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A Canadian Bankruptcy Trustee's role in a consumer proposal can be very confusing for consumers largely because of the advertising done by Canadian Bankruptcy Trustees. These Trustees advertise a way out of debt and offer to help you out of your financial problems, almost as though they represent you and your best interests through the process.
Full stop. This is not the case at all.
Trustees need you in order to stay in business. No bankruptcies and consumer proposals = no need for the Trustee. In fact, while in a bankruptcy they are bound by pre-defined tariffs, in a consumer proposal they are compensated based on the amount of the consumer proposal. Bigger proposal = more fees for them. While they advertise the benefits of a bankruptcy or proposal and are the only ones who can administer one, they in no way represent you.
In order to be able to understand their role in the consumer proposal process, let's look at what the duties of a Canadian Bankruptcy Trustee actually are.
Consumer proposals and bankruptcies are both very powerful tools you can deploy to put a stop to debt that has become unmanageable. Because the process to file both is legislated under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA), both must be administered by a Trustee appointed by the Superintendent of Bankruptcy. This Trustee is the Bankruptcy Trustee. Their role is to ensure that a consumer proposal or bankruptcy is administered fairly and in accordance with the BIA – to the benefit of you AND your creditors.
When you meet the Trustee in Bankruptcy you may see no harm in divulging personal information to them because you feel that you are with your representative. However, that information may be considered in whatever proposal scenario they put forward. Once you disclose information to the Bankruptcy Trustee, this information can now be relayed to your creditors.
Going to a Trustee in Bankruptcy directly would be the same as being charged with a crime and meeting with the prosecutor without a lawyer. Prior to making contact with a Trustee you should sit down with a trusted financial advisor who has experience with insolvency to work through different financial scenarios – one of which may be a proposal. Because this individual is your representative, you are able to openly discuss all of the issues and then they can advise you on which options are relevant to bring forward.
Earlier in the blog we mentioned that the Bankruptcy Trustee is the only professional who can administer a bankruptcy or consumer proposal, and this is true, but it is never wise to meet with one without your own representation.
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Mac OS X Will Be The Next Target of HackersA web survey of more than 350 computer users held by Sophos - an IT security and control firm - has revealed that 93 percent believe Apple Mac OS will be increasingly targeted by cybercriminals in the future.
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Sign the "SAVE XP" PetitionMicrosoft has announced that they will end most sales of Windows XP on June 30, 2008 then forcing users to shift to Vista. InfoWorld has launched an online petition to convince Microsoft not to retire Windows XP.
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This past week, I moderated a conversation between Oscar-winner Jeff Bridges and Zen Peacemakers founder Bernie Glassman, authors of the brand new book The Dude and the Zen Master, for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles (one of the best causes around). A post about that event is forthcoming, but I've already received lots of notes from people who attended and/or saw the pictures of it online. Above all else, they're wondering about what all of the things are on my wrists — or, as one person put it, "What's all that bling?"
Yes, I have quite a few little knickknacks adorning my wrists. Since answering the question will allow me to talk about some other extraordinarily good causes, I'm happy to explain what all the little bits are. Below are pictures with numbers next to each item. Look at the list below the pictures, and the corresponding number will explain the item. (P.S. I'm not a compensated endorser of any of these groups — I just feel like touting them.)
Thanks for your interest, and tell us about causes you support in the comments!
- This bracelet benefits/raises awareness for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS — a magnificent and mighty theater industry-based AIDS organization. My folks are big supporters of them, and so both my sister and I have become supporters as well.
- This wrist mala was made by beneficiaries of the Tibetan Nuns Project, and furthers the work of that organization to "[educate] and [support] nuns in India from all Tibetan Buddhist lineages." The TNP is one of the charities I've supported the longest.
- This rubber bracelet meant to look like barbed wire benefits/raises awareness of Amnesty International (whose logo is a candle surrounded by barbed wire). My membership with/support of Amnesty has been the longest single commitment of my life.
- My watch is one of the watches in the collection sold by the Human Time Project, an awesome new watch company that sells you one watch and gives another to a healthcare worker serving in a rural clinic in the developing world. They're tough as nails, built to last, kinda sexy, and hugely beneficial. Love it!
- This is a "freedom bracelet," also benefitting the TNP.
- This bracelet benefits/raises awareness of the ONE Campaign, the wonderful nonpartisan organization calling for increased funding by the U.S. government to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease globally.
- This bracelet raises awareness for the "We Are Better Together" campaign of the Interfaith Youth Core. I received this when one of the IFYC's representatives visited our Buddhist Chaplaincy Department at University of the West. You can find out more about the campaign here.
- This bracelet benefits/raises awareness for charity: water, which works to bring clean drinking world to people in developing nations.
- This bracelet — with the Gandhi quote, "Be the change you wish to see in the world" — was given to me by my parents when I graduated from Naropa University with my Master of Divinity degree.
- This bracelet was made by beneficiaries of the Somaly Mam Foundation, a Cambodia-based NGO "dedicated to the eradication of slavery and the empowerment of its survivors, based on the vision and life's work of Cambodian survivor Somaly Mam." Somaly Mam is profiled in the book and the film Half the Sky.
- This bracelet, sold at Starbucks, benefits and raises awareness for the Opportunity Finance Network, which seeks to help create and sustain jobs in the U.S. I got it for free on election day since I could show evidence that I voted.
(In addition, my glasses, which you can see in the pictures, are by Eco — a great glasses company that makes their products from 95% recycled materials.)


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Honda Pilot Lease Questions
solin Posts: 13Thank you all for the responses. I went with the 2012, Pilot EX-L, $900 down and $349 a month + tax for 35 months. All fees included and no accessories added. I couldn't find a better deal out there so I'm confident it was not a bad one at the end of the day. The truck drives superbly!0
how this one sound?
EX-L NAV 4x4
$1000 down
$495 a month includes tax0
tonka858 Posts: 112Have new numbers for Nov
really interested if the cash back has gotten better0
Hi tonka858. In November Honda is providing $1,000 dealer cash on all 2012 Pilot models plus an additional $750 on Touring, EX and EX-L models.
Honda Finance's November buy rate lease money factor for the 2012 Pilot is .00022 for consumers who qualify for its top credit tier.
Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Forum0
After deal did not work on 2012
picked up 2013 EL-L Nav 4WD
488 including tax lease with first month payment and tags only
3 year 12 miles buy out is 21k and change0
enthusiastdre Posts: 40Hi Car_Man,
Could you please post the residual value and money factor for the 2013 Pilot LX 2WD and EX 2WD models? Thank you.0
Hi enthusiastdre. Honda Finance's November buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Pilot LX 2WD with 15,000 miles per year are .00022 and 56% for consumers who qualify for its top aka "Super Preferred" credit tier.
The numbers for an otherwise identical lease of a '13 Pilot EX 2WD are .00022 and 56%.
Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Forum0
matchoo77 Posts: 1Hi....I'm new to the forum - I'm looking to get rid of my '04 Pilot EX-L, and replace it with a new one. What should I be paying for a monthly lease with zero down?
fhmd1 Posts: 1I am wondering about residual and money factor for 3/36 lease.
Thanks very much.0
Hello fhmd1. Honda Finance's November buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Pilot EX-L Touring 4WD with 12,000 miles per year are .00022 and 52% for consumers who qualify for its top credit tier.
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Was trying to get some opinions about a $600 month lease, no money down on a 2013 Honda pilot touring...is it a good deal?0
This is a EX-L NAV 4WD (What I bought)
The (3)yr 12k mile Honda Lease on this Pilot would be as follows:
Drive – offs @ $936.60 which includes your First Payment and monthly payment @$452.95 plus Sales Tax/Lic/Fees = around
$488.00 depending on your Tax Base.
msrp was 39 final sale price was 36,300
Max you should be is $550 if you qualify for tier 1 credit.0
Just leased 2013 pilot touring 4WD for $507 with $0 first month and $0 start up fee. 36 months, 12,000 miles/year0
No it is not. Just leased 2013 pilot touring 4WD for $507 with $0 first month and $0 start up fee. 36 months, 12,000 miles/year0
how you get 6 grand off that?0
I usually call all dealers within 100 miles and ask them to beat each other's price. Worked every time I leased a car. Could not resist the offer. I had to drive 80 miles to get the car0
wallstreet1234 Posts: 41I never leased a vehicle before so I was curious what will happen as I get closer to my return date.
Will they give me a chance before turning it in to repair what they find wrong?
How much does honda allow money wise worth of damage? I have none now but who knows what will happen.
Thank you.0
they give either 500 or 1500 in forgiveness on wear..
if you have damage like cracked bumper, you will need to fix it, they only ignore small stuff0
Hello. We are looking at the 2013 Pilot LX and have a dealer offering the following numbers. We'd love some feedback...It is an LPP deal in SC (if that matters!)
Price 28,050
$1500 down
Rate :1.37
No payment for first 45 days
36 months
Payment is $295
If we put $0 down the payment would be around 330
Thoughts? Advice?
Thanks so much for any help!0
gman1957 Posts: 48Shop around...0
we would like a 2012 Ex 4x4 for 300 a month or less lease for 36 months dont have much down0
I posted a deal yesterday and have a revised version today...would appreciate any thoughts...thanks in advance!
2013 Pilot LX
Price : 27500
$1500 down
Rate : 1.37
36 months
LPP deal in SC0
i was told by a salesperson not to put money down on a lease. i would try to get that price for no $ down. just my opinion. good luck and shop around.0
gpsac Posts: 98One thing I can say is that Honda is pretty fair when it comes to their lease customers from my 20 years experience leasing Honda's. Honda allows up to $1500 excess wear and tear not to exceed $500 per issue. In other words, you can have three problems as long as they do not exceed $500 each.
Below is from a previous closed out lease of mine. Waived $572.50 and $37.16 tax. Plus, I turned that car in a day or two after making a payment and they refunded that also!
2/14/2010 Tax on Excess Wear and Tear Waived $37.16
2/14/2010 Excess Wear and Tear Waived $572.50
2/14/2010 Tax Assessed $37.16
2/14/2010 Excess Wear and Tear Assessed $572.50
1/26/2010 Tax Assessed $12.02
1/26/2010 Reversal of Payment Made 1/26/2010 $197.12
1/26/2010 Payment Received - Thank You! $197.120
Could you please post December numbers for 2013 Pilot EX--L 4WD & Touring 4WD. 36 months 12K/year.
Thanks in advance,0
and a 2012 ex 4x4. hoping to find a left over. thanks0
ended up with a 2013 ex fwd 355 a month 2500 down. :confuse:0
unless your buying a 2012 its cheaper to lease the 2013 due to residual.0
Signed 2013 Pilot EX-L 4WD with roof rails installed. $452 a month 12K 36 months with 1st payment and DMV down only. Dealer will also pay $900 towards my existing remaining lease to close it.0
[email protected]Edmunds Posts: 38,515Happy Holidays nikolay23. Honda Finance's December buy rate lease money factor and residual value for a 36-month lease of a 2013 Pilot EX-L 4WD with 12,000 miles per year are .00022 and 56% for consumers who qualify for its top credit tier.
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"The Oppression of Kings (i.e. governments and rulers) is from the Punishments of Allah Ta'ala. The Punishment of Allah Ta'ala cannot be warded off with swords. Verily, safety (from Allah's punishment) and warding it off are (possible) only by means of Dua, Taubah, Inaabat (turning to Him with repentance), and by eliminating sins. Verily, when the Punishment of Allah is confronted by swords, it (Allah's Punishment) becomes worse."
"Wallaah! If people had to adopt Sabr (i.e. morally reform oneself and submit to the Shariah fully) when oppressed by their Sultan, Allah Azza Wa Jal will soon eliminate the oppression. However, when they resort to the sword (i.e. rebellion), they are assigned to it [i.e. Allah abandons them to their swords]."
[Statements of Hasan al-Basri, the great student of the Sahabah (radhiyallahu anhum), which encapsulate the general position of the Salaf-us-Saaliheen and the subsequent Ijma' of the Fuqaha on rebellion against a tyrannical ruler, the truth of which has been vindicated irrefutably by the terrible events in Syria, Egypt, Libya, etc.]


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This is Shayla a brown tabby female kitten. She is a Loving Care cat rescue kitty living at All About the Kitties satellite which is located in Spring Grove Pa, for the FASTEST response call (717) 225-5095 or email email@example.com . We have very flexible hours, you can visit 7 days a week almost any time.
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Shayla and her siblings were found at a very young age, about 3 days old, they were bottle fed and doing well. Bottle babies are super friendly because they depend on humans for their next meal. Shayla is very friendly and loves wrestling with her brother although she is quite a bit smaller than him. She will make anyone a wonderful pet and she is already spayed and ready to go home.
Her ID # is KC 813 the adoption fee is $75.00 which includes a negative Felv and FIV test, distemper shots, worm meds and flea treatment plus her spay. We also offer a microchip for only $25.00 more. If you choose to adopt 2 Loving Care kitties the fee is only $130.00, two kitties are always better than one, the microchip fee for two is $35.00. We cannot hold kittens, its first come first pick.
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"for the rest of us" | edited by Morris Armstrong, Jr. proudly a.k.a. "Little Mo", author of The Concrete Jungle Book
31 May 2008
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30 May 2008
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29 May 2008
Free Everybody Get Up TRUCK
"People have been asking for our truck. So here it is!!! Down load this and do what you want with it. We will soon have a group where you can post photos of your truck."
28 May 2008
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27 May 2008
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26 May 2008
from martha stewart's dr. strangelove scrapbook
collage by Morris Armstrong, Jr. proudly a.k.a. "Little Mo", author of new prose+comics scrapbook novel, The Concrete Jungle Book, from found street art and other internet objects.
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collage by Morris Armstrong, Jr. proudly a.k.a. "Little Mo", author of new prose+comics scrapbook novel, The Concrete Jungle Book, from Srayla Tip cartoon, photo by Steve Porter.
25 May 2008
polly wants to go home now
…from the BBC:
Stray Japan parrot talks way home
Who's a clever boy then? Yosuke talked his way out of trouble
A stray parrot was reunited with its owner in Japan after repeating its name and address at the local veterinary clinic that took it in, police said.
Police captured the red-tailed African Grey, Yosuke, earlier this month after a woman called to say it was sitting on a fence in her backyard near Tokyo.
The parrot was then handed over to the animal clinic to be cared for.
It began by greeting people and singing popular children's songs, before repeating its name and address.
Police matched the name with its owner, who was reunited with Yosuke earlier this week.
The parrot had become lost two weeks ago after flying out of its cage in Nagareyama city, Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo.
"I'm glad I had taught him my address and name," the Daily Yomiuri newspaper quoted his owner as saying.
The African Grey parrot is considered one of the most intelligent birds and is said by experts to have the cognitive ability of a six-year-old.
[plaid parrot by Morris Armstrong, Jr., proudly a.k.a. "Little Mo"]
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The Sanctity of Evil
Is the capacity for evil one of the defining characteristics of our humanity?
A book which begins with the sentence "Evil makes us Human" must surely compel attention. …
… There is also a pleasing irony in the thought that what was once imagined to be the location of Eden is almost certainly in what is now Iraq.
"Hansell's strategy for arguing that animals are intellectually dead is three-pronged"
…from the Times Literary Supplement:
May 23, 2008
Nature's greatest architects
How do animals manage their feats of engineering,
and what does it tell us about their minds?
James Gould
From bird nests and beaver dams to spider webs and the display arenas of bowerbirds, the architecture of animals has fascinated our species from the dawn of history. The order and regularity of honey bee comb has inspired human builders and philosophers alike. Paper-making wasps and adobe-using birds may have opened our eyes to important technological innovations, and the relentless works of coral colonies dwarf human achievements. How do animals manage their feats of engineering, and what does it tell us about their minds?
Mike Hansell, an emeritus professor at the University of Glasgow, has written extensively on the building behaviour of caddis-fly larvae, wasps and birds. Two of his previous books, Animal Architecture and Building Behaviour (1984) and Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour (2000) are classics: wonderfully detailed and extensively illustrated. They focus on how structures are built, and discuss with great insight the physical and chemical constraints imposed by natural materials.
Built by Animals represents a complete change of pace. Hansell's focus here is far more on the mental processes behind the behaviour. The style could hardly be more different: Hansell writes entirely in the first person, as though he is reminiscing. The result is a highly personal narrative, which may strike the audience as warm and friendly, or disconcertingly informal. Certain termites, for instance, build "rather charming little nests of mud that look like fat-stemmed toadstools about 35cm high that, if painted red and yellow would look just right alongside some plastic gnomes in an English suburban garden". He also opines that few crickets sing "in the fitted kitchens of the smart bungalows now populating the land".
Although Hansell brings a wealth of personal observations to his discussion, some readers may find him distractingly discursive. In the chapter on the evolution of swallow and martin nests, the narrative wanders somehow to hummingbirds, spiders, garden peas, mice, parasitic wasps, grasshoppers, hairworms, the development of Victorian greenhouses and railway stations, yellow-jackets, termites and ants. There are also descriptions of Buffon, Lamarck (particularly his statue in the Jardin des Plantes), and Mendel (with a few pages on genotypes, phenotypes and dominance). I lost the thread. In the chapter on traps we are told a great deal about amino acids, proteoglycans, aerodynamic damping and hysteresis, but the original story (about caddis-fly traps, which are fascinating) somehow gets forgotten in the process.
Alas, the reader is not similarly distracted by diagrams and photos: there are fewer than two dozen illustrations in the book. The audience must depend on the author's powers of description. Thus we are forced to imagine the internal structure of a beaver dam, the elaborate stepwise building of weaverbird nests, the remarkable repetitive structure of wasp nests, the intricate design of caddis-fly traps, and so on. But then the object of Hansell's book is not so much to describe and explain as to argue that building behaviour in animals is innate and unintelligent; for this, illustrations might be counterproductive.
Hansell's primary target is cognitive ethology, and in particular the late Donald Griffin. He takes umbrage at the title of an uncited article: "Thinking about thinking". Even as loosely defined as Griffin had in mind, apparently "thought" should be a forbidden term. Hansell's strategy for arguing that animals are intellectually dead is three-pronged. The first step is to discount the abilities of animals on the basis of brain volume. The second is to invoke Occam's razor (the simplest possible explanation is likely to be – or for some, is inevitably – the correct one). The last step is to describe animals that fit the mindless-builder model.
Brain size, Hansell tells us, should lead "to certain expectations" – namely, that smaller animals are simple and have limited, stereotyped repertoires. Using this simple rule of thumb, we can apparently conclude thats ince female humans have, on average, significantly smaller brain volumes than males, their behaviour should be simpler and more stereotyped – one of Darwin's few mistaken inferences. Humans, by the same token, should be less behaviourally elaborate than whales and elephants. In fact, it is relative brain volume that seems to matter. When researchers plot brain mass against weight for warm-blooded animals, the points cluster rather tightly around an upward-slanting line. On average, an animal weighing ten times as much has a brain about five times as heavy. All other things being equal, brain mass scales with the number of sensory receptors and muscles the animal possesses, and these increase more slowly than weight. (Cold-blooded animals generate a line of the precisely same slope, though they are able to make do with one-tenth the number of neurones. Insects, because so much of their nervous system is in ganglia outside the head, fall on a different line.)
This brain-to-mass relationship is the biological reason that female brains are smaller, while at least as intellectually potent as those of males. The generally accepted measure (one Hansell even cites when discussing bowerbirds) is the scaled ratio of brain volume to body weight. By this measure, animals with more brain mass than is predicted by the general trend (eg humans, porpoises and crows) stand out, as do those with a shortfall (opossums, for instance). Birds with the most elaborate bowers do indeed have the largest brain-to-body ratios.
Hansell is particularly unimpressed with social insects, including that epitome of all-round complexity, the honey bee. Bees may have astonishing memory, navigational abilities, the capacity to form concepts and cognitive maps, and the planet's second most complex language, but we can ignore them because their brains are small. Their building behaviour is trivial, we are told: they build repetitive cells (except when they don't) and use their own bodies to measure size (as, however, do almost all species, birds most especially). Spiders able to plan circuitous routes to prey, or others that make and carry portable trap nets to ambush their victims, suffer from the same disqualifier: small body size, and thus small brains. By this measure, a book on animal building could be restricted to elephants and aquatic mammals – except that these creatures do not build anything.
Occam's razor can be a useful check on any tendency to formulate overly elaborate explanations of phenomena, but its utility in ethology has proved rather mixed. The behaviourist school of psychology, which held stultifying sway over the study of behaviour in the first six or seven decades of the twentieth century, "simplified" the analysis of humans and animals by eliminating any role for instinct and insight, instead explaining everything on the basis of learned associations – even the circulation of the blood.
One of Griffin's main arguments was that a mindless devotion to Occam's razor blinds us to unusual abilities in animals. The history of ethology is in large part a series of surprises, showing animals to be cleverer and better equipped than human imagination was prepared for. Fettered by the restrictive razor, who could have discovered that animals can have language, cognitive maps, echolocation, UV and polarized-light orientation, magnetic field navigation, social cognition, innovation, concept formation, self-awareness and even practise deceit?
A better measure of animal intelligence ought perhaps to be found in the behaviour that brains generate. Instances of apparently foolish builders are common (and not unknown even among humans), as are cases in which creatures simply follow a set of rote instructions. This is typical of animals living in predictable or unchallenging niches. Neurones are expensive to build and very costly to operate; selection will work to keep brain size to a minimum. But the more complex animals seem to have built on their inborn repertoires. The extra layers of cognitive flexibility involve learning, an ability to reorder and reorient innate components, and a capacity to innovate in what seem to be sensible ways.
Consider the beaver, a species with iconic status among animal builders. Hansell, armed with his sharp, ever-ready razor, dismisses them summarily. Being impressed by beaver achievements, we are told, depends on careless, uncritical anthropomorphism, an emotional response to plush fur and human-like behaviour. And yet why should human-like behaviour not be based on human-like creativity in some species? Surely some analysis of the building activities should precede dismissal of the species into cognitive outer darkness. Beavers, for instance, seem to have at least six alternative internal designs for dams (and, given how little this has been studied, probably many more); is Occam best served by assuming that there are at least six alternative programmes, or is it simpler to suppose that there is some element of evaluation and decision-making here, based on context and the availability of materials?
When beavers incorporate novel elements such as plywood sheets and plastic tarpaulins into dams, are their innate circuits misfiring or is there some basic level of understanding of the goal they are working towards that encourages flexibility? It seems worthwhile at least to explore these possibilities rather than dismiss outright Darwin's suggestion of evolutionary continuity in mental processing. Alas, Occam's razor has relentlessly sliced these paragraphs and pages from Mike Hansell's book; the animals we read about are the helpless, hapless pawns of their instincts, blindly bumbling their way through life, incredibly lucky that the world is simple and unvarying enough to accommodate so many races of robots. How odd that natural selection has never worked to favour the sorts of cognitive prowess so evident in nearly all other classes of behaviour.
Mike Hansell
The natural history of animal architecture
268pp. Oxford University Press. £16.99 (US $29.95).
978 0 19 920556 1
James Gould is Professor of Ecology at Princeton University. He is the author of Ethology: The mechanisms and evolution of behavior, 1982.
24 May 2008
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"Her newfound connection to other living beings means that she is no longer interested in performing experiments on live rat brains"
…from today's New York Times:
….JILL BOLTE TAYLOR was a neuroscientist working at Harvard's brain research center when she experienced nirvana.
But she did it by having a stroke.
On Dec. 10, 1996, Dr. Taylor, then 37, woke up in her apartment near Boston with a piercing pain behind her eye. A blood vessel in her brain had popped. Within minutes, her left lobe — the source of ego, analysis, judgment and context — began to fail her. Oddly, it felt great.
The incessant chatter that normally filled her mind disappeared. Her everyday worries — about a brother with schizophrenia and her high-powered job — untethered themselves from her and slid away.
Her perceptions changed, too. She could see that the atoms and molecules making up her body blended with the space around her; the whole world and the creatures in it were all part of the same magnificent field of shimmering energy.
"My perception of physical boundaries was no longer limited to where my skin met air," she has written in her memoir, "My Stroke of Insight," which was just published by Viking.
After experiencing intense pain, she said, her body disconnected from her mind. "I felt like a genie liberated from its bottle," she wrote in her book. "The energy of my spirit seemed to flow like a great whale gliding through a sea of silent euphoria."
While her spirit soared, her body struggled to live. She had a clot the size of a golf ball in her head, and without the use of her left hemisphere she lost basic analytical functions like her ability to speak, to understand numbers or letters, and even, at first, to recognize her mother. A friend took her to the hospital. Surgery and eight years of recovery followed.
Her desire to teach others about nirvana, Dr. Taylor said, strongly motivated her to squeeze her spirit back into her body and to get well.
This story is not typical of stroke victims. Left-brain injuries don't necessarily lead to blissful enlightenment; people sometimes sink into a helplessly moody state: their emotions run riot. Dr. Taylor was also helped because her left hemisphere was not destroyed, and that probably explains how she was able to recover fully.
Today, she says, she is a new person, one who "can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere" on command and be "one with all that is."
To her it is not faith, but science. She brings a deep personal understanding to something she long studied: that the two lobes of the brain have very different personalities. Generally, the left brain gives us context, ego, time, logic. The right brain gives us creativity and empathy. For most English-speakers, the left brain, which processes language, is dominant. Dr. Taylor's insight is that it doesn't have to be so.
Her message, that people can choose to live a more peaceful, spiritual life by sidestepping their left brain, has resonated widely.
….Her newfound connection to other living beings means that she is no longer interested in performing experiments on live rat brains, which she did as a researcher.…
.…"I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be."….
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"they left behind them a trail of fear"
Immigration raids terrify kids, House is told
Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
(05-21) 04:00 PDT Washington - --
When federal agents raided a San Rafael apartment complex in the early morning hours of March 6, 2007, searching for 30 undocumented immigrants, they left behind a lot of terrified children, Kathryn Gibney, the principal at nearby San Pedro Elementary School, said.
The agents shone flashlights in the children's faces. Several parents were handcuffed in front of their kids. The next day 40 of the school's 400 students were too frightened to show up for class, and others arrived in tears. A year later, Gibney said the effects continue with higher absenteeism, lower test scores and increased counseling for her students.
"They left behind them a trail of fear," Gibney told lawmakers Tuesday in a hearing before a House Education and Labor subcommittee.
Petaluma Democratic Rep. Lynn Woolsey called the hearing in response to growing anxiety among immigrants and the schools, churches and social service agencies that serve them, that stepped-up raids by the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency are coming at a high cost to children. Woolsey said she is considering legislation that would require the agency to follow guidelines to protect children.
Earlier this month, the Oakland Unified School District sent uniformed officers into an elementary school in East Oakland to reassure parents and students after reports of ICE vans in the area. The agency insisted it was not targeting the school, but seeking adults in the area who had been named in arrest warrants.
Child required to translate
Gibney cited another incident on May 8 when federal agents stopped a father walking his daughter to Bahia Vista Elementary School in San Rafael. Since the agents could not communicate with the father, the second-grader had to serve as a translator. The father, who was undocumented, was arrested.
The arrests are part of a nationwide crackdown on undocumented immigrants - first dubbed "Operation Return to Sender" in 2006 - that targets people who ignore deportation orders. Since October, the agency has apprehended more than 19,000 people nationwide, including 1,620 in Northern California.
Virginia Kice, an ICE spokeswoman in California, said people often mistakenly believe federal agents target schools or churches, which she said they virtually never do. Almost all the arrests occur at home.
"We do that because our goal is officer safety and the safety of people we interact with," Kice said. "I don't know of any situation where we have targeted a school."
But lawmakers at Tuesday's hearing said they fear the impacts on children even if the arrests occur away from schools. About 4.7 million children in the United States have at least one parent who is undocumented; two-thirds of those kids were born in the United States and are citizens, according to federal figures.
Children swept up
Woolsey said children are often getting swept up in the arrests. She pointed to the case of Kebin Reyes, who was 6 when his father was apprehended during the March 2007 raid in San Rafael. Reyes, whose father is his sole parent in the United States, was detained for 10 hours in an ICE field office when his father was arrested. (The American Civil Liberties Union and the San Francisco Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights is now suing the agency, alleging that it violated Kebin's constitutional rights.) Kebin is a citizen, but his father is not.
Woolsey said after a raid this month at the Agriprocessors Inc. meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa - the largest workplace raid in U.S. history, which netted 389 arrests - a nun at a local Catholic church told the committee that many children were sleeping in the pews, fearing more raids.
"She said that most of these children are not going to school," Woolsey said. "They are traumatized and fearful."
James Spero, the deputy assistant director of ICE's Office of Investigations, told lawmakers the agency tries to carry out the raids in a humane way. He noted that after the Postville raid, 62 of those arrested were given a conditional release for "humanitarian purposes" - in most cases because they were the sole caregiver to children.
But other officials criticized the agency for failing to alert state and local authorities when they carry out raids. Simon Romo, chief counsel of New Mexico Child Protective Services, said he believes the raids are causing severe trauma for children when their parents are suddenly pulled out of their lives.
"Children need to see their parents," Romo testified. "The fact that they are told they are OK is insufficient. ... When you remove a parent from the life of a child, you leave them wondering. You set off these bombs that will go off throughout the rest of their development."
Republicans back ICE
But some Republicans rallied to the defense of the agency, saying ICE officials should not be blamed for the consequences of enforcing the law.
"A person who entered the country illegally or overstays their visa - they are the ones who are really putting those children in jeopardy by their own actions, and they should take those children into account," said Rep. Buck McKeon, R-Santa Clarita (Los Angeles County).
Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza, a Latino civil rights group, said lawmakers should focus on crafting a more humane immigration policy that focuses on protecting children and keeping families united while still enforcing the law.
"I don't think anyone is suggesting we should punish these kids for the actions of their parents," she said. "We're not looking at whether we enforce these laws, but how we enforce these laws."
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"the certainty that having autism is not going to limit his expectations"
Joel, the oldest of three children, seemed unusual early on, was nearly deaf in his right ear by age 3 and was diagnosed with autism when he was 12.
"It wasn't being diagnosed every 20 minutes back then," said Schuman, 58, an internist who works with substance abusers.
Autism, a complex developmental disability caused by a neurological disorder, interferes with the normal functioning of the brain and affects a person's ability to convey thoughts and interact with others.
"Joel has never really said the word," Schuman said. "He usually doesn't want to talk about it." […] In his letter supporting Sidney's application to Cal, Cook described him as an extraordinary student who "proved time and again the ability to grasp and apply difficult concepts from cultural studies, anthropology and gender studies to music" and overcame "enormous difficulty" to succeed academically. How did he do it? "At some point I realized I needed to work more or give up," Sidney said. As a result, he adapts, compensates and labors fiendishly. For example, he taped his classes and listened to the recordings afterward, taking notes along the way. […]
In his letter supporting Sidney's application to Cal, Cook described him as an extraordinary student who "proved time and again the ability to grasp and apply difficult concepts from cultural studies, anthropology and gender studies to music" and overcame "enormous difficulty" to succeed academically.
How did he do it?
"At some point I realized I needed to work more or give up," Sidney said.
As a result, he adapts, compensates and labors fiendishly. For example, he taped his classes and listened to the recordings afterward, taking notes along the way. […]
UC grad is special - and very able
by Patricia Yollin, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2008
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By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
Iceland's commercial whale hunt is set to begin, after the government granted a small minke quota on Monday.
Whalers had been seeking a quota of about 100, but ministers settled on 40, which they say is commercially viable.
The decision came after weeks of delay, reportedly because of disagreements within government.
Environmental groups said the decision would further damage the Icelandic economy which is already badly affected by the international debt crisis.
The decision was expected a month ago, and whalers had been asking for a swift decision so they could begin hunting.
Finally, the govenment gave the go-ahead on Monday morning, and whalers said they would launch as soon as possible.
"It all depends on the weather, but if the weather is good then we hunt tomorrow (Tuesday) morning," said Gunnar Bergmann Jonsson, head of the minke whaling association.
Market forces
The government insists its decision is commercial, based on the market for minke meat within Iceland.
"We issued... a minke quota which limits the catch to 40 animals, and that's similar to the amount that was caught last year," said Iceland's whaling commissioner Stefan Asmundsson.
There is no quota for fin whales, another target of Icelandic vessels.
Mr Jonsson confirmed that meat from last year's minke catch had been sold. But he told BBC News his members hoped eventually for a larger annual quota - nearer to the 100 they had requested this year.
"We caught 45 whales last year and sold it all, so if we can sell all the meat from 40 animals this time I believe we can get more quota, but we'll see how it goes."
Financial factors
This will be the third hunting season since Iceland resumed its commercial programme in 2006.
Its annual catch is much smaller than those of Norway and Japan, but its hunt is nevertheless controversial, partly because it had ceased operations and partly because in some peoples' eyes the policy conflicts with the image Iceland often portrays as an unspoiled, ecologically conscious "green" nation.
"We strongly urge the Icelandic government to rethink this decision," said Robbie Marsland of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw).
"The resumption of commercial whaling could prove to be extremely damaging to the already fragile Icelandic economy and its international reputation."
The economy is already struggling owing to large borrowing by its three major banks. Inflation is runing above 11%, and interest rates are up to 15%.
Mr Marsland suggested that the growing industry of whale-watching could be an important asset to Iceland in this difficult period.
"We encourage the government to act now to protect this multi-million-pound industry and its wider economic interests."
The delay in announcing the minke quota has strengthened rumours that some government departments, notably the foreign ministry, shared some of Ifaw's views.
But the decision remains in the gift of the fisheries ministry, which believes there is no ecological reason to cancel a hunt for 40 minkes when the population in the north Atlantic is believed by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to number about 174,000.
"There can be no question that this is a sustainable activity," said Mr Asmundsson.
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Juanes delivers it all with love
by Chuy Varela, Special to The Chronicle
Colombian rocker Juanes added a few degrees to a sweltering day as he brought his love fiesta to San Jose's cavernous HP Pavilion on Friday night. Performing more than two hours' worth of his greatest hits and songs from his latest album, "La Vida ... Es Un Ratico" ("Life is but a moment"), he left the near-capacity audience charmed and enlightened.
Athletic, energetic and in tremendously good voice, the show was the last leg of a world tour that concluded during the weekend with his participation in the Latin America in Solidarity Action benefit concert for children in Mexico City alongside Shakira, Maná, Paulina Rubio and many others.
The charisma Juan Esteban Aristizábal (his real name) commands is genuine and his humble guy-next-door image compares to Bruce Springsteen's in its realism. His dress (striped shirt and gray pants) is unpretentious, but it's the depth of his lyrics and the themes he touches that soulfully deliver messages that empower his fans.
"A Dios le Pido" ("I Ask God"), the big 2002 hit from his "Un Día Normal" album, opened the show and brought the crowd to its feet, hooting and hollering as he hit the stage. A metallic flower of lights served as a backdrop and created colorful kaleidoscopic sequences throughout the evening that enhanced the mood and excitement of the pieces.
From jump, the largely Latino audience was on its feet singing along and dancing. The crowd quickly grasped the verses of "No Creo en el Jamás" ("I Do Not Believe in Never"), from the new album, and gyrated in a collective groove, singing verses about the importance of picking yourself up if you get knocked down.
The magic of Juanes, who is gracious to his fans and constantly thanks them, rests on songs that express sentiments that relate to everyday life struggles and range from relationship woes to situations in his fans' native countries. He never gets preachy, though, about the political aspects of his music and says he is just trying to create, "una fiesta en la casa del amor" ("a party in a house of love").
His hard-driving, six-piece combo laid down a musical foundation that was like clockwork, with very little deviation from the original recordings. Juanes is a pretty good guitarist and picked some potent solos on his sunburst Fender Stratocaster that got him a few jolts of applause throughout the night.
He slowed things down with "Te Busqué" ("I Searched for You") and took off his guitar to pace the stage and its runway extension. He slapped hands, crooned and stopped for the cell phone paparazzi to snap his picture. From there, he rolled through familiar songs that kept the party moving.
The political insinuations of some of his music are idealistic but meaningful. "Bandera de Manos" ("A Flag of Hands") was dedicated to farmworkers, indigenous peoples and immigrants. "We are tired of stories of defeat and broken promises, let us uplift our soul and voice," said the song in Spanish.
The most moving piece of the night was "Minas Piedras" ("Land mines"), an intimate piece with piano, guitar and voice. It was coupled with a slide show that transmitted images of land mine victims from around the world. The faces of amputees, from children to the elderly, left you with sadness and awareness about a problem that has plagued his Colombian homeland, which is embroiled in a lingering civil war.
He concluded the performance with his megahit, "La Camisa Negra," that had the room in a whirlwind as the house went black. Shouts of "otra" (another song) engulfed the arena and lasted more than five minutes before he and the band returned to the stage for 20 more minutes of music that ended, surprisingly, with an old-school salsa tune by Joe Arroyo titled, "Rebelion."
Given his many good deeds, from trying to broker peace deals between warring factions in Colombia, to the ALAS concerts in Mexico, Juanes proved Friday night he is mega-global star with conscience. One of the most influential Latin American artists today, Juanes is a high priest of Latin rock who blesses his audiences with hope and the inspiration to dream for a better world.


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- VillageRully
- AppellationRully
- Grape varietyChardonnay
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- Average vine age 30 years
- SoilClay and limestone
- Average yield45 hl/ha
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- Cellaring Potential2-3 years
- Serving temperature 11-13°
- Rully is the first village in the Côte Chalonnaise as you move south out of the Côte-d'Or, where the soils are a mixture of clay/limestone to pure limestone, ideal for the growing of Chardonnay. Owing to the relatively small output and the widely varying orientation of the vines, a consistent supply of good quality Rully is hard to come by, hence its appearance on the Maison Louis Latour list only in vintages of universally acknowledged quality.
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- Rully Blanc 2008 - Wine Spectator - 2011 - 85/100Round and weighty, with vanilla-shaded apple and lemon flavors. This is balanced on the alcoholic side, with some heat on the finish. Drink now through 2012. 2,000 cases made.
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Southern Bancorp held Customer Appreciation Day Friday grilling hot dogs and hamburgers, soft drinks, and give-away items including caps, key rings, measuring tapes, files, and more from 2-5 p.m. The special day was held at the Manila, Blytheville and Trumann banks.
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Tomatito or Jose Fernandez Torres, was born Almería in 1958. Surrounded by many flamenco guitar maestros such as his father Tomate, his grandfather Miguel Tomate and his uncle Nino Miguel, Tomatito got his first guitar when he was 10 years old. Tomatito once said that he didn't know the origin of the name 'Tomate', but he tought it was given to his grandfather because his face was ruddy when drinking. When the legendary flamenco singer Camaron de la Isla saw Tomatito playing in tablao La Taberna Gitana in Malaga, both started working together. Tomatito accompanied Camaron de la Isla during the last 18 years of his life, but also many other great flamenco singers such as Enrique Morente, Duquende, La Susi or Pansequito. In the summer of 1979, Tomatito and Camaron recorded the album 'La leyenda del tiempo'. This monumental album created a breaking point, a frame-work for Nuevo Flamenco, changing the concept of flamenco music. After "La leyenda del tiempo," non flamenco musicians interpreted flamenco music differently and the Gypsies had been given authorization to freely explore other ways to express themselves.
After the death of Camaron in 1992, Tomatito started a remarkable career as a concert guitarist becoming the leading flamenco guitarist of his time and one of the greatest flamenco guitarists of all time, even performing with artists like Elton John and Frank Sinatra. Driven by his talent, Tomatito crossed new frontiers in an ongoing collaboration with pianists such as Chano Domínguez and Michel Camino, evolving in the records Spain (2000) and Spain Again (2006). He also recorded a Spanish version of the song Woman together with Neneh Cherry. Tomatito not only performed in movies such as 'The devil's advocate' together with stars like Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves, he also composed music for the movie Vengo, winning the César Award for Best Music Written for a ilm in 2001. In mid 2004, Tomatito recorded his album Aguadulce, winning a Latin Grammy for Best Flamenco Record in 2005.


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Madera County has a rich agricultural tradition along with a strong industrial base. For outdoor enthusiasts, there are local, county, state and national parks. Bass Lake has excellent fishing, hiking trails and warm waters. An hour and a half away is Yosemite National Park world renowned for giant, ancient sequoia trees, Bridalveil Fall, and the granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome. In Chowchilla, there's the Chowchilla Stampede, held annually to celebrate the towns heritage, featuring a cattle drive through town. The town's main attractions is the Fossil Discovery Center, where you can see the preserved remains of animals from 700,000 years ago like the Columbian Mammoth, Sabre-toothed cats and the largest bear to walk the earth!
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A 66-year-old man suspected in a stabbing leaped to his death from a freeway overpass in western Goleta early Monday, according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department.
Thomas Hutchison Jr., 66, jumped from the Cathedral Oaks Road overpass on Highway 101 at about 4:15 a.m., sheriff's spokeswoman Kelly Hoover said.
"When sheriff's deputies arrived to make contact with the subject, he jumped from the overpass and landed below on the shoulder of the northbound 101 freeway," Hoover said. "Despite life-saving measures by paramedics, the subject was pronounced dead at the scene."
The incident began at about 4 a.m. at a residence on the 600 block of Mayrum Street, in a neighborhood near San Marcos High School, Hoover said.
Deputies found the victim — Rubel Trevino, 56 — who had been stabbed.
Trevino identified Hutchison — his business partner — as the person who had broken into his residence while he was sleeping and had attacked him, Hoover said.
Trevino told deputies he was able to run away and call for help, while his attacker fled in a vehicle to his home, which is near the Cathedral Oaks Road overpass, Hoover said.
"Approximately 15 minutes later, sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a subject attempting to jump from the Winchester overpass in Goleta," Hoover said.
Trevino was transported to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, where he underwent surgery and was recovering from his injuries.
Hutchison and Trevino appear to have been business partners in a company called About the Children LLC, with offices on Castilian Drive.
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This release introduces the Harrowed. These creatures are mortal beings whose connection to the world around them has been removed through use of the "Harrow" spell. When first encountered they may appear to be undead, and even most experienced groups will be surprised when the party cleric attempts to turn them and fails. Harrowed are a fun way for GMs to throw a new type of creature against players who have become jaded with the typical monsters found in most adventures. Harrowed can also be the focus of adventures after a player finds a loved one the subject of the spell and now must quest in order to find a way to reverse it.


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In England, from the coronation (973) of Edgar, the ceremony included a coronation oath, anointment, investiture, enthronement, and homage. The pageantry of the English coronation, which since 1066 has taken place in Westminster Abbey , is still that of medieval times. Kings of Scotland were crowned at Scone on the
In France, Pepin the Short, first king of the Carolingian line (see Carolingians , was twice anointed by popes, partly to legitimize his supersession of the Merovingian dynasty (see Merovingians ). Later the French coronation came to resemble the English form, which was probably introduced into France in the 10th cent. The custom whereby the Holy Roman emperor was crowned by the pope dates from the coronation of Charlemagne on Christmas Day, 800. The anointing of the emperor by the pope was instituted by Louis I in 816. In 1804, Napoleon I brought Pope Pius VII to Paris to crown him in Notre Dame cathedral but, in a famous episode, he seized the crown from the pope's hands and crowned himself.
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Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, yesterday urged Muslims to pray for peace, unity, and development of the country during the Ramadan.
Ekweremadu described Ramadan as a month of peace, holiness, and closer relationship with God.
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The TDS754D Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope is one of the first in the TDS family of Digital Phosphor Oscilloscopes (DPOs) designed to keep pace with current and evolving needs in advanced electronic design and debug. DPOs deliver a new level of insight that makes dealing with complex signals elementary / a new level of insight that must be seen to be believed. DPOs capture, store, display, and analyze, in real/time, three dimensions of signal information: amplitude, time, and distribution of amplitude over time. The benefit of this new third dimension of information is an interpretation of the signal dynamics, including instantaneous changes and the frequency of occurrence displayed in the form of quantitative intensity information.
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Architectural Copyrights – When a building is more than the sum of its parts.
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A half-built house standing on a lot indefinitely is sometimes a result of bankruptcy, or shady contractors. Sometimes, however, the unfinished house stands as a monument to a fundamental misunderstanding of architectural copyright law. A thorough background in architectural copyrights is essential for prospective home owners, builders, realtors, and architects to ensure that their efforts and money don't result in house that they can't finish and can't sell.
The typical example is when a family hires a contractor to build them a home. The contractor shows them some plans and the couple picks the design they want for their house. Half way through construction the couple fires the original contractor and hires a new contractor to finish the work. Before the house is completed the couple finds themselves in court where a judge has just ordered them to cease all construction on the house. Why can't the house be completed? Because while the couple owns all the wood and steel and glass that has gone into their house, they failed to ensure that they owned the design, as well.
In 1990 the US Congress passed The Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act which explicitly granted copyright protection for the architectural design of buildings. Architectural works, however, have a few specific limitations. First, registration is limited solely to "buildings", and explicitly excludes "bridges, cloverleafs, dams, walkways, tents, recreational vehicles, mobile homes, and boats" in 37 C.F.R. 202.11. Also excluded from registration are common design elements such as the standard placement of doors and windows. Another exception peculiar to architectural works is that pictorial representations (photographs, paintings, etc.) of a building do not constitute infringement.
Generally, when an architect sells a design for a building they are actually only selling a license, while they maintain the copyright to the work. Licensing agreements can be very complicated an great care should be taken in crafting the agreement to ensure that everyone understands and is satisfied with what they are receiving. For a one-time home buyer a license to build a single home may be sufficient. A construction company may want a license for them to build as many houses as they like. They may want an exclusivity clause ensuring the architect can't sell the design to a competitor. They may want to buy the right to display the plans in advertising, a use that would not be granted in a simple agreement to simply build houses. Another option might be to buy all rights from the architect, rather than simply a license.
A lawyer is essential for creating a well-crafted, custom tailored license agreement, and can be extremely helpful in explaining what the various provisions mean. While a license agreement between the parties without the help of a lawyer is binding, it can often result in unforeseen consequences should problems arise down the road. A good lawyer will ensure that the licensing agreement will predict all eventualities.
The couple in the example above cannot finish their house because the design for the house is owned by the contractor. Even if the couple were to throw away the blue-prints and draw up new plans themselves it will likely constitute infringement. Courts will infer there was copying if the old and new plans are substantially similar and the person that drafted the new plans had access to the old plans. So what options does the couple have for finishing their house? They can negotiate a license agreement with the old contractor, they can redesign the house to purposefully not look similar to the old design, or they can hire a new architect to design the unfinished sections of the house without him ever seeing the original plans. All of these measures could have been avoided, however, if more care was taken when drafting the license agreement for the architectural work.
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Tales From The Beach
Tales from the Beach are stories I've gathered from people who talk with me as I'm walking along the Gulf Coast beach, mostly in Bay St. Louis and Waveland, Miss. Once the bridge opens on May 17th, I'll be sharing stories gathered from my walks along the beach in Pass Christian. The three tiny beach towns constitute Katrina's ground zero.
The stories reflect the stories that folks down here are living. The stories often reflet the funny, quirky sense of humor, sarcasm, and wit that abounds in my home town region--even in the face of surviving the worst natural disaster in the history of the region, perhaps the country. Remember, these fabulous people who generously share their stories exhibit this humor in spite of the nation's other worst disaster: the Bush Administration.
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Rivers going underground, great springs emerging from the ground, independent hollows and basins instead of connecting valleys, deep potholes and vast caves, isolated towerlike hills reminiscent of the unbelievably steep peaks depicted in Chinese paintings-these are some of the distinctive features of karst, the name given to the kinds of country that owe their special characteristics to the unusual degree of solubility of their component rocks in natural waters.The special nature of karst is not only intrinsically interesting; it affects many aspects of life in the areas where it is found-water supplies, agriculture, engineering construction, tourism. There are, then, practical as well as scientific reasons for its study.The dramatic quality of karst landforms has caught the imagination of specialists and laymen alike. This book contains much to stimulate and inform the general reader as well as the undergraduate and high school student for whom it is written. It will be of particular interest to the hydrologist, the speleologist, and the sporting caver and potholer.
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Our dentist and dental team are delighted to welcome you to Bayside Family Dentistry! Our goal is to offer you and your family quality comprehensive dentistry in a manner that lets you know how much we care. Our office is family-oriented and features top-of-the-line equipment. Within our office, you will find digital X-rays, digital cameras, computerization from all points of view, and state-of-the-art sterilization. Most importantly, we have a select group of team members who love our patients, and our patients love them.
Dr. Aram Cazazian has provided high-quality dentistry in Bayside, New York, and the surrounding areas of Whitestone, Little Neck, Fresh Meadows, College Point, Great Neck, and Manhasset, New York, since 1981. During this time, he has come to understand and appreciate the people of these communities, and earned their trust in return. Some of our patients are coming to our office after 20 years without dental care, and we have had the honor of banishing their fears and concerns. For further information about our practice, we invite you to schedule an appointment with our dentist and come visit our office. We cannot wait to meet you!


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Bank of Hawaii Corp.'s BOH, -0.57% second-quarter earnings rose 16% as the regional lender saw lower provisions for loans gone bad that overshadowed a decline in revenue.
Bank of Hawaii has benefited from the relative health of Hawaii's economy to drive improved results in recent quarters. The bank, like others across the banking industry, has also benefited from improving credit quality in its loan books that has allowed it to slash funds set aside for bad loans.
For the second quarter, credit-loss provisions totaled $628,000, down sharply from $3.6 million a year earlier. However, provisions were up from $351,000 in the first quarter.
The bank posted a profit of $40.7 million, compared with $35.1 million a year earlier. Per-share earnings rose to 90 cents from 74 cents, ahead of the 87 cents expected by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.
Revenue, as a combination of net interest income and non-interest income, declined 3.2% to $142.2 million. Analysts expected $143 million.
Net charge-offs, or loans lenders don't think are collectible, totaled 0.27% of average loans and leases, compared with 0.24% the prior quarter and 0.45% the year before.
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We're very excited to be participating in the cover reveal for a hilarious and wonderful YA contemporary that I acquired at Entangled! Why I Loathe Sterling Lane by Ingrid Paulson is "what if Paris Geller fell for Ferris Bueller, and they both stayed horrible people." It's incredibly real, and laugh-out-loud funny, with tons of insight and moments you'll go back to re-read. This is a special book, and if you're anything like me, you'll love seeing a girl like Harper, who's angry and sarcastic and not so great with people but also surprisingly kind and generous, get to have her day as a heroine. Look for it releasing June 6!
Per her 537 rules, Harper Campbell keeps her life tidy—academically and socially
. But the moment Sterling Lane transfers into her tiny boarding school, her twin brother gets swept up in Sterling's pranks and schemes and nearly gets expelled. Harper knows it's Sterling's fault, and to protect her brother, she vows to take him down. As she exposes his endless school violations, he keeps striking back, framing her for his own infractions. Worst of all, he's charmed the administration into thinking he's harmless, and only Harper sees him for the troublemaker he absolutely is.
As she breaks rule after precious rule in her battle of wits against Sterling and tension between them hits a boiling point, she's horrified to discover that perhaps the two of them aren't so different. And maybe she doesn't entirely hate him after all. Teaming up with Sterling to save her brother might be the only way to keep from breaking the most important rule—protecting Cole.
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Ingrid Paulson does not, in fact, loathe anyone. Although the snarky sense of humor and verbal barbs in Why I Loathe Sterling Lane might suggest otherwise (and shock those who think they know her best).
Ingrid lives in San Francisco with her husband and children and enjoys long-distance running, eavesdropping, and watching science documentaries. She has always loved books and writing short stories, but was surprised one day to discover the story she was working on wasn't so short any more. Valkyrie Rising, a paranormal girl power story was Ingrid's first novel. Expect another humorous contemporary romance to join the list soon.


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Despite the new sponsor and different date the 12th Annual Classics on Wheels Car Show and the 2012 Elsberry High School Fall Festival should be a big hit.
This year the annual Car Show and Festival will be taking place Saturday, Oct. 6 in the Elsberry City Park. Sponsoring the Car Show will be The City of Elsberry with assistance from the Elsberry Kiwanis and the Elsberry Masons. Handling the Fall Festival is EHS.
There will be food, crafts, entertainment and of course "Classic Cars."
Music will be provided once again by Marty Enterprises.
Car registration will begin at 9 a.m. and end at noon. There is a $15 per car registration fee. Participant judging will take place from noon to 2 p.m. and the trophies will be handed out at 3 p.m.
Any vendor wishing to set up a booth during the Car Show can contact Marleen Frein by email at email@example.com or call 573-898-2099. Cost for a booth is $25 and pre-registation must be completed. (There is only a few areas with an electrical outlet, so first come, first serve.)
Following the trophy presentation the annual Fall Festival parade will begin at 4 p.m. followed by the Fall Festival Coronation crowning in the Elsberry City Park.
This years theme for the parade is Dr. Suess "The Places You'll Go".
Organizations, businesses or anyone that would like to participate in the parade are asked to contact Dr. Tim Reller by email at email@example.com or call 573-898-5554 ext. 211.


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Car hire at Chemnitz Till 12pm is made easy with Europcar. Friendly service, new cars and low prices are part of our every day offer. Whether you are hiring a car for business or pleasure, or you need a car or van, Europcar has the right hire car at Chemnitz Till 12pm for you. Europcar is looking forward to serving you at its car hire branch: Chemnitz Till 12pm. Remember to always bring your driving license, valid credit card and additional proof of identity (such as a passport if you are hiring abroad). Hire a car with Europcar today. Europcar's Green Program: At Europcar, we understand the environmental impact of car hire. That's why we have wholeheartedly embraced a sustainable development program, and are proud to be the first car hire company at Chemnitz Till 12pm with certified commitments. After all, what's good for the earth is good for our drivers.


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You see, my friend Kittee is vegan and gluten-free, as well as an Indianophile - meaning she is all about Indian food. She's traveled to India and can cook up a storm to sate your Indian cravings, indeed. Well, she once told me about chickpea pancakes, when we were discussing vegan omelets or something...and she shared a ton of her Indian cookbooks with me, too. Then I finally got around to getting Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian and quickly remembered the chickpea pancake concept...well, let's just say the HERBIVORES ARE HOOKED!
|This lovely has cumin, cayenne, garlic, onion, and peas.
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Installing Windows 7 from an USB Drive
You will need a computer with a DVD drive, Win 7 (maybe vista and xp works too) and a Win 7 Installation disc. I had one for my desktop. If you do not have a Win 7 DVD try Google. As far as I know you can download a Win 7 installer online or ask a friend. Just remember that you use your own product key. You can use a USB flash drive or an external USB hard disk with 5 GB of free space. Attach the USB device to the PC with the DVD drive.
Create bootable Partition
- Backup USB drive before doing anything else or use an empty one
- Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management
- shrink the partition of the USB drive by 5 GB. right clicking in it and select the appropriate command (something like reduce size)
- format new partition to NTFS
- right-click in it and mark partition as active
Note if you want to keep nothing else on the drive you can just format it and mark it a active. Above steps can be helpful if you want to but it on a external HDD that already has data on it.
Copy Data to USB Drive
Simple. Just copy & paste the whole Win 7 Installation DVD over to the above created Partition.
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Depending on the device you are using, there might be some additional steps needed like if you want to use UEFI only instead of BIOS on certain laptops. See this guide as example for further info. It is also advisable to download the Win 7 SP1 installer and install it immediately after the basic installation (assuming your Win 7 DVD does not already contain SP1). You will also need to determine how you can force the netbook/laptop on which you plan to install Win 7 to boot from the USB drive. In case of the Thinkpad X220 you need to press F12 at startup. Please refer to your devices manual or use google.
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Duniya Guitar Chords – Crisscross
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Patients experiencing difficulty emptying their bladder should see a doctor, advises Medtronic. The condition is known as urinary retention, and there are two general types: obstructive and nonobstructive
Obstructive urinary infections occur when there is a physical obstruction preventing a free flow of urine in the urinary track, according to Medtronic. Common causes include stroke, pelvic injury or trauma, vaginal childbirth, and spine or brain injury. Nonobstructive urinary infections develop when nerve problems interfere with signals between the brain and the bladder. The main causes include cancer, kidney or bladder stones, and an enlarged prostate in men.
Patients experiencing urinary retention may also have difficulty starting to urinate and an inability to feel when their bladder is full, notes Medtronic.


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A wildlife camera has captured elusive footage of a rare animal that hasn't been seen in Yorkshire for over 30 years.
Non-profit group NatureSpy announced that one of their 'camera traps' had produced the first ever images of a pine marten in the county after one was filmed on Forestry Commission land in the North York Moors area.
Although a skull was found back in 1993, there hasn't been a living record of the mammals' presence for 35 years, and no conclusive sightings.
The volunteers have spent the past four years monitoring cameras at several locations in the hope of finding proof of the creatures' existence in Yorkshire.
Pine martens are reclusive and difficult to track without the aid of technology and bait to tempt them down to the forest floor from their treetop habitat.
They are most commonly found in the Scottish Highlands, and there is also a small population in Wales. Evidence of them living in Cumbria was discovered in 2011.
Helmsley resident Paul Williams saw a pine marten in the town last year.
"It was rooting through some waste bins at the Helmsley Walled Garden. It was about 6am and I was walking my dog. She was more interested in the pine marten than it was in her. The pine marten was about two feet away, on the ground and gave me a looking over and after finishing its rooting, lumbered off towards the copse by the stables. It was the first and only time I have seen one and when I got back home I looked online to make sure it was a pine marten."
Project co-ordinator Ed Snell said:-
"To finally prove pine marten presence in Yorkshire is a massive achievement for everyone involved. Pine marten are such an important species, being the second rarest carnivorous mammal in the UK, it's so exciting to plan the next stage of the project and aid whatever populations we may have here."
NatureSpy have now launched a Crowdfunding campaign to cover the costs of the new stage of the project, which will include collecting DNA samples and creating habitat management plans.
Visit http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/searching-for-pine-marten-in-yorkshire to donate.


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Most people participating in worship this Sunday would agree there was a special sense of the Spirit at work. As part of his message, Duane shared a model of the church as the body of Christ, illustrating four quadrants of how the church lives out Jesus' teachings, particularly in the context of difficult discussions that have been taking place within our congregation, throughout Mennonite Church USA as well as in the broader church. MCUSA Director of Leadership Development Terry Shue first originated the model, based on the DiSC personal assessment tool.
Prior to the sermon, a readers' theater read Ephesians 4:1-16. Following the first part of Duane's sermon, Richelle read from Revelation 2:1-7, and led the congregation in reciting Psalm 23. Following the second part of the sermon, Duane led into a time of communion.


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Brochures provide basic summaries of different aspects of the TCGA program.
Cancer Genomics: What Does It Mean for You?
This guide provides information about the genomic foundation of cancer, the work of TCGA and how it advances personalized medicine.
The Cancer Genome Atlas: Charting a New Course for Cancer Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
The TCGA brochure summarizes the mission and goals of the program, its accomplishments and expansion, the cancers selected for study, and the components of the TCGA Network. It also describes the benefits that TCGA provides the cancer research community, including the value of TCGA data and how it is laying the foundation for precision medicine.