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For two political leaders who have been forced to work so closely together, Germany's
Whatever their differences, Mr Sarkozy and Dr Merkel came together again to steer successfully through European leaders the plan aimed at shoring up the 17-member euro zone through increased European integration and tighter fiscal controls. But the real victors of last week's events are the hard money men at Germany's central bank, the Frankfurt-based Bundesbank, who it seems have been in the ascendency as the debt crisis has intensified.
Indeed, the Bundesbank has substantially sharpened its political clout since Jens Weidmann was appointed the bank's president in May this year. A former chief economic adviser to Dr Merkel, Mr Weidmann has considerable links with Berlin's political establishment.
It's now about 20 years to the day that the Dutch town of Maastricht hosted a meeting of European leaders that paved the way for Europe to take its biggest step on the path to greater integration, the creation of the euro. At the time, the Bundesbank argued strongly that a common European currency could not operate effectively without tight budgetary controls and strict fiscal discipline.
Since then, the Bundesbank might have handed over its monetary authority to the European Central Bank when the euro replaced the Deutschemark 13 years ago, but the agreement unveiled in the early hours of Friday morning in Brussels bears a striking resemblance to the Bundesbank's principles of a fiscal union that were largely brushed aside two decades ago by a political leadership more concerned about ensuring a broad political and economic base to back up the common currency.
The one thing that Dr Merkel and Mr Sarkozy do have in common is that they are not known as political visionaries.
So with the euro zone debt crisis threatening to spiral out of control and the political apparatus in both France and Germany short on answers on what to do, Berlin and Paris have resurrected the Bundesbank model as the means for containing the financial upheaval that has gripped the euro zone for more than two years.
In the meantime, the Bundesbank has helped to define Germany's position as the debt crisis has unfolded, with Mr Weidmann leading the charge in rejecting calls for the ECB to step up its government bond-buying program to help to ensure a swift end to the debt crisis.
Mr Weidmann has frequently spoken out against central banks funding governments, arguing that this is contrary to the treaties forging the ECB, with its foundations based on the Bundesbank's fierce antiinflationary mantra.
Moreover, his views have been reflected in the public comments made by German political leaders, including Dr Merkel.
But after the ECB's government bond-buying program triggered tensions between Mr Weidmann's successor, Axel Weber, and former ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet, there were predictions of frictions between the Bundesbank president and the new ECB head, Mario Draghi.
In just over a month in the job, however, Mr Draghi has proven himself to be a man of the Bundesbank faith. Apart from often praising the Bundesbank's monetary conservatism, Mr Draghi last Thursday showed he and Mr Weidmann were singing from the same hymn book.
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Update: Digg confirmed that it is an experimental feature they've been "playing around with for weeks" that is not available yet to the public.
A new button appeared tonight when I visited MyNews on Digg. "Trending" is now the default sorting option for some users who visit their personalized Digg page.
It isn't available to everyone as of now. With no official word from Digg, everything here is speculation but I'll update regularly as more information becomes available.
This isn't the first time that Digg has experimented with the concept of "trending". In November, 2009, Digg launched a homepage variation that would highlight "trending" topics from time to time for 10 minutes, giving them exposure to the greater Digg community and 10 minute opportunity to be promoted or buried. The feature disappeared when Digg launched V4.
Last month, Digg rolled out trending in upcoming. They announced it on their Facebook page with a single-sentence explanation (not that it needed much more).
"We just released a "Trending" filter for the Upcoming section! It looks at your Diggs vs. buries to show the most interesting content."
The MyNews Trending feature will likely (hopefully) be more profound. Initially, this default homepage for authenticated visitors was designed as a centerpiece to V4. Only stories submitted or Dugg by those that a user follows appeared here in chronological order. It became clear very quickly that it wasn't very useful for 3 reasons:
- Those who followed a lot of accounts would get bombarded by stories. Often when one would get to the second page it was loaded with stories they saw on the first page that had already been pushed down.
- Those who followed few accounts would sometimes get very little content presented to them. If none of the accounts they followed had Dugg recently, their MyNews page was stale.
- The most followed accounts, celebrities and mainstream news sites, were either inactive or too active. Their followers either got nothing or an RSS feed.
MyNews Trending will probably incorporate an algorithm that takes into account several factors to try to present users with a more relevant page. Rather than simple chronological or "must dugg" stories, it will look at a combination of the two and potentially other popularity factors (part of Digg's "secret sauce") to show stories the user is most likely to have an interest.
Currently, Dugg stories are still included in MyNews, but I would expect them to be removed some time in the future (as nobody wants to see stories they've already read unless they want to use the "Save" option).
Digg has rolled out dozens of changes since early on in the rocky launch of V4. This one, if my speculations are correct, could mark a dramatic improvement in the way the site interacts with its users. If done right, this can also bring more attention from the large publisher accounts that Digg has coveted, gained, and subsequently lost over the months.


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Related to jests: take a joke
jest about someone or something
to make jokes about someone or something. There is no need to jest about Lady Bracknell. I wish you would not jest about that.
jest at someone or something
to make fun of someone or something. Please don't jest at my cousin. Is someone jesting at my hairdo?
jest with someone
to joke with someone; to try to fool someone. Surely you are jesting with me. Don't jest with me!
Many a true word is spoken in jest.and There's many a true word spoken in jest.
Prov. Just because something is said as a joke, it can still be true. Fred: Why did you make a joke about my being stingy? Do you really think I'm cheap? Ellen: Of course not, don't be silly. It was just a joke. Fred: But many a true word is spoken in jest.
in jest
as a joke He called me stupid, then said it was all in jest and he felt really bad about it.
There's many a true word spoken in jest.
something that you say when you think that something someone has said as a joke may really be true or become true 'At this rate we'll be walking all night.' 'Be careful - there's many a true word spoken in jest.'


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(CBS) Now that second-degree murder charges have been filed against George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, his new attorney, Mark O'Mara, begins the hard work of defending a client who has spent the last six weeks as the nation's public enemy number one.
Pictures: George Zimmerman charged with murder
First, says Florida defense attorney Alexander Fox, O'Mara will likely be looking into Zimmerman's ties to the community so that he can prove to a judge that Zimmerman is not a flight risk and thus a good candidate to be let out of jail on bond.
"Everything is easier - for the client and the attorney - when the client is free," says Fox, who worked as an assistant state attorney before going into private practice. A client languishing behind bars, says Fox, may feel pressure to plea, even if he has a good case.
Next, O'Mara will likely be hiring investigators to gather evidence and interview witnesses.
"You can't just let the evidence be developed by police and the state," says Fox. "They're looking at everything through the lens of trying to convict him."
And then, O'Mara must decide whether to ask a judge to dismiss the charges under Florida's "stand your ground" law. But don't expect that motion any time soon.
According to Jacksonville defense attorney and former prosecutor Mitchell Stone, if O'Mara decides to go that route, he will do a thorough investigation before making his case before a judge.
"You have to prepare as if you were preparing for trial," says Stone, who has defended many clients who sought immunity under "stand your ground."
"It's a big hurdle," says Stone, and medical evidence is likely to be key. If Zimmerman's defense claims that Trayvon Martin was beating his head against the ground, as his family and former attorneys have contended, they'll want to examine medical reports of his injuries.
"He may been treated by a doctor the state doesn't know about," says Fox.
In addition, Martin's autopsy report may provide clues about what kind of scuffle the teen was involved in before he died. And forensic evidence, such as ballistic tests that could show how the gun was fired, where the players were, the presence of gunshot residue and the trajectory of the bullet, will likely be examined by defense experts.
But Stone says it's possible that even if O'Mara thinks he can prove Zimmerman acted under "stand your ground," he might not want to "telegraph" his defense strategy to the prosecution, and wait to make his case at trial. One benefit of this is that if O'Mara makes a "stand your ground" case to the judge and loses, the prosecution may ask that the judge inform the jurors of his decision, thus potentially undermining that defense.
The standards for proving "stand your ground" and traditional self-defense are very different, says Stone. Traditional self-defense allows a citizen to meet force with like-force. So if someone punches you with a fist, you can legally punch back. If someone pulls a gun on you, you can pull one on them. Under "stand your ground," a citizen can meet any force they reasonably believe represents an imminent bodily threat with deadly force.
Both Fox and Stone agree that, should the case go to trial, O'Mara is likely to put Zimmerman on the stand, and his testimony will be critical.
"If the forensics don't match what Zimmerman is saying, the defense will have a big problem," says Stone.
On the other hand, as Fox puts it, "If what Zimmerman says is true, I think the state will have a very hard time proving their case."
Complete coverage of the Trayvon Martin case on CBS News


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4 kids kidnapped in Mantralayam, tracked to Bangalore - Tv9
Fri, Oct 17, 2014, 02:31 PM
Four kids, kidnapped from Mantralayam in Kurnool District, are found in a godown near Bangalore City Railway station. As soon as parents came to know of this, they filed case in Police Station. Police is investigating the case. All the kids are below 13 years. Who kidnapped them and for what reasons is not yet known. Parents came to know when one of the kids called family members on his mobile and gave the information about their presence in a crying voice. When family members tried to call on that number, the phone is unanswered. The police are trying to trace them by getting in touch with majestic police of Bangalore.


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LONDON ( The Deal) -- European and Asian bourses were flat or drifting downward on Tuesday after Monday's big gains, but London -- which was closed for a holiday on Monday -- was still playing catch-up, though with nothing like the previous rally's vigor.
In Germany, the mood was buoyed a little by the announcement of talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko. But with little expectation of any positive result, it wasn't enough to stop the market sliding 0.39% to 9,473 by early afternoon.
There are opposing pressures on the U.S. and the U.K. to raise interest rates and cut quantitative easing on the one hand and on the eurozone and Japan to push ahead with new monetary stimulus on the other. That's increasingly leading investors to keep an eye on currency movements and differential bond yields, which may also affect equity markets in the months to come.
That worry found a focus in London this morning when advertising giant WPP (WPPGY) announced that currency effects wiped nearly 2 billion pounds ($3.3 billion) off the amount it billed to clients and 80 million pounds off profits before tax in the first half of the year. Still, underlying sales were strong. The world's largest advertising company by sales billed 22 billion pounds. Pretax profits were up 15% at 491 million pounds, which equated to growth of almost one-third once currency effects were stripped out. WPP was one of the biggest risers on the London market, up 1.47% at 1,245 pence a share.


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Charlotte V. Phillip (Erickson, Saenger), of Mounds View, formerly of Isle and Coon Lake Beach, went home to be reunited with her heavenly family after a long and courageous battle with COPD.
Char is survived by and will be terribly missed by her children, Charity (Jon) Michna, Louis Saenger (Elissa), Jimmy (Diana) Saenger; grandchildren, Heather (Travis) Walker, Amber, Jessica, Brooklyn Saenger, Kalahan Larson; great-grandchildren, Tayah, Brylee, Travis Jr., Tyler, Isabella; mother, Ethel Erickson; sisters, Bev Porter, Julie Beehler, Kerri Casper; many other family members and friends.
She is preceded in death by her dad, Clifford Erickson; brother, Gene Erickson; sister, Sharon Jensen; nephew, Kris Jensen.
Char's greatest joy was spending time with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She enjoyed playing Scrabble, cribbage, scratch-offs and doing crossword puzzles. Her other passions were baking, reading and the love of plants.
Please join us to celebrate her life on Friday, July 19 at the Coon Lake Senior Community Center, 182 Forest Rd., Coon Lake Beach. A memorial service will be at 5:30 p.m. with visitation at 5.


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*2014 Convention is coming up soon, we have entered 6 dutch and 3 Silver fox!
RIS with Sunny's Cover Girl - Summer 2014
I am proud to announce our 2013 Convention placings 2nd Gray Jr doe / 3 rd Gray Sr buck!
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Hi, my name is Maria France. And welcome to Sunny's Rabbitry website! Started breeding in 2008 and registered with ARBA in 2010!
I own and maintain a small rabbitry in Barry County,Mi. With 50 holes focusing on Dutch and Silver Fox! I focus on raising quality animals ONLY to the arba standard. I took BOV gray at dutch nationals (youth/2013) ! And I am happy to announce our very first BIS win on 5/18/13. This year has started off great! I breed for TYPE, type is the hardest thing to put on. I am striving for short full dutch. We are currently working with Black,Blue and Gray dutch.
We have now added a meat project too! I Have a herd of Silver fox to work with and raise for meat and some showing!
Shows I am Attending!
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Lowestoft's South Beach protection work carried out
Up to 8,000 tonnes of sand is being moved in Lowestoft in a bid to tackle low beach levels and protect a seawall.
Waveney District Council is moving the sand and shingle on South Beach from near Claremont Pier and placing it near the Royal Green.
In 2010, the council was granted a licence to redistribute the beach twice annually, until the autumn of 2012.
The council said work will take place around the time of low tide, each day this week.


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Oct. 8–10 | Boston
What's next in technology and communications? Where can you find and track new trends online? Get a revealing look at one company's award-winning and engaging solutions for clients using trends. Learn how we can all benefit from keeping track of where things are going in order to find out how to get there smarter and faster.
Dave Fletcher, founder and executive director, The Mechanism
For nearly two decades, Fletcher has explored a wide range of media, including print, video, photography and interactive design, as well as developed brand identity systems, promotional materials, environmental graphics, packaging and publication designs for a global list of clients. He has earned recognition from creative associations and publications, including AIGA, PRSA, HOW and I.D.


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01 |Digital Edition02 |GT in Brief03 |SAF in the Lobby04 |New Products05 |New Products Submissions
Q How does Nexus continue to develop new products that are innovative and answer today's grower demands?
Q How has Nexus served as a steward for quality products?
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LA MIRADA >> EDCO, the city's trash hauler, is proposing to increase rates by 50 cents a month to $19.72. The rate for senior citizens, age 62 and older, would go up by 30 cents a month to $11.86.
EDCO also proposed increasing commercial rates by 2.5 percent. A typical three-yard bin serviced once a week would go up by $4.10 a month to $168.45.
The City Council will discuss the proposed increases during its 5 p.m. study session today.
A public hearing will be held on May 27.
If approved, the new rates would become effective on July 1.
EDCO asked for the increases in accord with its 2009 franchise agreement with the city, said City Manager Jeff Boynton in a written staff report.
EDCO based its price hike on increases in the consumer price index, as well as increased costs for fuel, and landfill and green waste fees, Boynton wrote.
The council also will interview Michael Lord and Leslie Watkins as possible Community Foundation board members.
It also will receive a report on allowing billboards, in particularly digital ones, in the city.
City codes now ban any new billboards but allow any existing ones to remain.
The report recommends taking no action on allowing billboards until the I-5 Freeway expansion is completed.


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- Superior Carriers, Inc.
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Company Profile
- Description:
- Headquarters: Oak Brook, IL
- Number of Terminals: 32
- Number of Trucks: 1000
- Number of Owner Operators: 350
- Type of Freight Hauled: Liquid Bulk and some Dry Bulk
- Operating Area: Primarily east of the Mississippi River
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- Alabama, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
- Minimum Age: 21
- Type of Experience: 1yr semi experience in all 4 seasons
- Endorsements: Tank, HazMat
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- Pay Cycle/Periods: weekly
- Direct Deposit: Yes
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By Jamie McAllister:
In the post-UFC on Fuel TV 2 aftermath, information began to surface about the ever-growing international expansion of the UFC and their "Ultimate Fighter" reality series.
An official announcement for The Ultimate Fighter: Australia vs. UK series is likely drawing closer.
FightBulletin.net revealed exclusively that the show is expected to air on TV in September 2012 with the release of the schedule is expected to be within the next 30 days.
Possible coaches?
Brad Pickett mentioned that he would be interested in coaching at last night's UFC Sweden post fight press conference with Dana White replying, "you just might buddy." In regard to an Australian coach there are currently no Australian's in the UFC Bantamweight division, however one possibility is Cage Fighting Championship bantamweight champion Gustavo Falciroli.
Before any announcements are made the UFC bosses must finalize some details, UFC executive Marshall Zelaznik told FightBulletin.net.
Previously it had been stated by Zelaznik that the yet to be made official show's finale will take place in Brisbane, Australia during 2012.


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Sometimes, while not purposely, great games get overlooked because so many games come out week after week, month after month. With our busy schedules, it's nearly impossible to keep up with all of these great games. Under the Radar reviews highlight some of the virtual gems that many people may have missed out on experiencing.
Developer: PlayDead
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios (XBLA only), PlayDead
Genre: Puzzle-platformer
Number of Players: 1
ESRB: T for Teen; Animated Blood, Violence
Reviewed on: PlayStation 3 (PSN)
Also available on: Xbox 360 (XBLA), PC, Mac, Linux, OnLive
It's pretty safe to say that you have never seen another game quite like Limbo.You play as a silhouette of a boy with bright white glowing eyes. You don't know who he is, what he is doing, or why he is stuck in this grayscale world. You just know that you have to move forward. Limbo is much like thatgamecompany's "Journey" in that there is no dialogue, little to no text or hints, and no clue about who you are or why you ended up where you are. These kinds of games are my favorites.
To be honest, I don't know why I'm so fascinated with games that don't give you any hints or background information on the character. Back in the days of the NES, most games were the same way.
Think of Super Mario Bros., a game most everyone is familiar with: you were thrown into the Mushroom Kingdom (even though you didn't know its name) with no clue what you were supposed to do. You just knew you had to move forward and kill those turtle-like things and those little brown guys with the angry eyes. You didn't even know until the end of World 1 that you were trying to save a princess.
While video games have really evolved over the years, with realistic graphics and stories playing out like films, there is something really special about games that expand on the original model of video games: throw the player into an unknown world and give him or her no directions. Let the player figure out what to do. It requires more brainpower.
That is what makes Limbo so great. Some of the puzzles are very challenging, and require some serious thought as to how to complete them. This game requires skill, and lots of patience.
People who say video games aren't art obviously haven't played Limbo. This game is a pure work of art; there is no getting around it. From the soundtrack, to the visuals, to the intricate puzzles, Limbo is like an interactive painting.
The soundtrack could not be more perfect. It's simplistic, but that's all it needs to be. It is best to play Limbo with a headset on, because the sound really adds to the overall feel of the game.
The game isn't "scary" per say; "eerie" is more of an appropriate word. Some moments are intense, such as (minor spoiler) one moment towards the beginning of the game where you are being chased by a giant spider.
You will die many, many times in Limbo. However, dying isn't nearly as frustrating as it is in some other games. You don't have a limited number of lives and checkpoints are pretty frequent, so that takes a lot of unneeded frustration out of the experience.
I find myself coming back to Limbo time and time again. It's timeless, as all great games are. It's just the right length; if it were any longer it would become monotonous. The replay value is high, because there are bunches of cool little collectibles to search for. I just get this extraordinary feeling while playing Limbo, as if I'm playing something really, really special.
If you have $15 to spare, get ready to experience one of the most special games ever created.
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I had thought the 3rd gen Colt's were all made by Uberti but stamped by Colt- So now it appears they might have at least checked by Colt.
3rd Generation Colt bp revolvers were manufactured by Colt Blackpowder Arms, Inc. in New York using rough castings of major parts made by Uberti in Italy. Colt's Manufacturing Company, the manufacturer of original and 2nd Generation Colt (also from Uberti's rough castings) firearms granted a license to Colt Blackpowder Arms to make the 3rd Generation guns. Colt Blackpowder Arms used Colt's Manufacturing Company processes and in some cases former Colt's Manufacturing Company personnel. Other than the license, Colt's Manufacturing Company had no official hand in producing the 3rd Generation guns. Armi San Marco in Italy produced a number of Colt replica guns with Colt insignia using the same Uberti rough castings in anticipation of a license from Colt's Manufacturing Company. However, the license was never granted and ASM was ordered to cease production of the guns.
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I am trying to write a command file that reads tape that was mounted as foriegn. A good tape would have 4 records where the first three are empty. If the system that generates these tapes (+25 year old HP computer) has a problem then it sometimes over wr ites the tape and usually causes a 5th record to contain data some valid data. I have written a command file that reads the tape and store the data into files. I am trying to test for the possibility of a 5 record and there are three possible conditions that could occurs. 1st there is not data in the 5th record (blank - this is GOOD) 2nd there is a parity error (tapes recycled may have been at different density) and third there is valid data. When the tape drive reads either a blank tape or parity erro r I can capture the $STATUS into a LOG file which only indicated a read error. What I really would like to do is capture the specific error message that indicated either "incomplete read" or "parity error". Any help would be greatly appreciated. I was a former assistant VMS system manager too many years ago to remember how to do this. I have been reading the system manuals but have not found the key to solve this problem. Thank you
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By JOSEPHINE IGBINOVIA
A mother of five, three of whom are undergraduates, Mrs.Chineze Ajoku, believes that children are more likely to turn out right if given some measure of freedom while growing up. The Head of Youth Department of the Roses Ministry, a faith-based non-profit organization, spoke exclusively to Vista Woman during a recent annual youth seminar put together by the Roses Ministry in Lagos. A graduate of English Language with a Diploma in Secretarial Administration, Mrs.Chimezie Ajoku is the MD/CEO of Cinet Bridal in Lagos.
Some parents claim it's always difficult to understand young people; what has been your own experience?
It's not easy working with youths, but for me, it has been interesting because I'm a very friendly person. I have four teenagers, and I'm very close to them. We mix freely, dance, sing, joke, and do all sorts of things. Before you can penetrate the lives of young people, the truth is, you have to be their friend. So, they get close to me naturally. That's why I always encourage mothers to get close to their children because that's the only time they can know about their problems. You can't know someone's problems when you're so distant. I have a set of twin boys in the university; one is a member of a musical group and the other is a footballer playing defence. I give them all the moral support instead of preventing them from honing their skills.
In the same way, I make sure they are serious with their academics! I'm able to guide them this way because they are free with me and I know their activities at almost every point. If I were the sort of parent that would warn them against their talents, they would always sneak out without my knowledge! I remember when they had to attend a party organized by their mates after their graduation from secondary school. I allowed them and directed one of their aunts whose house was nearer the venue to go pick them after the party.
To be sure they were all together, I would talk to the aunt on phone and then tell her to give the phone to them. Most times, when you fail to give such freedom to young people, when they enter university or go far away from you, they will engage in all sorts of things because they never had the exposure! When you're too strict with children, they some tend to behave like late Michael Jackson; when they are old, they will go back to those things they could not do when they were young. So, you allow them go into every crucial stage so that they don't miss out.
My own parents were liberal and they always trusted me. Still, I didn't go haywire. When you cage children too much, they tend to misbehave when they are given the slightest freedom. My 19 year old daughter who's in the university once put the picture of her male friend on her Black Berry profile. I also use a BB because of my kids, so, when I saw the picture, I made a joke about it, that sent her a signal to remove the picture! You see, I had to do that sensibly and like a friend, instead of trying to be a dictator.
But do you know that many parents are of the school of thought that they must be disciplinarians and dictators to get the best out of their child?
It depends on upbringing. People have different backgrounds. I had a liberal background and it did not ruin me. Instead, it made me a better person. Allowing your child to attend parties does not mean the child is being spoilt. Attending parties does not even mean a child keeps an intimate boyfriend or girlfriend. Ideally, girls should have friends that are boys and boys too should have female friends so they are all able to understand one another.
When I was growing up, we had family friends and every now and then, we had parties! I transfer these to my children because I feel it is a fair way of raising children. I lost my mum at the age of 14, but I still remember vividly all the vital things she taught me because we were very close. The popular writer, Ben Carson, expatiated this in one of his books where he talked about the upbringing he got from his mother.
What informed the theme of this annual youth seminar?
The main theme is "The Challenges of Growing Up", and we know there are lots of challenges associated with growing up. Like I said, I have four teenagers at home, and I know what it means to be a teenage. Each year, The Roses Ministry designs sub-themes. The sub-theme for 2010 was on sexually transmitted diseases because we observed that too many young people sleep around without taking precautions! The Mass Medical Mission collaborated with us on that.
Last year, we talked about abortion because we also observed a high prevalence. This year, we're looking at peer pressure, dating, alcohol abuse, and others. We had to also talk to them about alcohol because alcohol abuse and smoking start from teenage years and could best be addressed at that stage. We got a doctor who is also a pastor to give a talk on these; teaching them both medically and spiritually.
My father was a medical doctor who had his own hospital, so, I have some measure of understanding about STDs and other health hazards because I had the interest. I studied English Language and also got a diploma in Secretarial Administration. From my knowledge, I teach my children as best as I could, and also try to extend this knowledge to other young people through the Roses Ministry.


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Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I support ratification of the three free-trade agreements we are debating. They are long overdue, and they are important to job creation in this country. While we have waited around, these countries have concluded free-trade agreements with other countries, much to the detriment of American exports.
The best example I can cite of that is several years ago, 40 percent of the imports of agricultural products into Colombia were from the United States of America, while today only 20 percent of their agricultural imports are from the United States because while we have been waiting, Colombia has concluded free-trade agreements with other nations which have given them access to their markets while we were not able to expand. One of the ironies of all this is, thanks to a rather complicated process that took place during President Clinton's administration, the results of the Andean trade preference agreements meant there were tariffs on U.S. goods going into Colombia but no tariff on Colombian goods coming into the United States.
But why I am here this afternoon, Mr. President, is because what has been unremarked on--and which was outrageous about this whole process we have been through in these times of fiscal difficulties--is that roughly $1.3 billion is going to be spent on the so-called TAA, trade adjustment assistance. I would like to remind my colleagues the TAA was adopted in order to satisfy many of the concerns of labor and others at the time of the passage of other free-trade agreements, and like other government programs, spending on the TAA has grown and grown and grown and grown.
By the way, this was supposed to be for individuals, and, originally at least, individuals who have lost their jobs as a result of jobs going to the countries which free-trade agreements were entered into.
In 2006, it was $735 million; in 2007, $779 million; and in 2008, $791 million.
But following the so-called stimulus package--and the stimulus was supposed to be temporary--it ballooned to $1.1 billion.
Additionally, according to the Department of Labor, Congress allocated more than $975 million to fund other TAA services, including $575 million for job training. In all, the annual TAA spending for the stimulus expansion totaled approximately $2 billion.
Three weeks ago, the Congress passed an agreement to reauthorize the TAA through 2014. This paved the way for these free-trade agreements to be considered today. The agreement pares back some of the expansions from the 2009 stimulus and funds the program somewhere between the prestimulus and poststimulus levels. This ``compromise,'' which, by the way, was negotiated by Republicans in the House of Representatives, will increase the annual TAA spending by at least $460 million above the prestimulus levels before 2012 and 2013. Therefore, the total cost to taxpayers for the deal to allow these trade agreements to be considered by the Senate will be $1.3 billion through 2014.
According to the Heritage Foundation, the TAA spending legislation passed by this body 3 weeks ago does the following: No. 1, it keeps the 2009 stimulus expansion for service sector workers. The stimulus, by the way, was supposed to be temporary. TAA was originally intended to provide income maintenance and job training to workers from the manufacturing sector. The stimulus bill expanded eligibility to include workers from the service and public sectors. This expansion expired in February, but the agreement restored TAA eligibility for service sector workers.
No. 2, it restored the stimulus expansion of benefits for job losses that are unrelated to free-trade agreements. The agreement retained the stimulus expansion of providing TAA benefits to any workers who lost their jobs to overseas production, not just TAA-certified jobs that were lost to free-trade agreements.
No. 3, it reinstated the stimulus's 160 percent increase in trade adjustment assistance for workers' job training spending. The proposal cemented the stimulus spending expansion of TAA for workers' job training at $575 million a year from $220 million, an increase of $355 million a year.
No. 4, it continued the stimulus's creation of a new and duplicative job-training program. The agreement kept the TAA Community College and Career Training Program, which will dole out $2 billion over the years 2011 through 2014.
So this program cries out for significant reform. The previous administration's agency leader called for FAA deficiencies to be addressed for the displaced workers who need the TAA benefits. In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee on June 14, 2007, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor called on Congress to take the ``opportunity to improve the current TAA program to help workers gain the skills needed to successfully compete in the global economy.'' The administration didn't listen and neither did Congress.
Let's look at an example of excess created in the temporary stimulus expansion of the TAA program that taxpayers are still on the hook for. According to a February 2011 study by Senator Coburn entitled, ``Help Wanted: How Federal Job Training Programs are Failing Workers,'' quoting from the study that Senator Coburn brought to this body:
Taxpayers may have a case of indigestion when they learn, nearly 2 years after the stimulus was enacted, their money is paying lobstermen, shrimpers and blueberry farmers $12,000 each to attend job training sessions on jobs that they are already trained to do. The stimulus reauthorized the Trade Adjustment Assistance for the Farmers program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a program that provides subsidies to producers of raw agricultural commodities and fishermen so they can adjust to import competition. Under the stimulus, TAA benefits were enhanced to focus more on employment retraining.
Recently, the Department of Labor issued a report on the TAA program which indicated that only approximately 50 percent of the TAA training participants were actually placed in new jobs. While we can be happy for the 50 percent that used the training for new employment, a 50-percent success level is, of course, dismally low. Our obligation should have been to reform and fix the flaws in the program. Instead, we expanded it.
I am a big supporter of America's community colleges. One of the best community college networks happens to be in my home State of Arizona. It has been suggested that the TAA for Community Colleges Program, which was vastly expanded in the stimulus bill, has become nothing but a vehicle to funnel scarce tax dollars to community colleges around the country whether they need the money or not, with no performance reviews, no standards for graduation, and no oversight.
In March 2010, the Senate and House leadership, together with the administration, funded the TAA for Community Colleges Program $2 billion over 4 years. Just last month--conveniently, right before the end of the fiscal year--the Department of Labor rolled out the money to individual community colleges and consortiums of community colleges. The money started flowing without regard to how well the community colleges did at graduating their students or whether there was sufficient TAA need.
Several of the community colleges have received grants of over $2 1/2 million of taxpayer funds while having extremely low graduation rates. Shouldn't we ensure that an institution can actually graduate its students before funneling money to it?
For example, Oklahoma City Community College received $2.7 million. This institution had a graduation rate of 11 percent. If there was any doubt that the administration was using this program to funnel money to community colleges without regard to need or their ability to help dislocated workers receive training, let me just read from the Department of Labor grant announcement issued last week.
The following is a list of the entities in each State that will be receiving funding. The Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration is continuing to work with these institutions to develop final performance operating and spending plans.
Earlier this year, the GAO released a study entitled ``Multiple Training and Employment Programs: Providing Information on Collocating Services and Consolidating Administrative Structures Could Promote Efficiencies.'' Here is what the GAO reported on Federal employment and retraining programs, including trade adjustment assistance.
Based on our survey of agency officials, we determined that only 5 of the 47 programs have had impact studies that assess whether the program is responsible for improved employment outcomes. The five impact studies generally found that the effects of participation were not consistent across programs, with only some demonstrating positive impacts that tended to be small, inclusive, or restricted to short-term impacts.
So what are we doing? We are going to spend at least $1.3 billion, part of it on programs that clearly the Government Accountability Office says have not been productive in any way and are small, inclusive, or restricted to short-term impacts.
There are a lot of questions about the TAA Program. Does the TAA Program provide overly generous benefits to a narrow population? According to an analysis from the Heritage Foundation, based on statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 only 1 percent of mass layoffs were the result of import competition or overseas relocation.
Is there evidence that TAA benefits and training help participants' earnings? An analysis by Professor Kara M. Reynolds of American University found ``little evidence that it [TAA] helps displaced workers find new, well-paying employment opportunities.''
In fact, TAA participants experienced a wage loss of 10 percent. The same study found that, in fiscal 2007, the Federal Government appropriated $885.1 million to TAA programs. Of this amount, funding for training programs accounted for only 25 percent.
In 2007, the Office of Management and Budget rated the TAA programs as ``ineffective.'' The OMB found that the TAA Program fails to use tax dollars effectively because, among other reasons, the program has failed to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of achieving its goals.
Let me close by reminding my colleagues how we got to our current predicament. It is mid-October of 2011, 2 1/2 years since President Obama took office, and we are just now considering these important trade agreements that were finalized half a decade ago, all because of the White House's insistence on making a temporary stimulus program--the dubious extension of TAA--into a permanent domestic spending program.
This is how George Will summed it up, writing in the Washington Post, on June 8, 2011:
President Obama is sacrificing economic growth and job creation in order to placate organized labor. And as the crisis of the welfare state deepens, he is trying to enlarge the entitlement system and exacerbate the entitlement mentality.
On May 4, the administration announced that, at last, it was ready to proceed with congressional ratification of the agreements. On May 16, however, it announced it would not send them until Congress expands an entitlement program favored by unions.
Since 1974, Trade Adjustment Assistance has provided 104, and then 156, weeks of myriad financial aid, partly concurrent with the 99 weeks of unemployment compensation, to people, including farmers and government workers and firms, even whole communities, that can more or less plausibly claim to have lost their jobs or been otherwise injured because of foreign competition. Even if the injury is just the loss of unfair advantages conferred, at the expense of other Americans, by government protectionism.
This process should be appalling to the average American who is looking for an improving economy, not special favors to certain special interest groups.
Our national debt has reached unsustainable levels. Congress and the American people face some truly painful choices about how to cut our Federal budget. At a time when some are even considering enormous and dangerous cuts to our defense spending as a way to get our fiscal house in order, we shouldn't be throwing more and more scarce money at a Federal program that, as the GAO points out, is duplicative and possibly ineffective.
There is guilt on both sides of the aisle for the extension of this program. It has not had proper scrutiny, it has not had proper oversight. The studies that have been done have shown that it is practically useless--or certainly not useful--and ineffective; and now, as a price for these free-trade agreements, which I strongly support, we will be laying another $2 billion on the taxpayers of America, unfortunately.
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Where are the world's most shark-infested beaches?
Rebecca Oliver, Forbes.com
Published Sunday, July 3, 2011 7:58AM EDT
By the time a lifeguard got to him, it was too late. Stephen Schafer was kitesurfing 500 yards off an unguarded part of Stuart Beach, in Martin County, Fla., last February when he was attacked by a swarm of sharks.
"He got bit after he presumably wiped out, a very serious bite," says George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
While rare, shark attacks have been on the rise in the past few years, with 79 attacks confirmed by the ISAF in 2010, making it the most dangerous year for shark attacks in a decade.
But it's important to put those attacks in perspective. "Sharks are chumps," says Jason Clampet, senior online editor at Frommers.com, referring to their relative danger posed to humans. Creatures like the box jellyfish -- prevalent in Australia and the Philippines -- kill more regularly and are harder to predict or look out for, according to Clampet.
Shark attacks account for just a sliver of water-related deaths. Drowning, for example, claims the lives of more than one million people each year, according to the International Life Saving Federation.
Still, there are a few areas that regularly attract sharks that swimmers should be aware of, and we've identified them with the aid of Burgess, travel experts and ISAF data for 2010. It's difficult to pinpoint any one beach that is more likely than others to be the site of a shark attack as sharks tend to avoid humans.
There are certain regions, however, that are known to attract sharks in larger numbers, mostly due to the presence of seals and other animals that sharks prey on.
Florida remains the most likely place in the world to encounter sharks. There were 13 unprovoked attacks in the state in 2010, down from previous years. The most famous beach that attracts sharks, says Burgess, is tourist hot spot New Smyrna Beach in Volusia County, also home to Daytona Beach.
Hawaii, the southern and eastern coasts of Australia, and South Africa follow closely behind. There were 14 attacks in Australian waters in 2010, down from 21 the year before.
"In 2009, a wave of panic hit Sydney-siders," says Shawn Low, Asia Pacific editor for Lonely Planet. "First, a shark attacked a navy diver in the Sydney Harbor. A day later, a surfer was attacked at the tourist-laden Bondi beach."
The California coast has also seen its share of attacks, particularly the waters north of San Francisco, where the seals and sea lions that great white sharks feed on congregate in large numbers.
Most attacks don't happen in deeper waters; the vast majority are in six feet of water or less. "The surf zone is a good area to be a shark," says Burgess. "There's food out there, the shark can hide in the turmoil of the breaking surf, and the shark has a real advantage there as a predator."
It's not easy to prevent a shark attack. Experts suggest swimming where there are lifeguards, and bringing along a companion if you're going into unguarded waters for recreational purposes. And keep in mind that shark attacks are more of a phenomenon based on human recreational habits, rather than an innate tendency to feed on people. We're the invading species.
"Our best scientific estimate is that we're killing 75 million sharks per year worldwide," says Burgess. "Sharks kill 4 to 5 humans per year. It's pretty obvious who is the aggressor in this relationship."


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Rainforests are defined by a few factors. Most importantly is the
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zones are dependent mostly on the rainfall throughout the year.
Rainforests in tropical areas rarely get below 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Temperatures however, rarely get hot either. In fact, the
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more in one day than over the course of the year.
If you've ever heard that it's bad to chop down a rainforest
because it won't grow back, did you know why? It's because
the topsoil in a forest is very thin. The nutrients are quickly
washed out of the soil from all the rain. Thus, most of the rain
is held in the plant tissues. When the rainforest gets chopped
down, it is difficult to sustain any crops because the soil is very
Its been said that the tropical rainforests hold from 50 to 90 percent
of all species on earth. It has been very difficult in the past
to ascertain the number and diversity of species in the forests
because of the layers of the forest. Many canopy trees are hundreds
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The Formative Years
I have been programming computers for more than 35 years. My first exposure to computing was in elementary school where I took a computer course for kids at the local community college. I distinctly remember typing out simple BASIC programs on punch cards and feeding them to some sort of mainframe (most likely an IBM 360). Also, given that there were quite a few tech companies in the area, parents would sometimes organize ad-hoc tours or simply take a small group of us into the office off-hours to mess around. Because of that, I got to see all sorts of neat stuff--various mainframes, minicomputers, terminals, tape drives, band printers, and so forth. It was cool.
My first personal computer was an Ohio Scientific Superboard II system built from a kit in 1978. It had 8K of RAM and stored programs on cassette tapes. Later on, I upgraded to an Apple 2. I spent most of my time figuring out how various parts of the computer worked, programming video games, and dissecting parts of the operating system. I learned a lot about computers back then--especially with regard to assembly language programming, low-level hardware control, and reverse engineering. I still rely on those skills now.
From 1986-1987, I ran a popular dial-up BBS in the Denver area that specialized in public domain software for the Apple 2 and Amiga computers.
In college, I studied mathematics, statistics, and physics. After graduation, I went on to receive a masters degree in math where I specialized in numerical analysis. Although computing remained important, I was always more interested in practical applications than topics associated with theoretical aspects of computer science. Later on, I went on to receive a Ph.D. in computer science, but this was only after I got the opportunity to program the 1024 processor Connection Machine 5 supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This machine was just sadistic enough to suit my tastes. At that time, these machines were rather new and unproven---thus, there weren't really any rules on how to program them.
The Connection Machine 5
Curiously, my Ph.D. dissertation had almost nothing to do with my initial interest in parallel computing. Instead, it was related to the Swig utility that I wrote to help add scripting language interfaces to scientific software. Today, this is mainstream practice, but in 1998 it was still a radical idea--many people had a difficult time seeing how a slow interpreted scripting language like Python, Perl, or Tcl would be of any benefit in applications that were all about high performance and serious number crunching.
Research Career
Most of my professional work has taken place in a research environment, both at national labs and in academia. In 1990, I was hired as a summer intern at Los Alamos National Laboratory. For the next seven years, I worked part-time in the Condensed Matter Physics group in the Theoretical Division. I was the primary software developer for the SPaSM project--a software package for carrying out large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of materials.
In 1998, I was hired as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago. In this job, I achieved a certain amount of success (for instance, I even received a NSF Career Award grant). However, I'll freely admit that I never really clicked with certain aspects of the academic world. In 2005, the University and I parted ways after I didn't make tenure.
Dabeaz LLC
Since 2005, I have been working as an independent software developer, author, and teacher. Most of my time is split between developing software, writing, looking into interesting things, and teaching classes.
I can be contacted by sending email to "dave" at "dabeaz.com". [ Follow on Twitter ]


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Murky campaign laws made Edwards case difficult
Posted June 14, 2012
RALEIGH, N.C. — The government faced a number of problems in trying to prosecute John Edwards, such as key witnesses that weren't credible and a lack of clear evidence, according to legal experts.
Forty-five pages of confusing jury instructions that attempted to translate election law into lay language also played a role in a jury acquitting Edwards, a former U.S. senator and two-time presidential candidate, on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions and deadlocking on the five other charges against him, said Irving Joyner, a law professor at North Carolina Central University.
"Campaign finance laws by their nature are murky. They're written to be murky, and they are very fungible, and you're supposed to sponge them to get out of them as much as you can," Joyner said Thursday. "But when you start talking about the criminal law, you're looking for something that's clear, concise, to the point."
U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles dismissed the five remaining charges on Wednesday after prosecutors said they don't plan to retry Edwards.
"It's difficult to frame in a clear manner laws that are ambiguous," Joyner said. "Then, you take laws that are ambiguous, and you attempt to expand the scope of those, and to explain that to lay people is always a very difficult thing to do."
A federal grand jury indicted Edwards a little over a year ago on charges that he used nearly $1 million provided by two wealthy donors – Virginia heiress Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and Texas trial lawyer Fred Baron – to keep his mistress, Rielle Hunter, quiet and away from the media in the run-up to the 2008 presidential primaries.
In five days of testimony during the month-long trial, former Edwards aide Andrew Young detailed schemes in which Mellon funneled money through a Charlotte interior decorator to him and his wife to pay for Hunter's expenses and in which Baron paid for charter planes and resort accommodations as Hunter and the Young family hopscotched across the country to evade tabloid newspaper reporters.
Prof: Confusing law didn't help government's case against Edwards
Young admitted under cross-examination, however, that he and his wife spent much of the money from Mellon and Baron on a house they were building near Chapel Hill and other personal expenses.
Edwards' lawyers argued that the money was gifts to help Edwards hide his affair with Hunter from his cancer-stricken wife and that the issue should have been addressed, if at all, by the Federal Elections Commission and not through a criminal investigation.
"I think the biggest problem was trying to transform a civil election law issue into a criminal law matter," Joyner said. "The evidence didn't support the criminal law aspect that they were trying to promote."
In hindsight, he said, the case never should have been brought in the first place, and it makes sense that the government has ended any attempt to retry it.
"It was a waste, and what we can learn is that we need to more carefully scrutinize actions to prosecute people criminally for things that are murky," he said. "If it's a dead body there, then that's a different situation than trying to make the prosecution fit the political ambition, and in this case, I think the government was guilty of getting caught up in the political motivation."


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Balu Balasubrahmaniyan, voice; David Nelson, mrindangam with L. Ramakrishnan, violin will be featured at a Music on High Concert of Karnatak (South Indian) music at First Church of Christ, Congregational, 81 High St., Suffield on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m.
David Nelson and Balu Balasubrahmaniyan, are the keepers and bearers of an ancient, still-extant musical practice, that of Karnatak music. This style of music is probably the most rhythmically complex music to have ever existed; the singing defies all Euro-American expectations of the voice's capacity. Balu's singing is not of this world. David, who teaches mrindangam, is one of a handful of people in the world who plays this two-headed cyclindrical drum at the Karnatak concert standard. They will be joined by violinist L. Ramakrishnan, an emerging star of Karnatak violin.


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Welcome to E-Books Directory
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The Piracy Crusade
by Aram Sinnreich - University of Massachusetts Press , 2013
In The Piracy Crusade, Aram Sinnreich critiques the notion of 'piracy' as a myth perpetuated by today's cultural cartels. More troubling are the broader implications of copyright laws and global treaties that sacrifice free speech and privacy ...
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Open Content: A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences
by Till Kreutzer - Wikimedia , 2014
The intention is to provide interested individuals and organisations with practical guidelines for the use and application of open content licences: How do open content licences work? How do I choose the most suitable licence for my individual needs?
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Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit
by Melissa Levine, et al. - University of Michigan Library , 2016
Copyright is meant to do something to accomplish socially desirable ends. One of those ends is to create a space that allows us to build upon a universe of expression that came before. How can I tell if something is in the public domain?
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The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture
by Melanie Dulong De Rosnay (ed.) - Open Book Publishers , 2012
The authors argue that the Public Domain - that is, the informational works owned by all of us, be that literature, music, the output of scientific research, educational material or public sector information - is fundamental to a healthy society.
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Internet and Technology Law: A U.S. Perspective
by Konnie G. Kustron - Bookboon , 2015
This book reviews many of the legal challenges created by the new technologies. Topics include jurisdiction; privacy; copyright and trademark law; trade secrets and patents; free speech, defamation, and obscenity; and cybercrime.
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Legal Aspects of Text and Data Mining
by Prodromos Tsiavos, et al. - Wikibooks , 2014
This text presents the key legal issues with regard to Language Resources re-use, particularly in Machine Translation and Machine Processing, and the permitted acts and key policy suggestions as to amendments in the relevant bodies of legislation.
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Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine - Cambridge University Press , 2008
This book has broad coverage of both copyrights and patents and is designed for a general audience, focusing on simple examples. The authors conclude that the policy to follow is to eliminate the patents and copyright systems as they currently exist.
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The Fight for the Future: How People Defeated Hollywood and Saved the Internet
by Edward Lee - thefightforthefuture.com , 2013
This book by Prof. Edward Lee provides a gripping, behind-the-scenes look at how people organized the largest Internet protest in history, plus the largest single-day demonstration on the streets of 27 countries of the European Union.
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Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
by E. Gabriella Coleman - Princeton University Press , 2012
Exploring the rise and political significance of the free and open source software movement in the US and Europe, the book details the political struggles through which hackers question the scope and direction of copyright and patent law.
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Code: Version 2.0
by Lawrence Lessig - Basic Books , 2006
Lessig describes how managing copyright will have an impact upon every individual in the future. As we develop and share digitial content how we protect copyright will determine if the Internet will improve information for the global citizen.
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Interfaces on Trial 2.0
by Jonathan Band, Masanobu Katoh - The MIT Press , 2011
This book -- a follow-up to Band and Katoh's successful 1995 book Interfaces on Trial -- examines the debates surrounding the use of copyright law to prevent competition and interoperability in the global software industry in the last fifteen years.
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Controlling Knowledge: Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection in a Networked World
by Lorna Stefanick - AU Press , 2011
Who controls our access to information, and who decides what others have a right to know about us? Lorna Stefanick offers a user-friendly overview of the regulatory regime that currently governs freedom of information and the protection of privacy.
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Digital Identity: an emerging legal concept
by Clare Sullivan - University of Adelaide Press , 2011
The first full-length study of digital identity in a transactional context, from a legal perspective. Clare Sullivan's analysis reveals a distinct, new legal concept of identity. This concept is particularly clear under a national identity scheme.
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Legal and Regulatory Issues in the Information Economy
by Rodolfo Noel S. Quimbo - UNDP-APDIP , 2003
This primer aims to help developing nations define and determine their requirements for shaping appropriate e-commerce legislation, as well as corresponding regulatory and institutional frameworks that balance many complex issues.
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Legal Aspects of the Information Society
by Malcolm Bain - FTA , 2010
Fundamental information for those who want to understand Free Software and how to contribute and benefit from it. Concepts like existing legal systems of software protection - copyright, patents, trademark, Copyleft and free licenses are covered.
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Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
by Lawrence Rosen - Prentice Hall , 2004
A plain-English guide to open source law for developers, managers, users, and lawyers. Rosen clearly explains the intellectual property laws that support open source licensing, reviews today's leading licenses, and helps you make the best choices.
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by Yochai Benkler - Yale University Press , 2007
In this thick academic book, Yale law professor Benkler offers a comprehensive catalog of flashpoints in the conflict between old and new information creators. An ambitious attempt to understand how the internet is changing society.
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Law for Computing Students
by Geoffrey Richard Sampson - BookBoon , 2009
This free textbook shows the reader where in the IT-based business legal problems are likely to arise. The author aims to give computing students that kind of broad level of understanding of the law applicable to IT sector.
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The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
by James Boyle - Yale University Press , 2008
In this book the author describes the range wars of the information age - today's heated battles over intellectual property. He argues that every informed citizen needs to know at least something about intellectual property law.
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How Open Is the Future?
by Marleen Wynants, Jan Cornelis - ASP-VUB Press , 2008
The book provides an open platform for a wide range of lawyers, journalists, artists, and activists to discuss the future of open-source and free software, the evolution, prospects, and issues of sharing knowledge and ideas through technology.
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Free Software, Free Society
by Richard M. Stallman - Free Software Foundation , 2002
Essays on ethics, law, and computer software, written by Richard M. Stallman. The book includes The GNU Manifesto and new texts on copyright, patent law, and trusted computing. Stallman takes a critical look at common abuses of copyright law.
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The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
by Daniel J. Solove - Yale University Press , 2007
A fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip and our ability to protect our own reputations. The author shows that the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom.
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You are very fortunate to have been born when you were. Throughout most of human history, scientists knew very little about life and how it works. It was not until 1665 that a scientist by the name of Robert Hooke first discovered the existence of cells.
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WASHINGTON -- One evening in the 1980s, several years after Harriet E. Miers dedicated her life to Jesus Christ, she attended a lecture at her Dallas evangelical church with Nathan Hecht, a colleague at her law firm and her on-and-off boyfriend. The speaker was Paul Brand, a surgeon and the author of ''Fearfully and Wonderfully Made," a best-selling exploration of God and the human body.
When the lecture was over, Miers said words Hecht had never heard from her before. ''I'm convinced that life begins at conception," Hecht recalled her saying. According to Hecht, now a Texas Supreme Court justice, Miers has believed ever since that abortion is ''taking a life."
''I know she is prolife," said Hecht, one of the most conservative judges in Texas. ''She thinks that after conception, it's not a balancing act -- or if it is, it's a balancing of two equal lives."
Hecht and other confidants of Miers all pledge that if the Senate confirms her nomination to the Supreme Court, her judicial values will be guided by the law and the Constitution. But they say her personal values have been shaped by her abiding faith in Jesus and by her membership in the massive red-brick Valley View Christian Church, where she was baptized as an adult, served on the missions committee, and taught religion. At Valley View, pastors preach that abortion is murder, that the Bible is the literal word of God, and that homosexuality is a sin -- although they also preach that God loves everybody.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino declined to comment on Hecht's recollection Tuesday, but said President Bush did not ask Miers her personal views on abortion or any other issue that may come before the court. ''A nominee who shares the president's approach of judicial restraint would not allow personal views to affect his or her rulings based on the law," Perino said.
Some religious conservatives have expressed deep dissatisfaction with the Miers nomination, contending that she has never taken public stands on hot-button social issues. But her friends point to Valley View as evidence that she is cut from conservative cloth. They say she's not a ''holy roller" who flaunts her religion on her sleeve, but she lives her faith as a born-again Christian.
''People in Dallas know she's a conservative," said her friend Ed Kinkeade, a federal district judge. ''She's not Elmer Gantry, but she lives what she believes. . . . I'm like, y'all, has George Bush appointed anyone to an appellate court that is a betrayal to conservatives?"
Hecht remembers that when Miers made partner at their law firm, the first woman ever to do so, she began to question what life was all about. He said they would often put their feet up and trade big questions: Is there a God? Who is He? What difference does it make?
Miers had attended Episcopalian and Presbyterian churches as a girl, and her mother was religious, but Miers told Hecht she wanted a ''deeper faith." Hecht believes she may have supported abortion rights at the time, although he said she had not thought about it much.
''Well, let's go to my church," Hecht told her.
That was Valley View, where Hecht played the organ and taught Sunday school. It was a church, pastor Ron Key said, that believed in ''the Judeo-Christian perspective on the sanctity of life" and ''the Christian perspective on marriage."
There are antiabortion pamphlets inside the church and literature opposing premarital sex. Key and his wife, Kaycia, said they never asked Miers what she thought about those issues, because they never thought they had to.
''We've known Harriet for 30 years, and we've never had any reason to discuss these hot topics," Kaycia Key said. ''But I can say one thing: She's a totally committed Christian."
But Miers is breaking away from the church where she embraced Jesus. In recent years, church elders have moved to cut back on missionary work, sparking a split this summer among the parishioners. Key is forming a church that plans to donate half its revenues to mission work, and Miers plans to join him.
''These days so many of the churches have become Christian country clubs," Key said. ''They are more about making you feel good about yourself than making you grow. Some of us, including Harriet, were uncomfortable with all this."
But if Miers is leaving her church, the church is not leaving her. Kaycia Key said she expects to see the next Supreme Court justice in the pews, singing enthusiastically, if not skillfully. ''Let's just say she makes a joyful noise unto the Lord," Key said. ''She doesn't hesitate to sing out."


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Agent Scott Boras is working to sell the Mets on two notable free agent clients, Kendrys Morales and Stephen Drew, tweets Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com. Both players are facing uncertain markets at this stage of the offseason with many left scratching their heads over where Morales could land.
For their part, the Mets appear to have little or no interest in Morales.
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Shingles and chicken pox are actually the same thing. Both are caused by the Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV), a type of herpes virus. Chicken pox is the initial infection. After the skin heals from the pox marks, the virus retreats into the nerve roots of the spine and can migrate back out years later to form an irritating rash called "shingles." The fact that the lesions are later distributed along parts of the body supplied by particular nerve routes helps in the diagnosis. Both forms of VZV are contagious, and if exposure is within the household, non-immunized individuals will more than likely get it (probably as chicken pox).
In pregnancy, chicken pox is extremely dangerous, both because it's dangerous in adults anyway and because pregnancy alters the immunological strength of the expectant mother. Varicella pneumonia is the complication that is feared, and such a complication can even lead to death!
I recently had a pregnant patient who was VZV non-immune. I told her to stay away from Christmas shopping, crowds, theaters, etc., because for any crowd there's got to be some VZV floating around. Risk to the baby is more likely if infected in early pregnancy than late. If exposed, VZIG (antibody shot) should be given if less than 20 weeks pregnant. Certainly before or after a pregnancy, VZIG should be given to immunize women of childbearing age.
In prenatal emergencies with VZV, the antiviral drug acyclovir, the same thing given for genital herpes, can be used in large doses. So far there is no evidence that acyclovir hurts the baby, and because it's been around for a while, that's a meaningful safety record.
Regarding your question: You need not stay away from people with shingles or chicken pox if you're immune. Your doctor can do a simple blood test to tell whether you're immune or not. If so, you're OK. If not, ask your doctor about immunization if you're in early pregnancy.


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