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the reason for the delay has nothing to do with negotiations and deals with hollywood this time; instead, it's a technology issue, with the problem coming from the advanced access content system (aacs) copy protection. the details have not been given out, but it seems the problem lies with the actual hd-dvd players and problems they are having with the aacs copy protection. aacs is integrated into both the players and the discs themselves to prevent copying. toshiba's official line is that "various industry participants are in the process of finalizing the last details for implementation of aacs."
until this problem is rectified, the initial japanese launch will be delayed, meaning it will no longer happen in 2005 as planned. a new launch date has not been announced, but toshiba is still aiming for a u.s. release in the first quarter of 2006. the delay means that whenever the launch takes place, it will happen closer to the launch of the rival blu-ray format, expected in the spring alongside the release of the sony playstation 3 games console.
read more from the associated press article.
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toshiba really needs to get this format off the ground and into the shops in order to build up consumer knowledge and marketshare. the momentum is with blu-ray at the moment, and the launch of the playstation 3 is going to put that rival format into millions of homes. consumers won't need to buy a separate player if they have a ps3, meaning it is better value for some than the hd-dvd alternative.
with a q1 2006 launch still on the cards, toshiba may just beat blu-ray to market. with consumers seemingly quite happy with dvds at the moment, i think hd-dvd is going to have a struggle on its hands. the only thing that will overcome this initial "why should i upgrade?" period is massive support from the film industry. every new film release needs to have a hd-dvd version on the shelves. if that doesn't happen, hd-dvd will have a hard time winning the format wars.
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|jeebus! (8:35am est wed dec 14 2005)
don't they realize, whatever they come up with, people are just going to crack anyway?
they stand to loose more by dragging thier feet than they do potential piracy, which is probably going to occur no matter what they have for a protection scheme.
put something easy in place to keep your average schmo from dubbing the movie with commercially available off-the-shelf hardware/software (kinda like the current css on dvd's)and let it go. – by terminally cranky
|so… (8:44am est wed dec 14 2005)
what's hd-dvd again? – by yawner
|re:terminally (9:04am est wed dec 14 2005)
i completely agree, all they are doing is creating a challenge for a few hundred people. i will give it a week after they are released and there will be a program out there to copy them! – by yep
|hmmmm (9:06am est wed dec 14 2005)
most people don't know what either one is. heck, most people don't know that a replacement for the dvd is on the way.
blu-ray will win. toshiba should cut it's losses now.
|hmm (9:08am est wed dec 14 2005)
as someone who does not have the ability to sit still long enough to see an entire movie.. i don�t think hd high definition will make any difference.
ergo in my case it is a moot point.
tc is absolutely correct it will be cracked and hacked….
i for one support the underground in these matters.. the movie association and the riaa are taking away your rights to backup your data. why? i could go into a global conspiracy involving the illuminati and the bushes but that would be wrong??? the simple matter of it is they believe they should get more of our hard earned money to pay the useless people of our society (actors) that�s right! �actors� are useless people.. self-promotion and self-gratification is their driving force. why do they pay them millions? why are people even interested in their existence?
because they tell us to be interested! paris hilton is a prime example of the effect of media and self promotion on a weak minded society.
its not that hard to extrapolate that to all of hollywood and the main stream media.
further it is diversion for people from the tedium and mediocrity of their existence. they wont be rioting on the streets as long as there attention is on hollywood.
– by spaz
|re: yawner… (9:10am est wed dec 14 2005)
you need it…period!
you gotta have it, and dont just ask why.
it is a must!
can anyone remember the good old vhs days? – by j35ter
|holymoly! (9:20am est wed dec 14 2005)
hd-dvd is not going to be out this year! all two weeks left of it as well. – by voices
|re: spaz (9:26am est wed dec 14 2005)
i could easily say the same thing about your sports idols. if the world were fair, actors & atheletes would sit around wondering why schoolteachers make so much money!
as far as any copy protection schemes, the only care is for sony to lose! – by crash
|huh (9:29am est wed dec 14 2005)
increase the read and write speeds, allow write burns on the disk on the fly and you have a disk storage that runs windows,linux ect.. instead of using harddrive. – by bla
|mindless in america (9:30am est wed dec 14 2005)
you hit it right on the nail spaz – by humdinger
|re:spaz (9:37am est wed dec 14 2005)
who cares about hollywood, these actors are very insecure, thats why they love all the attention they get. they dont work hard, a so called hollywood workaholic works 6 hours straight in 2 months, thats what they consider hard work. they make more money than ceo's,doctors,politicians,hard working college degree ppl,teachers. actors get paid for doing charity work or fundraisers, they pay $2k to party for a good cause, give me a break. live 8 concert didnt do anything for ppl who suffer but it did promote super ego's of actors and musicians.
in reality the magority dont give a shit about hollywood, its just those few with no self esteem who do. – by bla
|speaking of actors… (9:48am est wed dec 14 2005)
anyone check out the miss digial world article on slashdot?
we need to look at it this way:
the final fantasy movie was in theaters over 5 years ago, and was started almost 10 years ago.
things have progressed greatly since the. yes i know the movie was a flop, and it wasn't all that good, but the charecters square wasn't rushed in creating i.e. that main character girl (i forgot her name) looked absolutely phenominal and this was years ago. can you imagine what a total effort started now would look like?
its my opinion that the only reason we even have human actors is due to the foolish actors guild. i guarantee the final fantasy movie made them poop thier pants in terror! nails in the coffin. – by terminally cranky
|timing is everything (9:54am est wed dec 14 2005)
first to market, with a viable solution often gains the competitive edge simply due to having 100% marketshare for a period of time.
cinncinati microwave made the first passport radar detector. for nearly a decade, they were the 'go to' people for radar detectors … why? they were first. sure, others made comparable (some would argue better or worse), cheaper, and more easily obtainable (passports were only available mail order) detectors but everyone wanted the passport.
if blu-ray hits the market, and i buy one for my pc i'll likely buy a player for my home theater too. then when hd-dvd comes out i simply won't care. why? because i'll have a sizeable investment in both time and energy with the blu-ray. – by hodar
|re:terminally cranky (10:05am est wed dec 14 2005)
although i do believe that digital actors will revolutionize movies, and very likely diminish the paycheck human actors receive, i doubt that they will replace human actors.
why? people want someone they can relate to. after the novelty of digitial goddess's wear off, people will want to see a 'real person'. also, consider the costs of animating a team of realistic 'aa' (artificial actors), development and ect. you will still need 'voice talent', to place emphasis and emotion to the script.
what i do imagine, is that some actors will team up with a virtual aa, such that difficult stunts, or scenes depicting beauty that no human has are done by the aa, while the rest of the movie is done by the human. this way the human has the illusion of a perfect body without 90 gazillion hours in the gym and plastic surgery (thanks aa), yet the mundane scenes which make up 90% of the movie are done by the human (walking in traffic, conversations, ect). – by hodar
|re: hodar (10:35am est wed dec 14 2005)
voice actors are relatively expendable…animation costs will drop as machines take over the animation with better ai. you have to look at what real actors cost per movie. with aa's you pretty much pay the money up front, once its drawn, it can be re-used in following movies.
as for relating to actors…
i can relate more with machines than i can with actors. atleast they don't take up whine-a$$ charities that i don't agree with. ha ha! – by terminally cranky
|not just delayed….doa (11:20am est wed dec 14 2005)
the only people who will buy hddvd will be those who don't know any better and are confused by the system having "dvd" in its name and were asleep when blue ray equipment hit the shelves. – by rcaman
|huh (11:34am est wed dec 14 2005)
actors only lended their voices, human emotion direction came from the ppl who were rendering the movie not the actors,shrek,finding nemo,monster inc, ect.. actors could be easily replaced by 3d. the only thing the 3d movie creators need to do is lend their own voices and thats it. – by bla
|yes, yes… (11:47am est wed dec 14 2005)
hd-dvds are great!….for me to poop on! – by insult_comic_dog
|re:bla (11:54am est wed dec 14 2005)
finding nemo cost pixar ~90 million.
shrek cost ~$70 million.
now, follow-on movies from these characters should be much cheaper however aa is not a cost savings panacea quite yet.
the talent it takes to create the illusion of aa to move 'like humans' is non-trivial. the human eye is very keen at picking up abnormal movement. remember the movie titanic? there is a scene of the titanic on the ocean, with a deck full of people wandering about their business. the ship, the ocean and the environment looked super. however, the aa looked hokey people moved in an unusual way, their pace, their gestures, were all wrong. it stuck out.
this talent (to make aa move 'realistically') is limited and by the laws of supply and demand, this talent is not going to come cheap.
will the aa movement gather steam? yes, definitely. will it replace real actors anytime soon? nope – by hodar
|re: hodar… (12:10pm est wed dec 14 2005)
again…titanic was made going on 10 years ago. i'm sure with a lil' effort we could devise if they havent already, ai algorithms that allow the director so simply give the aa directions to the extent of "move at this vector, at this speed" and the computer does the rest…hair placement, movement etc…and then the director could go back through and make minor corrections and so on… – by terminally cranky
|hd-dvd "will not be seeing the light of day this year. "??? (12:27pm est wed dec 14 2005)
you realize this year has only 2 weeks left in it right???
hd-dvd, regardless of it's technical problems is going to make it. even if blueray dominates hd-dvd will make it even if it's only on xbox's. anytime you have both microsoft and intel in your corner you're most likely going to have a viable product.
depending on just how shitty microsoft wanted to play (and they can play pretty shitty) they could force hd-dvd by making life miserable for supporting blueray in their os. it's probably illegal, but since when has that stopped microsoft. they've stood up to the likes of apple and the doj in court with few illeffects to their bottom line.
i work in the storage industry and even when ms does something stupid we kill ourselves to be compatible. why because if you don't opperate with ms, rightly, wrongly, or just because, your market share takes a 90% hit and your company goes out of business.
if technical merit was all that mattered the x86 architecture would have been replaced by something else a long time ago (powerpc, dec alpha, ibm risc, etc, etc) – by ee
|that's a good idea! (12:45pm est wed dec 14 2005)
that will give the little hackers enought time to…
…have a crack ready when it is released!!!… – by the woz
|ok, say they finally released it and (1:15pm est wed dec 14 2005)
began mass production. then, a kid from finland find a way to decrypt the system. then what? – by just zeros and ones
|one thing i don't understand… (2:42pm est wed dec 14 2005)
there has been all this talk about millions and millions of ps3s boosting the blu-ray camp. it doesn't add up.
first, we don't know when the ps3 will show up or it if will be a hit (lot of developers are hinting it is a bear to develop for).
second, even if it is eventually a hit (which i do expect – i like the cell and think it will eventually come into its own), there is nothing to suggest that millions and millions of the ps3 will be produce during 2006. the cell is not a small chip and there is a lot of demand for 65 nm products.
third, i seriously doubt the ps3 will be a "good" dvd player. the cheap dvd players many people have now are fine because they have 480i tvs that don't show the flaws. transmit the same image on a hd tv and the user will quickly determine the dvd player is a pos. and the only reason to move to the ps3 or the sbox 360 is if you have a hd tv. so not many people who care about movie quality will want to use the ps3 to watch movies. and those are the only people who will want to spend money buying hd content.
therefore, i think which ever camp gets a good and cheap player out in the marketplace first wins. remember, the differnece between blu-ray or hd dvd is meaningless when it comes to watching movies, both have plenty of space for a hd movie.
so i don't see much monentum for either camp, just lots of inertia. and the real issue is when will the blu-ray players (not the ps3) be on the market vs. when will the hd dvd players will be on the market. – by ip student
|re: terminally cranky (3:25pm est wed dec 14 2005)
it costs pixar as much to make an animated movie, and probably only reaps 1/2 the amount that it put out.
btw: most of the film industry is privately funded, but they still have funds coming in from the government to help them make the movie in the first place. – by
|huh (3:40pm est wed dec 14 2005)
hd and blue ray is not only about dvd content but also for data storage and backup purposes. blue ray will be able to hold godfather 1-3 on 1 disk. blue ray is comming out with 100gig 1side. hd quality still wont be as good as 4000×4000 pure visual film quality. – by bla
|re:blah (4:13pm est wed dec 14 2005)
"hd and blue ray is not only about dvd content but also for data storage and backup purposes."
one would like to believe you are correct however i can state with calm factualism (is that a word?) that this is not the case. tape will be with us for some time to come.
why? it's messy, expensive, dirty and prone to all kinds of mechanical issues.
because, you can get 400 gig on a single tape. the tape automation units have robotic loaders, so you can have multiple tape units, sharing 100+ tapes, with a robot that loads each tape unit with a tape that is monitored by a tape library controller.
this methodology is mature, it's established, companies have decades worth of tape, they have proven reliability, and although the tape transfer rate isn't blazing it's fast enough.
one would think that a big ol' jukebox of blu-ray disks, and a couple of those blu-ray writers would be a nice neat, simple solution. but not for at least the next 5-10 years.
besides, the reliability of blu-ray as an archiving media has not been verified. tape has a statistically demonstratable reliability attached to it.
i do wish, however your assumption was true it would make my life far easier. – by hodar
|cost???? (9:22pm est wed dec 14 2005)
i figure hd-dvd players will launch at a price of $699.99 and perhaps drop down to $499.99 by the end of next year.
if the ps3 cost $499.99, very few people (with common sense) will buy a hd-dvd player. – by fat onion
|re: fat onion (10:47pm est wed dec 14 2005)
it depends.
if the new hd video players are all equally good then you might have a point. if there is a significant difference in quality then i think you are wrong. the people who are paying 2000-4000 for a tv are not going to want a weak video player. in addition, blu-ray is sticking with mpeg2. newer codecs may offer a better color gamut.
so i think the verdict is anything but certain. if the ps3 does do a good job with video and can output digital 5.1 or 6.1 then it will be a bargain and sony should sell all they can make (and probably lose 200-400 per machine).
but i suspect the blu-ray player is more of gimmic, just like the dvd players are on the current round of consoles. remember that a hd tv will raise the bar so it will be interesting to see if sony can get over it. – by ip student
|bluray and ps3 will both flop (12:12am est thu dec 15 2005)
both the ps3 and bluray are likely to flop big time. why?
merril lynch estimates the cost of building a ps3 to be twice that of an xbox 360. of course sony could try to take a big loss on each unit, but if they want to play that game, microsoft is in a much better position to win (sony is already loosing money).
given that there will be a lot of uncertainty about which video format will win, i'll bet the average joe consumer won't be willing to pony up for such a high price premium on the ps3. this will be especially true since there will be more an better looking games for the 360 by the time the ps3 ships. furthermore, there's a lot of stuff in the ps3, like 1080p support, that drives up the cost but won't make any difference to the user since 99.999% of the potential users will not have a 1080p display.
of course the hard-core ps3 fans will run out an buy a ps3 when it ships, but what about the average joe?
another big factor in favor of the hd-dvd camp is that they are going directly to china for manufacturing at ultra-low-cost. sony apparently wants to keep manufacturing in japan, as is traditional for japanese companies, to keep profit margins high.
of course, we could all just wait a year, or two (or three) to see how the battle all works out.
|gaming (1:33am est fri dec 16 2005)
first off microsoft and sony are both losing money in the console wars right now. bill gates was saying how that maybe, maybe this time around they might see a profit with the xbox. it's about the games that are being sold that's where the money comes from.
as for as gaming goes nothing is ever going to compare to pc/mac games, and eveything is always going to be outdated.
even if this is released next year it isn't feasible to the average consumer to put money into any of this shit, look at how long it took people to move over to dvd and there are still a fuckload of people that haven't or don't care to. – by clumsy


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Attorney: Man Facing Federal Child Sex Charges Found Dead On Day Of Court Appearance
An attorney for a man accused of child sex crimes said his client was found dead on Friday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
James A. Mills, 71, was accused of sexually exploiting children, and was scheduled to be in federal court on Friday for an arraignment hearing. Mills' attorney said a plea deal was possible as part of the hearing.
According to Gahanna Police Lt. Tom Basso, a friend went to the home, located in the 200 block of Flint Ridge Drive in Gahanna, on Friday morning to check on the homeowner and found a body in the backyard.
Police would not confirm whether the body was Mills, but his attorney told 10TV that it was his client.
Police did say that the person who died was killed by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. No foul play is suspected.
"I think the neighborhood will be relieved that the activity that was taking place is not taking place anymore," said Holly Sharp, who lives three houses down from Mills' home.
Sharp and other neighbors told 10TV Mills' home had been a hub of illegal activity. They say that activity had a noticeable drop-off after authorities arrested Mills twice last year.
Mills was arrested in September and then again in November on child sex charges.
According to Gahanna officials, Mills was arrested on Nov. 16 by Gahanna police on behalf of Homeland Security Investigations.
Mills faced federal charges in connection with child pornography.
Gahanna officials said that the arrest warrant in November alleged that Mills knowingly persuaded or coerced a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing pornography that has traveled across interstate or national boundaries.
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Those favouring structure repeatedly voice concerns about the slippery slope to religious self-indulgence. In the modern period this argument re-emerged between Chasidim and the Mitnagdim of eastern Europe. Today it is echoed in the arguments between traditional religion and some of the forms of New Ageism.
Just how precarious treading the path between these two poles can be is seen in the tragic events surrounding the death of Aaron's two sons, Nadab and Abihu, after offering an incense fire not commanded by God. The 18th-century Chasidic master, Rabbi Elimelech of Lizenshk, claims that these two young men were saturated with an ecstatic desire to elevate their physical world to the Divine presence. Rather than being a rebellion against God, it was intended to be the ultimate gift for Him. But it was an exercise that went terribly wrong.
The dangers in this highly individualistic approach are clear. Firstly, even the most noble goals of drawing close to God need to be performed within a certain rubric. Otherwise it may be nothing more than an expression of religious narcissism. Secondly, a great deal of self honesty is required to be sure that these elevated intentions are indeed true, and not a form of spiritual posing.
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Artist Andrew DeGraff is a man who's spent some serious quality time with the Star Wars series, as evidenced by the maps of the A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi for an upcoming show at G1988 Melrose.
Each character is represented as a colored line, and follows their progress through the entire film. The alternating colored lines represent characters traveling together who have a special bond, sometimes for only a short time like Chewie(brown) and 3PO(yellow) when Chewie is repairing him. Han(navy) and Chewie have a bond, R2(royal blue) when co-piloting for Luke (light blue), [etc.]
If you simply must have all things Star Wars, these would be a great addition to any collection when they become available, but Indiana Jones' fans should also be excited by DeGraff's plans to illustrate the travels of Hollywood's favorite archaeologist in the near future.
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Madison County sheriff's Capt. Jimmy Patton said the investigation is ongoing, but that all indications are that the shooting was an accident. Patton said the father is extremely distraught over the death of his son, Briar Newsome of Carlton.
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Ashley Judd Would Have Lost to Mitch McConnell
(This is a response to Margaret Carlson's column.)
Unlike you, Margaret, I think Ashley Judd's decision not to run against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is good news for the Democrats -- if bad news for political journalists.
The Democrats' zeal to take out McConnell has some partisan history behind it. When Senator John Thune beat Tom Daschle in the South Dakota Senate race in 2004, it was the first time a Senate party leader had lost since the 1950s. Democrats regretted all their defeats that year, but that one particularly stung. Ever since, both parties have tried to add to their scalp collection.
In 2010, Republicans desperately wanted to take out Daschle's successor, Harry Reid of Nevada, but failed when their nomination went to Sharron Angle. (She's the one, you'll recall, who mused about "Second Amendment remedies" for Reid's baleful influence.) In 2014, Democrats would love for McConnell to go the way of Daschle.
A few polls have shown him with low approval ratings in Kentucky. Most of the state's top-tier Democrats have turned down the chance to run against him, though, and so the actress Ashley Judd was considering a run. Republicans thought she would be the Democrats' Sharron Angle because she took positions far to the left of Kentuckians. The fact that Judd also lives in Tennessee made them like her prospective candidacy even more.
McConnell, meanwhile, might be theoretically vulnerable from the right -- some of those low approval ratings surely come from conservatives who think he is not confrontational enough against President Barack Obama, hard as that is for liberals to believe. McConnell has, however, worked hard to prevent any primary challenge. In 2010, Senator Rand Paul beat McConnell's hand-picked candidate in the primary in 2010. The two have since become allies. McConnell has hired Paul's campaign manager and supported Paul's filibuster last month.
So McConnell looks safe. Even better from his perspective, a lot of Democrats elected in red states during their party's wave year of 2008 are now up for re-election and can't say the same thing.
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There, he was subjected to electroshock therapy and heavy doses of Thorazine. After being released, he spent the next few decades undertaking new musical projects, claiming to be an extraterrestrial, and living under the eye of his heavily religious mother (among other things). It was only after legal custody of Roky was awarded to his younger brother in 2001 that he began recovering, regaining control of his life to the point where he is now able to make music again, even playing several shows and festivals in the past and near future.
A documentary about Erickson's life, entitled You're Gonna Miss Me (via Palm Pictures), is due for a theater release on June 8 and a DVD release July 10. Note to movie producers: I think I can speak for all aspiring musicians dabbling in recreational drug use from Texas who have religious parents when I say the recent documentaries about Erickson and Daniel Johnson have not exactly been the most encouraging. Just one movie about someone not suffering from schizophrenia by their late 40s would be a serious breath of fresh air. It's difficult to complain though, because at least judging by the trailer on the film's website, this movie is going to be a much-needed retrospective on the important achievements and far-out events in the life of one of the most influential musicians of the 1960s.
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1/1/13 - Happy New Year & a new beginning (Day 1 again)
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Happy New Year to all! Today I begin again, not just logging on and gaining points, but this morning I weighed myself for the first time in months and took my measurements. Although I wanted to cry a bit, the reality is I am now 4lbs higher than my highest weight when I first started SP back in 2009 (I believe). I even took "now" photos, although I choose not to post them here... at least for now. I also reset my goals because this journey can be difficult enough so I did not want any weight loss history to still show as this could have given me reason to self-doubt - which I am working on not allowing to happen this time around.
With the new year and my renewed desire to get and keep the weight off, here are some of my plans:
* Tomorrow I self-refer myself to a new Dr. - an Endocrinologist - who hopefully will do much more for my me and my thyroid than my current Dr. has done in the past several years (ugh)
* Tomorrow I call a good friend, who is also a Certified Massage Therapist, who has done wonders in the past for any knots and kinks I've had in my back/neck and schedule an awesome maintenance massage so she can work the massive amounts of stress knots I currently hold.
* Today I will do my first workout of the new year - it will not be a long one, but it will serve its purpose. I currently feel it best not to overdo since I know I'm tied up in knots.
* Today I will write a list of short-term goals and place the first couple on the Goals section of my page.
*All year - I will continue to logon and post so as to keep myself on track - I will continue to include motivational quotes because so many of them fit this journey well.
*All year - I will do my best to not become obsessed with the scale or my measurements as this can lead to frustration (and I think saying it will help me to remember this!)
Ok that's enough for now.... and I close this post with more motivational quotes....
"Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan." ~ Paul J. Meyer
"Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest of most long-lasting sense of fulfillment." ~ Anthony Robbins
Here's to overcoming obstacles and achieving our goals!!
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Sexuality, Politics and Refugees: Who gets to belong?
Wednesday, September 23, 7 to 9 p.m.
Guest: Zaki Malak
Moderator: Edward Lee
Venue: Le Cagibi, 5490 St-Laurent (@ St-Viateur)
In many countries throughout the world homosexuality is considered illegal and millions of people face execution, imprisonment, torture, violence and discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The past several decades have seen the decriminialization of homosexuality in Canada, and a slowly growing acceptance towards gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender/transsexual (LGBT) individuals as the laws, cultures and attitudes change. These changes have also led to Canada becoming a perceived safe-haven for LGBT refugee claimants from countries where their sexual orientation often leads to persecution. In this conversation we will discuss some of the realities that force individuals to seek refuge in Canada, the challenges that LGBT claimants experience in the refugee process, and how successful claimants view their lives in their new land.
conversation is organized in collaboration with Ethnoculture, a not-for-profit organization whose mandate is to organize events for and about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual/transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) ethnic minorities, queers of colour, and Two-Spirited people in Montreal. The goal of these events is to help such individuals break free from their invisibility, silence and isolation. This year's event, titled Affirm-Action, takes place Oct. 2-4, 2009.
Born and raised in Egypt, Zaki Malak was forced to leave his country after spending four years in prison due to his homosexuality. He arrived in Canada in August 2006 and was granted asylum in January 2007. He is currently doing a master's degree in Computer Science at Concordia University.
Edward Lee is currently completing his Master of Social Work at McGill and serves as the research coordinator for a community-based queer refugee research project. He is starting his Ph.D. at McGill in the fall. Ed is a member of the Ethnoculture coordinating committee and has been heavily involved in LGBT refugee issues and activism concerning queer people of colour in general.


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Attorney E-Newsletter
May 2011
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Draws Tough Line on Judicial Recusal
- Disciplinary Board Proposes New Electronic Filing Rules
- PA IOLTA Offers Online Donation Option
- New Leadership of Disciplinary Board Chosen
- Web of Deceit
- Somebody Said from Dylan He'd Quote
- Got a Tip?
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Draws Tough Line on Judicial Recusal
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued two decisions in April in which it ordered the recusal of trial judges.
In the case of In Re: Adoption of L.J.B., the Court, in an opinion by Justice Baer, determined sua sponte that the trial judge should be recused from an adoption and custody case upon remand, after showing a pattern of conduct which the Court characterized as favoring the father. The Court also found that the only other judge in the judicial district, who had presided over some of the proceedings in the extended matter, had failed to consider the trial judge's appearance of impropriety. The Court concluded,
Given what has to be a collaborative relationship and considering both of their involvements in this case, we believe justice, and, as importantly, the interests of L.J.B. [the child], who has suffered enough for a lifetime, would best be served by a fresh pair of eyes and a fresh perspective. Thus, we order that all additional proceedings involving these parties be entertained by a new jurist from a different judicial district, as coordinated by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.
Justice Saylor filed a concurring opinion in which Chief Justice Castille concurred, expressing doubt that there was proof of actual bias, an assessment with which Justice Baer concurred in a footnote. Justices Eakin and Melvin filed dissenting opinions expressing the view that the judgment should be reversed and not remanded, with which Justice Todd concurred, while concurring with the opinion of the Court that the matter should be decided on remand by a judge from a different judicial district.
Commonwealth v. Dougherty was a criminal case in which the judge who heard the defendant's PCRA called the defendant "vile" in the course of the hearing, then ordered that the remark be stricken from the transcript. In a per curiam order, the Court found that the PCRA adjudication provided an insufficient basis for review, and also that the judge erred in denying a motion for recusal, and so remanded the matter for rehearing before a new PCRA judge. In a concurring statement joined by Justices McCaffery and Melvin, Justice Baer said that the remark itself would not warrant recusal, but that the alteration of the transcript to remove the remark was, and that furthermore the judge's subsequent attack on defense counsel for filing the recusal motion created an appearance of impropriety and reinforced the case for recusal. Justice Eakin filed a concurring and dissenting statement in which he concurred in much of Justice Baer's statement and dissented as to other issues.
Disciplinary Board Proposes New Electronic Filing Rules
The Disciplinary Board has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemakingt at 41 Pa.B. 2517 (5/21/11).[1] The rulemaking sets forth extensive changes to Rules 218 and 219 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Disciplinary Enforcement to reflect the new procedures for electronic filing of annual attorney registration statements.
Additions to subdivisions (a), (c) and (d) of Rule 219 give an attorney the option of filing the annual fee form by electronic medium. The new rule codifies electronic filing, which was implemented by the Disciplinary Board with the assistance of the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts for use by attorneys beginning with the 2011-2012 registration year.
A second major change to Rule 219 would eliminate the requirement of sending delinquency notices to attorneys who fail to timely register by July 1. It proposes two non-waivable late payment penalties, the first to be automatically assessed on July 15 (fifteen days after the due date) and the second to be automatically assessed on September 1 (48 days after the initial delinquency assessment). New subdivision (f) provides that after the assessment of the second late payment penalty, the Attorney Registration Office will refer the names of non-compliant attorneys to the Supreme Court for administrative suspension. Delinquency notices are unnecessary because Rule 219 provides adequate notice to attorneys to register on an annual basis and to do so by July 1. All attorneys are required to be familiar with the rules, and Rule 219 provides constructive notice to all Pennsylvania attorneys of their obligation to complete registration by July 1.
The third procedural change to Rule 219 is in subdivision (d)(1)(ii). An attorney may request through the Attorney Registration Office that the contact information provided by the attorney not be published on the Board's website or otherwise disclosed. The request must be in writing and provide "good cause" for the grant of the request. The Board may still disclose information in compliance with a valid subpoena.
Another set of changes concerns lawyers who seek reinstatement after being inactive, retired, administratively suspended, or suspended for a term not exceeding one year.
- The amendment would make it clear that a petition must be filed if there is an uninterrupted term of license inactivity that exceeds three years, even if that inactivity is not all due to the same status.
- New Subsection (4) of subdivision (k) requires an attorney administratively suspended from inactive status who seeks to return to inactive status to pay an administrative processing fee of $100.00, to cover the time and cost of reviewing the attorney's records, calculating the fees and penalties, and changing the records to reflect the new status. This has been agency practice but would be codified in the rule.
- An attorney who has been administratively suspended from active status for failure to file the annual form and pay the annual fee must be reinstated to active status under subdivision (h) before becoming eligible to register as inactive or retired.
- Finally, a one-year grace period for attorneys inactive by court order to request and achieve active status in order to avoid transfer to administrative suspension is eliminated because, hey, it's been two years.
This is, believe it or not, an abbreviated summary of the rulemaking. If any of this sounds like something you should be concerned about and/or comment on, read the rulemaking. Interested persons are invited to submit written comments by mail or facsimile regarding the proposed amendments to the Office of the Secretary, The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 601 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 5600, PO Box 62625, Harrisburg, PA 17106-2625, fax 717-231-3382, on or before July 1, 2011.
While we are on the subject of electronic filing, we should mention something which some thought we should have mentioned before: there is a "convenience fee" of $2.75 for online payment.[2]
PA IOLTA Offers Online Donation Option
Speaking of online options, this month's guest editorial is from Stephanie S. Libhart, Assistant Director of the PA IOLTA Board. She writes,
Recently, Chief Justice Ronald Castille encouraged every actively licensed Pennsylvania attorney to take on one pro bono case or to make a contribution to support legal aid or pro bono efforts. If every attorney took on a pro bono case, nearly 60,000 low income people would receive help with a critical civil legal problem, such as seeking a protective order against an abusing spouse, or legal help when confronting the loss of the family's home. If every active attorney in Pennsylvania made a $50 contribution, $3 million would be raised to make certain that the poorest of our communities enjoy the same access to the courts as those who are able to pay for assistance. Making a contribution is easier than ever. Look for the solicitation letter on blue paper which was included in your annual registration packets. Or visit www.paiolta.org/donate/ today and make a donation.
They make it easy. So do it!
New Leadership of Disciplinary Board Chosen
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has appointed Sal Cognetti, Lackawanna County, Chair of the Disciplinary Board, and Stewart Cohen, Philadelphia County, as Vice Chair for 2011-2012.
Mr. Cognetti, a partner at Foley, Cognetti, Comerford, Cimini, & Cummins in Scranton, and a civil practitioner specializing in personal injury litigation, has served as a member of the Board since 2006. In 2000, former Governor Tom Ridge appointed Cognetti to serve as a judge of the Court of Judicial Conduct, and, in 2003, Cognetti was elected President Judge of the Court. With his recent appointment as Chair of the Disciplinary Board, Cognetti becomes the first lawyer to have led the two highest disciplinary bodies in Pennsylvania. Cognetti is the former owner, vice-president and general counsel of Jos. Notarianni & Co., Inc., and is also a former Chairman of the Board of First Family Bank in Clifton, N.J. Cognetti presently serves as a Trustee for Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. He and his wife, Susan, are the parents of nine children.
Mr. Cohen has served as a member of the Board since April 2007. A private practice lawyer for clients across the nation, Cohen specializes in complex litigation, including individual and class action cases. He has represented plaintiffs in numerous groundbreaking cases, including a "Top 100 Jury Verdict" in the United States in 2005, and a "Top 20 Award" in New Jersey in 2009. Cohen and his wife, Karen, have raised three daughters and support a number of causes related to people with disabilities. Cohen is Emeritus member of the board of directors of the United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Philadelphia and Vicinity. On behalf of this organization, Cohen and his wife are co-chairing the 2011 UCP Motor Cars event. In addition, he served as the founding board member and is past president of the board of the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania.
Web of Deceit
This month's jawdropper disciplinary case is the matter of Paul Wayne Shoup, Jr., who came up with a clever way to make a little extra cash on the Internet. While working for a tax firm, he discovered that the website for Montgomery County had a page which listed corporations to whom real estate tax refunds were due and uncollected. Over a period of approximately two and a half years, he requested and received 69 tax refund checks in the total amount of $503,122.01, all of which he deposited to personal accounts. He failed to pay these checks over to their rightful owners, or indeed even to let the rightful owners know he was collecting on their behalf. His undoing occurred when one corporation, who happened to be a client of his firm, checked their listing and contacted the firm to find out what happened to their check. It all fell apart pretty quickly after that. Mr. Shoup was convicted of felony theft and served 60 days jail time. He also neglected to notify the Disciplinary Board.[3] Shoup signed a Resignation under Rule 215, Pa. R.D.E., and he was disbarred by order of the Supreme Court dated April 28, 2011.
Somebody Said from Dylan He'd Quote[4]
By the time you read this, Bob Dylan will have just turned 70. We have been known to celebrate his birthday in Mays past, but a genuine news story affords us cause to do so again on this auspicious occasion. Maybe he "don't want to judge nobody, don't want to be judged,"[5] but judges seem eager to work him into their judgments. That's the finding of a study by University of Tennessee professor Alex Long, who combed through legal databases for song references in legal filings and judicial opinions, and found Dylan invoked 186 times, far ahead of the rest of the top 10: the Beatles, 74; Bruce Springsteen, 69; Paul Simon, 59; Woody Guthrie, 43[6]; the Rolling Stones, 39; the Grateful Dead, 32; Simon & Garfunkel, 30; Joni Mitchell, 28; and R.E.M., 27. He found over half a dozen appellate opinions invoking a single line, "You don't need to be a weatherman/To see which way the wind blows."[7] It's common enough that we're sick of all this repetition[8].
The selection of artists may say much about the age of the country's judicial class, and perhaps its socioeconomic nature as well. The phenomenon has even given rise to entire legal seminars devoted to a single artist, such as a two-day Dylan in the Law session at Fordham University in April, and a daylong symposium on Bruce Springsteen at Widener University in Harrisburg in 2005[9].
The phenomenon has even reached the Supreme Court, in which both Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia have recently quoted the muse.
Perhaps the champion of legal Dylanization is New York University law professor Michael Perlin, a noted authority on mental health and disabilities law, who has written over 50 law review articles with Dylan lyrics in the titles.[10]
David Zornow, a partner at the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, notes that the respect judges show to Dylan isn't always mutual. "This is a guy who doesn't have a lot good to say about judges," says Zornow. He found only two references to judges that cast them as caring and professional. Most refer to corruption and caprice. Many of Dylan's legally oriented songs, such as "Percy's Song"[11], "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"[12], and "Hurricane"[13] are ballads of miscarriage of justice. Perhaps Mr. Dylan does not feel bound by his own observation that "I ain't a judge, you don't have to be nice to me."[14]
In any event, we hope the distinguished Mr. Dylan enjoyed a rewarding 70th, and hope for many more. We're glad he is still crazy after all these years.[15]
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[1] This announcement has nothing to do with reports that 5/21/11 is also the Judgment Day.
[3] Apparently the forgetful sort.
[4] "Man In the Long Black Coat", Oh Mercy (paraphrased)
[5] "Do Right to Me, Baby," Slow Train Coming.
[6] We confess to having concluded a brief in a lawyer discipline case with a line from "Pretty Boy Floyd": "Some will rob you with a six-gun/And some with a fountain pen."
[7] "Subterranean Homesick Blues," Bringing It All Back Home.
[8] "Queen Jane Approximately," Highway 61 Revisited.
[9] "Bruce Springsteen's Hope and the Lawyer as Poet Advocate," 14 Widener L.J. 867 (2005). Yeah, we were there. Most memorable: Supreme Court Justice Michael Eakin's setting of "Day in Court" to the rhythm of "Hungry Heart," The River.
[10] We tip our hats to Professor Perlin, an online friend. While we read books and repeat quotations ("Love Minus Zero/No Limit," Bringing It All Back Home), he writes them. We have reason to believe he draws conclusions on the wall (ibid.).
[11] Biograph.
[12] The Times They Are A-Changin'.
[13] Desire.
[14] "She's Your Lover Now," The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3.
[15] See #4 of the Top 10.


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Temporal range: Early Devonian
|Reconstruction of the sporophyte of Aglaophyton, illustrating bifurcating axes with terminal sporangia, and rhizoids. Insets show a cross-section of a sporangium and the probable spores.
|Scientific classification
D.S.Edwards 1986[1]
Aglaophyton major was the sporophyte generation of a diplohaplontic, pre-vascular, axial, free-sporing land plant of the Lower Devonian (Pragian stage, around 410 million years ago). It had anatomical features intermediate between those of the bryophytes and vascular plants or tracheophytes.
A. major was first described by Kidston and Lang in 1920 as the new species Rhynia major.[2] The species is known only from the Rhynie chert in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where it grew in the vicinity of a silica-rich hot spring, together with a number of associated vascular plants such as a smaller species Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii which may be interpreted as a representative of the ancestors of modern vascular plants and Asteroxylon mackei, which was an ancestor of modern clubmosses (Lycopsida).
The stems of Aglaophyton were round in cross-section, smooth, unornamented, and up to about 6mm in diameter. Kidston and Lang[2] interpreted the plant as growing upright, to about 50 cm in height, but Edwards[1] has re-interpreted it as having prostrate habit, with shorter aerial axes of about 15 cm height. The axes branched dichotomously, the aerial axes branching at a comparatively wide angle of up to 90°, and were terminated with elliptical, thick-walled sporangia, which when mature, opened by spiral slits, so that the sporangia appear to be spiral in form.[3] Sporangia contained many identical spores (isospores) bearing trilete marks. The spores may therefore be interpreted as meiospores, the product of meiotic divisions, and thus the plants described by Edwards and by Kidston and Lang were diploid, sporophytes. The plant was originally interpreted as a tracheophyte, because the stem has a simple central vascular cylinder or protostele,[2] but more recent interpretations in the light of additional data indicated that Rhynia major had water-conducting tissue lacking the secondary thickening bars seen in the xylem of Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii, more like the water-conducting system (hydrome) of moss sporophytes. Edwards[1] reinterpreted the species as non-vascular plant and renamed it Aglaophyton major.
Aglaophyton is among the first plants known to have had a mycorrhizal relationship with fungi,[4] which formed arbuscules in a well-defined zone in the cortex of its stems. Aglaophyton lacked roots, and like other rootless land plants of the Silurian and early Devonian may have relied on mycorrhizal fungi for acquisition of water and nutrients from the soil.
The male gametophyte of the species has been formally described,[5] which was assigned to a new form taxon Lyonophyton rhyniensis, but is now properly referred to as an Aglaophyton gametophyte. The Rhynie chert bears many examples of male and female gametophytes, which are loosely similar in their construction to the sporophyte phase, down to bearing rhizoids.[6]
Aglaophyton major was first described as Rhynia major by Kidston and Lang in 1920.[2] In 1986 D.S. Edwards re-examined fossil specimens and reported that they did not contain true vascular tissue, but rather conducting tissue more similar to that of bryophytes. As the diagnosis of Rhynia was that it was a vascular plant, he created a new genus, Aglaophyton, for this species.[7] (The other species of Rhynia,R. gwynne-vaughanii, was not affected.) As Rhynia major the species had been placed in the rhyniophytes, but no alternative higher level classification was proposed for the new genus.[1]
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- Phylum Aglaophyta [Lyonophyta]
- Class Aglaophytopsida
- Order Aglaophytales] [Lyonophytales Doweld 2001]
- Family Aglaophytaceae [Lyonophytaceae Doweld 2001]
- Genus Aglaophyton Edwards 1986 [Lyonophyton Remy & Remy 1980 form taxa- male gametophyte, thallus]
- Species Aglaophyton major (Kidston & Lang 1920) Edwards 1986 [Rhynia major Kidston & Lang 1920; Lyonophyton rhyniensis Remy & Remy 1980 form taxa- male gametophyte, thallus]
- Genus Aglaophyton Edwards 1986 [Lyonophyton Remy & Remy 1980 form taxa- male gametophyte, thallus]
- Family Aglaophytaceae [Lyonophytaceae Doweld 2001]
- Order Aglaophytales] [Lyonophytales Doweld 2001]
- Class Aglaophytopsida
In 2004, Crane et al. published a cladogram for the polysporangiophytes which places Aglaophyton as a sister of the vascular plants (tracheophytes), with the Horneophytopsida being sister to both.[8] The basis of the cladogram is that Aglaophyton has more developed conducting tissue than the Horneophytopsida, but does not have true vascular tissue.
- ^ a b c d e Edwards, David S. (1986), "Aglaophyton major, a non-vascular land-plant from the Devonian Rhynie Chert", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 93 (2): 173–204, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1986.tb01020.x
- ^ a b c d Kidston, R. & Lang, W.H. (1920), "On Old Red Sandstone plants showing structure, from the Rhynie Chert Bed, Aberdeenshire. Part II. Additional notes on Rhynia gwynne-vaughani, Kidston and Lang; with descriptions of Rhynia major, n.sp. and Hornea lignieri, n.g., n.sp.", Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 52: 603–627, doi:10.1017/s0080456800004488
- ^ Remy, W. & Hass, H. (1996), "New information on gametophytes and sporophytes of Aglaophyton major and inferences about possible environmental adaptations", Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 90 (3-4): 175–193, doi:10.1016/0034-6667(95)00082-8
- ^ Remy W, Taylor TN, Hass H, Kerp H (1994), "4 hundred million year old vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 91 (25): 11841–11843, Bibcode:1994PNAS...9111841R, PMC 45331 , PMID 11607500, doi:10.1073/pnas.91.25.11841.
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Handel zagraniczny panstw Grupy Wyszehradzkiej. Zmiany strukturalne i rola handlu wewnatrzgaleziowego
The goal of this article is to investigate structural adjustments in trade relations of the Visegrad countries resulting from their accession into the European Union and advanced stage of economic transition. Particular emphasis is placed on the similarity of adjustments in geographic trade patterns, the intensity and nature of intra-industry trade flows and their decomposition into horizontal and vertical IIT with up-market and down-market specialization. The paper utilizes a novel approach proposed by Ito and Okubo (2011) using the full information on price differentials in imports and exports to calculate unit value differences measure of intra-industry trade. The method brings a considerable improvement in comparison to previous methods. The empirical results for this particular group of small open-economies are compared with theoretical postulates of new trade theories. English summary. Paper in Polish.
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The W3C Pointer Events emerging standard continues to gain traction, advancing support for interoperable mouse, touch, and pen interactions across the web. Pointer Events makes it easier to support a variety of browsers and devices by saving Web developers from writing unique code for each input type. The specification continues to receive positive feedback from the developer community -- many are already embracing it as a unified model for cross-browser multi-modal input.
In our previous Blog on W3C Pointer Events, we highlighted feedback shared by members of the jQuery and Cordova teams. The Dojo team are also working on implementing Pointer Events in an upcoming release of the Dojo Toolkit:
The Dojo team has been watching the progress of Pointer Events in the W3C standardization process as it moves to Candidate Recommendation. We see Pointer Events as a great way to unify the disparate models that exist today for mouse, touch, and other pointer devices. Our team looks forward to implementing Pointer Events in the 2.0 release of the Dojo Toolkit. – Bill Keese, Dijit Project Lead
Last month, Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) made the first step towards interoperable support for Pointer Events in Blink by submitting a formal Intent to Implement to enable our engineering team to actively collaborate and work toward a positive adoption of Pointer Events by the Blink developer community. Earlier this year, MS Open Tech published a Pointer Events prototype for WebKit on HTML5 Labs and submitted the patch to the WebKit developer forum - we plan to continue our collaboration with the WebKit community.
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Last week I was privileged to join around 700 participants at the 5th Annual JSConf (and CSSConf) which took place on Amelia Island, Florida. The sold out event was packed with excellent presentations, demonstrations, and entertaining activities throughout. Congratulations to organizers Chris and Laura Williams and their family for hosting such an outstanding event!
I attended the event for Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech), alongside representatives from Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and DPE teams. Internet Explorer and Windows Azure both provided sponsorships for the Conference. In addition to learning about the world of JavaScript and meeting new friends, there were plenty of opportunities to share the latest news about W3C Pointer Events with the JavaScript community. W3C Pointer Events is an emerging standards specification that defines a device-independent approach to handling pointer input from devices like a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.
On Tuesday night, MS Open Tech and the Internet Explorer team hosted the 'Reach the Beach' Welcome Reception that took place right on the beach complete with an evening campfire and roasting of s'mores – you can see some photos below. During the Reception, Pointer Events gift boxes were handed out to celebrate the recent achievement of Pointer Events advancing to Candidate Recommendation (CR) status within W3C. Each gift box included a capacitive pen stylus, an Artist Edition 3500 mouse, and a screen cloth to represent the multi-model input support provided by the W3C Pointer Events specification.
On Wed May 29th, Josh Holmes (pictured above) of the IE team presented Pointer Events in his session 'Touch Me, I Dare You'. Josh provided an overview of Pointer Events, and gave a demonstration using a Bricks paddle game to show how easy it is to code for multi-modal input using the Pointer Events specification. There were several questions after the presentation and it was evident that developers were particularly interested in the cross-browser platform support provided by Pointer Events. Josh referenced the Pointer Events polyfills that can be found on Web Platform Docs at http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/PointerEvents – here's a code sample below.
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Of Days Gone By
And so, for you's mortals who may turn to this page for some kind of savvy succulent, I present to you the following recording that's been long out of print but that is now available for a short time only via the remastered version that goes something like this:
It's very clear to me that, lo, these days do conjure words from a George & Ira croon tune that begins, "The more I read the papers, the less I comprehend, the world and all its capers and how it all will end. Nothing seems to be lasting…" Jeez louise, ain't that the truth. Yeah, the song's chorus veers into a boy/girl with-the-hots lyrical deal, but what the fock. It's still got a damn nice melody though, not like these songs I got to try to hum today that sound like some kid's crammed his cat into the Veg-O-Matic and cranked it up to puree for christ sakes.
Cripes, did the goddamn Congress pass some kind of amendment when I wasn't looking to make it against the Constitution for musicians these days to put out a song with some focking melody to it once in a while? I got the radio on, and I wish I was deaf.
Which reminds me that commencing soon is the perennial Summerfest down by the shore of Lake Turd-again (as brought to you by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District). Some of you's can probably guess what I have to say about that, which I'll express as an equation: No Bourbon Tent No Topless Tent = No Art Kumbalek.
The music? No thank you. I'm guessing Mr. Porter, Mr. Arlen, Mr. Kern, Mister Ellington, Mr. Berlin, Misters Rodgers and Hart will be absent from the grounds; so, so will I. A guy like me desires to walk away from a music event on some enchanted evening and be able to carry a tune or two inside his head that he might feel like humming a couple, three bars of later whilst patronizing a couple, three bars.
Listen, I've got a
theory of American popular music history that I call My Theory of American
Popular Music History that seeks to help explain why a guy like me has a tough
time getting his hum on.
My theory says it started back when
they gave the goddamn 1971 Academy Award to "Theme From Shaft" for Song of the
Year. That was no song. That was some guy cranked clean out of his ever-loving
gourd dicking around with one of those guitar wah-wahs of equipment. And ever
since, anybody with a hankering for a little melody with their music has been
getting the musical shaft uptight and clean-out-of-sight sideways.
And not only no melody, but how 'bout
those lyrics, ain'a? Let's see if I can recall: "Shaft. John Shaft." That's the
short and long of it, yes? Hold on. Later, I think there were some more lyrics:
"Shaft. John Shaft" and "shut your mouth." Yeah, that's it. (Not exactly "You
are the promised kiss of springtime/ That makes the lonely winter seem long.
You are the breathless hush of evening/ That trembles on the brink of a lovely
song," what the fock.)
Now I ask you to tell me how the hell
some show-biz greaseball out Vegas way circa '70s was supposed to sing "Theme
From Shaft" when he was ready to bring down the house with his showstopping
Oscar-song medley? I tell you, "Theme From Shaft" wrote "yesterday's news" all
over the careers of great crooners like your Andy Williams, your Dinah Shore,
your Jerry focking Vale, I kid you not.
Yes sir, used to be years ago you'd
hear these songbirds on the radio and on the TV, every day of the week—but
now, you got to haul your sorry ass down there to Branson, Mo., and try to get
a seat at the Great American Washed-Up Entertainment Good Ol' American-Style
Our Specialty Theatre to essence a previous generation's
musical greatness, 'cause they sure won't be at Summerfest.
And those Branson shows are sold out
for years to come to the mature kind of crowd who call Tony Bennett "Sonny." If
you want to go but you're not in the will, you're not getting tickets.
Anyways, I've run out of theory so let's call the whole thing off. All I know is I don't know, but maybe this: They're writing songs of love—but not for me; 'cause I'm Art Kumbalek and I told you so.


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Friday August 29th at Billiards Backroom it's Abilene's own theObvious with Houston heavy hitters The Last Place You Look, local rockers Ultralink, brutal newcomers to Abilene Until We Are Ghosts & In Virtue, and College Station's own Myra Maybelle!
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With the latest report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics placing the national unemployment rate at around 9.5 percent, we asked local performers about their worst jobs ever.
Joey Guevara (Lady Dottie and the Diamonds): "I was a vendor at Sea World for a while, and that fully sucked. I had to tote a burning hot box of churros up and down the steps of the Baywatch stunt-show marina on the hottest days of summer to the sounds of the Baywatch theme. One time at Shamu Stadium, I forgot to get out of the way, and Shamu spit water all over a fresh tray of popcorn. I had to pay for it. Bastard whale."
Gene Padigos (Rise of the Speedmen): "My first job and my worst job was at a Taco Bell in the mall. I worked there for a week, but it took a month before I stopped smelling like cheese and beans. Extremely uncool."
Coree Levy (Roxy Monoxide): "I've been an EMT, DMT, DM, a neuroscientist, and a full-time procrastinator, among other things. They all seemed fine at the time, but now that I play music, none of them will do."
Gabriel Gamboa (Kill Holiday): "I was working in a plastic-printing company, and I had to pull apart the credit cards from the machine. Each time I did it, it would shock me; I probably got shocked about 12 times a day. I did learn one valuable thing that one of my bosses taught me, though. The Five Ps: Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance."
Scott Samuels (Kitten's Pharmacy): "In my high school and college years, I had a sucky job working at Burger King. There was a substitute manager there who really disliked me. He would always assign me to dining-room cleanup duty, which was gross from the messes that people make, or to clean out the cooler, which was even worse."
June Cate (I Wish I): "I worked at a well-known coffee-shop chain for a bit. It was after I stopped skating professionally, so I think any job would have sucked. I went from grinding rails to grinding coffee. It was a hard transition for me, but it was important for my growth as a person."
Joey Harris (Beat Farmers): "I used to be a salesman. A very bad salesman. I talked more people into not buying by being so bad at it."
Molly Jenson: "I sold popcorn at Petco Park for a day. I was desperate for money awhile back, and my dad has a friend who owns the popcorn stand at Petco. He had me try all the related jobs, like walking around the stands, yelling, 'Kettle corn! Caramel corn!' handing out samples to people and selling the popcorn at the stand. That would've been great when I was 15, but I was 27. At least the popcorn was really good."
Greg Laswell: "I used to be a shepherd. You know, a sheepherder. The hours are good, and you get to be outside, but the sheep smell like shit, and one of the little cotton balls kept straying off all the time."
Bill Farkas: "Back in Ravenna, Ohio, I had a job shifting weights and jackets on molten rubber molds in a filthy foundry. I made five dollars an hour and all the black lung I could inhale. I had just gotten out of college, at the height of the Vietnam war, and I was contemplating my next move with a draft lottery number of 18. I had another job as a 40-ton overhead crane operator at Republic Steel in Cleveland. Cab temperatures got up to around 130 degrees while I moved hot coils in the Pickle House to railroad cars over the heads of millwrights, who were usually flipping me the bird for going over their heads. To this very day, I still hate pickles because of that stinking job."
Mike Keneally: "Playing guitar on a side-project album by the singer of another band. Before I began recording my parts, he told me he really wanted full-blown, eccentric, and unique Keneally on his album, and that I should go nuts. I had to produce my own parts while he was in another state, and I went off and did all kinds of crazy stuff. But then, when he heard it, he asked if I could make it sound more like Jimmy Page."
Greg Douglass: "I did a dreary multi-month stint at the Amigo Room, a bar attached to a Denny's restaurant in Auburn, California. On second thought, I can't even talk about it. It was that bad."


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I've been trying to wrap my head around this MOA concept for a while now, starting with the geometric principle and then trying to relate it to marksmanship. I was shown at a young age how scopes can be adjusted using 'clicks' (nice having a dad working as a sharpshooter with the RCMP's ERT team
Most common scopes seem to be set up as 1 click = 1/4 MOA, some at 1/8...
What I could really use is some practical instruction or demonstration relating this principle to marksmanship. Should I join a rifle club? And if so, would MOA be their standard of accuracy measure? Or are there any good videos online? I'm generally a learn-by-doing type so the theory has gone over my head a little.
Also, as Jeff mentioned above, it's definitely a bonus knowing how to adjust your scope for different ranges without first firing a shot. Does this require making a drop chart for a specific rifle?
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