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NEW YORK (AP) Alex Rodriguez was ensnared in a doping investigation once again Tuesday when an alternative weekly newspaper reported baseball's highest-paid star was among a half-dozen players listed in records of a Florida clinic the paper said sold performance-enhancing drugs.
The Miami New Times said the three-time AL MVP bought human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing substances during 2009-12 from Biogenesis of America LLC, a now-closed anti-aging clinic in Coral Cables, Fla., near Rodriguez's offseason home.
The new public relations firm for the New York Yankees third baseman issued a statement denying the allegations.
The newspaper said it obtained records detailing purchases by Rodriguez, 2012 All-Star game MVP Melky Cabrera, 2005 AL Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon and 2011 AL championship series MVP Nelson Cruz of Texas.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Of all the topics Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis wanted to talk about at Super Bowl media day, deer-antler spray probably was not on the list.
He declined to directly address in any detail questions about a Sports Illustrated report that he sought help from a company that makes the unorthodox product to speed his recovery from a torn right triceps. Lewis was the NFL's leading tackler in the playoffs after missing 10 regular-season games with the injury.
The company, Sports With Alternatives To Steroids (SWATS), says its deer-antler substance contains a banned performance-enhancer connected to human growth hormone.
The 37-year-old Lewis, who has announced he will retire after playing against the San Francisco 49ers in Sunday's Super Bowl, dismissed the report as ``stupidity.''
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Randy Moss used to be a star. Now, he's just an afterthought with the San Francisco 49ers.
It's a role he's still struggling to accept.
Moss spent much of his career as one of the NFL's top receivers. During Super Bowl media day, he called himself ``the greatest receiver ever to do it.'' That's a claim sure to be debated in NFL circles.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco apologized for his word selection in criticizing the NFL's decision to hold next year's Super Bowl in an outdoor stadium at a cold-weather site.
On Monday, Flacco was asked about the game being played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
``I think it's retarded. I probably shouldn't say that. I think it's stupid,'' he said.
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The St. Louis Rams have decided not to hire Rob Ryan as defensive coordinator and stepped in a new direction by hiring Frank Bush as linebackers coach.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A federal judge will hear oral arguments in about two months on requests to throw out lawsuits by thousands of former NFL players regarding concussions suffered while playing for the league.
U.S. Eastern District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia on Tuesday scheduled an April 9 hearing on motions to dismiss filed by the NFL Inc., NFL Properties Inc. and All American Sports Corp.
NEW YORK (AP) - Executive director Billy Hunter has fired his daughter and daughter-in-law from the NBA players' association, less than two weeks after a review criticized his hiring practices.
In a letter to the union's special committee of players, dated Jan. 23, Hunter informed them that Robyn Hunter was to be let go as of Jan. 25. Megan Inaba will stay on through the All-Star break to help coordinate activities in Houston before leaving her job on Feb. 17.
Hunter also states in the letter, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, that the NBPA will no longer work with Prim Capital, the banking firm that employs Hunter's son, Todd
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Allen Iverson is taking a pass on the D-League.
Iverson, the 2001 NBA MVP, has turned down an opportunity to return to basketball with the Dallas Mavericks' Development League affiliate. He posted a series of tweets on Tuesday explaining his decision to decline an offer from Texas Legends' co-owner Donnie Nelson to join the team.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o didn't show any signs of being affected by the girlfriend hoax leading up to the BCS title game, but his play indicates it may have taken a toll, coach Brian Kelly said.
``Hindsight is 20-20. I didn't think going into the game he was affected by it. But he didn't play his best. Alabama had something to do with that, clearly. But I really don't know,'' Kelly said.
``It's a lot to weigh on the shoulders of somebody. I think we can make the leap that maybe it did. But I think Manti would know for sure.''
Te'o said in an interview with ESPN after the news of the hoax broke that it did not affect his performance in the title game blowout.
Kelly spoke to reporters Tuesday by conference call for the first time since the Irish were beaten 42-14 by Alabama in the BCS title game on Jan. 7. He said his interview the Philadelphia Eagles was mainly to get more information about coaching in the NFL, and his heart remains in college football. He's also working on a contract extension with Notre Dame.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - American forward Jozy Altidore was the target of racist chants Tuesday during AZ Alkmaar's 5-0 win over second-tier Den Boscha in the quarterfinals of the Dutch Cup.
Altidore, who is black, said he had never faced such serious abuse from the stands.
HOUSTON (AP) - The United States prepped for its opening game in the final round of World Cup qualifying with a dull 0-0 tie against Canada as defender Omar Gonzalez returned to the American national team lineup after a two-year absence.
U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann changed all 11 starters from November's 2-2 tie at Russia and is likely to change the entire lineup against for the Feb. 6 qualifier against Honduras at San Pedro Sula.
LONDON (AP) - The World Anti-Doping Agency called the UCI ``deceitful'' Tuesday for shutting down its independent doping panel and said it won't participate in an amnesty commission set up by the cycling governing body.
WADA said the UCI has ``again chosen to ignore its responsibility to the sport'' by disbanding the panel looking into claims that cycling leaders helped cover up Lance Armstrong's suspicious doping tests and accepted $125,000 in donations from him.
Instead, the UCI announced Monday plans to set up a separate amnesty-style ``truth and reconciliation commission'' (TRC) that it claimed was supported by WADA President John Fahey.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ashley Judd and Dario Franchitti are separating after 11 years of marriage.
Judd's spokeswoman confirmed a Tuesday report from People magazine that the 44-year-old actress and 39-year-old Scottish IndyCar driver are ending their marriage.
DENVER (AP) - Snowmobiler Caleb Moore was in critical condition in a Colorado hospital after a dramatic crash at the Winter X Games in Aspen, and a relative said the family wasn't hopeful about the 25-year-old's chances for survival.


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Administered by Volunteers of America and the Major League Baseball Players Trust, the Action Team program is a youth volunteer initiative that encourages young people to volunteer in their communities. More than 30 students from Elder and Seton high schools joined the Major Leaguers and student Action Team Captains for the landscape project.
The Antioch Manor landscape project is just one of several volunteer projects performed by the Cincinnati Action Team this school year. The Cincinnati Action Team was featured in the December 2008 issue of The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition for its work in organizing the Harmony Games, a special Olympic-style event for developmentally disabled adults as well as for its community cleanups and canned food drives.
Action Teams, consisting of Major League baseball players and Team Captains from area high schools, work together in cities nationwide to encourage young people to get involved in their communities by volunteering. To date, Action Teams of high school students and Major Leaguers across the country have inspired more than 17,000 high school students to help more than 75,000 people in need by volunteering in their communities. Beginning in September 2009, virtually every high school in America will be able to join the Action Team by participating in a new Internet version of this unique service-learning program. Action Team applications and additional information can be received by sending an e-mail request to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Additionally, an Action Team, school-based curriculum developed by the Players Trust, in partnership with The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition, carries the message of volunteerism and teaches valuable community service skills to 700,000 high school students in more than 5,000 classrooms across the United States. The Association of Educational Publishers named this innovative service-learning program a finalist for a 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award.


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JACKSON, MS -- Not only is the military grappling with decreased fitness levels among new recruits, but local police and fire departments also are having trouble finding applicants who can pass the initial physical training test.
One-third of trainees failed the physical training test for the Jackson (MS) Police Department's fall police academy class. The test consists of push-ups, a 1.5-mile run, an obstacle course and a flexibility test.
"What we are finding is a decline in overall physical strength," Deputy Police Chief Gerald Jones told the Clarion Ledger. Jones said the current class of recruits dropped from 600 initial applicants to 100 after they took the physical training test, written test and other pre-employment screenings.
Although no national studies on police and fire recruits exist, some 77 percent of fire and emergency medical technician trainees were obese or overweight, according to a study released last year examining emergency personnel in Massachusetts. Some 7 percent of the overweight trainees in the study—and 42 percent of the obese ones—failed to meet minimum fitness requirements recommended by the National Fire Protection Association.
In Los Angeles, one in five recruits for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) fail the initial fitness exam, according to Michelle Veenstra, a police captain who oversees the LAPD training division. In Los Angeles, applicants who fail the physical training test are put in a program that includes exercise and nutritional training, as well as more intense physical training. In addition, the LAPD hired a full-time nutritionist two years ago to work with recruits and officers.
Researchers say cuts in physical education classes in schools have affected fitness levels among young people. A report from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education found that only five states require PE for all grade levels, and more than half of them allow PE exemptions—a 61 percent increase since 2006.


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We strive to give top dollar for all of your loans and sale items. We stay current with some of the latest technologies which allow us to continue to give top dollar and stay competitive.
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A pawn is another term for a collateral loan. Pawnbrokers lend money on items of value ranging from gold and diamond jewelry, musical instruments, televisions, electronics, tools, household items, firearms, and more. Some pawn shops may specialize in certain items. Loans are based on the value of the collateral. When a customer pays back the loan, their merchandise is returned to them. A customer may also choose to surrender your collateral as payment in full. Pawn shops may offer extensions/renewals (where permitted by state law).
On average, about 80 percent of all pawn loans are repaid. Repeat customers make up a majority of the business, similar to any other lending or retail establishment. Pawnbrokers establish relationships with their customers because they often borrow against the same items repeatedly. Pawnbrokers offer non-recourse loans, looking only to the item being pledged to recover their investment if the borrower chooses not to repay the loan.


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Since We Arrived
Sorry for the radio silence; we've been settling in at our temporary Medford, Oregon home and starting our hunt for a permanent place, setting up shop here, recovering from the drive and playing with the kids. But now I'm back :-) And since I didn't have a decent internet connection at our last night on the road in Winnemucca, NV, this entry covers the last two days of our journey!
The Last Two Days
(each link is to an Instagram photo from @travel_junkie or @alenkadesign)
Before hitting the road, we took some time to check out Salt Lake City. The geography of the place is simply stunning—as we drove in the evening before, we weren't sure what to expect, but coming through the mountain pass dropping into the city, we were massively impressed by the vista below. A huge valley, or basin, surrounded by snowy mountains (in June!) with the enormous Great Salt Lake in the background is truly breathtaking. It's easy to see why Brigham Young decided to settle there in 1847!
The big thing to see in SLC is, of course, the Mormon Temple and its surrounding structures. We parked under the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, and once we rose through the parking labyrinth into the building lobby, were immediately struck by the opulence of the place. We actually rode past the lobby on the elevator to the top floor viewing area, but after chatting with the lovely ladies in the sky about the best viewing spots in town, we knew we had higher elevations to ascend to. Back on the ground we toured the building lobby, which was celebrating a 100 year anniversary so was filled with tour guides dressed in old-world clothes extolling the history of the structure. It used to be the Hotel Utah, one of the "finest hotels in the land", but was ultimately converted to the Memorial Building that it is today. Amazing details in the carpeting, filigree, lighting and more are a feast for the eyes.
The building is celebrating it's 100 year anniversary, and so the lobby was full of guides in period dress telling visitors about the building's history.
We toured the grounds and saw a bride and groom posing for photos in front of the Temple. We took an escorted trip to the top of the Church of LDS Business Building for quite possibly the best view in the city (just ask for an escort in the lobby!), where we gazed upon the city some more.
Finally we headed out of the city for our next long drive, passing the Great Salt Lake and heading towards the awesome Salt Flats. We stopped for a stretch and a photo or two, before settling in at the Salt Flats Cafe for lunch. The cafe sits at the entrance to the Bonneville Salt Flats, known as the home of the Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway. In the summer, the flats are cleared and prepped for speed trials and other such fast-car goodness, but for now people just tear off in their 4x4 vehicles and coat their undercarriage in salts. I was hoping to have a little fun in the Audi, but the salts were quite wet and a storm was coming in as well, so we decided against getting stuck in the muck.
With hundreds of miles still to go, we got back on the open road, heading from Utah to Nevada via Beverly Hills (as you do), experiencing the desolate land of northern Nevada, before finally setting in at Winners Casino in Winnemucca, NV (yes, that's actually where we stayed… why not?!). It's a town full of desolate things, but also one graced with an abundance of Basque restaurants. Yeah, you read that right. Apparently a handful of Basque sheepherders settled in Winnemucca over a century ago, and never left. We picked one at random and enjoyed a beautiful meal at the Martin Hotel, where you sit at long tables with other guests and are fed entirely too much food! My one tip for this place is GO HUNGRY. Do not visit expecting to just order a starter as your main. The menu is brief, with a handful of options only, and they all include everything else, from salad to appetizers to bread and dessert and even wine. The food was very good — I won't say amazing, but it was very good — and we enjoyed the ambiance and our neighbors at the table very much.
We finished up the night by throwing away a fortune at the penny slots at Winners. A dingy, smoky, run-down casino and penny slots—fantastic.
The following morning on check-out, I couldn't resist outing the hotel's graphic design department (OK, that's a bad joke… probably a shift manager did this) for their outright theft of a watermarked photo and blatant disregard for taste in graphic design, which got a fun little conversation going on Twitter here, here and here.
The desolate road awaited, and as this was our last day in the car we were anxious to go! The landscape changed dramatically, and when we ultimately entered Oregon we felt, as you might imagine, that this long journey was finally coming to an end. There was an impressive drop into a huge valley along the way, and a gorgeous little lake in the middle of nowhere that begged a quick photo stop. As we got deeper into Oregon, we were met by lush and beautiful forests and the Klamath Lake. The ride from there into Medford, over the Falls Highway on OR-140 was stunning, but being so close to the end we didn't stop—besides, I see loads of weekends spent up there in our future!
Finally, finally arriving in Medford, after 2,872 miles, 11 states and 8 days, checking into our cute little 1-bedroom furnished cottage that will be home until we find a proper one, was a great relief. The drive was fantastic, but it's always good to be home—even if you've never been there before.


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Father of the world's test tube babies dies at 87
Robert Edwards, the scientist known as the father of IVF for pioneering the development of "test tube babies" for couples unable to conceive naturally, died on Wednesday aged 87.world Updated: Apr 11, 2013 01:53 IST
Robert Edwards, the scientist known as the father of IVF for pioneering the development of "test tube babies" for couples unable to conceive naturally, died on Wednesday aged 87.
The Briton, who won the Nobel medicine prize for his achievement in 2010, started developing in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in 1955 - work that culminated in 1978 in the birth of Louise Brown, the first so-called test tube baby.More than 5 million babies have been born around the world as a result of the techniques that Edwards, known as "Bob" to his friends, developed with his late colleague Patrick Steptoe.
Edwards, who has five daughters and 11 grandchildren, said he was motivated in his work by a desire to help families.
"Nothing is more special than a child," he was quoted by his clinic as saying when he won his Nobel prize.
IVF is a process by which an egg is fertilised by sperm outside the body in a test tube, giving rise to the term "in vitro" or "in glass".
Working at Cambridge University in eastern England, Edwards first managed to fertilise a human egg in a laboratory in 1968. He then started to collaborate with Steptoe.
In 1980, the two founded Bourn Hall, the world's first IVF clinic, in Cambridge, where gynaecologists and cell biologists from around the world have since come to train.
Experts say that today, as many as 1 to 2% of babies in the Western world are conceived through IVF.
Yet Edwards' work and its consequences remain controversial.
The Roman Catholic Church strongly opposes IVF as an affront to human dignity that destroys more human life than it creates -because scientists discard or store unused fertilised embryos.
Working together in the 1960s and 1970s, Edwards and Steptoe, a gynaecologist, pursued their research despite opposition from churches, governments and many in the media, as well as scepticism from scientific colleagues.
"A lot of people go around saying they're pioneers, but this man really was," said Dr Mark Sauer, head of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.
"What was unique about Bob is that he did this pioneering work at a time when it was immensely unpopular."
In the late 1970s and for years after, much of the public viewed test tube babies as "ghastly and scary", said Sauer. "The Vatican tried to shut (Edwards and Steptoe) down. They did their work at great personal risk to their careers. But Edwards was a fighter, and he believed in what he was doing. He knew the human side of it" - the couples unable to conceive without medical help.
Edwards and Steptoe struggled to raise funds and had to rely on private donations, but in 1968 they developed methods to fertilise human eggs outside the body.
Working at Cambridge University, they began replacing fertilised embryos into infertile mothers in 1972. But several pregnancies spontaneously aborted due to what they later discovered were flawed hormone treatments.
In 1977, they tried a new procedure, which relied not on hormone treatments but on precise timing. On July 25 of the following year, the world's first IVF baby was born.
According to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE), around one in six couples worldwide experience some form of infertility problem at least once during their reproductive lifetime.
Since Edwards' pioneering work, various forms of "assisted reproductive technology" have been developed, including intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) - a process by which an egg is fertilised by injecting it with a single sperm.
Martin Johnson, professor of reproductive sciences at Cambridge, said Edwards also wrote extensively about the ethics of assisted reproduction, and in 2000 founded the journal Reproductive BioMedicine Online to encourage rapid publication of research and to air controversies.
Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, Director of the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine in New York, said Edwards had been "revered" in his field.
"The fact that he did not get the Nobel earlier must have reflected other forces," Rosenwaks said. Many of us wrote letters nominating him many years before he finally achieved it."
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TORONTO -- Statement from NHLPA executive director and former MLBPA executive director Donald Fehr:
"My wife Stephanie and I are enormously saddened to learn of Mike Weiner's passing today, and our thoughts go out to Diane and their three daughters.
"Mike was an extraordinary individual in so many ways: as a loving husband and father, as an exceptional union leader and lawyer, and as a great friend to so many. He was an indispensable part of the MLBPA staff for more than two decades, and was the right man to lead the union.
"This is a great loss, for his family, for his friends, for the players, and for everyone who crossed his path."


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Miller Home Care : Senior Care in Wisconsin Milwaukee
Miller Home Care was founded by Tony Bonacuse with the help of Peter Ross after their firsthand experience in caring for their respective family members. From their experience, Tony and Peter saw a huge gap that was not being filled properly by the other companies providing care for the elderly in the market. In dealing with these other caregivers, they found that either they couldn't get caregivers to answer their inquiries or that the companies that would respond left something to be desired in their level of professionalism. It was clear to them that someone needed to address these deficiencies – the result being Miller Home Care.
Using Peter as a sounding board, Tony set out to create an organization that would be a trusted leader in senior care, and that would provide the type of professionalism he found to be lacking in other organizations. Tony opened the first Miller Home Care office in Baltimore, MD in 2002 to gauge the potential need for such an organization. As it turns out, there were many others who identified with the services and needs that Miller Home Care filled. Miller Home Care began building a reputation for itself as a professional organization with a dedicated staff of caregivers. The Baltimore location was a success and it was evident that other locations could be, too. Expansion began in 2004 with Peter joining Tony full time, opening an additional office in Orange County, CA.
With the success of the Miller Home Care system on both coasts came increasing demand. Tony and Peter began to look into franchising as an option to bring Miller Home Care to the next level. After building a strong reputation over the years, SH Franchising, LLC now enlists the help of quality franchisees to expand on this success, while still maintaining the strong reputation for which Miller Home Care is known.
Our Focus
- Dependability of Service
- Continuity of Caregivers
- Peace of Mind for the Family
- Quality of Life for the Client
- Independent Living in the Home
Our Services
Companion Care
For our basic level of care, caregivers provide services such as companionship, meal planning and preparation, light housekeeping, laundry, medication reminders, and other general assistance. For sitter services, caregivers sit with and monitor a client during their hospital or facility stay. The caregiver can then follow the client home to provide a smooth transition.
Personal Care
For our advanced level of care, our professional and experienced caregivers provide basic companion care plus assistance with the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, and ambulation assistance. These services are initially assessed and regularly monitored by either an on-site care coordinator, Social Worker or RN depending on the regulations of the state that the office is located in.
Live-In Care
Our caregivers are available to provide 24-hour coverage, as long as they can sleep for eight hours per night and receive appropriate breaks. Live-in care can be provided for a minimum of two consecutive days, up to seven days per week indefinitely.
Peace of Mind Visit
Our unique Peace of Mind Visit program is a short visit each day to help clients with, among other things, bathing assistance, meal preparation, medication reminders, getting out of or in to bed, and "check-ins."
Transition Assistance
We know it can be challenging for families when a member is discharged from a hospital. This service ensures that clients are guided through the outpatient surgery and recovery period. We are available for help prior to surgery and will accompany a client each step of the way through full recovery, including transportation to follow-up doctor visits.
Sitter Assistance
Our caregivers monitor clients in hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living centers, continuing care retirement communities, etc., to be there when the family cannot, etc.
Respite Care
Respite care is a unique program to assist families by providing care for a short period of time, such as vacations.
Our Process
We have a professional, process-oriented staff ready to serve our clients and their families.
When a prospective client contacts a Miller Home Care office, they set up a complimentary initial assessment at the client's location to discuss the client's needs and formulate a care plan. If necessary, a staff member, Social Worker or RN (depending on the State regulations) will conduct a full nursing assessment to gauge the client's status and clarify the care plan.
They determine the most appropriate caregiver for the client using the assessment information and the caregiver matching process. Service starts on the pre-determined date. Follow-up is conducted immediately after service begins and on a periodic basis to ensure excellent care delivery.
Miller Home Care Mission Statement, Vision, & Core Values
Mission Statement
Our mission is to ensure a better quality of life for our elderly clients and their families by providing dependable and affordable care. We are a trusted and respected organization that takes a responsible role in supporting our clients and their families, our employees, and our community.
Our vision is to be your community's leading home care company, setting a new standard of care and customer service for our industry.
Core Values
Integrity Without Compromise
We believe in demonstrating the highest levels of honesty and integrity in all interactions with others. We will not compromise this value for short-term gain or convenience.
Improve Quality of Life
We believe that our work in home care is about helping our clients and their families improve their quality of life during the aging process, maintain peace of mind, and enjoy independence in their own homes.
Open & Effective Communication
We believe that clear communication and open dialog are critical to building and maintaining positive relationships and creating exceptional experiences for others.
Positive Attitude
We believe that to be successful in a dynamic and competitive business like home care, we need to maintain positive habits of thought in all that we do. We encourage our team members and remind ourselves to think and act positively in every situation.
Continuous Advancement
We believe that we can advance in our industry by continuously seeking opportunities to improve. We believe that it is important to constantly assess our current reality by examining facts and data. Our willingness to embrace the facts will help us grow and create exceptional experiences for our stakeholders.
Celebrate Life
We believe in the sanctity of human life and in celebrating the joy of life. We will foster this by creating opportunities for our clients, caregivers, employees, and franchisees to live a life that they can celebrate!


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Curtis details the day-to-day life of a close-knit contemporary African-American family living in the inner city. It is a comic work that does not fit easily in any category. Though it mainly features children, it is not necessarily "child-themed." It can be humorous, thought-provoking, topical in subject and have bursts of pure zany fantasy.
Sometimes falling victim to censoring, Curtis is best welcomed by those modern free-thinkers who appreciate it for the work of art it is. It is often called "The Thinking-Man's Strip," for its witty approach, satire and use of storylines with an unexpected twist.
Veteran cartoonist Ray Billingsley uses his own childhood of growing up in New York's Harlem in a tight-knit family as the template for Curtis. Some of the experiences and featured characters throughout are directly influenced by real people and happenings the author has known and experienced.
At the end of each year, Billingsley celebrates Kwanzaa with a completely original fable that is always completely different from any Curtis theme. Anti-smoking gags, along with gentle teasing of the hats the church ladies adorn themselves with, are always eagerly anticipated. Even the superhero genre is satirized through Curtis' favorite hero, SuperCaptainCoolMan, which is a strip within a strip. Curtis has been long praised by community leaders and educators for its sensitive portrayal of urban life and family values. Billingsley is eagerly sought after by up-and-coming artists who are inspired by his style and craft and seek his advice and guidance.
Awards and Distinctions:
The President's Award from the American Lung Association
Humanitarian Award from the American Lung Association
Society for Public Health Education
NAACP Arts & Entertainment Achievement Award
"Who's Who in Black America," "African-Americans in the Visual Arts," "Garfield at 25:In Dog Years I'd Be Dead," "Blondie's 75th Anniversary," "The Great American Comic Strip," "Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook," "Cartoon Success Secrets," "The Comics Since 1945," "100 Years of American Newspaper Comics," "Will Eisner/A Spirited Life"
*Especially proud of the first two Curtis collections that can be found at www.thecartooniststudio.com when mainstream tried to prevent these anthologies from ever seeing the light of day. He is also proud of the wonderful line of merchandising in connection with King Features Syndicate's DailyINK.
The youngest of the Wilkins family, a true mama's boy who holds tight to his teddy bear "Snackers," whose innocent-looking baby boy face often disguises his true bad boy tattletale interior.
A sweet, smart girl who is in Curtis' class and hopes for the day when Curtis feels for her like she feels for him. She lives with her single-parent father and often thinks of her mother, who passed away after a battle with cancer. Chutney is mostly good-natured and willing to put up with Curtis until she is rubbed the wrong way.
A good-natured yet mischievous 11-year-old whose ideas of fun and temptations almost always wind up in humorous catastrophe.
The school bullies who continually try to rope Curtis into joining their juvenile misdeeds. From swindling lunch money to defacing school property with their "poetry" and "artwork," Derrick and Onion are the last two people that Curtis' parents want influencing their young, impressionable son.
Definitely a no-nonsense type who keeps a rein on her household and family. She makes sure that her children do as they are expected and don't step out of line. She is the true backbone of the Wilkins family.
A harried workaholic who juggles his job at the Department of Motor Vehicles, while providing for his family, paying bills and keeping his children on the straight and narrow path. For relief, he turns to smoking cigarettes, which Curtis intensely dislikes.
Curtis' best friend, who is just a little bit odd and unexplainable, and who comes from Flyspeck Island. By description and stories, Flyspeck Island is an almost magical place where anything can happen and things are not always as they seem.
Rules the local neighborhood barbershop with a smile, many tall tales of celebrities he personally knows and topical discussions. This is a typical barbershop found in any African-American neighborhood where all is discussed and no topic is taboo. He serves as sort of a second father to Curtis, although he can never remember his name correctly.
The object of Curtis' affection, Michelle is a diva in her own mind. She is spoiled by her affluent yet mostly absent father. She is quite vain and condescending towards practically everyone, but especially Curtis. She constantly chases the limelight that she thinks she justly deserves to be in.
Curtis' strictly-by-the-book teacher, who constantly pushes her students to be the best they can be. She always catches Curtis reading his favorite comic book, SuperCaptainCoolMan. She has also authored a few children's books.
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As 2011 gets under way, those who care about the integrity of science education are bracing for the latest round of state legislation aimed at undermining the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Every year, a host of these bills are filed across the country. In 2008, one was passed in Louisiana, despite protests from scientists and educators. In Oklahoma, State Senator Josh Brecheen (R) has vowed to introduce a bill in the coming legislative session that requires schools to teach "all the facts" on the so-called fallacies of evolution.
The tactics of creationists have evolved since 1925, when Tennessee's Butler Act forbade the teaching of evolution, and high school biology teacher John Scopes was put on trial for doing so. (Creationists believe that God created the physical universe and all organisms according to the account in Genesis, denying the evolution of species.)
But creationists' tactics have also evolved since 2005, when a federal court in Pennsylvania established that teaching intelligent design (ID) in public schools is unconstitutional. The judge in the case ruled, "ID is not science" and derives instead from "religious strategies that evolved from earlier forms of creationism." (Intelligent design holds that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.")
The favored strategy of intelligent design proponents and creationists now is to try to undermine the teaching of evolution by arguing that "evidence against evolution" should be taught, in order to foster a spirit of critical inquiry among students. Arguing that students ought to be exposed to an alleged scientific debate over evolution, intelligent design proponents call for a radical rewriting of textbooks and curricula.
ANOTHER VIEW: Religion doesn't belong in public schools, but debate over Darwinian evolution does
The new strategy is craftier – but just as bogus.
No debate on evolution
Despite the constant claims of creationists to the contrary, there simply is no debate among scientists about the validity of evolution. If you search research journals and attend scientific conferences, it becomes readily apparent that while there are controversies over the details of evolution, there is no controversy about the basic fact that living things have descended with modification from a common ancestry. Scientists argue how evolution happened, not whether evolution happened.
This doesn't stop creationists from imagining they can conjure a debate by repeating the claim that there is evidence against evolution. Intelligent design advocates claim they aren't asking public schools to teach creationism, just the "scientific debate over Darwinian evolution." The problem, again, is that there is no debate to teach. The National Academy of Sciences, the nation's most prestigious scientific organization, emphasizes, "There is no scientific controversy about the basic facts of evolution."
If there were credible scientific evidence against evolution, scientists would be the first to discover it, the first to publish it in peer-reviewed journals, and the first to debate its validity and importance. After all, discovering credible scientific evidence against evolution would be a revolutionary accomplishment, worthy of a Nobel Prize. That's why accusations from creationists and intelligent design advocates that scientists are conspiring to suppress evidence against evolution are, to put it mildly, silly.
Creationists are cutting in line
Because scientists are not debating evolution, it is wrong to teach students otherwise. In public school science classes and textbooks, the basic methods and results of the mainstream scientific consensus are presented – not untested fringe ideas, not speculations, but information fully supported by evidence. By demanding to cut in line, creationists ask to bypass the normal process of verifying scientific claims. They try to misuse public resources to foist their scientifically unwarranted denial of evolution on a captive student audience, and to force their culture war into America's classrooms.
What creationists regard as "scientific evidence" against evolution is really a collection of debunked claims circulating and persisting like urban legends. For example, from the Scopes era to today, creationists have eagerly cited the so-called Cambrian explosion, a 10-million-year period about 530 million years ago when fossils record a blossoming of animal life. Creationists claim that the standard model of evolutionary change is incapable of explaining how so many new kinds of animals could have flourished so quickly.
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As Mr. Brecheen, the Oklahoma state senator, recently garbled it, "The main fallacy with Darwinian theory is the sudden appearance at about 540 million years [ago] of fossil records." (In fact, the earliest fossils were formed about three billion years earlier than that.) The Cambrian explosion, he wrote, "debunks the tree of life" – a view not shared by practicing paleontologists.
Selective quotes from real scientists
Lacking any substantive evidence to make their case, creationists offer a few selective quotes from real scientists to give their arguments authority. For example, noted National Institutes of Health evolutionary biologist Eugene V. Koonin was recently quoted by a program officer with the leading intelligent design organization (The Discovery Institute) as saying that the modern synthesis of evolution has "crumbled, apparently, beyond repair." The implication was that Mr. Koonin would agree that there is a scientific debate over evolution that deserves to be taught in the schools.
But when I talked to Koonin, he told me this interpretation was simply wrong. Creationists, he said, "delight in claiming that whenever any aspect of '(neo)Darwinism' is considered obsolete, evolution is denied. Nothing could be further from the truth." Koonin explained that what is "crumbling" in his view is a half-century-old approach to thinking about evolution. Modern evolutionary theory is "a much broader, richer and ultimately more satisfactory constellation of data, concepts, and ideas." Evolution is alive and well, while creationist understanding of it is apparently stuck in the Eisenhower era.
Whether by banning the teaching of evolution, or requiring the teaching of creation science or intelligent design, or encouraging the teaching of long-ago-debunked misrepresentations of evolution, creationist proposals are bad science, bad pedagogy, and bad policy. Instead of proposing scientifically illiterate and educationally harmful measures, state legislatures – and other policy-makers – should help students learn about evolution. As the geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky famously said – and as Eugene Koonin explicitly agreed – "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."
Steven Newton is programs and policy director for the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit defending the teaching of evolution in public schools.


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Even though i would lead the POY race based on the adjusted payouts, i don't think it is right that we use prizepool to award POY and certainly not adjusted payout.
1) Adjusted payout can be rigged, meaning potentially people can deal officially at favourable payout for 1 person but unofficially the prize $ can be passed back. Even if this is arms length fair play deal, its a POY sporting contest and shouldnt be decided based who is the best deal negotiator or subject to favouritism/discretion. If we have to use payout, we should use the official payout and not the ones after deal.
2) Like any other POY competition, we should compute "points" based on event buy in, field size and placing. A player who has made 2-3 final tables whether main event or side event should be ranked higher than another player who cash once but won the main event with the biggest 1st prize. Simply using official prizepool means the POY will almost certainly come from the main event winners, making the POY race rather anti climax towards the end. It should be an open race that rewards consistency.
3). I propose using the same points system used by pokerstars Macau for the placing 1st to 10th (only if cash): 1st 120pts, 2nd 100pts, 3rd 80pts, 4th 60pts, 5th 50pts, 6th 40pts, 7th 35pts, 8th 30pts, 9th 25pts and 10th 20pts. We then improvise (similar to APT system) to make sure people who cash get points too, 11th -18th 15pts, 19th-27th 10pts, 28th-36th (if required) 5points. This is very similar to APT system though their 5points is awarded for participation. It's also quite a flat structure, and winner is more likely going to who final table the most.
4l. Next is the multiplier for buy in.
Side event ($100-$300) is 1, main event ($300-$500) is 1.5, high roller (>$500 if we have one) is 2.
5l. Then the field size, we can make it very simple using multiples of 50.
2-50 = 1, 51-100 = 2, 101-150 = 3, 151-200 = 4, 201-250 = 4.5, 251-300 = 5 and so forth. This is almost the same as pokerstars Macau and slightly different to the APT one.
6l. Please, no SNG.. not really fair because only "privileged" groups of players can play. Either they have been eliminated and can't reenter anymore or they have made it to day 2 via day 1a.
I suggest to backtest this to previous seasons and see who finishes top 3, and if the winners make sense to you that he/she is the best player over the season then you have an equitable system.
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A Father in Law's Naughty Fantasybybbw4youngercocks1©
Unbeknownst to me at the time my son and his wife first moved in with me, my daughter-in-law and I already had something in common - an insatiable appetite for sex.
I had plenty of room in my spacious house since I'd gotten divorced from Dominic's mother after catching her bouncing on our now-former gardener's cock. In hindsight, I think my ex-wife and I shared equal fault for the marriage ending the way it did.
Though I have my own successful business and had been a workaholic throughout our marriage - which left little time or energy for sex once I'd come home - the suspicion that Tory was a slut from the time we'd dated in high school never escaped the back of my mind.
When I came home from a business trip and found Tory fucking Brad in our marriage bed, my suspicions of her sleeping around were finally confirmed. Brad was immediately fired and I filed for divorce the following day.
I couldn't help but wonder exactly how long she'd been sleeping with the gardener - or a number of other men, for that matter - while I was at work or traveling.
Dominic had been in Europe as an exchange student at the time his mother and I were divorced. When he returned to the States after a year, he'd brought someone home with him - a young woman named Ileana.
She was a beautiful blonde with clear green eyes, a tight body with full breasts, and legs that seemed to go on forever. Ileana seemed a bit shy and spoke with an accent that both Dominic and I found quite sexy. It was easy to see why my son was attracted to her, and it appeared she adored him as well.
They got married not long after Dominic began working at my company and I let him and his new bride move in with me so they could save money to buy their own home. With both he and I gone during most of the daytime hours, Ileana was alone with the help.
My new gardener, Jim, was a dedicated hard worker in his early sixties who was more interested in keeping the grounds immaculate than having an affair with the current lady of the house.
Aside from Jim and different guys who came once a week from the pool maintenance company, the majority of my current small staff was female. There was no reason to worry about Ileana sleeping with the help as Tory had done...at least I thought at the time.
She and Dominic obviously had a very healthy sex life. Sounds of their bed creaking, its headboard banging against the adjoining wall, along with Dominic's moaning and Ileana's cries of ecstasy in her hot accent drifting from their bedroom while they made love were difficult to miss.
The sounds of my son and daughter-in-law going at it like wild animals every night and again in the morning before he went to work never failed to give me a hard-on. I'd stroke my cock, imagining I was in their bedroom with her.
Like many recently divorced men, I was horny more often than usual, and Ileana's presence didn't help matters. Since she was Dominic's wife and therefore off-limits, I sought out women who resembled her for no-strings-attached sexual encounters.
If I couldn't have Ileana, I settled for the second string in order to get off. Jerking off to fantasies of one's stunning daughter-in-law only gets a man so far, after all.
Hearing her and Dominic fuck wasn't the only time I dreamed about sex with Ileana. It seemed like I had a semi-permanent erection every time she was around, especially when she'd lay by the pool in one of her skimpy bikinis, or I'd see her erect nipples under the silk pajamas she loved to wear to bed - at least before she and Dominic engaged in another night of intense fucking.
One of my favorite fantasies was coming home for lunch and finding Ileana's beautiful body stretched in her favorite chaise lounge, her bikini leaving little to the imagination. She'd spot me gazing at her from the doorway leading to the pool and beckon me to come closer.
We wouldn't waste any time getting down to business, shedding our respective clothing before engaging in some petting and making out. Ileana's beautiful mouth would make its way down to my hard cock before she'd almost swallow its entire length, sucking me until I couldn't take it any longer.
She'd then lay back on the chaise lounge, spread her legs, and guide my cock into her pink opening. I'd thrust it in, then all the way out until I was barely inside the lips of Ileana's pussy, then slam it all the way inside and with long, hard strokes. We'd fuck on the chaise lounge for at least ten to fifteen minutes before we'd come together, Ileana begging me to shoot my load in her.
I never counted on having actual encounters with her and my fantasies about her would remain as such. Not only would Dominic killed me if he'd known I secretly viewed Ileana in a lustful manner, but also assumed she got more than plenty of sex from him, so there was no need for her to screw anyone else.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
On the afternoon in question, I'd given my household staff the day off so they could have a head start on the upcoming holiday weekend. Someone from the pool cleaning company was supposed to come by to do ours for the week.
I'd left Dominic in charge and took off the rest of the afternoon. He wasn't expected to come home until around five, so I figured once the pool man was gone, it would be just me and Ileana at home.
When I pulled my car into the driveway, I spotted a van from the pool company, but saw no one around our pool. I guessed he'd discovered some other problem and was working to correct it, which may explain why he was out of my view.
The first thing I heard after I entered the house was moaning and Ileana's voice emerging from upstairs. My initial thought was perhaps she had some kind of accident and was hurt. I rushed upstairs and sprinted down the hallway toward the sound of her voice until it was totally audible.
Ileana was in the bedroom she shared with Dominic, but she wasn't alone.
The pool man was on top of her. Ileana's hands gripped his well-defined ass as he thrust in and out of her at a hard, steady pace.
"Fuck me! Please, baby, fuck me harder!" she cried.
"Oh, God, Mrs. H.," he grunted, "I'm going to come!"
I stood by the ajar door totally stunned as the pool man withdrew his cock from her in one swift motion and violently jerked it. Soon, spurts of his seed landed on Ileana's face and breasts before he was completely satisfied.
All I could think about while I watched another man come on her was my son having the same rotten luck I did - marrying a woman who turned out to be unfaithful.
I quietly ducked into my bedroom to avoid either of them spying me. I kept the door open a tiny crack and watched the pool man leave. Ileana, still naked and glistening with the remains of his semen, went into the bathroom.
As I heard the shower running, I wrestled with the dilemma of either keeping what I'd just witnessed to myself or telling my son the wife he adored so much had been fucking the pool man in their marriage bed while Dominic was at work.
By the time Ileana finished her shower, I had a better idea.
She emerged from the bathroom with a towel around her body. She was shocked once I'd stepped out of my room, but managed to regain her composure.
"You're home early."
"Yes," I replied, giving no indication I'd witnessed her earlier indiscretion. "Dominic's in charge until five. I wanted to come home and get a few things together for the holiday weekend."
"Oh...well, you just missed the pool man."
"Actually, I saw him leave. Did he get everything finished?"
"I think so, yes."
It was time to confront her with what I knew. "Including giving you an orgasm or two?"
Ileana's mouth dropped open and she gave me a stunned look. "What do you..."
"I saw you in a...compromising position, to say the least."
"You watched us have sex?"
"I stumbled across the two of you fucking right before he blew his load all over you. Had to take a shower to wash off the evidence of whoring around before your husband came home, huh?"
"It was just sex. It meant nothing. I love Dominic."
"Then why screw another guy behind his back?"
Ileana explained that though Dominic was great in bed and gave her multiple orgasms, she had a strong sexual appetite that couldn't be suppressed by just one man.
The pool man hadn't been the only one she'd been with; since her marriage to my son, Ileana had been sleeping with six other men - five of them married - all she'd met through casual sexual encounter ads or in a hotel lounge she frequented when she'd gotten bored at home.
She also confessed that it hadn't been unusual for her to have sex with two or three different guys in one day before she and Dominic made love that night.
My God, I thought, and I thought my ex-wife was a slut for banging our former gardener. Ileana's sexual escapades could've put Tory's to shame!
"I never figured you as the type to sleep around on my son," I told her. "You're lucky he wasn't the one who came home and saw you in bed with the pool man. However, I've considered telling him what you did."
"No, please..."
"Marriage is a contract," I said sternly, "and spreading your legs for six or seven other men isn't exactly living up to your end of it. What will your husband think when he finds out he's married to a whore?"
Ileana became flustered from the thought of her carnal encounters with multiple partners being revealed to the person she claimed to love. "I won't see them any more, I promise."
"Really? You're going to stop screwing around just like that when you said you needed sex almost all the time?"
"Yes. Yes!"
"Why should I believe a filthy slut like you?"
"You must! Is there something I can do to change your mind?"
I smirked and guided one of her soft hands to the bulge in my pants. "Perhaps you can."
"You're Dominic's father. I cannot sleep with you."
"Yet you slept with random strangers. If you wanted to be a fuck slut, all you had to do was come to me. You aren't the only one who enjoys a lot of sex. Just think, baby; we can get off each other as often as we want, and you won't have to worry about me saying a word to your husband about the other seven guys you screwed around with."
"You say nothing at all?"
I placed her hand back on my engorged crotch. My cock was throbbing and aching to be freed. "Almost as if I never saw you in bed with the pool man."
She dropped the towel that still covered her body. "All right."
"Let's go in my bedroom," I said. "I could use a good blow job right about now."
In the bedroom, Ileana kneeled in front of me and unzipped my pants while I removed my shirt. She brushed her fingers up and down my legs, over my balls, and stroked my cock for several minutes before I pushed her head toward my crotch.
"Suck me now, you slut!" I ordered.
Ileana licked my shaft and around the head, then gradually inhaled my hard member inch by inch until it was almost in her throat while continuing to caress my balls and inner thighs.
"God, you are one hot cock sucker! Oh, baby, I've always dreamed about your beautiful lips wrapped around my cock. Come on...suck me the same way you did all those other guys."
I briefly glanced down at her bobbing flaxen head. I was surprised Ileana didn't gag while she performed what was perhaps the best deep throat I'd ever gotten. There was no question her mouth knew its way around a dick...or seven.
I withdrew from her mouth, stepped out of the pants bunched at my feet, and kicked them aside. "Bend over on that dresser."
I positioned myself behind her and watched my cock disappear into my equally horny daughter-in-law. I started picking up the speed of my thrusts and let out a series of grunts as I fucked Ileana from behind.
"Oh, yes!" she cried. "Fuck me harder!"
"Is this how you did it with all those other guys?" I growled in her ear. "Does it feel as good with me as it did with them? Did all those strange cocks get you off like this, baby? You like being my dirty little slut?"
"Yes...yes...I love it...love it..."
"God, Ileana, you're a much better fuck than I ever imagined! I've dreamed about us doing this since you and Dominic moved in."
"Don't stop...please..."
"There's more where this is coming from, baby," I said as I pulled out of her. "Lay on the bed and spread your legs."
Ileana complied with my order, her eyes filled with lust as she opened her legs as wide as she could for me. I slid my cock back inside her and resumed my thrusting. Her hips bucked up and joined mine.
She wrapped her legs around my waist and pulled me forward, causing my shaft to push deeper inside. Our groans, sighs and yelps were in sync as we continued to fuck for several more minutes.
Not letting her pussy slide off my cock, Ileana rolled me over and began riding me with a vengeance, her enormous breasts bouncing as she impaled herself on me over and over.
"Did you fuck the pool man like this?" I asked while raising my hips to plunge even further inside her. "I bet he enjoyed having your little pussy ride his cock, didn't he?" I ran my hands over her tits and pinched their nipples. "That's it, baby; ride my dick like the filthy slut you are!"
"Fuck, I'm going to come!" she gasped.
Ileana squealed with orgasm while she continued to fuck me. She reached one hand between her legs and began to rub her clit to intensify her climax even more, and the sight of her coming drove me wild.
After several more minutes, I again withdrew and turned her over until she was face down on the bed with her ass perched up toward me. I pushed back inside and began pounding her doggie style. I pulled out of her pussy a few times, only to have her place my cock back inside. I picked up the pace as she begged for more.
I soon heard Ileana scream into the pillow. She had hit another orgasm.
Hearing her come, I fucked her with fury. After a few more quick, hard thrusts, I turned her over to face me and entered her one last time.
The pace of my thrusts were slower; I knew it wouldn't be much longer before I was ready to come. I wanted the moment with my highly sexual daughter-in-law to last a little longer.
"Oh, my little slut, you're so good...you're so good..." I growled.
The sight of her tits bouncing with every thrust I made sent me over the edge. When I could no longer hold back my oncoming climax, I once again fucked her with strong, hard strokes.
"Ileana...Ileana...I'm going to come!"
"Yes!" she hissed. "I want you to come in me. Please, baby, come in me."
It was almost like my favorite fantasy, only we were having sex in my bed instead of by the pool. I happily complied and released sperm deep into her pussy until my cock was totally drained.
"Oh my God," Ileana breathed once we'd finished. "Thank you."
"No, thank you," I replied. "You just made one of my greatest fantasies come true."
"Are you sure Dominic will never know what I've done with those other men?"
"As far as I'm concerned, I never heard about you sleeping with any of them."
She leaned over and kissed me. "I am grateful."
"There's only one more thing I'd like for you to do one day, though."
"What is that?"
Ileana's eyes lit up when I told her my favorite ongoing fantasy about us having sex in her favorite chaise lounge by the pool.
"We can do it when you come home for lunch on Monday and no one's around," she said. "I love trying new things."
"Looking forward to it, baby."
She got out of bed. "I really meant it when I said I'd give up those other men. After today, you and Dominic will be all I need to keep me satisfied."
"I'm glad. Just remember, any time you get horny, you know where I am."
"Of course."
I patted her ass. "Now go get cleaned up and put on something sexy. Your husband is going to be home in about an hour."
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Entertainment Industry Lawyer Predicts The Demise Of Free Culture
from the logical-inconsistencies deptMusic industry lawyer Chris Castle is at it again. You may recall him from his poorly thought out attack on evil free culture types that was easily debunked. Unfortunately, it looks like others are willing to let him spew nonsense. This time, it's Arts+Labs, yet another "anti-piracy" lobbying group that was formed last year. When it was formed, it was positioned as a more "reasonable" group, because rather than just being made up of entertainment industry reps, it also had a few "tech industry" folks -- though, those tech companies were ones looking to sell DRM or filtering technologies. So, as a supposedly more reasonable "balanced" approach, you would hope that perhaps Arts+Labs wouldn't publish a ridiculous rant from an entertainment industry lawyer, bashing all "free culturists" and predicting the imminent demise of free culture.
But, indeed, that appears to be what Castle is saying, predicting the demise of free culture based on some incredibly weak logic that doesn't pass the basic laugh test. I read the whole thing a few times and the logic was so twisted that I finally had to try to work backwards to figure out what he was claiming, and eventually realized that his position on copyright seems to coincide with Douglas Adam's old saying:
1) everything that's already in the world when you're born is just normal;So how does this apply to Castle's logic? Well, as far as I can tell, Castle's logical thought train runs as follows:
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it's been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
- Free culture is an economic fallacy, and is close to its demise.
- Pop culture is important in winning over the "hearts and minds" of people who hate us
- The only reason pop culture exists is because people earn money from it
- Free culture fanatics don't get any of this and think that there's a battle going on between Silicon Valley (innovation) and Hollywood
- These clueless free culture idiots are demanding government-mandated licenses and government-mandated prices
- They claim this is needed because of market failure.
- But there is no market if we don't respect "basic economic rights" (i.e., "copyright")
- If we don't respect those "basic economic rights" then the internet gets polluted with junk
- Then pop culture creators are lost forever, because they can't make money
- So, the government must protect these "fundamental economic liberties" (i.e., "copyright"), but not do anything else, because then we might not win over the hearts and minds of our enemies.
- Because of that, we're witnessing the end of people believing in this bogus idea of free culture.
And, of course, there are tons of other logical fallacies in this piece. Even if we grant that points 2 and 3 are true, he seems to be jumping back to that old lie that support of "free culture" means that artists don't earn money. It's a fallacy that runs throughout the piece, and of course is totally bogus. We've spent about a decade chronicling ways that content creators are embracing "free culture" and making more money because of that. It's getting ridiculous how many times it needs to be repeated but: giving away ONE THING for FREE, does NOT MEAN that you don't make money. Once you recognize that, Castle's entire argument falls apart (as does the entire reason that Arts+Labs exists... but that's another issue).
The other characterizations that Castle makes about "free culture" supporters are total strawmen. While there may have been some who set up a "battle" between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, I actually don't see that very much at all. I live in Silicon Valley and am pretty involved in talking about these issues with plenty of people, and it's rarely framed that way at all. Most folks are simply looking at ways to help enable the market to be more efficient, knowing that doing so benefits everyone. There's no "against" anyone -- other than those who want to somehow block this efficiency because they prefer to rest on their laurels and old gov't granted monopolies. The innovators in Silicon Valley aren't trying to stick it to Hollywood. They're trying to provide better tools to enable content creators of all kinds to create, share, promote, distribute and experience content.
Also, I'm curious which "free culture" academics "beat the drum for a government-mandated compulsory license and government-mandated pricing for all content." I've yet to see any. Yes, there are some who have suggested voluntary licensing, but I'm not aware of any who are pushing for government mandated pricing of all content. I, for one, am vehemently against such things.
Finally, after bashing these "free culturists" for not understanding "basic economics" and insisting that free culture has no economic basis, Castle flunks his economics final by stating: "Absent these rights there is no market, and therefore there can be no market failure." I may have to break out the red grading marker on this one to explain the F grade. Mr. Castle, I'm afraid you've incorrectly defined your market. It's a rookie mistake. "Free" doesn't mean there's no market. Down there in sunny Los Angeles, television has been quite a successful business... which gives its content away for free. And it works, because they put in place a business model that leverages the free content to make money. How hard is it for Castle to realize that there are other business models for the music industry as well? How many examples must we show before he realizes that free doesn't mean you don't get paid? And, finally, why is Arts+Labs allowing such ridiculously illogical thinking to appear on its website as commentary?
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If I had to make a wild guess, I think Ellen's father and Granddad's mom could have been siblings. Margaret McCarthy Collins was born around 1862, which so closely matches Leila McCarthy Mayberry's research.
Aunt Peg said something over the phone about Ellen McCarthy having a sister Margaret, who in turn was the mother of some distant cousin Jack McCarthy. Well if that is true then obviously this Margaret McCarthy could not have been Granddad's mother.
So why did I title this post "What not to do?" Because, when I placed a research request with the GRO, I was still assuming that Greatgrandmother Margaret McCarthy and Ellen McCarthy were sisters, having a mother named Mary (which I have off of census records). So I asked GRO to look for an Ellen McCarthy born between 1870 and 1874 whose father is Cornelius and whose mother is Mary. That was too restrictive, and they came up empty handed.
When I placed the order, I should have paid slightly more money and had GRO send me the images of the Ellen McCarthy births they looked at. I did not, so now I am empty handed and have to revisit all this territory.
I therefore placed the following order for films from LDS:
Ellen McCarthy, Skibbereen, births 101194 1869 v15 p588,597 101199 1869 v20 p578 101204 1870 v5 P725 101209 1870 v10 P742,749,761 101219 1870 v20 p621 255816 1871 v5 p751,772 255824 1871 v10 p762 255831 1871 v15 p575 255838 1871 v20 p603,605 255847 1872 v5 p751,763 255855 1872 v10 p727 255860 1872 v15 p568 255865 1872 v20 p606,621 255866 1872 v20 255873 1873 v5 p699,702 255898 1874 v5 p662 255906 1874 v10 p712,728 255913 1874 v15 p581 255919 1874 v20 p551
This only covers up through part of 1869. There are more Ellen McCarthy births in Skibbereen in 1869 and up through 1868. If If I have to, I'll eventually order those leftovers, but I'll eliminate these first.
Aunt Peg said something about Ellen and her sisters being "close in age", so on the off chance that father Cornelius got married not long before Ellen was born, I want to look at the following marriage records:
Cornelius McCarthy, Skibbereen, marriages 101474 1865 v5 p825,826 No Skibb marriages 1866,1867 101525 1868 v5 p749 101542 1869 v5 p687 101546 1869 v10 p348 101559 1870 v5 p797 1871 no marriages. 1872 no Skibb marriages 1873 - order from GRO
Marriage films only go through 1870, so I will order the 1873 Skibbereen marriage record from GRO.
To strengthen Grandmom's family tree, I went ahead and ordered film for the registry entry of the birth of her youngest paternal uncle, James Collins (Dec-1866):
James Collins, births 101139 1866 v20 p571,573
There is some confusion out on the Internet about this James Collins. Apparently in the International Genealogical Index (IGI) there is a James Collins born around late 1866 to a Denis Collins and Margaret Mahoney in the Drimoleague area. I suspect that "Denis" is really "Daniel" and "Margaret" is really "Mary". The birth record will help clarify this. I already have brother Daniel's record from 1865 and it shows father Daniel and mother Mary.
How am I doing on the Hurley end? I've been asking questions about Grandmom's cousin Annie Sullivan. I turns out her married name was Donovan, and she died around August 2008, not 2007. Aunt Peg was in Ireland that summer and went to her funeral. I checked a website of obituaries called RIP and there is an Annie O'Sullivan O'Donovan from Drinagh listed. That's her.
Now I need to find out who her parents were, specifically her mother. If I know the name of her mother, I will know the name of one of Ellen Hurley's sisters. Arggh!
So the next thing I need to do is order birth records from GRO. I have the following two in mind:
Name: Anne Sullivan Registration district: Skibbereen Record type: BIRTHS Registration date - quarter and year: Jul - Sep 1922 Film number: 101229 Volume: 5 Page: 359 Name: Annie Sullivan Registration district: Bantry Record type: BIRTHS Registration date - quarter and year: Oct - Dec 1923 Film number: 101229 Volume: 5 Page: 21
There is an interesting census record in Coolnagarrane in the 1911 census. It is interesting not only because it is filled out in Irish, even though the occupants of the household spoke "Bearla" (English). But the household name is O'Sullivan, spelled the more traditional way. There was a famous Irish politician named Gearóid O'Sullivan, and he came from Coolnagarrane. He would have been 20 in 1911, and there is definitely a "gap" in the children between the ages of 16 and 22 in this census record. Could Gearóid O'Sullivan have come out of this household?
Aunt Peg said something about Annie being from Coolnagarrane. So could Annie Sullivan have been a daughter of one of these sons, being a niece of Gearóid O'Sullivan?
The nice thing about the film order above, is that the date range 1869-1874 coincides with many of the Ellen Hurley's on my list, so I'll be able to knock off a bunch of Ellen Hurley lookups at the same time:
Ellen Hurley, births 101219, 1870, v20, p614, Skibbereen 255824, 1871, v10, p736, Skibbereen 255831, 1871, v15, p567, Skibbereen 255838, 1871, v20, p253, Dunmanway 255855, 1872, v10, p28, Bantry 255860, 1872, v15, p225, Dunmanway 255873, 1873, v5, p280, Dunmanway 255898, 1874, v5, p265, Dunmanway 255913, 1874, v15, p234, Dunmanway 255913, 1874, v15, p579, Skibbereen


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Google Eyes Expansion In Spruce Goose Hangar
WSJ 8/26/14 http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2014/08/26/google-eyes-giant-offices-in-historic-los-angeles-airplane-hangar/
A massive former airplane hangar just north of Los Angeles International Airport was home to construction of the world's largest airplane in the 1940s and then hosted filming for movies including "Independence Day" and "Transformers."
Soon it could launch a new life: corporate offices of Google Inc.
According to multiple people familiar with leasing discussions, Google is eyeing an expansion of its Los Angeles facilities into the sprawling facility, a giant edifice built by Howard Hughes in 1943.
Today, the building is owned real estate developer Ratkovich Co. The company has converted the rest of the former Hughes Aircraft headquarters into modern offices filled with tech and media firms—including Google-owned YouTube—and it wants a big tenant for the hangar and attached buildings as well.
Google is in early discussions with Ratkovich about leasing more than 300,000 square feet to take nearly all the facility, the people familiar with the discussions said. The space would add to Google's existing offices in the area, they said. Those include a Venice, Calif., outpost in an iconic Frank Gehry-designed office with giant binoculars out front.
The hangar was held for years by Howard Hughes's Hughes Aircraft and was used to build the giant "Spruce Goose" aircraft. The company eventually sold its airfield and headquarters in the 1980s to make way for development. The hangar, known as Building 15, has since been used for some filming movies on occasion, but Ratkovich has been hoping to find an office tenant ever since the company bought the former Hughes headquarters in 2010.
It hasn't been easy, in part because of its design. It is rather atypical—to say the least—for office space. The hangar has two bays that are 750-feet long—more than twice the length of a football field—and its ceiling is more than seven stories high.
In an interview, Ratkovich chief executive Wayne Ratkovich declined to comment on Google, but said generally that leasing at the overall property "was faster than we imagined, faster than we expected."
The property is in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles, which long struggled to attract companies. But in the past three years numerous tech, media and advertising companies have flocked to the area. That—in turn—has attracted other similar companies to look at moving there.
Interestingly, the area has far more of a suburban feel than neighborhoods in many cities that attract a similar type of tenant like the Union Square area of New York or South of Market in San Francisco, as Playa Vista lacks neighborhood coffee shops and instead has surface parking and large expanses of open space.
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In light of the bombings in Boston, Eugene Marathon officials say they will step up security measures for this weekend's event, expected to attract more than 8,500 runners.
"It's something we have to do in the aftermath ... which really got us thinking about security," race director Richard Maher said.
Participants can expect random bag checks. Runners will be quickly ushered through the finish chute at Hayward Field on the University of Oregon campus, the Eugene Register-Guard reported.
Those are among measures already in place that haven't been tightly enforced in previous races, said Eugene police Lt. Sam Kamkar.
Other measures: limiting pre-race shuttles to participants wearing event bibs, promptly towing vehicles parked in "no parking" areas, searching and removing unattended bags, and prohibiting re-entry into a participant-only area near the finish line.
"A large contingent" of officers from several departments will work the event, joined by members of the Oregon National Guard, Kamkar said.
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A.J. Hawk is further along in his recovery from a calf injury than fellow inside linebacker Desmond Bishop, head coach Mike McCarthy said at his Wednesday press conference.
Neither Hawk nor Bishop practiced today, the Packers first practice of the week in preparation for their game this upcoming Sunday against the Oakland Raiders.
"Desmond is not going to practice today or tomorrow," said McCarthy. "He'll be challenged to get on the field this week. A.J. is further ahead. I had the chance to watch A.J. a little bit in his rehab. He's getting close."
Based upon McCarthy's comments, he left the door open to Bishop possibly practicing on Friday, the final day of practice before the Raiders game, but by saying he'll be challenged to get on the field this week, he didn't sound particularly optimistic.
It would seem that Hawk, meanwhile, would have an opportunity to practice both Thursday and Friday.
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Both Hawk and Bishop sustained calf injuries in the Thanksgiving win over the Detroit Lions and missed last week's game against the New York Giants.
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In other injury news, offensive linemen Josh Sitton and Chad Clifton have both been ruled out for the Raiders game, which is no different than last week.
Cornerback Charles Woodson practiced in limited fashion on Wednesday as he goes through the protocol of returning to full-time action after suffering a concussion in New York.
"He looks good, and I would anticipate he'll play this week," said McCarthy said of Woodson.
After learning linebacker Erik Walden would be charged with disorderly conduct from a Brown County court this morning, McCarthy said Walden's status has not changed and would start this weekend. He also said they would continue to monitor his situation.
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The Old Timer of Royal Oak, Mich., was a regular contributor to H&P years before we ever even heard of the internet. But most of his advice is just as ueful — and interesting — today.
So rather than leave his wisdom printed on pages archived in our storage room, I pulled out issues from the late 1980s and early 1990s and will reproduce relevant entries in this blog. Here is my sixth entry, which was originally published in the December 1987 issue:
Rube Goldberg would have loved this one
In one of the far corners of our facility, a pusher cylinder moved scrap bales up an inclined conveyer to an opening in the wall. There, three selector cylinders chose paths in an outside distribution chute arrangement to load the bales by gravity into railroad cars. All cylinders were air-operated. The system worked well most of the time, but the pusher cylinder was a little under-powered for some of the bigger bales, and in sub-zero weather, the outside cylinders sometimes froze up.
Our instructions: cure the freeze-up problem before cold weather and beef up the pusher cylinder. There's no budget for this project so scrounge the components you need. Get it done quickly and keep it very simple. The personnel at that end of the plant are strictly low-tech. (Sound familiar?)
Sifting through our Junk Dept., we uncovered two oil air/oil cylinders (one with 10-in bore, the other with 18-in; both with a 2-ft stroke) a box of hydraulic check valves that appeared serviceable, and a manifold with five pre-piped, solenoid-actuated 4-way valves.
I had just winterized my car, so I was inspired to create — with this mixed bag of components and some help from the frame shop and welding gang — an air/anti-freeze intensifying hydraulic system. We slapped it together in two days using a 55-gal drum for the reservoir.
With 100-psi supply air, the 18-in cylinder stroked the 10-in cylinder to raise the pressure in our anti-freeze reciprocating pump circuit to 300 psi. Our fluid stayed liquid down to –30°F, and we even had a spare 4-way valve available when we needed it.
We had one unforeseen problem with this set-up. A few misguided souls were tempted to siphon off a little fluid for their cars. We added some bright red dye to the anti-freeze and we let the word slip out that this "new fluid" would destroy radiator cores. That stopped the pilferage, and the dye sure made it easy to find leaks.


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