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I've discovered that publishing a one-man blog - even a blog that primarily calls attention to the fine work of others - is a surprisingly time-consuming activity. My work on the Entertainment Law Reporter got interrupted by the need to grade final exams and papers for my spring semester courses at Southwestern Law School, and then by my need to prepare to teach International Entertainment Law in the University of San Diego's summer-abroad program in London. Once the summer program begins, I'm going to be distracted by the attractions of London and Europe. So even though I will have Internet access while abroad, I'm unlikely to be posting much if at all during the summer. Like your favorite TV series, the Entertainment Law Reporter is going on hiatus for a while.
The Donald, The Apprentice, the FCC, and the broadcast law issues if Trump runs for President
Those who watch politics (the way others watch sports) wonder whether Donald Trump is seriously thinking about running for President, or whether he is simply generating publicity for his television show "The Apprentice." Only "The Donald" (and his hair dresser?) know for sure. But if he does decide to run, his candidacy will generate interesting legal issues. They are explained by David Oxenford in a Broadcast Law Blog post titled Donald Trump May Declare Presidential Candidacy on The Apprentice - FCC Legal Issues?
FTC reports on compliance with entertainment industry age and content ratings
The Federal Trade Commission has found that video game retailers enforce industry age and content ratings more vigorously than other entertainment retailers, and that music CD retailers are the most lax at doing so. In the words of the FTC:
Following an established trend, a Federal Trade Commission undercover shopper survey found that video game retailers continue to enforce most vigorously the ratings governing age and content that were established by the entertainment media industry. Music CD retailers lag far behind movie theaters, as well as movie DVD and video game retailers, in preventing unaccompanied children under age 17 from purchasing entertainment intended for mature audiences. "Our undercover shopper survey demonstrates some progress," said David Vladeck, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. "But more needs to be done."The FTC's 2011 report is the latest in a series that began in the year 2000.
Golden Gate IP Law Book Review
The latest issue of The IP Law Book Review - an online periodical published by Golden Gate University School of Law - features reviews of:
- The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind, by James Boyle
- Virtual Justice: The New Laws of Online Worlds, by Greg Lastowka
- The Soul of Creativity: Forging a Moral Rights Law for the United States, by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
- Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright, by Lucas Hilderbrand
- Beyond Intellectual Property: Matching Information Protection to Innovation, by William Kingston
Social media legal issues for nonprofits
Earlier this month, Pillsbury's Jim Gatto made a presentation at The Kreeger Museum in Washington, D.C., about the legal issues faced by nonprofit organizations when using social media. He spoke about the legal aspects of nonprofits' use of virtual goods, virtual currencies and gamification. And he illustrated his talk with slides that are online at Pillsbury's Virtual World Law Blog.
Fordham IP, Media & Entertainment Law Journal
The Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal features these articles (in Volume IX Book 3):
- Moral Rights and Supernatural Fiction: Authorial Dignity and the New Moral Rights Agendas
- Not that There's Anything Wrong with That: Imputations of Homosexuality and the Normative Structure of Defamation Law
- Protection for Informational Works After Feist Publications Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service
- The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: Has it Fulfilled Congressional Expectations?
- Technical Knockout: How Mixed Martial Arts Will Change Copyright Enforcement on the Web
- Huddle Up: Using Mediation to Help Settle the National Football League Labor Dispute
Trademark law in virtual worlds
Theodore Max, a partner in the New York City office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, has written a 42-page article titled Trademarks in the Veldt: Do Virtual Lawyers Dream of Electric Trademarks? For a law review article, it is packed with allusions to science fiction. The "Veldt" in the article's title is the title of a Ray Bradbury story - one of the first (a footnote indicates) to refer to virtual reality. Lawyers of a certain age will recognize the article's subtitle as an intended homage to Philip Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And the article's opening paragraphs refer to Neal Stephenson's 1992 book Snow Cash - a novel (the article notes) that anticipated that virtual worlds could be developed on the Internet, and players on opposite sides of the world could duel with one another using virtual swords. What does this have to do (you may wonder) with trademark law? Mr. Max explains:
There is no question that the Internet and virtual reality are part of our very fiber. As was the case in Snow Crash, the effects of viral commerce, both good and bad, have had a great effect upon humankind in real life and in virtual reality. Virtual commerce can have a great or grave effect upon the creation or destruction of a brand in the same way that counterfeiting in real life can destroy a brand. The future will show that the problems that are being grappled with in the real world with respect to counterfeiting, famous marks, dilution, and licensing will prove even more vexing in the virtual world.
Sonny Vaccaro gives keynote at Harvard Law School Sports Law Symposium
Sonny Vaccaro has done a lot of things over the course of his storied sports career. He used to be a Nike and Reebok "sports marketing executive." He's been called the "godfather of grassroots basketball." These days he's described as a "student-athlete advocate" - a reference to his role as a consultant for the plaintiffs in O'Bannon v. NCAA. All of these things made him the logical choice for the keynote speaker slot at the 2011 Harvard Law School Sports Law Symposium on The Changing Face of Intercollegiate Athletics: Amateurs, Academics, and the Athletic Arms Race. Vaccaro's remarks are reported by Lewis Rice and shown in an online video.
Photographer Patrick Cariou wins infringement lawsuit against appropriation artist Richard Prince
I've always been puzzled about why, exactly, one artist would think it's OK, let alone legal, to use the work of another artist without permission. But, strange as it seems, there are many artists who do think that - so many that there's a label for them. They're called "appropriation" artists; and Richard Prince is one of them. Prince used photographs from Patrick Cariou's book Yes Rasta, to create new versions for what Prince called his "Canal Zone" series. To my eye, Prince's versions - done without Cariou's permission - look to violate Cariou's moral rights as well as his copyrights; but that may just be me. What I can say is that federal District Judge Deborah Batts has ruled that Prince infringed Cariou's copyrights. The decision was anxiously anticipated by those in the art world, and it has attracted comment in several quarters:
- Cariou v. Prince (discussion and link to full text) in Loeb & Loeb's IP/Entertainment Law Weekly
- Key Copyright Case Highlights Pitfalls of Appropriative Art, by Nicholas O'Donnell and Mitchell Stein of Sullivan & Worcester
- Yes Rasta: Richard Prince loses copyright suit, in the Cardozo Art Law blog
- French Photographer Patrick Cariou on His Copyright Suit Victory Against Richard Prince and Gagosian, in ARTINFO
- Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity, by Professor Peter Friedman
- Parsing Patrick Cariou v. Richard Prince: The Copyright Infringement Ruling, by Paddy Johnson
- Cariou vs. Prince: The Copyright Bungle, by Joy Garnett
- Appropriation artist found to have infringed copyrights after failing to show transformative use, by Matthew Becker, edited by Chinh Vo
- Cariou v Prince and the Gagosian Gallery: Fair use of photographs in artworks, in Art and Artifice
- "Appropriation" is Usurpation, Court Says to Richard Prince, by Amelia Brankov
Fordham media and entertainment law articles
The Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal published these articles (in Volume IX Book 2):
- Finding A Home for Orphans: Google Book Search and Orphan Works Law in the United States and Europe, by Katharina de la Durantaye
- Twittergate: Rethinking the Casting Director Contract, by Carter Anne McGowan
- Copyright Enforcement in the Cloud, by Marc Aaron Melzer
- When and Where Does An Internet Posting Constitute Publication? Interpreting Moberg v. 33T LLC, by Julia Marter
Defamation lawsuit against online booksellers is dismissed
Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million have defeated a defamation lawsuit that complained about statements made on their websites by the print-on-demand publisher of a surprisingly-expensive book titled Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder. The lawsuit was filed by a fellow named Dan Parisi who also sued the book's author, Larry Sinclair. The part of the case against Sinclair appears to be pending still. But insofar as the online booksellers are concerned, a federal District Court has held that the Communications Decency Act gives them immunity from liability. The court's decision is explained (and linked to) by Barnes & Noble's lawyers Linda Steinman, Joanna E. Summerscales and Rory Eastburg, in a Client Advisory published by Davis Wright Tremaine and by Evan Brown on his Internet Cases blog.
The legality of filming money for movies and TV programs
Clearing props for use in movies and TV programs usually is a matter of copyright law, and sometimes trademark law too. When props include actual money, however, other laws come into play: those that prohibit counterfeiting. The question of whether it's legal to film currency has just been asked and answered, both north and south of the U.S.-Canadian border.
In the U.S., the question "Can I Film U.S. Currency?" was posted to the Cinema Law section of the blog MovieMaker and was answered by entertainment lawyer David Albert Pierce.
In Canada, the question "Do I need permission to film Canadian currency?" was answered by Bob Tarantino in Heenan Blaikie's Entertainment & Media Law Signal.
The answer in both countries: generally, it's OK to film currency for movies and TV programs, and no permission is necessary. But, as always with the law, there are nuances, explained in Pierce and Tarantino's analyses.
FedEx Field must provide listening devices to hearing-impaired fans at Washington Redskins games
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires FedEx Field to give assisted listening devices to football fans attending Washington Redskins games, a federal Court of Appeals has held. The recent decision in Feldman v. Pro Football is explained in a Client Alert posted by Proskauer Rose.
UK guidelines on sale of Royal Wedding souvenirs
Prince William and Kate Middleton will get married next week, in what surely will be deemed the wedding of the century. Many people will want souvenirs to commemorate the event, and the free market will respond by providing them. I mention this, because the British are quite imaginative about creating special-purpose IP laws. They've got one for the 2012 Olympics (called the London Olympics Association Right). And they've long had a statute that grants perpetual copyright protection to "Peter Pan" (at least within the UK). So it's somewhat surprising that the British do not have a "royal rights" statute. That they don't means that souvenir sellers will be able to satisfy the demand for Royal Wedding memorabilia. On the other hand, there are official guidelines - issued by Lord Chamberlain's Office - concerning the use of photographs on wedding souvenirs. And traditional copyright principles continue to apply as well. All this is explained quite nicely by Shepherd and Wedderburn, in an article titled Everyone Wants to Share in the Royal Couple's Happy Day.
Warren Beatty retained rights to "Dick Tracy" by satisfying requirements of reversion clause
Warren Beatty still owns the rights to the "Dick Tracy" character, a federal District Court has held. Beatty bought those rights years ago from Tribune Media and used them to produce and star in the movie "Dick Tracy." The Beatty-Tribune agreement provided that the rights would revert to Tribune, unless the actor (who is Annette Bening's husband) began principal photography on another movie or TV program using the character, within a specified period of time. According to the court, Beatty satisfied that requirement, and thus the rights did not revert to Tribune. The court's dedecision is noted (and linked to) by Jonathan Zavin in Loeb & Loeb's IP/Entertainment Law Weekly; and its significance to others is commented on by Bob Tarantino in Heenan Blaikie's Entertainment & Media Law Signal.
UK art law
The latest issue of Private Client Issues is a special edition devoted to the arts. Published by the British firm Blake Lapthorn, the periodical features these articles:
- Charitable Giving by Authors and Scholars, by Alison Talbot
- Taxation of Works of Art and Chattels, by Alison Craggs
- Buying and Selling Works of Art - What are the Pitfalls?, by Lara Robson
- Would Mrs Bennett Approve?, by Christine Plews
- The Life of an Artist (Whether Writer, Sculptor or Actor) is surely a Romantic One . . . Isn't It?, by Caroline van Zyl
- Art and Business, by Christine Plews
Entertainment lawyers have featured roles in new movie
Rick Kurnit - name-partner in New York City's Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz - is featured in the new movie "POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold." The movie is the latest from "Super Size Me" filmmaker Morgan Spurlock. New York City lawyer Paul Brennan - Spurlock's own lawyer - also makes an on-screen appearance in his client's humorous documentary about product placement, marketing and advertising.
Sports law
The latest issue of Proskauer Rose's sports law newsletter Three Point Shot features these articles:
- Still Teaching the World to Sing, CocaCola Scores in Dispute over Spanish Language Version of World Cup Anthem
- Show Me the Money – Just Make Sure I Know the Risk
- Accused Internet Pirate Sites Hung from the Yardarm
Movie ticket prices and profits
University of Sydney economists Nicolas de Roos and Jordi McKenzie have written Cheap Tuesdays and the Demand for Cinema. Their study is based on movie attendance patterns in Sydney, but their methods and conclusions look relevant world-round. The abstract:
Many movie markets are characterised by extensive uniform pricing practices, hampering the ability to estimate price elasticities of demand. Australia presents a rare exception, with most cinemas offering cheap Tuesday ticket prices. We exploit this feature to estimate a random coefficients discrete choice model of demand for the Sydney region in 2007. We harness an extensive set of film, cinema, and time-dependent characteristics to build a rich demand system. Our results are consistent with a market expansion effect from the practice of discounted Tuesday tickets, and suggest that cinemas could profit from price dispersion by discounts based on observable characteristics.
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Our results imply that cinemas could increase profits by offering more off-peak pricing, and by employing variable film pricing practices. This doesn't necessarily imply that the pricing strategy should be particularly complex - it could be as simple as categorising certain films as "blockbusters", or offering a "new release" and "old release" price contingent upon some (commonly known and pre-specified) week of the run.
Art law
Herrick Feinstein has published the Winter 2011 edition of Art & Advocacy featuring these articles by Herrick attorneys Yael Weitz, Waffiyah Mian, Michael Kessel and Michael Zargari :
- Holocaust Art Restitution Litigation in 2010
- Bartering with Art - Tax Implications
Songs in the public domain
Former Copyright Office librarian Tom Nichols has written They Never Renewed: Songs You Never Dreamed Were in the Public Domain. Published by The BZ/Rights Stuff, Inc., the book contains:
An Introduction that discusses Public Domain and how to safely use the information provided in the book; the heart of the book, which is a listing of 96 songs in the Public Domain written in the 50s and 60s and each listing includes the names of the composers, the original artist, the covering artists, the registration and renewal status and an audio link that will let you hear the song. Finally, there is a list of all the composers with their birth and death dates, and a listing of the performers and which songs they sang. Most countries use death dates, plus so many years, to calculate whether works are in the Public Domain or not, so the death dates will be useful to many readers.
Hip-hop, copyright and culture
U.C. Davis law professor Thomas W. Joo has written A Contrarian View of Copyright: Hip-Hop, Sampling, and Semiotic Democracy. The abstract:
A dominant trend in intellectual property (IP) theory asserts that technologies such as digital copying enable individuals to resist the cultural dominance of the media industry. Under this view, individuals appropriate cultural material and "recode" it by assigning alternative meanings to it. By enabling more people to participate in the making of cultural meanings, recoding supposedly enhances "semiotic democracy." IP theorists tend to argue that copyright law inhibits recoding, thus stifling semiotic democracy. The use of sampling in hip-hop music is frequently cited as a paradigmatic example of recoding that has been stifled by IP law.
This paper uses history, economics, and critical theory to question these arguments on both the empirical and theoretical levels. Many scholars assert that copyright law turned against recoding in the 1990s by requiring samplers to pay for copyright permission. But the music business – including the hip-hop sector – was already in the practice of paying for copyright permission. Judicial decisions simply codified existing practice, which treated copyright permission as merely one of the many costs of making music. Thus copyright law did not impede musical recoding generally or hip-hop specifically.
While economic markets work well in allocating recoding rights, however, this does not necessarily advance semiotic democracy, because market failures afflict the marketplace of ideas. Recoding embodies contradictory forces that both advance and retard semiotic democracy. Law and technology facilitating recoding not only help independent record labels and artists question the cultural meanings advanced by major record companies; they also allow the latter to appropriate from the former. Moreover, recoding not only creates new meanings from existing cultural materials, but also repeats and reinforces those dominant cultural meanings. Indeed, by creating alternative meanings for dominant cultural materials such as popular music, recoding can contribute to their commercial appeal and cultural influence.
Copyright Office to host roundtable on copyright protection for pre-1972 sound recordings
The Copyright Office will host a roundtable on copyright protection for pre-1972 sound recordings on June 2, 2011, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. It is possible that the roundtable will continue on a second day, June 3. The roundtable will be conducted to assist the Copyright Office in its study for Congress on the desirability and means of bringing sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972, under federal jurisdiction.
Is there a "hot hand" in NBA basketball?
The end of the long NBA season is on the horizon, and that means that many people - including lawyers - will be watching more basketball. Some may feel guilty about stepping up their TV viewing, mistakenly believing that even the NBA Finals are just "games," and that serious law work ought to be given precedence.
If you're among those who will be watching more and feeling guilty, you will be pleased to learn that there's a serious side to NBA basketball too, and it has to do with statistics. Apparently, lots of folks believe that there's no such thing as a "hot hand" in baskeball. In other words, missed shots are as likely to follow hits as more hits, and the notion that Kobe or LeBron can't miss when they're "hot" is just a myth.
Oregon State Economics Professor Daniel F. Stone has given this belief some serious attention, and has come to the conclusion that the "hot hand" may not be a "myth" after all. Statistically-minded readers will find Professor Stone's reasoning in A Note on Measurement Error and the Hot Hand.
Recent decisions: right of publicity; copyright fees
Loeb & Loeb's IP/Entertainment Law Weekly reports on (and links to):
No Doubt v. Activision Publishing, in which a California Court of Appeal held that Activision's use of the likenesses of the members of the band "No Doubt" was not transformative, and thus upheld a lower court order that denied Activision's motion to dismiss the band's right of publicity lawsuit.
Zamoyski v. Fifty-Six Hope Road Music, in which a federal District Court ruled that Bob Marley's heirs were entitled to attorneys' fees as the successful party in a copyright case, even though their claim was for declaratory relief concerning copyright ownership and breach of contract (rather than infringement); but the court awarded Marley's heirs only 55% of the amount they had requested because the opposing party's claim was not frivolous.
Digital music sampling
Duke University Press has published Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling by Kembrew McLeod, Peter DiCola, Jenny Toomey and Kristin Thomson. The book answers these questions:
How did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z's song "Takeover"? Why doesn't Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as "Funky Drummer" and "Cold Sweat," get paid for other musicians' frequent use of the beats he performed on those songs?
. . . this way:
The music industry's approach to digital sampling—the act of incorporating snippets of existing recordings into new ones—holds the answers. Exploring the complexities and contradictions in how samples are licensed, Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola interviewed more than 100 musicians, managers, lawyers, industry professionals, journalists, and scholars. Based on those interviews, Creative License puts digital sampling into historical, cultural, and legal context. It describes hip-hop during its sample-heavy golden age in the 1980s and early 1990s, the lawsuits that shaped U.S. copyright law on sampling, and the labyrinthine licensing process that musicians must now navigate. The authors argue that the current system for licensing samples is inefficient and limits creativity. For instance, by estimating the present-day licensing fees for the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (1989) and Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet (1990), two albums from hip-hop's golden age, the authors show that neither album could be released commercially today. Observing that the same dynamics that create problems for remixers now reverberate throughout all culture industries, the authors conclude by examining ideas for reform. Interviewees include David Byrne, Cee Lo Green, George Clinton, De La Soul, DJ Premier, DJ Qbert, Eclectic Method, El-P, Girl Talk, Matmos, Mix Master Mike, Negativland, Public Enemy, RZA, Clyde Stubblefield, T.S. Monk.
Co-author Peter DiCola, a professor at Northwestern University Law School, will be giving a lecture and multimedia presentation about the book at American University in Washington, D.C., on April 15th.
Canadian tax credits for U.S. movie and TV productions
Cassels Brock & Blackwell has published An Overview of Canadian Tax Credits For Non-Indigenous Film and Television Production. From the Introduction to the 23-page document:
Canada, often referred to as "Hollywood North," continues as a leading innovator in the development and implementation of public sector incentives for film and television production. These incentives have stimulated a billion dollar industry in Canada for the production of both domestic or indigenous programming content and foreign based Canadian location or service productions. . . . In this monograph, we focus on . . . their application to US-based film and television productions.
NBC defeats "Biggest Loser" infringement claim
The court's decision is noted by Arent Fox and noted and linked to by Loeb & Loeb.
Peter Yu offers entertainment industry more convincing proposals for digital copyright reform
It isn't often that an academic offers to help the entertainment industry with legal arguments. (The industry, after all, does have paid professional help.) But Drake University law professor Peter Yu says he's done just that. Yu is a highly-regarded professor of IP law and the Director of Drake's Intellectual Property Law Center, so he knows whereof he speaks. His latest article is titled Digital Copyright and Confuzzling Rhetoric, and it appears in the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law. His thesis, and offer:
The entertainment industry tells people they shouldn't steal music because they wouldn't steal a car, but has anybody ever downloaded a car? Music fans praise Napster and other file-sharing services for helping to free artists from the stranglehold of the music industry, but how many of these services actually have shared profits with songwriters and performing artists? Industry representatives claim that people use YouTube primarily to listen to or watch copyrighted contents, but are they missing a big piece of the user-generated content picture? Artists are encouraged to forget about copyright and hold live concerts instead, but can all artists succeed under this alternative compensation model? Over the years, policymakers, industry representatives, consumer advocates, civil libertarians, academic commentators, and user communities have advanced many different arguments for or against stronger copyright protection and enforcement. This article examines eight of these arguments, which the author finds rather unpersuasive. It then outlines five strategies that seek to help the entertainment industry make its proposals for digital copyright reform more convincing. The article concludes with two short stories to illustrate the tremendous difficulty for the public to appreciate the complexities in copyright law. It underscores the paramount importance of making convincing arguments in the digital copyright debate.
Jerry Seinfeld and wife's publisher defeat defamation and idea submission claims by cookbook author
Jerry Seinfeld has defeated a defamation claim filed against him by Missy Lapine, the author of The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids' Favorite Meals. At the same time, HarperCollins defeated Lapine's claim that it breached an implied contract by publishing Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food written by Sienfeld's wife Jessica. The decision of the New York state court in which these claims were rejected is reported upon (and linked to) in Loeb & Loeb's IP/Entertainment Law Weekly Case Update.
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Host of fires clear San Diego-area neighborhoods
By Elliot Spagat and Julie Watson
May. 15, 2014 5:34 AM EDT
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SAN MARCOS, Calif. (AP) - Tuzo Jerger was one of thousands told to evacuate as a wildfire ripped across Carlsbad, a suburb north of San Diego. The 66-year-old real estate broker packed files, a surfboard, golf clubs, clothes and photos and sought solace at a friend's hilltop house in nearby San Marcos, only to see another fierce wildfire break out there and force thousands from their homes.
"I thought, 'Oh my God, it's going to come this way,'" Jerger said at a San Marcos restaurant where he found relief in a slice of pizza.
Such was the state of San Diego County, where one wildfire after another broke out Wednesday, driving tens of thousands from homes, shutting down schools and amusement parks and destroying at least eight houses and a condominium complex.
Nine fires in all were burning an area of more than 14 square miles as another day of sky-high temperatures and dry winds were expected Thursday, county officials said.
The biggest concern was in San Marcos, where the new blaze broke out in the late afternoon, some 21,000 evacuation notices were sent to residents and a California State University campus with nearly 10,000 students in the middle of final exams was shut down at least through Thursday. At least five structures there were destroyed, authorities said, but it wasn't immediately clear how many were homes.
Firefighters contended with temperatures approaching 100 degrees and gusty winds as they tried to contain flames fueled by brush and trees left brittle by drought.
The most destructive of the fires so far was in the coastal city of Carlsbad, about 30 miles north of San Diego and home to Legoland. The park was closed because of a power outage caused by the fire.
The city's schools also were closed, as most of the county's would be on Thursday including San Diego Unified, and officials expected they wouldn't reopen until next week.
Carlsbad Mayor Matt Hall said the blaze consumed an eight-unit condominium complex, as well as damaged eight homes and two businesses.
By late Wednesday firefighters had the blaze 10 percent contained and some of the thousands of residents were told they could return.
About 200 residents of San Marcos gathered at an evacuation center in a high school in San Marcos, many from a mobile home park for senior citizens.
Alma Whisenhut, 80, packed clothing and papers for about 20 minutes after police told her and her husband to leave the mobile home park. The couple saw fast-moving flames two ridges away as they left.
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Other areas in the county also flared up, though most calmed quickly, including two fires in the far north of the county near Camp Pendleton that together burned nearly 7,000 acres and prompted evacuations that lasted just a few hours.
Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for San Diego County, which would free up special resources and funding for the firefight, and state fire officials were creating a central command center for the blazes.
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The city's fire chief said the blazes were unprecedented in his 27-year firefighting career because they are so early in the year.
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Police and fire agencies said at the news conference that they were gathering evidence on the cause of the fires, but no conclusions had yet been reached.


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Since this thread was started I wound up having a very bad experience with an unscrupulous seller who was using a different eBay ID than his original one (which had thousands of transactions). I won't go into the details, but this guy sold me a clearly, obviously used LCD display advertised as "New In Box." There was dust, fingerprints, and even spittle from coughing on the LCD as well as several dead pixels. The serial number and manufacture date both indicated to me that it was over a year old. And I have bought several of this exact same item, and could tell that the packing on the inside wasn't original.Long story short, we agreed to an amount that he would return to me from the sale, that was in the 15-20% range. The unit was dropped shipped to me "from his supplier." And he had been great in pre-sale email, so I thought I'd cut him a break. Foolish on my part. I should have boxed up the unit and sent it right back. In the end, after almost two months of emails, he reneged on giving me a partial refund. It was all his supplier's fault. He shouldn't have to pay for his supplier's mistake. Unethical. I didn't buy it from his supplier; I bought it from him. He should stand behind his sale.In the end, we ended up swapping negative feedback. The thing I was trying to avoid. He immediately made his feedback private. If you ever see someone with private feedback as a seller, probably not a good plan to buy from them. His negative feedback to me was nasty, a character assassination, and aimed at nothing more than discrediting me any way he could -- never mind the truth.At almost the same time, I had another very different problem. I bought another LCD -- this one a lot more expensive, from another seller. This was just a guy, not someone with a lot of sales on eBay. He sent me exactly what he advertised, and I was (and am) fully satisfied with my purchase. The problem was that PayPal was not satisfied for reasons PayPal never explained to me (apparently to protect his privacy??). PayPal can be stoopid sometimes. What happened, though, was that PayPal refused to send him my payment. They had taken it out of my account, but refused to fund his account with it.This was actually one of the bigger purchases I've ever made on eBay, over $1,500. And I felt bad for the guy, so I called PayPal three times and also wrote them vouching for him and his sale to me. It took over a month for him to finally get paid. In the end, he did. But no matter what PayPal's beef was with this guy -- unless the monitor was hot -- they had no right to hold up his payment. In talking to PayPal reps several times, the story they told me did not imply that the item had been stolen. The problem had to do with a previous transaction, that was also not based on a complaint by a buyer, but was something PayPal was just checking out. Basically, they froze his account on a suspicion.Doesn't seem to me to be the way things should work.I still buy on eBay, but those two experiences coming back to back have cooled my jets a bit on the whole thing. I've also found that I can find cheaper prices elswhere for some items. EBay isn't always a deal. It's still something I check and consider though. I know my way around.Also, despite my earlier comments against sniping, I've changed my tune about that. There are so many idiot buyers out there and it's just not worth the hassle. I use a service called AuctionSniper. It's worked very well for me. They charge a small percentage when you win an auction, and nothing when you don't. There are many others like AuctionSniper, as well as programs that do the same.-- Scot
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Posted 09 July 2005 - 11:01 PM
Wow, thanks for the story! It's too bad the way that some things turn out. Fortunately, if you look closely, you can sometimes tell which "negative" feedbacks are nothing more than blasphemous, but it still subtracts from your overall percentage.
Edited by epp_b, 09 July 2005 - 11:02 PM.
Posted 09 July 2005 - 11:51 PM
I've gone right off eBay, I can get pc parts a lot cheaper and faster from a local supplier. Used computers are also so cheap now and if I need one in a hurry I have a good ex-lease supplier who is cheap and ships the same day. A few years ago eBay was good but I find it's too risky now and also very slow as I can get parts delivered the next day from other suppliers.
Posted 15 November 2005 - 09:54 AM
greengeek, on Jul 9 2005, 09:51 PM, said:
There is only one computer item that I will buy on Ebay anymore and that would be RDRam. Even then, I'm very careful to check out pictures, feedback, background of those giving the feedback and emailing difficult questions to see if there's an inteligent human on the other side. There's a reason why some items are too cheap. The problem with buying computer parts on Ebay is that there is usually some type of flaw that you don't find out about til years down the road or months. I bought a case w/psu that looked like a good deal but not too good. Later, I find out that the PSU had been opened and tampered with. I figured that one out after the PSU died. I ended up paying more for a new PSU than I did for the case to begin with. I just wasn't paying attention when I bought my motherboard. The price was great at around $30. Then, I realized my DIMMs wouldn't work in it because it was a Rambus board. No problem, I'll buy some RDRam. You could only buy them in pairs at the store and they weren't exactly affordable. So, to make a long story short, I went on ebay to try to save money and the only time I did save money was when I bought a 256MB stick of RDRam that if I had been paying attention, I could have been paying less for DDR. There is a good internet computer parts store that has a warehouse 2 hours away from me and their prices are excellent. My next computer will probably be pieced together from parts from them. Of course, I may live another 5 hours away by then.
I've gone right off eBay, I can get pc parts a lot cheaper and faster from a local supplier. Used computers are also so cheap now and if I need one in a hurry I have a good ex-lease supplier who is cheap and ships the same day. A few years ago eBay was good but I find it's too risky now and also very slow as I can get parts delivered the next day from other suppliers.
Posted 13 February 2006 - 05:34 PM
....AAhhh... it's good to know I'm not the only one who has had some bad experiences on ebay.... my most recent 3 are an item for my RV (the box said one thing but the actual item was completely different) that one was resolved to my complete satisfaction,,, the other two were mainboards, one was an ECS that had a bios battery, and come to find out it was a "pull", had it checked and it is good, the other was a PCChips which I have had good luck with in the past ... this one was NIB still sealed, never been opened, anti-static bag still mfgr sealed.... "NIB" severall years ago,,, it was out of mfgr warranty, the seller basicially said to bad,,, needless to say I'm not as big on ebay as I used to be
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Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:31 PM
Scot, on Sep 26 2003, 01:04 AM, said:
Scot, et al,Well, there has been no feedback on theis topic since 2006 so, maybe the problems for others have leveled out.I have been buying and selling on eBay.com (US) since 2000 and on eBay.de (Germany) since 2001, using either depending on where I am at the moment. Battle stories, the same as most of the earlier reponders - defective equipment sold as operating, no delivery (when buying from a foreign country), addiction.One tip - don't think that you will be able to buy and then resell for a profit. Especially since 2008. The bottom has dropped out of the market for used equipment and there are so many other people trying to do the same.I pretty much have bought equipment for my own use, trying to keep a representative variety for testing software. All laptops, though I will add the caveat that I use them in my home office with 19" monitors and external mouse and keyboard. My speciality has been Compaq since the first PCs came on the market in 1980. The only computer I ever bought brand new from a computer store was a 2-floppy IBM PC from ComputerLand.The models I have bought since 2002 used mostly the same interchangeable parts (a reason I like the Compaqs is the MultiBay for secondary drives). While a laptop that I may buy usually will be sold with a HDD, it is rarely of any real size and I always immediately buy a new HDD of as large a capacity as I can afford (160GB IDE 2.5" these days) from a store that I can take the HDD back to in case of problems.Operating systems are the biggest problem. Microsoft has made it impossible in the US to buy the OEM Quick Restore CDs on eBay even though every Compaq was originally sold with the CDs. Most of the laptops in the US have come back from leases to businesses and noone has the original CDs. I have found the CDs over the years, but usually on eBay outside the US, including from the UK and in Germany (where you can get them in German or English).I finally gave up on reselling because the prices dropped off and because of the complaints from buyers - why didn't you say that the CMOS battery was dead (it was dead when I bought it and noone said anything), why do you charge so much more than the postage for shipping (because my time preparing it for shipping has value as well), etc.I still look once a month at what is being sold on eBay, but I also check the ads for Fry's and go to Best Buys (when I am in the US) to check selection and prices.Words to the wise? - buyer beware and know your product (and have a stock of spare parts as well).-Mac-
What's your experience with eBay (or similar services, Craig's List, whatever) with buying or selling computer products? ...What I've found is that eBay is a little addictive, and also you can get one helluva bargain (doh!) if you know about the products in question. I've learned a lot.-- Scot
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CHRISTIANSBURG –– On the bright side, Carroll County is still averaging 294 rushing yards in its last two games.
One week after one of the most productive nights of offense in school history, Christiansburg held the Cavaliers to one of their least productive, thoroughly trouncing Carroll 40-0 in a nondistrict game Friday.
The Cavaliers (1-2) were coming off a 560-yard rushing effort in a 47-19 thumping of Patrick County, but could muster less than half as many yards (28) Friday as it had rushing attempts (61) the week before.
By halftime, Carroll actually had fewer ground yards than it had first downs by the same time against Patrick.
Playing its first Group AA opponent of the year, the Blue Demon defense set the tone early, coming up with an interception on the Cavaliers' third offensive snap. Brenden Motley returned the pick 20 yards to the Carroll 28, and Christiansburg (3-0) was in the lead four plays later after a Greg Lee 1-yard run at 8:45 of the first period. The PAT failed and the lead stood at 6-0.
Following a Cavalier three-and-out, Christiansburg took over on its own 30 and needed but seven plays to double its lead. After converting a fourth-and-1 by picking up his own fumble and gaining four yards, Motley hit Zach Snell for a 20-yard gain to the Carroll 37. Kam Johnson darted in from the 29 two plays later for a 12-0 Blue Demon advantage.
Christiansburg later went 43 yards in three plays, with Lee scoring on the first play of the second quarter on a 3-yard run, and Zach Winkle's PAT boosted the lead to 19-0.
The Cavaliers managed a defensive stop midway through the second but were unable to solve the Christiansburg defense and punted to the Demon 19 with 48 seconds left in the half. Despite a 5-yard penalty, Christiansburg was able to drive 86 yards in less than 45 seconds for their fourth score of the night. Motley completions of 19 and 24 yards plus a personal foul flag moved the Blue Demons to the Carroll 32 with five seconds on the clock, and Motley connected with Steven Wills on the last play of the half for a 32-yard touchdown and a 26-0 lead.
Snell's 34-yard return of the second half kickoff set the table for the Christiansburg offense, which found the end zone six plays later on a 3-yard run by Johnson for a 33-0 lead.
Christiansburg capped the scoring early in the fourth on a 37-yard run by Snell.
The Demons racked up 393 yards of total offense, led by Motley. The junior quarterback completed 9-of-15 passes for 184 yards and ran seven times for 52 yards. Johnson ran for a team-high 66 yards on eight attempts and caught three passes for 64 yards.
Defensively, Christiansburg never let the Cavaliers get anything going, holding Carroll County to 28 yards on 28 rushes.
The Cavaliers open Southwest District play this week at Tazewell (0-3).
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Christiansburg 40, Carroll Co. 0
Carroll County..........0 0 0 0–– 0
Christiansburg........12 14 7 7––40
First quarter
CB–Lee 1 run (kick failed) 8:45
CB–Motley 29 run (kick failed) 4:13
Second quarter
CB–Lee 12 run (Winkle kick) 11:53
CB–Wills 32 pass from Motley (Winkle kick) 0:00
Third quarter
CB–Johnson 3 run (Winkle kick) 9:48
Fourth quarter
CB–Snell 37 run (Winkle kick) 11:04
First downs 3 17
Rushes-yards 28-28 39-209
Yards passing 27 184
Comp-Att-Int 1-4-1 9-15-0
Return yards 19 84
Punts-average 6-31.8 2-32.5
Fumbles-lost 2-2 3-1
Penalties-yards 3-25 8-46
RUSHING—Carroll County, Ayers 5-18, Hodges 6-16, Mollet 3-4, Moreno 1-0, Alley 9-0, Bowman 4-(-10). Christiansburg, Snell 8-66, Motley 7-52, Graves 5-46, Lee 13-40, Johnson 4-12, Morgan 1-3, Tienvieri 1-(-10).
PASSING–Carroll County, Bowman 1-4-1-27. Christiansburg, Motley 9-15-0-184.
RECEIVING–Carroll County, Mollet 1-27. Christiansburg, Snell 3-64, Winkle 2-48, Wills 2-43, McCoy 1-24, Johnson 1-5.
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The Golden Age of Light Music - Great British Composers: Volume 2
Walter STOTT (1924-2009)
Commonwealth March
Queen's Hall Light Orchestra/Farnon [2:34]
Charles WILLIAMS (1893-1978)
London Fair
Danish State Radio Orchestra/Farnon [2:47]
Haydn WOOD (1882-1959)
Harvest Time Suite (Harvesters' Dance [1:32]; Interlude [1:19]; Harvest Home [3:04])
Regent Concert Orchestra/Hodgson
Vivian ELLIS (1903-1996) arr. Sidney Torch
Muse in Mayfair
Queen's Hall Light Orchestra/Torch [2:54]
Stanford ROBINSON (1904-1984)
New Concert Orchestra/Stanford Robinson [8:33]
Reginald KING (1904-1991)
First Waltz
West End Celebrity Orchestra [2:57]
John ANSELL (1874-1948)
Windjammer Overture
New Concert Orchestra/Wilbur [7:53]
Sidney TORCH (1908-1990)
Accent on Waltz
Queen's Hall Light /Torch [3:03]
Eric COATES (1886-1957)
London Again Suite (Oxford Street (March) [3:29]; Langham Place (Elegy) [4:59]; Mayfair (Valse) [4:12])
Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra/Coates
Ernest TOMLINSON (b.1924)
A Young Man's Fancy
Bosworth Orchestra [3:01]
Frederic CURZON (1899-1973)
Royal Air Force Central Band/Sims [2:38]
Ronald BINGE (1910-1979)
Dance of The Snowflakes
Lansdowne Light Orchestra [3:02]
Albert KETÈLBEY (1875-1959)
In a Fairy Realm Suite (Moonlit Glade [2:54]; Queen Fairy Dances [2:59]; Gnomes' March [2:58])
Louis Voss Grand Orchestra
Sir Granville BANTOCK (1868-1946)
Persian Dance
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Sir Edward ELGAR (1857-1934)
Chanson de Matin (1890)
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Trevor DUNCAN (1924-2005)
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This latest Guild volume adds yet more interesting music to the extensive forgotten repertoire regularly played up to the late 50s on the BBC Light programme in weekly broadcasts of 'Workers' Playtime', 'Housewives' Choice' or 'Music While You Work'. It all has that very accessible quality with hum-along themes and bustling cheery orchestration. The BBC studio orchestras would have played many of these pieces possibly conducted by Eric Robinson (brother to Stanford) or by the composers themselves: Wally Stott, Eric Coates, Sidney Torch and Robert Farnon to mention just a few. In the forties, the large music publishers realised that there could be a lucrative market to record popular material and sell them to music libraries of broadcasters and documentary film makers on a royalty basis. Restaurants would also be a captive audience for this 'muzak' of the day. Music publishers Bosworth, Chappell and Boosey & Hawkes provided this 'mood music' and what we hear on this CD is, in the main, from their collections. Guild have retained an excellent reputation for the care taken with their exacting transfers from shellac records by sound engineer, Alan Bunting. This disc is no exception.
The earliest composers represented here are the Victorians, Elgar, Bantock, John Ansell and Albert Ketèlbey. Their pieces add elegant traditional charm to contrast with the catchy rhythms and brightly coloured scores of the later composers, Tomlinson, Curzon and Williams. All playing lengths are tailored to fit a three minute 10 inch or a four and a half minute 12 inch 78rpm record and composers would produce their scores with this constraint in mind. Much of Eric Coates has been largely neglected despite his quality of output and endearing tunes. It is good to see that he is represented here by the London Again Suite. Its three items are sprightly and contain good melody lines. Always able to deliver a good tune, Coates's adept orchestration often put him on a level above his contemporaries.
Ansell's well-structured eight minute overture with a Shenandoah-styled theme is vibrant and is continually forward-moving with the presentation of fresh ideas. Luckily, its boxy sound tends to disappear after the first two and a half minutes and then one can enjoy the track. In the Harvest Time suite, Haydn Wood, an admirer of Edward German, has clearly cultivated characteristics of German's composition style from his Henry VIII, Torch Dance. The rounded orchestration we find here is of a quality appreciated by Wood's admirers. Ketèlbey was a strong favourite between the World Wars and has appeared on other Golden Age CDs. Here he is represented by the imaginative In a Fairy Realm suite which has been well transferred from a good studio recording. There is nice diversity in the three descriptive pieces of the suite.
David Ades' booklet notes in English cover the works with some interesting detail. We find, for instance, that in 1927 Reginald King, who worked under Sir Henry Wood as a pianist, took an orchestra into Swan & Edgar's restaurant (Piccadilly Circus) where they played until 1939 and were only stopped by the War. King's popularity was noticed by the BBC who before long employed him to broadcast regularly. Such is the effect of such music and being in the right place at the right time.
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Nation & World
Commentary: Freed from slavery, Lewis Hayden became a leader in Boston
With his own debt of freedom repaid, Lewis Hayden could focus on helping others become free. The escaped slave from Lexington already had accomplished a lot by this time, as I wrote in last Wednesday's column.
By the late 1840s, Hayden was a leader in Boston's black community. His boarding house and clothing store were important stops on the Underground Railroad, which helped escaped slaves start new lives in the North.
The American Anti-Slavery Society hired Hayden in 1847 as an "agent" to travel throughout the North and speak about his experiences as a slave. He was sorely disappointed when the organization's white leaders let him go after about six months, according to Lewis Hayden and the War Against Slavery, a 1999 book by Joel Strangis, a former administrator at Sayre School in Lexington.
Apparently, Hayden was not as effective a speaker as some of the society's other agents, who included Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown, another former Lexington slave, who would become America's first successful black novelist.
The break might have been for the best. Hayden was growing impatient with the Anti-Slavery Society and pacifist leaders such as William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of The Liberator newspaper. They seemed to be all talk and no action. Circumstances would soon force Hayden into action.
The Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay's attempt to avoid the inevitable Civil War, included a fugitive slave law. Among other things, the law made it a crime to help an escaped slave, and it forced federal officials to become slave-catchers.
The law sent shock waves through Boston's black population. Hayden and most of the city's 2,000 black residents were now in personal jeopardy, and they were determined to fight back.
After federal marshals arrested an escaped slave named Shadrach at a coffee house where he worked, Hayden and others snatched him from the courthouse and smuggled him out of Boston. President Millard Fillmore was outraged, and Clay denounced the incident on the floor of the Senate, asking "whether we shall have a government of white men or black men in the cities of this country."
Hayden continued to help dozens of fugitive slaves, sometimes by force, and his fame grew.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the 1852 best-seller Uncle Tom's Cabin, interviewed Hayden and included his harrowing account of childhood slavery in Lexington in her 1853 follow-up book, The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin. (Read the excerpt on my blog: Tomeblen.bloginky.com.)
In 1858, Hayden met abolitionist John Brown, who spoke of his plans to incite an armed slave revolt. Hayden raised money for what would become Brown's unsuccessful raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry in October 1859.
When the Civil War finally came, Hayden had a friend in Massachusetts Gov. John Andrew. They had known each other for years, and Hayden had helped the lawyer get elected to the legislature in 1857.
Still, many eyebrows were raised when the Pilgrim State's governor accepted an invitation to dine at Lewis and Harriet Hayden's home on Thanksgiving 1862. It wasn't just a social occasion: Hayden took the opportunity to urge Andrew to persuade President Abraham Lincoln to allow blacks to fight for the Union.
Once Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect a few weeks later, Andrew formed the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Hayden was too old to serve, but he recruited troops for the unit, which had black enlisted men but white officers. The regiment's story was told in the 1989 Academy Award-winning movie Glory, starring Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick and Morgan Freeman.
After the war, Hayden promoted Freemasonry as a way for black men to help one another advance. And, in 1873, he was elected to a term in the Massachusetts legislature. (He was one of Massachusetts' first state employees in 1858, when he got a job as a messenger in the secretary of state's office.)
Hayden spent his last years on a goal he had worked 30 years to achieve. He wanted a monument on the Boston Common honoring Crispus Attucks, the only mixed-race man killed by British troops in the "Boston Massacre" of March 5, 1770, which helped spark the American Revolution.
Hayden had to settle for a monument honoring all five "massacre" victims. But he was on the platform when it was dedicated in 1888, with Attucks' name at the top of the list. Hayden died the following year and is buried in Everett, Mass.


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Welcome to the SIUE Women's Studies Page!
The goal of our program is to invite students to inquire critically into the beliefs, attitudes, and values surrounding gender and sexualities. Women's Studies courses focus on the often under-represented contributions of women to literature, art, history, science, and social sciences, but, as importantly, WMST classes also ask students to think about structures of power that inform our political and cultural landscapes and, ultimately, to challenge expectations that impede social justice.
We'd love to have your participate in our program in any number of ways: you can take a Women's Studies course; attend one of the regular lectures or events we host on campus; ; join the student group, Making Waves; declare a minor; or simply look through our website for information about feminist scholarship and activism. Feel free to stop by the Women's Studies Office (Peck 3407) for more information, formal mentoring, or just a cup of coffee. You can also reach the Director of the Women's Studies program, Professor Carolina Rocha, at 618-650-2313 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Also, please be sure to be our friend on Facebook to receive information about events and to join the conversation about current issues.
The image used on our website is a detail of Carrie Moyer's painting "The Stone Age" from the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art housed at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York. We've got a link to their website on our "Links We Like" Page.


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The Faculty History Project documents faculty members who have been associated with the University of Michigan since 1837, and the history of the University's schools and colleges. This project is part of a larger effort to prepare resources for the University's bicentennial in 2017. Find out more.
Richard W Andrews
Richard W Andrews
|Years at Michigan:
1974 - 2002
Associate Professor of Statistics


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jrstafford1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 33 designs submitted by 19 freelance designers.
We need to develop a logo for a new remote technology support business. Looking for something professional that can be the basis of our branding material.
System Miracles
Desired Color Scheme:
Royal blue, purple - open to others
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
We need a professional logo that can be the basis for the branding material of our new business. This logo will also serve as the starting point for our new website.Â
We are a remote technology support business that does everything from software installations and wireless network setups to mp3 player and digital camera setups. The biggest part of our business is PC support and optimization.
Our business name is System Miracles and we want the logo to include a wizard/sourcerer character like Merlin. The idea is to have him waving a wand over a computer with some pixy-dust. This is one idea but we are open to others.
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Sunset Kayaking
In Partnership with Kayak Nature ToursDate/Time
Thursday, October 10
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Looking for a kayak adventure? Join us for a guided kayak tour! Enjoy a relaxing paddle with experienced guides exploring the world of plants & animals that inhabit the shores and waters of Lake Whitehurst. Kayaks, paddles and necessary safety equipment will be provided. Sit-on-top (wet kayaks) will be used, so plan to get wet. No experience necessary. This tour is great for beginners and will include pre-trip instructions. Please leave all electronics in your vehicle.
Price of ticket is per person; all people attending must have a ticket in order to go on this trip.
$50 ($65 for not-yet-members)
Individual children between the ages of 3 – 16 must register with a parent. Small children will be placed in the front seat of a double kayak with a parent.
Everyone will be required to wear a life jacket.
What to Bring:
• Water Shoes (Teva-type sandals, aqua socks, or old tennis shoes)
• Small Water Bottle
• Sun Glasses and a strap to hold them on
• Hat or Visor
• Bathing Suit–we do get wet!
• Sunscreen (Be sure to apply BEFORE leaving home, to avoid greasy hands and slippery paddling.)
• Towels and change of clothing to leave in the car
Kayak Nature Tours does not recommend bringing cameras/cell phones or electronic devices that may become wet, submerged or lost. If you would like to take photos during your trip, please bring a disposable water-proof camera.
Both double and single sit-on-top kayaks are available on a limited first come first served basis. Kayak preference must be requested at the time of reservation, but is not guaranteed. Double kayaks are more stable, easier to paddle and can be faster with synchronized paddling. Kayak Nature Tours recommended double kayaks for couples, and Norfolk Botanical Garden requires double boats for parents with small children. Kayak Nature Tours also recommends the use of a double kayak for guests who are less experienced/active, nervous, or who do not weigh more than 110 lbs. Kayak Nature Tours recommends single kayaks for active individuals who weight at least 110 lbs. or for individuals who have previous kayaking experience.


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A crisis for home health?
The state of Vermont is forcing a potential crisis on the state's 12 nonprofit home health providers that is puzzling and suspect. At issue is a demand by John Crowley, commissioner of Vermont's Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Health Care Administration (BISHCA), for home health providers to prove they are serving 100 percent of the state market by July 9. If they can't, Crowley says he will break the current state-imposed monopoly and allow a private firm to complete for the Medicare and Medicaid patients they serve.The puzzling aspect of the forced crisis is the timing. Why Crowley has set such a tight deadline is unknown and makes little sense. Vermont's home health care providers have operated under the current system for numerous years and have an outstanding record of serving a high percentage of Vermonters at a low per-capita cost. According to state figures for 2002, Vermont's 12 home health centers served 108 Medicare patients per 1,000 residents, compared to 86 per 1,000 in New England and 61 per 1,000 nationally. The average cost per visit was $76 in 2002, compared to $102 nationally. And, because the home health centers operate on a break-even basis, they require no taxpayer subsidy.Crowley's initiative could change that. At issue is whether Crowley will allow the Winooski-based Professional Nurses Service to file for a Certificate of Need to compete with the 12 home health care centers, of which the Addison County Home Health and Hospice is one. The concern is that PNS, a private firm, will "cherry-pick� the business — vying for the more profitable cases, while leaving the most expenses cases for the home health care agencies to serve. Because the home health care centers rely on a mix of the profitable accounts to balance the more costly ones, a change could make the centers unprofitable and, perhaps, reliant on tax dollars. Furthermore, it would almost surely harm the centers' ability to provide universal coverage."Right now, we take everyone, regardless of their ability to pay,� said Larry Goetschius, executive director of Addison County Home Health and Hospice. "That would really be a hard thing to keep going. My concern is that when you introduce that (for-profit) incentive into the marketplace, you end up with an incentive that's inconsistent with patients getting access.�Home health care allows patients to receive care in their homes for as long as possible. If patients weren't served by a home health care provider, or couldn't afford the fees of a for-profit provider, they would most likely end up in either the hospital or nursing home for care — creating a cost shift and higher health insurance rates for everyone. ********On the other side of the issue is the prospect of lower health care costs for the patient and the state. The driving force behind the change appears to be PNS, which contends that their services would be less expensive than those provided by the home health centers and, therefore, could cut Medicare and Medicaid expenses. PNS is a growing firm headed by two nurses with roughly 200 employees statewide. They say they can provide many services cheaper than home health and that it's unfair to continue a state-imposed monopoly. "The power should be in the consumers' hands,� says Megan Price, spokeswoman for PNS.The whole ruckus was started when the U.S. Justice Department was reinvestigating the loosely arranged monopoly formed by the nonprofit health care centers, and that federal encroachment has led some state senators to take a "keep the federal government out of our business� approach. "We don't want the federal government dictating how we deliver care in this state more than they already do,� said Chair of Senate Health and Welfare Sen. Jim Leddy.More importantly, however, is trying to decide which system would best serve the state, but not enough is known of the consequences of adding private competition to make a rational decision. What consumers do know is that in the health care business the twin goals of providing universal access and the highest cost efficiency are not mutually compatible. Private enterprise cares for patients who make money for their operation, and turn away those patients that do not. That's simple business. A private firm will not take on patients in which it knows it will lose money. It can't, for long, and stay in business. If we accept that premise, we know that any private firm will "cherry pick� the most profitable cases and turn away the cases that would be a liability.Knowing that to be true, what doesn't make sense is to force this significant change on the public without a more thorough study. Crowley and his boss, Gov. Jim Douglas, may want to push a market-driven system into play in Vermont, but it's a risky step that could mean less care for those most in need — and drive health insurance rates even higher for the rest of us.Forcing the issue to a July 9 deadline is, at best, unnecessary, and at worst, a move in the wrong direction. Crowley should step back a few paces and cool his heels. He may have a reasonable idea, but there hasn't been enough study done to justify tossing the system into crisis just because he's in a rush. A Dec. 31 deadline makes more sense, and even then any decision should be incorporated within the revised health care structure now being debated in the Legislature.


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CT needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 114 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
I am looking for a logo for my bubble tea store. It need to be vibrant, fun with a hint of cuteness.
I am open to any suggestions~~Thank you ^o^
I am selling bubble tea, slushy(smoothies), flavor tea, ice cream and cream puffs/bakery in a mall. My kiosk design will look like a ice mountain sculpture. I personally like the company "Jamba Juice" logo. The tornado reflects their ice blender which is fun and colorful. I want something that will reflect what I am selling and it must be fun.
Thank you and have fun ^o^
Here is a link describe what bubble/boba tea is, it may help with the design.
It is also good if you can add some characters to the logo.
But please keep in mind that my theme for my kiosk is a ice mountain, so I prefer the character to be some kind of animal in south or north poll.
Examples like these...
- Vibrant
- colorful
- fun
- cuteness
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The first and second Saturdays in December, the bright lights of Cedar Point will beckon those bursting with the holiday spirit to come delight in the festivities of the first annual Cedar Point Festival of Lights.
The first and second Saturdays in December, the bright lights of Cedar Point will beckon those bursting with the holiday spirit to come delight in the festivities of the first annual Cedar Point Festival of Lights.
The festival will enchant visitors with treats, lights, and bundles of holiday cheer from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Dec. 7 and 14 at businesses, historical locations, homes, and churches all over the town of Cedar Point.
�We�re so excited over it,� said Cedar Point Town Clerk Barbara Sandlin.
Not only will local Cedar Point businesses be decked out in their brightest for the Festival of Lights, they will be serving hot drinks, cookies and one is rumored to be serving s�mores.
In addition, Sandlin said the businesses will be part of a festival treasure hunt.
�Inside each store, you ask for something, they stamp your map, and whoever visited the most businesses will get a special prize,� Sandlin said.
People are welcome to travel in their own vehicles or use the free public transportation which will be provided for the festival, including a cab, two small school buses, a courtesy van, and the trolley from the Coastal Outlet located on N.C. 24.
The public transportation will pick people up at Town Hall from 5 to 9:30 p.m. and Sandlin expects people will be able to catch a ride every 10 to 15 minutes.
�They will take them into subdivisions to see all the lights, the individual stores, drop off and pick up,� she said.
In addition to the businesses, Sandlin said Santa and Mrs. Claus will be waiting to greet children at the historic Octagon House located at 301 Masonic Ave. in Cedar Point.
Hot chocolate and cookies will be served at the house and a photographer will be there to take photos of the kids with Santa.
Sandlin said the light displays within the neighborhoods around Cedar Point cannot be skipped either, or the live nativity scene at 120 Bell Street behind Sound Furniture Store put on by Emmanuel Independent Baptist Church.
�It�s beautiful, they transform the whole area into old Bethlehem,� Sandlin said.
The scene will be complete with congregation members dressed in authentic period clothing, animals wandering the streets of Bethlehem, and a real working marketplace with a blacksmith, a bread maker and a basket weaver, according to Tim Winters, an organizer and performer with the live nativity.
�I just had a heart for it,� Winters said. �To share the gospel for the community.�
Winters said those who come to the live nativity will be guided into the city by torchlight, given gold coins to �pay their taxes,� just like the story in the Bible, and then end their journey at the live nativity scene.
�Our heart is in that people who come through find what the true meaning of Christmas is and that is Jesus Christ. He is our central focus,� Winters said.
The live nativity scene is open to the public free of charge, and Winters said the church will serve visitors hot cider and cookies.
The event is open 6 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 6, 7, 13 and 14.
Terri Ashby, the manager of the Sound Bank branch in Cedar Point and the mastermind behind the Cedar Point Festival of Lights, said the live nativity scene combined with the �hidden gem� of the Octagon House and the never disappointing and always beautiful lights lining N.C. 24 in Cedar Point make it a perfect place to have a festival of lights.
�I thought if we could get the businesses involved, this could be a really big thing,� Ashby said. The festival also aims to get homeowners invested in the town by lighting up their lawns for the festival so visitors can enjoy a display in the neighborhoods throughout town. Ashby said she hopes the festival will be the first of many to come, and that it will grow.
She said adding the treasure hunt is a way to drive people into the different businesses and let them see all that Cedar Point has to offer, especially because she said it is home to many unique shops.
�It�s going to be a really good event for families.�
The festival is a free event, but organizers are asking participants to bring non-perishable food items or a toy to donate, so the town can donate to Toys for Tots and a local food bank for the holidays. The donation is not required to participate.
Want to go?
The first Cedar Point Festival of Lights will be 5 to 9:30 p.m. Dec. 7 and Dec. 14.
Free public transportation, and maps of the festival and treasure hunt routes will be available at Cedar Point Town Hall at 427 Sherwood Ave.
For more information about the event, call Barbara Sandlin at 252-393-7898 or visit facebook.com/cedarpointfestivaloflights.
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Optical properties of the Antarctic system and new radiation information
The Antarctic system comprises of the continent itself, Antarctica, and the ocean surrounding it, the Southern Ocean. In a study for a doctoral degree by geophysicist Kai Rasmus, University of Helsinki, Finland, measurements were made during three Austral summers to study the optical properties of the Antarctic system and to produce radiation information for additional modeling studies.
The system has an important part in the global climate due to its size, its high latitude location and the negative radiation balance of its large ice sheets. Antarctica has also been in focus for several decades due to increased ultraviolet (UV) levels caused by stratospheric ozone depletion, and the disintegration of its ice shelves.
During the summer of 1997-1998, measurements of beam absorption and beam attenuation coefficients, and downwelling and upwelling irradiance were made in the Southern Ocean along a S-N transect at 6 degrees E. The attenuation of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) was calculated and used together with hydrographic measurements to show that the phytoplankton in the investigated areas of the Southern Ocean are not light limited.
Variabilities in the spectral and total albedo of snow were studied in the Queen Maud Land region during the summers of 1999-2000 and 2000-2001. The measurement areas were the vicinity of the South African research station SANAE 4, and a traverse near the Finnish research station Aboa. The mean spectral albedo levels at Aboa and SANAE 4 were very close to each other. The variations in the spectral albedos were due more to differences in ambient conditions than variations in snow properties.
A Monte-Carlo model was made to study the spectral albedo and to help in developing a novel nondestructive method to measure the diffuse attenuation coefficient of snow. The method was based on the decay of upwelling radiation moving horizontally away from a source of downwelling light. In the model, the attenuation coefficient obtained from the upwelling irradiance was higher than that obtained using vertical profiles of downwelling irradiance. The model results were compared to field measurements made on dry snow in Finnish Lapland and they correlated reasonably well.
Low-elevation (below 1000 m) blue-ice areas may experience substantial melt-freeze cycles due to absorbed solar radiation and the small heat conductivity in the ice. A two-dimensional (x-z) model was developed to simulate the formation and water circulation in the subsurface ponds. The model results show that for a physically reasonable parameter set the formation of liquid water within the ice can be reproduced. Vertical convection and a weak overturning circulation is generated stratifying the fluid and transporting warmer water downward, thereby causing additional melting at the base of the pond. In a 50-year integration, a global warming scenario mimicked by a decadal scale increase of 3 degrees per 100 years in air temperature, leads to a general increase in subsurface water volume.
Source: University of Helsinki
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Publications Tagged: handoff
- Added October 01, 1994
- Haiti Strategy: Control, Legitimacy, Sovereignty, Rule of Law, Handoffs, and Exit. Authored by Dr. Gabriel Marcella.
- Author argues that the United States work to achieve limited objectives after entering Haiti with military force. The strategy should emphasize humanitarian assistance rather the open-ended goal of the restoration of democracy. This is the best hope fro success and dignified exit.