynamic corner control, wire bending control (for complex geometries) and Variocut, a function that automatically optimizes machining parameters.
Without its state-of-the-art EDM technology, Scenic Tool would have to produce tooling using other more time-consuming methods, say the Blackwells. The CUT 2000 allows tooling with small cavities to be processed whole to improve quality and shorten processing time. Plus, the shop can cut extremely tight inside-cavity radii with the machine's small wire-diameter capability.
Reel-to-Reel Stamping
In production-stamping operations, Scenic Tool produces its connectors on high-speed stamping presses, one of which runs at 1000 to 1200 strokes/ min.; approximately 90 percent of the shop's electrical-connector stampings run reel to reel.
Raw material—typically copper, beryllium, stainless steel or brass—on coils move through stamping tooling, and connector parts are stamped one after another. The material exits the stamping process where it is rewound onto a reel after passing through camera inspection and quality testing. Reels then ship to customers or head out for plating.
Customers run the rolled strip material into an assembly machine where stampings are cut off, and nearly all then are affixed into plastic housings to complete the connector-assembly process. Or, some stampings are cut off and layered into a plastic overmolding operation.
"Our end product is stampings," says Mike Blackwell. "In this business, it's all about providing parts within customer specifications at the most cost-effective price. In addition to new EDM technology, we've incorporated advanced software that speeds the tooling-design process, and have initiated modular concepts into our tooling designs."
Scenic Tool and Stamping started in 1995 and has progressed to its present-day 30-employee, two-building operation, with Mike Blackwell at the helm and Eric Blackwell on the floor. Since its beginnings, business has grown continually even through the challenging year of 2008. Going forward, business is expected to further increase because Scenic Tool has its sights set on expanding into the medical and aerospace industries, and the shop's EDM capabilities, along with its extensive microstamping experience, will play a key role. MFArticle provided by GF AgieCharmilles, Lincolnshire, IL: 847/913-5300; www.us.gfac.com.
See also: GF AgieCharmilles
Related Enterprise Zones: Presses, Tool & Die
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As between you and us, we and our suppliers and licensors, own, solely and exclusively, all rights, title and interest in and to the Site, the Service, and all their content (including, for example, audio, photographs, image, video, illustrations, graphics, other visuals, copy, text, articles, advertising, software, titles, etc., "Content") and to all code, data and materials thereon, the look and feel, design and organization of the Site and other parts of the Service, and the compilation of the content, code, data and materials on the Site, including but not limited to any copyrights, trademark rights, service mark rights, patent rights, database rights, moral rights, sui generis rights and other intellectual property and proprietary rights therein, including so called "rights of publicity" ("IPR"). Your use of the Service does not grant to you ownership of any content, code, data or materials you may access on or through the Service. Any copying, rearrangement, redistribution, modification, use or publication by you of any content or any part of the Service, except for the limited rights of use granted hereunder, is prohibited. Any rights not expressly granted in these Terms of Use are expressly reserved. If any IPR in or to the Service vests in you, whether by operation of law or otherwise, you hereby assign to us (or to any third party we nominate) all right, title and interest (whether legal or beneficial) in such IPR throughout the world absolutely to the fullest extent possible, including any and all renewals and extensions of such IPR. You unconditionally and irrevocably waive any and all moral rights you may have either now or in the future existing in or in relation to the Service. You agree to execute and do all such deeds, documents, acts and things as we may reasonably require in order to assign any IPR to us, to carry out the intended purpose of these Terms of Use, or to establish, perfect, preserve or enforce our rights under these Terms of Use.
Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use, we hereby grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to access and view the Content on the Service on your computer or other device, and no other use may be of the Content except as specifically provided in these Terms of Use.
Subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, without the right to sublicense, to download and install a copy of the Influencia mobile device application ("Mobile Application") onto any authorized device you own and control, and run such copy of the Mobile Application solely for your personal, non-commercial use. Furthermore, with respect to any Mobile Application downloaded from the iTunes® store, you may only use the Mobile Application as permitted by the "Usage Rules" set forth in the Apple App Store Terms of Service.
The copy of the Mobile Application is licensed, not sold, to you. You agree that Influencia and its licensors own all right, title and interest in and to the Mobile Application, including all intellectual property rights therein, and that we retain ownership of all copies of the Mobile Application even after installation on your mobile device. The Mobile Application is protected by United States copyright law and international treaties. You must not delete or in any manner alter the copyright, trademark and other proprietary rights notices or markings appearing on the Mobile Application as delivered to you. Influencia reserves all rights in the Mobile Application not expressly granted to you in these Terms of Use.
The license to the Mobile Application granted under these Terms of Use remains in effect, unless earlier terminated by you or us in accordance with this provision. You may terminate the license at any time by removing or destroying all copies of the Mobile Application in your possession or control. Without limiting any other terms of these Terms of Use, the license will automatically terminate without notice from Influencia if you breach any terms of these Terms of Use. Upon any termination of these Terms of Use, you must cease all use of the Mobile Application and promptly delete and destroy all copies, full or partial, of the Mobile Application.
You may not (a) copy or modify the Mobile Application, including, but not limited to, adding new features or otherwise making adaptations that alter the functioning of the Mobile Application; (b) transfer, sell, rent, lease, distribute, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to, or any portion of, the Mobile Application to any third party; or (c) make the functionality of the Mobile Application available to multiple users through any means, including but not limited to distribution of the Mobile Application. The Mobile Application contains trade secrets, and in order to protect those secrets you agree not to disassemble, decompile or reverse engineer the Mobile Application, in whole or in part, or permit or authorize a third party to do so, except to the extent such activities are expressly permitted by law. You must comply with any technical restrictions in the Mobile Application that allow you to use the Mobile Application only in certain ways.
You may use an image or video posted on the Site on a web site owned and controlled by you only if you embed all of the HTML code that is located in the "Embed This" dialog box for the image or video on the Web Site, provided that such use is not of a commercial nature, and that the embedded text link drives viewers back to the Site. You must retain any copyright and other proprietary notices that appear on the image. Failure to follow these requirements shall constitute a breach of these Terms of Use, and you may no longer access or otherwise use the Site, and your noncompliance shall void and invalidate any permission by the copyright owner, express or implied, to make use of such image, and your use of the image will subject you to possible claims of copyright infringement, as well as claims arising out of proprietary rights, including so-called "rights of publicity" and any other claims that may be asserted by the respective rights owner. In the event you embed the HTML code described above on a web site owned or controlled by you, we may place one or more cookies in the browsers of visitors to your site, as more fully explained in our Privacy Policy. It is your responsibility to make any required disclosure to your visitors of the possible placement of such cookies.
In the event you wish to use an image posted on the Site in a commercial manner, you can do so only with express permission and authorization, and must directly contact Influencia LLC at email@example.com before any such commercial use. Failure to follow these requirements shall constitute a breach of these Terms of Use, and you may no longer access or otherwise use the Site, and your noncompliance shall void and invalidate any permission by the copyright owner, express or implied, to make any use of such image, and your use of the image will subject you to possible claims of copyright infringement, as well as claims arising out of proprietary rights, including so-called "rights of publicity" and any other claims that may be asserted by the respective rights owner.
Any commercial or promotional distribution, publishing or exploitation of the Site, or any content, code, data or materials on the Site, is strictly prohibited unless you have received the express prior written permission from our authorized personnel or the otherwise applicable rights holder. Other than as expressly allowed herein, you may not download, post, display, publish, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, modify, perform, broadcast, transfer, create derivative works from, sell or otherwise exploit any content, code, data or materials on or available through the Service. You further agree that you may not alter, edit, delete, remove, otherwise change the meaning or appearance of, or repurpose, any of the content, code, data, or other materials on or available through the Service, including, without limitation, the alteration or removal of any trademarks, trade names, logos, service marks, or any other proprietary content or proprietary rights notices, You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading any copyrighted material from or through the Service. If you make other use of the Site, or the content, code, data or materials thereon or available through the Site, except as otherwise provided above, you may violate copyright and other laws of the United States, other countries, as well as applicable state laws and may be subject to liability for such unauthorized use.
The trademarks, logos, service marks and trade names (collectively the "Trademarks") displayed on the Service or on content available through the Service may not be used in connection with products and/or services that are not related to, associated with, or sponsored by their rights holders that are likely to cause customer confusion, or in any manner that disparages or discredits their rights holders. All Trademarks not owned by us that appear on or through the Service or any of its features or services , if any, are the property of their respective owners. Nothing contained on the Service should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Trademark displayed on the Service without our written permission or the written permission of the third party that may own the applicable Trademark. Your misuse of the Trademarks displayed on or through the Service or any of its features or services is strictly prohibited.
In the course of your use of the Service, you may be asked to provide certain personalized information to us (such information referred to hereinafter as "User Information"). Our information collection and use policies with respect to the privacy of such User Information are set forth in the Service's Privacy Policy which is incorporated herein by reference for all purposes. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the accuracy and content of User Information and represent and warrant that you will not provide any information that is inaccurate or misleading.
We are not responsible for materials or content submitted or posted to the Service, and you, using the Service as a viewer, shall be solely responsible for your own submissions and posting and the consequences of posting or publishing them. We do not solicit nor do we wish to receive any confidential, secret or proprietary information or other material from you through the Service, by e-mail or in any other way. Any comments, information, creative works, demos, ideas, suggestions, concepts, methods, systems, designs, plans, techniques or other materials submitted or sent to us (including, for example and without limitation, that which you submit or post to our chat rooms, message boards, survey responses, and/or our blogs, or send to us via e-mail) ("Submitted Materials") will be deemed not to be confidential or secret, and may be used by us in any manner consistent with the Influencia Privacy Policy. By submitting or sending Submitted Materials to us, you: (i) represent and warrant that the Submitted Materials are original to you, or that you own or have all necessary rights, licenses, consents, releases and permissions to submit and post the Submitted Materials, or that no other party has any rights thereto, that the Submitted Materials do not infringe or violate the rights of any person, including but not limited to privacy and publicity rights, or violate any law or regulation, and that any "moral rights" in Submitted Materials have been irrevocably and unconditionally waived, and (ii) you grant us and our affiliates a royalty-free, unrestricted, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully transferable, assignable and sublicensable right and license to use, copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display and incorporate in other works any Submitted Materials (in whole or part) in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional and/or commercial purposes, and in connection with our business and the business of our successors, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates and related companies, and you agree that you shall have no claims against us for using these materials. We reserve the rights to display advertisements in connection with your Submitted Materials and to use your Submitted Materials for advertising and promotional purposes. You acknowledge and agree that your Submitted Materials may be included on the web sites and advertising networks of our distribution partners and third-party service providers (including their downstream users). You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to access Submitted Materials through the Service for the purposes of accessing and using them in accordance with these Terms of Use. We cannot be and are not responsible for maintaining any Submitted Material that you provide to us, and we may delete or destroy any such Submitted Material at any time. We are and shall be under no obligation to pay to you or any user any compensation for any Submitted Materials, or to respond to any of your or any other user's Submitted Materials.
You warrant and agree that, while using the Service and the various services and features offered on or through the Service, you shall not: (i) impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation with any other person or entity; (ii) insert your own or a third party's advertising, branding or other promotional content into any of the Service's content, materials or services (for example, without limitation, in an RSS feed or a podcast received from us or otherwise through the Service), or use, redistribute, republish or exploit such content or service for any further commercial or promotional purposes; or (iii) attempt to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems through the Service. You shall not: (i) engage in spidering, "screen scraping," "database scraping," harvesting of e-mail addresses, wireless addresses or other contact or personal information, or any other automatic means of obtaining lists of users or other information from or through the Service or the services offered on or through the Service, including without limitation any information residing on any server or database connected to the Service or the services offered on or through the Service; (ii) obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorized access to computer systems, materials or information through any means; (iii) use the Service or the services made available on or through the Service in any manner with the intent to interrupt, damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Service or such services, including, without limitation, sending mass unsolicited messages or "flooding" servers with requests; (iv) use the Service or the Service's services or features in violation of our or any third party's intellectual property or other proprietary or legal rights; or (v) use the Service or the Service's features or services in violation of any applicable law. You further agree that you shall not attempt (or encourage or support anyone else's attempt) to circumvent, reverse engineer, decrypt, or otherwise alter or interfere with the Service or the Service's features and services, or any content thereof, or make any unauthorized use thereof. You agree that you shall not use the Service in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Service or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Service or any of its features or services. You shall not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made publicly available or provided for through the Service.
You agree that you shall not upload, post, transmit, distribute or otherwise publish through the Service or any service or feature made available on or through the Service, any materials which (i) restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Service or the Service's features or services, (ii) are fraudulent, unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, offensive, pornographic, profane, sexually explicit or indecent, (iii) constitute or encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law, (iv) violate, plagiarize or infringe the rights of third parties including, without limitation, copyright, trademark, trade secret, confidentiality, contract, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right, (v) contain a virus, spyware, or other harmful component, (vi) contain embedded links, advertising, chain letters or pyramid schemes of any kind, or (vii) constitute or contain false or misleading indications of origin, endorsement or statements of fact. You further agree not to impersonate any other person or entity, whether actual or fictitious, including us or our personnel. You also may not offer to buy or sell any product or service on or through your comments submitted to our forums. You alone are responsible for the content and consequences of any of your activities.
We reserve the right, but do not have an obligation, to monitor and/or review all materials posted to the Service or through the Service's features or services by users, and we are not responsible for any such materials posted by users. We do not undertake or assume any duty to monitor the Service for inappropriate or unlawful content. However, we reserve the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or government request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that in our sole discretion are objectionable or in violation of this Terms of Use, our policies or applicable law. We may also impose limits on certain features of the forums or restrict your access to part or all of the forums without notice or penalty if we believe you are in breach of the guidelines set forth in this paragraph, these Terms of Use or applicable law.
It is important to remember that comments submitted to the Service may be recorded and stored in multiple places, both on our Service and elsewhere on the Internet, which are likely to be accessible for a long time and you have no control over who will read them eventually. It is therefore important that you are careful and selective about the personal information that you disclose about yourself and others, and in particular, you should not disclose sensitive, embarrassing, proprietary or confidential information in your comments to our public forums.
You agree not to link from any other web site to the Site in any manner such that the Site, or any page of the Site, is "framed," surrounded or obfuscated by any third party content, materials or branding. We reserve all of our rights under the law to insist that any link to the Site be discontinued, and to revoke your right to link to the Site from any other web site at any time upon written notice to you, whereupon you shall, within twenty four (24) hours, discontinue such link. Your failure to discontinue a link after receiving notice as provided above shall constitute a breach of these Terms of Use.
Subject to these Terms of Use, you agree to compensate us and our affiliates and licensors, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, owners, licensees, licensors and agents for any and all claims, liabilities, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs, arising directly out of (i) any violation of these Terms of Use by you, (ii) your use of this Service, including but not limited to the placement or transmission of any content, material or information on this Service, or (iii) the use by Influencia LLC or any of its affiliates or licensors of any content, materials or information you provide, as long as such use is not inconsistent with these Terms of Use. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you otherwise agree to compensate us, and in such case, you agree to cooperate with our defense of such claim.
You may be able to link from the Service to third party web sites and third party web sites may link to the Site ("Linked Sites"). You acknowledge and agree that we have no responsibility for the information, content, products, services, advertising, code or other materials which may or may not be provided by or through Linked Sites, even if they are owned or run by affiliates of ours. Links to Linked Sites do not constitute an endorsement or sponsorship by us of such web sites or the information, content, products, services, advertising, code or other materials presented on or through such web sites. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be causes by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services available on or through a Linked Site. The inclusion of any link to such sites on our Site does not imply our endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of that site. Influencia LLC disclaims any liability for links (i) from another web site to this Site and (ii) to another web site from this Site. Influencia LLC cannot guarantee the standards of any web site to which links are provided on this Site nor shall we be held responsible for the contents of such sites, or any subsequent links. We do not represent or warrant that the contents of any third party web site is accurate, compliant with any law, including without limitation copyright or other intellectual property laws. Also, we are not responsible for or any form of transmission received from any linked web site. Any reliance on the contents of a third party web site is done at your own risk and you assume all responsibilities and consequences resulting from such reliance.
The Service may contain views, opinions, recommendations and statements of various third party individuals and organizations. We neither endorse nor make any representation or warranty whatsoever regarding the views, opinions, recommendations or statements provided by any third party or any user of the Service. We neither endorse nor are responsible for any offensive, pornographic, defamatory, obscene, indecent, unlawful or infringing posting made thereon, and we assume no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such postings nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such posting on the Service. It is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness and usefulness of any information, opinion, recommendation or contents available through the Service, and to seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, recommendation or other content.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others, and require that the people who use the Service, or the features or services made available on or through the Service, do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please forward the following information to our Copyright Agent, designated as such pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), as amended, named below:
Your address, telephone number, and email address;
A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
A description of where the alleged infringing material is located;
A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; and
A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Danilo Vicioso
Influencia LLC
voice: (914) 406-6081
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
You expressly agree that your use of, and browsing in, the Site and use of the Service is at your own risk. The Site and Service, including, without limitation, the Mobile Application and all services, content, functions and materials provided by us through the Site, are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis and we expressly exclude all representations, warranties, conditions and terms express or implied. by statute, common law or otherwise with respect to the Site and Service and any information or goods or services that are available or advertised or sold through the Site to the fullest extent permitted by law (including representations, warranties, conditions and terms as to merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement).
While we take reasonable precautions to prevent the existence of viruses or other harmful components, on the Site, we accept no liability for them and we do not warrant that the Service or the services, content, functions or materials provided through the Service will be timely, secure, uninterrupted or error free.
We may make improvements and/or changes in the Service at any time including changes to these Terms of Use. We make no warranty that the Service or the provided services will meet your requirements.
Except where and to the extent required by law, we (together with our affiliates, suppliers or licensors, or any of our directors, officers, employees, agents or content or service providers (collectively, the "protected entities")) expressly exclude liability to you for: (i) any loss of profit; (ii) loss of savings; (iii) loss of business; (iv) loss of goodwill; (v) loss of data; or (vi) any indirect, special, incidental, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages of any kind arising from or in connection with these Terms of Use, your use of, or inability to use, the Site, the Service, the Mobile Application, the services, content, materials and functions related thereto or your provision of information via the Site (whether the claim is brought for breach of contract, in negligence or any other tort, under statute or otherwise) whether or not such protected entity has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
In no event shall the protected entities be liable for or in connection with any content posted, transmitted, exchanged or received by or on behalf of any user or other person on or through the Site.
Our aggregate liability for any and all loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your access to and use of the Service and/or any content from the Service, which is not covered by the above limitations and exclusions (or in the event that the above limitations and exclusions are not permitted by law) is limited to US$50.00.
The use, duplication, reproduction, release, modification, disclosure or transfer of any software, application or widget, including the Mobile Application, is restricted in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations as applied to civilian agencies and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement as applied to military agencies. Any such software, application or widget is a "commercial item," "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation." In accordance with such provisions, any use of any such software, application or widget shall be governed solely by these Terms of Use.
We may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Service or the Service's features or services at any time. You agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any such termination, change, suspension or discontinuance. We may restrict, suspend or terminate your access to the Service and/or its features or services if we believe you are in breach of these Terms of Use or applicable law. We maintain a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of the Service use privileges of users who are repeat infringers of intellectual or other property rights. Any suspension or termination shall not affect your obligations to us under these Terms of Use. The provisions of these Terms of Use which by their nature should survive the suspension or termination of these Terms of Use shall survive, including, but not limited to the, rights and licenses that you have granted hereunder, agreement to compensate, releases, disclaimers, limitations on liability, no trial by jury, and provisions related to choice of law.
If any of these Terms of Use are found to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable by any court of competent jurisdiction, the rest of these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.
Except as expressly stated in these Terms of Use, these Terms of Use do not confer any right, remedies or benefits upon any person other than you and us.
These Terms of Use set out the entire agreement between you and us and supersede any and all prior terms, conditions, warranties and/or representations to the fullest extent permitted by law.
We may assign these Terms of Use on written notice to you provided that your rights under these Terms of Use are not prejudiced. You may not assign these Terms of Use without our written permission but we will not unreasonably withhold such permission.
The Terms of Use, and the relationship between you and us, shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York, United States of America. You agree that any cause of action that may arise under the Terms of Use shall be commenced and be heard in the appropriate court in the State of New York, County of New York, United States of America. You agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within New York County in the State of New York.
Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms of Use remain in full force and effect.
The Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are available in the following language: English
Last Updated November 7, 2017