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Hip Action increases mobility and decreases pain . . . naturally. Each bite-size piece contains 300mg of Glucosamine and 50mg of Chondroitin plus essential co-factor vitamins, minerals, and amino acids. No slimy pills or messy powders, the joint soothing nutrients in Hip Action are packed into delicious easy-to-feed bite size treats. Start relieving your dog's hip stiffness today.
Ingredients: Peanut Butter, Ground Rice, Ground Oats, Malted Barley, Gelatin, Maple Syrup, Vegetable Glycerin, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Cherries, Blueberries, Lecithin, Salt, Ground Sesame Seed, Alfalfa, Phosphoric Acid, Rosemary, Turmeric, Garlic Powder, Sorbic Acid (a preservative), Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Egg Shell Membrane Meal, Chondroitin Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Sodium Selenite.
Comes in a resealable 6.25oz bag.
Manufacturer: Zuke'sSee all products from Zuke's
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Zuke's Hip Action Peanut Butter 6 ounce Dog Treat UPC: 013423210529


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Reuters says Honda has finally begun making small jets in the United States. Honda said yesterday that its unusual five-passenger jet, which has two engines mounted over the wings, went into production in Greensboro, N.C. It expects FAA certification for the jet's engine to come before the end of the year. Reuters says some Honda executives are counting on the project, which analysts say is behind schedule, to rekindle the spirit of innovation that many inside and outside Honda believe the company has lost. The company says it has well over 100 customers for the HondaJet, and it wants to be able to produce 100 jets a year in Greensboro.
But there's some skepticism about whether there will be a market for the $4.5 million jet, and also whether Honda has enough expertise to build airplanes. "All this newness scares a lot of people," Jeffrey Lowe, an analyst at Hong Kong-based consulting firm Asian Sky Group, told Reuters. "Some people may take a wait-and-see attitude."
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Army Apparel and Clothing
We are proud to carry Officially Licensed Army clothing, apparel, and accessories. Our Armed Forces Gear t-shirts, hats, and sweatshirts are among the most popular styles. We also feature brands like Under Armour, Carhartt, Legacy, and Alex and Ani.
Whether you are active duty, a family member, or a Army veteran, Armed Forces Gear has you covered.


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Cermis needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 44 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
http://www.mrgizmo.se/pos/BadBuss.jpg like this information i like to have at the buss :)
This bus will be in then center of the city and when pople look at it the whant to look a extra time.
-WiFiBuss logo (must be a thing logo easy to se places on the roof of the bus)
-Iam going to to put a gigantik sticker (striping) on all the red area exept on the roof So dekoretion can be on any two windows.
-On the roof anything big and 3d made in plasting so it can glow in dark.
-Allsow someware on the bus my logo must be in big small
-New ideas that will people to look one extra time, is high priority.
-allsow make design for fron and bak of tha bus.
-www.mrgizmo.se must be clearly seen. on the buss
-You can use the
To explane tha way have agets over the world.
tha draft is just to show a example nothing i whatn it to look like!
Links and material:
THIS IS What we sell.
if any quastions just ask me on msn email@example.com
- Total design make over
- Use your maind make it verry intresting watching the buss
- Do something cool on the roof a light sign or somthing
- The redbull var is for insperation
- Make something cool whit the Parabol
- please use colors from mrgizmo.se
- You can use idea from the original buss design
- cheap tacy design


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- Premier League
Fernandes will walk if QPR fall
QPR chairman Tony Fernandes insists he will accept full responsibility if his club fail to avoid relegation this season.
The Rangers chief has taken to his Twitter account to respond to a barrage of abuse from irate QPR fans who were quick to condemn their side after Saturday's embarrasing 4-2 FA Cup humbling at the hands of League One side MK Dons.
Fernandes assured fans that he would sacrifice his job at the club if QPR are unable to rise from the bottom of the Premier League ladder.
"Many fans attacking me," Fernandes tweeted. "Doing our best. We won't stop trying. As I have said many times I take all responsibility and will face the music. Always spirit up. If can't fix it I will be first to go."
A distraught Fernandes looked on as thousands of QPR fans headed for the exits at Loftus Road ten minutes into the second half on Saturday after witnessing Harry Redknapp's revamped side fall four goals behind to their lower league opponents, with a late rally hardly sparing their blushes as a troubled season for the west London club hit a new low.
Now Redknapp has admitted he faces a race against time to sign the players he needs to sustain his bid to keep QPR in the Premier League, with the former Tottenham boss struggling to convince players to join him at Loftus Road.
"We gave a few lads a chance to show what they could do and I think they showed why I am chasing all over Europe to try and find new players," Redknapp said.
QPR host Premier League champions Manchester City on Tuesday night.


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Bad Credit? Start Tweeting
Startups Are Rethinking How to Measure Creditworthiness Beyond FICO
At a congressional hearing in 1912, an attorney asked John Pierpont "J.P." Morgan if a man's money and property was the most important factor in lending money.
Mr. Morgan responded, "No, sir; the first thing is character."
It is a line that Jeff Stewart, the co-founder of Lenddo Ltd., an online lending startup, frequently...


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Niske necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 250 diseños de 61 diseñadores freelance.
Red Tree
We are an IT company in the web content management space (CMS of many different sizes and flavours). We believe to stand out by approaching our projects with VERY open communication, we focus on the people in a project instead of the technical side and we provide, at all times, a pragmatic view on things.
As we believe the users of a content management system are an extremely important link in the succes of a CMS project, we target not only IT people (traditional stakeholders of content management projects) but also communication and marketing people. We are broadening our traditionally very technical audience and start getting in touch with this new target audience.
We are a spin-off of an existing company and therefore have a new name and need a new logo. We will keep the tagline of our parent-company which is 'people meet content'.
The company name is inspired by a painting from Mondriaan called Red Tree. Over the years Mondriaan painted a series of trees and one can see his evolution towards abstract painting in which Mondriaan would look for the essence of the tree while finding new shapes and patterns on his way there. This inspires us to search for the essence in our projects and to cut them up in smaller modules and blocks when we work towards a delivery.
We would like our company name to be the logo (therefore a logotype, a word I have learned just now), we are not looking for a separate logo added to our company name.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Q-Games, they of Pixeljunk fame, aren't exactly starving artists. They release games on most major platforms, and do pretty well both critically and financially. Especially after the latest Steam sale.
As a sign of just how important the platform - and especially its seasonal sales - can be to developers, Q's Pixeljunk Eden went on sale for $0.99 thanks to a community vote. And according to studio boss Dylan Cuthbert, thanks to this low price (and prominence within the store that went with it) in just eight hours Eden "made our income to date, again".
In other words, they made as much money in those eight hours as they had the rest of the year. Whether that's counting Pixeljunk's income as a whole, or just Eden's takings, either way, it's incredible.
Dylan Cuthbert [Twitter, via MCV]


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Is the US economy heading for recession?
Ahead of the release of US first quarter GDP growth, we examine whether the weak growth that is widely expected is a signal of an impending recession or whether it is a mere seasonal blip.
With the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's GDPNow model pointing to growth of just 0.6% saar* for Q1 2016, the US economy looks set to have experienced yet another poor first quarter.
Historical comparisons, however, suggest that we need to be mindful that this could be a quirk of the seasonal adjustment process rather than a sign of an imminent recession.
How does Q1 2016 compare to previous years?
The tendency of late for Q1 economic growth to be weaker on average than the following quarters has been blamed on several factors, including abnormally poor weather and West Coast port strikes, for example.
However, while these factors surely had some influence on the US economy at the time, it is apparent that over a longer-term horizon, the same trend of a weak first quarter plays out, as can be seen in Chart 1 below.
Between 1986 and 2015, real GDP growth for Q1 averaged 1.78% compared to 2.86% across Q2, Q3 and Q4.
Figure 1: Average quarter-on-quarter US real GDP growth rate (saar)
Source: Thomson Datastream, Schroders Economics Group. Updated 18/04/2016
Is seasonal adjustment adversely impacting Q1?
While the Bureau for Economic Analysis (BEA) conducts its own seasonal adjustment to real GDP, the noticeable difference in the average growth rate in Q1 compared to the following quarters suggests there is a degree of additional seasonality in the official data, known as residual seasonality.
After all, first quarter seasonally adjusted real GDP growth should not be consistently higher or lower than growth in any other quarter. However, applying a second round seasonal adjustment to real GDP enables us to adjust for this potential residual seasonality.
Chart 2 below displays the difference between the original series and the seasonally adjusted original series over the last 30 years.
Figure 2: Residual seasonality of US real GDP growth (official series - seasonally adjusted official series)
Source: Thomson Datastream. Schroders Economics Group. Updated 18/04/2016
The data show that the growth rate for the first quarter of the year is often higher once the additional seasonal adjustment is made, with an average positive adjustment of 0.84 percentage points since 1986.
Conversely, real GDP growth in Q2, Q3 and Q4 is often lower after attempting to remove the residual seasonality.
No looming recession
Despite the likelihood that extreme weather has weighed on Q1 US GDP in recent years, this analysis and historical data would suggest the seasonal adjustment made by the BEA is having an excessive dampening effect on reported first quarter growth.
Should US real GDP growth turn out to be weak in the first quarter of 2016 as widely expected, this should not be interpreted as a sign that a recession is on the cards.
It is more likely to be a peculiarity of the seasonal adjustment process than anything more fundamental.
* Seasonally adjusted annual rate - A rate that is adjusted to take into account fluctuations of values in the data which might occur due to seasonality.
** Residual seasonality - the manifestation of seasonal patterns in data that have already been seasonally adjusted.


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Story highlights
- David Ranta served 21-plus years for the killing of a Brooklyn rabbi in 1990
- A witness told prosecutors he'd been coached
- Former inmate suffers heart attack
David Ranta, who was released from prison a day earlier because of a wrongful conviction, suffered a heart attack Friday evening, according to his lawyer.
"My office is happy to report that he's been stabilized and is being treated in cardiac intensive care at a metropolitan hospital," Pierre Sussman said in a statement released Saturday.
Ranta's second-degree murder conviction stemmed from the 1990 killing of a rabbi during a diamond heist. A witness two decades later came forward and said he had been coached to identify Ranta from a police lineup. After an investigation, prosecutors recommended that Ranta's conviction be tossed out.
"Mr. Ranta, to say that I'm sorry for what you have endured would be an understatement and grossly inadequate, but I say it to you anyway," Judge Miriam Cyrulnik said during an emotional hearing Thursday that left even the judge wiping her eyes.
Hours after Ranta's release from prison, Sussman told CNN that his client intends to file a civil rights lawsuit against the city of New York and the New York Police Department. He said the accumulated trauma of being wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for 23 years had an immense effect on Ranta's health.
"David wants me to express appreciation to all of his supporters and well-wishers, not only from New York, but from around the world," Sussman said Saturday.


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jstrader necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 68 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
The #1 objective to is to create a cover that will sell this course. It must be very attention getting, jump off the shelf, and make them thing they must have it. Please visit JeffreyZiegler.com to view logo and product info.
The "book" is a manual for a stock trading course teaching people how to make money in the stock market.
- The book is going to be in a 3 ring binder
- 8 1/2" wide and 11" tall
- The name is "Credit Spread Trading Made Simple"
- The name must stay and cannot be altered
- PLEASE go to http://profitzonetrading.com/ to see an image of the current design for your consideration. Also, please stay consistent with the All Star theme and make it really COOL!The cover must POP! It must be very interesting and engaging. The winning designer will also get to design DVD covers for the course.
Definitely have fun with the Design!
- The logo for JeffreyZiegler.com must stay the same and must be included. Although the actual logo must stay the same, you may experiment with the various colors of it. If you need the logo, you can go to the website to find it. I will also try and up load it for you.
- The tag line "Transforming Individuals into Trading All Stars"
- It is sort of an All Star theme so use that in your design
- Feel free to experiment with colors and themes
- Definitely looking for something attention getting and innovative.
- No altering the logo
- no scripty fonts


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Comparing Hadoop Oracle loaders
Oracle put a lot of effort into highlighting the upcoming Oracle Hadoop Loader (OHL) at OOW 2011 – it was even highlighted in Andy Mendelsohn's keynote. It's great to see Oracle recognizing Hadoop as a top tier technology!
However, there were a few comments made about the "other loaders" that I wanted to clarify. At Quest, I lead the team that writes the Quest Data Connector for Oracle and Hadoop (let's call it the "Quest Connector") which is a plug-in to the Apache Hadoop SQOOP framework and which provides optimized bidirectional data loads between Oracle and Hadoop. Below I've outlined some of the high level features of the Quest Connector in the context of the Oracle-Hadoop loaders. Of course, I got my information on the Oracle loader from technical sessions at OOW so I may have misunderstood and/or the facts may change between now and the eventual release of that loader. But I wanted to go on the record with the following:
- All parties (Quest, Cloudera, Oracle) agree that native SQOOP (eg, without the Quest plug-in) will be sub-optimal: it will not exploit Oracle direct path reads or writes, will not use partitioning, nologging, etc. Both Cloudera and Quest recommend that if are doing transfers between Oracle and Hadoop that you use SQOOP with the Quest connector.
- The Quest connector is a free, open source plug in to SQOOP, which is itself a free, open source software product. Both are licensed under the Apache 2.0 open source license. Licensing for the Oracle Loader has not been announced, but Oracle has said it will be a commercial product and therefore presumably not free under all circumstances. It's definitely not open source.
- The Quest loader is available now (version 1.4), the Oracle loader is in beta and will be released commercially in 2012.
- The Oracle loader moves data from Hadoop to Oracle only. The Quest loader can also move data from Oracle to Hadoop. We import data into Hadoop from an Oracle database usually 5+ times faster than SQOOP alone.
- Both Quest and the Oracle loader use direct path writes when loading from Hadoop to Oracle. Oracle do say they use OCI calls which may be faster than the direct path SQL calls used by Quest in some circumstances. But I'd suggest that the main optimization in each case is direct path.
- Both Quest and the Oracle loader can do parallel direct path writes to a partitioned Oracle table. In the case of the Quest loader, we create partitions based on the job and mapper ids. Oracle can use logical keys and write into existing partitioned tables. My understanding is that they will shuffle and sort the data in the mappers to direct the output to the appropriate partition in bulk. They also do statistical sampling which may improve the load balancing when you are inserting into an existing table.
- The Quest loader can update existing tables, and can do Merge operations that insert or updates rows depending on the existence of a matching key value. My understanding is that the Oracle loader will do inserts only - at least initially.
- Both the Quest connector and the Oracle loader have some form of GUI. The Oracle GUI I believe is in the commercial ODI product. The Quest GUI is in the free Toad for Cloud Databases Eclipse plug-in. I've put a screenshot of that at the end of the post.
- The Quest connector uses the SQOOP framework which is a Apache Hadoop sub-project maintained by multiple companies most notably Cloudera. This means that the Hadoop side of the product was written by people with a lot of experience in Hadoop. Cloudera and Quest jointly support SQOOP when used with the Quest connector so you get the benefit of having very experienced Hadoop people involved as well as Quest people who know Oracle very well. Obviously Oracle knows Oracle better than anyone, but people like me have been working with Oracle for decades and have credibility I think when it comes to Oracle performance optimization.
Again, I'm happy to see Oracle embracing Hadoop; I just wanted to set the record straight with regard to our technology which exists today as a free tool for optmized bi-directional data transfer between Oracle and Hadoop.
You can download the Quest Connector at http://bit.ly/questHadoopConnector. The documentation is at http://bit.ly/QuestHadoopDoc.


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|De La Salle HS
As a junior, Paul Roemer started 18 games, including the first seven and 11 of the last 12...Played in 28 games for the Gauchos...Missed three games mid-season with a shoulder sprain...Averaged 3.8 points per game, with a season-high 11 points, one off career-high, in win against Winston-Salem State...Scored 10 in Big-West Tournament win vs. Cal State Fullerton...Averaged 1.9 rebounds per game, netting a career-high 5 rebounds in win at Utah Valley...Matched career-high, with five assists three times during the season against Illinois State, Loyola Marymount, and UC Davis...Second on team in total assists with 56 on the year, averaging 2 assists per game...Ranked third on the team in free-throw percentage, shooting .688 throughout the season.
Roemer played at both the off guard and point guard spots as a sophomore...Improved dramatically between his freshman and sophomore seasons...In 2007-08, he played in all 32 games, averaging 15.6 minutes off the bench...Logged 10 or more minutes in 30 of 32 games and 15 or more 19 times...Contributed 2.3 points, 1.7 assists, and 1.2 rebounds per game...Added 26 steals to his resumé...Poured in a high of 12 points at UC Irvine, making a career-best 4-of-5 shots from three-point range...Tallied 10 points in the season opener against Northwestern State, draining both of his three-point attempts...Roemer scored five or more points six times, but did so just once in his last 15 games...After making just three three-pointers as a freshman, he made 12 as a sophomore...Chipped in a career high five assists in a victory over Cal Poly...Had four assists in games against Northwestern State, UC Davis and Utah State...Had two or more assists in 17 games...Came up with a high of three steals at North Carolina...Roemer had two or more steals seven times.
As a walk-on freshman, Roemer played in 16 games for a total of 132 minutes...Averaged 1.6 points, 0.8 rebounds and 0.8 assists per game...He also had nine steals, the seventh highest total on the team...Tallied six points at San Diego...Posted a five-point game at Long Beach State...Roemer scored just two points in his final six appearances, a total of 35 minutes...Played a season-high 20 minutes against Eastern Washington and had a best of three assists in the game...Had three other games of two assists...Made nine of his first 18 field goal attempts, but finished the year by hitting just two of his final nine...While Roemer made a trio of three-pointers on the year, he made one in each of his first two appearances.
High School
Attended De La Salle High School in Concord, Calif., where he was a teammate of another current UCSB player, Justin Joyner...Averaged 8.0 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game as De La Salle won the California State Division I championship in 2005-06...Roemer also made 40% of his three-point field goal attempts and 78% of his free throws...Scored his career-high 19 points against Serra High School during his senior season...In addition to the 2005-06 California State title, during Roemer's time at the school De La Salle was a CIF North Coast Section semifinalist in 2004-05 and a California State Division I runner-up in 2003-04...Played for Frank Allocco, Sr. at De La Salle.
Paul Joseph Roemer was born September 20, 1987 in Oakland, Calif....Graduated with High Honors from De La Salle High School...His most memorable moment in sports was his high school's run to the 2005-06 California State Division I championship...His favorite athletes include Steve Nash, Frank Allocco, Jr., and Michael Jordan...Enjoys watching SportsCenter and MTV...Roemer's hobbies include surfing, boating, wakeboarding, kneeboarding and tubing...Braveheart and Friday Night Lights are his favorite movies...The son of John and Paula Roemer...Geography major.
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Turkey's DenizBank buys CEV Volleyball Champions League title sponsorship for three seasons
The press conference held in Turkey's megalopolis was attended by CEV President André Meyer, Mr. Hakan Ateş, General Manager of DenizBank, as well as by three Volleyball stars, namely Tatyana Gracheva, Vladimir Grbic, and Neslihan Demir.
As a result of the partnership between DenizBank and CEV the world's most prestigious club Volleyball competition is renamed "CEV DenizBank Volleyball Champions League" for 3 years starting with the 2014 edition.
With this sponsorship, DenizBank boosts its support to various branches of sport and its presence in this area by joining forces with a sports organization like CEV, consisting of 55 member countries, and with a history of almost half a century.
With the co-operation provided by DenizBank, giving significant support towards the aim to further develop Volleyball in Europe, the CEV Volleyball Champions League excitement will continue for 3 years under the title sponsorship of DenizBank in about 20 European countries.
The League Round of the 2014 CEV DenizBank Volleyball Champions League will start tonight and continue through December 18; the Playoffs will follow through January 14-February 13, 2014 before the competitions reaches its climax with the final four tournaments scheduled for March 15-16 (women) and 22-23, 2014 (men).
The partnership between DenizBank and CEV was officially announced on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at the Swiss Hotel in Istanbul. Hakan Ateş, General Manager of DenizBank, and André Meyer, President of the European Volleyball Confederation, participated in the meeting.
"We're taking an important step towards the global branding of our Volleyball"
During his speech at the meeting, Hakan Ateş, General Manager of DenizBank, said that this cooperation makes him extremely proud. Mr. Ateş said: "Today, we're reaching one of the most important milestones of our corporate history. This historic co-operation which brings us together with CEV, the leading institution for Volleyball in Europe, carries our mission to support sports one step further while appreciating Turkish Volleyball that has been achieving significant success in the international arena during the last years. When we look at the history of the Men's CEV Volleyball Champions League we see that Russia is the most decorated country. In this respect, Volleyball presents a great common ground for Russia as the homeland of Sberbank, our principal shareholder, and Turkey which almost swept all trophies in the women's European Cups during the last years. I wish our co-operation agreement to be fortunate for all parties and the Turkish sport."
"Together with DenizBank the CEV Volleyball Champions League will continue to make the headlines also for the years to come"
During his speech at the meeting, André Meyer, President of the European Volleyball Confederation said: "Right from the start of this success story called CEV Volleyball Champions League the world's best Volleyball players have helped us create a product that stands apart also on the global arena. Last year we made another step forward by acknowledging the huge interest among clubs in Europe to join this family by extending the right of participation to 28 and 24 teams in the men's and women's competition respectively. As you all know, Turkey has been a dominant force in recent times by sweeping the three last editions of the women's Champions League and as far as we have heard, this year Turkish clubs have set their eyes on seizing the trophy also in the men's division. I am convinced that the partnership with DenizBank – a partner that shares our vision of the sport including its social impact – the CEV Volleyball Champions League will continue to make the headlines also for the coming years."
CEV & DenizBank co-operation brought together the Volleyball stars
The press meeting about the co-operation between CEV and DenizBank enlivened with the participation of Volleyball legends of the global arena like Tatyana Gracheva and Vladimir Grbic, and Neslihan Demir, the cover player of the Turkish national team.
Honoured with the "Lifetime Achievement" award in June 2013 by CEV, the former Serbian Volleyball player Vladimir Grbic is now the Vice President of the Serbian Volleyball Federation. Gold medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics with the Yugoslavian national team, and bronze medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Grbic was declared as the "Best Sportsman of the Year" by the Yugoslav Olympic Committee in 1996 and 2000, and won the gold medal in 1999 and 2000 again with the title of the "Best Sportsman" in Yugoslavia.
As one of the most important representatives of Russian Volleyball in the global arena, Tatyana Gracheva has important achievements like winning a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics with the Russia national team, and gold medals at the European Championships in 1993, 1997 and 2001. Gracheva also won the "Best Setter" award at the 1994 World Championship and 2001 World Grand Champions Cup.
Putting her stamp on the sport history as the captain of Turkey's first Volleyball national team to compete at the Olympic Games, Neslihan Demir is known as the "Iron Lady of Turkish Volleyball". As the only player to be named the "Best Scorer" for two consecutive editions of the World Championship, Demir was honoured with the "Best Scorer" award at the 2006 World Championship after scoring 225 points, and also in the 2010 World Championship charting 251. Demir is currently playing for Eczacıbaşı VitrA and is set to headline the 2014 CEV DenizBank Volleyball Champions League.


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Live GRAMMY Video: A Taste Of A Revolution To Come
Appearing on live TV has always been a very exclusive experience available to a relatively small percentage of music artists, and even those who get this opportunity, only have a short amount of time due to the limited duration of TV programs. Also, the complexity and costs of old broadcasting options made live video production out of reach for many.
However, artists have much more to say and sing than just the occasional sound bite, and loyal fans are eager to listen. New technologies are now changing the nature of live content by shifting control over live video and fan engagement back to artists through dramatic cost reduction and an ease of use.
This year, The Recording Academy has taken a bold step in making a stronger connection with fans and making live GRAMMY content more easily available beyond the 3.5 hours of the GRAMMY Awards. Three days before the actual start of the televised ceremony, a number of portable LiveU broadcasting units will start roaming around during GRAMMY Week, including backstage and red carpet events. All the footage will be shown live on GRAMMY.com, where viewers will get a true and up-close sense of what it is like to be part of such a larger-than-life production.
I'm part of LiveU, the company helping to power the live Web broadcasts for the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards. Our product is a small portable box that broadcasts professional-grade video via cellular networks, without requiring any of the costly or bulky traditional broadcasting equipment of the past. To us, working with the GRAMMYs is proof of what we've believed for a long time: that the ability to easily broadcast live video from anywhere will revolutionize the music industry by enabling artists to connect with fans in ways never before possible.
Consider all the exciting opportunities: Bands broadcasting some of their studio rehearsals to fans at home who are eagerly awaiting a new album; performers broadcasting how they participate in charity events to increase awareness for those causes; musicians giving special live concerts to fans at home while fans chat about it on Facebook and Twitter. And all the video mentioned above will appear on the artists' own Web site, where the broadcast isn't under a time constraint or influenced by external parties, and any topic is open game. This is a dream come true for every artist and fan.
For artists, it's a way to deliver their messages when they want and how they want, and establish a new level of connection with their loyal fan base. As a result, fans will talk about those real-time events on various social media platforms, which will subsequently increase the artist's exposure.
For fans, it's the perfect way to get to know their favorite artists better by literally being there — on the tour bus, in the studio, backstage, album signings, and much more.
We are impressed with the vision of The Recording Academy and are honored to work with the GRAMMYs on what we see as one of the very first steps in a live revolution that will sweep the music industry.


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Google tapped Curious George to help it advertise its Nexus 7 tablet in a new ad from agency Mullen in San Francisco, released today. Google placed a rare ad on its homepage for the Nexus 7 tablet yesterday, also.
The ad shows a girl and her mom reading the Hans Augusto and Margret Rey book on the tablet. The tagline is, "The playground is open."
Get the latest Google stock price here.


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Sean Penn...or Adrien Brody?
This could be a fun game...
Here's Sean Penn arriving at LAX the other day. When I looked at these shots in thumbnail I initially thought it was Adrien Brody. This is not a compliment. If you have doubts about that, please enjoy the following commercial. If you've already seen it, watch it again. You need the laugh on a Monday.
Adrien Brody is total cheese. I get his involvement, totally. Gael Garcia must be poor. Which leaves Andre 3000 to blame. Because A3000 is too good for this.
And STILL...
STILL Brad Pitt's Chanel is worse.
Brad Pitt did it BECAUSE he thinks he's better than this.
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EZ Connector Inc. (www.ezconnector.com), developer and manufacturer of high-performance products for improving the safety and reliability of electrical trailer and towing connections, has been awarded first place for "Best New Product of the Year" by the North American Trailer Dealers Association (NATDA).
EZ Connector's EZ Recreational 7-Pin (EZR7) electrical towing connection system was recognized recently during the annual NATDA convention held in Louisville, Ky., according to a release from the company.
The EZR7 electrical connection system ensures that electrical components such as lights and brakes work every time a trailer or other equipment is towed. Available in several models including traditional and fifth-wheel versions, the EZR7 is designed as a universal configuration that can adapt to a variety of applications.
EZ Connector's EZR7 was selected from more than 30 new products entered into this year's competition. The products were voted on by a panel of judges from the trailer dealer industry.
"Our esteemed group of judges — all who know the ins and outs of trailers and towing products — found EZ Connector's EZR7 to be a stand-out product based on its innovative and high-quality design, as well as its ease of use and safety features," said Andy Ackerman, president of NATDA. "We believe that EZ Connector's products are complementary to the high-quality trailers that our members are selling to consumers and businesses across the continent."
"We are honored that the NATDA recognized us with its 'Best New Product of the Year' award, and believe that this award is a testament to the due diligence that our team has spent researching, designing and manufacturing innovative products for the light- and medium-duty trailer industry," said Joe Cardoza, president of EZ Connector. "EZ Connector's products give trailer owners and operators the added assurance they need that their important cargo is always safe. This safety assurance, coupled with user-friendly features and a water-proof, corrosion-proof design, are what make our products ideal for a variety of commercial and recreational applications."
The EZR7 system is available for less than $100. For more information, purchase locations and selling opportunities, visit the company's website at www.ezconnector.com or call the company at 559-686-5889.
NATDA is the only professional business association in North America serving the light-and medium-duty trailer dealers and bringomg them together as a unified team. By uniting the trailer dealers within a professional business association, NATDA is able to provide dealers with only the very best benefits, programs and education available.


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AlamoApparel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Alamo Apparel
New apparel company targeting the disaffected citizens of the world. We want to celebrate and represent a sort of - last bastion - of individuality and personal responsibility in the world.
that each person is entitled to the fruits of their own labor.
that each individual has pride in their work and does it for themselves.
They resent all the ways the government gets in the way -
and that mediocrity should not be the new measure of the world!
revolt or create a revolution, but do not accept the world as it is anymore.
Our apparel is for anyone sick of the way things are going:
Strong willed builder types, entrepreneurs, people with big ideas.
The local business owner who is sick of being taxed to death.
People who love freedom and not the broken - bureaucratic world.
Small businesses, students, professionals and the workers bees who create everything around us. They want their fair share, they don't want to suffer fools.
creative types who think *really* outside the box, and people who value hard work, commitment to their craft and don't want interference from outside forces.
Freedom People, you know, like our founding fathers if they were allowed to wear t-shirts. Don't Tread on Me - Live Free or Die, those types of people plus the rest of us who want a more fashionable way to showcase our frustration.
So, I've conceived everything from a silhouette of the actual Alamo building, with a flag proudly standing proud over the top, to much more abstract ideas not involving the building at all.
This logo has to be a beacon though, it is to be what the brand stands for. It needs to be abundantly clear what we are looking at.
Remember that 'Live Free or Die' flag?
Paul Revere's ride, boston tea party.
Some image (doesn't have to have historical context) that is stylized with the company name.
It basically personifies: Rally here (to this mark, to our logo) !
Alamo Apparel
I guess I am getting a bit abstract here (but you artists are good at that right?)
I'm a 26 year old kid who is furious that people are treated as 'consumers' that government tries to run our lives, that the TSA scans all our shit at the airports, that no-one seems to be responsible for anything.
I think of this apparel company as a way to express the worlds frustration with where we are, and to hoist a battle flag, a symbol, that some of us are going to stand up to this insanity, put our feet down and make some big changes.
We need a rallying point, we need a X on our map to mark the spot.
The company is named after the battle of the Alamo, and I like that imagery. A group of dedicated, hard working average people standing up to others and living on as legends. Bring that to life.
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The Euro version of the new Mazda6 will get hotted up with an MPS version at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. Of course, the MPS is the rest-of-world version of the US Mazdaspeed moniker, so our pointy little ears perked right up. Nihon Car is reporting the MPS will be sporting a tweaked 2.5 L turbo four pumping out around 280 HP, and as important will include all wheel drive. Though it will add heft to the bottom line, the added driven wheels will undoubtedly make for much more entertaining handling... that is if Nihon Car is right. Let's hope they are. [Nihon Car]
2010 Mazda6 MPS Could Debut In Paris, Get All Wheel Drive


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Top 10 comics to give to new readers
The comics industry is in trouble. Piracy is rampant, and numbers are low in many places.
The best way to fix this? Get comics into some new hands. Here's ten books that would do well if introduced to your friends and family.


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Through Thursday
Drayden Van Dyke / 7
Joe Talamo / 5
artin Garcia / 3
Edwin Maldonado / 3
Elvis Trujillo / 3
Bob Baffert / 2
Kelly Castaneda / 2
Philip D'Amato / 2
Ronald Ellis / 2
Jorge Gutierrez / 2
Peter Miller / 2
Walther Solis / 2
•$200,000 Grade II Great Lady M. Stakes, 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, 6 1/2 furlongs
•$100,000 Willard L. Proctor Memorial Stakes, 2-year-olds, 6 furlongs
•$100,000 Cinderella Stakes, 2-year-old fillies, 6 furlongs
•Princess of Sylmar, who lost the Grade I Ogden Phipps Stakes on Belmont Stakes Day by a head to Close Hatches, heads a field of six fillies and mares that will contest the $750,000 Grade I Delaware Handicap at Delaware Park on Saturday. Princess of Sylmar, who'll be ridden by Javier Castellano, is a four-time Grade I winner who is the only horse in the race to have won at the Delaware Handicap distance of 1 1/4 miles. None of her five rivals have run at a distance farther than 1 1/8 miles. The Todd Pletcher-trained Princess of Sylmar, the 2013 Kentucky Oaks winner, is expected to go postward as a heavy odds-on favorite.
•Stakes winners Heir Kitty and Handsome Mike are among the horses that will be on sale at the "race ready" racehorse sale in the Del Mar paddock following the final race of the day on Sunday, July 20. The sale, expected to last about 90 minutes, will include about 35 horses to bidders, including juveniles, 3-year-olds and older horses of both sexes. Barretts Sales, which handled the sales the past two years at Del Mar, will conduct the 2014 sale. The idea behind the sale is to bring new owners into the game. Barretts GM Kim Lloyd said this year's session will not have as many out-of-state horses as the other two but is much higher in quality of the stock.
•Heir Kitty, 13-1 upset winner of the Grade I La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita Park on Dec. 26, will face six opponents in Saturday's $200,000 Grade II Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos Race Course. The race, formerly known as the A Gleam Handicap when run at Hollywood Park from 1979-2013, is a 6 1/2-furlong test for fillies and mares. Heir Kitty, who'll be ridden by Joe Talamo, will be making her first start in three months. She finished fourth in her most recent outing, the Grade I Madison Stakes at Keeneland on April 12, a race won by favored Judy the Beauty over Keeneland's Polytrack surface. Heir Kitty is trained by Peter Miller.
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Roseanne Cash, Dianne Reeves, and Asphalt Orceshtra will be among the headliners in a series of free concerts on New Haven Green as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas which runs June 16 to 30.
Kicking off the free concerts on the Green on Saturday, June 16 at 7 p.m. will be
Angélique Kidjo, Dianne Reeves, and Lizz Wright performing "Sing the Truth!": "songs honoring the music and spirit of great women in jazz, folk, R&B, gospel, and the blues. "
Kidjo, Reeves, and Wright -- three of today's most acclaimed female vocalists -- "perform music by a
range of women who influenced and were influenced by them, from Billie Holiday to Lauryn Hill, as well as a selection of their own original songs."
Kidjo received six Grammy Award nominations, winning in 2007. Her music blends the West African traditions of her childhood in Benin with elements of American R&B, funk, and jazz, as well as influences fom Europe and Latin America.
Latest Stage Notes
Reeves is the pre-eminent jazz vocalist in the world today. She was awarded the Best Jazz Vocal Grammy Award four times—three of them for consecutive recordings, a Grammy first in any vocal category.
"Wright received non-stop critical acclaim since her 2003 debut, Salt, and
continues her genry-defying musical journey that combines jazz, gospel, and a host of
other influences."
The next free concert woill be Asphalt Orchestra on Sunday, June 17 at 7 p.m
Asphalt Orchestra is described: "a one-of-a-kind street marching band that brings ambitious music
to the masses in an exciting, take-over-the-crowd performance. An off-shoot of Festival
favorite Bang on a Can All-Stars, Asphalt Orchestra will fill the New Haven Green with
newly commissioned music for marching band from the like of Frank Zappa and Björk,
all staged in a tightly choreographed performance created by Susan Marshall (whose
own dance company was featured in last year's Festival). "
Flash performances by Asphalt Orchestra will occur in surprise locations throughout
New Haven during the Festival's opening weekend.
Next up will be Carolina Chocolate Drops on Saturday, June 23, 7 p.m. The Grammy Award-nominated group is the newest in a long line of black string bands. Rolling Stone magazine says, "The Carolina
Chocolate Drops are revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black sting-band and jug-band
music of the 20s and 30s—the dirt-floor dance electricity of the Mississippi Sheiks and Cannon's Jug Stompers." All three of the Carolina Chocolate Drops can switch instruments, playing banjo and fiddle, trading leads and playing along with a stock of other instruments.
On Sunday, June 24 at 7 p.m,. Red Baraat & Noori perform in a double bill. Red Baraat, a Bhangra funk, dohl 'n' brass band hailing from Brooklyn by way of India, has created and defined a sound entirely its own. The nine-piece ensemble melds the infectious North Indian rhythm Bhangra with a host of sounds—funk, go-go, Latin, and jazz—in a rousing, high-energy concert performance.
Noori, from Lahore, Pakistan, a Sufi-Rock band comprised of two brothers, is considered one of the pioneering forces behind what has been dubbed the 21st Century Pop Revolution of Pakinstan. A rocking rush of adrenaline thar comes straight from the heart, Noori is one of the most energetic and entertaining live acts to have ever hit the Pakistani music scene.
On Saturday, June 30 at 7 p.m. Cash will be the closing free concert of the festival, performing songs from "The List," a deeply personal album which is a a paean to her father, Johnny Cash. The concert selections and the album's title derive from the list of 100 Essential Country Songs that her father had compiled for her and instructed her to learn when she joined his road show after graduating from high school. "


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Fisher House Foundation is best known for a network of comfort homes where military and veterans' families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment.
Where your support goes
These homes are located at major military and VA medical centers nationwide, close to the medical center or hospital they serve. Fisher Houses have up to 21 suites, with private bedrooms and baths. Families share a common kitchen, laundry facilities, a warm dining room and an inviting living room. Fisher House Foundation ensures that there is never a lodging fee. Since inception, the program has saved military and veterans' families an estimated $320 million in out of pocket costs for lodging and transportation.
Fisher House Foundation also operates the Hero Miles program, using donated frequent flyer miles to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members as well as the Hotels for Heroes program using donated hotel points to allow family members to stay at hotels near medical centers without charge. The Foundation also manages a grant program that supports other military charities and scholarship funds for military children, spouses and children of fallen and disabled veterans.
The results
Families served: More than 27,000 in 2015
Daily capacity: 935 families
Families served: More than 277,000 since inception
Number of lodging days offered: Over 6.5 million
7,000 students have received $11,000,000 in scholarship awards
Over 63,000airline tickets provided by Hero Miles to service members and their families, worth nearly $100 million


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Moab Easter Jeep Safari Concepts 2014
Brand Newcomers and Stalwarts Get the Custom Touch
There are now over 1,000 part numbers available for the current Jeep range, 300 of which cover the Wrangler. As many as 1,000 more support Jeeps in the back-catalogue, and 100 have already been developed for the forthcoming Renegade. Many of those parts (all the ones that don't affect safety and other compliance aspects) can be ordered and installed at the Jeep Custom Shop in Toledo, Ohio, prior to shipment to the retail dealer, with these items included on the Monroney label, and hence included in the financing of the new-vehicle sale. Ranging from mild to wild, the six-vehicle 2014 Moab fleet opens with a pair of Cherokees, a single Grand Cherokee, and three increasingly capable Wranglers.


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A Declared Value System for Market-Based Copyright and Patent Monopolies
Submitted by kfogel on
Note: This article was updated and expanded in December 2012. You can view the new version here.
One of the biggest problems with today's copyright system (and patent system, for that matter) is that there is no economic pressure pushing works toward the public domain. Instead, the incentives are all structured toward copyrighting for as long as possible — far past the point of really benefitting even the copyright holder, let alone the public. Below is a proposal for a truly balanced policy, one that that would give copyright holders a motivation to release works sooner, and give the public a way to influence how long any particular work stays under copyright.
This article describes a new copyright system, one designed to reflect the public's interest in moving works into the public domain, while at the same time preserving the most useful market characteristics of the current system. It works through a tempered monopoly: instead of offering today's automatic, fixed-term, and essentially zero-cost copyright grant, it offers a monopoly whose value and duration are based on a combination of the public's and the creator's interests, which are not necessarily at odds.
Best of all, it is simple and low-overhead. It does not require any complex negotiations, third-party assessments, or intricate pricing formulas. Here's how it works:
First, new creations would still get an initial automatic copyright term, but fairly short: on the order of three to five years. Today's copyright terms automatically last many decades — holders are given years of monopoly power regardless of whether they actually want or need it. Thus the first step is to arrange things so that, if the owner does nothing, works will enter the public domain much sooner than they would today.
Later we'll look at the question of initial term lengths in more detail. For now, let's focus on the moment when a work is about to default into the public domain under this new system.
Assuming the copyright owner takes no further action, the work just enters the public domain [1].
But there's an alternative: instead of letting the monopoly lapse completely, the copyright owner can choose to register the work each year for continuation of copyright, with a registration fee proportional to the self-declared value of the work. That is, the copyright owner picks a number of dollars that she claims the work is worth. It can be any number at all, but the yearly registration fee will be a percentage of it — for discussion's sake, say 2%. (The exact proportions don't matter here: it could be 1% or 5% instead of 2%, registration could be semi-yearly instead of yearly, etc. The idea is the same, regardless of the details.)
Now comes the key: since that declared value is now a matter of public record, anyone can pay it to the copyright owner to liberate the work into the public domain. This would be a mandatory transaction: the copyright holder has declared what the work is worth, and has an incentive not to declare too high, because she'll have to pay a percentage of it to renew every year. Anyone willing to pay the total amount can cause the work to go into the public domain.
Because the value of a work may change over time, the registrant may adjust the declared value up or down each year when renewing the registration [2]. This is also one of the reasons behind that initial brief (but free) monopoly term: it gives the copyright holder a chance to see what the work is worth, and she can use that information to decide how much to register the work for when the initial term ends.
Let's run through an example. Suppose I write my great novel, "The Helprin Affair". For a brief period of time, I have a regular copyright, just like today. After that, I decide to register to keep my copyright. Calculating (based on sales so far) that my novel is worth US $100,000, I therefore pay $2000 to the copyright office, which I can afford, because the novel has been selling strongly and I'm sure I'll make that back in royalties this year too. The next year, I make the same decision... But eventually, there will come a time when it's no longer worth it to me. At that point, I can either reduce the declared value, so as to pay a smaller fee, or release the work entirely. (There should be an upper limit on renewals, however; no work should be kept out of the public domain permanently. Monopolies are still monopolies, after all.)
At any time after my initial registration, some third party can look up the declared value of "The Helprin Affair" in the copyright office's records, and pay me $100,000 to liberate it on the spot, or in later years perhaps less or more, if I've changed the declared value in subsequent registrations.
Note that this is not a purchase of the copyright itself, but rather a liberation of the work from copyright entirely. People would still be free to lease or sell their copyrights as before, for whatever price they can get (which, interestingly, may be higher or lower than the registered value — the market dynamics behind that decision are just as rich as those involved in determining a work's value under today's copyright system). But whoever the owner is, whether the author or someone else, they're responsible for keeping up the registration. And while the work is still under registration, anyone can come along and pay the registered owner the declared value to liberate it. The justification for making this a mandatory transaction is that since the copyright owner chose the price in the first place, it is by definition fair, and the public's ultimate interest is in having the work be available to everyone, without restriction.
The initial term, for which no registration is required, has some purposes beyond just giving the creator a chance to assess the market value of the work.
First, requiring explicit registration from the very beginning would penalize small-scale artists disproportionately: they are likely to be short of resources and to either forget to register, or not know how. They would thus be unfairly disadvantaged in comparison to those working with publishers, who have a legal staff to remind them of registration requirements. But after an artist has a chance to see a work succeed, they're not likely to forget to register it (though a few may still forget — no system is perfect).
Another reason to grant a free initial period of copyright is conservatism. Although I'm not convinced that copyright is truly necessary at all in the Internet age, there is at least an argument for giving new works a "clear landing space" for a few years after their creation: a default exclusive copyright, much like today's but lasting a shorter time, can help give the work time to establish its own identity. Again, I'm not sure this is really necessary — but it wouldn't be excessively harmful, and it might make a lot of people more comfortable with reform.
There is a balancing act going on here. It may be useful for the original work to have time to become known on its own terms, before derivatives appear that capitalize on the momentum of the original work's initial appearance but that might also eclipse it before it has a chance to make an impression. On the other hand, we also want derivatives to become possible during the "reaction cycle" of the original work, that is, during the time when the original work is still relevant, so that derivatives have a chance to be meaningful responses. (This is very similar to the right to fork in open source software; see The Wind Done Gone for an example of why this right is important in art).
So what's an appropriate amount of time for the original work to make its splash, before having to contend with derivatives? I won't pretend to know for sure, but for the purposes of discussion, let's say three years. Instinctively, anything over five years feels too long to me, and less than a year feels too short. But it doesn't matter here what the exact number is; three will do for now. That's a period of time within which most royalty-generating works make the majority of their revenue anyway. Registrations could then continue the monopoly for another ten even fifteen years (though I think the latter number still too high, because it's so punishing to independent derivative works).
While this proposal is a compromise, it's at least a compromise tilted toward the public interest. By analogy, think of a homeowner who cuts a driveway opening onto a public street, in order to gain access to a private garage. If I take a streetside parking space away from the public, I expect to pay the city (that is, the public) a fee, and usually annually, too, not just a one-time fee. Similarly, a copyright owner who wants to keep a work out of the public domain should pay for that privilege. But unlike a garage, this privilege need not be permanent, because losing monopoly control over a work after roughly a decade is not as serious as losing one's indoor parking space.
This system would go a long way toward alleviating the orphan works problem, by ensuring that the copyright owner of a work could be found (someone must be paying the fee over at the registry), and toward alleviating the ghost works problem (in which derivative works are suppressed), by setting a maximum amount of money that, for the vast majority of works, would probably still be affordable for a motivated party wanting to see that work in the public domain.
The copyright lobby frequently talks of finding an appropriate "balance" between the needs of creators and the needs of the public. Like many appeals to balance, it is usually a smokescreen for something else: in this case, for efforts to increase copyright terms and restrictions beyond their already grotesque lengths. The "balance" they're talking about neatly presupposes that creators and the public are somehow on opposite sides, while publishers are, curiously, absent from the picture altogether. (Their portrayal is also historically suspect, as copyright was designed to subsidize distribution more than creation — that is, it's been about publishers, not artists, all along.)
Nevertheless, why not take them at their word? If balance is such a good thing, let's have it: a true economic balance between the desire of copyright holders to retain exclusive control, and the desire of the public to let creative works roam freely. If that kind of balance is what we want, then the Declared Value system comes much closer to it than do today's one-sided copyright laws.
[1] Entering the "public domain" does not, of course, mean that accurate attribution is no longer protected. Crediting and copying are entirely separate things, and while the public's interest is served when works can be copied and derived from, it is not served if people take credit for what they did not do. Thus it may be wise to legally protect attribution separately from copyright, although note that the absence of dedicated attribution laws laws has not resulted in a plague of plagiarism on the Internet. This is probably because widespread distribution and search tools are a far better protector of attribution than any law: there is no plagiarism problem in the world of open source software, for example. We've written elsewhere on the protection of attribution and how plagiarism is not related to copyright, in this article about Google Book Search, this article about how digital analysis resulted in the swift detection of a major instance of plagiarism, this article on distinguishing between copyright violation and plagiarism in the classroom, this article on how New York University apparently fails to make that distinction, this reader's comment on that article, and this article about the history of copyright.
[2] Alternatively, the owner could be allowed to adjust the declared value at any time (perhaps even as a reaction to liberation offers), with the provision that any upward adjustment would require immediate payment of the difference between the old and new registration fees. However, the public domain would be better served by simply allowing adjustment only at fixed intervals: if the owner of a work can't figure out its market value and set the fee accordingly, that is no reason to favor the owner over the public when the work is being liberated at a price the owner once clearly thought sufficient.
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Proposals as a strategic tool.
Submitted by kfogel on
There's an interesting exchange between Crosbie Fitch and Tim Cowlishaw over on the FreeCulture UK discussion list.
Tim Cowlishaw posted, mentioning this proposal for proportional registration fees, and Crosbie Fitch responded:
Yes, I've seen it.
The funny thing is, it's like someone comes up with a far more equitable way of allocating space on lifeboats just as the Titanic begins to sink and half the lifeboats have already gone. [...]
I kind of agree, actually :-). But I may not have made clear enough why I posted the original article.
The reason to put out proposals like proportional registration is not so that they'll become law — although it would be great if they did. It's to dislodge prejudices, to give people room in which to think. There are many, many people out there who aren't ready to ask whether copyright is dispensable, or who aren't accustomed to thinking of copyright as something we created (as opposed to some sort of natural right). But a side effect of reading a proposal like this one is that afterwards, whether one agrees with the proposal or not, one is already starting to see the issue differently, because thinking about the pros and cons of a particular registration system requires, first, that one consider registration as a policy issue rather than a rights issue.
So that's why I post things like this. Of course, it's also a serious proposal, and I'd be very happy to see it adopted (although, along with Crosbie Fitch, I'd be even happier to see copyright done away with entirely). But even if it just causes some readers to start thinking of copyright in terms of policy rather than rights, it will already have served its purpose.
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I was intrigued on first skimming, but then I realized some serious problems exist (much as is the case with patents (which are very costly, hence bias against the poor)).
The large companies monetize many works, at least this is the case for large franchises that are quasi actively maintained. They can afford to pay 1% or more and pass the costs on to consumers.
Additionally, if the value is say $500 million, they can declare a much lower value because few can pay anywhere near the full value (only other large corps) and few would be willing to pay today a value they will only slowly recapture over many years, as that would imply be a horrible ROI. So a company would price this example down perhaps to below 100 million, making their renewal less than .2% of the believed value.
Effectively, the richer entities could create the greatest artificial discount for themselves, and then they would also have the greatest ability (lowest overhead) for making any such loses back in the market place and the quickest.
Meanwhile, something very bad will happen to most people.
As long as copyright exists, copyleft is the little person's way to compete against Big Money since it enables us to participate in works that leverage the skills and time of a very large number of contributors. How much should such a major copyleft work be worth? If valued low so as to afford the fee (remember these works are less likely to be monetized quickly, if at all, ever), then a big guy buys it off so that the copyleft gets eliminated. If the valuation is high, who will pay the renewal fee since by definition almost all co-owners are small and poor. And if everyone owns a piece of the final work, this will mean copyleft works will frequently have many chunks of it lose the copyleft.
Now, why is copyleft valuable to the little guy? Because we can't use the work done by the big guys, so, to have leverage, they should not be able to use ours without releasing some of theirs back to us. This is what copyleft does, but public domain does not. [In open source software, the GPL is very popular because of this check it places on greedier players that don't open up at all.]
A further problem exists with software copyrights because software has an ability for tremendous lock-in through trade secrets (closed source frequently updating software). This means in software monopolies arise (from trade secret) in addition to the copyright monopolies. So it's that much more important not to give free help to large software monopolists. The GPL is very powerful to the "little guy" and to preserving a competitive field even among large players. [As an example of the difference between copyright vs trade secret based monopolies, even if you could give away Windows (the "binaries"), you would not be able to fix it of "bugs", extend it, or create compatible clones very well, at least not for a long time because the important human readable blueprints would remain a trade secret hidden from view, even if not protected with copyright. Useful interoperability (direct competition) would still be denied if Microsoft aggressively continued to maintain their software a convoluted moving target.]
In any case, there is a different lock-in that exists with artistic works, come to think of it. These works work their way into our cultural language. Are we supposed to re-invent happy birthday for every person's new birthday because past ones are copyrighted by someone that may not be generous? A functioning society means language and culture must be usable from person to person and generation to generation without undue burdens to change. We should be able to hum older songs and reuse parts of them. We should be able to create extensions to stories. We should be able to rely on standard cartoon shapes and reuse popular pictures. [On this ground, copyright should today be greatly neutered, eg, see the "derivative works" proposal below.]
I'm not sure what to suggest about the fees to solve the problems stated above (and/or close the loopholes). Perhaps we should avoid fees entirely or maybe make the fees only apply to corporations (to non humans). Maybe even have tiers with lower fees for less affluent or less commercial companies. Maybe make some fees tax deductible.
And perhaps we should make the fees apply only to works not licensed under an approved open content/source license! The open stuff is already very generous, and we can in this way preserve important checks and balances by preventing copyleft from entering the public domain prematurely.
Another practical problem might be that virtually anything that spills from us is copyrightable. How are we to keep track? It would be difficult to register for everything we might possibly care about [yes, we could focus on the large and interesting and essentially lose copyrights on the mundane.. fine, but things will slip from our mind.] Renewals should allow you to bundle and generally refer to everything created within a time period and/or some context (being as general or specific as desired).
OK, let's consider an improvement I don't think you mentioned. You appeared to have come close to making the suggestion at the end the paragraph that ends "though I think the latter number still too high, because it's so punishing to independent derivative works".
- What would be defined as a derivative work needs to be neutered significantly before the full copyrights end. [Making exceptions for copyleft works.]
And if a work becomes sufficiently a part of our culture, the derivative works restrictions should be removed or weakened to the extreme, even if it normally would not have yet run out.
These rules are orthogonal to any fees and to many other possible changes in the law.
The point is to have a different time frame and/or degradation for literal copying, distribution, etc, vs. for works that borrow modest literal chunks or which simply reproduce ideas, concepts, characterizations, themes, plots, etc, fairly closely. Free the derivatives sooner!
Of course, separately, we also need to lower the copyright duration period down significantly (the derivative works restrictions would weaken in say a third of that time or less).
To recap some modifications to the fee renewal scheme:
-- We should exempt from renewal fees the works licensed with open content licenses to the public (this is particularly important for copyleft works) and consider voiding the fees also for works owned and controlled by small or "poor" entities.
-- We should have the (strong) derivative works restrictions end much earlier than the copyrights that apply based on largely literal interpretations. We might specify special cases and exceptions, eg, language translations of a written work might function as a literal interpretation of the original. We might exempt literal quoting in fairly large amounts when used for various purposes.
-- Literal interpretation copyrights should last much less than the many decades they currently last. [Derivative restrictions should last one third or less as long.]
These adjustments should help strike a fair balance accounting for those afraid to lose copyrights vs allowing society to much sooner begin to borrow significant parts of the works and surely all of the ideas, concepts, characterizations, etc. We also want to preserve the checks and balances of copyleft which protect those who already share against those leveraging the powers of copyright significantly.
- Jose_X
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A good and long article, I enjoyed to read it but my conclusion is that as long money is the motivation it will be very very difficult to change people minds - specialy of the copywrite holder. Todays situation remind me a little bit to the 15., 16. and 17. century in Europe. There was also all limited in "Zunft", which means a shoemaker has only the possiblity to make a few shoes in a time period even if he has still plenty of time and recources. Today many people has the time but can not go on with their work because of copywrites. Which means copywrites benefits only the copywrite owner and blockade all others. I am not against copywrite but things have to be changed - for example the length. <a href=http://www.applied-visions.at/>early newspaper</a>
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But there's an alternative: instead of letting the monopoly lapse completely, the copyright owner can choose to register the work each year for continuation of copyright, with a registration fee proportional to the self-declared value of the work. That is, the copyright owner picks a number of dollars that she claims the work is worth. It can be any number at all, but the yearly registration fee will be a percentage of it — for discussion's sake, say 2%. (The exact proportions don't matter here: it could be 1% or 5% instead of 2%, registration could be semi-yearly instead of yearly, etc. The idea is the same, regardless of the details.)security+ certification.
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Well, I don't really agree with the idea of copyright at all. However, if we are talking of the interim solution, while moving towards doing away with copyright completely, these suggestions seem reasonable. One question though: why should we monopolize producing derivative works at all? If the attribution is preserved and required, nothing is taken away from original author's work effort by makers of derivative work.


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How big is the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting held in San Francisco every December? So big it's like everyone from Barrow attending on Monday. The residents of Soldotna get Tuesday, Valdez Wednesday, Nome Thursday and Kotzebue Friday.
More than 21,000 scientists walk through the Moscone Center during the week, along with others, like me, who are curious about what they are presenting.
Thanks again to the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, I filled a notebook with scribbles regarding the far north in December 2013. Here are a few:
By 2050, polar bears may have their summertime sea-ice habitat reduced to the northern Canadian Archipelago and northern Greenland, according to a study by George Durner of the USGS Alaska Science Center in Anchorage. Durner and his collaborators looked at data from the satellite collars of hundreds of polar bears and what it told him about the bears' favored habitat. He plugged that information into 10 climate models. The models predicted most polar bear habitat would be lost by mid-century, except Canada's high arctic and the top of Greenland.
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The 1946 April Fool's Day Alaska earthquake caused a tsunami that killed 159 people in Hawaii and destroyed the town of Hilo. That wave continued on to Antarctica, where it still had the punch to wreck a building near the shoreline. The earthquake also generated a 130-foot local wave that killed five men and destroyed a lighthouse at Scotch Cap, on Unimak Island. Scientists have debated the source of the wave, some thinking it was the same plate motion of the earthquake that generated the trans-Pacific tsunami. Others argued it was an underwater landslide caused by the earthquake shaking. In trying to determine which sections of the Pacific plate off the Aleutians are still locked, USGS geophysicists John Miller of Denver and Roland von Huene of Diamond Springs, Calif. saw and identified an undersea mountain of debris that could have caused the Scotch Cap "near-field" tsunami as the pile slid during the earthquake. Miller also said the 1946 Alaska earthquake, now classified as a magnitude 8.6, might have been larger. "The comparison with Tohuku (the 9.2 earthquake off the coast of Japan in 2011) is apt in many ways," he said.
Kasatochi, the small island in the mid-Aleutians that blew up in 2008, went from the lush green home of seabirds to a steaming pile of ash in a few days. Following the eruption, scientists wondered if the island had sterilized itself of all life. Visits to the island in years following proved otherwise, as scientists found pockets of vegetation and a few insects that survived the eruption deep in rocky bunkers. In August 2013, microbial ecologist Lydia Zeglin found lots of too-small-to-be-seen life forms on the island, many in "legacy soils" that survived the heat of the eruption by being buried by ash. "It didn't seem to wipe out everything," Zeglin, who works at the USGS Alaska Science Center, said while describing her poster in San Francisco's Moscone Center. "If there's any little bit of organic matter, especially plant life, microbes ramp up from there. We see these little hotspots of things coming back." The island wasn't sterilized, "but was as sterile as we're going to get," she said. "You're really starting from nothing. Kasatochi is representative of succession that happened at all those islands."
Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.
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