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Perform as many sets as needed to reach the repetition total (ie., for 100 reps = 5 sets x 20 reps; 2 sets of 20 reps and 4 sets of 15 reps; 10 sets of 10 reps)
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Courchevel Le Praz (formerly Courchevel 1300) is the lowest of the four main Courchevel resorts but links by cablecar to Courchevel (1850) in just 7 minutes. The village has a number of permanent residents which helps to give it a more traditional Alpine village feel than the villages higher up, and families will enjoy exploring the narrow cobbled streets. The location for the 1992 Winter Olympics ski jumping, the village is overlooked by the jumps which are still in use today.
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Le Praz is a traditional village set amidst the woodland and due to this quiet setting is ideal for a family holiday. Nightlife is quiet and centres around the local bars. Le Praz also has road access to the resort of La Plagne and its extensive ski area.
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In contrast to a lot of Wall Street CEOs, Vikram Pandit seems quite human. Vulnerable, even. No one ever heard Pandit say, "Let's go kill someone," as John (Mack the Knife) Mack of Morgan Stanley reportedly used to bark to his derivatives team at the start of a trading day. It's hard to imagine the soft-spoken CEO of Citigroup as a "vampire squid… relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money," as in writer Matt Taibbi's notorious description of Goldman Sachs.
Yes, Pandit is ridiculously rich, like his peers, having sold his hedge fund to Citi for $800 million before taking over as CEO and then spending nearly $20 million to purchase the late actor Tony Randall's 10-room palace on tony Central Park West. And, of course, Pandit and his giant bank—like all the spoiled behemoths of the Street—have been endlessly coddled by Uncle Sam, saved by $45 billion in bailout funds that still support Citi (even as Pandit ordered up another corporate jet, outraging Congress).
But more than other members of the reemerging Wall Street elite—think of Jamie Dimon, the disdainful lord of JPMorgan Chase, or Goldman's plaintive chief, Lloyd Blankfein, who once whined that he was "doing God's work"—Pandit has sought to get ahead of public outrage, to mend his ways and atone for past sins, to affect a little humility. After the crash of 2008, Pandit insisted on taking only a dollar a year in salary and promised "a return to the basics of banking as a core of our business." Pandit even backed a limited "cram-down" of mortgage payments—government-imposed reductions in what homeowners owe—outraging the other banks that refused to give an inch. He pledged to get his institution out of the speculation business and declared his vision to make it "America's global bank." Citigroup, he told National Journal in an interview, "is back to serving the real economy."
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The question is, whose real economy? Not necessarily America's. In Pandit's 10- to 20- year plan, the "America" part of Citi's banking business clearly shrinks and the "global" part only grows. Pandit has sought to pare down his nearly $2 trillion company, disposing of asset management and other businesses. He sold half of Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley; and he shrank his bank's $827 billion in mortgage-related and other unwanted assets by nearly $500 billion after sequestering them in a separate entity called Citi Holdings. This week, Pandit finally succumbed to investor pressure and announced a 1-cent dividend—the first since Citi's near-death experience—and a reverse stock split that will drive the bank's price back into the $40 range.
Yet in its return to health, Citi is already earning most of its resurgent profits overseas—especially in Asia and Latin America. That revenue stream will rise dramatically as investment demand in emerging markets more than triples from $3.5 trillion in 2008 (compared with $7.5 trillion in developed economies) to $12.7 trillion in 2030, according to Citi's projections. Citi has targeted what it calls its 150 "top priority" cities around the world. Only 16 of them are in the United States. A total of 116 cities are in emerging markets, and "this concentration will likely only increase," Pandit says.
The concentration of elites on Wall Street is increasing, as well. The largest surviving banks—mainly Citi, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo—are growing bigger and more global relative to the rest of the industry. They have already snapped up weak sisters at fire-sale prices (Bank of America swallowed Merrill Lynch, and JPMorgan gulped down Bear Stearns). They are pushing out smaller banks in key areas, having increased their overall market shares in deposits, mortgages, credit cards, home-equity loans, and small-business loans. And as these giants broaden their global reach, international regulators agree even less on a common approach than their Washington counterparts do. Wall Street traders have themselves begun to identify certain institutions as too big to fail, giving them an additional commercial advantage.
The upshot is that, in the wake of the worldwide financial meltdown and in direct opposition to the intentions of Washington reformers, the U.S. government may have become the guarantor of last resort for even-larger global banks over which it has even less control and oversight than before.
Pandit, who says he is chasing 2.5 billion "unbanked consumers" in emerging markets, is certainly not waiting around for regulatory clarity. The vastly complex Dodd-Frank financial-reform law—touted by President Obama as the "toughest financial reform" since the Great Depression—is not expected to come fully on line for another six months or so. "We're doing our own thing," Pandit says, although he acknowledges that the Federal Reserve, Citi's main regulator, must still bless his plans.
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Martin Rossiter (born 15 May 1970) is a Welsh singer, who is noted for being the lead singer of the British indie band Gene, from 1993 until their break-up in 2004. As well as currently writing and recording solo material, he is also a member of the band Call Me Jolene. He lives in Brighton where he is the Centre Manager for ATM Studios. He has two children.
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Not a single QB taken in the second round? Has that ever happened?
Not a single QB taken in the second round? Has that ever happened?
I would love this but seeing the Bills get Upshaw would not bold well with me.
Cleveland would have a A+ grade.
We take Dwayne Allen while Fleener falls another 13 spots?
Tennehill going 6th overall????????????
1) No way TB takes a RB at the #5 spot, not with L Blount already on board and Claiborne and Blackmon still available.
2) Don't see St Louis staying at the #2 slot to take an OL when the draft is deep on OL and the value of that #2 pick is through the roof.
3) If Washington (or any other team for that matter) drafts Ryan Tannehill with the #6 pick, they should clean out their entire front office.
I like RT, I really do, but I do not believe he is nearly as good as some people are projecting him to be. He will require a lot of work to get him ready. I watched every game A&M had this season, and in the big games (Oklahoma, Ok State, Arkansas and Texas) he basically lost the game for A&M. 10 Ints and 4 fumbles in the 4 biggest games of the year for A&M. His stats are padded A LOT against the creampuffs on that schedule.
I'd be happy w/ Blackmon but Upshaw & Fleener are my preference.
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Minimize or design away the extraneous.
In 1946 the average house was 1100 sf and the average family was about 5 people - in 1996 the average house was 2200 sf a family of 2.6 people. We now have 4 times the area per person -what are we doing with it? What are we filling it up with?!
Integrate design aspects for multiplicity of function.
How many modern construction materials or systems really, effectively serve more than one pragmatic function or purpose?
Design for all aspects of climate at all levels.
If the "glass box" office building is appropriate for Phoenix, is it equally appropriate to Anchorage? (We design them in both climates.) How can architects honestly say this with integrity?
Design for durability and longevity.
Even if a material contains 2-3 time the embodied energy of this alternative, it lasts 5-10 times longer, we should consider it better. Think about the unintended consequences of maintenance and renewal!
Select materials that use their base resource most efficiently.
How do we squeeze the most out of a material, meeting principle #1 above at the micro-scale. Make the opportunity to find ways around the "40,000 lbs. laptop."
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Find out what is "sustainable" in your back yard - it may surprise you! Consider the use of the concept of Pliny Fisk's Regional Resource Mapping essential - if only on an intuitive level.
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Look for least toxic materials and manufacturing processes.
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Danny Baatz gave the Bulldogs a 2-0 lead in the first as he sent a two-run home run over the scoreboard in left.
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HR - ETSU - Paul Hoilman 3(22); Derek Trent (12); Kerry Doane (9); Bo Reeder (17)
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They can;t control the actions of the players. Sometimes people get their hands forced. :P
The NBA and David Stern are smarter than you think. They suspend Melo for the Pacers game because the Pacers just came off a very emotional win over the HEAT and with Amare on limited minutes, Felton out and now Melo out this game suddenly becomes a huge trap game. And the Knicks then get Melo back for the Chicago game. See how that works?
Dang, Heisenberg, wired a little tightly this morning? LOL
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Guess he thinks the Knicks will win this game
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Or that it was a sure loss, and so he should make sure Melo was rested for the Bulls game.
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Didn't really know where to put this, but Reggie and the Dutchman will be in the house tonight. Not really surprising Rik comes to a fair share of games, but I wonder the last time they were both in the fieldhouse together.
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that was uncalled for.
Doc rivers says KG disnt talk about melos wife
FWIW, Doc Rivers said KG's foul on Tyler wasn't flagrant, too....
Passion. Pride. Patience. Pacers
Not to mention Team USA member Tyson Chandler, and former All-Stars Roy and West, and future All-Star Paul.
But other than all of them, why bother going to this game. I don't know how anyone talks any family into going into any non Lakers, Thunder, Heat or Knicks game at this point. Maybe some Celts game due to nostalgia.
It's fine they'd like to see Melo but he's far from the #1 NBA star nor the only star in this game.
This is passing up a Reds-Yanks game in 1995 because Barry Larkin is sitting out and the Yanks only have some rookie named Derek Jeter. And that's not crazy. I coached LL back then and none of the kids knew Jeter and they all loved Larkin. But if they'd been able to see Jeter instead of Larkin they'd sure be happy to talk about it today.
It's still the #1 NBA facility, national TV, Reggie Miller's return and freaking PG & Co. headed to a very possible ECF/Finals run. It's just a teensy bit more appealing that hanging out at home. And 10 years from now they can tell everyone how they saw PG "back when he was nobody".
There is no way. What is the dude doing to himself. It's okay to miss this game if he was really as sick as it seemed. Unless he was covering up a hangover (I don't think he was) then I don't see what good can come from playing tonight.
You forgot Kidd
If games are won and lost on a calculator and piece of paper, then why do we bother to play them?
And I assume McKey. Let's go Tony and Dale, too bad about Jax's day job keeping him busy.
Did I?
But honestly that's a great point. I totally spaced and he's just a tiny bit famous and certainly has a strong HOF case going. He's barely alive at this point, but still.
*just jinxed him into 24-8-9 I bet. Drat
Hopefully whatever he's got isn't contagious..
Let me bring you my copy of Contagion to watch so you can reconsider your life choices.


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Book your room at The Resort at Governor's Crossing
Get an overview of this hotelWater park family friendly condo/hotel near Dollywood
Near Dollywood
In the Great Smoky Mountains between Sevierville and Pigeon Forge, this Governor's Crossing resort is 3 miles from Dollywood.
Lazy river
The Resort at Governor's Crossing features an indoor water park with pools and slides, outdoor pools, and a 250-foot lazy river.
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Suites offer full kitchens with refrigerators and stovetops, cable TV with DVD players, and complimentary wireless Internet access.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Located at the Governor's Crossing, this resort is 9 miles from the Gatlinburg Aerial Tramway and 15 miles from Great Smoky Mountain National Park. There is ample free parking at the property.
On site, the hotel features an indoor water park with two large slides, three pools, a spa tub and sauna, and two outdoor seasonal pools including a 250-foot lazy river. Indoor and outdoor children's pools, a playground, and miniature golf course are also on site.
- Children's pool
- Fitness facilities
- Meeting rooms
- Total number of rooms - 158
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 5
- Elevator/lift
- Lazy river
- Waterslide
- Free self parking
- Sauna
- Spa tub
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor seasonal pool
- Free WiFi
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- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Children's pool
- Lazy river
- Waterslide
- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchen
- Playground on site
- Miniature golf on site
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- DVD player
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- DVD player
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Microwave
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Refrigerator
- Kitchen
- Cable TV service
- Daily housekeeping
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
The hotel does not have its own restaurant, but there are several dining options within the surrounding area.
Nearby restaurants:
Up the Creek Fish Camp and Grill
Texas Roadhouse
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The Resort at Governor's Crossing features an indoor water park that includes two large slides, three swimming pools, a spa tub, and sauna. Outdoors, two pools include a 250-foot lazy river. Indoor and outdoor children's pools are on site.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Miniature golf on site
- Playground on site
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- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
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Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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- Children are welcome.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for USD 5.00 per night.
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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Mr Man wrote:dhamma follower wrote:I listen to AS because there are conditions for that to happen,
Would you go into that a bit more please? What do you mean the conditions are right? Does that mean that you have saved enough money. You have some free time, You have bought an airplane ticket, flown so many miles, to listen, to converse, with no idea that you will gain anything, that the trip will be of any value? Or do you mean that you have great barami that allows this all to unfold?
This is reading too much into the words. The conditions to listen to AS are not superior or inferior to the conditions for my writing now on Dhamma Wheel. It simply means, everything arises by conditions. One of the main conditions for chanda to listen to AS to arise is because I consider her to be a wise friend in the Dhamma, and associating with an wise friend and listening to his/her explanation on the Dhamma is recommended by the Buddha. But other conditions must be in place for something to happen that we can't enumerate here. The point is to understand that it is not me or my doing, and not mistaking the activity to be actual vipassana bhavana it-self.
And when that moment of understanding arises do you let it pass away
Understanding arises and passes away by its own nature. No one to let it pass away. But if it did happen, it can condition other moments, such as moments of wanting to share that understanding with others. It can be considered by others as right or wrong understanding, it is up to their own accumulations....


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Here are the active fire maps 7-10-08 as of 7 am.
New detections occurred last night around 3:45 am for the Aqua satellite and around 11:45 pm for the Terra satellite. All detections mentioned are new within the last 12 hours and represent a different set of detections from the previous update. All reported distances are from Tassajara unless otherwise indicated. There are 22 new detections up Church creek all but 8 on its eastern flank. The closest of these to the road are around 0.5 miles away. This includes detections 0.57 miles from the road just below the bathtub and 0.5 miles from the road just South of China camp.
There are 2 other detections 0.43 miles due West from the 2nd overlook on Tassajara Road and 1 detection 0.5 miles EAST of Tassajara Road about 4.0 miles up the road from Tassajara.
There are 8 new detections up Tassajara creek 7 of which range from 1.8 to 2.6 miles away and 1 of which is 0.5 miles from Tassajara (i.e. the USGS marker at the Zendo). There are 6 new detections in the Oriyoki bowl near the western headwaters and more central in the bowl 1.8 to 2.7 miles distant. There are 6 new detections in the valley just West of Tassajara valley, 4.1 to 5.0 miles away.
There are 4 new detections to the South in Willow creek at distances of 1.9 to 2.1 miles. These detections are just 0.35 miles South of the confluence of the Willow and Tassajara creeks. There are NO new detections to the East in the Indian's fire. There are 3 new detections to the far South at distances between 9.3 and 9.4 miles. There are many new detections to the far Northwest between 10.2 and 16.5 miles away. These closest of these to Jamesburg is 4.45 miles.
I've included yesterdays forest service burn map which was accurate as of 5 pm Wednesday the 9th of July.
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This map will be updated approximately once a day.
The U.S. Forest Service updates this data hourly. There are instructions on the Tassajara web site for how to see this information via Google Earth.


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As a Junior in 2012-13: Took 3rd at Yale with a time of 5:23.79 in the mile… Competed in the 1000m event at The University of Rhode Island and finished with a time of 3:14.93… Crossed the line at 10:44.69 competing in the 3000m event at the Great Dane Classic… Took 7th at Boston University in the mile with a time of 5:17.92
As a Sophomore in 2011-12: Began the year with a third place finish out of 13 in the one mile event at the Yale Lid Lifter with a time of 5;27.59…Ran in the 3000m at the Yale Invitational and finished in 10:49.60…Competed in the one mile race at Rhode Island where she finished in 5:27.05…Was the 56th place finisher in the 3000m event at the Terrier Invitational with a time 10:38.26…Finished the one mile race at Dartmouth in 5;20.55, good for 18th place out of 46 runners…Was the 17th place finisher in the 3000m final at the NEC Championships with a time of 10:57.12…Finished up the year with a personal-best time of 10:26.81 in the 3000m at the New England Championships.
As a Freshman in 2010-11: Placed 10th in the 1,000-meters, after crossing the finish line in 3:11.53, at the Dartmouth Indoor Classic on Feb. 5…Participated in the 3k at the URI Invitational on Jan. 22, where she finished in 10:43.13…Ran the one-mile in a season-best time of 10:43.13.
Before Quinnipiac: Attended Emmaus High School, where she earned four varsity letters in both cross country and track...Her high school's cross country team was a PIAA State runner-up in 2006 and State Champions, for three years, in 2007-2009...Was LVC Cross Country Champions and District 11 Cross Country Champions for four-straight years...Selected as a 2007 and 2009 cross country LVC All-star...Was a Cross Country Scholar Athlete and a member of the Principal's honor roll for all four years...Received the HOSA scholarship award...Was a member of the Lehigh Valley Road Runners...Ran the 5k in 19:04; the 3,200m in 11:12; the 1,600m in 5;12; the 800m in 2:27; and the 4x800m in 2:23.
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CLARION – Ridgway is one win from a district championship.
The Elkers' most familiar foe awaits them on Saturday.
Ridgway advanced to the District 9 Class A boys basketball championship game against Johnsonburg with a 57-40 victory over Clarion-Limestone Wednesday night at Tippin Gym on the campus of Clarion University.
The championship game is scheduled for around 8 p.m. Saturday night at Tippin Gym. Ridgway holds a 3-1 series advantage over the Rams this season.
In an effort to implement cost savings and unify 911 services, nine counties in northern Pennsylvania have teamed up to upgrade to a "Next Generation 911 Telephony System and Network."
The counties are Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Elk, Forest, Jefferson, McKean, Venango and Warren.
"[The counties] have worked together as one entity to create a regional network and improving technology and operations while saving costs to their individual counties," said Michael C. McGrady, the president of MCM Consulting Group out of McMurray.
ST. MARYS - With the progression of PennDOT's Million Dollar Highway project, PennDOT has begun acquiring properties adjacent to a downtown St. Marys intersection slated to be widened.
According to Marla Fannin, community relations coordinator with PennDOT District 2, the scope of the project is to "provide full-depth reconstruction of the roadway from Wal-Mart to the St. Marys Diamond," with the estimated cost being $11 million.
Included in project plans is the widening of the SR 255/ SR 120 intersection.
KERSEY – Whenever Kersey resident Amy Donachy returns home, her pet, Wilbur, is there to greet her. He knows his name and even comes when she calls him.
Wilbur is not a dog, cat, or other "traditional" pet, though-- he is a pig.
Donachy, 18, explained that she first got Wilbur two years ago after wanting a pig ever since she was a little girl. When her mother finally gave in, her family looked for a pig on the Pennswoods website and found a litter near the Pennsylvania/Maryland border.
Area residents attending Saturday's Kentucky Headhunters/Confederate Railroad concert will also be treated to the comedy stylings of St. Marys native Brad Leviski, who goes by the stage name of "Bubba Bradley."
Leviski said he had always thought about being a comic, but never really got the opportunity until about three and a half years ago.
"I was working at a bar in Montana. I was the head bouncer. A buddy of mine knew a comic in L.A. and had him come in and do a show. They wanted somebody to warm up the crowd for five minutes and I volunteered," Leviski said.
John E. Darnell III, age 41, of 514 Cherry Ave., Ridgway, died unexpectedly Wednesday morning, Feb. 29, 2012, at Elk Regional Health Center.
He was born May 23, 1970, in Ridgway, son of John E. Darnell Jr. and Shirley A. (Saline) Darnell.
He had resided in Ridgway for most of his life and was Protestant by faith. He was a graduate of the Elkins High School in Elkins, W. Va. He was a member of the American Legion Post 208, the VFW, and the Elks Club. He served in the U.S. Army and was a peacetime veteran. He had been employed at Metaldyne for 20 years.
Caroline M. McClain, 89, of 229 Grandview Rd., St. Marys, died Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012 at the Pinecrest Manor after a brief illness. She was born Sept. 14, 1922, in St. Marys, daughter of the late Bernard and Caroline Erich Wright.
On Jan. 13, 1940, in the Sacred Heart Church, she married Jay P. McClain, who preceded her in death on Nov. 25, 1994.
Mrs. McClain was a lifelong resident of the area and attended Sacred Heart School. She was a member of Queen of the World Church and enjoyed life, her family, and especially her grandchildren.


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31 CFR 544.205 - Evasions; attempts; conspiracies.
(a) Except as otherwise authorized, and notwithstanding any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the effective date, any transaction by a U.S. person or within the United States on or after the effective date that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this part is prohibited.
Title 31 published on 2014-07-01.
No entries appear in the Federal Register after this date, for 31 CFR Part 544.


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If you think you payed a king's ransom for your phone, the Vertu Ti will put things in perspective.
That's for a refurbished Roamio, but it's still by far the best TiVo deal, well, ever.
The Web portal allows anyone to use TiVo's unified search, and subscribers can manage their TiVo DVRs and stream recordings in a Web browser.
The free service allows anyone to track down shows and movies available from video-streaming services and broadcast TV, while subscribers can do much more.
TiVo is again offering reduced pricing on its Roamio OTA but it's uncertain how long the $399 price will last.
TiVo has announced "limited-time" pricing for the Roamio OTA DVR of $300 with no monthly service fee. It's a great deal for cord-cutters as long as it lasts.
With 10 hot-swappable hard drives capable of storing 26,000 hours of shows, the rack-mountable Mega is a dream TV recorder for custom home-theater installs.
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TiVo Roamio OTA is an excellent DVR, but its monthly fee structure makes it too expensive for people cutting the cable cord. The standard TiVo Roamio is a better choice overall for cord cutters.
The chipmakers both unveil new platforms to help smaller devices last a little longer.
The DVR stalwart will rename one of its most iconic features to reflect an upgrade that integrates streaming and broadcast sources into the My Shows menu.


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Where is Krimson?
Krimson and three other leading Drupal agencies have joined forces. Together we now form Wunderkraut, the largest European Drupal company.
We're still the same people with the same experience and expertise. Every single one of us shares a true passion for Drupal and its community. As Wunderkraut, we bring you all the necessary expertise to design, build and support your online projects.


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Dr. Nacamuli received his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. Originally from the Bay Area, he returned to complete his general surgery instruction at the University of California San Francisco - East Bay. His surgical training included extensive research focusing on tissue engineering at Stanford University, as well as training at the Buncke Clinic microvascular surgery center in San Francisco. He completed his training in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, OR.
Dr. Nacamuli is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is on the medical staff at Dominican Hospital, where he is currently the Chair of the Department of Surgery and Secretary/Treasurer of the medical staff. He is also a staff physician at Watsonville Community Hospital, and is one of two plastic surgeons specializing in the reconstruction of complex wounds at the Monterey Bay Wound Treatment Center.
Dr. Nacamuli's clinical interests include hand surgery, facial and breast reconstruction, and aesthetic surgery of the body. With a keen eye for detail and a warm demeanor, Dr. Nacamuli provides every patient with thoughtful, compassionate care.
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Frantic Foodie: Confessions of a Wannabe Chef
Cook 'till you drop or until your guests do. I am on a cooking journey. A pinch of cookbooks, tablespoons of new foods, cups of recipes and a handful of mistakes to share.
Top Chef Casting in Seattle
Roll up your sleeves and get your dessert on! Top Chef Desserts is Casting in Seattle! [Read More]
Valentine's Day Event -Love Stinks
LOVE STINKS A DIS-FUNK-TIONAL VALENTINE'S DAY DANCE PARTY [Read More]
Get Some Italian Mama Lovin' in the Kitchen
I can't imagine a local Italian mama, more loving then Enza. Check out this event coming up this weekend [Read More]
Damiana's Blue Truck Special
One of my favorite people Eric Rivera will be cooking here. I know you this guy, either from the Seattle PI blogs or from his personal blog. The truth is that he has food running through his veins so whatever Eric does will surely impress! [Read More]
New Menu at Salty's Seafood Grills (all locations)
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Seattle Dining Cookbook, A blast from the Past
Seattle Dining: Past & Present is appearing in all major bookstores, gourmet and kitchen stores, and tourist areas this week, following a series of book launch events held over the last several days. A book-signing at Mario's – the trendsetting downtown retail store, was followed by a gathering of media, top area chefs and past chef/restaurauteurs (highlighted in a previous edition of the book 20 years ago). Waterfront Restaurant, featured in the "Present" section, hosted the gala event and authors … [Read More]
Vancouver Culinary Tours
Hello Readers, A friend of mine, Melody does culinary tours of Vancouver. She is a fun person with a love for food, restaurants and life. Now you can get a bite of one of her tours, details below. [Read More]
The Pink Door presents "Party for Health" This Weekend
The Pink Door Throws a Festa per la Salute! to Help Solve the Mystery of Multiple Sclerosis Join The Pink Door for an Italian "party for health" with 70% of proceeds going to a very personal cause for owner Jacqueline Roberts The Pink Door (www.thepinkdoor.net) is throwing a Festa per la Salute! or "Party for Health" to help solve the mystery of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic and often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system, which may include a condition called Chronic Cerebrospinal … [Read More]


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Rookie Life in AMA Pro SuperBike
NEWS September 15, 2011
Photo by Brian J. Nelson
September 2011
Rookie life in AMA SBK by Jordy Burgess
So there I was, finally in the land of opportunities, arriving at LAX ready for the big year ahead in AMA Pro Superbike. I didn't have a car, home, or anything to my name…. Just a gear bag, some clothes, my personal savings and a contract signed to ride a Suzuki GSXR- 1000 for Team ADR Fly Racing run by Australian rider 'Aussie' Dave Anthony.
In 2010 my first season as a pro in Australia was littered with injuries, a few bouts of surgery. I was robbed of some confidence and the pressure as a Rookie on the Australian factory Ducati Superbike team was too great, and I was given the flick by the team. Looking back, I think this was a blessing in disguise as I have always dreamt of coming to America to race in AMA Pro Racing . This could be my chance.
The glamorized AMA Pro series has always attracted me. Ever since I was a kid reading in magazines about the MX and SX guys like Jeremy McGrath and the road race guys like the Bostrom brothers and Mat Mladin tearing it up, I wanted to be a part of it. All I thought was everything is bigger in the USA, and road racing is bound to bounce back from sales slumps and the GFC and I could start making some money back from the sport which my family has sacrificed so much on me for. .. I thought, "Top 10… easy! These Americans won't know what hit them!" I look back now that I have done a full season here and realize how naive I was. These guys are amazing riders, and have been riding the same tracks for years with state of the art machinery and support. I now realize it was never going to be easy for a rookie Aussie on a low budget team...
After getting my sleeping and living arrangements sorted for the time being, which was a couch in a motorhome in the backyard of Dave's place, we headed for our first test at Daytona International Speedway where I got my first taste of AMA Pro Racing. I was so excited seeing the double-decker trucks, riders, teams and the banking on that bloody track for the first time I almost wet myself in excitement! The test went well and I was happy with my Suzuki GSX-R1000. Daytona is a really cool track, it's very simple and fast! You can really push the bike hard which is what I love doing. Riding towards the banking for the first time was a rush. One second you're freaking out as you don't know what to do when you hit the steep bank then all of a sudden you're on it with your chest and helmet flattened on the bike at up to 2.2 Gs at 190mph!
The first race there I finished 14th which was awesome. After the race I was pumped and ready to celebrate and found my way to the bar to have a beverage, and low and behold, I saw my adolescent idol - the **** hunter! We got talking over a few Budweiser's and exchanged some notes on our chosen fields of profession which was entertaining! Overall a pretty cool start to a good season ahead.
Our Bikes that Dave Anthony had built himself were running similar in horsepower to the other SuperBikes as they can only run certain selected performance parts in AMA Pro spec, however the biggest difference between us and the factory guys is the level of electronics. There's no cap on the level of electronics allowed so for us running just a simple EM pro box and no TC, it was always going to be an uphill battle to run up front. Our team consists of two main riders, three mechanics, a driver and sometimes another hand if we were lucky! It's a tough ask for a team trying to look professional and put on the set up we do when it is normally only 3 or 4 of us setting it all up but we made it happen.
Gearing up for the 20,000 miles I will be doing throughout the season, I bought myself a little Isuzu SUV for $3000. I wasn't sure if it was going to last but she's still kicking on!
From the West to the East Coast, I traveled with some of our crew and we had an absolute ball, stopping through places like Las Vegas, Milwaukee, and Chicago on our way to tracks as I managed to convince people at every place we visited that I was a Aussie sheep farmer. I found that profession much easier to explain than being a pro SuperBike racer .. as the general public here has no idea what a SuperBike is, never loan understand an Aussie accent!
Racing fans here differ in each of the states we visited to race at. At Miller, there really wasn't much going on yet at the track, whereas at Ohio or Laguna-Seca, the crowds were loving it! Ohio was crazy!
Off the bike, I was loving it. However, on the bike .. it was a different story. For the first few rounds, when trying to get up to speed and riding around equipment flaws, I found myself having a shocker with two DNF's at Infineon and Miller (Crashing in the qualifying session and races which meant zero points for two rounds).
I thought at Miller that my luck on track would change, however during the race I pushed too hard through a turn and lost the front end and found my butt DNF'd yet again! It was a killer blow. I was trying so hard to get noticed, however, I just couldn't hold it together so it seemed! Now it's time for me to re-evaluate my strategy. I had come to the realization to make a name for myself here it was not going to happen overnight and I need to just be a bit more patient and ride smart.
From Road America, Wisconsin, on until the abrupt end of the season at New Jersey I had consistent qualifying runs and top 15 finishes with my best finishing 12th. I improved at every round to finish 15th overall despite the DNF's. Unfortunately, 2 rounds got cancelled, Virginia and, what was supposed to be the final round somewhere. I thought it was funny that the other teams and racers just accepted it too. I didn't get it, I was paying to race this year I was infuriated! Yes, that's right, not everyone here, nay, only the top 5 or 10 guys are getting any sort of proper return from our sport. It's a real shame, but that's the way racing is for now unfortunately all over the world. It makes it tough and sometimes you have to ask, for what am I sacrificing all this for? But it's simple, as a racer, if you still have that burning desire to race and chase the dream, you must do it while you can and take any and every opportunity you can being smart about it.
I am thankful to have this opportunity with Team ADR for 2011 and have learned so much as a rider and am looking forward to next season. However, I have no ride as yet and need more personal sponsors to be able to compete and keep charging hard. To sum it all up, the AMA Pro Racing competition is a tough one and is a great feeding ground for the world championships. My goal is to continue racing here next year and build upon my knowledge and experiences I have taken from this year!
For now, however, I am off to Oktoberfest to sample there beers and spend a few days in Europe with some friends!
Jordy #33
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This program is part of the Administration of Justice Department.
Thinking about a career in the court system? Want to make the move to the legal side of criminal justice? Then, the Judicial Studies program at MCC is where you want to be.
A certificate in Judicial Studies will provide you with the specific skills and knowledge you need to pursue a career in the court system. Our certificate is also designed for law enforcement professionals who want to enhance or expand their job skills. Our program of study explores the court structure, management, role of the judiciary, and other areas that impact the court.
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Just got my new Miller Digital Elite in. Thought I would do something a little different to it. Should be adding a coat of clear coat to it soon. Let me know what you think.
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Plagiarism and what, if anything, should be done about it in our Colleges and Universities.
There is a business simulation that is being played in many colleges and universities where, if a company (team) is ahead of you in points, simply copy what they are doing right with their products and advertising.
Is that plagiarism?
Years ago, I talked with an container manufacturer who took the artwork from a competitor and made 10-12 drawings, each one a little bit different than the previous one but the last subliminally identical to the competitor's design so that business could be stolen from that competitor with the client in question.
Is that plagiarism?
Are we confusing plagiarism with unethical behavior or is copying simply copying without recognizing the source?
Most Colleges and Universities have a third party available to all instructors that will check out papers to see if they have been plagiarized. Many professors use that service but there are some that simply copy and paste sentences from various paragraphs into the Google search engine and press enter and the sources are readily available. Some have been paraphrased and some have been completely copied and used as their own.
So, here is the debate: should we hold students accountable for plagiarism when the "real world" does not or should we simply let it go, realizing that life over time is always self-correcting?
Sometimes, plagiarism is so easy to spot especially when one has in-class writing assignments and can compare them to out-of-class writing assignments and it is sad to think that college students believe that they will not get caught by professors.
Another issue for debate that is tied to plagiarism is: should colleges and universities prepare students for life and the "real world" or should they just acquaint them with the pursuit of knowledge? Can this question be easily answered by reading the Charter/Mission of the school?
Plagiarism is a substantial component of the competitive environment and should not be tampered with at any cost... is my opinion.
Jun 30 2013: Perhaps there is a new market for algorithmic AI here to consider. But firstly I think institutions need to start considering their own assessment procedures as the problem. After all there is no plagiarizing when an assigned assessment artifact expectation is based in an authentic real world synthesis and not solely in replicative application, rote recall, or comparative critique. Results in institutions that value educating innovators need to assess student innovation against knowledge objectives that build or expand upon learned principles in real world applicable circumstances. Just assessing based in knowledge objectives or simple comparison is indicative of a time when the world's knowledge was not at our fingertips. Therefore I think plagiarism is definitely a systemic institutional problem and not a student problem. Authentic tasks are impossible to plagiarize. Students are becoming inherently higher Order thinkers naturally through higher order technology.
As far a the AI reference perhaps it's time for computers to start doing the comparing using correlative algorithms to determine probable plagiarism to degrees acceptability instead of subjective non standardized opinion thereby creating a data set of originality in the micro and macro institutional scales and plotting scales of innovative thought and attributing credit accordingly. Google Books seems like a good place to start.
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Jun 30 2013: Good students copy, great students steal....Paraphrasing Picasso.
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ie just coping is itself not a act of creativity, nor an indication of intelligence. Whereas taking the idea of the paragraph and the meaning, and agreeing with it, but using your own voice to express it is "stealing" the concept, but not the execution.Jun 28 2013: Hi Alex,
Your question (and other conversations here on TED, and other places) made me think of a couple of things:
- I once made a research on the aquisition of language. I connected Pinker, Popper and other thinkers. I got a good grade but that was years ago. Times change, eras change. I sincerily do hope that what I did was interesting and could help some people and universities evolve, but maybe my research was not good enough? I think now I should reconsider my conclusions, but then again - a lot of people should. I've learnt so much more since then. Here's a talk on that subject http://www.ted.com/talks/what_we_learned_from_5_million_books.html . It's good that we're all learning.
- my connection there was imperfect. But I still do hope people who are interested in the subject will learn from that.
Best wishes.Jun 26 2013: I`ve just catch an idea, if somebody use copying in ideas, style etc as a step to own development, this is a normal one. I have a doubt people claims such work as something voluable made by themselves. It`s just the step, need to understand and then go on and on. Even in could be payed as a step. Parents should grant a child if he or she do attempts that way. But it is not the final point and shouldn`t be payed as the original product from my point of view. However I know several artists, masters to copy great old masters, and they claim their paintings as a COPY, but very well payed.People like it. It`s a deviation for today. Another deviation is trash accepted as something original. I have no respect to Andy Warhol that way. But see - it`s very well payed too!
So... I strongly believe people should make attempts to growth, sometimes by copying. But it`s normal to make the next step and try to overcome late beauty of a copy and try to create something above it. And analise the work, of course.
As I saw, in plagiarism such analysis doesn`t exists, stolen work just presents as a price or as a bribe, in order to close the case and stop the process.
Jun 28 2013: I wish I had a thumbs-down to click right now.
Ask me for the details.Jun 26 2013: First, reduce the competitive model for academic performance as much as possible. In the real world, outside of the perverse society of academia, the vast majority of people with jobs that actually need college education will do those jobs as part of a team. They may be in competition, but it will be against other groups, not individuals. Even the "lone PI" is not really alone (unless said PI is not at all successful). When students get the idea early on that they're not in a death-match but actually have to work together.
Second, teach the difference between plagiarism and legitimate appropriation. It is a flat-out lie that anyone or anything is "original". Stop teaching that lie. There is nothing original, everything is derivative. The key is proper attribution and the amount of derivation that is legally and socially permitted--and this changes.Jun 25 2013: A syllogism:
There is nothing new under the sun.
Plagiarism is the act of writing something which is not new.
Anyone who writes is guilty of plagiarism.
Jun 28 2013: Just a little challenge for you, Edward:
igjoknviwinvown/visnvis¤jnvsnvisu=nvinvinvioun!bviubviubvu''''jn viadjfkvnoinuv`;;;ouidfvniubviuea&&&&&kibnmionbaiebSSSSofobnoenboe,,jkvnoinvuivi..........t....h.....ibv8uibn.bvaaebak....aebebtherefore....fgabbi-----------am----,uvi-j-.nuvniaenb
I could do this forever, what I'm trying to say is this - when you're writing, you're doing a lot. You're expressing something, you're trying to show or reveal something. What you're expressing may be emotional, scientific, pseudoscientific, nice, true, factual... depends on the angle, knowledge, capacity, expectations and so many more things.
Maybe you've heard of the phenomenon called hypergraphy, an urge to put all you know and feel in writing. The world has benefited from this phenomenon, but it should never be confused with truth/plagiarism/analysis/science-art spectre and many more.
There are a lot of questions to be asked here. I will not write 'trust me' although I feel a hypergraphic urge to do so.
What I wrote above is not hyper, it is not a code and not a language. In a language you have a 'assert true' function. In a code, you don't have that. Just to let you know.
On the other hand - a language (i.e. human communication, not programming) is a sort of a code. Go figure.
Best wishes.
edward long
Jun 28 2013: I usually run from a challenge but in your case I made an exception. If you are implying that you have written something new, I must take exception. Here is a quote from something someone somewhere at some time long ago wrote: "igjoknviwinvown/visnvis¤jnvsnvisu=nvinvinvioun!bviubviubvu''''jn viadjfkvnoinuv`;;;ouidfvniubviuea&&&&&kibnmionbaiebSUSSofobnoenboe,,jkvnoinvuivi..........t....h.....ibv8uibn.bvaaebak....aebebtherefore....fgabbi-----------am----,uvi-j-.nuvniaenb". As you will undoubtedly notice it is almost identical to your piece. Clearly we have a case of wrongful appropriation" and "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work. Unless you can PROVE you have written something new under the Sun, you are guilty of plagiarism and my syllogism has survived your challenge. For the omniscient everything is a deja vu. Cheers and Palpitations. :-D
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Jun 28 2013: I respect your analytical and pedantic comments and let me add the following:
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I hope that will not be misunderstood or used against my creative, innovative and so on person ;-)
I cannot prove I have written anything "new under the sun" in my studies according to your criteria, I can prove that I have written something to add to all that, that I have written new things, academic or not, and that...well, I can prove a lot of things. Just ask me! :)
Cheers! :DJun 25 2013: Wikipedia has a good article on what plagiarism is. It isn't the same thing as copyright infringement.
[Wikipedia] Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work. Plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics. It is subject to sanctions like expulsion. Plagiarism is not a crime per se but in academia and industry it is a serious ethical offense, and cases of plagiarism can constitute copyright infringement. [end Wikipedia]
Wikipedia also gives examples of how Brown, Oxford, Princeton, Stanford & Yale define plagiarism.
I learned about plagiarism writing research papers in college. If you quote an author, you need to cite the author. I went to college back in the 70s (Stone-age: we had no word processors or lap tops! HOW did we ever manage!). Back then, I always assumed that "sticking-in-the-footnotes" was proof that I actually did the research! I had to prove that I wasn't just reciting a bunch of random stuff I heard in class.
But then, I discovered that one of my 14-or-so RANDOM clone twins -- somehow got my papers, retyped them, & turned them in at another university under his name as his own work! I'd already gotten my grades back from them. I'm not even sure how he got them! But the facts did come to light.
He attended a state university. All that was uncovered incidental to a law enforcement investigation into other, serious, crimes. The plagiarism was not a prosecutable offense. But the State University concerned took action. They stripped him of his degree & forced him to replace all the plagiarized materials - with his own, original work. This was 20 years after graduation. There may have been a court case. He was at that time serving as an officer in the U.S. military. The scandal did not help his career. I don't know of any other consequences.Jun 25 2013: Everything is a remix!
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Jun 25 2013: there is something more in reallity "not everyone is an inventor" things get copied but as long as they are encouraged to enhance what they copyJun 25 2013: In my understanding "copying" and "plagiarism" are used in different context though in meaning these are same or very close.
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"Plagiarism" is more used in case theft of creative writings, while in all other cases usually it is being called as "Copying"
In business world companies that lacks innovation tend to copy "actions" of competitors for quick win. Action is somthing visible and easy to copy, but "STRATEGY" behind action is not visible and difficult copy. Moreover when business develops STRATEGY they develop it considering many points from short to long term perspective and there needs the innovation.
If students are only copying to pass or get a good grade (unfortunately our education system is such, to my felling it just certifies students , seldom can educate them) , they are just ignoring their own creative ability...so in long run it might not bring great success for them in real life.
About your 2nd last para , I would like to say universities should prepare student for both that means "Goodies of Life" & "Real World" otherwise they will find themselves the real world to be alien one and struggle.Jun 25 2013: Perhaps everyone who has an own idea want to protect it. Mine was stolen many times so I feel it by myself, and my feelings is not so good. But look at anothers. People live to save glukoze in brain activity. If they have no ideas, even no wish to try, but sucessful in using.. successful because when and original author exhousted giving birth of a project, they are fresh to use it.
If they could vote, they vote to opposit.
Where is the border between such interests?Jun 25 2013: Alex, We are progressing rapidly into a very controlled educational environment. The federal government has introduced CORE and STEM and has sought to write all textbooks and develop all tests per Arne Duncan US Secretary of Education.
So as this occurs the "state" opinion will be the official answer to all questions and all studies. In effect there cannot be plagiarism only "state" acceptable answers and not acceptable answers making this question moot.
If I write E=MC 2 does anyone think it is mine ... do I need to give credit. If I sing Happy Birthday ... do I need to give credit? I have worked with some very successful people who have never had an original thought. If I take your basic idea and improve on it ... have I stolen your idea?
Want to protect it get a copyright on it. Otherwise industrial spying, cheating, coping, and all the rest are just a part of the game.
I wish you well. Bob.
Jun 25 2013: That's my point exactly... All knowledge is in the public domain and expressions and phrases and should be free for anyone to use at anytime.
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Jun 25 2013: The identification of plagiarism is really not as simple as we may think. For example many term papers involve mathematics, may be copied using the exactly same procedure in the proof, but all the explanations are changed in wording. Unless it is a dissertation where even the the proofs must be original ideas, then of course it would be identified as plagiarism. Even for that, when this identification is checked by a computer matching in word by word, if a wicked plagiarist changed most of the explanation and changed the symbolic representation of the variables in the equations then, the computer may never be able to find it.
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By the way, I have never been such a plagiarist, but have been a victim of it.
Jun 25 2013: Computer couldn`t find plagiarizm correctly the same way it couldn`t think. If the freshness of an Idea blongs to precious play with meanings and context, a computer could lost it.
On the other hand it should be algorithms to determine the border between half-copied and original matherials. Something used by patent organizations or registration of an images.Jun 25 2013: But, how does one know if it is an original idea just because they cannot find it in another book or online. Do we actually think that Edison was the only one that invented the lightbulb? And, what if I copied 20% of a painter's painting, do I need to give him/her credit?
bart hsi
Jun 25 2013: The only party who could discover the plagiarism in this case is the original author or his relatives/colleagues/students, but also someone who is making a thorough survey of the particular topic. That's why there were lot of discoveries many years later by accident. However, in modern days, if someone decided to scrutinize some public figures and pick out a particular publication or academic dissertation, then it would be easy to search the particular topic, and find out the original publication that was plagiarized. In other word, the common routine in general screening of plagiarized contents can't be very effective, but a pinpointed examination using modern searching tools could do wonders. Only humans could identify which field and sub-field, etc. where the passage or formula likely belongs, and attempt to the search there.Jun 24 2013: "When students cheat [plagiarize] on tests or exams its because our school system value grades more than students value learning" - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Jun 24 2013: Agree.
Also I saw students found tests and exicizes not interesting so even don`t try to do something by themselves. If they try result is desaster sometimes... so they prefer to copy online.
It`s an interesting question how to live all life in the world full of information in Internet. They could feel like everything was appeared as God created it. So use it as we use nature.Jun 24 2013: There is a difference between copying something with attribution and copying something while representing it as ones own idea.
Painters learn their techniques, often, by copying works of the masters. What then is not accepted is to claim these are originals and particularly to sell them as originals.
In the classroom, when you ask students to write an essay, you probably want to know what the student is thinking rather than what the student sitting next to him was thinking or what he could find online.
A related issue, I think, is making false attributions. Plagiarism is taking someone else's product as ones own and claiming such ownership or suggesting such ownership. The flip side of this is taking one's own ideas and attributing them to someone credible or well-known as a way of increasing people's willingness to accept them. It amounts to putting forward false evidence.
In terms of schools' charters and mission statements, I don't think these necessarily offer an up-to-date representation of what the school means to do or that the various schools and faculties at an institution are necessarily aligned with any one mission statement, unless it is extremely broad.
Jun 24 2013: I think you have made some valid points. But, if I write a 500 word essay and 50 of those words came from someone else and were not my original thoughts, should I still give that person credit because I captured some of their thoughts, that could have been captured by someone who wrote them before him because that person plagiarized?
I copy 10% of a work of art by a Master and the other 90% is mine - how should I define the ownership? And, is not that similar to a student copying a sentence from a 1500 word thesis that someone else wrote?
I mentioned a school's charter/mission statements because I have worked for traditional colleges as well as proprietary colleges and their charters and mission statement are dramatically different. Proprietary schools has as their mission to find their graduates jobs and they are measured on doing exactly that; whereas traditional school are not measured on finding graduates jobs but they are measured on providing opportunities to gain knowledge and conduct research. Consequently, the roles of the professors in the classroom is completely different. In proprietary schools, professors are measure on the transfer of knowledge, so the responsibility is more on the professor than on the student. In traditional schools, the responsibility is more on the student than on the professor.
In proprietary school we make sure our professors know how to teach adults - in traditional schools, it is assumed because of the PhD, that professors know how to teach adults. In most colleges and universities, professors use ppts and lectures to get the information across to the students. Research shows that students retain 10-15% when that method is used.
Students who graduate from traditional school do in fact find employment but the awarding of the degree was not so they could find employment based upon their Charter and Mission Statements.
Jun 24 2013: Why could the student not have put those fifty words in quotation marks and cited the source?
As a professor, wouldn't you consider that the norm for how work is done by professionals in the field you teach?
I am not familiar with the terms "proprietary college" and "traditional college." I don't think I have ever read the charters or mission statements of the institutions where I have taught, and I have a hunch many faculty have not either.
Jun 24 2013: A proprietary school is one like ITT Technical Institute or Phoenix or Strayer. These schools guarantee by their mission statement to place students in jobs as a part of their degree funding arrangements. They are typically on average about 80-90% effective at doing that.
A traditional school is typically a non-profit college although there are some for profit colleges that fall into that category as well.
Proprietary schools take those students that are not accepted by traditional schools.
According to MLA or APA guidelines, those 50 words should be cited, but that is not the point I was trying to make... Should they be logically, not according to APA or MLA guidelines... Just because we have guidelines does not mean that are right.
Civil Disobedience.Jun 24 2013: I wasn't referring to such guidelines. I was suggesting, rather, that the standards for students studying a subject should represent the standards that professionals in their field would hold to in their professional capacities. A history student, for example, would do his work in the same spirit as a historian.Jun 25 2013: Fritzie . . . I don't like where this conversation is going. Plagiarism is important & wrong! Plagiarism is not right! Plagiarism is not correct behavior in a student. We are kind of drifting around here and these opinions expressed here are NOT always helpful. High School students in particular, need to KNOW that plagiarism can hurt your grades seriously! Plagiarism demonstrates a lack of academic integrity. And THAT won't get you into graduate school at all!
There is so much available on the internet. I wrote a major paper in grad-school more than 10 years ago. Only ONE published work had the kind of information in it that I wanted. So I cited that work extensively. But I had to cite it with on-line footnotes referencing the web copy that I got access to. That was a real pain because I had to make up my own footnote form. The citations proved my research and strengthened those few ideas that were truly mine. I made it work.
After I turned in the paper, THEN the library went out & got a copy of the book in question. Faculty had requested it. I got a good grade on my paper.
But whatever unhelpful comments might be made here on this issue, Proof of Plagiarism will take an otherwise A+ paper & earn you a failing grade for your work. No reputable University will tolerate that.
Jun 25 2013: I agree with you that in scholarship, lifting text from others without attribution is a violation of intellectual integrity in any field in which I have worked or taught. This would have been just as true in the (non-academic) workplace.
I think what the host of the thread is thinking about is that in the field in which he is training people, the custom may be to grab other people's material without attribution. When someone programs in Python, say, the program may involve importing modules that are available as part of Python in a bank of ready-made programs. The programmer would never-the-less consider the program his work.
As you can see from my posts, I think the field and its standards should be represented with integrity in the classroom.Jun 24 2013: if i want to tell a better story our of a state symbol in my country, i bet you that peoples work on symbols help me define my work in a sense that is african in nature and full of maturity...Jun 24 2013: Plagiarism is best for young writer who have the idea and can use the grammatical layout of the authors writings to perfect his, am a good example of someone who uses plagiarism alot, and it makes me feel so good to the extent that, for a moment that is my talent, trying to bring my work out of others work.
Jun 24 2013: I see your point... and, if I use your ideas to incorporate within my ideas, it makes me a better writer...
Van Gogh has a unique brush stroke when he painted, so is it plagiarism to use his brush stroke to make my painting better, even though my paintings my look like his?
I also hear a phrase that I like somewhere that someone said in a conversation and I like that phrase so I use it in my writing to make my writing better, or I use that phrase as the core phrase in one of my poems...Jun 24 2013: What is the base of copying?
I was told about mirror neurons which responsible on. Also I was told by neuroscientist our brain was designed to make so smart operation so it will be able keep stay and save glucose. So to copy anothers decisions is in human nature - it seems in nature of 80-90% cases.
Than have a glance to professional field. Profession of writing, designe, also to be an artist or a scientist strongly requires to be unical. Several neuronet effects support it, in physiology it calls Uchtomsky dominant and ultra-strange behaviour. But not everyone could perform it.
In biology exists nice instrument calls Severtsev plane. It split all creatures into 3 levels:
the middle, about 80% of persons, forms statistical norma, a genetic pool to stable breeding. This is no revolution here. A little bit funny style is OK, but no inventions.
About 10% goes upper the middle plane, it`s evolutional and revolutional models. Such way nature tryes variants. If a half of that pool will be mistakes, 80% fro the middle level could reproduct the population. If 10% successfull, it will be spreaded to the middle population and becomes a new norma that way.
...And the low part of the plane is for parasits. To those who degradated and lives off the middle level.
If we go back to the problem described, we can see all of that natural mechanisms here. Computers made everything visible and so sharp we can`t deny it.
As an artist and scientist (in past) I represent 10% of the evolution plane. I feel myself vulnerable in front of the problem because copypasting grows as a forestfire and as I see made people more vulgar. They save their glucoze all time. I think the base of teaching should be changed now. So copypast matherials to common subjects will not be required. Ask students for analysis, not for referats. But it`s the risk because not everyone could do analysis well.Jun 24 2013: Alex, what do you mean, the real world doesn't punish plagiarism. We had a columnist in our local paper, a guy in his '40's teaching at a local high school also. He was caught plagiarizing his columns, and fired from the paper, and, I think, really publicly humiliated.
Jun 24 2013: I should have qualified my comment by saying 90% of the time, the real world does not punish plagiarism. Because you are right, especially in the field of journalism and writing for Trade Journals, plagiarism is not tolerated, and also in the field of music and writers, and no doubt a few other places as well, so maybe I should drop down to 80% just to be on the safe side.
When Dean Smith conceived the idea of a 4 corners offense in basketball at UNC, other schools copied his direction with no credit ever been given. Actors have copied gestures that they have like and even comedians steal each others materials.
OPEC oil has copied American modification of the supply and demand curve by holding back on the production of oil to increase the price.
We have copyrights and patents in the US for protection but they are not observed in Asia or other countries. Businesses reverse engineer products so that they can build copy cats. Lawyers copy legal tactics that work in courts.
I am sure there are other examples, but these are the ones that come to mind right now.
Thanks for your input...
Jun 24 2013: Well, it's harder to copyright an idea, or a practice than something that's more concrete, or specific. For example, I don't think Smith could copyright the 4 corners offense...well, come to think of it, it's kind of hard to say why. Well, I'm sorry, Alex, the best I can say at this point is that because it's a practice it's hard to copyright, and that seems correct to me. Part of it might be that even if other people employ a four corners offense, they're still going to modify it to meet their own needs, well, even that doesn't explain it, well, I'll have to think about it. Is it possible that it's really hard to "prove" at any one moment that someone is running a four corners offense, sports has a lot of movement, people move around, jockey, in basketball they set screens. I don't know, even that answer doesn't do it for me, it sure feels right to me that he can't copyright that, and it has something to do with it being rather intangible, I think. I'll have to think about it, sorry, I thought I knew but thus far I don't. Do you think he should be allowed to copyright the offense?Jun 24 2013: One thought that occurs is that there's a fairly limited number of ways five people can arrange themselves on a basketball court. If you allowed people to copyright those ways, and people couldn't go to those arrangements without getting sued, you'd pretty soon have almost noone playing basketball.
Jun 24 2013: I think you have given me something to think about. You cannot copyright an idea but if you put that idea into an advertisement, you can copyright the ad, but the copyright lasts for only 26 years I think and then it falls back into the public domain.
Can knowledge be copyrighted or patented? Is there anything new about having knowledge? Does it not seem like knowledge should be free to everyone? But, we have to go to College to get a piece of paper that says we have knowledge, but then, isn't our knowledge just like everyone else's knowledge?
So, when we write a paper that draws on other people's knowledge (that happens to be in the public domain I would think?) why do we need to give them credit when in actuality they deserve no credit because someone else had the idea before them. And, it we believe in Creation, then all knowledge and all ideas and all usages of those ideas have been given to us by our Creator, so should we not give Him credit - if in fact, He is a He...
I wrote a book of poetry back in 1977 and it was copyrighted to protect my writings but those poems are now in the public domain because I did not renew the copyright, so anyone can use them, even though I was the one who wrote them first... Is this plagiarism? Or, does plagiarism, like copyrights, have an expiration date?Jun 24 2013: Thanks for replying, Alex. Still trying to figure it out. It seems like you can't copyright the general concept of music, but you can copyright particular pieces of music. No one has copyrighted the idea of television, but they can copyright particular television apparatuses, systems, circuitries. All this "feels" right, but I'm still working on putting it into words.