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Adam Blitzer
Class of 2010
Major/Minor: Economics, Business Management
Adam has launched a company that manufactures and sells high-quality American-made luggage. Blue Claw Co. bags are sold in retail outlets across the USA and internationally, in Japan, Australia, and Singapore.
His American-made luggage is proving just as popular as the tasty crustacean it's named for.
What was the impetus for starting up Blue Claw Co.?
For as long as I can remember, I have always enjoyed a good bag. A bag is an essential element to any journey. Right after graduation, I was traveling through Argentina with Bobby Hewitt '10 when I realized not only did my bag not embody the timeless and classic look that I enjoy, but it was also bursting at the seams. Upon returning to the USA I knew that I wanted to create a bag that worked for me. I was fortunate that my grandfather was a factory owner in NYC during the heyday and had maintained his contacts. Within a few weeks of returning Stateside, I was on the factory floor with my Old Man.
What's the ideal piece of luggage?
The ideal bag is timeless, elegant, and of heirloom quality. It has to stand the test of time. A quality bag is much like Italian food. There are not many ingredients but the ingredients are the finest available. Plus, our bags are made in America. A seventh-generation family mill is making the waxed canvas that we use.
How's your company doing?
Blue Claw has exceeded all of our internal metrics. The recession has had little to no impact, if anything, it's been a positive as it forces us to control inventory and stay lean. We have brick and mortar accounts across the USA and we are sold in Japan, Australia, and Singapore. Our 2013 plan revolves around entering more traditional retailers.
Did you imagine you'd be running your own company at 24?
Blue Claw is not my first business, but I am humbled to be the captain of the Claw at age 24. I love the art of the deal and always knew I wanted to be doing something business-related, so I double-majored in economics and business.
What's the most rewarding part of running Blue Claw Co?
The most rewarding part is to be a part of the American Made movement. We are really bringing it back. This was more luck than skill; I did not realize the movement existed when I made the commitment to manufacture in the USA. It is exciting to see domestic factories running at capacity and knowing you are a part of it.
How do you give back to your alma mater?
I have regular Skype sessions with WAC business students. I'd like to see the College offer more opportunities for students to engage with business professionals.
What important takeaways did Washington College impart?
Push yourself, try new things, and do things that are out of your comfort zone. Senior year I took an art history class given by Dr. McColl. I must have been the laughingstock of the class with my non-existent art knowledge. Our culminating project was on a specific type of art, and students were doing hyper-focused presentations such as Baroque art from 1615-1620. Mine was on… street art. I learned a lot and the class pushed me to think differently. I struggled, but it was worth it.
Undergrad Highlights
- Majors: Business Management and Economics


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How to Make Decorated Barrettes
Making beaded barrettes is a great craft project for little girls. They can give the finished barrettes to their friends for Christmas. This would be a great holiday craft project to do with your Brownie or Girl Scout troop.
Buy plain barrettes at your local drug or discount store and decorate them with your personal style. Choose bead colors to coordinate with an outfit or a school spirit day.
Collect the following tools and materials
Paint brush
Paper plate or shallow dish
Selection of glittery bugle beads. You'll need enough to create a shallow layer of beads in the paper plate.
2 autoclasp style barrettes with flat face, any size
Clear drying craft glue
Then follow these steps:
Spread the beads on the paper plate.
For a variation, use tiny seed beads and contour clip barrettes. For best results, open the barrette before applying glue. Keep it open until the glue dries completely.
Paint the barrette face with craft glue.
Take care not to glue the clasp shut. Keep glue only on the flat face of the barrette. If you accidentally glue the clasp, wipe it off while it's still wet.
Dip the barrette, glue side down, into the beads. Continue dipping the barrette into the beads until the beads cover the entire surface. Press the beads into place, as necessary.
Let glue dry entirely, before wrapping.Glittery Bugle Bead Barrette (before and after).

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As far as feel-good fantasies go, it isn't so bad.
As far as feel-good fantasies go, it isn't so bad.
Far too often, it feels like you're watching a video game or an F/X highlight reel.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Chaz Ebert celebrated her birthday by honoring Victory Gardens Theater in October 2019.
A video essay celebrating Antonia Bird's maligned masterpiece, Ravenous.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
A Far Flung Correspondent weighs in on the MCU controversy.
A new look at a modern classic from an FFC in Korea.
An interview with writer/director Trey Edward Shults and actors Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Taylor Russell about their new film, "Waves."
A Far Flung Correspondent weighs in on the MCU controversy.
In the south of France, before World War I, we meet a hard-working well-digger named Pascal Amoretti (Daniel Auteuil), whose wife dies, leaving him with six daughters. A rich Parisian woman becomes impressed by the second oldest, Patricia (Astrid Berges-Frisbey), and pays for her to come to Paris and attend a convent school. At 18, with a cultured Parisian accent and stylish clothes, she returns home to help her father with the girls. Our first glimpse is of her running happily through flowers in a field.
Patricia is all heart, all true, all warm. The more we like her, the more we care. Her father would like her to marry his longtime employee, Felipe (Kad Merad), who is happy enough to go along with the plan but so genial that he would do anything to accommodate his boss. Felipe gets a tiny new car and takes Patricia to town, and there she meets Jacques Mazel (Nicolas Duvauchelle), the dashing son of a local "rich man." By rich is meant that his father owns the general store.
It is love at first sight, but given the temps and the mores, a romance between them would violate class barriers. Still, after Patricia sees Jacques flying his biplane in a little air show, she speaks to him, and he spirits her away on his motorcycle. They both are clearly smitten. All this happens in a charming Provencal countryside, with dusty lanes and rolling hills.
Class differences are all important. Patricia is a good girl, but like many good girls, she becomes pregnant, just as Jacques is called up by the French air force and sent to fly in Africa — literally overnight. Through one of those misunderstandings that are crucial to melodrama, Patricia believes he has left without saying goodbye. When good, simple Felipe offers his hand in marriage, she confesses her condition to him.
Her father erupts. In a scene of great fragility and tension, he dresses all his girls in their Sunday best and presents them to Monsieur and Madame Mazel (Sabine Azema and Jean-Pierre Darroussin), who are unmoved. Jacques' mother is the real problem; she is a dictatorial monster with an almost unnatural love for her son, and believes there is no possibility of the invaluable Mazel genes mixing with the Amorettis' miserable, working-class, well-digging genes.
Daniel Auteuil (you remember him as the busy father in "Cache") makes a rock-solid Pascal. Heavier and more work-worn than we've seen him, he has a face that embodies love and great probity; this is not a man to make hasty decisions or to easily change his mind. Patricia, now described as a "lost girl," is dispatched to live with his sister, where she gives birth to a son.
This story is based on a novel and a 1940 film by Marcel Pagnol, sometimes called "The Dickens of the South" (of France). "The Well Digger's Daughter" not only stars Auteuil but was directed by him, 26 years after he first became a star in two earlier and great films based on works by Marcel Pagnol, "Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring" (1986). "The Well Digger's Daughter" is such a success that Auteuil has already been signed to direct three more Pagnol classics, and I eagerly want to see them.
What he does here, with precise casting, is to depend on the traditional strength of all love stories to make us hope the lovers will overcome the obstacles separating them. When it appears that may actually happen, Patricia's self-respect almost gets in the way. Although single moms were more frowned upon then than now, she refuses to think of herself as a lost girl, or to apologize for her baby boy. That the boy is as cute and burbling as the baby on a Gerber's jar is a great help for her case.
Our staff choices for the best films from 2010 through 2019.
Steve McQueen is dead at 50. The actor, one of a
Christy Lemire on the staff choice for the 4th best film of the 2010s, George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road.
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Gapp::Util - Utility functions for Gapp
Provides utility functions for the Gapp framework
- add_handles $opts, $handles
Use when altering the handles property of an attribue during the
- resolve_gapp_trait_alias $trait_class, $trait_name
Returns the full package name of a given trait.
Thanks to everyone at Gtk2-Perl and Moose and all those who came before me for making this module possible.
Special thanks to Jörn Reder, author of Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory, which inspired me to write Gapp. Gapp::TableMap uses modified code directly from Gtk2::Ex::FormFactory::Table (see Gapp::TableMap for more details.)
Special thanks to the authors and contributors of MooseX::Types, which formed the basis for Gapp::Actions (see Gapp::Actions for more details.)
Jeffrey Ray Hallock <jeffrey.hallock at gmail dot com>
Individual packages in this module may have have multiple authors/and or contributors. Please refer to the documentation of indivdual packages for more information. (see Gapp::Actions, Gapp::TableMap)
Copyright (c) 2011-2012 Jeffrey Ray Hallock.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Individual packages in this module may have have multiple copyrights and
licenses. Please refer to the documentation of indivdual packages for more
information. (see L<Gapp::Actions>, L<Gapp::TableMap>)
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Housing finance reform needs to be the government's top priority as Washington D.C., goes back to work in the wake of the government shutdown, FHA Commissioner Carol Galante said Thursday.
While speaking at a housing forum sponsored by Zillow and the Bipartisan Policy Center, Galante noted that the Federal Housing Administration is addressing the dramatic shift in the process of credit overlays and the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program — both of which are extremely risky assets.
For instance, the average credit score has hovered around 700 for the last few years. Currently, credit scores for FHA borrowers hover around 690, reflecting a shifting change in credit overlays.
The recent shift to lower credit scores is due to FHA losing higher borrowers to mortgage insurance companies, Galante explained.
The FHA Commissioner continued, "I'm not worried about the shift because we are priced appropriately for the mix of borrowers we are servicing."
The HECM program continues to be a constant headache for the FHA, which ultimately contributed to the first-ever Treasury draw of $1.7 billion to account for a lack of funds in the Mutual Mortgage Insurance fund.
As a result, FHA is taking dramatic steps to appropriately evolve the HECM program to better insure reverse mortgages for seniors.
For instance, FHA will provide more emphasis on housing counseling, financial assessments and reviewing a borrower's ability over the long term to sustaining their reverse mortgage, Galante pointed out.
More interestingly, the HECM program now comes equipped with a new underwriting program to better ensure credit-eligible borrowers are using the services appropriately.
Housing finance reform is an inevitable journey the industry will take.
Therefore, FHA determined that the agency's role needs to be a backdrop to private capital and also needs to be available to borrowers that would not be served by the private market.
Additionally, housing reform needs to create a path to the middle class by keeping homeownership affordable, especially for first-time homebuyers, Galante said.
"We have to make our housing finance system stronger, safe and more fair," Galante noted.
She concluded, "The opportunity is now and it's too valuable to waste. We need to push these actions home over the next several months because housing is an engine to keep the economy on a full road to recovery."


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Shop Ace Hardware to find the right camping supplies and accessories for a weekend getaway or a lengthy outdoor excursion. Use the search bar to refine your results based on brand, price, use, top-selling items, top-rated products and more.
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Use these tips from Ace to find the right camping equipment and supplies to help you get a good night's rest:
- Buy a durable tent that fits your needs. Domed tents with heavy-duty stakes that sleep two or three people are ideal for most camping trips.
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- Buy back up propane to keep the lights on longer.
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150 Years Dynamic Malayalam Calendar
Malayalam Calendar - Find Details of Any Day Between 1870 and 2019
Malayalam Calendar or the Kolla varsham is the hindu calendar followed by people in the South Indian state of Kerala. Malayalam calendar is a sidereal solar calendar which consists of 12 months and each month is named after the constellation rising in the orbit of the earth.
The malayalam calendar given below is a dynamic calendar to find panchangam of any day between 1870 and 2019. This calendar is available in Malayalam and English. You can also select Gregorian calendar as base with malayalam dates on it or vice versa.
Given Below is Malayalam Calendar for ഫെബ്രുവരി, 1879
Indian Calendar Date: Feb 1, 1879
- Big bold dates represent the Gregorian Dates of 1879, ഫെബ്രുവരി Month
- The small digits below the Gregorian Dates represent the Malayalam dates. The corresponding Malayalam Year and month is 1054, മകരം - കുംഭം.
Malayalam Calendar - Kolla Varsham
Online version of the Malayalam Calendar, known as Kolla Varsham. Malayalam Kollavarsham Calendar is the calendar system followed in Kerala. This is a dynamic malayalam calendar with Daily Panchangam in Malayalam.


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I'm hoping to start up a mixed basketball club for anyone over 16years +
Doesn't matter if you know how to play or not, get out the house over the winter and try a new sport!
I will post further details of when this will start including time and location in due course.
Please register your interest on the forum with the following details so I can contact you when things are up and running;
Contact no /email address
Any days / time you would be unavailable to attend.
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"Thomas" means Thomas International UK Limited of the address stated overleaf.
"Buyer" means the person who buys or agrees to buy the Products from Thomas (as defined below).
"Products" means the assessment services, course materials, training services, and any other goods or services which the Buyer agrees to buy from Thomas whether bought directly in money, or indirectly through the purchase of units..
1. Telephone orders for Products are accepted on the condition that the Buyer confirms them either in writing or on an order form within seven days of the telephone order. Failure to meet this requirement will automatically cancel the order unless Thomas waives this requirement by providing a written order confirmation or issuing an invoice.
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3. All prices are exclusive of any applicable VAT which will be added at current rates.
4. Payment terms are net 14 days of receipt of the invoice date.
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6. In addition to these Terms and Conditions, services provided online (including assessments provided by means of printed questionnaires which are subsequently entered into the Thomas online system) are subject to the Thomas terms and conditions for the provision of online services current at the date of ordering the online services, a copy of which is available on request, or on our web site at www.thomasinternational.net/TermsofUse.aspx.
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10. Thomas warrants that services provided hereunder will be performed with reasonable skill and care, and that goods provided hereunder are of satisfactory quality. The Buyer accepts and acknowledges that if any services are used on a trial basis prior to the Buyer having undertaken appropriate training that the lack of training may lead to results being misinterpreted.
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3.3 shall ensure that all Authorised Users comply with the terms of this Agreement;
3.4 shall revoke the Credentials of any Authorised User where it believes that such Credentials have been compromised;
3.5 shall notify Thomas as soon as it becomes aware that the Credentials assigned to any Administrator have been compromised to enable Thomas to investigate the circumstances and withdraw (and replace) the Credentials;
3.6 shall follow, and ensure that Authorised Users follow, all reasonable instructions of Thomas in the use of the Services;
3.7 shall ensure that the Authorised Users have received appropriate training, and shall not allow anyone to attempt to conduct or interpret the results of any Assessment who has not had appropriate training; and
3.8 shall fully and effectively indemnify and hold harmless Thomas against all costs, claims, losses and expenses arising out of any claim from a third party arising out of any misuse of the Services or any breach of the foregoing obligations.
4. Materials and Copyright
4.1 Thomas or its licensor (Thomas International Limited and others) holds the copyright and database right in any and all material and services provided as part of the Services. The Buyer is expressly prohibited from copying any part of the Services (including its outputs) except to the extent necessary to receive the Services under this Agreement.
4.2 All books and materials supplied by Thomas are subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights and may not be copied, for any purpose, without express written permission from the copyright owner. Thomas tries to ensure that the information contained within the materials is accurate, but they are given as supporting material for events and are not a substitute for them. Information also tends to go out of date quickly. For this reason, the Buyer acknowledges that it should not rely on the contents of books or course materials provided by Thomas without verifying them.
4.3 Thomas may provide Assessment documentation on paper. The Buyer undertakes not to take copies of any such documents and only to use originals as provided by Thomas. The data provided by Candidates on such documentation is regarded in exactly the same way as data entered into the Services, once submitted to Thomas, and the Buyer's obligations to any Candidate to whom it supplies paper documentation are the same as the obligations it has to Candidates making use of the Services directly.
5. Data Protection
5.1 This clause 5 is to be interpreted with reference to the definitions contained in the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act")
5.2 Except where explicitly mentioned in these terms and conditions, Thomas is data processor of all personal data entered by Authorised Users and Candidates in the provision of the Services, and the Buyer is data controller. The Buyer acknowledges that personal data may be processed by sub-processors and shall seek and obtain appropriate consent of all relevant data subjects to permit their personal data to be processed as contemplated by this Agreement, and in particular shall obtain their consent to the Privacy Policy www.thomasinternational.net/TermsofUse.aspx.
5.3 Where it acts as data processor, Thomas undertakes to act solely on the instructions of the relevant data controller, and to comply with the seventh data protection principle (security).
5.4 Thomas will co-operate with and provide reasonable assistance to the Buyer in relation to any subject access requests received by the Buyer. Where Thomas receives subject access requests relating to data of which Thomas is the data processor and the Buyer is the data controller, Thomas shall refer the subject access request to the Buyer. Thomas may charge the Buyer for handling subject access requests based on its usual time and materials rates (and without reference to the fee which may be charged by the data controller to the data subject under the Act). The Buyer shall indemnify and hold harmless Thomas against any claim from a data subject relating to a breach of the Act where Thomas is the data processor and is acting in compliance with clause 5.3 above. 5.5 The Buyer acknowledges and accepts that data provided to Thomas may be aggregated with other data and used for analytical purposes. Where it is used for analytical purposes, Thomas will ensure that the data are effectively anonymised prior to such use, and that no individual will be identifiable from the data once anonymised and aggregated.
6. Use of Assessments
6.1 The Buyer agrees and acknowledges that the results of Assessments are a tool to assist in Candidate (including employee) selection, retention, deployment and advancement, and are intended to be used as an aid by trained HR personnel. In particular, the Buyer undertakes that the results of Assessments are not to be used for redundancy selection.
7. Availability of Services
7.1 Thomas shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Services are available at all times, but does not guarantee 24/7 uptime. The Client agrees and acknowledges that the Services will only be available where it maintains a sufficiently fast and reliable internet connection, and uses a browser environment which complies with Thomas guidelines published from time to time at www.thomasinternational.net . In particular, this may require the downloading of additional browser plug-ins to enable access to the content. Thomas is not responsible for such third party plug-ins and the Buyer is responsible for complying with any licence agreements which may apply to them.
7.2 The Buyer agrees and acknowledges that it is responsible for maintaining backups of its data, including those data held on Thomas systems.
8. E-recruit
Where Thomas provides the E-recruit service, the following additional terms apply:
8.1 The Buyer is responsible for ensuring that any job advertisements it prepares, any information it provides to Thomas and any recruitment process comply with all relevant laws and undertakes to fully and effectively indemnify Thomas against any cost, claim, expense or loss arising directly or from any failure so to comply.
8.2 The Buyer accepts and acknowledges that E-recruit is a tool which is intended to assist the Buyer in obtaining data about potential Candidates and in administering the recruitment process, and that it does not verify any of the information provided by the Candidates. The Buyer is responsible for verifying all information provided.
8.3 The Buyer grants Thomas a limited non-exclusive trade mark licence to use and reproduce the Buyer's name and logo as supplied by the Buyer on web pages comprising the E-recruit portal, to the extent necessary for Thomas to provide the E-recruit Services, but no further.
8.4 The Buyer accepts that the privacy policy presented to the Candidate, as in www.thomasinternational.net/TermsofUse.aspx, is appropriate to the Buyer's business, unless alternative wording is explicitly agreed between Thomas and the Buyer.
Revised 18th December 2015
Thomas International UK Limited 1st Floor, 18 Oxford Road, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, SL7 2NL UK
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Thomas Hub Licence Terms and Conditions (Hub and Gold)
This Agreement is between you, the Customer, and Thomas International UK Limited and governs your use of the Thomas Hub and Services.
1. Definitions
In this Agreement the following terms have the following meanings:
Authorised Users
means, in respect of each Licence, one named Main Administrator and up to 100 named Sub-Administrators.
Business Days
means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or Bank Holiday in England.
means the company or other business (e.g. partnership) purchasing the Licence.
Customer Data
means all data inputted to the Thomas Hub or Services or otherwise provided by the Customer, Authorised Users, or Thomas on the Customer's behalf for the purpose of using the Services or facilitating the Customer's use of the Services.
means any documentation and materials supplied by Thomas in connection with the Services in whatever format.
Gold Licence
means a licence to access the Thomas Hub and the features and services listed on the Thomas Licence Guide under "Gold".
Hub Licence
means a licence to access the Thomas Hub and the features and services listed on the Thomas Licence Guide under "Hub".
means the licence granted under clause 2.1. access to the Thomas Hub and other services and features.
Licence Fee
means the annual sums payable in respect of the Hub Licence and Gold Licence, as the case may be, as more particularly set out in Thomas's current price list and the Thomas Licence Guide.
Licence Period
means a period of 12 months.
Main Administrator
means the individual point of contact for the Customer who shall order Units directly from Thomas and allocate such Units to the Sun-Administrators and who may control which facilities may be accessed by the Customer's Sub-Administrators.
means the Assessment Tools and Services, the Customisable Assessment Tools and Services, the Online Recruitment and Applicant Tracking and the Training and Development Services (each as more particularly defined in the Thomas Licence Guide) or any of them whether provided on or via the Thomas Hub or otherwise byThomas.
Standard Terms and Conditions
means the standard terms and conditions that govern the provision of services by Thomas, as set out here:
Standard Terms and Conditions of Online Services
means the standard terms and conditions that govern the provision of online services provided by Thomas, as set out here:
means the Customer's employees, consultants or agents who may access the Thomas Hub in accordance with this Agreement and the Main Administrator's instructions and who may use those Units allocated to them by the Main Administrator.
means the term of this Agreement and the Licence being the Licence Period and any Renewed Licence Periods for which the Customer has paid the relevant Licence Fee.
means THOMAS INTERNATIONAL UK LIMITED, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 02518079 and registered office address at 1st Floor, 18 Oxford Road, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, SL7 2NL.
Thomas Hub
means the online assessment and candidate management system provided by Thomas through which certain Services, facilities and tools may be accessed.
Thomas Licence Guide
means the document giving more details as to the features and Services provided as part of the Gold Licence and Hub Licence.
Training and Development Terms and Conditions
means the terms and conditions governing the provision of Training and Development Services (as such term is defined in the Thomas Licence Guide), as set out here:
Website Terms of Use
means the terms governing the use of Thomas's websites, including the Thomas Hub, as set out here:
2. Licence
2.1. Subject to the payment of the relevant Licence Fee Thomas grants to the Customer the non-exclusive, non-transferable right for Authorised Users to access the Thomas Hub and use Services and Documentation available for the Customer's internal business purposes during the Term in accordance with the Thomas Licence Guide and subject to the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement. The Customer must have a Licence in order to access the Thomas Hub.
2.2. The Customer undertakes that:
(a) the maximum number of Sub-Administrators that it authorises to access the Thomas Hub and use the Services and the Documentation shall not exceed 100 at any time;
(b) it will not allow or suffer any Sub-Administrator login to be used by more than one individual unless it has been reassigned in its entirety to another individual, in which case the previous individual shall no longer have any right to access the Thomas Hub or use the Services and/or Documentation;
(c) each Sub-Administrator and the Main Administrator shall keep a secure and confidential password for their use of the Thomas Hub;
(d) it shall maintain a written, up to date list of current Sub-Administrators and provide such list to Thomas within 5 Business Days of Thomas' written request at any time;
(e) it shall permit Thomas to audit its use of the Thomas Hub, Services and Documentation in order to establish the name and password of each Sub-Administrator and compliance with this Agreement;
(f) if any of the audits referred to in clause 2.2(e) reveal that any password has been provided to any individual who is not an Authorised User, then without prejudice to Thomas's other rights, the Customer shall promptly disable such passwords and shall not issue any new passwords to any such individual; and
(g) if any of the audits referred to in clause 2.2(e) reveal that the Customer has underpaid Licence Fees to Thomas, then without prejudice to Thomas's other rights, the Customer shall pay to Thomas an amount equal to such underpayment within 10 Business Days of the request for payment.
2.3. The Customer shall use all reasonable endeavours to prevent any unauthorised access to its account, or use of the Services and/or the Documentation and in the event of any such unauthorised access or use promptly notify Thomas. The Customer shall be responsible for all acts and omissions carried out under its Authorised User log ins.
2.4. The Customer shall not, except as may be allowed by any applicable law which is incapable of exclusion by agreement between the parties, and except to the extent expressly permitted under this Agreement, attempt to copy, modify, duplicate, create derivative works from, frame, mirror, republish, download, display, transmit, or distribute all or any portion of the Thomas Hub, Services and/or Documentation (as applicable) in any form or media or by any means or attempt to reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of the Thomas Hub.
3. Additional Licences and Upgrades
3.1. The Customer may purchase additional Licences at any time during the Term to enable additional Sub-Administrators to access the Thomas Hub and use the Services and Documentation.
3.2. If the Customer purchases a Hub Licence they may upgrade to a Gold Licence at any time during the Term. The pre-paid Licence Fee for the Hub Licence will be refunded to the Customer on a pro-rated basis and the full Licence Fee for the Gold Licence will be charged and the Licence Period in respect of the Gold Licence will commence on the date of payment of the Licence Fee.
3.3. If the Customer purchases a Gold Licence they may downgrade to a Hub Licence at the end of the current Licence Period by giving not less than 30 days written notice prior to the end of the Licence Period, failing which the Licence Period will automatically renew at Gold Licence level.
4. Services and Documentation
4.1. During the Term Thomas shall provide access to the Thomas Hub, Services and Documentation to the Customer on and subject to the terms of this Agreement.
4.2. Thomas shall use commercially reasonable endeavours to make the Thomas Hub available 24 hours a day, seven days a week but Thomas shall not be liable for any unavailability of all or any part of the Thomas Hub and does not guarantee that the Thomas Hub will be always available or error-free. Thomas may carry out planned and unplanned maintenance on the Thomas Hub at any time. In the event that maintenance is planned which renders the Thomas Hub unavailable, Thomas will use reasonable commercial endeavours to give the Customer prior notice of such unavailability.
4.3. Where the Customer wishes to take any Customisable Assessment Tools and Services or Training and Development (as each is defined in the Thomas Licence Guide) these can be booked via telephone or directly with a Thomas representative. Thomas will use reasonable commercial endeavours to accommodate the Customer's reasonable requests for such services but the Customer acknowledges that this may not always be possible and that the Customer should give Thomas as much notice of its requirements as possible to facilitate the provision of such services. All such services must be booked and completed during the same Licence Period.
4.4. The Services provided as part of each Licence will expire at the end of each Licence Period and any unused Services cannot be rolled over into any subsequent Licence Period or refunded or exchanged.
4.5. Services cannot be exchanged for other Services or any other Thomas products or services at any time unless otherwise expressly set out in this Agreement.
4.6. Services which are not included within the Licence Fee may be purchased using "Units" in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions of Online Services. The Customer must have a current Licence in order to purchase Units from Thomas. If the Customer does not renew the Licence within 12 months of the end of the Licence Period then any unused Units will expire and the Customer will not be entitled to any refund for such expired Units.
4.7. If the Customer has a Gold Licence the following additional terms and conditions apply:
4.7.1. Free Training and Development Services apply once there is a Thomas trained practitioner at the Customer's business. If there is no Thomas trained practitioner at the Customer's business then the Training and Development Services are chargeable at Thomas's current standard rates.
4.7.2. Gold Licence Customers may exchange their free public course place for either (a) a £500 + VAT discount on any in-house PPA, Aptitude and Ability or TEIQue training or (b) a £250 + VAT discount on in-house Behavioural Agility or 360 training. This discount is not applicable to any other training course and any such in-house training must be booked and completed within the current Licence Period.
4.8. Thomas warrants that it shall provide the Services using reasonable care and skill. In the event of any breach of this warranty Thomas will, at its expense, use reasonable commercial endeavours to resupply the Services in a manner which conforms with such warranty and this shall be the Customer's sole and exclusive remedy for any such breach.
4.9. The Standard Terms and Conditions and Standard Terms and Conditions of Online Services apply to the provision of all Services in addition to the terms contained within this Agreement. The Training Terms and Conditions apply to the provision of all Training and Development Services (as more particularly defined in the Thomas Licence Guide) and the Website Terms of Use apply to the Customer's and Authorised User's access to the Thomas Hub. In the event of any conflict between the terms of any other terms with apply and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall take precedence but only to the extent of such conflict.
5. Customer Data
5.1. The Customer shall own all right, title and interest in and to all of the Customer Data and shall have sole responsibility for the legality, reliability, integrity, accuracy and quality of the Customer Data.
5.2. The Customer shall ensure that it has all necessary licences, consents and permissions necessary prior to providing any Customer Data to Thomas, including via the Thomas Hub, in connection with this Agreement.
5.3. In the event of any loss or damage to Customer Data which is inputted to the Thomas Hub, the Customer's sole and exclusive remedy shall be for Thomas to use reasonable commercial endeavours to restore the lost or damaged Customer Data from the latest back-up of such Customer Data maintained by Thomas. Thomas shall not be responsible for any loss, destruction, alteration or disclosure of Customer Data caused by any third party (except those third parties sub-contracted by Thomas to perform services related to Customer Data maintenance and back-up).
5.4. Thomas shall, in providing the Services, comply with its Privacy Policy (http://www.thomasinternational.net/Portals/88/TermsOfUse/TI_UK_Privacy_V3.pdf).
5.5. If Thomas processes any personal data on the Customer's behalf when performing its obligations under this Agreement, the parties record their intention that the Customer shall be the data controller and Thomas shall be a data processor and in any such case:
(a) the Customer acknowledges and agrees that the personal data may be transferred or stored outside the EEA or the country where the Customer and the Authorised Users are located in order to carry out the Services and Thomas' other obligations under this Agreement;
(b) the Customer shall ensure that the Customer is entitled to transfer the relevant personal data to Thomas so that Thomas may lawfully use, process and transfer the personal data in accordance with this Agreement on the Customer's behalf;
(c) the Customer shall ensure that the relevant third parties have been informed of, and have given their consent to, such use, processing, and transfer as required by all applicable data protection legislation;
(d) Thomas shall process the personal data only in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and any instructions reasonably given by the Customer from time to time and the Customer shall indemnify Thomas against any losses that it suffers as a result of following such instructions; and
(e) each party shall take appropriate technical and organisational measures against unauthorised or unlawful processing of the personal data or its accidental loss, destruction or damage.
6. Charges and Payment
6.1. The Licence Fee is payable in advance for each Licence Period.
6.2. Any additional fees payable in respect of the Services are payable in arrears within 14 days of the day of the invoice to which they relate unless otherwise noted on the invoice or agreed between the parties.
6.3. In the event that the Licence Fee or any other amount payable in connection with this Agreement are not paid in full when due, Thomas reserves the right to suspend the Customer's access to the Thomas Hub and/or the provision of Services or any part of them. Thomas does not guarantee the integrity of any Customer data in the event of a suspension.
7. Intellectual Property
7.1. The Customer acknowledges and agrees that Thomas and/or its licensors own all intellectual property rights in the Thomas Hub, the Services and the Documentation. Except as expressly stated in this Agreement, this Agreement does not grant the Customer any rights to, or in, patents, copyright, database right, trade secrets, trade names, trade marks (whether registered or unregistered), or any other rights or licences in respect of the Thomas Hub, the Services or the Documentation.
8. Limitation of liability
8.1. This clause 8 sets out the entire financial liability of Thomas (including any liability for the acts or omissions of its employees, agents and sub-contractors) to the Customer (a) arising under or in connection with this Agreement; (b) in respect of any use made by the Customer of the Thomas Hub Services and Documentation or any part of them; and (c) in respect of any representation, statement or tortious act or omission (including negligence) arising under or in connection with this Agreement.
8.2. Except as expressly and specifically provided in this Agreement:
(a) the Customer assumes sole responsibility for results obtained from the use of the Thomas Hub, the Services and the Documentation by the Customer, and for conclusions drawn from such use. Thomas shall have no liability for any damage caused by errors or omissions in any information, instructions or scripts provided to Thomas by the Customer in connection with the Services, or any actions taken by Thomas at the Customer's direction;
(b) all warranties, representations, conditions and all other terms of any kind whatsoever implied by statute or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, excluded from this Agreement; and
(c) the Thomas Hub, Services and the Documentation are provided to the Customer on an "as is" basis unless specifically customised for the Customer by Thomas. Copyright Thomas International UK Ltd.
8.3. Nothing in this Agreement excludes the liability of Thomas for (a) death or personal injury caused by Thomas' negligence; or (b) for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or (c) any other liability which may not be properly limited or excluded under applicable law.
8.4. Subject to 8.3, Thomas shall not be liable whether in tort (including for negligence or breach of statutory duty), contract, misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise for any loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and/or similar losses or loss or corruption of data or information, or pure economic loss (in each case whether direct or indirect), or for any special, indirect or consequential loss, costs, damages, charges or expenses however arising under or in connection with this Agreement.
8.5. Subject to 8.3, Thomas' total aggregate liability in contract, tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise, arising under or in connection with this Agreement the total fees actually paid by the Customer to Thomas in the 12 months immediately preceding the date on which the claim arose.
9. Term and Termination
9.1. The Licence shall commence on the date on which the Licence Fee is paid and shall continue for the Licence Period. Thereafter this Agreement shall automatically renew for further periods equal to the Licence Period (each a "Renewed Licence Period") unless the Customer gives Thomas not less than 30 days prior written notice that it does not wish to renew the Agreement at the end of the Licence Period or current Renewed Licence Period.
9.2. Without affecting any other right or remedy available to it, either party may terminate this Agreement with immediate effect by giving written notice to the other party if:
(a) the other party commits a material breach of any other term of this Agreement which, if remediable, is not remedied within a period of 15 days after being notified in writing to do so;
(b) the other party becomes insolvent, has an insolvency practitioner appointed over the whole or any part of its assets, enters into any compound with creditors, or has an order made or resolution for it to be wound up (otherwise than in the furtherance of a scheme for solvent amalgamation or reconstruction) or an analogous event occurs in respect of a party in any jurisdiction to which that party is subject.
9.3. The Customer may terminate this Agreement at the end of the Licence Period or current Renewed Licence Period by giving not less than 30 days' prior written notice.
9.4. Thomas may terminate this Agreement and the Licence at any time on giving not less than 60 days prior written notice and subject to the refund of the pre-paid Licence Fees on a pro-rated basis (calculated strictly as follows Refund = Number of Days to end of current Licence Period x (Licence Fee paid / 365)).
10. Force Majeure
10.1. Thomas shall have no liability to the Customer under this Agreement if it is prevented from or delayed in performing its obligations under this Agreement, or from carrying on its business, by acts, events, omissions or accidents beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial disputes, failure of a utility service or transport or telecommunications network, act of God, war, riot, civil commotion, malicious damage, compliance with any law or governmental order, rule, regulation or direction, accident, breakdown of plant or machinery, fire, flood, extreme adverse weather conditions or default of suppliers or sub-contractors, provided that the Customer is notified of such an event and its expected duration.
11. General
11.1. Variation - Thomas reserves the right to amend the terms of this Agreement from time to time by posting amended versions on the Thomas Hub and the Customer should check for any such updates intermittently and before using the Services.
11.2. No failure or delay by a party to exercise any right or remedy provided under this Agreement or by law shall constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of such right or remedy shall prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy.
11.3. Except as expressly provided in this Agreement, the rights and remedies provided under this agreement are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law.
11.4. If any provision (or part provision) of this Agreement is found by any court or administrative body of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal, that provision (or part provision) shall be deemed deleted and the other provisions (or part provision) shall continue in full force and effect.
11.5. This Agreement, and any documents referred to in it, constitute the whole agreement between the parties and supersede any previous arrangement, understanding or agreement between them relating to the subject matter they cover and neither party relies on any undertaking, promise, assurance, statement, representation, warranty or understanding (whether in writing or not) of any person (whether party to this agreement or not) relating to the subject matter of this Agreement, other than as expressly set out in this Agreement.
11.6. The Customer shall not, without the prior written consent of Thomas, assign, transfer, charge, sub-contract or deal in any other manner with all or any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement. Thomas may at any time assign, transfer, charge, sub-contract or deal in any other manner with all or any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement.
11.7. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to or shall operate to create a partnership between the parties, or authorise either party to act as agent for the other, and neither party shall have the authority to act in the name or on behalf of or otherwise to bind the other in any way (including, but not limited to, the making of any representation or warranty, the assumption of any obligation or liability and the exercise of any right or power).
11.8. This Agreement does not confer any rights on any person or party (other than the parties to this agreement and, where applicable, their successors and permitted assigns) pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
11.9. Any notice required to be given under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or sent by pre-paid post or recorded delivery post to the other party at its address set out in this Agreement, or such other address as may have been notified by that party for such purposes, or sent by email. Notices sent by email to the Customer shall be sent to the email address given for the Main Administrator at the time of registering. Notice sent by email to Thomas shall be sent to [email protected]
11.10. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the parties submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of England.
1. Definitions
Thomas international UK Limited registered in England and Wales as a limited company under company number 02518079 with registered office at 1st Floor, 18 Oxford Road, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, SL7 2NL
The "Buyer"
The person (whether a company, partnership, LLP, individual or other entity) contracting with Thomas for Training Services or Seminars.
An "Event"
includes a course, seminar or conference organised by Thomas
means an event organised by Thomas at the premises of, or premises organised by, the Buyer
A "delegate"
is any person who attends an event pursuant to an order placed by the Buyer
The "Fee"
is the price agreed for the delegates to attend the event (and is quoted, unless expressly stated otherwise, as being exclusive of VAT)
2. Services
1 These terms and conditions are supplemental to the Thomas Standard Terms and Conditions, a copy of which is available on request, or which is available on the Thomas web site "www.thomasinternational.net/TermsofUse.aspx". Where there is any conflict between these terms and conditions and the Thomas Standard Terms and Conditions, these terms and conditions shall prevail.
3 Thomas agrees to allow the delegate or delegates named in the Buyer's order to attend the specified event subject to these terms and conditions and the Buyer paying the fee.
Materials and copyright
4 Thomas or its licensor holds the copyright and database right in any delegate lists it may provide. When the Buyer is provided with them they are given only for the purposes of enabling the Buyer to identify fellow delegates. The Buyer is expressly prohibited from copying them or entering the data comprised in them onto a computer system and the Buyer agrees to comply in all respects with the Data Protection Act 1998 in respect of such data. In particular, the Buyer acknowledges that Thomas does not have the consent of the individuals for the names to be disclosed to the Buyer for marketing purposes and that the Buyer is therefore not permitted to use or store the names for this purpose.
5 All books and materials supplied by Thomas are subject to copyright and other intellectual property rights and may not be copied, for any purpose, without express written permission from the copyright owner. Thomas tries to ensure that the information contained within the materials is accurate, but they are given as supporting material for events and are not a substitute for them. Information also tends to go out of date quickly. For this reason, the Buyer acknowledges that it should not rely on the contents of books or course materials provided by Thomas without verifying them.
3. Orders
Promotional material or advertising is not a contractual offer but is intended to give an indication of events that are in the planning stage. Accordingly, the agreement does not become binding until Thomas has accepted the Buyer's order (whether orally or in writing).
4. Description of Courses
1 Because of advances in business techniques and technology Thomas is constantly improving and refining its courses and seminars. For this reason, it cannot guarantee that any course or seminar covers all of the specific points referred to in its advertising or promotional literature or otherwise. The Buyer is advised to check if there are any specific points it wishes to see covered, whether or not the advertising or promotional literature refers to those points.
2 All public courses are non-residential and do not include overnight accommodation, but will include a midday meal, coffee and tea as appropriate.
5. Cancellation and Changes
1 Thomas may have to cancel a booking from time to time for a number of reasons. If it does so, it shall try to give as much notice as possible, and shall refund any money paid in respect of the cancelled course. Where a course is cancelled, Thomas shall normally give details of when and where Thomas is holding similar courses.
2 If a delegate fails to attend the Buyer will still be liable to pay the fee for that delegate.
3 The Buyer may make substitutions of delegates at any time without charge. Thomas cannot guarantee that any specific dietary requirements are catered for if given less than two weeks' notice. Note that some courses build on the knowledge obtained in previous courses, in which case attendance at the subsequent course is limited to those who have attended the previous course.
4 A Delegate may transfer from a booked course to another equivalent course, provided that there is space on the second course, and that the request is made more than 21 days prior to the date of the booked course. There will be no charge for the first such transfer for a Delegate. Subsequent transfers will incur a booking fee as set out below.
5 Where a transfer to another course is requested within 21 days of the booked course, or in cases of non-attendance where the delegate still wishes to be trained, or where the transfer is the second or subsequent transfer, a rebooking fee as specified below will be chargeable before the new course date is confirmed:
Transfer fee for one day course: £150 +VAT
Transfer fee for two day course: £200 +VAT
6. Speakers
If Thomas names specific speakers it will do its best to ensure that they appear at the event in question. Thomas reserves the right to make substitutions from time to time with other speakers of comparable quality.
7. In-House
1 If the Buyer requests Thomas to implement an In-House event, the provisions of this clause 8 apply in addition to the other terms and conditions
2 Provision of Equipment and Location
Thomas will agree the Location for the Event with the Buyer. If the Buyer wishes to change the Location, Thomas may at its option cancel the Event without any liability to the Buyer, or charge additional expenses reasonably incurred (for example, travel and accommodation expenses) as a result of the change. If Thomas exercises its right to cancel, the Buyer will be liable for any of Thomas's out-of-pocket expenses which it cannot recover.
Unless agreed otherwise in writing, the Buyer will be responsible for ensuring that the location is suitable for the Event, and will arrange refreshments (including midday meal) for delegates and speaker(s) and equipment. Thomas will give prior notification of the equipment required (for example, overhead projector, video projector, radio microphone and PA). In the absence of prior notification, the Buyer shall provide a video data projector with a six foot screen, and two flipcharts with stands.
3 Delegates
The Buyer shall provide to Thomas a list of delegates to enable Thomas to dispatch joining instructions and course materials. The Buyer shall provide this list at least 14 days prior to the event, unless another time period has been specified by Thomas.
Thomas may limit numbers of delegates to the number agreed (for example, because the event is a workshop which has been structured for a particular number of delegates, or because to allow extra delegates would dilute the utility of the event for the other delegates).
On occasion, Thomas may permit extra delegates to attend on the day of the event, in which case it shall invoice the Buyer for the extra delegates on a proportionate basis (in which case the Buyer may make one extra copy of the delegate materials for each extra delegate at its own expense, and subject to the licence restrictions contained within clause 0).
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This is the seventh volume of The Public Sculpture of Britain, a series intended to cover eventually the whole of the country and produced by the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association. The City of London, by the end of the seventeenth century, was already by far the most important centre of trade and finance in the world. This financial and commercial supremacy was also reflected in some of the most impressive architecture and public sculpture of the last 300 years. The Monument of 1671-6, commemorating the Great Fire of 1666, is still the largest column ever erected in Britain and historically so famous that it needs no other words to identify it. The City owed its success in large part to the care that it bestowed on foreign finance and financiers and therefore it is appropriate that, while Francis Chantrey's ceremonial equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington stands in front of the Royal Exchange, behind that great building can be found a fountain with a tender but still heroic nursing mother modelled by Jules Dalou. The Institute of Chartered Accountants building is well known for its friezes uniting architecture and sculpture in the best tradition of the New Sculpture.
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About Gregory Kohs
Marketing research practitioner, with a Fortune 100 media and communications company. I also own and operate a business website called MyWikiBiz.com.
I wonder if this is the same John Thacker that represented Jimmy Wales in his 2nd divorce?
When you steal your next copy of the New York Times, just make sure that you share it with a couple of your friends, or even a stranger, because that makes your theft of it okay. Do I have that right, Jenna? Because that seems to be the basis of your defense.
(I wonder if Jenna Wortham has ever taken two minutes to consider how copyright basically ensures her paycheck?)
Readers who care even two whits about what is happening in Kazakhstan might be interested to learn about all of the back-deals that are going on to whitewash the actual history of how the Kazakh government regime has taken over the Kazakh-language Wikipedia. And all with the moral and financial support of Jimmy Wales and his Wikimedia Foundation: http://wikipediocracy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Timeline_of_Kazakhstan_Wikipedia_events
@Danny: You say, "[if] no reader or editor stumbles on the correction in Talk, [t]hen it is unlikely much of anyone is reading the main page". Over on Phil Gomes' "CREWE" group on Facebook, I easily found about 5 or 6 examples of Talk pages that received only a dozen or so page views per month, while the Article page received thousands of views. In these situations, requests left on the Talk page went unanswered for months, even years at a time. After I had pointed out these statistical facts, Gomes' booted me from the CREWE group. Apparently Jimmy Wales complained to Gomes because Wales thought I might shoot him with an AK-47, because I was photographed once firing an AK-47. You can't make up this stuff.
Oh, jeez, Mike. Have I really "painted" people with my broad brush? If you're deliberately ignoring the fact that many legal analysts have been discussing whether or not Section 230 pushed too far in favor of anonymous libelers, then that's reprehensible. If, however, you're simply uninformed, then let me give you some extra reading:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abs tract_id=1352442
http://ars technica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/a-friendly-exchange-about-the-future-of-online-liability.ars/
Maybe you'll find some material in those papers that will round out your views about Section 230, responsibility, and defamation. Or, maybe you'll just toss them aside and go with your standard view, because that's easier.
If I may apply an analogy, you sound like an anti-abortion advocate, circa 1965, saying that "right to privacy has nothing to do with abortion", unaware that in just a few more years, not only would it have to do with abortion, it would have *everything* to do with abortion. I realize that CURRENTLY, the law states that my view is an outside view, but I (and others) are convinced it will not always be this way. Free culture excesses will see to that. I'm not unreasonable. Clearly, the open discourse of human beings on websites that do not themselves contribute to the discourse is a valuable and precious resource. However, I believe there is also room to adjust the culture in a way that respects the dignity and rights of REAL people at least marginally more than those of PSEUDONYMOUS people. You may disagree with that, but if you were to poll 100 human beings at random (I don't care if they're American, or Dutch, or Korean, or Ethiopian), I contend that if they are intelligent enough to understand the question, at least 90 of them would more agree with me than with you. That's why I describe your views as "disagreeable". I contend that your views run counter to the vast majority of regular people's opinions. Your views are right at home on Techdirt, but that is not reflective of humanity, I hope you know.
One last example... there's a website out there that pokes fun at me. I can manage the parody just fine, but I'd rather not point here to it with a link. However, in that site's text, it claims that my little 7-year-old daughter is "not of my seed" (or something like that). That was initially written three years ago, when my kid was 4 years old. The page was initially on a U.S.-based site which has shut down, it seems, but within days a free culture proponent, Sven Slootweg, was hosting a copy of the page in Europe, because he feels that "information wants to be free", I suppose. I asked if he would kindly take down the page, or at least withdraw the part that would be so offensive to a little girl. Guess what? He refused. That wouldn't be fair to the original author's right to free speech, he informed me. Could you describe for me, what is my course of action to find out who wrote this hateful comment about my relationship with my daughter? Or, should I just let it go (as I have), because the precious right of anonymous harassment should never be modified?
I'm a happy customer of Faconnable. I bought one of their shirts in 1993, and it still looks great. High-quality material. I wonder if the Hezbollah alliance, though, now ruins that craftsmanship, since the seamstresses are clearly working half of their shifts sewing explosives into vests?
I'll see your elementary logic fail and raise you a duplicate posting fail.
Oops, I didn't mention why I brought up Section 230. It's because I no longer consider Wikipedia an "interactive computer service" like AOL or Charter. I consider it a publisher like World Book or the New York Times. After all, it bills itself as an "encyclopedia" not a "forum" or "chat board", which are the types of venues that Section 230 was meant to preserve. I'm surprised you'd think that this has "absolutely nothing" to do with Section 230, when (for the Wikimedia Foundation's viability as an ongoing defamation platform provider) it has *everything* to do with Section 230.
Mike, because you say "there is a good process for identifying anonymous posters" does not mean that there is a good process for identifying anonymous posters. In fact, for those who have been libeled -- and I've seen cases much more savage and personal than what Faconnable has experienced, by far -- the current process of trying to find out who is wrongfully fucking with one's reputation is clumsy, overly protective of the masked aggressor, and (frankly) sickening. The pendulum is finally swinging back to at least a mote of accountability for one's outlandish claims in speech, and all I hear is "free culture" whiners, most of whom are too ashamed of their own outlandish views to stand behind them with a real name. I give you credit, at least, for putting your signature to your disagreeable views.
So, even though you didn't see the actual Wikipedia edits (they've been expunged), and even though the court document suggests that they said M1 Group "supports" or "is a supporter of" Hezbollah, you are willing to say that these statements on Wikipedia were "true"? No wonder you're an Anonymous Coward.
Do I have this correct... A company that makes good clothes and wishes to keep their brand reputation in a good light should be berated by Techdirt readers because the company wants to know the name of the coward who used Wikipedia as a defamation platform to libel the company?
Talk about abuse of Section 230.
While this particular case may be a lost cause, I think it's pretty clear that the pendulum is swinging back the other way from Section 230 provisions, as people begin to see how irresponsible websites can become about user-generated content, when you take away punishment for not behaving responsibly.
Anyway, the Wikimedia Foundation really ought to be sued, but not for this. Rather, they should be sued for the sweetheart contracts they hand out, no-bid style, to corporations that favor their own staff and trustees. (It's called "self-dealing", and thus far the WMF does a fairly good job of deflecting attention away from it, but it is an ingrained practice there.)
Thank you for questioning my claims and my motives, Anonymous Coward. Your cowardice speaks volumes.
Yet more inability to distinguish between "Wikipedia" and "Wikimedia Commons". I think the argument I made above was referencing the amount of traffic on the top 100 pages of WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. You do understand that that's not "Wikipedia", don't you? I'm not sure how clearly I have to spell it out, since you seem particularly obtuse about this.
Mike, you showed your true colors regarding Sanger when you said, "He's often credited as being a co-founder of the site, though some dispute this."
SOME dispute this?
The only person in the world who disputes this is JIMMY WALES.
So, tell us... how recently was it that you and Jimmy had an expensive dinner together? You're obviously shilling for him. What's the catch? It's okay, you can level with us Techdirt readers.
So, am I to understand that it is a coincidence that Jimmy Wales' immediate prior source of income before Wikipedia was hosting a site that 'The New Yorker' once described as hosting "lesbian strip-poker threesomes"?
And, is it a coincidence that the Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation is a self-appointed expert in "zoophilia", so much so that he could add paragraphs of material to Wikipedia, without so much as a citation (other than a "wiki-link" pointing to Peter Singer) directing the reader to a more reliable source than his own mind?
You Wikipediots will bend, twist, and contort yourselves and your positions so that nothing could POSSIBLY be wrong with how the Wikimedia Foundation governs what it publishes. I choose to be more skeptical of their mission.
Elsie, you seem smart. Could you explain why the Wikimedia Foundation qualifies as a 501-c-3 charitable organization?
If I endeavor to launch an "educational" website featuring pornographic images, may I also charter a business as a non-profit 501-c-3 around it, and drawing my salary from the tax-deductible donations I receive?
Oh, I see. So, at my local library, I'll find this in my dead tree encyclopedia?
Banne d from Wikipedia since 2006 is another laughable item. Especially considering my various edits there dating 2009:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500&tagfilter=&title=Special%3AContributi ons&contribs=user&target=Thekohser&namespace=&tagfilter=&year=2009&month=8
...not to mention the 2010 edits (for payment) that you DON'T receive the handy link to.
Per usual, the facts are awfully difficult to grasp for the garden-variety, anonymous Wikipediot.
Okay, I've adjusted the outbound link from my real name. I see that you're hiding behind the name "Any Mouse". Typical scenario that a pro-child porn proponent would hide from accountability, while someone brave enough to point out simple facts (that Wikimedia Commons is used MOSTLY to publish and distribute sexually-themed images) uses his real name. Oh, and Wikimedia Commons is not an "online encyclopedia" -- you're confusing it with Wikipedia. I am also not prudish and narrow-minded, as I've enjoyed quite a few prurient activities in my day. I just don't recall ever going to a tax-exempt strip club or rented a tax-exempt X-rated video. Per usual, you Wikipediots entirely miss the point.
Thank you for underscoring the legitimacy of my complaint, "Any Mouse".
Here are the facts:
The Wikimedia Foundation is a tax-exempt 501-c-3 organization. It draws in over $10 million in annual revenues, though by putting much of that in the bank, its "program expenses" account for only 41 cents of every revenue dollar. (Look at their latest Form 990 filing, if you doubt this.) Most bona fide charities try to maintain program expenses ratios north of 80%, to demonstrate that they are actually serving their charitable mission. So, the Wikimedia Foundation is doing about half the job they should be.
If you look at the top 100 images accessed by users on the Wikimedia Commons site, you'll find that sex and porn dominate the list:
Notably, we see...
#5 Category:Shaved genitalia (female)
#6 Category:Vulva
#11 Penis
#12 Category:Female genitalia
#13 Category:Ejaculation
#14 Category:Sex positions
#16 Category:Vagina
#17 Category:Erotic
#18 Category:Oral sex
#19 Category:Masturbation
#21 Category:Penis
#22 Category:Female masturbation
#23 Category:Sex
#25 Category:Male masturbation
So, somebody explain to me how we've gotten to this point, where a sex and porn image server is granted tax exemption. Is it merely a coincidence that Jimmy Wales's business just prior to co-founding Wikipedia was operating the "Bomis Babes" adult photography site?
Masnick, I'm sorry, but you're without a clue on how deep this goes. Let me know if you're interested in talking sometime about how Jimmy Wales reacted when I pointed out to him the potentially illegal child photography on his Wikia, Inc. servers that were hosting a "Spanking Art" wiki.
Didn't they already try this with DMOZ? I guess if you just wait 12 years, you can repackage anything to venture capital investors.


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CHICAGO, Dec. 16 (UPI) — Heavy pot users — smoking marijuana daily for three years — had abnormal changes in their brain structures related to working memory, U.S. researchers say.
Lead study author Matthew Smith, an assistant research professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, said poor working memory predicts poor academic performance and everyday functioning.
The groups in the study started using marijuana daily at ages 16 to 17 for about three years. At the time of the study, they had been marijuana free for about two years.
Almost 100 subjects participated, including matched groups of healthy controls, subjects with a marijuana use disorder, schizophrenia subjects with no history of substance use disorders, and schizophrenia subjects with a marijuana use disorder. The subjects who used marijuana did not abuse any other drugs, the researchers said.
Of the 15 marijuana smokers who had schizophrenia in the study, 90 percent started heavily using marijuana before they developed the mental disorder. Marijuana abuse has been linked to developing schizophrenia in prior research, Smith said.
"The abuse of popular street drugs, such as marijuana, might have dangerous implications for young people who are developing or have developed mental disorders," said co-senior study author Dr. John Csernansky of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
"This paper is among the first to reveal that the use of marijuana may contribute to the changes in brain structure that have been associated with having schizophrenia."
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Tests of a somewhat-more-draconian-than-normal 40GB monthly download cap in poor little Beaumont, Texas must have gone well for TWC, because they're bringing bandwidth caps to more cities this year. Could your town be next?
No one knows yet; all we do know is that TWC COO Landel Hobbs announced intentions to expand the caps to more cities this year.
Dan over at Alley Insider points out that Time Warner's strategy doesn't appear to only be about stopping hardcore pirates (which a more roomy 250GB cap, like Comcast's, is better at)-no, they appear to be going for a new revenue model in which they hit up harder-core users for overage fees. Although if they keep the bar set at 40GB, they might be sticking not just big Torrenters but mom and dad streaming Netflix Watch Instantly, too. Yippee. Don't even try this in NYC, Time Warner. [Alley Insider]


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