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from the step-2 deptRobert Weller takes this week's number one spot as the voter's choice for the most insightful comment of the week, with his explanation for why newspaper paywalls don't make sense:
Two other things. One. People now read sometimes half a dozen newspapers daily, not just one. Two. They aren't going to pay six newspapers.Sometimes it's the short and sweet ones that make the clearest points. Coming in second was Ima Fish's comment concerning the problem of people calling things like fair use a "limitation and exception," when reality is it's the opposite:
It's actually worse than that. Copyright and patents are the exception and limitation. Not fair use.Over to editor's choice insightful comments, we'll start with Erik J. Heels interpretation of the RIAA chart that showed how much music was obtained in various ways, some by authorized means and others not so much. Heels suggests a re-labeling is in order:
Property rights are considered inalienable rights in the Constitution. They're also considered natural rights. They can be thought of as inherent rights. They're not given by government. They are given by nature itself. The purpose of government is not to give such rights, but to protect such rights. And the government can only intrude upon such rights through due process.
Unlike property rights, copyrights and patents needed to be explicitly included in the Constitution because they were not natural. The concept of giving out monopoly rights to ideas was contrary to nature. Thus, such monopolies were by their nature an exception and highly limited.
As pointed out here before. Copyrights originally lasted only 15 years. And even more interesting, copyrights did not cover music or literature.
But as money was made on these limited monopolies, those who collected the rents needed more gates from which to collected upon. So music was added. Literature was added. The length of time was increased. The monopoly on publishing was not enough. Soon performances were added. And now we're stuck with a convoluted draconian system where we need to pay a license to combine music with video, separate from the publishing right, and separate from the performance right.
The reason we think of fair use as a limitation and an exception, is because for over two centuries, copyright law has turned on its head.
The RIAA should re-label its chart.And, finally, we have Duke's excellent response to a bunch of legacy artists demanding that Google & ISPs solve the artists' own inability to change with the times.
Change "unpaid" to "marketing" and "paid" to "sales."
Ah, isn't it nice when legacy artists (or the lobby groups behind them) manage to show just how out of touch they are. Why, only a couple of weeks ago the PRS (record label collecting society) published a fascinating report (jointly paid for by Google) into the status of "illegal websites" and found that search engines had a very minor role. So even their own lobby groups are saying they're talking complete nonsense.Moving over to the funny side of things, the clear winner this week came from an Anonymous Coward on the story about someone selling waffles at an event complaining about the Swedish Young Pirate organization daring to give away their own waffles for free. This AC wondered how the RIAA equivalent of the waffle-sellers would react:
Of course, the whole "search engines are promoting illegal stuff" argument is great in itself because it tells us a couple of key things:
Firstly; people want to find mp3s of popular music that they can download. If they didn't, they wouldn't be searching Google for them.
Secondly; Google, as a search engine, is there to give *its users* what they want. They're not there to serve the BPI (or whoever was behind this). It has all those complicated algorithms to work out what is popular and ... surprise surprise, sites allegedly offering free or cheap mp3 downloads of popular music do well.
Thirdly; If the first n pages of a Google search for "Adele mp3" (to use the example given in the programme below) are all to supposedly unlawful sites, what has happened to the lawful ones? Why aren't they right at the top of the list? Because the sites that do that don't exist. And if they do exist, they're hidden behind terrible websites, paywalls and the lot, so you can't find them easily through a search.
So, what do we do about this? Well, if these legacy musicians want to fix their little problem, it seems the solution is quite easy:
1: Have sites that provide legal downloading of mp3s and similar stuff.
2: Recognise that the consumers (including 'pirates') actually want music, but they want it a certain way, and if you're going to try to act as a consumer-facing business, you should try to match their demands.
3: Make sure that the sites in 1 are easily accessible, well-designed, and will actually turn up in search results.
Sadly, signing a letter that says "blame Google" is less effort.
For those interested, they even got the BBC to do a Newsnight segment for them on this rubbish. Interestingly, I did a search for "adele mp3" on Google; the top few results appear to be theoretically legal in the US (only hosting information, or previews, with DMCA-compliant stuffs, and linking to paysites in the Ukraine and Russia which may be legal over there due to collective licensing rules).
The other thing I found particularly illuminating was that the top page has 10 search results (including one for amazon.com) and 8 notices covering 18 entries removed following DMCA notices. Somehow I don't think the takedown requests are doing that much good anyway.
To stop this from happening, commercial waffle makers should start selling waffles with bits of broken glass in it, insult their customers as wafflethieves and follow them around to spy on them.Coming in second was our own Dark Helmet explaining how video games drove him to violence:
To be fair, as a child of the 80's, I once rushed into a pet store, removed all the turtles from their cages, and began stomping on them repeatedly while screaming "Where's my damned Princess!?!?!?".This reminds me of the famous Marcus Brigstocke joke: "If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
Years of corrective therapy later and I still am not allowed into Chicago pet stores....
Moving on to editor's choice, we've got Josh in CharlotteNC responding to someone trying to play down the US government quietly admitting that it violated the 4th Amendment with its surveillance efforts, by saying that it wasn't a big deal because they "admitted that at least ONCE, upon review, their actions where not in keeping with the 4th amendment." Josh responded with how things would sound on the flip side:
No, officer, I wasn't ignoring the speed limit. Upon review by your radar gun, my speed was not in keeping with the limit. By this logic, you cannot give me a ticket.Finally, we've got an Anonymous Coward explaining the RIAA's brilliant business strategy concerning its efforts to kick people off the internet:
Step 1. Kick people off of the internetHey, perhaps we can help! Either way, we'll be back tomorrow with something else to say about something.
Step 2.
Step 3. Profit!
2/3rds of the way there, RIAA, keep up the good work!


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You Are An Old-Time Swimmer If...
1. can remember swimming an entire workout without goggles
2. came out of workout and remember seeing rings around all the lights
3. can remember a time when only rectangular-shaped hand paddles were used
4. can remember a time when there was only one type of white pull buoys was used
5. can remember stop watches that require winding with a button at the top
6. can remember workouts that were conducted without a pace clock
7. owned a Belgrad suit
8. owned double-lined swimsuits with plunging neck lines
9. sent a letter and went to the post office to communicate with your escort pilot
10. can remember a time when survey tools were used to mark courses
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12. could enter the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim without writing essays
13. mailed in your entry forms
14. received Popsicle sticks as you crossed the finish line
15. did not warm-down after a race
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17. thought naked swimming meant skinny dipping
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21. had no idea what GPS, triathlon, transponder, jammers, brown fat or gel packs meant when you first started swimming
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25. remember when backstroke flags were optional
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27. remember when 3000-yards was a huge practice
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35. ate jello powder and honey at swim meets
36. had wool suits and thought the nylon swimsuits with a double panel in the front and a skirt were a big improvement
37. stitched a skirt in front of your Belgrad suit
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38. wore your mother's old nylons and t-shirts for additional drag
39. used lemon to treat green hair from the chlorine in the pool
40. remember when Jello squares were sold at the snack bar
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41. trained with up to 20 swimmers per lane
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44. used a bucket tied with a towel around your ankles for extra drag
45. used a towel tied to a rubber band around your ankles for pulling
46. used a rubber band only for pulling
47. trained without a swim cap
48. raced without a swim cap…or goggles
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50. your green hair snapped off from the chlorine
51. remember when clear goggles were the only coloured goggles
52. open water swims in Australia were called "Swim-Thru's"
53. remember when a kick set was only using your own legs (i.e., no fins)
54. learned to swim in the river or ocean
55. swam 800m/1500m events around midnight as the last event on the program
56. ate loaves of white bread for carbo-loading
57. ate jellybeans for instant energy in between heats and finals
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- AnonymousNovember 22, 2013 at 10:27 AM
For drag you wore your Mom's old nylons and t-shirtsReplyDelete
You used lemon to treat green hair from the chlorine
You knew you hit the end of the pool because your head hurt in backstroke kick (arms not above your head)
Mom brought your Tang in a mason jar with a lid so it didn't spill
Jello square were sold at the snack bar.
You still cringe at the thought of MacDonald's orange drink from Saturday Meets. It was that or Coffee first thing in the AM
Outstanding memories from a veteran!ReplyDelete
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The max flow problem, as it's called, refers to the process of figuring out how much capacity is available between any given starting point and any given end point. Capacity could refer to trucks on roads, water in pipes, or packets on a cable. The challenge first surfaced in 1954 in an attempt to model the behavior of Soviet railway traffic. The first algorithm to solve it came the following year. Since then numerous algorithms have surfaced to address the calculation of max flow more efficiently.
Typically, the network has been represented as a graph with a series of nodes or "vertices"; the lines between the vertices are called "edges." Each edge has a given maximum capacity, and the algorithms set out to calculate the most efficient way to use the capacity represented in the graph without exceeding the constraints.
As the network grows, however, the use of traditional algorithms may become too time-consuming to be practical. "There has recently been an explosion in the sizes of graphs being studied," explained Jonathan Kelner, an associate professor of applied mathematics at MIT and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). "For example, if you wanted to route traffic on the Internet, study all the connections on Facebook, or analyze genomic data, you could easily end up with graphs with millions, billions or even trillions of edges."
The algorithm developed by Kelner and his four colleagues chooses to solve the max-flow problem by analyzing all potential paths at the same time. According to university coverage of the technique, the researchers viewed the graph as a collection of electrical resistors and then imagined connecting a battery to node A and a ground to node B, and allowing the current to flow through the network. "Electrical current doesn't pick just one path, it will send a little bit of current over every resistor on the network," Kelner said. "So it probes the whole graph globally, studying many paths at the same time."
This approach introduced definite efficiencies. Then the team added an additional twist. Their algorithm also identifies network routes that pose bottlenecks. "Our algorithm figures out which parts of the graph can easily route what they need to and which parts are the bottlenecks. This allows you to focus on the problem areas and the high-level structure instead of spending a lot of time making unimportant decisions, which means you can use your time a lot more efficiently," Kelner noted.
As the number of nodes increases so does the amount of running time required to solve the problem. However, the paper stated, rather than an exponential increase, the computation scales "near-linearly."
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East Texas School Adds Outdoor Classroom
How many times have you looked out the window on a beautiful day and wanted to escape work or school to go outside and play?
It may not be all about play for students at one Texas school, but at least they'll get to spend some time outside in the gorgeous fall weather, in their new outdoor classroom. They just launched a new butterfly garden too.
Peavy Primary students have a new outdoor classroom in Hudson, which is part of a program called project learning tree which actually covers all fifty states and has the goal of providing more hands-on environmental learning. Wish we'd had that growing up.
The students will have recess outside, AND class sometimes. Cool! If they come home after school and still complain that they're stir crazy, parents will know they're fibbin'.
We wonder if more schools will add outdoor classrooms in the future. And can we get the boss to add some outdoor cubicles? We don't want to spend much time outside in July and August in Texas, but today looks like a great day to fire up the laptop and work outside.


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Kiersten Holine — Celeb Crush
We're big fans of Father John Misty, and Kiersten's cover of 'Only Son of a Ladies Man' just blew our minds. She's a rare talent, and a beautiful one at that.
Kiersten has been playing guitar for over 10 years, and was recently mentioned in Rolling Stone Magazine. Hailing from the Twin Cities with a recent jaunt in Chicago, Kiersten now finds herself living in the city whose music scene first stole her heart (and ours): Seattle. Her album, 'Candescent' was released last year, and is available for purchase right here. Do it, seriously.
Kiersten says her influences range from Feist to Django Reinhart to Jon Brion, and that she is constantly at work to refine her sound and craft -- it shows. Watch closely, and expect big things from this indie/folk musician with "restless dreams and wandering feet."
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The city zoning board approved a developer's plans to raze three buildings at the southeast corner of 15th and Walnut Streets and erect a glass, three-story building that will include the city's first Cheesecake Factory restaurant, on the second floor.
Patrons will be able to get up to the restaurant through an entrance on Walnut Street.
Lawyer Carl Primavera said demolition should begin within 30 days. Construction could take 15 months, so after all is said and done, the restaurant should be open by fall 2014.
The developer is talking to high-end retailers about the first floor.
The property previously housed a strip of retail businesses along the east side of 15th Street from Walnut Street to Chancellor Street - a bank, hair salon, coffee shop, and restaurant - as well as two adjacent properties on Walnut Street.


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- A Crude Latex Diff Script in Linux
- Images in Latex
- SVG in Latex
- Vertical Spacing in Latex Tables
- Horizonal Spacing in Latex Tables
- A reference of different types of bibliography styles in Latex
- Comprehensive Latex Symbol List
- My Latex Setup
- Changing the Default Font for the Report documentclass in Latex
- Removing the Coloured Boxes around Hyperref links in Latex
- Eclipse Pygments Style
- Labelled Frames in Latex
- Changing list indent, spacing, etc, using enumitem
- Aligning Images in Tables in Latex
- Fancy Quotation Boxes in Latex
- Unrecoverable Error in ps2ascii when using Inkscape images
- Aligning table cells vertically center in LaTeX
- Adding UML Guillemots in Latex and Adding Special Symbols to Minted Environments
- Enumerate List Environment Whitespace in Latex
- Maximum Width of Table Captions in LaTeX
- Capital Letter Headings for Index in LaTeX with makeindex
- addcontentsline Doesn't Work in LaTeX
- Incompatible List can't be Unboxed in LaTeX
- Controlling the Whitespace and Layout of LaTeX Table of Contents
- More Latex bookmarks on delicious
- Eclipse Pygments Style
- Lexers
- Drools Pygments Lexer
- Crocopat Pygments Lexer
- OCL Pygments Lexer
- LTL Pygments Lexer
- Jess Pygments Lexer
- Jena Pygments Lexer
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- Alloy Pygments Style
- IDL Pygments Style
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Here are some tips I've found when using Latex.
ReferencesUsing the natbib package, you can use these commands... see the natbib.sty file for more details:
renewcommand{cite}{citep} (makes cite the same as citep) cite{key} => (Jones et al., 1990) citep{key} => (Jones et al., 1990) citet{key} => Jones et al. (1990) citep[pg. 34]{key} => (Jones et al., 1990, pg. 34) citet[ABC:][]{key} => (ABC: Jones et al., 1990)
Remove Date from TitlepageWhen you use maketitle, it uses the following attributes:
title author date
If you want to get rid of the date field, just add
Clickable Wrapped URLs in Bibtex BibliographyArgh. For every hour you gain from abandoning Microsoft Word, you lose trying to configure Latex to do things that would otherwise be trivial.
If you are using the latex > dvips > ps2pdf compilation route for your documents, you may have problems trying to have URLs in your bibliography that are very long. One option is to manually wrap them yourself (using a space). However, this is better, put at the end of your .tex preamble:
% this package adds clickable links to http addresses and footnotes usepackage{hyperref} % this package makes url's breakable with hyperref (but loses the cyan boxes) usepackage{breakurl}
Word Count in LatexJust use this script somewhere in your compilation process:
ps2ascii file.pdf | wc -w
(source: http://www.wlug.org.nz/LatexWordcount)
Rotating Table RowsAdd this to the prelude:
% provides rotatebox{} usepackage{graphics} % provides multirow usepackage{multirow}
And then this to the table (this counts as one row):
multirow{4}{*}{rotatebox{90}{hi there}} & a \ & b \ & c \ & d \
Changing the Font Size of a Table
Just add the font size line in the Table:
begin{table}[hbt] centering small begin{tabular} .. table content ... end{tabular} caption{caption} end{table}
IEEE Formatting: 8.5 x 11-inch Proceedings ManuscriptsFor some reason, IEEE does not provide a Latex version of this publication format on its FTP site. However, this Latex file covers most of the basics of the format: http://cisedu.us/storage/old/cts07/doc/latexformat.htm
-dEmbedAllFonts with ps2pdfI was having difficulty adding this command-line parameter to the ps2pdf script call. It appears that the equals operator '=' is not supported; instead you should use hash '#':
ps2pdf -dEmbedAllFonts#true %1.ps %1.pdf >> create_pdf.log
Embedding all fonts with ps2pdfI was having issue submitting an IEEE paper as they were saying that my fonts, Times-Roman, Times-Italic etc were not being embedded. The solution is to use the following command line to ps2pdf:
ps2pdf -dEmbedAllFonts#true -dSubsetFonts#true -dPDFSETTINGS#/prepress %1.ps %1.pdf >> create_pdf.log
Overriding and Re-using a Latex CommandIf you try to re-use a renewed command like so, Latex will crash with (essentially) an infinite loop:
renewcommandfoo{something foo something}
As discussed by this document on extending Latex, you can use the primitive let to save a "snapshot" of the current command:
letoldFoofoo renewcommandfoo{something oldFoo something}
Making all URLs in HelveticaIf you use the command
urlstyle{sf}after the initial begin{document}, all URLs in the document (as specified by url{...}) will be rendered as a sans-serif font (i.e. Helvetica, or equivalent).
Tick and Cross SymbolsCreating output similar to the right, I found the following symbols worked well:
usepackage{amsfonts} newcommand{tickYes}{checkmark} usepackage{pifont} newcommand{tickNo}{hspace{1pt}ding{55}}
pdflatex vs dvipdfm vs dvips-ps2pdf
- pdflatex: I couldn't get it to work with the hyperref package (to make bookmarks in Adobe), and it cannot include EPS images.
- dvipdfm: I couldn't get it to work with the hyperref package (to make bookmarks in Adobe), and it threw a lot of warnings.
- dvips-ps2pdf: Not possible to create Tagged PDFs (I think), cannot handle JPEG, PNG images (etc) directly
Coloured Table BordersIf you have a normal table, you can make borders coloured by doing the following. It will also work with hline and cline:
usepackage{array,colortbl} begin{tabular}{lc} hline arrayrulecolor{green} %always at the beginning of a table row ...
If you are using vline, this won't work; you need to wrap the vline with the colour explicitly:
Cannot use -dPDFSETTINGS in GhostscriptOn Windows, you cannot use the = character in the command line; you need to use #. i.e.:
ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS#/prepress %1.ps %1.pdf
Bad Image Compression (JPEG-like) when using ps2pdfI had a frequently-recurring problem that my generated PDFs were resampling and compressing many of the bitmap images in my PDF into JPEGs.
The solution was to tell Ghostscript to use prepress PDF settings.
@ (at sign) in LaTeX indexI wanted an index entry with an @ sign. After much stress, I found the man page for makeindex, and found one solution:
index{"@@"@generated tag}
This will create an index entry named "@generated tag". I couldn't work out any way to also apply additional formatting, i.e. none of these worked:
index{generated tag@$@$texttt{generated} tag} index{"@@"@generated tag@texttt{"@@"@generated} tag} index{"@@"@generated tag@texttt{@generated} tag} index{"@@"@generated tag@"@@"texttt{@generated} tag}
Perhaps if you read the makeindex documentation you might work it out
Disabling FootnotesIt is fairly simple to remove all footnotes throughout your LaTeX document, just define the following command in the preamble:
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Walt Whitman Award
The Walt Whitman Award is a $5,000 first-book publication prize. The winning manuscript, chosen by an acclaimed poet, is published by Graywolf Press, a leading independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. The winner also receives an all-expenses-paid six-week residency at the Civitella Ranieri Center in the Umbrian region of Italy, and distribution of the winning book to thousands of Academy of American Poets members.
The award was established in 1975 to encourage the work of emerging poets and to enable the publication of a poet's first book. It is made possible by financial support from the members of the Academy of American Poets.
Submissions are accepted from September 1 through November 1 each year. The judge for the 2019 Walt Whitman Award is Li-Young Lee. Submissions are currently closed.


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You're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles — not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa Monica Mountains. This means you'll be well-fed, well-rested and perhaps more closely watched by the issuers of your credit cards. And while the dollars fly, you may learn a little about wealth, fame, geography and Persian desserts.
For instance, you'll realize that Beverly Hills, like the "Mona Lisa" and certain leading men, is smaller than you might expect (5.7 square miles). You'll recognize Culver City's connections to Oz and the old Soviet space program. You'll be reminded that there's a big Santa Monica Boulevard and a little one (a.k.a. South Santa Monica Boulevard), which perplex the uninitiated by running parallel for more than a mile. In Westwood, you'll see how death has united Marilyn Monroe and Rodney Dangerfield, among others.
Photos: Westside of Los Angeles
For more on these revelations, here are some Westside stories — 12 micro-itineraries to get a stranger started. This is the ninth installment of our yearlong series of Southern California Close-ups, each piece covering a different region of Los Angeles and Orange counties. You can find the first eight at latimes.com/socalcloseups.
1. Big screen, small wondersSony Studios (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
If Judy Garland or Alex Trebek makes you swoon, you'll want to check out Sony Studios (10202 W. Washington Blvd.) in Culver City. Its two-hour guided walking tour costs $33 (no children younger than 12) and includes soundstages where "The Wizard of Oz" was filmed in 1938 and where "Jeopardy!" has been shot since 1984. (On the tour, you may learn that Merv Griffin, who wrote the "Jeopardy!" theme song in less than half an hour, reaped from it an estimated $70 million to $80 million in royalties.) If neither Judy nor Alex makes your world go 'round, think twice about this tour. It costs more and delivers less than the Warner Bros. tour in Burbank. For a more engrossing (and affordable) experience in the same neighborhood, get thee to the Museum of Jurassic Technology (9341 Venice Blvd.). This odd little spot is all about the joy of weird stuff, presented with great museological pomp. Shuffle through the tiny dark rooms, your jaw slackening at the sight of the trailer-park dioramas, Soviet space-dog oil portraits, a tiny sculpted pope in a needle's eye and two dead mice on toast (the consumption of which is described as an old bed-wetting cure). Don't miss the tearoom upstairs. Next door stands the Center for Land Use Interpretation (9331 Venice Blvd.), whose exhibits and publications have probed the underwater towns of America, the traffic barricades of Washington, D.C., the helipads of downtown L.A. and other notable human interactions with the landscape. Also nearby, you'll find live drama at the Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre (9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City).
2. Beloved burgers and newfangled photosAnnenberg Space for Photography (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
Since 1947 — long before the Westside Pavilion shopping center rose on Pico Boulevard — the Apple Pan (10801 W. Pico Blvd.) has been offering Angelenos burgers and desserts. No reservations, no alcohol, no air conditioning. The only dining area is a U-shaped counter, the wallpaper is red plaid and the sign says, "QUALITY FOREVER." Order the Hickory burger ($6.75) and maybe a big slice of apple pie ($5.50) for dessert. Or, to cut down on calories and red meat, follow the example of 31-year counterman Roberto Velasco, who has switched to the tuna melt. Then head two miles northeast to Century City, where you'll park beneath the soaring cold metal and glass of the Creative Artists Agency building. You have not scored a meeting with CAA's deal makers, but they will let you in next door, at the Annenberg Space for Photography (2000 Avenue of the Stars, No. 10), a nonprofit exhibition space that opened in 2009 with a video-friendly layout and sophisticated digital technology. It's free. If you show up in time to see the multimedia "Beauty Culture" exhibition through Nov. 27, you'll be wowed by its thoughtful, provocative and visually rich examination of the business that beauty has become.
3. Shopping on RodeoRodeo Drive (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
The Rodeo Drive shopping experience boils down to about three blocks — enough to enrapture certain shoppers for days, or to amuse a fashion agnostic for an hour or two. Start at South Santa Monica Boulevard and make your way southeast, past Brighton and Dayton ways, to Wilshire Boulevard. Along the way, you'll find enough designer finery to bankrupt the sultan of Brunei, or at least make a monarch sweat. See the impeccable salesman wiping fingerprints off the Cartier shop window? The strange staircase that architect Rem Koolhaas placed at the front of the Prada shop? The beckoning faux-European side street of the Two Rodeo shops? At the far end of your stroll, you'll find the Beverly Wilshire (9500 Wilshire Blvd.). This hotel, run by Four Seasons, is where Warren Beatty once lived, where Esther Williams taught 14-year-old Elizabeth Taylor how to swim and where Richard Gere brought Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman." It's not perfect; an ungraceful '70s addition lurks behind the original 1928 building. But it has location, a Wolfgang Puck steakhouse called Cut and Four Seasons service. Rooms for two start about $450. Oh, but wait. If you're a true retail warrior, you're not done shopping yet. Within a few blocks, you'll find Barneys New York (9570 Wilshire Blvd.), Neiman Marcus (9700 Wilshire Blvd.), Niketown (9560 Wilshire Blvd.) and Saks Fifth Avenue (9600 Wilshire Blvd.).
4. Cuisine on CanonBouchon Bistro (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times)
You can try La Cienega Boulevard, the official Restaurant Row of Beverly Hills, some other night. For now, scope out the high style and smaller scale of the eateries on Canon Drive between Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards. At 225 N. Canon (on the ground floor of the Montage Beverly Hills Hotel), glass windows reveal the steamy kitchen of Scarpetta, one of the region's most highly rated Italian restaurants since its 2010 opening. There's Wolfgang Puck's flagship, Spago Beverly Hills, at 176 N. Canon Drive. There's Nic's (453 N. Canon Drive), with its lively bar and walk-in, drink-in vodka freezer. There's Mastro's Steakhouse (246 N. Canon Drive), with its $90, 48-ounce double-cut porterhouse steaks. And there's Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bistro, which opened in late 2009 at 235 N. Canon Drive. Main dishes in the big, tile-floored upstairs Bouchon dining room are $18-$45. On a budget? Get the steak salad (about $21) at the little Bouchon Bar downstairs. If you've recently won a lottery or been signed by CAA, take a few steps across Beverly Canon Gardens to the Montage and see whether there's a vacancy. Montage, opened in late 2008, sports a Spanish Colonial-Revival look, with dashes of Morocco and Italy, and plenty of space in its 201 luxury-laden rooms. (Rates usually start at $495 a night.) But if it's Oscar week, Emmy week or Grammy week, skip the Montage. Chances are the nominees, presenters and producers have booked it solid.
5. A stroll in the park and a cubicle seatBeverly Hills sign (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Grab an all-day parking spot at the Beverly Hills Civic Center (455 N. Rexford Drive; first two hours free) and walk or jog on the 1.9-mile greenbelt (a.k.a. Beverly Gardens Park) along Santa Monica Boulevard. At Beverly Drive, if not before, you'll realize you have company: That's where the big, gold BEVERLY HILLS sign is, and tourists arrive day and night to pose by the letters. If it's Sunday morning, head next to the weekly farmers market at 9300 Civic Center Drive. If it's between noon and 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, step into the Paley Center for Media (465 N. Beverly Drive), where pros and amateurs alike can watch or listen to any of 150,000 old TV and radio shows at a cubicle in a windowless upstairs room. Yes, it has the 1962 black-and-white first episode of "The Beverly Hillbillies," in which the Clampetts strike oil, come to town and mistake their new mansion for a prison. They also have the 1955 "I Love Lucy" episode in which Lucy and Ethel go rogue on a tour of the stars' homes. There's no fee beyond the Paley's suggested donation of $10 per adult. As you watch, picture Chris Rock at the next cubicle, studying Bob Hope and Billy Crystal's work on long-ago Oscars broadcasts, as he did before taking his turn emceeing at the Academy Awards in 2005.
6. Nate, Al, Muhammad and VanessaTaschen store (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times)
Nate 'nl, the deli at 414 N. Beverly Drive, dates to the 1940s. Its furnishings are as glamorous as Chelsea Handler is chaste. You can count on ample supplies of matzo ball soup and perhaps some schmoozing by talk-show icon Larry King, who's been a breakfast regular for years. When you're full, stroll down the block and boldly step into the Taschen store (354 N. Beverly Drive), which is run by the L.A.-based publisher of the same name. But leave the young ones at home. This elegantly arranged shop, which feels more like a gallery, is full of pricey, arty, lavish and often naughty books. Instead of "Harry Potter" and "Silas Marner," you'll find a $70 copy of "Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs," a $15,000 "champ's edition" of the Muhammad Ali tribute volume "GOAT" and a $700 appreciation of porn star Vanessa del Rio, promiscuously illustrated. As you leave, hang your head in mourning, because this is the last bookshop in Beverly Hills.
7. Hotel havenFour Seasons hotel (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Beverly Hills and environs have plenty of famous hotels, including the luxury-laden Peninsula Beverly Hills and L'Ermitage, the celebrity-heavy Four Seasons Hotel (just outside Beverly Hills) and the massive Beverly Hilton. But the elder statesman is the 210-room Beverly Hills Hotel (9641 Sunset Blvd.), which opened in 1912. Just a glimpse of the lobby's golden glow and artful palm fronds hints that fame and fortune are concentrated here, and the rack rates confirm it: $475 a night and up. So maybe you'll settle for breakfast in its Polo Lounge, where orange juice is $8 and the latest issue of Le Monde awaits your perusal. But like Grace Kelly, Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe before you, maybe you'll prefer a place to hide rather than a place to see and be seen. In that case, the Beverly Hills Hotel's slightly pricier sibling, the Hotel Bel Air (701 Stone Canyon Road in a lush canyon 2.7 miles northwest), will reopen Oct. 14 after a two-year-closure to add 12 rooms and a spa. In case you've lost track of who owns both of these lodgings, it's the Brunei Investment Agency — in other words, the sultan of Brunei.
8. SoBev and beyondMuseum of Tolerance (Ken Hively)
First, fuel up in SoBev (Beverly Drive south of Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills) with breakfast or lunch at the affordable, busy Urth Caffe (267 S. Beverly Drive). Now, slowly drive past Heath Avenue and Olympic Boulevard, where you'll spy the backside of Beverly Hills High School (241 Moreno Drive) and the campus oil well, wrapped in what looks like an enormous floral-patterned oven mitt. Three blocks east of the oil well, on Olympic, pause if you like at Roxbury Memorial Park, where there's tennis, soccer, baseball and play structures. Now take a deep breath and ready yourself for a sobering look at multiculturalism, history and the Holocaust, tailored to suit children and adults. That's the mission of the Museum of Tolerance (9786 W. Pico Blvd.; adult admission $15.50), which opened in 1993. Now surely you're wrung out, so consider the 49-room Mosaic Hotel (125 S. Spalding Drive), which is more boutique than resort and sometimes has discount rates as low as $225 nightly.
9. The Bruins' DenUCLA (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
Maybe it will help you feel young to see those UCLA freshmen kicking a ball around on the lawn between Royce Hall and Powell Library. Or maybe, recalling that these kids were born in 1993, you'll feel otherwise. Either way, with its 420 acres and nearly 40,000 students, the UCLA campus in Westwood will stretch your legs and brain. Consider alumni such as tennis star Arthur Ashe, basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, director Francis Ford Coppola and musician Jim Morrison (and that's just a sampling from the late '60s). Wander on your own or join one of the free student-led tours for prospective students and their parents most weekdays and Saturdays (www.admissions.ucla.edu/tours.htm). At Royce Hall, the 2011-2012 season's 36 gigs include violinist Itzhak Perlman, author Joan Didion and banjo master Earl Scruggs. On the sidewalks of neighboring Westwood Village, you'll wish for more bohemian hangouts and fewer national brands, but you will find the Geffen Playhouse (10886 Le Conte Ave.), which often features big names on its stage, and the Hammer Museum (10899 Wilshire Blvd.), which spotlights cutting-edge contemporary art.
10. The stars at rest and a Persian dessertPierce Bros. Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
Just south of Wilshire Boulevard, hidden behind a clutch of tall buildings, you'll find the Pierce Bros. Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary, a grassy territory covering barely 2 acres. Marilyn Monroe rests in a crypt (her name surrounded by lipstick kisses) near the northern corner of the property. The graves of Fanny Brice, Truman Capote, Jack Lemmon, Karl Malden and Walter Matthau are nearby, along with others who couldn't resist one more punch line. Rodney Dangerfield's headstone: "There goes the neighborhood." Merv Griffin's: "I will not [underlined] be right back after this message." You'll also notice a lot of Persian names and writing in the neighborhood; thousands of Persians, many of them Jewish, arrived when Islamic fundamentalists took over Iran in the late 1970s. About five blocks south of the cemetery, step into modest Saffron & Rose Ice Cream (1387 Westwood Blvd.), a family business that specializes in Persian flavors. The top seller is an explosion of sweetness known as saffron-pistachio. Buy a scoop for $3.25 and hang on to your bastani (that's ice cream in Persian).
11. Brentwood's Barn and ArkSkirball Cultural Center (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
The Brentwoodtry Mart (225 26th St., Santa Monica) looks like a bad idea. In one of California's elite neighborhoods, a low-rise fake barn? Really? Yet locals love it, and it feeds many a trendy mom's retail dreams. The Country Mart, which opened in 1948 as a smaller version of the Farmers Market in the Fairfax area, has more than 25 boutiques and stalls, a handful of casual eateries, one stylish bookshop and two little courtyards where, on a weekday afternoon, you're likely to find scampering kids in private-school uniforms, or perhaps Reese Witherspoon grabbing coffee. Next, hop on Interstate 405 and head north to the Skirball Cultural Center (2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.), whose exhibits and performances aim to connect Jewish culture with American history. If you're under 10, the highlight is Noah's Ark, an 8,000-square-foot interactive Old Testament playground where lightning flashes on command, a conveyor belt speeds ark embarkation, climbing ropes dangle enticingly and close to 400 large and small toy animals, many recycled from household materials, compete for attention. (There's rubber animal scat too.) You'll want time-certain reservations ($5 a kid ages 2-12, $10 per adult) for visits on weekends, Thursdays or holidays. Crowds are lighter on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
12. Culture castleGetty Center (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
When Southern California devolves into feudalism, the sensible place for the new king will be atop Brentwood in the gleaming, sprawling Getty Center. This museum, backed by billions from late oil man J. Paul Getty, opened in 1997, its campus covering 110 acres. Park underground (parking is $15, museum admission is free) and keep your sunglasses handy: Those white walls, designed by Richard Meier, are fiercely reflective. Take the monorail up the hill and head for the West Pavilion, which houses photography below and Impressionists above, including Van Gogh's vibrant "Irises," the museum's biggest star. From the south-facing balcony, behold a cactus garden hanging in the sky, more or less. Walk (or roll) down the grassy slope to artist Robert Irwin's circular Central Garden, with its floating maze of azaleas. Before long you'll want to snack at one of the center's two cafes, or maybe a fancy lunch farther upstairs at the Restaurant, which has a mountain view. Then, like one of David Hockney's figures disappearing into a deep blue pool, you dive back into the art.


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Wabash College Chamber Orchestra Director Alfred Abel's ambitious programs for his ensemble mean hard work and some nervous sweat before curtain time. But it all paid off Sunday night as the orchestra transported the Salter Hall audience from a cold wet December evening to the warmth of Johannes Brahms' crowd-pleasing Hungarian Dances and the enchantment of Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. (Click here for photos.)
Perhaps the highlight of the evening was Anne Sexton's french horn solo during Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Horn Concerto, No. 3. The Chamber Orchestra's principal horn player and Wabash music veteran performed beautifully, smiling at the conclusion of the piece as she accepted the congratulations of her conductor, then flashing a thumbs up sign to friends and family in the audience during the prolonged applause.
Comprising a remarkable blend of Wabash students, faculty, and members of the Crawfordsville community and joined for the concert by guest concertmaster Jesse Hawkins, the orchestra opened the program with Mozart's moving Overture to Don Giovanni.
In the audience Sunday night were Wabash President Pat White and First Lady Chris White, still shaking off the cold after driving back from the football team's game in the snow and ice against University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
"If we had any doubts about attending tonight's concert, the email by [Chamber Orchestra violinist] Juan Carlos Venis saying how good tonight's performance would be certainly would have changed our minds," said President White. Added Chris: "It's such beautiful music."


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New York village looks to contraceptive to control deer population
HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – A suburban New York City village is considering controlling the rising deer population by darting them with a contraceptive.
Hastings-on-Hudson officials say that volunteers will begin gathering preliminary research for the birth control project early next year.
Newsday Westchester reports that the project would keep the animals from reproducing for up to three years. The village expects soon to receive state and federal environmental approval for the plan.
The darting could begin by 2014.
The project would be led by Tufts University veterinary expert Allen Rutberg.


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The Clean Water Restoration Act, which seeks to amend the federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the government over waters of the U.S., would expand the Environmental Protection Agency's jurisdiction of the nation's waters.
Currently, says Shannon Mirus, staff attorney for the National Agricultural Law Center at the University of Arkansas, waters covered by the Clean Water Act (CWA) are defined as 'navigable.'
"The issue of what constitutes navigable waters has been litigated to no end," she says, "including a Supreme Court case which ruled that the Corps of Engineers exceeded its authority under the act when it included under the act intrastate waters used by migratory birds. In another case, the court ruled that for wetlands to fall under CWA jurisdiction, they needed a continuous surface connection to bodies that are waters of the U.S."
But, says Mirus, who spoke at the annual conference of Mississippi Women in Agriculture at Mississippi State University, the Clean Water Restoration Act would change the definition to 'waters of the United States,' and would cover intrastate waters as well as interstate.
"This could include almost everything, from farm ponds, storm water retention basins, roadside ditches, desert washes, streets and gutters — even a puddle of rainwater. It's a pretty scary proposition."
Word on the street, Mirus says, is that "this could remain bottled up in committee, but it's something we in agriculture need watch closely, and to make our voices heard."
Animal welfare
Animal welfare vs. animal cruelty is also "an extremely hot topic all over the country," she says.
"Animal cruelty laws mostly address the treatment of dogs, cats, horses, and other domesticated animals, and largely exempt farm animals and animal husbandry practices."
All states have animal cruelty laws that vary widely, but there has been a recent push to add felony charges to convictions under these laws.
"An attempt to make animal cruelty a first felony conviction was recently defeated in the Mississippi legislature. Arkansas recently passed a law with a felony provision (though not a first felony) for extreme animal cruelty."
Animal welfare laws, Mirus notes, have been passed in six states — Florida, Arizona, Oregon, Colorado, California, and Maine — and are largely targeted at agricultural production practices.
Most issues typically revolve around confinement operations, she says, with the most high profile situation involving California's Proposition 2, passed by a 63.5 percent majority vote in 2008. It created a new statute that prohibits confinement of farm animals in a manner that does not allow them to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, and freely extend their limbs.
The key portion of the statute becomes effective Jan. 1, 2015, and farming operations have until then to implement the new requirements.
Such statutes often include penalties of up to one year in jail and up to $5,000 in fines, Mirus says.
"Most of the pressure for these laws has been from the Humane Society of the U.S., which has made no bones about their goal of wanting to end animal agriculture."
There have also been instances, she notes, of public backlash against companies that have supported these laws or made contributions to the Humane Society, and some companies have withdrawn support of the organization.
Animal ID
Another long-debated ag issue has been a national animal identification system, which was announced in 2004.
"USDA has just announced its abandonment of this effort," Mirus says, after $142 million in taxpayer money has been spent on it.
"Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack held a number of 'listening sessions' after his appointment and determined that this wasn't the best approach."
Instead, she says, there will be a new 'flexible framework for animal disease traceability,' which will be administered at the state level, and applies only to animals in interstate commerce.
The lower-cost technology will be implemented through federal regulations and rulemaking processes.
Livestock antibiotics
The use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry production has received a lot of attention in the media, Mirus says, including a recent piece by Katie Couric on CBS News that focused on claims that use of these medicines in animals leads to resistance in humans and that antibiotic use is unregulated.
Legislation — Preserving Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA) — has been introduced by Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-NY, the only microbiologist in Congress, and has more than 100 co-sponsors.
"It would curtail the growth of resistant bacteria on family farms by amending the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to withdraw the use of seven different classes of antibiotics for non-therapeutic uses, and would require the FDA to deny any new animal antibiotic drugs unless the federal government is certain the drugs won't contribute to antimicrobial resistance.
"This legislation would complicate the use of antibiotics and make animal/poultry production more expensive," Mirus says. "There are those who contend the system is broken with regard to antibiotics in animal production, but in fact, it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do."
The PAMTA bill is currently stuck in committee.
Estate taxes
2010 is being termed "a good year to die," Mirus says, because the estate tax law expired at the end of 2009 and, with all the wrangling over health care, has been left on Congress' back burner.
"But, the repeal is for only one year and if nothing is done, unfavorable tax rates will return in 2011. It is expected, however, that Congress will either extend the previous law, which has a $3.5 million exemption, at least through 2010.
"A lot of people are putting off estate planning to see what is going to happen. More than ever, a good estate attorney is worth the money."
Thirteen states now have legislation in place to define agritourism, which has offered expanded revenue opportunities for many farmers, Mirus says.
"Ten states have promotional programs to spread the word about agritourism opportunities, and six have tax incentives aimed at fostering agritourism. Some have created marketing authorities and some offer funding assistance."
A significant concern for those wanting to get into agritourism is liability, she notes. "Many of the people who would visit farms have never been around tractors and other equipment, or farm animals, and don't realize the dangers they can pose."
Seven states — Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, and Kansas — have passed legislation to provide operators some measure of protection from 'inherent risks' associated with their agritourism venture. Legislation has been considered by the Mississippi legislature, but failed.
"None of these statutes have been tested yet in courts, so we don't really know how they will play out. Even with a statute in place, however, you shouldn't think it absolves you of carrying liability insurance."
Now is "a great time for women in agriculture," Mirus says, "and women are getting more recognition for their contributions to the success of America's family farms.
The center's Web site (nationalaglawcenter.org) offers a wide variety of information to farmers or anyone interested in agriculture issues, she notes. There are 45 different topic categories, along with a link to the food and law policy blog, which is updated daily, Twitter, and an e-newsletter.
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ISP Bytecard has been fined $75,000 in civil penalties and its director, Brian Morris, has been fined $37,000 by the Federal Court for breaching telecommunications acts.
The Canberra-based company was found to be in breach of the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) scheme, the Telecommunications Act and the Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act.
Bytecard has been ordered to implement a compliance program and Morris is required to attend a compliance seminar with respect to TIO scheme obligations.
Bytecard and Morris are also responsible for paying for ACMA costs.
"The provision of telecommunications services is a very important feature of modern society. There are many organisations involved in the provision of those services at various levels," Justice Foster said.
"The need for those organisations which deal directly with the public to behave in a manner which complies with relevant statutory provisions, the terms of their contracts and appropriate professional standards is obvious."
The company failed to comply with TIO determinations and Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) directions five times between 2006 and 2011, when a TIO determination directed Bytecard to either refund money to or waive the debts of four customers.
In November 2011 ACMA warned, "If Bytecard persists in its failure to comply, the ACMA can approach the Federal Court seeking orders requiring it to do so, as well as civil penalties."
The refunds were only repaid to the customers after ACMA began Federal Court proceedings last year.
ACMA initially issued a warning to the company in March 2009 for contravening the TIO scheme by failing to co-operate with ACMA on two continuing matters, with Bytecard failing to comply with the scheme voluntarily.
ACMA has welcomed the penalties given down by the Federal Court.
"Justice Foster's decision serves as a reminder to telecommunications service providers of whatever business model and wherever they sit in the value chain that compliance with the TIO scheme is not negotiable," Chris Chapman, ACMA's chairman, said in a statement.
"ACMA will take regulatory action when required against non-compliant telecommunications companies."
Bytecard has traded as NetSpeed Internet Communications and Leading Edge Internet.
Morris, who founded NetSpeed in 1991, is a manager at the company and announced on Whirlpool that it had acquired Apex Telecoms and the TransACT and dial-in subscriber bases of CyberOne Internet in September last year.
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