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I trip on this on multiple levels.
What is fan art? I think coz play is more fan art then anything but in this video the lawyer says its not a big deal...but artists doing their version of said IP characters and worlds are a problem...well, unless they are hired to do so.
But then again, I see artists raising funds for projects they are calling fan art...or fan made...even though these artists are working pros they are on kickstarter and the like raising funds to do their fan version of a something they don't own... thats kinda weird.
I for one don't think comic con sketches is the problem...but according to copyright that is a problem..and you want copyright to protect you right? Where is common law in all this? Does it apply or if you're not registered does that mean you're screwed... lots of stuff to consider.
check this video from a lawyer at deviant art...which kinda cracks me up considering deviant arts shady policies as of late...hmmmmm...
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"If you've ever been to an Artist's Alley at a comic convention, the thought, "Can this be legal?" has surely jumped into your head.
Easily half the artists exhibiting at any mainstream Comic Con or Anime Show make and sell fan art. And by "fan art" I mean merchandise featuring characters the artist does not own: prints, buttons, tee shirts, key chains, hats, tote bags—I even saw Captain American mittens at the last show I attended.
And if you count the amount of artists who offer one-of-a-kind, original commission sketches of copyrighted characters, the percentage shoots way higher.
Surely Marvel owns the right to Captain America, we think, even if that sweet girl sitting at the booth was the one to knit the mittens.
But the question is: Does Marvel really care?
When it comes to fan art: What is legal, and what is not?
There is a lot of myth that clouds the truth of fan art in regards to what you can and cannot be sued for.
Perhaps you've heard some of the following myths:
One-of-a-kind, original drawings and paintings are legal.
Since everyone does it, copyright holders must not care.
If I only sell fan art at conventions, and not online or in stores, it is okay.
If I'm not making a profit from my fan art, it is legal to draw someone else's characters.
Some Anime Shows have begun limiting the amount of fan art you can bring: either only a certain percentage of the kinds of items you sell can be fan art (i.e. only 30% of your prints can feature copyrighted characters) or, they've limited the amount of an item featuring fan art that you can sell (i.e. you can only bring 10 copies of any print featuring copyrighted characters.)
One show I exhibited at had such a strict "No Fan Art" policy that convention staff members actually policed the alley throughout the show. I was scolded for having a (not for sale) image of Harley Quinn on my commission sign as an example!
Fan art and copyright infringement might seem complicated, but really it isn't:
Do you own the character in question?
Yes? Do what you please!
No? You have no legal right to profit from work featuring characters without permission from copyright holder.
No? You have almost no rights to create such works not for a profit, either.
This video is a real world, straight-shootin' explanation of copyright law given at San Diego Comic Con earlier this year. Josh Wattles is the advisor in chief to deviantART and is a funny lawyer (imagine that) who describes the nature of fandom candidly—both its benefits to the copyright holder and the problems.
If you currently (or plan to) sell fan art at a show, online, or as one-of-a-kind original commissions, you must watch this video.
If you currently (or plan to) make fan art without intent to sell, just for the love of the fandom, you must watch this video.
And then, proceed with caution.
I know people personally who have been told to stop selling items by one of the "Big Two." I even have personal experience in the matter in regards to treading too close to the line—in a parody that didn't even use trademarked characters.
So watch this video and be informed. "I didn't know it wasn't legal" does not stand up in court."
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That was a very informative video. Learned a lot and what I previously knew about copyrights and trademarks was enhanced.
According to what this fellow explains most of what is fan art is indeed not legal as far as copyright protection and IP issues are concerned. Copyright ownership is a virtual monopoly on the property in question. In regards to fan art companies love it. Things get serious when money is involved such as sales from unauthorized use of a copyrighted property or a trademark. In that regard the guys you're referring to who are cashing in on fan based crowdfunding campaigns for properties they do not own, well it looks as if they're exposed to legal action as this is clearly against the law. Whether or not it happens remains to be seen but the law is not on their side. They're at risk.
If given a choice I would rather create original properties and build a fan base of my own. Fan art has become a way for artists to hitch a ride on a pre-sold concept. Like executives who look for something that's proven itself in the market. Artists who cash in on the pre-sold concept are piggy-backing on a piggy that does not belong to them.
Fan art for love doesn't translate into fan art commerce without the copyright owner's permission.
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Well the ones that I know that are doing it already have questionable ethics. If they can do the s*** that I know that have already done, then their potential for additional fraud is quite consistent.
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Check this out...
I did a search for "Star Trek" on Kickstarter. Take a look at how many fan based projects there are and how many have been successfully funded and at what levels...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/se ... =star+trek
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Thats a great example. Now I know George Lucas has pretty much nurtured the fan made productions of Star Wars..but I wonder if using crowdfunding as a way to raise money instead of using your own money to produce fan based content changes the parameters...keep in mind, most of these "fans" are really professionals in disguise. The line is mos definitely blurred.
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Some brands / properties are aggressively defending and some are not it seems. For the most part I get the feeling that there's enough gray area for fans to cash in on fan produced content,
A couple years ago I was attending a He-Man convention. When I got to the front desk to register there was someone who bought a piece of fan art. Nicely done too. I was surprised to see that the subject was an original character I designed while working on the series. Couldn't believe my eyes. I thought this was very cool and gave me a good feeling about my contribution to the success of the show that one of my characters would be honored this way and after all the time that passed between that moment and when the series aired.
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It was pretty much understood that sketches from artists at conventions was something the big companies didn't care about cuz sketches wasn't their market and it gave artists another way to make some dough... but now people are raising significant funds to do their version of someone elses property... I hope that doesn't happen to my creations.
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How do you simplify your life to lessen your carbon footprint on a daily basis?
Less stuff equals less concern which equals less stress.
Nov 17 2012: The less you have the more you love
a friend once told me: "our material goods enslave us. we haven't got slaves, we are slaves." and it turns to be true. this was in my mind when I was doing a long distance cycling trip. I had to carry all the stuff I had with me... (surely I could even live without having most of them with me) but I had to carry them (protect them from rain and robbery) with me up to the top of the mountain and then down to the valley. this was one of the greatest lesson I learnt. Since then I stop buying things I want, I only buy things I need. Wants vs Needs.
I am pretty sure that every one of us has got so many things in our homes that we can live without. we can't even remember how we collected them.
here are two talks (from TEDx-es)
Gandhi was successful and upper class lawyer... how does he simplify his life?
people who lives more simpler life are more popular than the ones who complicated their lives for gaining more.
Henry David Thoreau is an example as well.
Cycling to work is one of the ways I simplify life on a daily basis. and I encourage people to do so too.
I stopped eating meat... because it needs a lot of space and water to bring on the shelves just one pound of meat.
Now I am healthier and happier than I used to be...
less worries mean more time to be happy and enjoy life to the fullest
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Nov 17 2012: I was looking at a magazine with a food chart. They rated about twenty foods for the carbon footprint they created in their production/distribution. Milk had the smallest carbon footprint. Based on my experience living in Southern California, I agree. Milk is the only food we produce here in abundance, about fifty miles east of Los Angeles there is a region with thousands and thousands of dairy cows where all our milk comes from. When the milk is produced locally, it doesn't have to travel as far, ergo less carbon footprint.
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For about five years, I've been living on milk. Every day I drink between one and two gallons of milk, and I don't eat or drink anything else. I love this diet, my weight stays down, and I find I feel better than I do on any other diet.
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Nov 17 2012: In my opinion, the term 'simplifying' is confusing the 'carbon footprint' debate, as it suggests those things to be 'simple'.
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In general, humans tend to go the 'way of least resistance', which is a natural law, and therefore we are not always to be blamed for doing so.
So if 'simplifying ones life' would be easy, we would not have any discussion on this.
To 'lessen your carbon footprint' takes effort, a lot of effort, as we have to deal with one of the most difficult issues known to mankind: Changing our habits!
Regardless of all our knowledge about 'doing the right thing' we usually refuse to do it, as long as this implies to leave our 'comfort zone'.
If we are used to just wear a T-shirt at home during winter, we don't feel comfortable to wear 'full gear' and to lower the heating system accordingly. And as long the price doesn't hurt that much, our 'carbon footprint' will remain the same.
So to me the question would rather be, how much are we willing to 'unsatisfy our lifes' to lessen our carbon footprint seen from the current perspective of usual comfort.
Nov 18 2012: I like what you said here: "If we are used to just wear a T-shirt at home during winter, we don't feel comfortable to wear 'full gear' and to lower the heating system accordingly. And as long the price doesn't hurt that much, our 'carbon footprint' will remain the same." When there is a will there is a way. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.Nov 17 2012: I live in the UK. Reducing energy consumption is my current obsession - utility costs (mains gas & electricity) have rocketed in price over the past three years - 10% per year! Couple this with exceptionally cold winters over the past few years and the central heating is on for longer each day and for more weeks in the year.
In normal winter conditions (day time external temp c. 10 degrees centigrade - night and early morning temp c. 2 degrees C) my heating timer is set to come on an hour before I get up and to stay on for 2 hours. It switches off when I'm at work and comes on again for 4 hours in the evening. I have individual thermostats on all rads, which I set to "freeze protection" in the rooms not used. I have a heavy velvet curtain across the bottom of the stair-well which stops all the hot air shooting upstairs. This has made a very noticeable difference to the temperature of the ground floor. In addition, my loft space is well insulated and I have double glazed windows throughout. The boiler is a combi-water heating system which heats water as required.
In the manner of our grandparents generation I put more layers of clothing on if I'm feeling cold. I try to buy jumpers made of natural fibres - preferably wool which is very warm. I no longer buy "fleece" clothing as I understand the microscopic pile that washes out each wash is highly polluting in marine systems. I have invested in some very beautiful woollen throws which can be snuggled under when relaxing on the sofa.
As far as my electric usage is concerned I switch off all appliances (TVs, Stereo's etc) at the plug at night - stand-by mode uses 60% of the power it would use if "on". I use eco light bulbs throughout. I use a solar power panel to charge my mobile phone. I'd like to have a water solar system and a photovoltaic system - but the capital outlay is high and my roof slopes east / west.
We all have to find ways to save power if the world is to have enough.
Nov 18 2012: Thank you Heather for sharing your practical ways to save your energy consumption in the UK. It is indeed a good obsession to have.Nov 17 2012: Graham Hill is not reducing any footprint. His editing is about exchanging the old stuff with a cooler and more expensive stuff. Soon he will find himself lost in the ocean of cool devices.
Why? because he is a materialist like any other. His editing does not go in the direction of spiritualism (which is opposite to materialism) but in the direction of coolness.
He would do a much better job if he turned off his computer and AC, and started reading books in the daylight.Nov 16 2012: Drink from water fountains.
Nov 17 2012: breathe slower!Nov 17 2012: Yes! Plastic water bottles are SO polluting. We don't have public water fountains in the UK - only in infant / junior schools.
Nov 18 2012: Yes. I agree plastic water bottles are not necessary. I use a stainless steel water bottle that can last for a long time.Nov 16 2012: Noel,
Diminishing our waste, increasing the recycling (including donating things not in use) are some of the practical habits we can cultivate to simplify our lives and lessen our carbon footprints.
Nov 18 2012: Thank you for sharing your thoughts on diminishing our waste and increasing recycling practice.Nov 18 2012: We burn wood for half the house, a renewable resource, and I keep the other side of the house heated with oil between 62-65 degrees.Nov 18 2012: Hi Noel - Just sit still, don't think, (thinking takes consumes energy) - generally do as little as possible and we will all live in a much better world?
Or perhaps ask why are we in this predicament when the human race unlocked the infinite (clean) power source of the atom over 60 years ago - and ask why we still don't have plenty of excess, clean energy for the whole world and why are we not surging ahead developing plentiful almost free energy for the next generations (thorium, geothermal, solar)...
Perhaps, if you try the other end of the telescope and you may see the answers written clearly. With enough energy we can solve the co2 problem, but it has probably gone past the tipping point now anyway, sorry kids.
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Everything has its own "optimal point". Our carbon-footprint can not be an exception.
That is why a simple peaceful rural life at its optimal point makes us feel comfortable, safe and happy.
At least, we can save about 90% of our carbon-footprint by the similar way.
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Optimal point is a very important factor in human life.
a. Definition
Optimal point is the point at which the condition, degree, quality, quantity and etc. of something is in the most favorable state for keeping our DNA alive.
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Optimal Point is a key to every right thing in human life. Also, it is essential for keeping human happy or keeping our DNA alive.
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Reaching the optimal points is easier than keeping it right at the very point without going away too far.
d. Optimal Point of Wealth
Optimal point of a person's wealth is being passably well-off. Too much or too little money makes us keeping DNA alive difficult and even causing crimes.
Such as: too much money causes global warming, drain of world resources, man-made human extinction, difficulties of children education, and etc; too little money causes starvation, diseases, crimes, violence, and etc.
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(See the 1st article at https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D&id=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D%21283&sc=documents)Nov 17 2012: use less fossil fuels etc. But the size of population has a great influence. I know that the population cult here has reduced the living standard as well as creating more problems.


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Wounded By School is comprised of stories and Kirsten Olsen's perspective of how parents and teachers can alter, or prevent, the damage that occurs to schoolchildren every day as a result of school culture. I have to agree with a lot of Olsen's ideas as to what is wrong with school as well as what parents and teachers can do to improve the situation, but I think we also need to consider the outside problem from a deeper angle.
I agree that praising marks and high achievement based on grades is wrong, but there are a number of dynamics that prevent all of us from implementing this solution. We are currently in an economic recession that is only increasing the large gap between the rich and the poor. With this large gap also comes an added intensity and increase in the amount of competition by high school students to guarantee their acceptance into colleges. The elitist colleges are the worst as they accept a small portion of their applicants and really have no formula for how or why one student gets accepted over another. Compounding this problem is the added pressure to earn scholarships and other merit-based pay that aids students in paying for college. Parents are aware of this, students are aware of this, and teachers are aware of this.
The situation above creates friction between all stakeholders because, regardless of what everyone says, college acceptance and the money that comes with it rule supreme. Much more important than directing acknowledging the prevalence of "wounds of pressure" and "wounds of creativity" is for us to start coming up with concrete solutions as to how we can level the college playing field and ensure that all institutions of higher learning are looked at favorable by employers. It makes me chuckle that the country is preparing to adopt national standards in K-12, but we find it perfectly suitable that colleges serendipitously accept students despite the fact that there are no real deviations of curriculum between these schools.
So I will go out and say what Olsen should have said in her book: if you want to eliminate the wounds that are being caused by schooling then we should start by flattening out institutions of higher learning and make their acceptance more about knowledge than about money, heredity, or SAT scores.
My gripe isn't with the author, the content, or the ideas that she presents to the readers. I applaud her for being another individual who is willing to stand up and say: "Wait! This isn't right!!!!" I'm waiting for the book to be published that flattens higher education institutions and tells them THEY need to get on board with emphasizing learning. Frankly, I don't give a damn about their research. For that, I suggest the country start schools that are specialized in research practices and that emphasize this slogan: "We don't care about your learning while you are here. We care about the money you will send us after you leave."
Now come back to reality with me for a finale. Olsen's book presents a plethora of problems with schools today, but simply being more nurturing and patting kids on the back for "effort rather than the outcome" won't work. To solve the problems she describes, we need to break the system in half and start over while making sure to include colleges (specifically their admissions offices). Do I think all colleges will ever be equal? Absolutely not, but I do think we can work with these institutions to create an admissions process that is transparent and provides all students with an equal chance based on what they have learned and how hard they have worked rather than whatever they currently do.
Olsen's book is a great read if you need to be even more convinced that educational reform needs to be implemented throughout the system. Beyond that, it's a great book to really make you mad and fire off provocative comments. We all care about our kids and the success we want them to have in the future. We just need to remember that continuing to hash out and reiterate these stories won't fix schools; implementing reform does.


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Stare Miasto (Old Town) is one of the primary tourist attractions in Warsaw. Completely destroyed during World War II, Old Town was rebuilt to resemble the area's former appearance during its glory days of the 16th through 18th centuries. Cobblestone streets are lined by Gothic houses and buildings. The Old Town Square features many cafes and art stalls, as well as the Historical Museum of Warsaw and the statue of the Warsaw mermaid. Old Town also features other popular city attractions, including the Royal Castle and St. John's Cathedral, the oldest church in Warsaw.
The Palace of Culture & Science is an unforgettable landmark in the midst of Warsaw's commercial district. The building looks like a giant wedding cake — and many consider it an eyesore. Inside the building are offices, a puppet theater, a cineplex, shops and museums. The highlight is a ride up to the 30th floor for a panoramic view of the city.
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The Fort Wayne area showed strong job growth in newly released study – good news that comes tempered by lagging area income and two straight months of rising unemployment figures.
The Milken Institute, a nonprofit think tank, ranked the Fort Wayne metropolitan statistical area, or MSA, 13th in job growth between May 2011 and May 2012 among 200 large metro areas.
"We've seen strong post-recession job growth here," said John Stafford, director of IPFW's Community Research Institute. "This is our third or fourth affirmation that, post recession, our job growth has been better than other metro areas."
Overall, Fort Wayne rose to No. 59 in the group's "Best-Performing Cities" index, improving by 68 spots from its previous ranking of No. 127. The index is based on growth in jobs, wages and high-tech industries.
Fort Wayne's metro area includes Allen, Whitley and Wells counties. Its No. 59 ranking puts it eight spots behind the Indianapolis-Carmel area, which came in at No. 51.
In 2011, employers in the Fort Wayne metro area added 2,474 jobs, driven largely by the General Motors plant, according to data compiled by the Community Research Institute.
The GM plant added a third shift in 2011, boosting its workforce by about 1,000 workers, Stafford said. Those gains were even more significant because the plant exports almost all its product outside the Fort Wayne area, infusing new money into the local economy.
"Clearly, GM bringing that third line in here was significant," Stafford said. "Having an employer who exports almost all their products outside the county show such job growth is a huge deal."
Food service, health and hospitality were among the strongest industries over the yearlong period, Stafford said, adding that job gains tend to come in lots of small chunks, not just massive expansions.
The Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership compiles an annual report on job gains and losses based on the data. The 2012 report is not available yet, said Courtney Tritch, a spokeswoman for the partnership.
While the higher ranking is a good sign, it comes with a couple of caveats, Stafford said.
For one thing, the upward job-creation trend appears to have halted or at least slowed over the past two months, according to unemployment figures. Unemployment in Allen County, which was at 6.8 percent in October, increased to 7.4 percent in November and 7.9 percent in December. Unemployment has also increased two months in a row in Wells and Whitley counties.
And despite the Fort Wayne area's robust job-creation from 2011 to 2012, its per capita income – a thorn in the area's side since at least the early 1990s – continued to lag behind the state and national average.
In the Milken Institute's index, Fort Wayne's wage growth was ranked just 71st among metro areas between 2009 and 2010. The area's per capita income in 2011 was $35,042, compared with $35,689 statewide and $41,560 in the U.S., according to the Community Research Institute.


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Marmite, the iconic British brand from Unilever UK , is set to roll out an integrated advertising campaign including a limited edition summer spread, available to buy until September.
Kicking off on 27th July, 'The Summer of Love Not Hate' campaign, created by adam&eveDDB, takes design inspiration from Woodstock summer of love in 1967 and aims to encourage the nation to spread the love this summer. The campaign will include an animated online film featuring a music battle between a colourful kitten and a crazed rock monster vying for supremacy over the new summer jars. The film will be available to watch on YouTube and Facebook. More Summer of Love and Hate characters can be seen on three paradoxical outdoor poster pairs in the London underground.
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Antonin Scalia, arguably the Court's most colorful jurist today, defies simple characterization. Indeed, the often controversial and combative justice draws out a wide range of sentiments from his peers and the public. Certainly, no one denies his immense legal brilliance and intellectual abilities. A Supreme Court observer once noted that if the mind were muscle and Court sessions were televised, Scalia would be the Arnold Schwartzenegger of American jurisprudence. Scalia also fills the role of the strong man. His confrontational style has startled many attorneys who have appeared before him. One litigator even described his action as those of a big cat batting around a ball of yarn. Scalia adds a dynamic personality to the Court. An author of recent study on the Court's conservative shift quipped that on a bench lined with solemn gray figures who often sat as silently as pigeons on a railing, Scalia stood out like a talking parrot. Scalia's own statements hint at his penetrating manner. When a reporter once commented favorably about Scalia's tuxedo, the ever-loquacious justice responded: "Ah yes, esteemed jurist by day, man about town by night." However, Scalia expresses nothing but humility about his job as a justice. At a conference before a crowd of law students, he admitted that he felt no sense of power whatsoever from his position. Instead, he agonized that his duty commonly forced him to end up doing things that: "I don't want to do."
Although many have noted his charms, Scalia's outspoken advocacy has alienated and at times offended some of his colleagues. Once, after a long tirade concluding that affirmative action constituted the most evil fruit of a fundamentally bad seed, a slightly offended Sandra Day O'Connor expressed her displeasure with the comment: "But, Nino, if it weren't for affirmative action, I wouldn't be here." Scalia's habit of using rhetorical extremes--for example, labeling a colleague's refusal to agree with him as "perverse" and "irrational"--has also hurt his relations with fellow justices. These anecdotes serve to form a portrait of this remarkable justice. As Scalia's role changes from a spearhead to an anchor in the moderating Court, the ever- unpredictable justice continues to amuse, astonish, satisfy, and frighten many Court watchers.
Antonin Scalia was born on March 11, 1936, in Trenton, New Jersey, as the only child of Eugene and Catherine Scalia. A second generation American, Scalia grew up with a strong Italian heritage explained by his father's foreign birth and his mother's immigrant upbringing. His father worked as a professor of Romance languages and his mother taught school. When young Nino was five, his father accepted a job at Brooklyn College and moved the family to Queens, New York.
Called "Nino" by friends and family, Scalia first attended public school in Queens. He later enrolled in St. Francis Xavier, a military prep school in Manhattan, where his intellect and work resulted in a first place graduation. Scalia's academic success continued at Georgetown University where he completed his undergraduate studies and received an A.B. summa cum laude in history. Scalia also graduated from Georgetown as class valedictorian. Scalia went on to Harvard Law School. He served as editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated magna cum laude. After graduation, Scalia traveled in Europe for a year as part of his Sheldon Fellowship from Harvard. He met and became engaged to Maureen McCarthy, a student at nearby Radcliffe College, during his law school years. They married in 1960 and have nine children. They share a strong mutual faith in Catholicism.
After a brief stint working with commercial law, Scalia decided to teach law at the University of Virginia. After four years at Virginia, Scalia left teaching to pursue a career in government service. He started first as a general counsel for the Office of Telecommunication Policy under the Nixon administration. He successfully negotiated a major agreement between industry leaders to organize the growth of cable television. Between 1972 and 1974, Scalia chaired the Administrative Conference of the United States which studied ways to improve the efficiency of governmental processes. Richard Nixon nominated Scalia to head the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel just before the Watergate scandal forced Nixon to resign. President Ford assigned Scalia the task of determining legal ownership of the famous Nixon tapes and documents. Scalia decided in favor of Nixon, a reflection of his deep respect for the executive branch, though the Supreme Court soon ruled unanimously against this conclusion.
When President Jimmy Carter entered the White House in 1977, Scalia left government service to work as a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington D.C. Scalia also taught law briefly at the Georgetown University Law Center before moving to Chicago to teach at the University of Chicago Law School. His family had grown so considerably by then that Scalia had to buy a former fraternity house to accommodate them. He stayed in Chicago between 1977 and 1982, leaving once only briefly to teach at Stanford. Although he made good impressions among his academic peers, he did not dazzle anyone in his scholarly efforts. Some colleagues observed that Scalia's heart seemed set on active politics rather than academic law.
Scalia served a brief period between 1981 and 1982 as the chairman of the American Bar Association's section on administrative law and the Conference of Section Chairs. He soon received another chance to return to public service. Reagan appointed him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington D.C. in 1982 where Scalia developed his reputation for following judicial restraint and limited interpretation. His colleagues viewed him favorably and remembered him mostly for his constant willingness to engage in dialogue over matters of law.
In 1986, President Reagan promoted William H. Rehnquist to the position of chief justice in the wake of the retirement of Warren Burger. To fill the vacancy created by Rehnquist's promotion, Reagan nominated Scalia to the Supreme Court. The political focus on Rehnquist's nomination drew all the attention away from Scalia. Thus, even though Scalia had a much more conservative record than Rehnquist, ironically Scalia's nomination passed unanimously and virtually uncriticized. Scalia took the oaths of office, becoming the youngest justice on the Court. His staunch conservatism and obvious intellect excited many conservative advocates who saw much promise in his confirmation.
Scalia's pursuit of strict interpretation, judicial restraint, and bright-line distinctions in the law has led him to surprising votes in his years on the bench. He has puzzled or pleased many conservatives and liberals by voting consistently in favor of free speech. Scalia provided the critical fifth vote, much to the dismay of conservative activists, in striking down a Texas flag- burning prohibition. He also ruled that a St. Paul, Minnesota, prohibition against hate crimes violated freedom of speech. On the issue of reproductive rights, Scalia has labored mightily to strike down Roe v. Wade (1973). He has consistently rejected any notion of a right to abortion under the Constitution, arguing always that such matters constituted political decisions best decided by the popular branches of government.
Scalia's future is secure yet uncertain. Many believe that the moderation of the Court in recent years through the nominations of President Clinton will increasingly paint Scalia into an extreme intellectual corner. His confrontational and argumentative style may also detach him further from the mainstream of the Court. However, regardless of his future role and position on the ever-changing Court, Scalia's legal genius and rhetorical powers will likely ensure that his voice and vision, if not always supported, will continue to be heard.
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I was raised in a household of atheists. My parents were card-carrying members of the American Communist Party, and therefore the atheism in my household was quite close to the militant anti-theism of the so-called "new atheists".
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I was raised in a household of atheists. My parents were card-carrying members of the American Communist Party, and therefore the atheism in my household was quite close to the militant anti-theism of the so-called "new atheists".
People hold clearly discordant points of view, and it would be dishonest to ignore the conflict. Yet some voices emphasize the dissonance without any note of harmony to put it in context. Too often, science and faith becomes a hostile battle of worldviews, sounding angry, dissonant chords even among fellow Christians. But civil, gracious dialogue is possible.
Once we have a scientific hypothesis for how something exists, it is tempting to make the philosophical inference that this is also why it exists.
In this three-part series, Cal DeWitt offers insights and examples of why science and ethics must work together to help us make informed, practical decisions within our society. DeWitt's science-ethics-praxis model provides a framework by which we can live more effectively as God's stewards.
In this series, David Buller pays careful attention to the original language and cultural context of Genesis 2, revealing that our responsibility to care for creation is a sacred task given to us by God, not merely a modern secular activity. By taking Scripture seriously, we learn that we have a God-given mandate to be diligent stewards of His creation.
In this series, U.S. Navy Commander Mike Beidler shares his own personal journey from accepting young-earth creationism to embracing evolutionary creationism.
I found myself in a very awkward situation. On the one hand I was a follower of Jesus Christ who loved the Bible, knew that it was God's Word, and, therefore, not full of lies. However, I also was someone who had loved science for many years and was planning on pursuing a career in research...
In this series, Bob Jones University graduate David Buller recounts his spiritual and intellectual journey in which he came to a deeper understanding of the metaphorical nature of the Genesis creation account and no longer views evolution as contradictory to God's Word. It is the story of a courageous and truth-seeking heart.
In this video, physicist Ard Louis describes that our value and purpose do not come from whether or not we were created by an evolutionary mechanism. Evolution may tell us something about how we were created, but it is not the source of our worth.
In this series, Dennis Venema describes his personal journey that took him away from the Intelligent Design arguments toward the evolutionary creation worldview. Through careful and honest research, he discovered ID scientific reasoning to be analogy-based, in sharp contrast to evolutionary science, which was supported by concrete data. After accepting this view, God's presence ever strengthened him as he explored the compatibility between the Bible and God's creative mechanism.
As a child, I started reading the Bible as soon as I could and I made my decision for Jesus wholeheartedly at the age of nine. Nurtured in an "all Christian environment," I knew little else. But certain questions tended to nag at me.
By all accounts, my faith should have perished the moment I started asking questions about faith and science. All my life I'd been taught that I had to choose—between believing the Bible and believing my science book, between honoring God and embracing evolution.
In this short series, Brian Godawa relates his personal journey from faith in instantaneous creation to gradual evolution. He initially held the scientific six-day model of creation after reading The Genesis Flood, thinking this to be the plainest reading one could have. However, he quickly realized that his "simple" reading was biased by his 20th century, westernized culture that thought in scientific terms. Ultimately, the Bible is inerrant on matters of faith, life and God, but there are cultural barriers threaded throughout the text that must be overcome with proper hermeneutics.
Outside of my family and my personal relationship with God, there is nothing in recent years that has shaped me more profoundly than the Sunday School class I teach. It all began ten years ago, when I was asked to do a three week series on biology and faith.
I'm a conservative evangelical. When I became a Christian fourteen years ago, I not only embraced profound new spiritual perspectives, but inherited a host of new scientific views: the earth was young, macro-evolution was false, and to affirm the contrary was to discredit the Bible and even the Gospel.
Over the next few months, with permission from Yale University Press, BioLogos will offer edited versions of chapters from John Polkinghorne's best books, Belief in God in an Age of Science and Theology in the Context of Science, in order to help readers delve more deeply into some of his most important ideas.
A college student raised as a young-earth creationist shares his story of coming to understand and appreciate God's evolving creation.
Some criticized John for his theistic evolutionary position and even his appreciation for Darwin. But Stott saw no contradiction between his own commitment to the authority of Scripture and his openness to God's use of evolution in His creative process.
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Seven years ago, fellow filmmaker Terry Kay Rockefeller and I set out on a voyage of discovery that would result in RENEWAL, the first feature-length documentary about America's religious-environmental movement.


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- adesh saxena
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We are advised to travel light when we undertake a journey.Why can't we travel light in our lives too to make it beautiful and enjoyable?
If we travel light the journey is enjoyable. In the journey of life i want to travel with no burden on my body or mind. Burden on body is due to sickness and obesity. Burden on mind is due to possesions and relationships.
"With no burden on body and mind
I want to travel and unwind"
Feb 18 2013: Adesh,
Perhaps part of the answer is not only found in "traveling light" but in also holding with a "light" touch or grasp.
The natural position of the human hand is open and supple, ready to receive. So too, can be the mind.
It isn't a closed fist, holding on for dear life and for forever.
I find there is something worth having in my life, just one thing, and no matter what happens or doesn't happen, it shrinks all problems down to the size of a tiny drop of water, that then "pings" or explodes into nothingness and is gone.
I trust this one thing completely, thus I don't worry because something good will happen.
If it doesn't, I don't worry, because something bad will happen.
I am and will be okay.
Where do we get possessions? We buy them in stores. How do we get into the stores?
We walk through the..... "en-trance".
When we let go of possessions we are letting go of being possessed.
Ultimately it is letting go of all attachments of all kinds, somehow with love and even letting go of love.
One of the hardest things to learn to do is not grab on when one falls. We are a very coordinated animal, that doesn't fall too often, but when we do, it is very scary.
Not grabbing and holding on when we do (not in a strictly physical sense as that is most times the correct time to hold on), is not falling. It is flying but one doesn't or will not learn that until they let go and do that.
Don't worry, something good will happen. If it doesn't, don't worry, something bad will happen.
When the walls come tumbling down, when the loss of what possessed one happens, don't try and hold up the wall.
It will crush you. Step back, let the possessions fall where they may and there will be an opening through which to walk through. In other words, this total type of loss, doesn't involve a nervous breakdown so much as it involves a nervous breakthrough.
I got rid of everything about 8 years ago. Very freeing and I can clearly see the possession that takes place inside the psyche of others.
Feb 18 2013: I agree with you when you say ,"When we let go of possessions we are letting go of being possessed." That i believe is freedom.
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Feb 15 2013: Many people choose to travel light in life in terms of possessions and approach. Minimalism and the "slow" movement are examples.
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When one has empathy for the many who are suffering, though, it is hard not to have burdens on the mind.
Feb 16 2013: We should have empathy. We should help. A surgeon has empathy for his patients but can operate best when his mind is free. In any situation we can give our best when our mind is unbudened and focussed.
Fulya Özkara
Feb 18 2013: universe is working with free oscillation and our desires too.. if we give up to run after the money or possesions, we will preserve our freedom..
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Feb 19 2013: Well said Fulya. True freedom comes from non attachments and fearlessness.
W. Ying
Feb 22 2013: Hi, Fulya,
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Too much money enslaves us.
(See my comment above herein)
Ross G
Feb 16 2013: I renounced all of my material wealth last year. It is a step towards true freedom.
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Deciding who to place the burden of my wealth on wasn't as easy. I didn't want to remove my own chains and clamp them on anyone else. Christ instructs us to give it all to the poor. Perhaps because this is where the greatest impact can be achieved.
Everything we possess is unconsciously given a certain amount of control over us. Many people become almost entirely enslaved to worldly possessions. They spend much of their life in pursuit of material gain, and the rest of their life is spent maintaining, protecting, and worrying over their acquisitions. In effect, they have lost their life.
"Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it." Luke 17:30
For me, the greatest burden was sin. Or rather, it was until Christ.
I must confess, I am both surprised and excited to come across someone else who is entertaining these thoughts. A big thumbs up for you Adesh.
Lejan .
Feb 15 2013: Maybe Buddhism could be of your interest then.
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Feb 16 2013: Buddhism teaches the middle path. Renunciation seems to be the answer. It does not mean not having possessions or relationships but not having any ATTACHMENTS to them. When i will loose any of them i will not be affected by it, that is what i am training for.
Lejan .
Feb 16 2013: I see what you mean and for possessions I trained myself some while ago to the point, that what I have, is enough. Relationships are different to me, because those I don't mind to loose are of no value to me anyway. I would not wish to have no value in anyone and even though it is very painful, I would not like to miss any of the gaps of close people I once loved yet lost. It taught me humbleness. But that's just my view, and interesting to see your difference.
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W. Ying
Feb 22 2013: .
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To travel light in life is easy if we know:
(1) The goal of our life is to keep our DNA alive.
(2) To have too much money makes happiness invalid (ineffective, untrue, unreal, HARMFUL).
(For INVALID (ineffective) happiness, see the 1st article, points 1-3, 14, at https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D&id=D24D89AE8B1E2E0D%21283&sc=documents)Feb 21 2013: I would say Greg you are on your way. When we are young we are passionate about all the possessions and relationships. Then with maturity we should practice some form of detachment, I liked the world "light attachment". When we are old enough 75 yrs Plus we can detach all together and devout our time for selfless service.Feb 17 2013: I would say people travel as light in their lives as they are able. You must remember that when you travel you don't have to take care of business quite as when at home, when at home there are a million responsibilities that you don't have when you travel to the same degree.
Feb 18 2013: Here i am talking about dettachment. Though i have possessions and relations but if i am not attached to them i can undertake journey of my life with a free mind.
Feb 20 2013: Well, adesh, that seems like a different idea than you put in your conversation starter at the top, perhaps you should edit it.
I would say I have a light attachment to relationships and objects, probably stronger to relationships. I would feel abnormal if I had no attachment, as I worked to get them; and abnormal if I had too much attachment, as that would be too clinging. So a light attachment works for me.
Gail .
Feb 16 2013: I have found that I am naturally wanting to divest myself of the chains that possessions form. Little by little, I give the excess away, with the goal of stripping my home of all but essentials. I would like to take the practice further, but in this country (USA), homelessness is illegal - in that you can be arrested for being a vagrant just about everywhere.
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I admire the teaching, but it is in conflict with the US cultural paradigm.
Feb 18 2013: Not necessarily we have to leave our home but we can practice dettachment in the midst of everything. We have to leave the ownership from our mind, and thats the reality, no body owns anything in this world.
"Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it." Luke 17:30Feb 16 2013: According to ancient teaching of Geeta (Song of Divine) , once we have completed our resposibility as a family person, age 50, we should practice dettachment from possessions and relationships . The stage is called "VanPrastha Ashram" till age 75 yrs. After 75 we should leave home and spend rest of our life as Sanyasi.( A person free of possessions and relations)
Feb 16 2013: Thanks for sharing this philosophy.Feb 16 2013: I assume some people do this.
adesh saxena
Feb 16 2013: Many people aspire to attain this state of mind.
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"Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it." Luke 17:30
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The Bucs, who are looking for their second tournament victory of the year, are currently in 10th place after posting a round of 303 on Friday. Along with Jansone, sophomore Maria Ringdahl (Oland, Sweden) is tied for 38th following a 76 in the first round, while sophomore Lucy Gould (Bargoed, Wales) and junior Natalia Giraldo (Cali, Colombia) are tied for 54th with 78s.
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Emotibot, a robot created by Steve (in Comic 2), is capable of feeling complex emotions. However, Emotibot doesn't experience these emotions automatically; he (or a third party) must manually push a button on Emotibot's control panel that corresponds to a certain emotion (though for unexplained reasons, these buttons seem to change completely on a strip-to-strip basis). Since Emotibot's emotions are so easily changed, his behavior is highly erratic; he experiences frequent mood swings.
During Emotibot's nascent period, he experienced a few glitches, sometimes blasting Beaver in the face with powerful death rays. In addition, Emotibot once produced baked goods such as toast and bagels, but this function has disappeared.
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AMES — Last Saturday, Iowa State faced an offensive football team in Texas Tech that many consider prolific in nature.
This Saturday, the Cyclones (1-4 overall, 0-2 Big 12) face a team that averages 715.4 yards and 63.4 points per game, which is 171 yards and 21.6 more points than the Red Raiders average.
In its first four games, 12th-ranked Baylor (5-0, 2-0) scored 69, 70, 70 and 73 before being its 35-25 win over Kansas State last weekend.
Based on those numbers, prolific hardly does justice to the offense Iowa State will face at Floyd Casey Stadium at 6 p.m. Saturday.
"We're very sober in the offices this week and working hard to try to figure out answers to slow these guys down as well as put up as many points on the board as we are going to need to win this football game," Cyclone head coach Paul Rhoads said.
Rhoads opened his weekly press conference Monday with a long list of Baylor's impressive offensive numbers and had to pause to catch his breath before he finished.
Among the highlights were six players with runs of 22 yards or longer, a quarterback in Brock Petty who has completed 70 percent of his passes (80 of 114) with only one interception, and eight receivers who have catches of 36 or longer.
"It is a great challenge, a team like Baylor, that is why you come to the Big 12 is to face offenses like that and try to find solutions to powerhouse offense like theirs," ISU linebacker Luke Knott said.
ISU has been hit or miss defending Baylor in the last two meetings. Two years ago, Robert Griffin and Terrance Ganaway gashed the Cyclones for 603 total yards in a 49-26 victory in Waco.
Last year, ISU forced four turnovers and held Lache Seastrunk, who ranks ninth in the country this year with 128.6 rushing yards per game, to 30 yards on seven carries as the Cyclones won, 35-21, in Ames.
"We defended the run very well, and every game starts with defending the run coming from an old defensive coach's perspective," Rhoads said. "We didn't do that Saturday against Texas Tech, a team that got over double what they are averaging on the ground.
"But it (the key to beating Baylor last year) started there and taking that away we were able to play one of our best defensive games of the year last year."
It might come down to trying to stopping one aspect of Baylor's offense again Saturday.
"We've been here since Sunday trying to figure that out and to be honest we haven't made any decisions on what we are going to do yet," defensive coordinator Wally Burnham said. "We know what they do out of certain personnel groups, but being able to stop it is the main thing we are working on right now ... slow it down, I should say.
"You have to make some decisions. Okay, I'm going to defend the run or I'm I going to defend the pass and live with the other."
And while everyone is trying to wrap their minds around the offensive numbers Baylor is producing, Rhoads added one more nugget to the equation.
"They play defense, too, 18 points and 346 yards is all they are giving up," Rhoads said.
Those numbers rank third and fourth, respectively, in the Big 12.
INJURY UPDATES: The Cyclones will be without starting quick tackle Jacob Gannon, who suffered a knee injury against the Red Raiders.
Gannon will be replaced by senior Kyle Lichtenberg, who has made 18 career starts for ISU, fourth-most on the team.
"We were hoping after the game he wasn't as bad as Tom (Farniok) and Jamison (Lalk), but it appears to be that way and he probably will not be available," Rhoads said.
Running back Aaron Wimberly, who missed most of the second half with ankle and back injuries, will play. Wimberly, who has 319 rushing yards in the Cyclones' last three games, practiced Sunday.
Starting cornerback Jansen Watson, who did not play against the Red Raiders because of an ankle injury, will play.
BIG 12 HONORS: Jarvis West was lauded by the Big 12 as its Special Teams Player of the Week for his performance against Texas Tech.
West recorded Iowa State's first non-onside kickoff return for a touchdown since 1994 (Troy Davis), going 95 yards for the score on ISU's first touchdown of the afternoon. The 95-yard kickoff return tied for the third-longest in school history.
West also had four punt returns for 46 yards, including a career-long 38-yarder in the third quarter.
West's career 26.10 average on kickoff returns ranks second all-time in school history behind Luther Blue (26.47; 1973-76).
NEXT UP: ISU's game Oct. 26 at Jack Trice Stadium against Oklahoma State will be an 11 a.m. kickoff and will be televised on Fox Sports Net.
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Digital: Archie Comics has begun offering Spanish language versions of its titles through its various digital storefronts and iVerse apps.
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