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Another Reason Why DRM Is Bad -- For Publishers
from the self-foot-shooting dept
As a way of fighting unauthorized sharing of digital files, DRM is particularly stupid. It not only doesn't work -- DRM is always broken, and DRM-less versions quickly produced -- it also makes the official versions less valuable than the pirated ones, since they are less convenient to use in multiple ways. As a result, DRM actually makes piracy more attractive, which is probably why most of the music industry eventually decided to drop it.
Sadly, the world of ebooks seems unable to learn from that experience, and insists on making the same mistakes by using DRM widely. But it turns out that there are even more problems in the publishing domain, as this fascinating tale of how DRM acts as a barrier to entry in the online bookstore market makes clear:
In June of 2011, my friend Emily Gould came up with an idea for a new kind of online bookstore: one that would sell only e-books, but would strive to offer the personalized customer service and curation of a local independent bookshop.
But there was a problem:
Publishers told us that if we did not have digital rights management (DRM) technology, they weren't interested in letting us promote and sell their products. DRM is the set of technologies that encrypt and prevent the reproduction of e-book files. A new bricks and mortar bookstore, even the tiniest one, could have easily opened accounts with all the major distributors. But to sell electronic versions of those exact same books, publishers told us that you have to be a mega corporation.
That's because DRM is not only annoying for the readers, it's also expensive for the online booksellers that are forced to use it:
In order to provide DRM, you need at least $10,000 up front to cover software, server, and administration fees, plus ongoing expenses associated with the software. In other words, much bigger operating expenses than a small business can afford. By requiring retailers to encrypt e-books with DRM, big publishers are essentially banning indie retailers from the online marketplace.
That might just sound like typical big-company indifference to the plight of small startups, but it's actually worse -- it's suicidal. Techdirt has already written about one reason why that's the case: DRM helps lock readers into Amazon's platform. But the article quoted above provides us with yet another: lack of competition in ebook retailing.
there's an even more compelling reason that we need indies to exist in the e-book market: The Amazon/Apple near-duopoly on e-book sales is cripplingly destructive for readers, writers, and publishers. Once one of the big "A"s can freely set the price of e-books, they can determine the conditions of the market for everybody. They can charge consumers anything, pay publishers very little (for who will exist to sell their products otherwise?), and leave writers hoping for some small crumb of the pie. Everyone who reads or writes or cares about books has a reason to support the existence of a viable alternative.
And yet the big publishers are doing the opposite. Their insistence on the deployment of DRM with their books is making it hard for independent online booksellers to thrive, which increases the power of the two giants of the sector, thus weakening the bargaining power of the publishers and writers. So DRM turns out to be not only stupid, ineffectual and unfair, but also doubly bad for the very companies who blindly insist on its use.
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ALA Annual Conference - Chicago, Illinois - Tuesday June 28, 2005
Plenary Session III: Don't Just Talk About It, Be About It: New and Veteran Librarians on Connecting LIS Pedagogy and Readiness to Social Justice and Societal Change
Bharat Mehra: Our second speaker is Cheryl Aboudola, who is a director at the Essex and Union and Public Libraries. And she is also a former PRISM scholar.
Cheryl Aboudola: Thank you. Thank you very much. I graduated from the University of Rhode Island GSLIS program as PRISM fellow and I want to stress PRISM. Lots of people think that I was in prison. And that's pretty scary. I received a solid education from a very professionally dedicated and personally committed faculty. Beyond the usual problem solving, critical thinking, decision making skills they taught was their commitment to ethics and the code of our profession.
As a student, we would have been more than negligent if we had simply memorized to satisfy our class requirements in exams. The ALA code of ethics and the Library Bill of Rights are our profession's Hippocratic Oath. We would be appalled to learn of a doctor who refused to treat a patient because of a patient's social status, religious conviction, or their age. We assume that they are always professional saving the life first, reserving their personal judgment and upholding their professional responsibilities.
Why then, as librarians would we not be irate over insincere efforts to uphold the duties and responsibilities of our profession as established by the ALA code of ethics. If we are not committed to the highest standards of our professional service and stand firmly behind our professional obligations, how can we be put out when our towns and cities are satisfied with mediocrity or willing to barely comply with minimum standards?
I am a Director of the Tiverton Library Services. It's a small community coastal community in Tiverton, Rhode Island. We serve 15, 280. It's a lovely coastal community of citizens able to trace their ancestry back to the Mayflower and to the Revolutionary War.
The most recent migration to this well established protestant, Yankee community was about 40 years ago, when Christian Portuguese brought their families to live along the coast. There is a cordial tolerance between the two. But it's this whole community that's now just getting trying to get used to me.
In all fairness, I have been treated well. I have definitely opened up their worlds, their experiences. There have been those who were very upset with that the new library director was a Muslim. And negative opinions and attitudes were shared with me directly. They didn't hold back.
They came in and shared. And I put my foot down, trying not to stomp on toes, and I stood up for myself with as much dignity as I had and tried to push down or repress any hostilities because I had to work with these people. Whenever any town department, school teacher or local minister comes in and asks me to speak to their community or their department about Islam or Muslims, I am usually very honored and very thrilled to go. It gives me an opportunity to do some community outreach and to share our collection the subject.
From the very beginning I aggressively became a team player in the town department insisting, constantly insisting that they realize that the library served the same community that they did. It was a brand new concept for the board. And the town, well, there was always pulling and tugging, so it was brand new for them as well. I would even go in on my days off to aggressively work with them.
I bring suggestions and ideas on how to better serve our community. In general, how the library can work cooperatively with other department and basically offer whatever the library can do in both good times and bad times. Recently the DPW director burnt down the DPW department. And they were without any place to work, and we offered the library, we offered the computers. And it definitely pays off in the long run to be a team player.
I have served on the town's comprehensive planning committee, their economic development committee and homeland security, which is pretty ironic. The ALA code of ethics, Library Bills of Rights, the Freedom to Read, intellectual freedom as well as patron privacy has been and will continue to be both my badge and my shield. I am a Muslim serving a community full of non-Muslims. I am not exaggerating, when I say that we are lucky if there are African American families. And there is nothing else there. That is who I serve.
I oversee their town library department. How do they see me? I am hoping that they see me as an outstanding competent, highly professional -- outstanding highly competent professional, sorry. I strive to always be guided by my profession's highest standards. I am committed to intellectual freedom. This is my badge.
But I am also hoping that it is my shield. I am hoping that it will save me from my greatest fear. If I ever have to stand up and say to the FBI that come knocking on my door, not without a subpoena. I fear that they will not see me as a citizen with rights but as another uncooperative Muslim.
After September 11, 9/11, the East Coats was hit very hard with the FBI searching Arab and Muslim businesses, households. Persons with Arabic names were targeted at the universities, the workplaces, businesses and at the mosques. Wire tapping and subpoenas to federal court were the norm. We all had to go. We were subpoenaed to go to federal court.
Everybody that I knew was subjected to it. We gathered to discuss our concerns our fears, and share our firsthand experiences and I might say that were not out of the woods. It's still very, very high tension especially along the east coast, I don't know what it's like in the rest of the United States but we are still be in very subjected to constant watch.
But after September 11, I was a student at the time, I was working as a reference librarian at the main library in Providence. We were inundated with questions about Muslims and Islam and most of the staff was not prepared for how to find the answers, what to do and they were kind of in the dark. I created a web page for the staff and the public that they could be easily referenced.
And the library linked it from the main page and answered questions, non-Muslims were opposing but they'd also address issues concerning social justice and rights for Muslims what to do and where to do when these are violated. My educational experience said URI provided me with these skills necessary to develop the web pages, form strategic alliances with the local community to set up programs about Afghans and Afghanistan. And for me there was never a time when the community outreach was more urgent on my personal.
Librarians too make a difference, I could see it and I was impressed with what I was seeing. The request and inquiries might not always be as urgent or as personal as it was for me at that time but that doesn't mean that they're not always as important access to materials our access to materials, information and programs covering a lot of variety of topics as what we do daily, that is a purpose.
But recently, and I know you're not suppose to air dirty laundry in public but I feel that if it's for the good then I will do this. Recently the Rhode Island affiliate American Civil Liberties Union published a finding of survey they conducted in 2004 regarding Rhode Island's public libraries Internet access.
Their official report was published in April 2005, it was entitled Reader's Block: Internet Censorship in Rhode Island Public Libraries just by the title you know it's not good news. The result of the study fell into three major categories or findings. First "The statewide consortium is responsible for determining the minimum standards for libraries to comply with SEPA, has taken a necessarily expensive view of those standards, thereby denying adults access to constitutionally protected information".
Secondly, they found that not only were librarians confused about the legal obligations of the act, the consortium failed to provide adequate information and sufficient training regarding the filtering technology chosen by the consortium. Although these were disturbing, it is my understanding that many of the legal professions had found SEPA statutes confusing.
So the fact that librarians are confused. But it is also my understanding that the Consortium has made every effort to rectify the ACLU's findings. The final portion, however of the report is for me the most troubling.
The report said that when deactivation to block sites was requested by an adult patron, which is one of the stipulations of the statutes, individual librarians reportedly posed embarrassing questions about requested materials, the subject matter, subjected patrons to judgmental comments and ultimately refused to disable the filters for viewing.
It is easy, even tempting to relinquish professional standards in times of upheaval and allow individual prejudices to take reign. There are even times when it feels like the behavior is encouraged especially in the light of the political behavior and political field that we agree with you. But for me, that's scary.
When our professional beacons become dimmed in our own personal prejudices and individual moral start taking over helter-skelter, we lose uniformity, cohesiveness and professionalism. Individual interpretation of moral standards undermine our profession, our communities, the communities we served and ultimately our country. We risked it all because a few feel they're the only ones who have the right perspective, the right answers.
We all have values, opinions and beliefs defining who we are and how we cope with the world around us. But we should be checking those in at the doors of our institutions and we should remain true to our professional obligations first.
We need the framework that defines us, guides us and helps us to be professionally judicious. The ALA Code of Ethics, the freedom to read, intellectual freedom, patron privacy need to be taught in school, their importance forever stressed. And constant reminders of and vigilance for continued long after librarians are in the field. We cannot afford to take these for granted. Thank you.
Bharat Mehra: Thank you Cheryl for sharing those personally powerful experiences and which kind of points to the poignant need towards us as library and information professionals to do something about this kind of experiences. And, just to call attention to a project that was started by David Silver, I was assistant professor at the Department of Communication in the University of Washington.
September project and I'm sure most of you might have heard about it. And this year too, they are continuing that momentum of trying to make libraries the place that Jose was talking about in the beginning, how to make that the center of engaging with the community in terms of issues about civil liberties, intellectual freedom and rights that are being violated by the government and other agencies.


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Archive for Saturday, August 13, 2011
LIVE BLOG: Farm Aid 2011
August 13, 2011
11:04 p.m.
Awww, Neil Young. Love him. He performed a lovely acoustic set that also included lots of commentary on supporting small farmers. He encouraged everyone in the audience to buy at least one local item the next time they go grocery shopping. And by the audience's loud reaction, I'm pretty most members were on board with his idea.
Willie Nelson is onstage now and has got everyone in this place clapping to a song about none other than the grand city of Kansas City.
I've got lots more photos to share with you, but probably not tonight, as I have been here 12 hours. I will try to get some more up tomorrow, as well as the one video I was able to grab — the only place we were allowed to take video was from the press box, which, with my small Flipcam, did not lend itself to the best video ops.
5:45 p.m.
Just caught Jakob Dylan doing his Wallflowers, radio overplayed "6th Avenue Heartache," which had the crowd, and even one or two of the photographers in the photo pit, going crazy.
He's still onstage now and just started into another Wallflowers hit, "One Headlight." I'm not too familiar with Jakob Dylan's repertoire of work, but from the selection of songs he's chosen to play today, am wondering if he's put out any albums more recent than the late 90's. Maybe you readers can let me know.
Also, allegedly Meg Ryan is on the premises, according to the elevator attendant who said Ryan had taken an elevator ride earlier today. Makes me wonder what other famous faces might be here today. If I run into any, I will let you know.
Keep checking in! We've still got a long way to go. Headliners take the stage shortly after 7 p.m., beginning with Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds. Then, the order is John Mellencamp, Neil Young and last, but far from least, Willie Nelson.
3:33 p.m.
About to upload some photos, but thought I'd check in.
So far I've been most impressed by a riveting acoustic set by Robert Francis — just him and his guitar, but that was quite enough. He. was. awesome. I can't think of any musician to compare him to just yet, but when I do, I will let you know.
Right now it looks like Billy Joe Shaver has taken the stage. He's a cliche country musician if I've ever seen one complete with white cowboy hat, denim button-up, cowboy hats and twang like I've never heard before. If you weren't convinced, he just shouted, "Yee-haw!" Oh, jeez.
Next up will be Will Dailey & The Rivals and I may stay out of the photo pit until tonight's headliners take the stage. It's a micromanaged mess down there and I literally almost got sat on by another photographer, so I think I will need time to mentally prepare myself.
I'm going to check out the HOMEGROWN Village, which is an area where farmers and green enthusiasts have booths set up. I'll have photos for you from there up as soon as I can get an escort to take me there and back. Did I mention the word micromanage?
Also, I'm realizing I forgot to hyperlink the site with the Farm Aid setlist earlier, so it's included now and you can just click on the word "here" down below (it'll be in blue) and find the schedule.
1:33 p.m.
After an-hour long press conference and about that same length of time to find the press room and get settled, we are officially live from Farm Aid 2011 at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan.
I will tell you right now, nobody is handing out a set list — the press organizers tells me that is something they don't do as it is subject to change — but if you go online here, there is a tentative schedule. Although, I can't confirm at this point how accurate it is, and since I am not familiar with many of the nonheadlining acts, I'm not sure how updated I will be able to keep everyone.
But, despite my mounting frustration at how completely and utterly disorganized the behind-the-scenes are at this concert, we are carrying on here. From the press box, I can see the stands beginning to fill up for some of the opening acts, which thus far have included (I believe) the Blackwood Quartet and John Trudell. According to the online set list I found, Hearts of Darkness, from Kansas City, is supposed to go on next.
Things got kicked off with the morning's press conference, during which Willie Nelson officially became connected forever to the Ag Hall through his induction into the Ag Hall of Fame. Lots of comments were made from agro-business officials and today's headliners Dave Matthews, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and, of course, Nelson. Naturally, the theme of the conference was how to save the family farm, with Young saying the simple solution was for everyone to "just stay together and keep it pure if we can."
I also found it amusing how much anti-political and two-party sentiment was going around, with Mellencamp commenting on the frustration and lack of progress that comes from the parties not getting along and working toward compromises.
"These ... politicians better do something," he said. The ellipses, by the way, I use in place of a cuss word, beginning with the letter 'f,' Mellencamp used to express himself which I can't reprint in this blog. But I'm sure you get the drift.
I'll get some photos up soon and try to keep everyone as updated as possible throughout the day. Right now, all I can hope is that I don't get lost in the maze that is LIVESTRONG Sporting Park.
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The registrars' view
Jackie Harris: Albemarle County Registrar
Harris is seeing an influx of registrations, but not any more than she expects during a presidential election. "This seems about right," she says.
"Every presidential election brings out someone 70 years old who's never voted before and is inspired to vote," Albemarle's registrar says.
Harris has noted the proliferation of voter drives, especially among churches.
"An individual citizen can distribute voter applications all day long," she says, but once someone starts collecting dates of birth and Social Security numbers, the forms have to be returned to the registrar's office within 15 days. "And you can't look through them and pull out all the Republicans," she warns.
Actually, that would be hard to do anyway, because as Harris notes, "We do not register by political parties in Virginia."
You don't have to show an ID to register to vote in this state, although identification is required at the polls. The registrar's office sends out a voter card as confirmation of registration– in case you're worried whether the person at the card table actually turned in your registration.
Harris is seeing a push by the military to make sure its members get to vote. "The forms are coming in from enlisted individuals registering for the first time or absentee ballots," she says. "I'm seeing more of those things than before, especially this early."
August brought Albemarle 1,200 new voters. By the election, Harris expects to have over 57,000 registered voters, in a county that boasts 71 percent voter turnout in the 2000 election.
Here's the thing that breaks Harris' heart. "After October 4, the worst thing for us is to have to tell someone they're not qualified to vote in the presidential election."
Sheri Iachetta: Charlottesville Registrar
In early September, Sheri Iachetta is hard to catch up with. That's because she's out registering voters, and UVA students back in town create a whole new pool of prospects.
She definitely is seeing more people clamoring to register and do registration drives, and she thinks that's "really cool."
For instance, "Doctors' offices are wanting forms in their offices," notes Iachetta. "That's never happened before."
One indicator of increased eagerness to vote is the number of absentee ballot applications. On September 2, Iachetta had processed 250. "Four years ago, we had 168. You can see the difference. We're just slammed."
Another early September phenomenon: "People come in, frantic they've missed the deadline," says Iachetta, "and it's a month away."
At the DMV, site of so-called "motor-voters," which usually notches between 600 and 800 registrations a month, there were over 1,200 in August.
Iachetta has been involved with the Voter Education, Registration, and Mobilization coalition since its inception. As registrar, she can't work on the mobilization part, but she does plan to devote October to educating voters with demonstrations on how to use the voting machines.
"If you have 14,000 registered voters, the most that ever used them is 6,000– that's a big chunk," she says.
In 2000, 75 percent of Charlottesville's registered voters turned out at the polls. "We're much higher than nationally," says Iachetta. This year, Charlottesville could go even higher.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's county and township roads, which have been pounded by truck traffic amid a flourishing state economy, will cost $7 billion to maintain over the next two decades, a new study estimates.
The survey, done by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University, says $834 million is needed during the next two years alone. About two-thirds of that should be used in western North Dakota's booming oil-producing region, the study says.
It was presented Thursday to the North Dakota Legislature's Budget Section, a committee that includes legislative leaders and lawmakers who will be writing the state's next two-year budget when the Legislature begins its next session in January.
It shows that legislators will have plenty of spending demands on the state's oil-driven budget surplus, which is expected to reach $1.6 billion by June.
In 2010, the institute did a similar survey of county and township road construction and repair needs. It recommended spending $654 million on road upkeep during the following two years, including $356 million for roads in North Dakota's oil region. Lawmakers responded by boosting spending on the state's road network.
Denver Tolliver, the transportation institute's director, attributed the 28 percent rise in recommended support for roads in the last two years to skyrocketing construction costs and an 80 percent increase in the number of oil wells that state regulators expect will be drilled in western North Dakota.
North Dakota had about 7,300 producing oil wells in July, according to the state Department of Mineral Resources. The agency has upped the number of wells it expects to be drilled in the next two decades from 21,000 to about 46,000, Tolliver said.
"There have been some very significant changes since we did the (earlier) studies," Tolliver said.
The study was limited to county and township roads, and did not include state-maintained highways, North Dakota's two interstates or the cost of maintaining bridges. Lawmakers on Thursday asked for an analysis of bridge construction and maintenance expenses, which Tolliver said could be done by year's end.
The road repairs made necessary by North Dakota's economic growth, particularly its increase in oil production, have been a prominent issue in the fall campaign for governor.
Incumbent Republican Jack Dalrymple has proposed greatly increased state spending on roads. In his budget recommendations to the Legislature two years ago, he requested $142 million for county and township roads in North Dakota's oil country, a sum the GOP-controlled Legislature approved.
His Democratic opponent, state Sen. Ryan Taylor, D-Towner, has said the Legislature's aid efforts have been insufficient. Taylor is the Senate's Democratic leader and a member of the committee that listened to Tolliver's presentation Thursday.
"It shows that we do have a lot of needs, and it's across the state. Oil country in particular, but also in our agricultural counties and townships," Taylor said in an interview. "It does give us an idea of where we need to go to have modern infrastructure."
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Grundfos' business development manager Marcus Fich answers questions about what makes the TPE3 unique and the important space that it fills in the current Grundfos product portfolio.
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One is a wet-runner circulator – the MAGNA3 – and the other is dry-runner, vertical, in-line pump – the TPE3.
When we introduced intelligent functions like FlowLIMIT in the MAGNA3, it was a game-changer. The MAGNA3 has been replacing a lot of existing wet-runner pumps in heating installations. The market has accepted its design and functionality, and competitors are now starting to include some of the same functionality in their products.
The MAGNA3's groundbraking efficiency has been setting new standards for circulators. Now we are moving into the ballgame with these small, inline pumps like the TPE3. It is built on the same aesthetics and design principles as the MAGNA3.
But still, the MAGNA3 is a wet-runner, and wet-runners are not suitable for all applications. So the development of a dry-runner with at least the functionality of the MAGNA3 was the logical consequence.
And besides, the TPE3 does not only have the functionality of the MAGNA3, it also has additional, built-in functionalities. One of these is the possibility to use independent sensors for Delta T or Delta P control.
Q: You say the TPE3 will be available up to 2.2 kW. What if I need a bigger pump?
A: The existing portfolio – TPE series 1000 and 2000 – will still be available to cover the full range we have offered until now.
Q: With all the new built-in functionality, isn't it difficult to commission the pump?
A: Of course the new functionalities need to be set up correctly to work properly. The commissioning can be done using the TPE3's display. The display takes a try or two getting used to if you're not familiar with the menu structure.
Another easy option is using Grundfos GO for iOS and Android devices, which is designed to help with these tasks. It includes wizards to set up the different functions and allows you to create a report after commissioning is finished.
Q: Can you give an example of how the built-in functions help solve problems in "real-life" applications?
A: Sure. Let's take a look at a chilled water application. Although the TPE3 is a dry-runner, the motor is connected to the pump – and thereby the cold water – via the shaft. In humid environments, this could lead to condensation in the motor. This is not a problem when the TPE3 is in operation, as the motor then produces heat, which brings the motor temperature over the dew-point.
But in a stand-by, the story is different. So the TPE3 has a function called "Standstill Heating," which applies AC voltage to the motor while it is not running. This voltage is not enough to start the pump, but it is enough to heat up the motor to a temperature above the dew point. It is a very simple way of protecting the motor at no additional hardware cost.
Q: Since you put more intelligence and controls capability into the TPE3, is there not an increased demand for integration into automation or management systems?
A: Of course, and we take care of this in different ways. First of all, we offer the possibility of a standard, "hard-wired" integration. This means we use standard signals like analogue and digital inputs and outputs to exchange data between the pump and the automation system. If the built-in I/O's are not enough, you can get additional I/O on request, and that enables the connection of standard PT100/PT1000 sensors needed to for Delta T control, for example.
For the transmission of more data and sometimes even more detailed data, we offer a wide range of communication modules. These allow for a so-called bus communication between the pump and the automation or management system. The communication modules support many different communication standards like BACnet, Modbus, Profibus, LON and others. In addition, we offer a GSM module that allows the TPE3 to be connected to the "Grundfos Remote Management System" GRM.
Q: What if I do not need so many features?
A: You should really only pay for the functionality you need. That is why we will also be offering a stripped-down version, the TPE2, without the sensor and a simple non-graphical display.
Q: So – sum it up for me. Why should I care about the TPE3?
A: When we started the journey with the MAGNA3, getting to top effiency was our end game. Now it's about functionality, inter-operability and versatility. You can add in all these I/Os, for example.
The TPE3 is a best-in-class, efficient, vertical in-line pump up to 2.2 kW that builds upon the
groundbreaking features and functionalities from the MAGNA3. And we're proud of it.
"When we started the journey with the MAGNA3, getting to top effiency was our end game. Now it's about functionality, inter-operability and versatility."
Marcus Fich, Grundfos Business Development Manager


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Agenda: September 26, 2012 Networks PEG Meeting
September 26, 2012 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.*
- Note extended meeting time
1900 SW 4th Avenue,Portland, Conference Room 7A
Introductions and August Meeting Summary (3:00 p.m.)
Presenter: Jim Owens, Facilitator
Related Materials:
- August 29, 2012 Meeting Summary
Review of Schedule (3:05 p.m.)
Presenter: Jim Owens
Description: Reminder of October meeting time change. Notice of expected special session on equity training.
Framework for Green Network (3:10 p.m.)
Presenter: Eric Engstrom, BPS
Description: Explanation of how the Portland Plan addresses green connections through the concept of a Healthy Connected City. Also, explanation of Civic Corridors and how they will be implemented.
Green Connections (3:15 p.m.)
Presenter: Bill Cunningham, BPS
Description: Presentation on green connections concept from the Portland Plan. Followed by group discussion on the following policy questions:
- Does the Healthy Connected Cities concept work as an integrating and coordinating concept?
- How can this concept be used to facilitate agency coordination on specific projects?
- How should green connections be incorporated into centers and hubs?
- How well does the concept respond to the equity checklist?
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Presenter:Denver Igarta, PBOT
Description: Presentation on implementing and integrating the Portland Bicycle Plan into the Comprehensive Plan and Transportation System Plan (TSP). Followed by group discussion on the following policy questions:
- How should bikeways and greenways be integrated into the Comprehensive Plan and TSP?
- How should bikeways and greenways be linked into centers and hubs?
- How should conflicts between green connections and freight routes be addressed?
- How does the City's bike and greenway system relate to ODOT's network?
- How well do the PEG's recommendations respond to the equity checklist?
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Presenter: Marie Walkiewicz, BES
Description: Presentation on the green infrastructure network, focusing on stormwater management and habitat enhancement. Followed by group discussion on the following policy questions:
- How can the planning and design of infrastructure be better integrated to achieve a green network?
- For Comprehensive Plan purposes, how should the green infrastructure network be defined?
- How is a green infrastructure network integrated with other Comprehensive Plan elements?
Public Comment (5:20 p.m.)
Wrap Up and Adjourn (5:30 p.m.)
Presenter: Jim Owens, Facilitator
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[H&M conscious collection dress, Zara bag, Raffaele Settembre wedges]
Such a different purple dress from the previous post, a little more elegant and with a cause:
Conscious collection is part of H&M's actions for a more sustainable fashion future
This collection was a bit more expensive than the fashionagainstaids but the dresses were so much more structured and had amaazing shapes (my favorite was the long one with ruffles skirt but it was too expensive and not so easily wearable!)
AND here is the winner of the cute PIXICS hoodie: congratsss Silvia Mazzy!
AND here is the winner of the cute PIXICS hoodie: congratsss Silvia Mazzy!
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it has reached a settlement with Pearson Plc's Penguin Group in the government's investigation of alleged price-setting in the e-book market.
The Justice Department had accused Apple and five publishers in April of illegally colluding on prices as part of an effort to fight Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc's dominance of e-books.
Apple is accused of convincing the five publishers to use the "agency model," that allows publishers to set the price of e-books, and in turn Apple would take a 30 percent cut.
Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster opted to settle with the Justice Department in April but Apple, Penguin and MacMillan said they would fight the allegations.
News Corp. owns HarperCollins Publishers Inc, CBS Corp owns Simon & Schuster Inc and Lagardere SCA owns Hachette Book Group. Macmillan is a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH.
Many people in the book publishing and selling industry accuse Amazon of deeply discounting books to sell them below cost in order to drive other e-book sellers out of business, and then raise prices.
Under the terms of the settlement announced on Tuesday, Penguin will drop any agreements with Apple and other ebook sellers that prevents price discounting. It will not be allowed to reinstate the deals for two years.
The settlement terms were similar to ones that the Justice Department reached with the other three publishers in April.
The impetus for the settlement could well be a joint venture of Penguin and Random House announced in October by Penguin owner Pearson's and Random House owner Bertelsmann.
That deal is also aimed at gaining the upper hand in the publishers' relationship with Amazon and Apple.
The publisher settlements with the Justice Department have been unpopular with bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc and the American Booksellers Association, which represents independent stores. Both have argued the settlements would strengthen Amazon's dominance.
Reporting by David Ingram and Diane Bartz; editing by Andrew Hay


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Boulder police want residents to know that anyone seen carrying or setting off fireworks in the city limits this summer will receive a ticket and may be arrested. No warnings will be issued.
Boulder police, for the second consecutive year, will employ a zero-tolerance policy for fireworks violations.
People found in possession of or exploding fireworks will be cited and may be arrested depending on the offense, according to Boulder police, and those who start a fire using fireworks may face arson charges.
The announcement, made Thursday afternoon, was motivated by extremely high fire danger in Colorado, as evidenced by the wildfires burning across the state.
Boulder Fire Rescue crews already are performing daily "severity patrols" in parks and open space areas on the outskirts of the city to monitor high risk areas and get a jump on potential wildfires.
"We are taking a cautious approach again this year because we want everybody to be safe," Boulder police Chief Mark Beckner said in a statement. "Fireworks can be dangerous, and this kind of 'fun' can turn into an emergency very quickly."
Police will increase patrols leading up to the July 4 holiday, and extra officers will be stationed at Chautauqua Park, Boulder Reservoir and Folsom Field.
Additional firefighters will be on duty during the fireworks display at Folsom Field.
The display, known as Ralphie's Independence Day Blast, was canceled last year due to high fire danger, but so far this year it is scheduled to go on as planned.
All attendees who view the display inside the stadium will be subject to bag checks and metal detector wanding when they enter, according to University of Colorado officials.
Normal stadium rules will apply, meaning attendees cannot bring in drugs or alcohol, bags larger than 12-by-12-by-12 inches, glass bottles, umbrellas and many other items.
A list of prohibited items, as well as information about free parking lots on campus during the event, is available at boulder4thofjuly.wordpress.com.
Police ask anyone who witnesses a fireworks violation to immediately report it with details about the location of the incident and descriptions of the people involved.
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Remembering July 4, 1976
Wick's World
For the record, Independence Day in 1976 was generally referred to as the Bicentennial, and it basically went on all year. You would have thought that people living in the year 1776 were out and about creating drama just so their future ancestors would have something to talk about.
Well, it appears that our ancestors had reason to brag about the year 1776. After all, they created a new independent nation in which all "white males" were created equal, didn't they? Much later, African Americans counted for a half vote, eventually working their way up to full vote status. Indeed, they even beat women to the ballot box by near a half century.
Ancient histories aside, let's shoot forward to the year 1976. That year, my circle of South Dakota friends gathered on the Missouri River in Chamberlain. About a dozen of us had traveled up river from Vermillion, South Dakota, and spent the weekend at my parents' house who were conveniently away for the explosive fire-cracking party that was soon to unfold.
Although most of us were in our late 20s during that bawdy, tawdry era, the word responsible never once rolled off our tongues. After all, our generation had stopped an unjust war (although way too late) and ran a crook from the White House. We could do as we pleased.
The party that day was spent mostly on the Missouri River with 12 of us crammed into a boat designed for six. After loosening up at the parade, the river seemed to be the place to be. Since none of us owned a boat, we did the next best thing we could and invited Uncle Bobby to be our chaperone and tour guide. This is the same Uncle Bobby who was my mentor in life, the same one who "taught me how to drink booze." This was the uncle who was famous for living by his infamous mottos, "Never get excited" and "Don't sweat the small stuff."
Bobby was in his glory on that famous day of independence in 1976. If you lived during that era, you will certainly remember that our young generation of women dressed for comfort and comfort only. Bobby had big eyes, clouded only by the vast amounts of beer this man could put away.
The first trip around the river went quite smoothly, although the boat was barely sticking above water. Then Bobby finished his first aluminum can of beer and tossed it directly into the beautiful Missouri River.
"Turn around so I can pick up that beer can," demanded my tree-hugging friend Maria.
Bobby grabbed another empty that was littering the bottom of the boat. "Here's one," he said, obviously not understanding her.
Maria insisted he turn around and remove that beer can from the water.
A light bulb went on in Bobby's brain when he replied, "Oh heck, I'm just creating jobs!"
We no sooner than pulled ashore at Burning Brule, a riverside tavern a few miles south of Chamberlain, when several people came running down the hill.
"Bobby, you got to get back to Browny's Bait Shop! Your son, Marty, just blew up your truck with fireworks!"
Bobby, never one to get excited or sweat the small stuff declared, "Heck, I bet I will drive it home."
We sped back upriver and as we rounded the bend and headed for Browny's, we saw more smoke than had been witnessed since O'Leary's cow kicked over the lantern in Chicago. The blackened shell of a Ford pickup sat there smoldering after Marty's errant bottle rocket ignited the entire front seat filled with fireworks.
An elated Bobby could only reply, "The best thing that ever happened. I'm getting insurance money!"


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Supermarkets agree to end 'yo-yo pricing' with new code
Eight supermarkets have agreed to ensure that special offers and price promotions are fair.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has been investigating the way prices are displayed, advertised and promoted in stores.
It raised concerns about prices being artificially inflated to make later discounts look more attractive.
The major UK supermarkets have now agreed to adopt a set of principles drawn up by the OFT.
They are Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Waitrose, Marks and Spencer, Aldi, the Co-op and Lidl.
Asda, which has not yet signed up, said it was considering the revised code.
It objects to one of the principles, which states that any discount period must not be longer than the normal-price period, arguing that this could actually increase incidents of "yo-yo" pricing.
"We don't think this is in the best interests of our customers", a spokesperson told the BBC.
Clive Maxwell, OFT chief executive, told the BBC: "It is particularly welcome that we've reached this agreement at this stage with household budgets under pressure".
But James Foord from price comparison service mysupermarket.co.uk said: "I'm highly sceptical that this will make any difference while these principles remain voluntary.
"A lot of our customers remain sceptical, too."
'Squeezed finances'
The OFT says that "half price" or "was £3, now £2" offers must be sold at the new discounted price for the same, or less, time than the previously higher price.
This would prevent short-term, artificially inflated prices masking the offer.
Items that suggest they are "better value" because they are in a "bigger pack" must have a comparable product elsewhere in the same store,
"Shoppers should be able to trust that special offers and promotions really are bargains," said Mr Maxwell.
"Prices and promotions need to be fair and meaningful so shoppers can make the right decisions. Nowhere is this more important than during regular shopping for groceries.
"[This] provides supermarkets with a clear benchmark for how they should be operating so that their food and drink promotions reflect the spirit as well as the letter of the law."
Richard Lloyd, executive director of consumer group Which?, said: "When household budgets are squeezed and food prices are one of people's top financial worries, it's unacceptable that shoppers are confused into thinking that they're getting a good deal when that might not be the case.
"Regulators should be prepared to take enforcement action against traders found breaking the rules."
A Which? investigation in May suggested that some customers had been misled by supermarkets over discounts and multi-buy offers.
It analysed more than 700,000 prices and suggested that in some cases "discounts" ran for much longer than the original price. Following that investigation, some supermarkets admitted isolated errors amid a huge volume of pricing.
Misleading advertising is illegal under the 2008 unfair trading regulations, and the OFT is not making any recommendation that the law should be changed.
The regulator said it did not discover any illegality during its investigation, but did find some "inconsistency" in the way the law was interpreted and applied.
Meanwhile, nearly 40% of fast-moving consumer goods could be on some sort of promotion or discount.
Many of the supermarkets said they were happy to work with the OFT.
"We will continue to ensure that our pricing and promotions are as clear as possible for our customers," said a spokesman for Sainsbury's.
The Co-op said: "We understand how important it is for shoppers to be able to easily understand what the promotional offer is, so they can spot the best deal, and we are committed to providing clear and accurate labelling for our customers so they can make informed purchasing decisions."
Aldi said it supported any initiative that encouraged "transparent pricing and a fair deal for consumers", although the agreement would have no effect on its own prices.
A Marks and Spencer spokesman said: "It is right that we sign up to these new guidelines."
A Morrisons spokesman said: "We are happy to sign up to the OFT's principles because they reflect good promotional practice."
Tesco said it welcomed the OFT's "clarity" and that it supported the regulator's wish to see a consistent approach to promotions across the supermarket sector. Waitrose said it was also supportive and always ensured pricing was clear and transparent.


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Inside this small Roman glass cinerary (or cremation) urn are fragments of human bone. It dates from the 1st or 2nd century CE and is made of blown glass. This technique developed around the end of the 1st century BCE and it enabled the production of intricate and symmetrical shapes. Cremation was perhaps the most common form of burial among Romans at this time. It was largely replaced by burial by the 4th century CE. Urns like this help historians understand the mortuary customs of past civilisations, while the bones give scientists information about the people themselves.
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Exegesis for Everyone - Class 3
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|2007-03-20, 14:51
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Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 33
actually, Zelos was the only one i had to start again (i guess i missed 1-2 relasthionship skits)
this system is really not "noob" friendly, since 90% of the time, you end up with colette (due her insane "+1" in almost any answer, and has the very least amount of negative points. and since she is approving most obvious options, duh >_>)
actually, Zelos' and Regal's english voices are pretty fine. genius is "ok" (a bit too whiny) and refill/Lloyd too.
Kratos sounds suitable, until you understand how he felt about lloyd even before the Tower Revelation. (in fact : he is way too cocky, especially in the battles)
but, colette is really butchered with a winny pitiful voice (she is NOT moe at all with her voice... damnit X_X), and presea is horribly flat (she doesn't sound empty, she does sound flat... and even after her release, bleh...)
frankly, nintendo screwed a lot the dub ~~
but he sounds much more like a veteran and a... you know what to lloyd.
i dunno why, but Mizuki Nana sounded a bit different in this trailer.
|2007-03-22, 00:28
|Link #43
Madlax fanboyz
i was watching a Lineage 2 video on youtube and someguy used KOKIA - Harmony in it, and I like that song very much so I search Kokia - harmony in youtube for more info and find another guy that made an AMV with Tales of the Abyss footage. @_@ wow crazy animation --> google around and learn about the Tales series in Wikipedia and learn that they're gonna release an OVA in 2007 --> search AS and end up here
I watch the trailer and wow, kinda scrapped princess-ish, also the theme song is superb!
|2007-03-22, 13:43
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Cam Clarke as Kratos in the dub sounded very very good I think. I have a lot of respect for his work in games and TV (He's Leonardo from TMNT by the way, the original) He gave the impression of a weary and experienced man who was unsure of the actions he had taken and was taking now. He didn't try to sound like a freak or anything like 4Kids VA's do, but like a normal person clearly more knowledgable then he appeared on the surface. Everyone else was just okay I think.
|2007-03-27, 12:22
|Link #45
Update to the site (I think) with info on the 2 DVD editions. Typical 'try to get as much money out of the fans as possible' approach. I had a go at trying to translate it (bored), and managed most though the few kanji left in (or the ?s) are stuff I didn't quite get, or gave up trying to.
Collectors Edition:
①Extravagant Deluxe Storage Box(松島晃氏描き下ろしイラスト使用)
②Bonus Disc [Collectors Edition]
Volume 1 (DVD):
●Extra Anime [Teacher Kratos' Private Lesson (Provisional Title)]
●外崎監督 Interview
●Music Clip
●No Credits OP, ED、Advance Notice PV
Volumes 2-4 (CD) (Contents not yet finalised)
③Audio Commentary (Recorded conversation from the main cast)
④Deluxe 36 page booklet (from the anime character designer)
⑤Picture Label Edition
⑥Present Application Card (Differs with the EX Sphere Edition)
EX Sphere Edition:
①Deluxe Package
②Bonus Disc [EX Sphere Edition]
Voloume 1 (DVD):
●Voice Actor Interview (Konishi Katsuyuki (Lloyd)、Nana Mizuki (Colette)、Tachiki Fumihiko (Kratos) 撮り下ろし)
●Music Clip
●Artwork Gallery
Volumes 2 - 4 (CD) (Contents not yet finalised)
③Audio Commentary (Recorded conversation from the main cast)
④Running Anime Scenario Booklet with each volume (36 Pages)
⑤Picture Label Edition
⑥Present Application Card (Differs with the Collectors Edition)
Comments/criticisms more than welcome
|2007-05-16, 00:22
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Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Princeton University
Trailer 3 and 4 are out:
Loved the game, and this anime looks its going to be a success too
6/8 release!!! Can't wait!!!
|2007-06-04, 13:06
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I was tempted for a while, but they're too expensive even for my R2J buying standards 7600 yen for one episode plus a couple of extras is way too steep when I'm used to paying 6000ish for 3 episodes (still expensive of course, but meh, I've got used to that now.)
Oh well, looking forward to it anyway Even though the first will likely be the least interesting of the four.
|2007-06-09, 04:26
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Ruiner of Things
Join Date: Dec 2005
Cappery dumpery
And the bonus disc stuff was classique UFOTable
As a whore for the entire Tales series, I thoroughly enjoyed it. That scene between Colette and Lloyd after the shrine stuff was adorable to the nth. If Sheena and Zelos don't show up in one of the future ones though... I will travel to UFOTable HQ and set fires.
|2007-06-11, 11:32
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Just watched the HG-F's version of the first episode. The actual episode was a nice bit of setup, but it was pretty annoying how they oddly mistranslated desians into something wrong and some I guess could consider a mild spoiler word.
It's a crime this is only going to be 4 episodes though. The story and characters are strong enough to cover atleast 26 episodes easily, but I guess ill take what I can get.
|2007-06-11, 16:48
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Ruiner of Things
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Yelp! is a popular location based search app for our Windows Phone. You can search for nearby bars, restaurants, cafes, gas stations, banks, and more. Then read reviews, get directions to, find deals and view photos of the businesses. You even have an augmented reality feature that throws up an overlay on the camera view of the businesses in your area.
Yelp! was updated today for both Windows Phone 8 (v2.5) and Windows Phone 7.5 (v2). While there's no official change log, it appears the new features includes the ability to make reservations through OpenTable without the need to leave the Yelp! app, write reviews and the ability to check-in to share your location with other Yelp! friends.
We haven't visited Yelp! in a while and reports are also appears to have gotten a slight revision to the user interface (may have come along with previous updates). Regardless, the update reminds us how nice of an app Yelp! is for locating and getting you to local establishments.
Yelp! is a free app for your Windows Phone and you can find it here in the Windows Phone Store.
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They note multiple known risk factors for AKI including:
- Age > 65 years
- Diabetes
- Cirrhosis/hepatic failure
- Sepsis
- Volume depletion
- Cardiopulmonary Bypass
- Exposure to nephrotoxins (contrast, medications etc)
- oliguria for 1-5 hours
- any increase in serum creatinine from 0.1-0.4 mg/dL
- volume overload
What is somewhat dissatisfying is that their criteria are nearly equivalent to, and therefore no better than, current practice at detecting AKI to trigger further evaluation. Once volume overload, oliguria, or rising creatinine (however small) ensue, the damage may already be done. Further focus on the creatinine value, effectively a late marker, to define early AKI is seriously flawed. Setting aside the statistical pitfalls of comparing new markers to an imperfect gold standard, creatinine, no matter how small the changes considered, is still a poor biomarker of AKI - more analogous to AST or LDH in ACS/MI- and in the search for better alternatives to it, it cannot also be used to define the clinical syndrome it seeks to diagnose, any more than AST, LDH, or troponin can define angina. The goal is to define a high risk group in which to detect or evaluate for AKI before a significant decrement in GFR signified by a rising creatinine! And this is where I think the analogy falls apart.
Early or evolving AKI or risk for renal injury has no clinical signs or symptoms analogous to cardiac angina. If this is the case, what should trigger the putative biomarker testing? Seems that risk factors would be more appropriate. Maybe everyone should have AKI markers checked on admission to the medical ICU? Or maybe hospitalized patients with three or more risk factors, a renal TIMI score if you will, should have AKI markers checked regularly. As the editorialists suggest, the utility may be in the principle that we define an appropriate clinical scenario in which to screen for early AKI (the "angina") and not in the actual criteria proposed to define renal angina. Or maybe the analogy has, in the words of Hollywood, "jumped the shark" - that is, run its course?


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HOUSTON – There was plenty of postgame excitement for the Houston Dynamo following their 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Sunday. However, despite logging their first win of the season, the Dynamo were not completely satisfied.
Though they put together good overall defensive performance, a 38th-minute goal from Camilo equalized the match just a minute after the Dynamo took the lead.
WATCH: Vancouver tie the game
"It was a good team effort, but we're not happy with how we gave up a goal right after our first goal," Houston defender Bobby Boswell said.
Added head coach Dominic Kinnear: "I think the organization on the throw-in that led to the goal was not where it should be, but you have to give them credit for some creative play there."
Vancouver's quick response was the only blemish on an otherwise good night for the Dynamo back line. The Whitecaps were held to just five shots and the Houston defense did a good job of restricting time on the ball for attacking players Camilo, Davide Chiumiento and Atiba Harris.
[inline_node:333529]"I thought Andre [Hainault] and Bobby held firm and I think Corey [Ashe] had a very good game at left back," Kinnear said. "I'll also point to Lovel [Palmer], who in the second half was closing down space and making passes very easy to read."
Despite the goal, the Dynamo will have a lot to build on coming out of Sunday's match. Their ability to control the flow of the match and shut off chances to a Vancouver team that has scored some good goals this year were definitely a positives.
Still, the quick response leaves one obvious objective still on the board for the club: a shutout.
"We're still waiting for that first zero," Boswell said. "I think Tally [Hall] played too well to not be rewarded with a zero and hopefully next game we can get it."
Bruin gets his first goal
First-round SuperDraft pick Will Bruin got his first MLS goal Sunday night, capping off the scoring in the 76th minute of the win. The goal came after Brad Davis put the forward through behind the Whitecaps' back line and the rookie beat a charging Jay Nolly to the ball. Nolly's decision to come off his line left a wide-open net for Bruin, who was rewarded for his hard work.
WATCH: Bruin scores his first in MLS
"Will's learning on the job facing pro defenders and it's different from college," Kinnear said. "I don't think anybody was disappointed to see Will score that goal because of how he's worked hard and how honest and selfless he is. I hope it's the first of many."
Physical match takes its toll
While the game had a number of offensive fireworks, it was not at the expense of some physical play.
Referee Jair Marrufo handed out only two yellow cards—to Vancouver's Jonathan Leathers and Alain Rochat—but blew the whistle on 26 fouls on the night. Hainault took the worst of the physical play just before halftime when he collided head-to-head with Camilo. He receive stitches while in the locker room at halftime.
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com. Follow him on twitter at @Dynamoexaminer.


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2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illus.), Little Brown
3. Lock and Key, by Sarah Dessen, Puffin
4. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World... One Child at a Time, by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin, Puffin
5. Along for the Ride, by Sarah Dessen, Viking
6. The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean (Illus.), Harper
7. Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke, Scholastic
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11. Just Listen, by Sarah Dessen, Puffin
12. A Great and Terrible Beauty, by Libba Bray, Delacorte
13. Scat, by Carl Hiaasen, Knopf
14. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle, Square Fish
15. Sir John Hargrave's Mischief Maker's Manual, by Sir John Hargrave, Grosset & Dunlap
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2. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, Harper
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8. Fancy Nancy Tea Parties, by Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper
9. Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey, Puffin
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11. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, by Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett (Illus.), Simon & Schuster
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2. Twilight (hardcover and paperback), by Stephenie Meyer, Little Brown
3. Percy Jackson & the Olympians (hardcover and paperback), by Rick Riordan, Miramax
4. Magic Tree House (hardcover and paperback), by Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Illus.), Random House
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (hardcover and paperback), by Jeff Kinney, Amulet
6. Fancy Nancy I Can Read Series (paperback), by Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illus.), Harper
7. The Clique (paperback), by Lisi Harrison, Poppy
8. House of Night (hardcover and paperback), by P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast, St. Martin's
9. The Ranger's Apprentice (hardcover and paperback), by John Flanagan, Puffin
10. The 39 Clues (hardcover), by Jude Watson, Peter Lerangis, et al, Scholastic
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This past E3, Microsoft announced that four games from their blockbuster Halo franchise would be getting collected as The Master Chief Collection. Here's the first taste of how the anthology will look when it comes out this fall.
Members of Microsoft's 343 Industries team and dev studio Certain Affinity showed the Master Chief Collection at this weekend's Rooster Teeth Expo, explaining how the UI and various options were tweaked to create a unified experience. The panel opens with the impressive set-up that lets you jump from game to game, complete with the specific music for each one. MCC will have preset playlists for multiplayer, as well online co-op for the Halo 2 campaign. The video from RTX is an hour long but features a in-depth look at the latest build of the game, which starts at about 24:30.


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Finance & Development, June 1976
- Bank activity: Urban task force reports; new view of project analysis; IDA credits to Lesotho, Pakistan; world economic indicators
- Fund activity: Monetary reforms under way; oil facility ends lending operations; liberalized compensatory financing facility; Fund assistance
- The Fund after Jamaica: How an international monetary reform package was agreed upon, and how it affects the Fund's methods of operation
- Changes within the Fund: A summary of the proposed amendments in the Fund's Articles of Agreement
- Agricultural credit and the small farmer: Why the Bank favors credit for the smallholders who make up the majority of the farm population in developing countries
- Toward a new framework for international commodity policy: An analysis of the problems associated with this issue
- Nontariff issues in the MTN: Complex discussions at the Multilateral Trade Negotiations in Geneva
- Criteria for policies to promote exports: Evaluation and use of export incentives
- Export credit financing as a development policy: A pragmatic view of the special problems faced by exporters in the developing world
- Structuralism and financial liberalization: An analysis of views on how to integrate capital markets and promote financial growth in developing countries
- Book Notices
- Views & Comments: On development assistance; the North-South dialogue
Bank activity: Urban task force reports; new view of project analysis; IDA credits to Lesotho, Pakistan; world economic indicators
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Ah, Valentine's Day: flowers, candy, gifts, overpriced dinners, and wildly outsized expectations. And we can blame the movies for most of those expectations; few genres are as unfairly fantasy-based as the romance, and as prone to send jaded viewers like us into fits of gagging. But we're also not made of wood; there are a good number of romantic movies that get us right in the old ticker. As a matter of fact, there are about 50 of them.
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How Will Occupy Evolve?
What's next for the Occupy movement? Thom Hartmann interviews Sarah van Gelder about the new book, This Changes Everything.
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With winter coming and protesters being evicted from Occupy encampments, many people are asking what will happen next.
Thom Hartmann interviews Sarah van Gelder about This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement, the significance of the Occupy movement, how it has changed the conversation, and what it could mean for the future.
- Introducing the movement that's shifting our vision of what kind of world is possible—from the new book, "This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement."
- Many question whether this movement can really make a difference. The truth is that it is already changing everything. Here's how.


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PARIS — The international police agency Interpol warned governments worldwide on Thursday of an increased risk of terror attacks if the planned burning of the Quran by a Florida pastor goes ahead.
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Our cartoonists take a look at the Quran-burning controversy.
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"There is a strong likelihood that violent attacks on innocent people would follow," Interpol said in a statement, adding that it was acting partly on a request from Pakistan.
In the U.S., the State Department on Thursday warned Americans abroad of the "high" potential for violence.
"Demonstrations, some violent, have already taken place in several countries, including Afghanistan and Indonesia, in response to media reports of the church's plans," it said in an advisory. "The potential for further protests and demonstrations, some of which may turn violent, remains high."
Terry Jones, leader of a church of about 30 members in Gainesville, Fla., had planned to burn copies of the Islamic holy book on Saturday, the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, which this year coincides with the Muslim Eid holiday.
Thursday afternoon, Jones said he had canceled the burning after being assured that a mosque being proposed near New York City's World Trade Center site would be moved. The backers of the mosque project have denied any deal was made.
At Interpol earlier, Secretary General Ronald Noble said in the statement that "although there are currently no specific details as to what forms of terror attacks would follow, what is clear is if the Koran burning goes ahead as planned, there will be tragic consequences, ones which may well claim the lives of many innocent people." Video: Tony Blair says burning is 'stupid and disrespectful' (on this page)
Interpol said Pakistan's interior minister, Rehman Malik, "personally contacted" Noble "to engage the world police body's assistance in warning law enforcement of the increased terrorist threat."
"It is our duty to ensure that we pass this information on to law enforcement agencies around the globe so that they can take appropriate measures," Noble added.
Interpol asked that any country receiving information about a potential threat alert the agency.
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"September 11 is a day when the world should come together to redouble our efforts to prevent and fight terrorism, not a day when any individual, especially an American, should engage in provocative acts that will give terrorists propaganda intended to convert September 11 from a day of remembrance, to one of recruitment for terrorists and others inspired to attack the U.S. and other western targets," Noble said.
"The reaction of Interpol and others around the world in response to this planned hateful act should be seen by the Muslim community as strong evidence that this man and his small congregation stand alone," Noble added.
President Barack Obama has condemned Jones' plan as "destructive."
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The president, as well as Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of forces in Afghanistan, says the act could endanger U.S. troops there as well as Iraq and lead to unrest in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
On Wednesday, the State Department said it had ordered U.S. embassies around the world to assess their security ahead of the planned burning.
U.S. diplomatic posts were instructed to convene "emergency action committees" and to alert U.S. citizens in those countries if the potential for protests is deemed to exist.Video: State Dept. issues travel warning (on this page)
And the FBI earlier issued a bulletin stating that "the FBI assesses with high confidence that, as with past incidents perceived as acts of desecration against Islam, extremist actors will continue to threaten or attempt to harm the leaders, organizers, or attendees (of) the event."
"Depending on the continued national and international publicity the event receives, it may also inspire retaliatory attacks against U.S. facilities overseas," it added.
The bulletin notes that in July, two online threats were posted on the extremist website "al-Faloja" — one of the posts talks of a suicide attack at the Gainesville church, the other talks about killing Americans in general.
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In November 1951, LIFE magazine published an article titled "LIFE Goes on a Gorilla Hunt." The tone of the story — which focused on a 26-year-old American gorilla-hunter named Bill Said, who supplied the great primates to zoos and research labs around the world — would be unthinkable today, when so many gorilla populations in much of Africa are critically endangered. (There are, for example, only about 800 mountain gorillas left in their Central African territory across Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.)
But in the early 1950s, when the notion of "endangered species" was not widely shared — the U.S. didn't enact its Endangered Species Act until 1973 — the focus of the "Gorilla Hunt" feature in LIFE was mainly on "the bloody and terribly dangerous business" of capturing gorillas alive, and not on the precarious state of the gorilla in the wild. The article did state that the huge, 450-pound male killed during Said's expedition (see slide #1) "was shy and would not have bothered to attack a human without provocation." But, the article also made plain, "Said is often forced to kill all of the adult gorillas on the chance of capturing one or two marketable young ones."
[See a LightBox photo essay: "Saving Congo's Gorillas."]
From a purely technical perspective, the pictures featured in this gallery, by LIFE's Eliot Elisofon, are remarkable in their own right. As chronicles of a specific time, meanwhile, and of a largely outmoded attitude toward both the natural world and to non-Western cultures, Elisofon's photos are invaluable tools for helping us see how far we've come — and how far we have yet to go — in our quest to leave something of the raw, beautiful natural world behind for our children, and their children.
[Find out more about Eliot Elisofon's remarkable work in Africa and his great love for the continent by visiting the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.]


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Conduct constituting a sexual offense, sexual harassment, relationship violence, stalking, unwanted advances, indecent exposure or any other incident of a sexual nature that creates a hostile environment (subjective to the person[s] affected) will not be tolerated. Students committing sexual or physical offenses in any form can be prosecuted under the Washington State Criminal Code (Title 9A RCW) and/or disciplined under the Student Conduct Code (WAC 478-120) and through the Residential Life Conduct Process.
If you are a victim of sexual harassment, you should notify your Resident Adviser (RA) immediately so they can provide assistance and connect you with additional resources. If you are the victim of sexual assault, there are resources available on and off campus to help you. Some of your options are:
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If you are assaulted on campus, the UW Police Department (UWPD) will work with you to explore your options. If you are assaulted off-campus, Seattle Police will take your report. Reporting incidents to the police is encouraged regardless of the availability of evidence. You may request that your personal information on the report be kept confidential. In some cases under Washington state law, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office may choose to file charges and pursue prosecution without your consent.
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