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More than 50 youngsters will receive a Christmas thanks to an annual campaign by troopers with the N.C. Highway Patrol in Davidson County.
More than 50 youngsters will receive Christmas gifts thanks to an annual campaign by troopers with the N.C. Highway Patrol in Davidson County.
Troopers will take 54 children shopping Sunday as part of the 15th Annual Give a Kid a Christmas. The shopping spree will be Sunday morning at the Walmart in Lexington. The children have been identified by the Davidson County Department of Social Services, and troopers are also assisting children who have lost parent(s) in an auto accident this year in the county.
"We look forward to it every year in order to help out those who are in the community in need, especially the children during this time of the year," said Highway Patrol Sgt. C.D. Walter.
Walter plans on shopping for the children in his second consecutive year Sunday. He said troopers will purchase toys and the necessities for the children.
"It's mixed emotions," Walter said, referring to this past year's shopping trip. "It was humbling."
The shopping trip, Walter said, puts life in perspective. He explained children put the basic needs on their list, many of which are items people take for granted.
"In addition to toys, (children ask for) a pillow for bed, a rug for their floor because the floor is cold when they wake up," he said, adding one child has requested a lamp for their desk to do their schoolwork. "… I'm just amazed of what these kids actually put on their list."
Pam Kearns, the coordinator for the Highway Patrol's program to reach children at Christmas, said the program, after Sunday's shopping trip, will have purchased gifts for 576 children since its inception. She said the Highway Patrol purchased gifts for 43 youngsters in 2011, 31 in 2010 and 49 in 2009.
Donations to make the program happen have come from individuals and businesses. Kearns said 100 percent of the donations go to the children.
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Is it flattering to have people mistake you for Julian Assange? That's what happened to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, who confused UK border controls when they thought the Wikipedia man was notorious international man of mystery Assange.
The story comes from Wales himself, who's clearly quite flattered about it all. Arriving at UK immigration, Wales attempted to impress security by referring to himself as "the founder of Wikipedia" which, according to Wales, made the security lady literally drop her pencil in surprise.
"WikiLeaks!" she excitedly enquired.
"No, no, no. Different guy. Not wanted in Sweden" - said Jimmy.
And there ends his interesting anecdote about the time someone almost recognised him outside of his own world. [SMH via TechEye via Gizmodo UK]
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With Father's Day upon us, what a better way to celebrate than a cheers to our amazing Dads?
In honor of brewmaster Bill Behm's father-in-law, Etna Brewing Company put out Perry's Synopsis.
This is the first batch of the occasional brew that has enormous sentimental value. Also, it is outstanding.
This batch took almost two months to make, and according to Behm has been such a hit with
Pouring a rich mahogany hue, this full-bodied dark lager has a two-finger creamy caramel head.
Nutty malts and caramel aromas make sipping this brew a pleasure.
Lacing is rather intricate, lasting the brew's entirety.
According to Behm, Perry's Synopsis is everything his father-in-law loved in a beer and it serves as his tribute.
One intriguing attribute is that this full-bodied lager has a mere five percent ABV. It definitely tastes much higher.
Overall, this nutty brew is full of flavor, with rich dark malts and a perfectly smooth finish.
Beer O'meter (1-5): 4.7
ABV: 5 percent
Tastebuds: caramel, nuts and dark malts
ETna Brewery's Perry's Synopsis
With Father's Day upon us, what a better way to celebrate than a cheers to our amazing Dads?


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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
|2012-10-19, 17:21
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The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
Age: 32
Arghhh this is driving me nuts
Based in Africa I'm trying to consolidate and promote as many soldiers as possible but the AI is so damn annoying.
It was already annoying in normal where the AI had almost perfect accuracy and dodge and it's just multiplied two fold....
I was thinking of skipping beam weapons and try to go straight to plasma but now I'm having second thoughts....
|2012-10-19, 19:10
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I cleared the alien base with
Light Plasma (steal at least 4 of these from Thin Men). I completely ignored Beam/Laser tree
Carapace and Alien Grenade updates. You'll have to capture at least one live Muton to get Alien Grenade, but I think it's really optional.
I also had a sniper, but she was carrying a regular ballistic sniper. She was mostly for disabling Mutons.
and keep in mind there are about 3 waves of Chrysalids. 3 in the starting room. 3 in the containment room, and 3 more in the room where the base commander is.
As other's said, it's best to do it near the end of the month.
But don't wait for TOO long, otherwise Berserkers might spawn inside the alien base. And you do not want that. (don't wait for Titan armor)
I actually prefer light plasma to regular plasma until my team has enough ranked enough.
Light Plasma and inherent +10 to aim. Very useful. It also criticals for around 9 to 12 damage.
If you have one on an Assault Class it can frequently one hit kill a Chrysalid and point blank. Just remember that they travel in packs of 3.
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|2012-10-19, 23:55
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Location: 3 times the passion of normal flamenco
|2012-10-20, 03:23
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
Chrys/Bersekers IMO aren't really much of a threat, considering I don't have to worry about weapon fragments so I can use all my explosives on them if I don't have CCS Assault. Like in first terror mission, I found the floaters to be more dangerous as I just double rocket the chrys to the face.
So really, I find that doing alien base ASAP helps better in impossible because of the -2 panic on every country.... because really, the first few months are the hardest in impossible. Once you have satellite coverage up, abductions dont happen in that country anymore AFAIK (as my experience after covering everything with satellites are all UFO/terror/council missions, so need to worry about panic if you can win every one of them)
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Ignoring the base has its advantages as well e.g. no sectoid commanders in crash/landed UFO missions, they're definitely harder than outsiders.
And you can ignore mission related research as long as possible: not getting arc weapons or building a interrogation facility. This saves money early game and some time on certain researches as well.
I think you can skip beam weapons on lower difficulty or when you're save scumming but on higher difficulties and ironman beam weapons are nice to have and make difference for early/mid game.
On the other hand beam pistols can be skipped. ;P
The second one is also not a bug, it's possible for your troops to have LoS on aliens and shoot at them while the aliens doesn't see your troops. So the opposite can also happen.
The last two are really annoying bugs.
For example when I first beat classic ironman I didn't even bother researching a nexus, while a nexus saves space but it doesn't necessarily save you money so I sold most of my working nav computers for cheap cash ($75 per working nav computer) and you can always get it later after you have nothing better to research.
Starting location is also important: North American start gives you more cash but the continental bonus doesn't save you money (you only need one interceptor per continent) other hand Asia start saves you lots of money ($400 in terms of officer training upgrades, more for foundry upgrades) and with Africa you have a nice 30% more money per country bonus.
While it's possible to safe every country in classic mode, I wouldn't recommend doing that if you want to finish it for the first time. Make a list of seven countries you can drop due to a combination of giving low money or a continental bonus that doesn't make a huge difference and ignore those countries and let them walk out.
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|2012-10-20, 12:58
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Age: 32
At the same time, I get everybody into the air and this gives them a clear LOS as well as higher accuracy and before I even end my turn all or most of the aliens are dead or running.
But I'm seriously having issues with Classic.
Is it possible to do normal and then switch to classic when your ready? If I do that does that increase the number of aliens and such?
Or does anyone have a list of what to do to ensure you survive through Classic?
Like I picked Africa and then what should I do? What should I research? etc....
|2012-10-21, 00:29
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Africa is not a bad starting continent because you get a 30% funding increase every month
The thing you need to be careful about Classic is enemy spawn locations
if you walk into an alien spawn that triggers a cutscne, they will IMMEDIATELY get into cover.
And your poor scout will most likely be exposed and shot down the next alien turn
What you do is expand carefully. if they must come, let them come to you
if they come to you and it triggers a cutcene, they will immediately get into cover, but their turn will END right away.
They won't be attacking you the same turn.
The only exception to this rule are Chrysalids. Instead of going into cover, they will advance towards you.
|2012-10-21, 00:57
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I sometimes use Ghost Mode just for the increased Critical Hit Chance. Even closed Cyberdiscs , which are normally immune to Critical Hits can be dealt a 100% Critical Chance from cloak.
|2012-10-21, 01:05
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
Starting in Africa, then putting satellites in America, seem to be the way to maximise early earnings. But I still need to work on the math more.
|2012-10-21, 01:07
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 36
So I met my first Sectopod... and wow. Nobody died, but that one unit alone basically gave a groin-kicking to my entire squad. Multiple reaction-shots? Cover busting multi-laser? My assault can't close in without getting new chest holes, my support kinda scratches it only with their Plasma Guns, and I had to almost-suicide my Heavy with her Plasma Cannon to bring it down. Sniper couldn't get a good bead on it either because it was indoors.
So... what are the good tactics against it? Because I don't think I'll have the medkits to handle two...
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|2012-10-21, 01:26
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Logician and Romantic
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Within my mind
Age: 38
Use rockets, then have Assult charge in with Lightning Reflexes, Run&Gun, Killer Instinct AND Rapid Fire.
Rapid Fire is key. Two shots in one turn is worth it.
The truth is the Sectopod is the only enemy you had to spec your soldiers around. In fact the Heavy seem to be born purely as a Sectopod kiler.
|2012-10-21, 01:30
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That Assault Build is good against Sectopods I'll give you that, but normally I just rely on my Heavy's HEAT Ammo to deal with Sectopods. Also, I more often rely on my Snipers with Double Tap, and even if they aren't at that rank yet they still deal massive damage to them. Gotten so good at killing them that most Sectopods I see never live past me uncovering them.
|2012-10-21, 02:44
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Moderate Haruhiist
I think I've figured out why I keep on getting "permanent residents" in the Infirmary. I checked their HP counts, and instead of the usual value, they show two, like 4/7+armor HP bonus. I think it's because whenever I try to level a rookie on an advanced mission, I give them Titan Armor (+10 HP). However, when they're gravely wounded, and they're brought to the Infirmary, the armor is automatically taken off... this means that this would result in them getting negative HP when already there. So instead of "dying" they instead get stuck there.
|2012-10-21, 02:50
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That's a strange bug, though one I've never encountered before. I've had gravely wounded in the late game with Titan Armor and never once got that, even for levelling rookies.
|2012-10-21, 03:09
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For reference. Ui's been inside the Infirmary since the fourth MONTH of my playthrough. I've already survived almost one year in the project.
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Long Beach State senior pitcher Andrew Liebel, a graduate of Damien High School, saw his named called by the Toronto Blue Jays in the third round with the 95th pick. Liebel, a 6-foot-1, 195-pounder, doesn't have overpowering stuff, but was a consistent eight-inning starter for the Dirtbags according to the scouting report on mlb.com
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Equal-i-zer Hitch Awarded in TL Readers' Poll
December 7, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Equal-i-zer Hitch Awarded in TL Readers' Poll
The Original Equal-i-zer Sway Control Hitch garnered first place in Trailer Life magazine's 2012 Readers' Choice Award poll in the travel trailer hitch category.
According to a press release, the Equal-i-zer hitch has been "a leading sway control hitch in the RV industry for many years, and enjoys an extremely loyal customer base."
"Our recent surveys have shown that over 99% of Equal-i-zer users would recommend the hitch to their friends," said Progress Manufacturing Inc. CEO Jed Anderson. "Having these customers come forward in this independent survey is a great outside confirmation of that."
Progress Manufacturing's products have also been recognized as top choices by the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), Popular Mechanics magazine and Truck Trend magazine.
"Our goal has always been safe and happy customers," said Rich Elliott, director of sales for Progress Manufacturing. "A response like this from customers lets us know that we're accomplishing that goal."


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ShotSpotter System Coming To Atlantic City [AUDIO]
On Hurley In The Morning Wednesday morning on WPG Talk Radio 1450, Tom Gilbert of the Atlantic City Tourism District announced details on the ShotSpotter system coming to Atlantic City.
ShotSpotter sensors are being set-up across portions of Atlantic City in the near future that will assist police officials in locating where a gunshot is fired. According to their website, ShotSpotter Flex detects and locates gunfire incidents and gathers gunfire intelligence in its effort to improve the safety, security, and quality of life for area residents by ridding the city of gun crime and gun violence. ShotSpotter Flex is the only wide-area acoustic surveillance gunshot detection, alert, and analysis solution in the world. The system delivers critical data and actionable information that public safety and law enforcement agencies can use to respond to gunfire incidents faster and more safely.
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Watch Dogs gets delayed
Hopefully only disappointing in the short-term, Watch Dogs' delay is actually a triumph for clear thinking. From what we've played this is an exciting title: its invasion-based PvP mode alone is worth considering buying it for. But it was also a little lacking in ideas in the main game. Now launching in Q2 2014, well out of the way of the initial GTA 5 hype (if not, maybe, the next-gen versions), Ubisoft will have had plenty of time to correct any issues. If it's still disappointing then, well, you know who to blame.
Massively hyped for years before release, Gearbox (or whoever bloody made it) had a great opportunity on their hands. Instead, it soon became less focused on what made the film great (tension, fear, the feeling that your guns wouldn't save you) and more on Call of Duty-aping shoot-the-man/xenomorph nonsense.
Then there were the bugs, which comfortably outnumber those on LV-426, and the fact that the game looked nothing like the 'demo' with which it had been sold. A disastrous project, especially given the early promise.
Call of Duty Ghosts: a glimpse of the future?
Steve enjoyed his time with the multiplayer aspect of Ghosts, but there was no denying that this was one of the franchise's weakest entries for years. A terrible single-player campaign, graphical disparity between console versions, and a phoned-in (yet still fun) MP marked Ghosts out as the stop-gap we always thought it was.
With either Treyarch or Sledgehammer taking the reins this year, Call of Duty has to evolve or die. The trouble is, we're not quite sure how it even can evolve.
Beyond: Two Souls turns out to be a bad mov(i)e
It's safe to say that David Cage's latest foray into the world of Attempting To Tell A Story wasn't really our cup of tea. To put it lightly (Steve gave it 4/10). Heavy Rain was flawed, yet full of promise (James has it as one of his games of the generation) but Beyond fails to capitalise: a nonsensical script, terrible clichés and stereotypes, and strange, forced action sections spoil a game that, in its choices and their outcomes, had a seed of something very good. Shame. Still, the Cage hype train won't be derailed: he'll soon be back with a game even more 'revolutionary', no doubt.
Microsoft backtracks so much it reverses time
'TV TV TV'. Ah, the good old days of, erm, earlier this year, when Microsoft knew what it was selling and wasn't afraid of telling people. This was a revolutionary device: a voice-controlled, front room-hijacking, game-library lock-downing beast of a machine that threatened to make owning discs something that only stupid old bastards did.
Then, of course, everyone went mad. Out went the family sharing, library-locking, always-online restrictions and all the other gubbins, and in came good old discs. Which isn't really a disappointment, given that Microsoft could have used the Steam-style download system to hold players hostage. What is disappointing is that now both consoles are effectively the same. MS' future might have been a dystopian one, but it could well shown others what to do - and what not to do - next time around when these features are inevitably included.
DMC doesn't sell as well as hoped
Met with mixed reactions when first revealed, DmC went on to become one of the best hack and slash games of the year. Reinventing Dante against the superbly directed backdrop of a surveillance state gone mad (or normal, given recent developments), we gave it 8/10 and generally thought it was ace.
Despite its obvious qualities, the game fell below its sales projections. 1.2 million is respectable, of course. But we'd have loved it to sell much, much more to confirm Team Ninja's ongoing development of the series.
Sim City gets everything wrong
Where to begin? Botched launches, terrible PR, insistent devs saying it had to be played online when really it didn't, terrible AI, a smaller and less complex playing area and mechanics than the game that preceded it... we could go on. But we won't.
Needless to say, everything that could go wrong for EA and Maxis did go wrong, in the most spectacular way possible. It's in far better shape now, of course, but that doesn't really do it many favours. Sim City could have been one of 2013's best games. It ended up being a how-to manual of f***-uppery.
Ashes Cricket 2013 is the worst thing ever
We've seen a lot of strange decisions in our time, but rarely anything as outright bizarre as publisher 505 Games' handling of Ashes Cricket 2013. Delayed multiple times due to issues related to quality (it had none), it finally saw release on Steam in late November.
Why, we'll never know. Maybe someone at 505 had a bet with a rival firm as to who could release a game in the most unfinished state. At any rate Ashes 2013 turned out to be far, far worse than many could have imagined. But don't just take our word for it:


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Eva Mendes & Scarlett Johansson Show Their Spirit
Scarlett Johansson and Eva Mendes attend the launch party for their upcoming film The Spirit at London's Old Sorting Office Thursday night.
Scarlett, 23, plays femme fatale secretary Silken Floss, while Eva, 34, portrays Sand Saref, a love interest for The Spirit himself.
Written and directed by Frank Miller, the film is adapted from a classic Will Eisner comic and also stars Gabriel Macht as The Spirit and Samuel L. Jackson as his nemesis, The Octopus.
The Spirit is scheduled for release on December 25th.
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motivations of bsd licensing
perhaps i do not understand the bsd philosophy. i am actually an outsider commenting on a situation i don't understand.
if that is your true philosophy, then there is no room for any bitterness about adobe not making flash available on the bsd desktop in light of adobe's use of bsd code.
i am also not saying this to begin an argument, but to better understand your philosophy.
anyone care to chat about the philosophy behind bsd?
Last edited by uptonm; 25th July 2011 at 07:53 PM.
I will add in what I had in the post before it migrated here-
As far as goodwill is considered, I don't even think it's really that (as far as OBSD is concerned.) It's developed by developers that want to see a solidly coded OS. You want to use it, and not give anything back? That's fine, that's one of the big reasons for using a BSD license.
First rule of OBSD fight club- no one talks about the users.
Second rule of OBSD fight club- no one talks about the users.
Third rule of OBSD fight club- no one talks about the users.
When no one talks about the users, then the devs don't feel they're owed anything from them, nor do the devs feel they owe them anything. You, as a user, want something specific in OBSD? It's easy, become a developer, or pay one.
To get a better idea of "expectations", here's Theo's take on it.
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And to add, this philosophy (and a few others) are not shared completely amongst the three main BSD's. You may find a different take on the philosophies of different OS's (go figure!)
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One would think that Adobe would then make available their tools on a wide variety of platforms. In reality, they don't: they support Windows and OS X, with some support for Linux and less so for Solaris. BSD is out in the cold. We think that is wrong, since it is a much-used OS. Adobe just disagrees.
The situation is better for PDFs, since a detailed specification on the file format is available, and viewers based on Poppler are getting much better.
The basic gist of it is, "We're developing this for ourselves, you can use it under our terms, but don't come crying if it causes a nuclear meltdown."
Companies can use it for proprietary reasons, but they have to include the licence in documentation.. quite a few proprietary companies stay around, or hire someone to monitor the situation, typically they'll contribute back.. but it's not a requirement.
The Regents of the University of California are mentioned in the eula for flashplayer. Dunno that it means a bsd os but looks like bsd code. i dunno.
and i suppose in light of referring to the fight club rules, and understanding further the nature of the relationship of openbsd with its users in the link provided by ai-danno, my comment on bitterness in the users is further irrelevant i suppose. from what i gather the nature of the bsd community is vastly different from the gnu community. cool.
thats partly what i was trying to understand.
Last edited by uptonm; 25th July 2011 at 08:11 PM.
You may know that all of the BSD operating systems originate from the original UC Berkeley code, and since they do so, they have to include the Berkeley license. That's the deal.
thanks for the clarifications. i suppose i understand better now. after all is said and done, i suppose its not what the developers are seeking, but i want to say "thank you" to them, (if any are present here) and i really am grateful for being able to use their code to run my pc. i will purchase an openbsd cd soon as i can. i understand now i think the nature and philosophy of bsd.
develop a quality os for yourself. share with others because you want the code out there, limit time consuming support or endless feature requests from people who do not in the end have the right to these things since you're not here to please them, just to share what you've done.
like building a magnificent piece of work and sharing it because its easily duplicated at little or no cost to you. that's a good thing.
i can fully understand, appreciate and agree with that. again, thanks. it is a wonderful thing to use code of this quality with nothing expected in return.
For me, the whole idea of "Enforcing Freedoms" makes no sense. If you are enforcing something, you are removing freedoms.
If you want your code to be free, then dump it in the public domain. You cannot get free-er than that. BSD simply adds "don't patent this, don't sue me", which are reasonable restrictions.
Another philosophy behind BSD is 're-authoring code for any reason (apart from code quality, performance etc.) is a criminal waste of resources.' The BSD licence (often called "copycenter", as in "take it down to the copy center and do what you like with it.") ensures that anyone can use BSD code, and if BSD has done it, you do not need to re-do it. GPL restrictions mean that the code often has to be re-written for legal reasons. I think that is unfortunate.
Personally, I think that restricting use of code to other open-source projects is not a reasonable restriction, and largely negates the benefits of releasing source. But that is just me.
The only dumb question is a question not asked.
The only dumb answer is an answer not given.
I think that it really depends on the creator of the code, and what they want to do with it that determines the license that is used. If the creator of the code doesn't want to share it, that is there prerogative. If the creator places it under GPL, that is there choice - don't complain about it, if you don't like that choice don't use their code. Same goes to those who license under BSD who get flak from the GPL folks (more on this below).
Some people code solely to get paid - there is nothing wrong with that, they are entitled to renumeration for their work. Some code solely to contribute to a project, it is almost (or in fact is) a hobby for them. Some want to contribute to FOSS, but are faced with the hard facts that they have to eat, too. I think the best solution to this is a dual license, like what Apache (and many others) do. Their attitude is that if you are using this for some free application, go ahead and use it - but, if you are making money off of my work, I want a piece of the action.
The biggest complaint I have heard from the GPL crowd against the BSD license is the so called 'advertising clause'. It reads in the license:
3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
The biggest complaint is that the clause requires the printing of names, and a full-fledge product - say a Linux distro or office suite - would need a full page ad to print them all. I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice - but the way I read the clause, it only applies when the code is mentioned. For example, say their was a BSD licensed program that gave IPv6 functionality (call it sixip - a new Linux distro named Xunil has incorporated that program into their code base and wants to advertise in the Distro Daily newspaper. If they simply say - "Xunil - Linux for you", with a nice picture - there is no need of printing the advertising clause. But, if the add said - "Xunil, now with sixip", or "Xunil - Linux for you" and in the list of features it lists IPv6 - then the advertising clause would take effect.
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
Berkeley retroactively removed that clause from the BSD code base, and NetBSD has also started removing those terms.
OpenBSD uses a slightly less verbose licence, updated to reflect some benefits of the Berne Convention:
/* * Copyright (c) CCYY YOUR NAME HERE <firstname.lastname@example.com> * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. * * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES * WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR * ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES * WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN * ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. */
Last edited by BSDfan666; 31st July 2008 at 05:10 PM.
NetBSD Licensing and Redistribution
They took out both the advertising clause and the endorsement clause. Is it just me, or do those two clause seem to contradict each other - you must put our names in advertising, but you can't do that without our say so.
Personally, I don't need the fame - my name in the code is more than enough for me (even if I go dual license). I am fine with the current NetBSD license, though the endorsement clause would be good to prevent others from putting words in your mouth or having your name favorably attached to something you are against.
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
I don't lie..
Last edited by BSDfan666; 31st July 2008 at 05:25 PM.
GNU GPL'd people still have the "lesser" LGPL license available.
In essence, when a GNU-GPLd developer wants his code to be widely used, it will be made available under LGPL.
There is money to be made on support and development for FLOSS.
Same money on GPL2 "and above" (sic terms used nowadays), but you never know when a law firm will ground a grey unmarked helicopter with a bunch of men in black in your backyard.
Chances are that, when you develop code and provide it under ISC license (a k a "BSD two-term copyright") your code already has been discussed and improved on one of the many mailing lists, hence, have made your contribution to open source before even publishing the code.
Makes GPL2 look funny at best.
da more I know I know I know nuttin'
In other words, the GPL seeks freedom for final users and developers, and achieves it with a greater success than the BSD license. Furthermore, most open source / free software developers prefer it (just count the successful projects). I think it has something to do with nobody else making a profit from your hard work, and I understand it.
Last edited by ocicat; 1st August 2008 at 08:38 AM.
Even if nobody policed licenses, that doesn't mean you should give away your code if you don't really want to, or take another people's code without permission.
And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity."
MacBook Pro (Darwin 9), iMac (Darwin 9), iPod Touch (Darwin 9), Dell Optiplex GX620 (FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE)
What exactly are the differences between GPLv2 and GPLv3? And why won't projects like FreeBSD include GPLv3 code? I can't find any human-readable explanation, and personally I think it's easier to translate the complete works of Shakespeare to Chines than translate this lawyer talk to English.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
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OVERLAND PARK, KS — Many health clubs nationwide are experiencing lower membership numbers and reduced annual revenues because of the slow economy. This has led some club operators to reduce insurance coverage to cut costs.
Club owners shouldn't cut corners when it comes to property insurance coverage, insurance companies say.
Some people may think that the value of real estate has decreased so they can reduce the value of their buildings and save, but Gary Klein, assistant vice president of underwriting for West Bend Mutual Insurance, West Bend, WI, cautions against this.
"There's a difference between market value and replacement cost," he says. "The cost to replace that same building is pretty much the same today as it was two years ago."
In fact, he says the cost to replace a building might be even higher today than in the past due to a reduced workforce in the construction market.
Jennifer Urmston Lowe, national account and IHRSA program manager for Sports & Fitness Insurance Corp., Lexington, SC, agrees, saying that in this economy, business owners would have a difficult time rebuilding and/or replacing property in the event of a loss if they decreased the value of their building.
Lowe encourages club owners to keep their property insurance coverage the same or increase it slightly, but she also encourages them to search around for the best base rate and to ask their agents about ways to reduce their premiums.
Insurance rates had been decreasing over the last few years, Klein says. Now, he sees rates stabilizing.
Klein says that the health club industry has suffered less during the recession than some of the other industries for which his company provides coverage, so he hasn't seen a lot of club owners cutting coverage to save money.
However, some operators have had a decrease in revenue and/or membership, and that actually can mean reduced rates. Many general liability and professional liability policies are based either on revenue or on memberships. Reporting decreases in either would help lower premiums, he says.
However, some policies are based on square footage. Club owners with a lot of members in a small amount of space may want to ask for a liability policy based on square footage, says Robert Kuchefski, president of www.insureyourclub.com and senior executive broker for Hoffman Insurance, Wellesley, MA.
Club operators should read the declarations page on their policy to see which way their coverage was determined.
In addition, workman's compensation insurance premiums are based on actual payroll, so if a club owner's payroll is down due to slower business, then the worker comp premiums should decrease as well unless they have experienced significant claims activity, Lowe says.
Club owners also can reduce their insurance rates by increasing their deductible, although Klein says a deductible increase does not reduce rates significantly. When George Gagnon, owner of Greer Athletic Club, Greer, SC, renewed his club's policies last June, he increased the deductible from $500 to $1,000 and reported his drop in monthly membership revenue, which decreased his liability insurance premium by 10 percent to 15 percent.
Gagnon estimates he spends about $6,000 annually on liability and property insurance and a few thousand dollars more on workers compensation for his 12,500-square-foot club. He encourages club operators to stay in touch with their insurance agents to make sure they receive all available discounts and to shop around.
"Insurance is a significant expense," Gagnon says. "I think that if you don't actively pursue trying to find the best rate for your club, you can easily pay more than you should be."
To save money without sacrificing coverage, club owners can protect themselves against potential accidents and claims through risk management, says Lin Conrad, executive director of California Clubs of Distinction, an El Sobrante, CA-based trade association for 180 California health clubs.
Jim Foley, insurance agent and vice president with InterWest Insurance Services, Chico, CA, agrees that club owners need to have well-thought-out risk management programs. He advises club owners to cut insurance costs by complying with laws and regulations, having well-written waivers and keeping on top of claims.
In addition, Foley advises operators to work with insurance companies that are familiar with the fitness industry and are knowledgeable about the activities and amenities of their particular facility.
Many club owners may carry a lot of coverage that they think they may not need, Foley says, but facilities need broad coverage.
"They may not feel they need it until something bad happens, and it's hard to know where the bullet may be coming from," Foley says.


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"This is not a contest. It's about finding good drivers and keeping them on the road." –Steve Clough, president of Arrow Truck Sales, discussing the company's "Back On The Road" campaign at the 2011 Mid America Trucking Show
It's an annual event filled with emotion, the Back On The Road campaign (often referred to by its acronym BOTR in trucking circles) created by national used truck dealership chain Arrow Truck Sales. Indeed, there's usually not a dry eye to be found when the winner gets announced – and I'll admit that includes me as well.
[Just watch the story of this year's winner, David Acosta, below. If he's not a deserving winner, I don't know who could be.]
Now in its fourth year, BOTR rewards a down-on-their-luck professional truck driver with a used but extremely sharp Volvo VN highway tractor from Arrow and a one-year work agreement with truckload carrier Heartland Express (among MANY other goodies). By the way, you can view a gallery of photos from this year's BOTR event by clicking here.
Now, sure, BOTR is above all a feel good event, for who doesn't like to see a truck driver going through some really hard times catch what could be the break of a lifetime?
[Acosta made an extremely heartfelt speech after being named the 2011 BOTR winner.]
Yet it's so much more than that, Steve Clough, Arrow's president, pointed out to me as we chatted for a few minutes ahead of the event this March at Mid America. In fact, Clough stressed to me that I should really think of BOTR winner more from an "investment" perspective rather than as someone who got lucky for a day.
"We're not just throwing a key [to a truck] at you. We want to make this career work for the driver for the long haul," he explained to me. "Trucking is first and foremost a business. These men and women love driving, but when they are not behind the wheel, they've got to do paperwork and pay bills. So we look at providing them with what we call a full 'life package,' not just a truck."
[Here are some more thoughts from Clough.]
Yet that's only one part of Arrow's "investment" perspective, he said. "The thought is, maybe in five years after this initial help, they've done well enough to buy a few more trucks and hire some hard working drivers like themselves. That's the real significance of the program, and our sponsors understand that," Clough stressed to me. "And that's why I really love this [BOTR] program and why it's one of the best things we do."
[You can click on the audio file below and listen to trucking radio personality Eric Harley interview the David Acosta. It's well worth a listen.]


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Conservation, study of the loss of Earth's biological diversity and the ways this loss can be prevented. Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is the variety of life either in a particular place or on the entire Earth, including its ecosystems, species, populations, and genes. Conservation thus seeks to protect life's variety at all levels of biological organization.
Species extinction is the most obvious aspect of the loss of biodiversity. For example, species form the bulk of the examples in a comprehensive assessment of the state of the planet published in the early 21st century by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, an international effort coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme. The subject of conservation is broader than this, however. Even a species that survives extinction can lose much of its genetic diversity as local, genetically distinct populations are lost from most of the species' original range. Furthermore, ecosystems may shrink dramatically in area and lose many of their functions, even if their constituent species manage to survive. Conservation is involved with studying all these kinds of losses, understanding the factors responsible for them, developing techniques to prevent losses, and, whenever possible, restoring biodiversity.
Conservation is a crisis discipline, one demanded by the unusual rates of loss; it is also a mission-driven one. By analogy, ecology and conservation have the same relationship as physiology and medicine. Human physiology studies the workings of the human body, whereas medicine is mission-oriented and aims to understand what goes wrong and how to treat it. The major parts of this article thus deal first with the "pathology" of extinction—why and how biodiversity is lost—and second with the "treatment" methods to prevent these losses.
Conservation is often considered a purely biological topic, as exemplified by major scientific journals with titles such as Conservation Biology and Animal Conservation as well as college textbooks with such titles as Principles of Conservation Biology and Essentials of Conservation Biology. However, because the underlying cause of the loss of biodiversity is increasing human activity, conservation must inevitably involve human interactions. Many of the techniques to prevent the loss of biodiversity involve issues of economics, law, social sciences, and religion—all of which are covered by the journals and textbooks cited above.
The "pathology" section of this article begins by documenting the losses of species. In doing so, it shows that a set of common factors are responsible; these are then individually identified and discussed. The final part of the section demonstrates that some species and ecosystems are much more likely to lose biodiversity than others. The other main division, the "treatment" section, considers a variety of "therapies" that address the problems identified in the first section.
The movement for the protection of forests and wildlife is strong in India. A number of species, including the elephant, rhinoceros, and tiger, have been declared endangered, and numerous others—both large and small—are considered vulnerable or at risk. Legislative measures have declared certain animals…
The pathology of extinction
Rates of natural and present-day species extinction
According to the best estimates of the world's environmental experts, human activities have driven species to extinction at rates perhaps 1,000 times the natural, or background, rate, and future rates of extinction will likely be higher. To show how the experts arrived at these conclusions, it is necessary to pose and attempt to answer a series of extremely difficult questions. How many species are there? How fast were species disappearing before human activity became pervasive? How fast are they becoming extinct at present? And finally, it is necessary to ask a further question: What does the future hold for extinctions if current trends continue?
|number of living species
|number of extinctions per indicated time period (in years)
|extinctions per million species per year
|Recent extinctions
|*Predictions of future extinctions for all species, as published by various authors since about 1980, range between 1,000 and 10,000 extinctions per million species per year.
|Principal source: S.L. Pimm et al., "The Future of Biodiversity," Science 269:347–350 (1995).
|birds (described 1800–99)
|frogs and toads
|freshwater clams
|Future extinctions*
|frogs and toads
|freshwater clams
How many species are there?
Any absolute estimate of extinction rate, such as extinctions per year, requires knowledge of how many species there are. Unfortunately, this number is not known with any great degree of certainty, and the problems of estimating it are formidable. Taxonomists have described—that is, have given names to—about 1.9 million species. Only about 100,000 of them, comprising terrestrial vertebrates, some flowering plants, and attractive and collectible invertebrates such as butterflies and snails, are popular enough for taxonomists to know well. Birds are exceptionally well-known—there are roughly 10,000 bird species, with only one or two new species being added each year.
Those who describe species cannot always be certain that the specimen in hand has not been given a name by someone else in a different country and sometimes even in a different century. Consequently, some taxonomic groups may have more names assigned to them than constituent species, which would result in erroneously high species estimates. Potentially much more serious as a source of error is the fact that some species groups have relatively few named members compared with the numbers that experts think exist in those groups. For example, taxonomists have only sparsely sampled some potentially rich communities, such as the bottom of the deep ocean and the canopies of rainforests.
One estimate of how many species might still be undescribed involves a comparison of fungi and flowering plants (angiosperms). In Great Britain, where both groups are well-known, there are six times as many named species of fungi as of flowering plants. If this ratio applies worldwide, the world total of about 300,000 species of flowering plants, which are fairly well-known globally, predicts a total of about 1.8 million species of fungi, which are not. Because only about 70,000 species of fungi currently have names, the prediction would suggest that these named species constitute only 1/25of the species that exist. On the other hand, samples from poorly known parts of the world suggest that the named species constitute a much larger fraction. Although this estimate of the number of species of fungi is almost certainly too high, it nonetheless suggests that there are large numbers of unknown species.
For insects, there are about 1 million described species, yet estimates of how many insect species exist range from 10 to 100 times this number. As an example of how part of one such estimate was made, an entomologist collected a large sample of canopy-dwelling beetles from one species of tropical tree. The tree species had 163 beetle species specific to it. There are about 50,000 tree species in the world's tropical forests, so simple multiplication predicts roughly 8 million species of tropical forest-canopy beetles. Since 40 percent of described insects are beetles, the total number of tropical forest-canopy insects could be 20 million. Adding half that number for insect species found on the ground beneath the trees gives an estimated grand total of 30 million species of tropical forest insects alone.
This example is critically dependent on the first number—the 163 species found only on the one species of tree. In addition, other calculations suggest that this estimate is too high. The number of insect species in tropical forests is more likely to be between 7 and 15 million, which, however, still means that most of Earth's species would be tropical forest insects. Given the considerable uncertainties, many scientists consider that the total of all species is very roughly 10 million, a number that likely translates to "somewhere between 5 and 20 million with arguments for numbers both lower and higher."
An obvious concern follows regarding the usefulness of such calculations as a basis for assessing the loss of species. Any absolute estimate of species extinctions must be extrapolated from the 100,000 well-known species of living plants and animals, to the roughly 1.5 million described species, to the likely grand total of very roughly 10 million. Because of uncertainties about the total number of living species, published statements regarding the total number of species that become extinct per year or per day can vary a hundredfold.
Another approach to assessing species loss is to derive relative estimates—estimates of the proportion of well-known species that become extinct in a given interval. Estimating such proportions is the basis for the remainder of the discussion on rates of extinction, but it raises a critical concern of its own—namely, are these proportions actually typical of the great majority of species that are still undescribed? They are likely to be so if extinction rates in widely different species groups and regions turn out to be broadly similar.
There also is another way in which estimates of extinctions can be made relative. Extinctions have always been a part of Earth's history. It is possible to make any estimates of massive future extinction relative to that history.


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We have a Tynemouth group meeting every Tuesday at Tynemouth Golf Club, King Edward Rd from 7:15-9am for the main purpose of picking up new contacts, introductions and business.
Why not have a visit and see if Network B2B Tynemouth is for you?
There is a £10 visiting fee payable to the venue to cover room hire, breakfast, etc.


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US schools struggle with mental health screening
MIAMI (AP) — School officials around the U.S. are searching for the best way to offer mental health services in an underfunded system.
"We have (schools) screening for all kinds of rare infectious diseases, and then we don't screen for common behavioral disorders that are costly to the individual, the family and society," said Mike Dennis, of Chestnut Health Systems. He teaches clinicians in 49 states how to assess and treat patients with mental illness and substance abuse.
The U.S. Surgeon General reports that 10 percent of children and adolescents suffer from serious emotional and mental disorders that significantly affect their daily lives.
A decade ago, federal health officials recommended universal mental health screenings for students, but it's still not required. An Associated Press review of policies around the nation shows screenings vary widely. There's no consistency on whether the schools screen, at what age they screen and what they screen for.
The federal government does not keep track of school mental health screening, so it's all but impossible to say how many schools offer it. The offerings vary from intensive services to virtually none at all.
"No state is providing high-end services in all of their schools," said Sharon Stephan, co-director of the Center for School Mental Health, a national organization that provides training for schools and mental health providers.
Mental health issues typically start during adolescence, but many people are not diagnosed until later in life when they don't have access to services because they don't have health insurance or their insurance doesn't cover it.
However, offering mental health screening in schools can raise other complex issues. Some warn that mass screenings will over-diagnose students and stigmatize them with a life-long label.
Some say mass screenings could uncover mental health problems that schools lack resources to treat.
"Once we screen and assess and discover the need, I think it's our responsibility to have the resources in place to service every one of those needs that are uncovered," said Denise Wheatley-Rowe, of Behavioral Health System Baltimore.
The organization developed a system that has gained national recognition using a team of school officials and community mental health experts to target students most in need. The program helps nearly 7,000 children a year.
The team identifies children who may need help based on factors like whether they have a parent in prison or who struggles with substance abuse. It also scans data for those struggling academically and behaviorally, including those with high truancy or suspension rates, and then offers individual counseling or family therapy based on the student's need.
Researcher Rhonda Shafner contributed to this report from New York.


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Petite Pumpkin Spice Donuts
Muffins, please accept our apologies in advance.
We did something bad.
You're going to hate us. You're going to rue the day you stumbled upon this little corner of the blogging universe. Rue the day cupcakes!
So we're going to try to make this a little easier on you. Because we love and adore you little darlings and don't want you to hate us forever and ever.
First, go put on your comfy pants. Yes those ones.
The ones that your boyfriend/husband/girlfriend/wife/sister/brother/mailman hate, but you love because they allow you to eat cookies/cupcakes/scones/muffins/DONUTS without that terrible tightening waist band feeling.
You've got them on? K good.
Second, make these pumpkin spice donuts. We made them extra teeny tiny so you wouldn't feel bad when you have more than one. Or like...eight.
We know, we're sorry. Bad. Bad bakers.
And by bad we of course mean shut the front door good.
Glad you have those pants on now huh?
Petite Pumpkin Spice Donuts
Makes 24 mini donuts
For Donuts:
1 3/4 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/8 teaspoons ground cloves
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup milk
For Coating:
1/2 cup butter, melted
2/3 cup sugar
1-2 tablespoons cinnamon (more if you're a cinnamon lover)
Preheat oven 350 F. Butter a mini donut pan and set aside.
In a bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and spices together and set aside.
In a large bowl (or the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment) whisk together oil, brown sugar, egg, vanilla, pumpkin and milk until combined. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the mixture and stir until just combined, careful not to over mix.
Using a pastry bag or a steady hand and a spoon, fill each donut cup with the batter. The donut cups should be fairly full, but not overflowing. Bake for 8-9 minutes, until donuts spring back when gently pressed (if you're using a larger donut pan, allow them to bake for 12-15 minutes). Turn donuts out onto a wire rack and allow to cool for a few minutes.
While the donuts are cooling, melt butter in one bowl and combine the sugar and cinnamon in another. When donuts are still hot (but not too hot to touch), quickly dip each donut in melted butter, then coat in the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Serve immediately.
*Note: If you're not going to serve the donuts immediately, you can bake them up to a day in advance and store them in an airtight container. Do not coat them in the butter/cinnamon-sugar mixture until just before serving or they may get soggy.
You can also adapt this recipe for mini muffins. Just bake muffins for 10-12 minutes then follow the same procedure for coating.


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It seems the NDP is between a rock and a hard place. While I don't feel so much for Jack Layton who helped to put Harper in office in the first place, I do have some sympathy for many NDP supporters who's hearts are often in the right place. So let me just give 10 sincere reasons why it's not in the NDP's interest OR Canada's interest for the NDP to be propping up the Harper government. I hope they are taking these things into consideration before making up their mind.
1) You prop up Harper now, he will pull the plug on himself right after the Olympics with a poll-tested budget with a poison pill or two (elimination of public financing perhaps) anyways. Don't believe me? Harper's strategists let that cat out of the bag months ago, and when Con House Leader Jay Hill's newsletter says: "History has demonstrated that voters are less likely to vote for change and against an incumbent government when feeling patriotic and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics in February will undoubtedly inflame a greater sense of patriotism and excitement across the country", you can rest assured they will do all they can to ensure that's when they get their election. Do you really want to go at the preferred time of the guy you voted against 79 times?
2) A six month reprieve is hardly much new time to fundraise and if opposing the Harper government constantly for almost 4 years didn't bring in new money, you really think propping up this guy your supporters hate will?
3) Playing into Harper's hands increases the risk your party will be killed by the end of public financing. The Liberals have shown they can survive without public financing. Your party clearly can't. If Harper wins the next election, public financing is gone. He'd rather go in March than now. The Liberals could still likely win then too, but why would you help Harper's chances even in the slightest when you know him winning would be the end of your party?
4) You've said yourself again and again, Harper can't be trusted. You will get nothing from him in return for your support he wasn't going to do anyway, because you know even moving an inch towards your real stated priorities would be toxic to his base. If he did give you something that looked like a past NDP priority, it's pretty likely it would die on the order paper when he pulls the plug in March. What would you run on then? "We tried to get results for people, but Stephen Harper fooled us and gave us nothing for the support we gave him." Not really a winner I'd say.
5) Copenhagen. The environment has been a major issue for the NDP for years now. Propping up Stephen Harper means HE will be OUR representative at the most important Climate Change Conference in history this December in Copenhagen. Michael Ignatieff has pledged his support for a REAL cap-and-trade system with absolute caps and a 1990 baseline for emissions targets. He will propose more of what I'm sure the NDP would agree with in the campaign. Isn't it obvious, Ignatieff would bring to Denmark a position that's much more in line with the interests of Canada, not to mention your party as well? The main obstructionists at Bali were Japan, the U.S. and Canada. The U.S. and Japan now take climate change seriously, so that leaves just one hold-out left. One can be enough to significantly undermine whatever consensus based agreement comes out of the conference. Wouldn't the NDP want to see Copenhagen succeed?
6) Putting Your BC Seats at risk. You know all those seats you hold in B.C. where the Conservatives have traditionally finished second? Well just where might Harper's Conservatives' see its greatest boost in support in a post-Olympics election?
7) You throw away your entire message of the last 4 years. So you were the "only party that can truly be counted on to oppose Stephen Harper" and now your message would be "we opposed Stephen Harper until that would actually have consequences and then we folded like a cheap suit". Not sure that would sell. You think after you called Liberals supporting a Conservative budget a "Liberal-Conservative coalition" (which it wasn't) wouldn't make it difficult for you to explain how you haven't just formed a "NDP-Conservative coalition"? Well I don't envy who would ever be left to do the explaining.
8) It doesn't pass the smell test for you to claim now all of a sudden you want to "make Parliament work." You've been voting constantly for new elections for the past 4 years. You think the public has that short of memories or that Stephen Harper won't mock you for it at every turn?
9) The proposed Con EI Reforms are nowhere near what you claimed would be essential needed EI Reforms. As Jeff and Steve note, they do not address eligibility, regional differences or access, and it's very hard to square why would you support these but so vehemently opposed the Conservative budget. You would take EI off the able entirely with a proposal that's nowhere near as comprehensive it should be and doesn't truly help the people you said you were fighting for. That's not the results for people you've been promising. By supporting these reforms WITHOUT asking for SIGNIFICANTLY MORE beyond them, you surrender all credibility on an issue you've fought on for years.
10) You know the only way to get real "results for people" is with a Liberal government. Facts are facts, Jack Layton has more in common with Michael Ignatieff in his views that he does Stephen Harper. You will NOT get a coalition with the Liberals, but at least you could have a government who actually listens to all parties and won't reject a good idea just because it came from a party who Stephen Harper's base calls "crazy socialists". On education, health care, the environment and foreign policy, the NDP can find far more common ground with Liberals than Conservatives.
So you want to actually make a real difference in the lives of Canadians? Let's help give Canadians the government they deserve now. You may worry about losing seats now, but you'd be likely to lose more in March, at least now you can hold on to your credibility and still have a good expectation of influencing policy with a Liberal minority government (something that really boosted your profile the last time).
The NDP deludes itself if they think they'd ever have any clout with a Conservative government.
I and so many others have already stated why it is in Canada's interests to have an election. I know in their heart of hearts, many NDP supporters agree with those same reasons. It's narrow considerations that are getting in the way - the party is broke, Jack Layton wants to keep his leadership position awhile longer, Tom Mulcair wants to keep his seat awhile longer, maybe some others want to save their pensions.
Well that's not good enough for Canadians and I would hope that's not good enough for the grassroots of the NDP either.
Now NDP supporters could flood this post with comments talking about how Liberals were propping up the Conservatives in the past (which I've said before was justifiable) as if that somehow absolves the NDP, but really how does that discussion help us forward?
Let's focus on the future now before any decisions are made: what is in the best long-term interests of your party and your country NDP?
Here's hoping they come to realize that theirs and the country's interests lie with ending Stephen Harper's reign in power now.
UPDATE 10:55 PM: If there was ever any doubt that Harper doesn't intend to embarrass the NDP with each new confidence measure, the actual wording of Friday's Ways and Means Motion should make his intentions pretty clear. You still think you can trust this man NDP? This is your ticket to filling your coffers? To vote for things you've given fiery speeches opposing before? Well get ready, Stephen Harper is just getting started with you.
UPDATE 2 Sept. 15 @ 1:45 PM: "the NDP says an email sent last week to Mr. Giorno by NDP Leader Jack Layton's chief of staff, Anne McGrath, has so far been ignored.
'It is telling. It is their modus operandi,' NDP spokesman Karl Belanger said. 'They don't want to work with other parties and they're trying to minimize the contact with other parties. That's been the case with the Prime Minister and his team since they got into power.' "
But yet seems like you will be supporting them anyway. I'm guessing at this point, Harper could come out and say "I will not speak to the NDP and I will offer them no concessions" and it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
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|Lessons Learned from Register Grievance Cases
By Kay Simpson (Grievance Coordinator 2009-2011)
A look at selected reported allegations of Registrant misconduct provides lessons learned from the Register of Professional Archaeologist (the Register) grievance process. In all cases, the names of the accused and the accusers have been withheld and details tweaked, but the specifics of the complaints are maintained. The Grievance Coordinator (GC) and GC-elect (the person who becomes the next GC) often work as a team to investigate initial inquiries. In cases where a lack of evidence or lack of the means to substantiate the allegations is found, no further action is taken at the discretion of the GC. However, in other circumstances, the appointment of a formal Grievance Committee to investigate the case more fully is justified. The GC may reach out to other professionals when a case is outside their regional or technical expertise.
Purchasing, Appraising, and Analyzing Archaeological Collections
A question came from a Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA) museum employee: is it unethical to obtain through purchase a privately owned archaeological collection, and for the purposes of said acquisition should the museum archaeologist provide a monetary appraisal of the collection so that the owner has a value for a deductible donation? The collection was not originally excavated for commercial purposes and the site is on private land.
5.2 Authentication and Valuation (Appraisal)
In terms of appraisal of collections, it was recommended that the owners of the collection get their own independent appraisal to satisfy IRS requirements. The Society for American Archaeology Code of Ethics states that members should refrain from activities that enhance the value of undocumented antiquities.
Giving Proper Credit for Another Person's Work
A complaint was lodged about a university professor (Professor) who proposed to re-excavate an archaeological site that had been explored decades ago by another archaeologist (Archaeologist). A third party alleged that the Professor's work did not give proper credit to the Archaeologist and that the Professor, in a grant application for further funding to explore the site, misrepresented the Archaeologist's conclusions, especially the need for further work. The grievance was filed as a charge of falsification and plagiarism of the work of the Archaeologist and the request for additional funding for work at a site already "fully" excavated was a case of "research misconduct." The grant had been approved, research conducted, and a book written by the Professor. Therefore the claim concerned events after the fact.
Complaints about Non-RPA Registrants
The GC received a complaint concerning alleged unethical practices of an anthropology student. This complaint was summarily dismissed because it was submitted by a coalition of unnamed fellow students purporting to represent their university department. The accused student was not an RPA. The Register only deals with violations under its jurisdiction, i.e., a registered archaeologist. The GC informed the university department about the event.
Listing Yourself as an RPA When You Are Not
More and more employers and proposals are listing Registration as a Professional Archaeologist as a requirement for archaeologist labor classifications. Several instances have been brought to the attention of the GC where an archaeologist is using "RPA" after his/her name on reports, CVs, websites, or on other documents and where the individual is not an RPA. Registration is an application process and must be maintained—or it is forfeited. It is fraudulent to put "RPA" after your name if you either have not formally been registered by RPA or if you have let your registration lapse for non-payment of fees. If a person or firm lists RPA beside a name and that person's registration has lapsed (as verified by the Register), then a charge of falsification can be made. Failure to pay registration fees is considered to be "voluntary termination" under the RPA Bylaws.
Use Your Correct Title on Reports, CVs, and Other Documents
Employers have pursued claims through the GC process to force former employees to update their professional affiliation in the Directory. When changing employment status, double check that your company affiliation has been updated with the Register as well as with other professional organizations.
False Professional Association Accusations
A person filed a grievance against an RPA for consorting with alleged treasure hunters. Internet searches confirmed that the RPA was listed as a member of a marine salvage expedition. When contacted for an explanation, the RPA was flabbergasted to discover their name on the treasure hunter's website. Additional investigation revealed the expedition company had appropriated the archaeologist's information from an inquiry made long ago to join their team, which was firmly declined. The RPA confronted the company and the offending link to their name removed.
My Professor Belittles Me
A grievance was made by a student that their advisor was cruel, yelled, and constantly belittled their work. The student asked: isn't this a violation of the Code of Conduct's requirement to communicate and cooperate with colleagues?
Agency Giving Report to Outsider for Review
An RPA asked the GC if a case could be filed against an agency archaeologist for giving his technical report to another consultant firm to conduct a peer review of the report. The other firm was a bidding rival of his firm and therefore this was felt to be unethical.
Can They Fire Me?
A grievance came to a GC from a person who said he was promised continuous employment from a large cultural resource management firm, but they subsequently terminated him. The Register cannot adjudicate an employer-employee dispute. If someone feels they have been unfairly dismissed from employment, they must contact the human resources department of the institution or firm and/or their state employment commission. Most soft money positions are contingent upon contract/grant awards and renewals that are not always visible to an employee. Moreover, most private companies are covered under at-will employment provisions. Wrongful termination suits would only come under the provenience of the Register if investigations revealed a pattern of professional misconduct under the RPA Code of Conduct or Standards of Research Performance.
Violations of Professional Standards of Excavation
An archaeological technician on an excavation by a cultural resource management firm reportedly observed alleged instances of lack of scientific principles in techniques and research plans. Specifics were supplied regarding time required to excavate features (too fast), number of personnel to complete the job (too few), and the lack of screening of fill dirt within a pit house feature. Comparisons were made to a nearby university excavation allegedly moving slower and having better equipment.
The initial response to the inquiry was that the Register cannot sanction a company or institution; the procedures are for individually registered archaeologists. The complainant then amended his inquiry to name the owner of the company and the project's Principal Investigator.
The intent of this presentation is to give Registrants a sense of the types of minor cases that come before the GC in a typical year and illustrate what the Register can and cannot adjudicate. The Register does not serve as the "Preservation Police" – it does not pursue grievances against unregistered archaeologists, CRM firms, university departments, or any agency or group. Indeed, the first step of anyone considering filing a grievance is to confirm via the online directory that the individual is a Registered Professional Archaeologist. The Register does not interfere with disputes best handled by human resource departments or law enforcement agencies, though the results of such determinations could result in the termination of registration for an individual. The Grievance process is not the venue for personal grudges or petty tiffs. Actionable misconduct of a Registered Professional Archaeologist must have evidence of a specific violation of the Register's Code and/or Standards.


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