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All his colleagues know that Lionel de Benetti doesn't sleep much. Which is lucky when you are in charge of the research laboratories and factory at Pontoise, where Clarins products are developed. All his colleagues also know that after arriving at his office at 5am, Lionel de Benetti disappears between precisely 6am and 7.30am. To go running! Every day, always in the countryside and in the vicinity of the factory. It was by total chance – or rather thanks to an undone shoelace – that during one of his daily jogs he discovered alchemilla. « If I hadn't bent down to tie my shoelace, I would never have noticed it. A small plant that seemed to sparkle in the first light of day because of the drops of dew strangely clinging to its leaves... ». It was brought back to the laboratory, identified, then screened over and over again before finally revealing its until now unknown secret: its capacity to reduce the excessive transfer of melanosomes towards keratinocytes. « We might not have found the philosopher's stone or the secret to wisdom, but this was still a major discovery... ».


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Patient care areas come in many shapes, sizes, and purposes. In some spaces, only a quick exchange of words occurs, or a bandage is promptly applied. In others, it could take 20 medical/surgical/nursing staff members 20 hr using 20 pieces of electro-medical equipment to diagnose a problem. Although these spaces fall at completely different ends of the spectrum, they all have one thing in common — the examination or treatment of patients. For this reason, electrical wiring in (and wires/cables leading to) many patient care areas requires additional safety measures beyond what's typically installed in a commercial office building.
What are the additional features and/or requirements of the normal and essential electrical system related to patient care areas? This article will address this question as well as examine which health care facilities are required to abide by such requirements.
It all starts with a definition
Technical committees of standards organizations, particularly the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), have developed criteria for designers, engineers, contractors, and inspectors to help eliminate or reduce the number of electrical incidents. These criteria were based on the hazards and risks patients and staff would be exposed to during the time a patient was being examined or treated in a patient care area.
To make sure all parties involved use the term "patient care area" in the same manner, an NFPA technical committee developed a definition for it — a definition that has remained essentially the same for more than 40 yr. As listed in NFPA 99-2005, "Standard for Health Care Facilities," it reads as follows: "Any portion of a health care facility wherein patients are intended to be examined or treated."
Shortly after defining this term, the technical committee found it necessary to create two subcategories because the condition of patients — and the amount and type of electro-medical equipment used in the area — could vary widely. This subdivision of terms reflects both the difference in electrical equipment used and the type of procedures taking place. Again, as listed in NFPA 99, the two subcategories and their definitions are:
"General care area — Patient bedrooms, examining rooms, treatment rooms, clinics, and similar areas in which it is intended that the patient will come in contact with ordinary appliances, such as a nurse-call system, electric beds, examining lamps, telephones, and entertainment devices."
"Critical care area — Those special care units, intensive care units, coronary care units, angiography laboratories, cardiac catheterization laboratories, delivery rooms, operating rooms, post-anesthesia recovery rooms, emergency departments, and similar areas in which patients are intended to be subjected to invasive procedures and connected to line-operated, patient care-related electrical appliances."
If it's intended that patients will, at some point, be subjected to invasive procedures and connected to line-operated, patient care-related electrical appliances (thus meeting the definition of critical care area), the area or room must be wired not only to meet requirements of a general care area, but also to some additional electrical requirements as listed for critical care areas. It's also important to note that these terms are facility independent. Therefore, the same committee specified where these subcategories would be applicable to a particular facility — be it a patient care area in a dental office, medical building, hospital, or ambulatory surgical center.
Additional requirements in patient care areas
NFPA 99-2005 lists the following performance requirements for the "normal" electrical distribution system feeding all patient care areas. However, readers are cautioned to:
Review Chapters 12-18 in NFPA 99 to learn in which health care facilities these requirements are applicable;
Take into consideration that requirements in NFPA 99 are minimum performance requirements, which means limits can be exceeded if (or as) necessary; and
Review Art. 517 in the NEC to learn how wiring is to be installed to meet these performance requirements.
Branch circuits feeding each patient bed location are to come from one normal branch circuit distribution panel (22.214.171.124.1.1).
There is to be at least one branch circuit from the emergency branch circuit distribution panel feeding each patient bed location (188.8.131.52.1.1).
Grounding circuits are to be installed such that replacing a receptacle or any installed equipment does not interrupt grounding in the rest of the patient care area — or that the resistance in the grounding circuit is not raised above an acceptable level (18.104.22.168.2.1).
Grounding circuits are to be at least equivalent to an electrically continuous copper conductor (184.108.40.206.2.2).
All new construction is to use a separate grounding conductor (18.104.22.168.2.4).
Where metal receptacle boxes are used, the connection between the receptacle grounding terminal and metal box is to be equivalent to a copper wire at least 12 AWG in size (22.214.171.124.2.4).
The grounding systems of the normal and essential electrical systems are to be interconnected (18.104.22.168.3).
Ground-fault protection, where required, is to be coordinated such that the downstream device opens for downstream ground faults (126.96.36.199.4.1).
Ground-fault circuit interrupters (GFCIs), where required, are to be listed (220.127.116.11.4.2).
Two methods can be used for fixed systems of 30V (DC or AC rms) or less (126.96.36.199.5).
Power receptacles are to have at least one highly dependable grounding pole (18.104.22.168.6.1).
A minimum number of receptacles in a patient bed location is required (184.108.40.206.6.2).
No receptacles are required in bathrooms or toilet rooms (184.108.40.206.6.2), nor in patient care areas where medical staff believe they present unreasonable risks to patients (22.214.171.124.6.2).
Special grounding is permitted, but with conditions attached (220.127.116.11.7).
In areas meeting the definition of "wet (procedure) location," two methods of providing further protection against electric shock are considered acceptable:
The installation of an isolated power system; or
The installation of GFCIs. The decision on which method to use is dependent on whether power interruption could be tolerated on first fault, line-to-ground (184.108.40.206.8).
Critical care area concerns
Wiring in critical care areas has to meet the requirements noted above, plus some additional rules. Once again, the three caveats noted at the beginning of the previous section need to be reviewed (i.e., applicability, exceeding minimum requirements, and installation requirements).
If facility management want all receptacles in a patient bed location to have power restored when normal power is interrupted, the circuits are to be served by at least two critical branch transfer switches (22.214.171.124.1.2).
A higher number of minimum number of receptacles in a patient bed location are required (i.e., more than the minimum number required for patient bed locations in general patient care areas) [184.108.40.206.6.2].
Anesthetizing locations
This type of patient care area typically meets the definition of critical care area. Due to the uniqueness of activities performed in these rooms, such as when inhalation anesthetics are administered, additional performance requirements must be met to reduce the possibility of injury to patients or staff, including the following:
Since all anesthetizing locations are patient care areas, all 15 items listed in the first section above are applicable.
If the anesthetizing location further meets the definition of a "critical care area," then the wiring requirements listed under the second section above also apply.
Receptacles for 250V, 50A service are to be designed not to accept 60A attachment plugs; however, receptacles for 250V, 60A service are permitted to accept 50A or 60A attachment plugs (184.108.40.206.6.4).
Wiring is to be installed in metal raceways or as required by Art. 517 in NFPA 70 (184.108.40.206.6.1);
At least one battery-powered emergency lighting unit is to be installed in each operating room, and wired to circuits serving general area lighting [220.127.116.11.6.1(E)].
Receptacles are to be identified as to whether they are powered from an isolated power system or from grounded power (184.108.40.206.6.3).
Approved permanently installed equipment can be supplied power from a grounded distribution system if installed according to wiring requirements listed in Annex E.6.6.3 (18.104.22.168.6.4).
There are restrictions on how many operating rooms can be served by an isolated power system (188.8.131.52.6.5, 18.104.22.168.6.6, and 18.104.22.168.6.7).
Switches controlling ungrounded circuits are to have a disconnecting pole for each conductor (126.96.36.199.6.8).
Essential electrical systems
Chapter 4 in NFPA 99 lists performance requirements for three types of essential electrical systems (EESs) in all health care facilities. As noted in previous sections of this article, readers are cautioned as to the need to review Chapters 12 through 18 to learn which type of EES is required for a health care facility.
For Type 1 EESs, the performance requirements for wiring to, and in, patient care areas (general and critical) are as follows:
Patient care areas are included in the list of areas that are to be connected to the "critical branch" of the emergency system. As such, wiring for patient care areas is to be kept entirely separate of all other wiring and equipment (22.214.171.124.4.1) and to be mechanically protected per NFPA 70 (126.96.36.199.4.4).
Receptacles or their cover plates in patient care areas are to have a distinctive color or marking and their number on a branch circuit minimized (22.214.171.124.4.1).
Switches in lighting circuits are to meet the requirements of Art. 700 in NFPA 70.
Any secondary circuits of transformer-powered communication or signaling systems in patient care areas do not have to be enclosed in raceways unless required by Chapter 7 in NFPA 70.
For Type 2 EESs, there are no specific requirements listed for patient care areas because it was not anticipated that facilities, for which a Type 2 EES would be applicable, would have patients (e.g., limited care facilities and nursing homes). However, the NFPA technical committee responsible for the application of EESs approved a change for the 2005 edition of NFPA 99 that requires nursing homes that admit patients (as opposed to residents) on electrical life support equipment to install a Type 1 EES from the alternate power source to that portion of the facility where these patients are treated. This presents some interesting wiring requirements for existing nursing homes that admit such patients.
Health care facilities that are permitted to install a Type 3 EES (i.e., those that are not a hospital, nursing home, or limited care facility) face no additional wiring requirements related to the EES unless the following two conditions exist:
Electrical life support equipment is used, or
Critical patient care areas are present.
In these two situations, the EES wiring requirements listed above for a Type 1 EES must be met.
Are these additional measures for safety sufficient, more than sufficient, or not restrictive enough? No matter how you classify them, they are all based on more than 40 yr of Code-change proposals and comments from the public.
Klein is the president of Burton Klein Associates in Newton, Mass. He can be reached at [email protected].


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Times are tough. We're in the midst of a financial crisis that's affecting everybody's plans for summer fun (the buzz word of the moment is "stay-cation," after all). But in times like this, giving generously brings about is own return. The people at the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra (NMSO) have made a habit of combining music, education and altruism to generate positive change in our community year after year. Now just add wine to that and you'll get Vintage Albuquerque Fine Wine and Art Auction, a multi-event benefit for NMSO's youth music education programs. Although the attendance fees are fairly steep, the money goes right back to our kids—and as many can attest, the programming is a Bacchanalian blow up.


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Robert Skutecky
Born: March 24, 1903
Brno, Czechoslovakia
Robert was the second of three children born to Jewish parents in the Moravian capital of Brno, where his father ran a shipping company. Between 1909 and 1920 Robert lived with his widowed grandmother, who resided nearby. He completed secondary school in 1922, and then attended an international trade school in Vienna. Robert earned a doctorate in law from Charles University in Prague in 1930.
1933-39: After apprenticing as a lawyer for five years, I finally opened my own practice in Brno in January 1936. Three years later, in March 1939, the Germans occupied Bohemia and Moravia. Three months into the occupation I was forced out of the legal profession because I was Jewish. Then I was evicted from my apartment. That fall I applied for an exit visa, but my application went unanswered.
1940-45: Frustrated that I'd been disbarred, forced out of my apartment and denied an exit visa, I stormed into the local Gestapo office. I yelled at them and said, sarcastically, that I wanted to know what else I needed to do to make them happy. I was beaten for being impertinent, but they gave me an exit visa. On February 14, 1940, I arrived in Palestine [the Yishuv]. The following year, I enlisted in a British tank brigade and fought in North Africa against the Germans until 1943, when I joined the Czechoslovakian forces in Europe.
Discharged in Europe from the Czechoslovakian army in July 1945, Robert returned to Brno after the war. He immigrated to Israel in 1973.


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Blue Jays can't keep slugging Yanks in the park
TORONTO -- Leading up to the unequivocal support he received from Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos on Tuesday, manager John Gibbons appeared to be on the hot seat.
The greatest argument in Gibbons' favor was that Toronto's starting pitching simply hasn't lived up to its preseason billing, leaving the manager handcuffed. On Tuesday night at Rogers Centre, that point was reinforced, as starter J.A. Happ was roughed up during his 4 2/3 innings on the mound.View Full Game Coverage
TORONTO -- Leading up to the unequivocal support he received from Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos on Tuesday, manager John Gibbons appeared to be on the hot seat.
The greatest argument in Gibbons' favor was that Toronto's starting pitching simply hasn't lived up to its preseason billing, leaving the manager handcuffed. On Tuesday night at Rogers Centre, that point was reinforced, as starter J.A. Happ was roughed up during his 4 2/3 innings on the mound.View Full Game Coverage
Happ allowed four runs in the first inning and another in the third, setting the tone as the Blue Jays fell to the Yankees, 7-1.
Happ was making his fifth start since returning from a head injury, and his second against the Yankees in as many outings. As he was in New York last Thursday, when he allowed five runs, Happ was simply ineffective. The left-hander was charged with four runs before retiring a batter on Tuesday.
In succession, Happ allowed a double, a wild pitch, a single and a hit batsman before surrendering a long three-run home run to Alfonso Soriano.
"The big play there was the first pitch to Soriano -- he takes him deep, spots them four runs out of the gate," Gibbons said. "It's tough to overcome that; it really is. We've been saying all along, 'If we get a decent pitching outing, we have a chance.' But when we spot them early, especially when we're not scoring a lot of runs right now, it makes it tough."
Trailing early has become a common theme for the Blue Jays this season. With 29 games remaining, they have already surpassed last season's total of first-inning runs allowed with 75.
"It's happened way too many times this year," Gibbons reiterated. "It makes it difficult, so we have to iron that out. ... That's just reality, but teams that win, they pitch really well.
"It all revolves around starting pitching -- it always has and always will. We've taken our lumps throughout the year, and we've had some really good efforts and we've struggled at times. When we struggle through some games, we get blown out early."
Although the 30-year-old Happ would eventually escape the first inning without further damage, he allowed a third-inning home run to Soriano off the top of the left-field wall, the 400th of the veteran outfielder's career.
By the time Happ departed with two outs in the fifth inning, he had allowed five runs on seven hits and two walks, adding five strikeouts.
It was a second messy outing in as many starts for the left-hander, whose tough night became just another in a season featuring more than the Blue Jays would like.
"I can only speak for myself, but I know I can pitch better," Happ said. "I'm going to try not to think about this one too much -- try not to overanalyze. I feel good. I'm healthy, and I feel like I'm throwing the ball well; I just need to take the next step. I feel like I can definitely do that. I'm looking forward to the rest of my starts."
While Happ faltered, 41-year-old lefty Andy Pettitte proved to be effective for the Yankees. Pettitte has struggled at times this season, but he had everything working during his seven shutout innings.
"I just feel like everything's working for me," Pettitte said. "My cutter is working good, and I have a little bit better command of the outside corner. I'm just feeling better. My sinker is sinking now when I throw it. When you throw that out there and you're able to get some ground-ball double plays, that's huge. The biggest thing, like I've said for several months, the pitches are doing what they're supposed to and they're cooperating right now."
Pettitte allowed five hits and a pair of walks, while striking out three, and he was rarely in trouble on the mound.
The only threat came in the fifth inning, when second baseman Ryan Goins singled sharply to center field with Moises Sierra on second. Blue Jays third-base coach Luis Rivera waved home Sierra, but he was thrown out at the plate by a wide margin on a strong throw from center fielder Brett Gardner.
The Blue Jays eventually reached the scoreboard against reliever Adam Warren in the eighth, when Kevin Pillar doubled to bring home Goins, who had reached on a single that struck Sierra on the basepaths for the inning's first out.
With the loss, the Blue Jays fell to 2-13 against the Yankees this season, but they'll look to win their first series against New York in the rubber match on Wednesday night.
Evan Peaslee is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @EvanPeaslee.


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KINGSTON —Ada (Heuberger) Moss, age 90, of Kingston, passed away peacefully with her family by her side at her home in Kingston on Friday, December 28, 2012.
KINGSTON —Ada (Heuberger) Moss, age 90, of Kingston, passed away peacefully with her family by her side at her home in Kingston on Friday, December 28, 2012.
Born in New Bedford, the daughter of the late Helmuth and Ellen (Fowler) Heuberger, she lived in Mattapoisett for 37 years, moved to St. Johnsbury, VT for four years, and spent her last 50 years in Duxbury and Kingston. She was the wife of the late Wilfred Moss.
A graduate of Fairhaven High School, Ada married in 1944, raised four children, and traveled the world in her later years. A high energy fitness buff blessed with excellent health, she was a Life Member at Rockland Country Club, played her last round in May of this year, and as an adult went to the gym regularly through her 90th year. She played duplicate bridge for over 50 years and always strove to keep her mind and body active. Most of all, she loved her role as a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. A lifelong member of the Congregational Church, she was a member of churches in Mattapoisett, St. Johnsbury, and for 50 years, of the Pilgrim Church in Duxbury.
Survivors include two sons and two daughters: Thomas Moss and wife Carol of Hingham and Mattapoisett, Patricia Moss of Newport, RI, Christine Bettencourt of Carver and Andrew Moss and wife Liz of Plymouth; one sister, Ellen Downing of Mattapoisett; six grandchildren: Victoria Bernstein and husband Todd of Hingham and Plymouth, Robin Moss of South Boston, Matthew Bettencourt of Carver, Alicia Moss of Abington, Andrew Jr. and Robert Moss both of Plymouth; two great-grandchildren: William Bernstein and Charlotte Bernstein; and many nieces and nephews. She was the sister of nine siblings, all of Mattapoisett: the late Gladys Ellis, Ruth Heuberger, Beryl Roylance, Albert Heuberger, William Heuberger, Chester Heuberger, Milton Heuberger and Helmuth Heuberger, Jr.
Visiting hours at the Shepherd Funeral Home, 216 Main Street (Route 106), Kingston, on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, from 4:00-8:00 PM.
Her funeral service will be held at the Pilgrim Church of Duxbury, 404 Washington Street, Duxbury, on Thursday, January 3, 2013 at 10:00 AM.
Burial will be at the Cushing Cemetery, Mattapoisett at 12:30 PM.
In lieu of flowers, contributions in Ada's memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 30 Speen Street, Framingham, MA 01701.
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|2011-06-17, 16:27
|Link #41
blinded by blood
Fallout: New Vegas is a very good example of DLC done right. It was launched last year a complete game. Then several months later, a DLC "Dead Money" was released that added new areas, quests, items and other additional content. Now, "Honest Hearts" was released, adding more good stuff. Soon, two more DLCs will come out adding the same thing.
This is a good use of DLC. They're basically mini-expansions for $10 each. I have no problem with that at all; in fact, I think it's a great idea. These four DLC put together gives us an expansion pack's worth of added content for $40, and you don't have to buy it all at once, or you can pick and choose which ones you want and which you don't.
What I do not like is day-one DLC. That is just blantant publishers trying to jack up the price of a new game by $10. It's already gone up from $50 in the early 2000s and the 90s to $60 now for a new game. I was upset with Bioware for launching DA2 and "The Exiled Prince" DLC simultaneously. Yes, I realize that preorders got the DLC for free, but those who did not preorder (and those who bought the game on Steam) did not get the DLC.
It's not too terrible, because it's just an extra NPC and his related quests. I would be more annoyed if something like FONV's DLCs were day-one DLCs. The FO3/NV DLCs are a lot more than just an hour or two of content. I remember spending close to seven hours completing "Point Lookout" and about four hours on "The Pitt" when playing Fallout 3. That's a significant amount of content that should be included with the game for no additional cost if it's done when the game is done.
If it comes out later, that's the difference though. The developers can later package all the DLC with the original game and re-release at full price, which I think is a splendid idea.
Last year I bought Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition for $50, shortly after it came out. The Ultimate Edition includes all of the DLC and the expansion pack. A great deal for both the devs and the consumer. It's a good way for the devs to keep making money off a game even when the game's a year or two old.
|2011-06-17, 16:33
|Link #42
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
An example of a DLC done WRONG is the US version of Chou Jigen Game Neptune (the first one, the second one will be released this August), where the extra character Nippon Ichi has to be DOWNLOADED as a DLC, instead of being one of the characters like the JP version - most people buy the game anyway because we have problems reading Japanese.
|2011-06-17, 17:19
|Link #44
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: InterWebs
On the topic of Games,
DLC is developer's abuse of the old term "expansions". Long ago, expansions are justified because they actually add value to the already completed product. Now, some developers found that they can purposely sell incomplete games using the DLC system. with the DLC system, they can also sell expansions little by little as opposed to sell it whole as a new product. Of course, the whole system actually looks good and ideal in this internet age, if they sell them at the appropriate prices. However now I feel the DLC system is only an excuse to sell a game more expensive than they worth. Actually I don't have problem with the DLC system itself, but the fact that they sell the initial incomplete product with full prices.
On the thread topic,
Before the internet, access to foreign musics, movies, whatever is difficult, and tad expensive if there aren't any local company localizing them. Even after the internet and online shopping, buying these foreign items is still rather expensive because of shipment and other fees. Personally 'piracy' is justified in countries that still don't have license to localize a certain material product.
However, if it is possible to buy those products online in the form of data, thus eliminating the need to import them, then I feel piracy is no longer as justified. Musics, movies. manga, anime industry all cry "piracy! piracy!" because these industry have not yet able to shift fully to the internet. Game industry is on the lead in this, look at Steam.
Now here's the thing. Sharing books didn't really got much attention because no matter how many people they share, there is still only one copy of the book. Data sharing on the other hand, will result in as many copies as there are people involved on the sharing, with each potentially open a whole new circle of sharing as large as the original. I understand the need to limit sharing data products because this issue just spell doom to developers.
Thing is, not everyone feels justified in buying their games if they feel unsatisfied. Games are entertainment afterall. The only way I can see to solve this is for the developers to release a free short demo online first. This demo must not suffer any degrade of quality and must have all the features in it demonstrated properly (no disabling any of the ingame features). Satisfying those conditions, it is understandable to make the demo as short as possible.
I don't understand why developers don't do this more often. A free demo can only potentially increase sales for the full products and only a little extra work compared to the whole game.
|2011-06-17, 22:30
|Link #45
blinded by blood
I'll never concede any part of this debate to the content gatekeepers until they agree to limit copyright terms to the old 14 years. The current limit of 72 years after the creator's death is just fucking disgusting.
It's better that stuff enters the public domain faster. Without the ability to sit on a single IP for decades, innovation and creativity will be the name of the game, not simply buying up the rights to all the popular IPs.
Edit: Also more software needs to be published under the GPL. I can haz source code?
|2011-06-18, 14:11
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a manufacturer of a product must put in a great amount of time/money in R&D, patents, prototyping, testing, tooling, materials, before it's even able to be distributed
and 15 years later see everyone run off with his/her hard work
If you write a catchy song and it scores, you and your childen and your grandchildren can sit on your asses untill the end of your life, or better said: those that own the 'rights'
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|2011-06-19, 08:17
|Link #48
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
That being said, expression of ideas don't have much utility other than their informative value - the copyright law simply allows the creator to earn royalties until the end-term because ideas generated from research are not easy to come by. The real problem with it is that it stretched to cover entertainment media too; which is significantly more worthless than analyses written by researchers which copyright is originally supposed to protect.
Copyright laws are quite okay actually across the world (other than in China and certain parts of the world where nobody gives a shit about it), it is just that it is repeatedly abused by corporations with lousy marketing departments for extreme profit motives.
|2011-06-19, 13:05
|Link #49
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Age: 29
There is nothing inherently wrong with Patent, because Patents are a recognition of the cost and unique abilities of an individual or group to come up with something through skill and ingenuity, the problem is the manipulation of patent and patent law to preserve power in those that initially create, and on top of that they compound the advantage (say those that have had government subsidies or monopolies in place) they already have, or they copyright/patent things that where once common domain say Disney. Again it is the powers that are the lobbying arm of these corporations that pervert the law intended to protect creativity, ingenuity, instead they become the pillars of stifiling the creative.
|2011-06-19, 13:17
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
If they wanted to protect creativity, they would have attacked censorship laws instead.
|2011-06-19, 13:31
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Getting back to the "original topic" though... "second hand sales" are firmly established under "right of first sale" doctrine as affirmed by courts.
Example: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/200...05496397.shtml
What the entertainment industry is trying to do is obliterate this anchorstone of copyright limitations. It should be noted that the EU has a less stringent version of "first sale" rights in that the creator may get a cut of subsequent sales of a particular copy. I'm using the term "creator" because I have a real philosophical issue with the notion of "assigning the rights of creation" away.
As for "patent and copyright"... those are *relatively recent* notions in human history. Before... any idea instantly entered the "public domain and Creative Commons" (yet people innovated anyway). Patent and copyright law evolved to give creators *TEMPORARY* protection to recover their costs and make a bit of money. The current situation is so far tilted that it stifles innovation in favor of protecting a few gatekeepers hoarding existing materials to the detriment of society as a whole. The inevitable result is a corrosion of respect for law as the majority of society becomes scofflaws (aka Prohibition).
|2011-06-19, 13:41
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|2011-06-19, 13:50
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|2011-06-19, 13:51
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@Vexx, yep it is the erosion of the consumers rights, is the just merely a step to elevate the corporations above humans.
|2011-06-19, 20:28
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
But this doesn't work when we start talking about disks. Your game disk is worth at most a single dollar. Practically speaking it's worthless. The entire value of your disk is in the information. Information can no longer be driven by "economies of scarcity", now infinite copies exist. So as I see it, there's only one reason to pay for information any more. Not for pragmatic reasons, but for ethical reasons. The ethical reason is to compensate the producer and by extension the next generation of products they will produce. Under this ethical imperative, buying your goods second hand is pointless. If you really wanted to save money you could just do things illegally. Buying second hand may be legal, but that's not a justifiable reason to do so, as the law is only supposed to be the law because it's ethically right. When the law no longer aligns with popular ethics then it will invariably have to be discarded. In this case I see no ethical reason for allowing resale of media. Your entertainment is not like your washing machine. There is no waste if you throw it out, because it does not really exist.
In this respect copyright law will have to change. There will come a stage where no jury that they can assemble will convict filesharers. At this point the judiciary will have to change the law.
As for the business model of media producers, I can convince it will become something like "busking" but on a larger scale. That's how most media producers were compensated in the past, and that's how it will probably be in the future. Games will be payed for by donation.
As for copyright generally, that's a ripe discussion that could probably take place in another thread. I will say that exists for a good reason, but personally I don't see why it extends past the death of it's holder. But with the internet being the way it is, there is no longer any inherent profit in distributing intellectual property. Copyright is going to have to shift in form.
|2011-06-19, 20:48
|Link #56
blinded by blood
It doesn't really affect me since I'm a PC gamer, and nobody buys used PC games anyway. But I would immediately stop paying and start torrenting everything if they passed a law to make reselling media illegal.
If I'm going to get fucked, I'm going to fuck back.
|2011-06-19, 21:11
|Link #57
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
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Age: 61
But there is an established right to "transfer a license". The industry dropped the ball here by trying to have it both ways ("license" vs "sale"). The consumer get the worst parts of either concept in their perfect world. A subscription fee to use the material should have been an early standard.... a "membership" if you like. One that could be dropped but not subleased. The "infinite copy" issue would have been muted to some extent.
There will always be a "patron class" and a "peanut gallery" ... entertainment's objective is to please the patron class enough to warrant their support ($$). Badgering the peanut gallery is a dead-end.
|2011-06-20, 05:19
|Link #58
Witch of Betrayal
Join Date: Jan 2006
I'll buy the game if there is
1) Value in the license you couldn't get with a pirated copy. This goes for most console games, PC games with online authentication, monthly fees, some good premium DLC or the like.
and/or 2) I can afford it and just want to support the devs. This goes for indie games and some good developers that aren't worried about piracy. Obviously I wouldn't then buy second hand.
I don't think we need tighter laws against piracy or second hand sales, there are ways of putting value in the product and getting it sold regardless. Currently most gamers prefer going out to shops to purchase games, which gives Gamestop etc. the power to perpetrate second hand sales. They might in the future go out of business in favour of digital distribution, which will also be the end of second hand sales. I wouldn't miss either thing.
|2011-06-20, 05:35
|Link #59
Knight Errant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Age: 30
And before you think that game publishers and developers are entrenched elites immune to failure, just bear Interplay in mind. I really loved a lot of Interplay's games.
|2011-06-20, 11:20
|Link #60
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Age: 29
Interplay is nothing like the big multiplat publishers of today, they were the kings of the wild wild west of video gaming but much like Lucas Arts they had not secured the power of console gaming and the casual market that games currently cover. The market at that time was even less mature, and you sure as hell couldn't sustain yourself with movie tie in games that could keep you a float if you only published like 10 games a year. Currently though EA, Activision, Ubisoft all want to rape the consumer, on top of their triple A titles they have a lot of filler that continues to make them money mind you the quality or lack of consumer rights these products have, hell Square Enix still pumps out crap ff sequel after ff sequel, my point is Interplay and the current generation of Devs are highly different, their business model is highly different. From a PC gamers perspective the lack of second hand sales isn't that big of a deal, but when it comes to funding my console gaming habit, second hand sales is what makes me buy games, I just can't see paying for single player games especially for full retail after a year and a half after they have come out, and on top of that if i buy used i have to shill out another 20-30 bucks for dlc that would have probably made the game the disc.
Also your comment about gamers and "hardcore gamers" is absolutely wrong, these companies listen to where the money is, and the money is not in the hardcore gaming sector. Why? Because hardcore gamers buy less games, buy better games, expect better games, and overall are much harder to please. Your anual spiderman crapfest game is not going to appeal to the hardcore, maybe something that is well done like Spiderman II but then again thats about the hardcore, they expect good games. If any business took on the model to appeal to the "hardcore" or the "elite" we wouldn't see garbage like transformers at the box office.
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That award-winning right shoulder looked relaxed, though, and the sight of Verlander on the mound gave the sputtering Detroit Tigers a spark.
Verlander lasted into the sixth inning, Nick Castellanos had two hits and two RBIs, and the Tigers salvaged a doubleheader split by beating the Minnesota Twins 8-6 Saturday night.
''He knows how to pitch. He knows what he's doing. He can kind of contain the situation, and I think he did that well,'' said Torii Hunter, who had three of Detroit's 17 hits.
Victor Martinez and J.D. Martinez each had three hits, too, and Joe Nathan notched his 27th save in 32 attempts despite an RBI double by Brian Dozier in the ninth. Verlander (11-11) improved to 5-0 in seven career starts at Target Field.
With two outs and two on in the sixth inning, manager Brad Ausmus came for the ball and was greeted with an icy stare as Blaine Hardy arrived from the bullpen.
''I wanted to finish the game, but I knew what he was seeing. Obviously I've been off for a while and fatigue was a factor there and we really couldn't let this game slip away from us,'' said Verlander, whose last turn was skipped because of shoulder soreness.
He was removed after one inning the start before that Aug. 11 at Pittsburgh, when Ausmus said he looked like he was throwing darts to protect the joint. Here, his motion was free and easy, and his changeup was diving.
''He wouldn't be Justin Verlander if he didn't push back when he's being taken out. He does not like to come out of games, and I think that's great,'' Ausmus said.
Coupled with their 12-4 loss to the Twins in the afternoon, the Tigers dropped to a season-most three games behind first-place Kansas City in the AL Central. They also fell to a game behind Seattle for the second wild-card spot.
In the opener, Twins rookie Kennys Vargas drove in five runs and starter Yohan Pino (2-5) struck out six in five innings.
So after the Tigers gave up a total of 32 runs and 34 hits while throwing a whopping 398 pitches in losing the first two games of the series, they badly needed the old Verlander to come through in this one.
''I'm extremely happy he got a win in his first start back,'' Ausmus said.
Minnesota rookie Trevor May (0-3) completed five innings for the first time in four career starts, but he didn't hold his 4-2 lead after a two-run double by Trevor Plouffe in the third inning.
Eugenio Suarez's broken-bat, two-run single pushed the Tigers in front 5-4, and Jared Burton was summoned from the bullpen. Castellanos hit a two-out, two-strike, two-run single in the seventh off Burton to add to the lead.
Vargas finished the day with six RBIs and has driven in 23 runs in his first 22 major league games, all this month.
The Twins scored seven runs in the opener off Tigers starter Buck Farmer (0-1), who managed only four outs. He gave up six runs in the second, while the Twins batted around for the third time in a span of nine innings.
Tigers: Miguel Cabrera's bothersome right ankle flared up a bit near the end of the long day, and Ausmus said he'd consider keeping the slugger out of the series finale to give him two straight days off with no game Monday. ''Obviously we'd prefer to have Miggy in the lineup, but his health is more important,'' Ausmus said.
Twins: Joe Mauer is still receiving daily treatment for the strained muscle on his right side that kept him out for 34 games. He stretched his streak of reaching base, the longest active in the majors, to 25 games and drove in four runs for the day. ''I feel good. I'm seeing the ball well,'' said Mauer, who's hitting .327 with 11 RBIs in 13 games since coming off the DL.
The Tigers will try to split the series by sending reigning Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (14-4, 3.07 ERA) to the mound Sunday afternoon. Kyle Gibson (11-9, 4.13 ERA) pitches for the Twins.


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Alright, I seem to have a bit of precog ability. This is something of a surprise to me. I have always been empathic. My entire family is all about "feeling" and "discusing feelings" and you could say my mother, brother and sister and I are all empaths, or you could say I just grew up in an enviroment where putting yourself in another's place was normal. Sorry, I digress.
Since I was about 20 I have had these experiences were my head will play a little movie. I always assume that it is my imagination, although some of these "movies' are accompanied by VERY stronge feelings and sometimes I feel they come from someplace other than my head.
The thing is, some of these "movies' come true.
The very first one I took seriuosly and the first one that really showed me that something other than my imagination was at work was an incident with my friend Tracy's car.
We had gone to visit her. (She lives two states away and my other best friend, Natalie, from even father way, was visiting too)
We had gone out to eat and were returning to Tracy's house. There had been a huge snow storm the day before and the roads were icey and slick. My friend lives on a corner lot and usualy parks at the side of her house instead of the front.
As she was pulling up to park it hit me that this was a bad idea and I asked her, "Tracy, do you belive in precognition?"
She said, "maybe, why?"
"I said "humor me and go park behind my car," My car was parked in front.
She did and we went inside.
An hour or so later we were playing a game and we all kept hearing noises but we were sort of ignoring them until Natalie said,
" Um, look out side"
We looked and there in the spot were Tracy usaully parked her car was an older vehicle stuck on the side walk facing the wrong way. They had slid and spun and if Tracy's car had been parked there it would have been badly damaged. This incident took place in I believe October 2003
Okay, sorry this is taking so long.
Here is my question: Since then I have had a few very, very stong "visions" concering bad things happening to people, one involved the loss of an unborn infant and the other the loss of a very close friend's father. I had impressions about these events before they happened.
My Question is, What do I do when I have a feeling or "vision" about death? Do I tell a perfect stranger, "Um your baby is not going to make it" or my friend, "Um, don't count on your Dad being around past next year" (not that I would EVER be that tacky or blunt about it)
Or is it better to do as I did, say nothing and let things take their course?
I have not had a strong "vision" in a long while and the most recent one was something sort of silly involving a toy.
I have always been bothered by the idea that I was given these "visions" for a reason and that I was suposed to do something about them and I didn't.
I would love some feed back on this.
Sorry if this isn't quite the right place to post this.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – For the second consecutive week, King University's Summer Kremer has been selected as the NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas Women's Volleyball Player of the Week. This week, Kremer led the Tornado to a 4-0 record, posted an attack percentage of .345, and leading the team with 47 kills.
The junior continued her hot streak this week, hitting a blistering .345 in four Tornado victories. Kremer closed the week with back-to-back 16-kill performances at North Greenville University and against Clark Atlanta. She only made a combined three errors in the two matches on 71 attempts. In four matches last week, Kremer only made six errors on 119 attempts while posting 47 kills. The Mill River, N.C., native continues to lead Conference Carolinas in kills (189) and kills per set at 3.38.
The Tornado posted a 4-0 record last week, extending their winning streak to 12 matches. Their wins over Erskine College and North Greenville, the Tornado remain a perfect 4-0 in league play. King puts that record on the line tonight when they travel to Pfeiffer University. First serve from Misenheimer, N.C., is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.


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The Documentation department records and documents decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court as well as other important materials – in particular legal literature that is relevant for constitutional law. After having been processed by the Documentation department, the decisions are published in the juris database.
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Lynne Stover Honored with VAASL Award
Lynne Farrell Stover, the teacher consultant for the JMU Center for Economic Education, has recently been honored with the 2013 Friend of the Virginia Association of School Librarians (VAASL) Award.
The Friend of VAASL Award is given to any individual, group, or organization who aims to ensure student academic success by promoting literacy, information access, technological utilization, collaboration in teaching, professional growth, and instructional leadership.
As an educator for over forty years, Lynne has served as an elementary school teacher, a gifted education specialist, and a middle school librarian. In her current position as the teacher consultant for the Center of Economic Education at JMU, Lynne is responsible for conducting teacher workshops and creating lessons and activities that support economic literacy. In addition to countless publications, she also presents at regional, state, and national educational conferences to share her expertise with others and promote the importance of literary media and technology in instructional programs.
Lynne will receive recognition as the 2013 Friend of VAASL at the fall conference in Williamsburg.
The College of Business sends its congratulations to Lynne, and applauds her outstanding work and dedication to education.
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Twenty-One Melges 32s Align For Heated Competition At 2013 Audi Sailing Series In Porto Ercole
8 May 2013
Porto Ercole, Italy - Thanks to its great media success, the International Melges 32 Class Association (IM32CA) and the Audi Sailing Series is ready for big fleet racing in Porto Ercole. Event No. 2, happening May 10-12 will commence with twenty-one teams on the starting line, representing 8 nations. The first event held in Gaeta organized by BPSE - B.Plan Sport & Events, have shown an increase in audience and media interest three-times higher in comparison to years past. These results are the reward of strong commitment of many partners that also include the IM32CA and Melges Performance Sailboats worldwide who keep promoting and strongly supporting one design racing.
Adding to the media excitement, BPSE has just released and Audi Sailing Series App, compatible with all smartphones and tablets. The App is easily downloaded online at Apple's App Store and Google Play. This newly born App is a useful tool that can keep everyone up to date on everything Audi Sailing Series, including sailing instructions, useful accommodation facilities close to the regatta sites and much, much more.
Needless to say, everyone's attention will be focused on Gaeta Champion Valentin Zavadnikov's Team Synergy. Currently seated second overall in the Series is Andrea Pozzi at the helm of Bombarda (who is just back from the victories at the Pirelli-Coppa regattas with Carlo Negri aboard a TP52, chartered for the special occasion), and third place Lanfranco Cirillo on Fantastica are equally two very strong teams that should not be overlooked.
This stage will be a great opportunity for the Audi Ultra Giacomel of Mauro Mocchegiani to get back on track. Marc de Antonio's Bribon-Movistar, Carlo Alberini's Calvi Network and last, but certainly not least is Deneen Demourkas' Groovederci from the USA are all expected to have big roles in the results this weekend.
Returning to the European stage is newly appointed IM32CA Vice President Richard Goransson on Helly Hansen Inga From Sweden 3, Yukihiro Ishida aboard Yasha Samurai and Wolfgang Stolz on Opus One from Germany.
Porto Ercole happens this weekend and is hosted by the Circolo Nautico e della Vela Argentario. The next event is Portoferraio (Event No. 3 on May 31 - June 2), followed by Torbole (Event No. 4 on July 12-14 ). The final event will be the 2013 Melges 32 World Championship happening September 18-22 in Porto Rotondo, Italy.
The Sailing Series continues its test drive tradition in 2013. At every event, the Audi Quattro Instructors will be available to guide all those interested in experiencing some of the most recent Audi models. The Audi A3 SB, RS5, SQ5 and S6 Avant will be available in Porto Ercole. For more information and test drive bookings, please call 345.3472530 or send an email to the Audi Quattro Experience.
In addition to title sponsor Audi, the 2013 Sailing Series is supported by official sponsor AstiHour, a very refreshing fruit cocktail that will be served during happy hours at the Audi Hospitality Village. Other sponsors include Kuehne+Nagel, Yeykey, Helly Hansen, and SimBroker e Nacora.
B-Plan Sport&Events is committed to greater visibility and appeal of the 2013 Audi Sailing Series. The event has 3 newly renovated websites: www.audisailingseries.com, www.audisailingteam.it, www.bpse.it - and a new Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/AudiSailingSeries. Updates are also being posted as the racing happens at the Official Facebook Page of the International Melges 32 Class Association too!
Press releases are distributed in three languages - Italian, English and German - written and released at the end of each day. All photos will be posted online at melges32.com thanks to a renewed collaboration with Studio Borlenghi. Zerogradinord will produce interviews and video highlights available on the Official Audi Sailing Series YouTube Circuit Channel.
1.) Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio/Andrea Fornaro, Atlantica 19
2.) Mauro Mocchegiani/Enrico Fonda, Audi Ultra Giacomel
3.) Andrea Pozzi/Lorenzo Bressani, Bombarda
4.) Marc de Antonio Altimira/Gustavo Martinez Doreste, Bribon Movistar
5.) Filippo Pacinotti/Nathan Wilmot, Brontolo
6.) Carlo Alberini/Flavio Favini, Calvi Network
7.) Malcolm Gefter/Sam Rogers, Celeritas
8.) Lanfranco Cirillo/Michele Paoletti, Fantastica
9.) Edoardo Pavesio/Chris Rust, Fra Martina
10.) Deneen Demourkas/Mark Mendelblatt, Groovederci
11.) Richard Goransson/Hamish Pepper, Helly Hansen Inga from Sweden 3
12.) Roberto Pardini/Lucio Gelsi, Celedrin Janas
13.) Diasuke Kimura/Manuel Weiller, Mamma Aiuto!
14.) Vincenzo Onorato/Gabriele Benussi, Mascalzone Latino
15.) Wolfgang Stolz/Jesper Radich, Opus One
16.) Roberto Tomasini Grinover/Vasco Vascotto, Robertissima
17.) Andrea Ferrari/Carlo Fracassoli, Spirit of Nerina
18.) Valetin Zavadinkov/Tommaso Chieffi, Team Synergy
19.) Edoardo Lupi/Branko Brcin, Torpyone
20.) Andrea Massi/Francesco Cruciani, ULIKA
21.) Yukihiro Ishida/Richard Clarke, Yasha Samurai
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AutumnStars_Ending.WAV: (1:40)
SweetMemories_Ending.WAV (2:10)
PassingYears_Ending.WAV (1:52)
Kicking Back:
Driven by a finger picked acoustic guitar, strummed ukulele, and a light piano, this song is designed for unobtrusive, mellow background music, and the chords are very simple and flow very well. The acoustic nature of the instruments give it a folksy, woody feel – very laid back and nice.
Acoustic Calm:
Acoustic guitar and ukulele playing together in a swingy beat accompanied by a bass, piano, electric piano and shaker at a slow and mellow but driving pace. Optimistic and hopeful, this song is thoughtful yet positive.
Friday Afternoon:
Driven by two fingerpicked acoustic guitars and a piano, this song drives with a mellow and positive feeling, building up in the second half for a feeling of stronger movement. Evokes the feeling of heading toward the weekend after a really good work week.
Autumn Stars:
This song is driven by a couple of fingerpicked acoustic guitars, accompanied by a strummed ukulele with a folksy feel, along with a piano, electric piano, and a pad to give it an ethereal feel. Invokes feelings of riding in the back seat of a car at night, looking out of the window at the stars while sleep is on its way. Optimistic, mellow, and innocent, this is perfect feel good background music.
Sweet Memories:
This track is driven by two acoustic finger picked guitars, accompanied by a piano and an electric piano, with a soft pad. Great for background music that requires a nostalgic, reflective feel.
Passing Years:
Featuring two fingerpicked acoustic guitars, piano, and an electric piano, this song moves along at a mellow but driving pace, invoking images of nostalgia and looking back wistfully.


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Science Fiction Scholar Lecturing Tuesday Noon• October 18, 2010 Share:
Can reading Science Fiction make you smarter?
On Tuesday, October 19, at 12:00 noon in Center Hall 216, Professor Arthur B. Evans will attempt to answer that question. The most prominent American scholar on the work of Jules Verne, Professor Evans is also the editor and publisher of Science Fiction Studies, the preeminent scholarly journal in that field. In addition to numerous books and articles in Science Fiction, he has also edited a new collection of science fiction stories (The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction).
A senior professor in the French Department, Dr. Evans has been teaching Science Fiction for over 20 years at DePauw University. "His classes are a masterful review of the field," according to Professor Tom Campbell. "He is able to give students an invaluable introduction to the vast variety of stories and styles associated with science fiction."
Founded in 1972, Science Fiction Studies has been published at DePauw since 1992 under Dr. Evans' leadership. In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jim Zook said, "Since its founding... Science Fiction Studies has charted the course for the most hard-core science fiction critics and comparatists. That focus has earned the journal its reputation as the most theoretical scholarly publication in the field, as well as the most daring."
Throughout his career, Dr. Evans has guided numerous scholars and readers through the field of Science Fiction. He comes to Wabash as a guest of the English Department. The talk will also feature a luncheon for all attendees.


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Where: Jericho Lake Park in AuroraWhen: Saturday January 21st. Sign up at 8am.How much: $30 and 2 non-perishable items like canned goods.Format: 2 rounds singles.What you get: Good food, disc golf, prizes, great players pack, and feeling good for helping with such a great cause, and maybe your picture in paper.Here's our up to date sponsor list. Alot of these items will be in our raffle or set out for free ctps.1. Schepp's Hole sponsor $252. Stalker Disc from 2010 worlds (15 pro signatures) Niko, Doss,YETI, Val, Avery and many more.3. Crystal Buzz from 2011 Homie tournament (Homie's Mom signed this one and drew a heart.)4. Frank Grimes The Sod Father $505. 3 Cook Books from Philadelphia (KRAFT) (SAMS CLUB) $19.99 each!6. ARBY's Aurora 7. 1st off the press Flying Squirrel Platinum. 1 Hour out of the molding machine. Signed by Dan Pastore himself and only thrown by the creator.8. Glow KC Aviar Putter from the 2011 Hall of Fame Classic in Georgia, signed by Champ Felberg, Jenkins, Climo, Shultz, and Doss.9. Outback Steakhouse - $45 Gift Certificate10. Glow Golf at Fox Valley Mall - Free 20 games of Glow Golf coupons11. Moores - $25 Hole Sponsor12. Plano YMCA - Joiners fee for membership and 2 free months. One session for any youth sports program. Approx. $200 value! #1 YMCA!13. Kendall 10 Theatre - 4 free coupons for 20 oz. drink and 85 oz popcorn.14. Patrick Engineering (Jeans day! amount to be determined, cash donation.)15. City of Aurora: Pavillion, electricity, snow plowing and 12 picnic tables. Thanks16. Red Lobster of Naperville - 10 gift cards for $5 off.17. T.G.I. Fridays of Oswego- 4-$10 Gift Cards and 10 free appetizer or dessert cards.18. Jel-Sert Company - 60 boxes Wylers singles and 60 boxes popsicle freezer bars for players pack.19. Parkside Lanes of Montgomery - Glow Bowl Party for 10 people. $200 value!20. Bath and Body Works - 2 bottles of hand&body lotion.21. Aurora University - XL Hoodie22. Buffalo Wild Wings of Aurora - Box of signature sauces. 23. Leonardi and Company $150 to Hesed House.24. Hetts Auto of Oswego - $25 Hole Sponsorship.25. On the Border of Naperville - 4 $5 gift certificates and they want to donate chips and salsa for our free lunch!26. 7-11 of Boulder Hill. 35 coupons for a free 12 ounce slurpee.27. AmericInn Lodge of Oswego - One free nights stay! Very nice Hotel with good food and shopping nearby. Eagle Ridge is one mile away.28. Jewel Foods of Oswego - $10 Gift card29. Famous Daves Barbecue of Oswego - $25 Gift Card30. Village Grind of Oswego - $20 Gift Coin31. Wal-Mart by Fox Valley Mall - 2-$25 Gift Cards - Underdog purchased these cards so $50 went towards the final tally. Thanks Underdog!32. Marathon Gas Station-Bottom of hill in Boulder Hill - $25 Gift Card33. Sport Zone of Montgomery - 2 free buckets of balls34. Ron Miller - Hole Sponsorship - Thanks Ron!35. Naperville Wellness Group - 3- $350 Gift Certificates. Thanks Tafe!36. Simply The Best Car Wash of Aurora - 4 $10 Gift Cards37. Wolf Run Golf Course on Jericho Road - $25 Hole Sponsor and 3 gift cards for buy one get one rounds of golf!38. Buffalo Wild Wings of Oswego - 50 wing party and a box of 3 favorite signature sauces.39. Holiday Inn of Oswego - 1 free night stay. Very nice hotel located 2 miles from Eagle Ridge Disc Golf Course, good food and shopping.I know it's nothing like J-Towns list but we are trying. Frank is hard to keep up with!
I had a great time.. That was only my 2nd and 3rd round ever at jericho, and it was a blast.. it was set up nicely, and you guys did a great job keeping it interesting. i will definitely be back next year.. gonna try to hold my title.. haha luv my disc golf family (also wishing frank a speedy safe recovery) he does too much for people to watch him walk around in pain. thanks for everything frank!!


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Colt Ford Makes 'Declaration of Independence' Album With No Rules or Limitations
On a Colt Ford record, pretty much anything goes. That was exactly the case during the making of the singer's fourth studio album, 'Declaration of Independence,' which hit shelves this week.
In a way, Ford kicked it old school with the new record, bringing back an old motto he used when he first hit the music scene with his debut release, 'Ride Through the Country,' in 2008: There are no rules.
"I kind of went back to the way I made my first record with this one," Ford tells Taste of Country of imprinting 'Declaration of Independence.' "There wasn't any rules or anybody who wanted things to be a certain way or it having to be a three-minute song or anything like that. If you've ever had any doubt about who I am, what I believe in or where I come from, you won't after you hear this record. I just think it's the best thing that I've ever done."
Like with his previous albums, Ford took part in writing all of the songs on the new record, this time collaborating with some of Nashville's heavyweights like Craig Wiseman, Jeffrey Steele, David Lee Murphy and Rodney Clawson. "I got to write with all these unbelievably great songwriters," notes Ford. "I was as honest and as open as I could possibly be when writing these songs."
The artists dueting with Ford on 'Declaration of Independence' aren't too shabby, either. "I've got a lot of my buddies on there," Ford explains. "Jason Aldean's on the record, Kix Brooks is on there, Darius [Rucker] is on the record, Montgomery Gentry … I did a song with Boys II Men on the record, which was really cool. I'm excited about it."
The music on Ford's 'Declaration of Independence' coincides with his current headlining tour of the same name. Click here for a full list of dates where Ford will be performing soon.


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Friday, December 10, 2010
Kids, Don't Break the Family Heirlooms!
I have a few things around my house that were passed down to me from my parents. I prefer to display them and be surrounded by them rather than protectively tucking them away in the attic.
In my house displaying family heirlooms poses some challenges with three boys under 12 years old constantly running around. Occasionally we do have mishaps. Earlier this week some wood and paint got chipped off an item. (I sigh and move on.)
I thought I would share with you my technique for keeping children from breaking the family heirlooms. Mind you this is not a fool proof technique but it works.
I say to my kids, "This is a very old thing that is important to our family. Someday it's going to belong to you. If you break it, you won't have it."
It's a very simple technique. The boys usually never say anything in response but they always leave the room and take their roughhousing somewhere else.
Please note: This does not work well with children under six years old. My youngest is only five, hence the continued occasional "chips." ** sigh **
If you have any techniques of your own for thwarting accidental youthful destruction, please share them with me!
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Think of the chip as added history. How 'bout taking a photo of the object and indicate where the chip is, and write a note about how it happened. (Don't forget to sign and date it!) I bet your son will love showing his family someday where the mishap occurred when he was five.ReplyDelete
My great-grandfather always rested his hot pipe on the arm of the rocking chair he made for my great-grandmother after the civil war. It eventually made a hole in the wood. I am sure that my great-grandmother must have been annoyed about that. However, that is my favorite part of the rocking chair, and my family loves passing that story through the generations.
Positive spin, Marian!
When my son was real little I sat our tree inside a play pen so he couldn't reach it. This was after I tried bells on the lower bows to alert me and he almost pulled it over on himself. LOLReplyDelete
What Cathi said, I was just going to write the very same suggestion! LOLReplyDelete
Whenever possible, I display heirlooms up high out of reach of little fingers. That way I can still enjoy having the items around without constantly worrying about them being broke.ReplyDelete
Tammy, we tried putting the tree in the playpen one year. My daughter, never one to back down from a challenge, simply piled up her toys and climbed up them to get in the playpen.
Amen to the positive spin. I, too, preferred to have the heirlooms around rather than tucked away. We use the quilts, etc. However, those items that would not survive the day-to-day ruckus were put away for a few years. Once the children/animals/husband were civilized I was able to put the dishes and glassware back out.ReplyDelete
I agree that that tactic doesn't work with the little ones. My daughter figures everything in the house is already hers, so no need to wait. I put most of the breakable heirlooms away when she started walking, and I've slowly begun bringing them back out. I recently brought the wine rack out of the closet (mostly because I was sick of having it in there). So far, everything is still intact!ReplyDelete
If it's furniture, perhaps a less-trafficked corner for it, or even those corner bumper thingys you can put on furniture for child-proofing? (assuming they're removable w/o damage)ReplyDelete


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In a move brought on by improved economic conditions, the Starcraft RV division of Jayco, Inc. has resumed production in its Topeka, Ind. plant.
The Starcraft facility had previously been closed and production of Starcraft products had been consolidated into Jayco's Middlebury, Ind. complex as part of Jayco's efforts to trim costs and reduce production capacity.
"When we consolidated the Starcraft operations into Jayco's Middlebury campus, we indicated that our goal would be to reinstate the operations in Topeka as soon as market conditions would allow," says Jim Jacobs, Starcraft RV general manager. "We believe that time is now. The year has started off on a pace well ahead of last year both in shipping and in retail sales activity. We continue to be optimistic that 2010 will be a much improved year for our industry."