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Eight Skincare Sugar Body Scrub and Body Softening Oil Review
This is a special guest post by Nina Khan.
I'm crazy for Eight Skincare! As the name suggests, Eight Skincare products are made with—you guessed it—eight core ingredients: a mega-moisturizing blend of Aloe Vera, Argan Oil, Monoi Oil, Evening Primrose Oil, Vitamin E Oil, Jojoba Oil, Avocado Oil and Apricot Kernel Oil. As you can imagine, this is a cocktail for ridiculously soft skin.
I'm a lil' lavender obsessed (seriously, I sniff that sh*t all day!) so I'm partial to their lavender-scented line. All their products are amazing and work wonders, but may I recommend a couple faves? 🙂
Lavender Sugar Body Scrub: Umm, are y'all as addicted to exfoliating as I am? If so, you'll die over this tub-o-love! This yummy scrub is just rough enough to get the job done but doesn't leave my skin feeling raw. And afterwards, I not only get to enjoy that amazing, tingly post-exfoliation buzz all over my skin, I'm also SUPER moisturized thanks to the lovely blend of oils.
Lavender Body Softening Oil: SORRY, CAN'T TALK, too busy petting my silky-soft baby skin after COVERING myself in the Eight's *heavenly* lavender body softening oil!!!! This skin softener is made from a blend of a bunch of delicious oils, and the best part? IT'S IN SPRITZ-BOTTLE FORM. You just spray that body down and BOOM! No greasy hands, no greasy skin, it's super light, and OH MY GOD MY SKIN IS SO SOFT. It feels like I'm in seventh grade again and just got a new Bath & Body Works scented body spray. Like, that's how much I'm spritzing myself.
Lavender-lovin', cruelty-free beautifyin' peeps of the internet, go get yourself some of these fabulous Eight Skincare products now! 🙂
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I never heard of this product before. They look great, except the body moisturizer does have lanolin (not vegan)…just an FYI.
Sounds great
I tried their tangerine sugar body scrub and it left my skin smooth and clean. I love the scent too, very refreshing. Wish wholefood market would carry it so I don't have to order it online

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"Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare
what he has done for me.
When I appealed to him in words,
praise was on the tip of my tongue" (Psalm 66: 16-17).
While driving to an appointment to have my blood drawn this week, I caught about five minutes of Ave Maria Radio's Dr. Ray Guarendi having a discussion with a priest about how the understanding of Salvation differs between Catholics and Protestants (the "saved by faith, not works" error).
Just as I was pulling up to the blood lab, Dr. Guarendi posed a question to the audience that went something like, "If Jesus asked you right now why you should go to Heaven, what would you say?"
Wanting to know the genuineness of my heart, I turned off the car with expectation, eager to hear aloud what my answer might be.
With joy, my answer flowed out of me like a river down a mountain with the power to create a gorge below. Using my smart phone I spoke, and later listened to the convictions of my soul:
"Because I love You."
"You're beautiful. Breathtaking. You breathed life into me.
You let me feel Your Presence after waiting so long for me to turn to You. When I realized I was nothing without You, You showed up. Just like that.
You sent your Spirit to teach me, and in between, You healed Me. You answered my prayers and didn't leave me. You still answer my prayers every day. You speak to me through others and give me light to know it's You. When I adore You, I receive Your Wisdom and Understanding, even if for a moment. You let me understand and accept when You say "no," and you smile with me when You say "yes!"
I see You in the person You created to be my husband and am amazed how his inner and outer beauty came from within Your Sacred Heart as You created him.
You give me Your beauty to think about, to dream of, to live by, to gather and give to others, and now I see that beauty in other souls.
You changed my heart.
I'm able to learn from Your lessons in humility and can thank You instead of cowering; smoldering.
Lord, You know I want to see you and spend Eternity with You. I want to say, "I love you" Face to face, because You are the beauty I long for each morning and the peace I sleep with each night. The thought of not spending forever with you makes me shudder and crumble.
Mercy. You are so merciful and kind. If I were to fall at the last moment of my life, I know You'd give me one moment more to tell You I'm sorry and you'd forgive me with Your open Heart of Love.
I'm so grateful You allowed me to have a friendship with You while still on earth; while still young enough to enjoy living the miracle of it. Today I understand You to the extent that I can today and I have confidence that tomorrow it will increase by Your Grace and my perseverance."
I left my car and went into the lab with the fire of the Holy Spirit and sat down in what I always call, "the blood seat."
"Which arm do you want me to use?" the nurse asked.
I've had blood draws more times in the last ten years than I've had my entire life and they've never bothered me in the least. But this time, still thinking about our Lord, my thoughts turned to His Blood. I thought about the Roman soldiers scourging Him and the immense pain He endured. And here I was going to get one little needle prick and was feeling uneasy. "Lord," I prayed…this time I offer up these three vials of blood for You and for what You endured for me." In went the needle and it BURNED and HURT like never before and seemed to go on forever. [Be careful what you pray for!]
When the needle was out and the nurse was labeling the vials, I looked up and noticed a small sign in front of me that read, LET YOUR PHLEBOTOMIST KNOW IF YOU HAVE AN ALLERGY TO LATEX.
The nurse asked if I was ok. Through my tears, I blurted, "The soldiers beat Jesus and tortured Him and then crucified Him, and never once did they give him a chance to let His phlebotomists know whether He was allergic to latex."
She chuckled, but though amusing I chose not to partake, and dried my tears. Her face changed and she said, "I love Jesus too."
I left the office wondering what her list might sound like out loud, but then realized that was between her and the same Christ who loves her just as large as He loves me.
"When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God."
(1 Corinthians 2:1-5)


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NEW YORK -- New York City announced the closings of it mass transit and school systems, both the nation's largest, and ordered residents to leave some low-lying areas Sunday ahead of the massive storm approaching the eastern third of the U.S.
"A situation like this, you don't want to be overly panicked and overly prepared, but you want to be prudent, you want to do what's necessary," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday in announcing the suspension of the city's subways, buses and commuter trains.
Rainfall is expected to start late Sunday or early Monday in New York. Hurricane Sandy was headed north from the Caribbean to meet a winter storm and a cold front, and experts said the rare hybrid storm that results will cause havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes.
With a daily ridership of more than 5 million, New York City's subway system is by far the largest in the U.S. Many New Yorkers do not have cars and depend on subways and buses to get to work, school and around town.
The city's school system, which serves 1.1 million students, will be closed Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. He also ordered an evacuation of parts of lower Manhattan and the Rockaways, a low-lying area of Queens.
"If you don't evacuate, you are not only endangering your life, you are also endangering the lives of the first responders who are going in to rescue you," he said at a news conference Sunday. "... This is a serious and dangerous storm."
Cuomo said the transit system will be suspended starting at 7 p.m. Sunday, when the last subways and final Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road commuter trains would run. The last buses will run at 9 p.m. He said the decision to shut down the area's bridges and tunnels would be made on a case-by-case basis.
It was the second weather-related suspension of the city's transit system in two years. Service was also suspended during Tropical Storm Irene last year.
Witlet Maceno, an emergency room nurse working at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, was headed home to Staten Island on Sunday morning after his overnight shift.
He said he was going home to check on his parents, visiting from Atlanta, before he returns to work Sunday evening.
"I'm making sure they're OK, that they have water and food, and that the windows are shut tight," he said. "And I'm going to remove stuff outside that could go flying into the windows" of his street-level apartment.
He said he's counting on the security guard at his gated community to respond to any emergency his parents might have, since the house telephone is linked to a combined TV and Internet line that could be knocked out.
"I don't have a regular landline," he said. "But I think they'll be OK."
Associated Press writers Verena Dobnik and Deepti Hajela contributed to this report.


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In American English there seems to be a strong distinction, particularly among educated speakers/writers. I'm fairly sure this distinction doesn't exist in the dialect that I speak. However, as the American standard usage is a subset of the local standard usage, it seems that the American version is used by most writers addressing both audiences (say academic publications, software documentation, ...) because American readers will assume you to be uneducated if you misuse them!
I have tried to determine if I am really uneducated or if this is a real Am/Br distinction by looking up "which" and "that" in the OED. My reading of the ODE seems to support it being a distinction, but I may be deceiving myself!
You're right, David, non-American Englishes have mostly lost the distinction between which and that in restrictive relative clauses. But, as you've noticed, its persistence in American English is limited to certain types of people/discourses. The distinction is far more likely to be observed in writing, especially academic and copy-edited publications. I must admit that I have the distinction, even usually in speech, but it's something that (which!) I acquired as a doctoral student. If you have acquired the distinction, it can interfere with your ability to process writing that doesn't have the distinction--I'll explain why after explaining the distinction in a bit more detail.
A relative clause (RC) is a clause (i.e. a sentence within another sentence/phrase) that's used to modify a noun. Relative clauses usually start with a relative pronoun: that, which or who/whom (and sometimes some others that aren't relevant here). There are two types of relative clause. Restrictive RCs reduce the range of things that the modified noun refers to. So, in sentence (1), I use who lives upstairs to indicate that living upstairs is the property that distinguishes this man from other men I could have talked about.
(1) The man who lives upstairs has a new piano.In contrast, non-restrictive RCs aren't used to identify who/what the noun refers to, but to give more information about the referent of the noun, as in (2). Notice that using a non-restrictive RC is a way to fit more information about one noun's referent into a single sentence.
(2) [pointing to man] That man, who lives upstairs, has a new piano.As these examples show, who can introduce either type of clause. In speech we can tell the difference between them because restrictive and nonrestrictive RCs are spoken with different prosody (=speech melody, intonation). In writing, the non-restrictive type is correctly set off by commas.
(= That man has a new piano. He lives upstairs.)
In any English dialect, that can only introduce restrictive relative clauses. In other words, non-restrictive RCs must start with which or who/whom. So all English speakers have a distinction between which and that to that extent. BrE and most other Englishes don't have a strong distinction in the restrictive RC:
(* marks grammatical impossibilities, £ marks stylistic variation common in BrE.)
(3) That dress, which [*that] changed my life, is red.
(4) The dress that [£ which] changed my life is red.
Anyone who has used Microsoft Word's grammar checker will know that if you use a restrictive which, as in (4), it highlights it. That's because it seeks out which relative clauses without commas around them in order to query whether you should have commas. Since that depends on your meaning, the grammar checker has to ask you--it can't tell from the grammar. However, if you use that, it knows that your lack of commas was purposeful.
Although I learned the that/which distinction late, I have it very strongly now--probably because I've worked as a copy editor. I frequently misread relative clauses that have which where a that could be--thinking that they are non-restrictive, even though the comma rule for restrictive/non-restrictive RCs should prevent misreading. I then must go back to re-read and re-evaluate my interpretation when I reali{s/z}e that the non-restrictive interpretation doesn't make sense. This confusion almost always happens when I'm reading student writing, so it could be that I've learned to ignore punctuation since it's often fairly random. At any rate, I do appreciate it when people use the distinction in writing--and I do wonder why my BrE colleagues don't seem to have the same disambiguation problem when it comes to reading restrictive whiches.
When I first started reading student work in the UK, I was also struck by some students' apparent comfort in writing the man that lives upstairs, rather than the man who lives upstairs. It seemed like I was 'correcting' that far more often here than I had in the US. However, I've not seen anyone else note it as a dialectal distinction and I've noticed it less and less, so perhaps I just had some odd students my first year here.
What do the style authorities say about all this?
On restrictive that/which, the 3rd edition of Fowler's Modern Usage, a British guide (though the current editor is a New Zealander), quotes the 1926 edition in saying: "Some there are who follow this [distinguishing] principle now; but it would be idle to pretend tht it is the practice either of most or of the best writers."
Larry Trask (an American acting as an authority to a British audience!) in Mind the Gaffe doesn't mind whether or not you distinguish that/which in restrictive RCs.
For American audiences, the Modern Language Association Handbook (5th edn), the style book for many American academics, simply says, "Note that some writers prefer to use which to introduce nonrestrictive clauses and that to introduce restrictive clauses."
The Chicago Manual of Style (14th edn--my AmE books are a little out of date) warns that "Although the distinction is often disregarded in contemporary writing, the careful writer and editor should bear in mind that such indifference may result in misreading or uncertainty. [...] When the commas intended to set off a nonrestrictive clause are omitted, perhaps with the intention of using which restrictively, the reader may well ponder whether the omission was inadvertent" (exactly my problem).
All of the guides recommend that you use who instead of that when referring to people.
A last point to make is that the American prescriptivist preference for that in restrictive RCs is undone by the other prescriptivist rule that clauses shouldn't end in a preposition. If you want your preposition at the front of the RC with the relative pronoun, then that pronoun cannot be that:
(5) the building that/which I ran into
(6) the building into which I ran
(7) *the building into that I ran
The that/which distinction and the preservation of the subjunctive are two examples of (standard) American English being more conservative than (standard) British English. (I'll write about the subjunctive some other time.) I keep threatening to write a book on this topic called How the Americans Saved the English Language, an homage to the title How the Irish Saved Civilization.


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How Smart Companies Manage BYODBy Samuel Greengard
How Smart Companies Manage BYOD
By Samuel Greengard
Only a few years ago, overseeing a workforce armed with mobile technology was a fairly straightforward proposition. The enterprise purchased a separate phone for business use, it controlled what applications and content went on the phone, and decided when the employee would upgrade to a new device. The biggest question on the minds of CIOs was whether to equip employees with a basic cell phone or a BlackBerry.
That was then and this is now. Thanks to an influx of smartphones and tablets—iPhones, iPads, Android devices, Windows phones and more—the balance of power has shifted to employees. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is no longer an option for most organizations; it's the standard for business in the digital era. What's more, along with the decision about which devices and operating systems to support, there are thorny questions about how to navigate the technology and which services and features to provide.
"Businesses require a clear BYOD strategy. It's important to have an understanding of what's supported and what isn't supported across the enterprise," states Jim Guinn, a managing director at PwC. In fact, without well-defined policies and controls—plus a heavy focus on security—BYOD can become an unmanageable mess. Breaches, breakdowns and the loss of intellectual property can lead to economic losses, as well as other problems. But for enterprises that get things right, BYOD and the consumerization of IT create new and rich opportunities to run a business more efficiently… and profitably.
Going Mobile
It's no secret that many younger workers are glued to their mobile devices—and many won't work at a company that limits access to them. They've grown up with mobile phones in their pocket and, in many instances, they view these devices as the primary way to connect and interact with others. Combine this with an emerging post-PC world—a PwC report predicts that personal devices will comprise 35 percent of all enterprise technology by mid-2013—and it's clear that a mobile-centric workplace is here to stay. "It's becoming almost impossible to avoid BYOD," Guinn says.
Accenture chief technology strategist and managing director Gary Curtis says that CIOs shouldn't view BYOD as a problem but rather as an opportunity. The ability to extend the enterprise through communication, collaboration, social media and real-time data is nothing less than transformative. The ability to deploy leading-edge technologies and sophisticated apps and services can be revolutionary. Because about 90 percent of firms have already adopted BYOD in one form or another, "the task is to make it work for everyone in the best way possible," Curtis says.
One company that has embraced the challenge is Intel. The semiconductor giant has more than 39,000 devices registered on its network and about 70 percent of them are personal devices, notes Dave Buchholz, director of consumerization. The company took notice of BYOD and a growing consumerization trend in 2009. At the time, the company's CIO, Diane Bryant, indicated that she didn't want to wind up beholden to a single vendor or device. "So, we began to investigate how we could transform our infrastructure and adopt a global services model," says Buchholz.
How Smart Companies Manage BYOD
Intel approached the challenge from a perspective of finding ways to make the initiative happen rather than looking for ways to defeat it. Within six months—with input from numerous departments and business units—it had hammered out a strategy. The company spent another nine months addressing legal and human resources issues. "There were issues that entered a legal gray zone," explains Buchholz. "We wanted the program to be an enabler of productivity, but at the same time we wanted to make sure we built in the necessary safeguards and protections."
This meant addressing an array of complex issues and creating an end-user service-level agreement that made it clear users were voluntarily using BYOD rather than Intel demanding it (the company continues to supply equipment to some employees). "We had to determine what constitutes proper and fair usage with company tools," Buchholz says. Among other things, Intel was forced to examine how to manage hourly employees who might check their e-mail at home, identify when an employee is representing the company and when a device wipe is warranted, as well as the employee's responsibility when a wipe occurs.
Yet the challenges didn't stop there. "Because Intel is a multinational company, there are implications surrounding intellectual property or a particular country's privacy protections when a device potentially comes into contact with other devices," Buchholz says. Some of the issues revolve around where data is stored and whether it is encrypted. In addition, the company had to break practices and procedures down by the type of device—smartphone, tablet or laptop—and create different rules, policies, access limits and controls for each. "It really gets down to the usage model and the device—and the specific requirements for that individual," he explains.
Today, Intel's BYOD program supports about 30,000 employees and offers 40 proprietary apps. These apps range from travel tools that can help schedule a shuttle or flight to conference room finders. The company uses a variety of software and security tools in place—including an internal app store, mobile device management (MDM) software and mobile app management (MAM) software—and has multiple levels of controls in place. In addition, it maintains a list of approved devices and ensures that they meet certain requirements. Other devices are blocked from the network.
"The goal isn't to save money through BYOD," Buchholz says. "The idea is to make Intel a great place to work. Employees are happier because they can pop out their phone—the device of their choice—and use their own apps along with specialized Intel apps." But the program also benefits Intel. On average, workers report saving 57 minutes a day due to BYOD. This totals 5 million hours annually, according to Intel surveys. "It enables the usage models they are familiar with on a day-to-day basis. This initiative is leading to new services and approaches, including how we collaborate inside the company, how we use social media and how we access data," Buchholz says.
A New Model Emerges
BYOD is more than the sum of smartphones and tablets within an enterprise. Organizations that adopt BYOD on a widespread basis typically find that a consumer IT model sweeps through the organization and changes the fundamental way people work and interact. Like Intel, they discover far more efficient ways to manage business processes and workflows. BYOD can also simplify—if not eliminate—the task of continually procuring and upgrading gear—all while making it easier for workers to use leading-edge tools and applications in their daily lives.
How Smart Companies Manage BYOD
But the environment also presents formidable challenges for CIOs and IT departments. For one thing, there's a need to break down silos and work with other departments to create policies, procedures and data classification schemes that fit a BYOD environment. For another, BYOD requires different knowledge and skill sets—particularly as organizations build app stores and transition to a more agile and consumer-focused software development and distribution model. In many cases, it's necessary to hire or retrain developers and other specialists so that they are focused on a consumer-centric IT model.
Finally, there's the nettlesome issue of security and data protection. It's critical to ensure that MDM, MAM and other solutions are in place to authenticate users. It's essential to lock down devices, data and apps, standardize device settings, distribute acceptable use policies, provision and de-provision devices, and provide wipe capabilities in the event that a breach occurs or a device is lost or stolen. But CIOs must also adopt a data-centric view that focuses on tracking usage and protecting intellectual property. This means using desktop virtualization, application virtualization, HTML5 and more robust endpoint controls to construct a platform that more fully supports mobile device security.
Curtis emphasizes the importance of adapting policies to BYOD but also educating employees about risks and responsibilities. "It is essential to have a code of responsibility that is understandable and manageable," he says. In many circumstances, this means formulating different polices and rules for different constituencies and groups within the organization. There's also a strong need to educate employees about how to manage devices and data and avoid lapses that can put data at risk. In some cases, it's as basic as requiring pass locks on devices and pasting data into e-mails or text messages.
In the end, Guinn says it's paramount to think through all the aspects of BYOD and use it as an opportunity to drive change. "BYOD represents a fundamentally different business and IT paradigm," he states. It can trim costs, reduce administrative and tech support, enhance collaboration and connectedness, create real-time customer interactions, alleviate corporate responsibility for device lifecycle management, and help consolidate infrastructure and tools across IT and business disciplines. However, success is far from guaranteed. As Guinn puts it, "BYOD requires a far more agile and flexible way of thinking and an entirely different IT model in order to succeed."


text: Porter Bunting, front, third grader at Worcester Prep, was the Bear Cubs winner in the 2009 Pinewood Derby. According to Porter, "Building my car was lots of fun. I used my creativity to create 'The Lightning Bird'". He is pictured with Scott Kendall. Stacey Wilson is the Bear Cubs leader.


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Sugar Rush: Nutella Crepe Cake at Du Jour Bakery
Sugar Rush
Your daily dose of something sweet.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Lady M makes the best crepe cakes in the city. Delicate, and positively ethereal, they're impossible to top. But there are other good ones around town that deserve mention, like the cakes from Bosie Tea Parlor, Bottega Falai, and now Du Jour Bakery in Park Slope. This is their Nutella Crepe Cake ($5), featuring at least a dozen fresh crepe layers, each separated with cool Nutella cream. The cream is whipped and unexpectedly light...I bet it would be heavenly over a cup of hot cocoa (one can dream). The cake is completed with a final top of straight-up Nutella and crushed, toasted hazelnuts.
Du Jour Bakery
365 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (map)


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Argo" continues to shake up the Oscar race by taking the top honor at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday.
Ben Affleck, coming off winning Golden Globe Awards for best motion picture drama and director for the real-life drama, received the award handed out at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
"I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that I'm still working as an actor," he said in his acceptance speech.
Affleck also stars in "Argo" as the CIA operative who orchestrated a daring rescue of six American embassy employees during the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. George Clooney and Grant Heslov share the producer award with Affleck as "Argo" beat out the Civil War saga "Lincoln," which has a leading 12 Academy Awards nominations.
Other nominees in the PGA movie category were "Les Miserables," "Zero Dark Thirty," "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Django Unchained," "Life of Pi," "Moonrise Kingdom," "Silver Linings Playbook," and Skyfall."
Along with honors from other Hollywood professional groups such as actors, directors and writers guilds, the producer prizes have become part of the preseason sorting out contenders for Academy Awards.
The big winner often goes on to claim the best-picture honor at the Oscars on Feb. 24.
Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" won the guild's animation category, beating "Brave," "Frankenweenie," "ParaNorman" and "Rise of the Guardians."
"Searching for Sugar Man" took the documentary prize, beating "A People Uncounted," "The Gatekeepers," "The Island President," and "The Other Dream Team."
Showtime's "Homeland" won the producer's award for television drama series, which beat out "Breaking Bad," "Downton Abbey," "Game of Thrones," and "Mad Men."
The ABC sitcom "Modern Family" took the prize for best comedy series for the third straight year, beating "30 Rock," "The Big Bang Theory," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," and "Louie."
(© Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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Maker Faire 2011
- 1 Noisebridge booth
- 2 Volunteer Sign-up And Time Scheduling!
- 3 Members with Booths at Maker Faire
Noisebridge booth
[1] is May 21 and 22 at the San Mateo County Expo Center. If you'd like to help set up/run the booth this year, please add your contact info below.
Mitch will be setting up a huge Hardware Hacking Area again this year.
Projects/Items Displayed in the Booth
This is the section where we outline projects, demos, talks, etc. and when/how often they might occur.
If you'd like to bring something to show in the Noisebridge booth, please list it here and contact emprameen at gmail.com
capacative touch suitcase - a suitcase with LEDs inside that light up when you touch it. -rachelyra
Other Items to Bring
- NB flyers
- NB stickers
- NB t-shirts?
- easel
- whiteboard
- trashbags
- snacks for booth
- 3 or 4 camp chairs that can be folded up when booth is crowded
Volunteer Sign-up And Time Scheduling!
After adding your name and time slot, please email me (emprameen AT gmail DOT com) as soon as you can with the following information:
1) The name (first and last) you want to give to the Maker Faire people when you arrive for your free "credentials"
(as they're calling the passes for volunteers). 2) When you want to start working your 4 hour shift.
Folks who want to help staff the booth: Elise, Adit, Al, Rikke, Stefano, Rameen, Danny Ken & Max, Sean C, Rachel M, Rachelyra
Setup Friday May 20th
Not sure what the exact set-up time is, but supposedly, the children arrive at 11am. I'll e-mail for further information, but it's probably safe to say that set-up starts at least at 9. People who have agreed to help with transportation: Stafano, Rachel McConnell, Ken & Max
Planned Transport Cars
Stef has offered a truck to transport people and materials. Sean C can bring the focus. Its not too huge, but it holds a lot :).
Set-up Saturday May 21st
Set-up times: Saturday, May 21 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Event Saturday May 21st
Event Sunday May 22nd
Ken & Max Available all day
- Rubin - Available after 2ish, greeting someone at SFO around noon.
- Rachelyra, not sure when but much of the day.
Take down Sunday May 22ndd
If you have a car that can transport projects, please state so
- Ken & Max can help with a car if necessary
- Rubin - I've got a bike and some panniers
Members with Booths at Maker Faire
"Going to Maker Faire with another group? Let us know where you'll be!"


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The Carta Collection: Better to See Once Than to Hear 100 Times
When former American president Ronald Reagan visited Moscow at the close of the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev greeted him with the words of a Russian proverb: "It is better to see once than to hear 100 times."
In the Bible, we hear repeatedly about people, places, and practices which are foreign and unfamiliar to us. The Bible may describe the course of a battle by mentioning a few place names, but unless we are familiar with the terrain we cannot understand who held the high ground or whether the attack consisted of a frontal assault or flanking maneuver. The Bible describes the ancient Israelite sacrificial system in minute detail, but it can be hard to understand how and why certain practices were performed. Knowing the "lay of the land" and being able to picture each scene helps us to understand the Bible in color and three dimensions. If we can see once, we can more fully understand what we have read many times.
That's why we are extremely excited to offer a new collection of first-rate atlases and visual guides to the world of the Bible from Carta. Headquartered in Jerusalem, Carta is a publishing house which specializes in producing the finest maps, atlases, and books about the history and geography of the Bible. The depth and breadth of these resources is absolutely incredible, as is the quality of the maps and images which adorn nearly every page. Now Accordance users can instantly access that wealth of material in order to "see once" and better understand the text of the Bible.
What's available in this new Carta collection?
There are research-grade atlases like The Carta Bible Atlas (the fourth edition of the best-selling Macmillan Bible Atlas) and The Sacred Bridge. Meticulously researched and comprehensive in detail, The Sacred Bridge promises to be the Bible Atlas of record and standard work for the coming decades. Can you guess which Bible software the authors relied upon to produce such a remarkable achievement?
In addition to these scholarly works, there are atlases aimed at every student of the Bible. The New Century Handbook is an abridgment of The Sacred Bridge which offers the scholarly insight of its larger counterpart without all the scholarly detail. The Bible History Atlas by F. F. Bruce is an excellent introduction to the history and geography of the Bible aimed at beginning students.
The new Carta collection also includes a number of books which focus on the city of Jerusalem and the history of the temple. The Illustrated Atlas of Jerusalem offers an incredible level of detail about the ancient and modern city, while Carta's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem is a treasure-trove of information and vivid illustrations of every part of the First-Century temple. Leen Ritmeyer's The Quest chronicles the archaeological exploration of the Temple Mount in rich detail and offers meticulous architectural reconstructions.
All of the books I've mentioned so far offer a wealth of information and a vast collection of illustrations, but Carta also publishes concise guides to the Biblical world, the city of Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. These resources are perfect for quick insights and helpful images, and they're extremely affordable. These include The Illustrated Bible Atlas with Historical Notes, Carta's Historical Atlas of Jerusalem, The Holy Temple of Jerusalem, Jerusalem in the Time of Nehemiah, and Jerusalem in the Year 30 A.D..
Available only from Accordance, this new collection of resources from Carta offers the most comprehensive information about the Biblical world coupled with the highest-quality illustrations you can find. If it is better to see once than to hear 100 times, these resources from Carta will open your eyes to a world you've previously only heard about.
You can buy each of these Carta resources separately, or choose from several cost-saving combo collections. See this page to learn more, and be sure to watch Dr. J's informative new podcast about all the Carta modules.
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This is awesome news. I was consulting one of my Bible atlases just yesterday and longing to have it in electronic form. I was thinking especially how great it would be to have The Sacred Bridge in electronic form, and now here it is!! Even better will be when this package comes to the iPad so I can have it with me all the time, e.g. when leading tours to Israel. I, for one, am very excited about this.
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When Congressman Ron Paul embarked on a third Presidential campaign he did so with one over riding aim – to engage the next generation of Americans and provide them with the platform to restore the principles of the Constitution. The facts show that he has overwhelmingly succeeded.
Tuesday's primary in New Hampshire saw the Congressman net almost half of all votes from people aged between 18 and 29 years old. Paul received 47 percent of young voter support, data collated by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement shows.
"Dr. Paul's 47 percent support from 18- to 29-year-olds was the strongest level of support for any candidate by any age group." said CIRCLE Director Peter Levine in a press release.
Ron Paul stormed the primary among young voters by a margin of 22 percentage points, more than doubling his youth votes since the 2008 New Hampshire primary. In comparison, Mitt Romney drew around the same number of young voters as he did four years ago, roughly 25 percent. This highlights how Ron Paul's policies and principles have resonated with the future of the nation.
The number of young voters who turned out for Paul in New Hampshire was close to 14,000. By comparison, the number of young voters who voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 primary was around 26,000. Even the most hardened critics were forced to admit that those figures alone are impressive. Data on young voter participation among Democrats in Tuesday's primary wasn't available, but Paul's numbers will surely be even closer to Obama's when disillusioned Democrats are factored in.
The results in New Hampshire dovetail with those out of Iowa, where Paul earned the support of 48 percent of the 18,000 Iowans under the age of 30 who participated in the GOP Caucuses. Rick Santorum came in second with 23 percent, while Romney gathered just 13 percent support.
The statistics show that a very substantial 8,800 young people caucused for Ron Paul in Iowa. That means that young voters supported Ron Paul in a far greater percentage than any other age group supported any candidate in the State. Indeed, people under 30 provided Ron Paul with one third of his total votes.
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So says Apple (AAPL) in the official statement it issued moments ago. The gist: The device's wireless performance is the best the company has ever shipped, but there's a software issue with the signal bar display and it will be fixed in a forthcoming update. Evidently, the formula iOS 4 uses to calculate the iPhone 4's signal strength is inaccurate and sometimes reports more bars than it should. Apple is correcting this with a free software fix that will be issued in a few weeks.
"We are adopting AT&T's recently recommended formula for calculating how many bars to display for a given signal strength," the company explains. "The real signal strength remains the same, but the iPhone's bars will report it far more accurately, providing users a much better indication of the reception they will get in a given area. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see."
Coming soon: Fewer bars in more places!
Interestingly, Apple makes no mention of the iPhone 4's new antenna design and what role it plays in this issue. If it's a software problem that causes the iPhone 4 to display more signal bars than it should, then why does holding the device differently resolve it?
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The iPhone 4 has been the most successful product launch in Apple's history. It has been judged by reviewers around the world to be the best smartphone ever, and users have told us that they love it. So we were surprised when we read reports of reception problems, and we immediately began investigating them. Here is what we have learned.
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To fix this, we are adopting AT&T's recently recommended formula for calculating how many bars to display for a given signal strength. The real signal strength remains the same, but the iPhone's bars will report it far more accurately, providing users a much better indication of the reception they will get in a given area. We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see.
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One of our forum super sleuths, neonsmiley, spotted a new 2013 Year of the Snake bear roaming Bearville and he snapped a quick photo for us. Pretty cute for a snake, don't you think?
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One of our forum super sleuths, neonsmiley, spotted a new 2013 Year of the Snake bear roaming Bearville and he snapped a quick photo for us. Pretty cute for a snake, don't you think?
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The 2nd annual Jr CybearGuide Convention is underway. All Jr Cybearguides who log in will receive a JCBG Lanyard. Each day you log in counts towards a grand prize, so make sure you log in daily!
There are also tons of fun activities to participate in that grant prizes. A visit to the food booth can earn you a star cookie. You can also start a brand new star quest by clicking on the welcome desk. Clicking on the desk itself will give you a brand new blue JCBG hoodie! There are other previews and items that can be earned by exploring the room as shown below:
Finally, the highly regarded Claw Machine is back. Playing regularly can earn you bear bills, fountain prizes OR rare items such as the JCBG Star Canopy Bed shown below:
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Build a Bear Workshop has released the highly anticipated Disney Princess Bear line. The bears are now available for purchase online and in stores. Whether you prefer Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella, you can purchase those and many more now. There are also several new outfits available as well. The bears retail from $23-61 USD depending on the style you select. Which one is on your "must have" list?
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October has arrived and along with it comes the return of Halloween festivities to Bearville! Pawlette is selling her costumes again and has the following styles available for purchase: Spider, Mummy, Bird, Chicken, Medieval, Glitter Fairy, Ghost, Bumble Bee, Pointy Witch, Hero, Robot, Princess, Pirate, Cowboy and Ballerina.
At the Lumbearyard, the Haunted House, Kooky Spooky Room and Kooky Spooky Den are all available. There is also a cool Pumpkin Coach Ride available at Bearville Outfitters. There is also a new seasonal weather available called "Raining Candy." Also, the Kooky Spooky Funhouse is open for business today.
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Thank you to forum member christmas for letting us know about a great new quest available in the Furbulous Fashion District. The quest is being offered to celebrate the new Sweet Smiles Bunny (shown below) which is now available online and in the stores in the U.K. And yes, this is the UK version of the Shake It Up Bunny. The quest itself has a great prize…your very own dance floor for your Cub Condo! Once the bunny arrives in the fashion district, you will need to click on it to begin a quest to find musical notes all over Bearville. Good luck!
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How fun is this?!? Build A Bear Workshop is now selling bears that light up! The first two bears that are now available online are the Hot Lights Bear (in gray, shown below) and the Twinkle Toes Bear (in white, shown below.) Make sure to keep your eye out for these new bears in Bearville. Do you think they will twinkle or light up in the online game?
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2012Jun 28
It's that time of year again for all of you Bearville fans….Camp Happy Heart will be opening on July 1st! There's a banner up in Town Square. Camp Happy Heart is always a fun, competitive time for Bearville Insider members. This year there will be four teams: Team ChloeRocks, Team GreenTracks, Team MiguelSunshine and Team AbbieBright. There will also be a new quest available and other fun activities. Be sure to check it out!
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Build a Bear Workshop is currently sponsoring a sweepstakes during the month of June. Thirteen lucky guests will win a trip for four for four days/three nights to a Beaches Family Resort in either Jamaica or Turks & Caicos. The contest ends June 28th. For entry details and official contest rules, please visit THIS link. Good luck!
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2012May 29
If you haven't already done so, make sure to visit Bearemy today. He's been giving away a free eagle trophy all Memorial Day weekend and today is the last day you can claim yours!
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2012May 29
As several of our forum members have been reporting, there are several new items coming to the Bearville Outfitters store on June 1st. Rumored items include a new "home away from home"…the cruise ship cabin. There will also be some new clothing in the form of a mermaid outfit and a scuba outfit, as well as a brand new submarine ride. Thanks to Nate the Cybearguide for previewing the sub for us below.
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Police memorial to be unveiled today
Police memorial to be unveiled today
Paul Rolleri was a 19-year-old criminal justice student at California State University, East Bay when Alameda Police officer Robert James Davey, Jr. was shot and killed while assisting on a drug raid, on March 3, 1983.
"I remembered being in town that night. I drove down Central Avenue past the house, saw the crime scene tape," Rolleri recalled, adding that three Alameda police officers attended classes with him at Cal State.
After joining the force himself, Rolleri began taking part in an annual, officer-organized pilgrimage to pay respects at Davey's Hayward grave. The visits prompted Rolleri to decide that if he ever were in a position to do so, he'd see to the creation of a memorial honoring the sacrifice made by Davey and a second Alameda police officer killed in the line of duty, Deward Burton Gresham.
Fast-forward two decades, and Rolleri – now the department's interim chief – has made his dreamed-for memorial a reality. The memorial will be unveiled during a public ceremony at police headquarters today.
The city named streets after both Davey and Gresham, who died on July 11, 1942 after colliding with another vehicle while trying to make a traffic stop on his police motorcycle, and a plaque honoring Davey was erected near the harbormaster's office in Marina Village. But Rolleri said the plaque "is off the beaten path," and that few know of its existence.
"For them to have died doing their jobs protecting Alameda, I felt they deserved a more significant memorial for that sacrifice," Rolleri said.
Rolleri got an additional piece of inspiration, he said, during a visit to his brother, Rico, who is a lieutenant for the Berkeley Police Department. He said the department recently erected a monument to its own fallen officers.
"I felt, why can't we do something like that at our place?" Rolleri said.
Rolleri approached Mayor Marie Gilmore and City Councilwoman Lena Tam with the idea of erecting a memorial to Alameda's fallen officers, and after gaining their support, he began raising money and working through city approvals for the project. Virtually all of the funding for the roughly $100,000 memorial was provided by private donors (save a small amount of grant money); Catellus and Doric Development, Alameda's police and fire unions, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and alumni of the department's citizens academy and Bay Ship & Yacht were major donors.
Gates + Associates and Goring & Straja, the architect that designed the memorial, donated their time and services, Rolleri said.
The memorial sits astride the department's Oak Street headquarters, an uplit, concrete pad with four granite seat pads where visitors may pause and reflect on bronze busts of the two officers and a pair of grieving angels, along with a quote that echoed from early Roman times onto modern-day police memorials – "In valor there is hope" – etched into the concrete. The project also includes a garden.
The bronze sculptures were created by Lawrence Noble, an artist and sculptor whose work includes police and firefighter memorials, art for television and movie ads, a gold medal for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the Yoda Fountain at the Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco's Presidio.
"He embraced the project from the get-go," Rolleri said.
The ceremony begins at 10 a.m. today; police headquarters is at 1555 Oak Street. Davey's widow, Sue, and the couple's four children will attend.
"When it was all said and done, it was a labor of love," Rolleri said. "It's really for their families. I wanted to create a space where they were properly recognized for the sacrifice they made."


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The French ICT sector has been rebounding since the massive contraction in 2009. According to French research institute Xerfi, sales in the French IT segment (computers, tablets and smartphones) increased to 30.9 million units in 2015 (2014: 29.1 million units) and are forecast to rise to 32.4 million units (up 4.9%) in 2016. However, within this segment, sales of computers and smartphones continued to grow in 2015, while those for tablets recorded a decrease of 11.3%, mainly due to market saturation and competition from laptops and hybrid products.
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We expect payment delays to remain low and generally stable in the coming months, as the cash reserves of many ICT businesses are satisfactory. ICT insolvencies decreased 9.5% in the period January-September 2015, and the insolvency level is expected to remain low in 2016. However, sudden business failures, even of larger players, cannot be ruled out due to the challenging market conditions.
Our underwriting position in the ICT segment remains generally open. However, we have to take into account that the risks, especially for smaller ICT businesses, are still high: with limited equity bases they will struggle to absorb any further decline in margins in a market that is highly competitive and which requires ICT wholesalers to provide additional services.
When underwriting the ICT sector, we take into account the turnover breakdown between hardware and services and the type of ICT products. We also pay attention to the customer and suppliers structure and examine working capital requirements and financing.


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One dead, two injured in shooting at South Side party
A party Nick Salinas, 17, and his parents were hosting in south Bexar County for a long-time friend's 20th birthday ended fatally when a guest opened fire early Saturday.
Bexar County Sheriff's Sgt. Raymond Pollard said it was just after 3 a.m. when Anthony Stevens Terrell, 22, was shot and killed in front of the home in the 4400 block of Countess, located west of Highway 16 and south of Loop 1604.
Salinas' 13-year-old cousin was shot in the head and might not be able to walk or talk again if she survives, he said.
Bexar County deputies still are looking for the gunman, described as a Hispanic male in his 20s, who opened fire on the crowd of about 50 people after shooting Terrell at close range and drove away in a dark blue Dodge Durango.
The shooting happened in front of a brick home in a rural, working-class neighborhood where most properties are lined with fences and dogs roam freely.
On Saturday evening, Salinas pointed out the bullet holes along the back of his car and a pool of blood, swarming with flies, next to the front porch where he said his 13-year-old cousin was standing when a bullet came from about 30 yards away and struck her in the head.
Pollard said Terrell, a friend of the Salinas family, tried to stop an argument between a group of women at the party and was shot by a boyfriend of one of the women involved.
Salinas said a woman started an argument with a guest who was tasked with manning the front door to the party.
"They started acting up, and my mom started to kick them out and make them leave," he said, referring to the woman who started the argument and a few of her friends. "Then my mom's friend stepped in to defend her, and the women started fighting her, too."
Salinas said Terrell, the husband of his mother's friend, stepped in to defend his wife, which angered another man at the party. Salinas said that man went to his truck parked in the street and grabbed a gun.
"Terrell tried to knock the gun out of his hand, and I guess got shot instead," he said.
Another party guest, 15-year-old Saul Carreon, said he saw the struggle from about 10 feet away and that the gunman first shot Terrell in the stomach, then in the head, before turning the gun on the crowd in the front yard.
"I ran around the back of the house to get away. I tried to jump a fence and fell; everyone was running," he said, pulling up his pants leg to show a bruised and scraped knee from the fall.
When the gunman shot toward the house, Salinas' cousin was hit.
Another guest, a 15-year-old girl, tried to rush the gunman during the shooting but was pistol-whipped, Salinas said.
Pollard said the suspect fired several more shots before leaving. No one else was injured.
Sheriff's Office spokesman Louis Antu said Saturday evening that the 13-year-old girl survived early-morning surgery at University Hospital but had no additional information about her condition.
"She's in a coma now," Salinas said about his cousin. "Doctors said if she comes out of it they don't know what she'll be able to do."
Salinas' mother and father spent most of Saturday giving statements to investigating officers while the rest of his family was at the hospital with his cousin, he said.
"I just don't understand how this happened," he said.
Nolan Hicks contributed to this report.
Correction: A girl who was shot in the head at a party on Saturday is 13. Her age was incorrect in a story on Sunday's page B2 and on mySA.com.


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An Updated Analysis: Why SOPA & PIPA Are A Bad Idea, Dangerous & Unnecessary
from the enough-of-the-bull deptOkay. A few months back, I wrote up what I called "the definitive" post on why SOPA & PIPA were very bad bills. Some things have changed since then, so I thought it might be useful to do an updated post on the subject. On top of that, one of the key claims by supporters of these bills is that those of us opposed have been spewing false claims to increase the hysteria. While it's true that there is some misinformation making the rounds, I've seen no evidence that it's limited to the anti-SOPA/PIPA crowd. In fact, it appears to be worse on the part of supporters. While some anti-SOPA/PIPA folks may be misinformed about the specifics, they are at least speaking honestly. The pro-SOPA/PIPA forces appear to be deliberately misstating the facts.
So, let's look at the facts. PIPA & SOPA are (now) very similar bills, both with significant problems. In fact, the remaining "differences" in the bills each have serious problems, which is why neither bill is a "better" bill, since both are terrible. The claimed purpose behind these bills is to give both law enforcement and private individuals/companies tools to go after "foreign" websites that are offering infringing (either copyright or trademark) content. The bills offer two ways to do this: via the Attorney General taking action against the sites, or via a "private right of action," in which copyright or trademark holders take direct action themselves against a site they believe is dedicated to infringement.
The bill does require a half-hearted attempt to "contact" the operators of the sites being accused, but if the AG or rightsholders feel they can't reach the owners, they can then go directly after "the site" itself (an "in rem" process, rather than an "in personam"). Following a (literally) one-sided court hearing, a judge can then put the accused site on what is effectively a blacklist. If it's the AG bringing the action, it means that search engines or (under PIPA) "information location tools" -- a broad term that covers an awful lot of the internet -- have to magically figure out ways to block any and all links to the site in question. If it's either the AG or private rightsholders, then payment processors and ad networks would be forced to stop doing business with the sites on the blacklist.
Under both bills, the definitions of what is a "site dedicated" to "infringement" or "theft of US property" are pretty broad and open to abuse. While supporters of the bills love to insist they're narrowly tailored, a simple look at PIPA shows that's wrong. It notes that you can be dedicated to infringement if the key service you offer facilitates infringement. Think about that for a second. Pretty much every user generated content site or communication tool... or... computer, can "facilitate" infringement. Now, supporters of the bill insist that most sites are safe because the bill says that there's "no significant use other than... enabling or facilitating" infringement. But, again, note they're not saying that it has no significant use other than infringement. It says no significant use other than enabling or facilitating infringement. That's pretty much the entire internet there. A site may only rarely be used to infringe, but its primary function can still 'facilitate' infringement.
In addition, SOPA has an anti-circumvention rule, which makes it incredibly risky to provide any kind of service that that accidentally gets you around the blacklist. (VPN provider? Too bad!) Even worse, the anti-circumvention provision is not limited to foreign sites.
The "only impacts foreign sites" claim is also a red herring. It's a favorite of the pro-PIPA/SOPA folks, but it's a lie. While the current bill targets foreign sites, all of the remedies and enforcement require compliance by domestic sites. That's costly. I recognize that policy analysts, lawyers, lobbyists and politicians who have never actually run a business think this stuff is simple, but for those of us who actually run companies, this is terrifying. We now have to worry about staying in compliance with a broad law that's almost impossible to comply with in any realistic manner. In our debate yesterday, the US Chamber of Commerce's Steve Tepp insisted that there was "no liability" for any domestic site. This is ridiculous. What he meant was no direct monetary liability. Leave it to an out of touch policy guy to think that it's only a liability if there's the potential to cost you money in court. The liability is in the possibility of being dragged to court over this. It's in the possibility of facing additional punishment/sanctions for failing to obey an impossible-to-obey court order to cut off certain users. That is a tremendous liability.
There are additional provisions that are troubling, including SOPA's inclusion of "felony streaming" provisions, that could lead to jail time for those who lip synch over songs and put that up in a YouTube video, or those who embed infringing YouTube videos on their own site. PIPA does not have that directly, but there is a companion bill in the Senate that has similar things.
So why, specifically, are these two bills so bad:
- They will not do anything to solve the problem. This is the biggest point. In the past 35 years, dating back to the 1976 Copyright Act, the legacy content industries have gone back to Congress an astounding sixteen times and gotten them to expand copyright law in some form or another to deal with their own inability to adapt. That's just about every two years. And what has any of it done to reduce the amount of infringement? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. But now this is suddenly the magic bullet?
More to the point, multiple studies have shown that "piracy" is almost always a "service" issue -- in that people resort to infringing options when no good options exist. A detailed four-year study on this issue around the globe found, consistently, that infringement was never an "enforcement" issue -- but exclusively a business model issue. Provide services that give people what they want, and watch piracy decline. Lots of people have shown the industry how this works, and they still ignore it. A perfect example is how Valve Software saw lots of piracy in Russia -- a hotbed of infringement -- and used that as free market research to establish a presence in Russia, which is now a huge moneymaker for them. Not by "enforcing" against infringers, but by offering a better legitimate service.
- Putting massive liability and compliance costs on startups will hinder the most necessary innovation and jobs. As described above, these bills work by making tech companies responsible for creating/policing the blacklist. That's expensive and daunting. Many startups won't even bother to work on innovative services because the legal fees will just be too high. Others will simply start elsewhere. At a time when startups are the only net creator of jobs these days, do we really want to burden them all with significant new compliance costs and liability? These bills are jobs and innovation killers.
- These bills go against American principles of freedom of speech. Over 100 law professors -- including one of the most respected Constitutional scholars, Laurence Tribe -- have made this point repeatedly. Creating a blacklist is not where the US should be going -- and it specifically goes against our messaging to other countries on the importance of an open internet and basic internet freedoms. Sure, supporters of the bills will point out that censoring "political speech" is different than censoring sites that have some infringing content, but that ignores reality. We've seen oppressive regimes abuse copyright law to oppress dissidents. SOPA & PIPA give those regimes the perfect cover story for doing more of that: just claim they violated copyright law, and the US says it's just dandy to censor and suppress speech.
- The immunity provisions in the bill sneak through broad powers by pretending they're "voluntary." Supporters insist that these bills will only be used against the worst of the worst. But they're purposely ignoring the broad immunity provisions in the bill -- and the history of similar immunity provisions. The immunity provisions basically say that, if you become aware of a site that may be infringing, you will get full immunity if you take the actions prescribed in the bill (i.e., cutting them off). As we've seen with the DMCA, such a grant of immunity means that if you hear of a site that is accused, you are very, very likely to cut them off, just to make sure you retain that immunity. Why risk it otherwise? Only a few sites may stand up to the worst abuses. The rest will want to make sure they don't have any future legal fight and will quickly cut the site off -- at which point there's no real recourse.
- These bills will be abused. Just like every copyright law that's been passed. It's common knowledge that the DMCA is widely abused to take down content that is not infringing. But, at least with the DMCA it's targeted at specific content. With SOPA, entire sites will be taken down. Supporters insist that a "court reviews" these, and so there's no worry there. Tell that to Dajaz1.com, the blog that was incorrectly seized and censored for over a year with no due process under existing law (something we should definitely be revisiting). How can we say the new law won't be abused when the old law is already regularly abused?
Yes, the DNS blocking provisions of the original bills made these even worse, but delaying (not removing) these provisions doesn't fix all of those other problems.
As for some of the misinformation -- including the claims that SOPA would be used to take down US sites -- well, that's the supporters' own damn fault. They pushed to make SOPA so bad that that absolutely was the case with the original bill, and only changed after massive pushback from the online community. If they hadn't pushed to include that in the first place, perhaps this wouldn't be an issue. But, really, worrying about the takedown of American sites is an issue that's separate from SOPA/PIPA... in that it's already allowed under US law. Just witness the Dajaz1 case we mentioned above... and worry about the fact that we didn't have this day of protest before the ProIP Act was approved, which sneakily allowed that to happen.
These bills do not solve the problem, because they're targeting the wrong problem. And, to make matters worse, they do so in a way that creates tremendous collateral damage. This is no way to regulate.
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Hong Kong Milk Formula Hotline Flooded With Calls
Got milk formula? If you can't find any in your local supermarket, Hong Kong's government is telling parents, 'just give us a call.'
Over the weekend, the government began manning a temporary 24-hour hotline helping parents order milk formula, which has nearly disappeared off shelves in some areas thanks to the crush of mainland Chinese shoppers preparing for Chinese Lunar New Year. In its first two days of operation, it received more than 3,800 calls, Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-Man said Sunday.
On Friday, Mr. Ko blamed the shortage of milk powder on parallel traders "draining infant supply from Hong Kong" and promised an extensive crackdown.
In addition to creating a 24-hour hotline, the government said it would propose amending the city's legislation to cap the amount of milk formula individuals can take out of the city per trip at two tins, a plan that may be considered as early as next month. Such a measure, officials said, would make it more expensive for parallel traders to operate, as they'd have to make more frequent trips.
As the Lunar New Year approaches and the number of mainland Chinese in the city state swells, emotions are running particularly high.
A petition created last week on whitehouse.gov, for example—headlined "Baby Hunger Outbreak in Hong Kong, International Aid Requested"—has already garnered more than 13,400 signatures in just a few days. The text of the petition slams the "smugglers from mainland China [who] storm to this tiny city to buy milk powder and resell for huge profits in China."
Milk powder is a popular gift in the mainland, where distrust of the country's dairy supply is deeply entrenched, thanks to previous poisoned milk scandals.
Starting today, travelers can also expect greater scrutiny when riding the city's subway system. New weight restrictions are now in place on a trial basis that ban suitcases heavier than 50 pounds, in a further effort to deter parallel traders. (The previous weight limit was 70 pounds.) Scales are already in place at a number of subway stops near the border and will be further expanded to other locations, officials said Friday.
Some of these measures may be temporary, said Mr. Ko. At the moment, though, he said, given the number of complaints from local mothers, "The government doesn't have any other choice." Officials will continue to monitor the market after Chinese New Year to decide if these policies are still needed, he said Friday.
And if parents are worried about whether their children will have milk formula during the holiday season, he assured them that all orders phoned in through the government hotline will be delivered before Chinese New Year. To ensure that the system is used by Hong Kong locals and not mainland Chinese, officials said parents using it may be required to show the child's birth certificate.
Since September, some 2,000 people trying to cross into Hong Kong from mainland China have been turned away on suspicion of being parallel traders. Nearly 100 parallel traders, mostly mainland Chinese, have also been sentenced to prison stints of up to two months since last fall.
-- Te-Ping Chen. Follow her on Twitter @tepingchen.
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