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Police investigate string of residential burglaries
Original post made on Mar 14, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Thursday, March 14, 2013, 9:43 AM
on Mar 14, 2013 at 12:26 pm
"A thief may have entered through the doggie door of the third burglary sometime between 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on the 200 block of Creekside Drive."
I don't even have a small cat door, for fear of wild animals entering my home. Once, I left my back door wide open right before dusk and was surprised by the rather loud crunching of cat kibble in my hallway. When I came around the corner to investigate, there was a VERY large raccoon helping himself to my kitty's chow!
Out he went with only a half full tummy of sneaked kibble.
on Mar 14, 2013 at 2:25 pm
This is getting too close for comfort. Here is an article I found that has good ideas for preventing burglaries, Web Link
And Palo Altans, how about we all install security cameras and catch these people? Or these raccoons who like the good vodka.
on Mar 14, 2013 at 3:39 pm
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|Local Roundup
|Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:34 PM
Grove splits pair of wrestling matches
The Beavers improved to 5-9 overall and 1-6 in HCAC play. Bluffton was led by senior Josh Johnson (Ottawa-Glandorf) who scored a career-high 19 points on 5-of-7 shooting from beyond the arc while also pulling down six rebounds.
The Beavers took their first lead at 6-4 on a layup by Josh Fisher (Rockford/Parkway). After an Earlham deuce by Marty Broderick tied it at six, Bluffton used a 6-0 run for a 12-6 lead at the 13:47 mark. Earlham cut the Beaver lead to 13-12 before the visitors responded with a 7-0 spurt, capped by a Johnson deep ball. Bluffton led the Quakers 20-12 with 9:52 remaining in the half.
Bluffton went on a 15-4 spurt to push the lead into double digits. With the Beavers up 23-17, junior standout Dustin Kinn (Alvada/New Riegel) kick started the run with a layup, followed by a Will Pope (Somerville/Preble Shawnee) layin which put Bluffton on top by 10. Then, Ryan Ebbeskotte (Fort Jennings/Delphos Jefferson) drained a big three and Pope converted the hoop-and-harm, making the score 35-21 with just over three minutes to play in the first stanza.
There was plenty of back-and-forth action for the first nine minutes of the second half, with neither team scoring more than four straight. However, the Beavers broke through at the 10:26 mark. The Beavers led 58-46 before a 7-0 run put the game out of reach. The run started with layins from Pope and freshman Thayne Recker (Arlington). Those hoops were followed by an old-fashioned 3-point play from freshman Billy Taflinger (Lima/Central Catholic).
The Bluffton advantage ballooned to 25 points after two free throws from Johnson at the 3:57 mark. The Quakers were unable to get the lead back under 20 points the rest of the way as Bluffton wrapped up its 82-61 victory.
The Beavers had four players in double figures, led by Johnson. Pope added 13 points and six boards, while Fisher chipped in with 11 points. Kinn finished his second double-double in three games with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
Bluffton won the rebounding battle decisively (43-22), including 14 offensive boards. The Beavers' key to victory, however, was their shooting. Bluffton drilled 30-of-58 (51.7 percent) from the floor, including 9-for-17 (52.9 percent) from beyond the arc. The visitors dominated the paint to the tune of a 32-14 advantage.
The Beavers will return home on Saturday when they welcome the Anderson University Ravens for a Heartland Conference doubleheader. The men's game will begin at 4 p.m. following the women's contest at 2 p.m. Come out and support the Beavers!
Bluffton stormed out to a 9-2 lead after layups from Rachel DeBord (Lebanon), Taylor Knight (Perrysburg), and Brooke Ruffer (Stryker), along with a Taylor Whitaker (Mansfield/Lexington) long ball. After a quick Earlham run made the score 9-7, freshman Kaitlyn Pennekamp (Hamilton/Ross) controlled an offensive rebound and put it up for two while increasing the spread to four.
A chip shot by JaLissa Watt made the score 11-9 before a DeBord layin sparked a 13-4 Bluffton spurt that extended the lead to 24-13 at the 9:33 mark in the half. Earlham trimmed the deficit to nine with seven minutes to play but back-to-back deuces from Brenna Kurilec (Mt. Gilead/Gilead Christian) and two layups each from DeBord and Ruffer kept the Quakers from getting any closer as the halftime buzzer sounded with the Beavers up 42-33.
Kurilec opened the scoring in the second half with her 13th and 14th points of the game on a fast break after a DeBord steal and assist. The sophomore converted again after Ruffer found her to make the score 46-33. Earlham narrowed the deficit to 11 at the 14:25 mark but Whitaker put the Beavers up 14 with her second trifecta of the game.
Bluffton maintained the double-digit lead until Emily Sells hit a jumper that made the score 56-48 with 10 minutes to play. The Quakers pulled within six when Kasin Spay hit a three at the 5:17 mark to make the score 64-58 but that was as close as the visitors would get as the Beavers held them off.
Kurilec finished the game with a career night, including career highs of 20 points, nine rebounds and six assists. Ruffer finished with her fourth double-double after tallying 13 points, 12 boards, six assists and three steals. Whitaker and DeBord both added double-figure performances as well with 12 points apiece.
Bluffton shot a blistering 51.6 percent from the field (32-of-62), including 4-of-8 (50 percent) from behind the arc, and 4-of-7 at the free-throw line. They outrebounded Earlham 36-33 but committed one more turnover (17-16) than the visitors.
The Beavers return to action on Saturday at home when they host HCAC opponent Anderson. The women's game is slated to tip at 2 p.m. in the Sommer Center.


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Illegal cows caught in Port Meadow round-up (From thisisoxfordshire)
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Illegal cows caught in Port Meadow round-up
10:30am Tuesday 11th September 2012 in News
IT sounds like something out of the Wild West: the sheriff rounding up cattle to find if anyone's been illegally grazing.
But it happens every year on Oxford's Port Meadow and Wolvercote Common.
This year unaccounted cows were found, meaning someone has been illicitly grazing their animals on the ancient meadow.
Wolvercote Common is used by the commoners of the village for grazing their animals, while neighbouring Port Meadow is for exclusive use by the Freemen of Oxford, an ancient right.
Animals using either should be tagged.
Jane Wilkinson, from Wolvercote, helped round up animals.
She said: "It was brilliant. This was my first time, but it was just a really good experience working together as a community.
"It is rare in the city to have a day like this."
The team rounded up about 300 animals this year, around 30 of which were unaccounted for as they didn't have a tag.
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Who is the victim here? The grass?
Probably a cattle rave, or a flash herd.
Good to see some people living the 16th century life by the way.
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1983. 2012. 29 years. In that span the Kansas City Chiefs have never, ever drafted a QB in the first round. The present: 2013. Will the Kansas City Chiefs make it to the 30-year mark, refusing to draft a 1st round QB?(Cont.)
Last week Frank Boal of Sports Radio 810 WHB and 41 Action News, had reported that the Kansas City Chiefs will option Matt Cassel to take a pay cut, or be released. (Read more) http://www.chiefstomahawkchop.blogspot.com/2013/02/matt-cassel-take-pay-cut-or-be-released.html#more
This is a must see! Absolutely riveting! What a fool! He actually compares Kurt Warner to Matt Cassel. I'm still in awe over this. http://chiefstomahawkchop.blogspot.com/2013/02/that-guy-said-kurt-warner-was-not-elite.html#more
Confirmed. Just got word. B. Albert has not, I repeat, has not inked a new deal. (Cont.)
Im not a huge fan on B/R, but at times, their writers can be sensible and write as if they have knowledge of a certain situation. This particular article is worth a read. These paragraphs really stand out to me: "Twenty-five years of drafting bargain-bin quarterbacks has produced zero postseason success. Actually, zero success, period. After a quarter-century of experimenting, it's safe to say that the position may be worth developing. No, a player like Geno Smith isn't being touted as a solidified franchise savior, at least not to the extent that Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III were. But he's a pinpoint-accurate playmaker who hasn't seen pocket protection since the last Urkel marathon. And to add insult to injury, West Virginia's defense was exploited like a broken ATM virtually every time it took the field. Remember, Smith's mediocre—at least, by his standards—bowl performance occurred in a quasi-blizzard, where snow showered the stadium like cloud confetti, and the field looked like Yosemite Sam swapped Frosty's carrot with a stick of dynamite. Still, Smith (19-of-28, 201 yards, two touchdowns) outperformed another potential first-rounder, Ryan Nassib (11-of-23, 130 yards, two touchdowns, one interception), but West Virginia's defense allowed 369 yards rushing." What do you think?
Sorting the team stats by points scored per game, I noticed something so bad, it's almost funny. Almost. If you combine the two Missouri teams' (KC ranked 31st, STL ranked 32nd) in points scored per game from the 2011 regular season, they'd still only rank 6th just behind the Chargers, and still almost 10PPG behind GB. Ouch, baby. Very ouch.
Defensive Players of the Week Kansas City LB Justin Houston. The rookie from Georgia made Caleb Hanie's life miserable (well, Hanie helped too) with three sacks, two more quarterback hits, a forced fumble and a pass deflected. Houston contributed to a defense that allowed a weakened Bear offense just 181 yards. Great plan by defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel too. He's having an outstanding run.
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Bloomberg to speak at Stanford commencement
Original post made on Feb 25, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, February 25, 2013, 12:09 PM
on Feb 25, 2013 at 1:31 pm
Would have thought of a better choice. Wonder if he will bring a 16 oz. soda with him.
on Feb 25, 2013 at 1:45 pm
It's hard to believe he will, but let's hope that lots of graduates do!
on Feb 25, 2013 at 3:43 pm
He has to start the speaking circuit now as term limits has eased him out of office.


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Very simple people if we can't trade with portland we go to Sactown. We trade our 2nd pick for their 5th and tyreke evans we draft andre Droumound and were set for next years lottery. Evans has a far higer ceiling than hendo and having him come off the bench would help the team alot plus the kings have been shopping evans all off-season. This squad may not be much now but a few years down the line we can be something nice.
Starting line up PG Kemba SG Tyreke SF Maggette PF Bismack C Droumound.


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Lessig is understandably excited about this case. It relies on the little glimmer of hope that Justice Ginsburg planted in Eldred v. Ashcroft, that the First Amendment really does have something to say about what Congress can do when it tinkers with the Copyright Act, but not in most cases. She said that the case of Eldred was not one where Congress had changed the traditional contours, so the "internal safeguards" such as fair use and first sale, were sufficient to keep things kosher with the Constitution. Et voila, Eldred lost. But now the court in Golan has indicated that a law that takes works long in the public domain, works that people have likely counted on being able to use freely, and just magically grants them a copyright lasting for the term they would have had if their owners had done everything they were supposed to do to get such a copyright (copyright notice, for example), goes too far. The Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) from the General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade (GATT) is that law.
All that said, there's still that limitation: it is unconstitutional to the extent it conflicts with reliance on public domain status taking place before the URAA was passed and/or went into effect. That isn't quite the same as saying that it is simply unconstitutional. And this is just round 1. The decision will be appealed, no doubt. But Lessig is right. We will no doubt see more of this case. At least it suggests that there is a limit to what Congress can do for copyright owners at the expense of some, if not all members of, the public.]]>
It was and is a simple gift, that we let our creative works become the seeds of new creative life at some point. Why, I wonder, have we come to think that the point at which we give our creative wealth to the children of the future should be in the neighborhood of, on average, a century after we created them? How on earth did we get to the point where we believe that that's a good idea?
Listen to the performance. Savor the complexity built around the simplicity. Beautiful isn't it?]]>
Well, in a double (at least) twist of irony, with a ruling that adroitly uses plays on words, double-meanings (reading it is a delight), the judge in the case agreed with Nesson about the benefit of admitting the Internet into the courtroom for an upcoming hearing. The plaintiff in this case, Sony Music BMG, wholeheartedly embraced the idea too …
Yeah, you must have caught that one, right? No way Sony agreed. Sony opposed the motion and, well, the Chronicle blog post explains what the judge said in her ruling:
"The public benefit of offering a more complete view of these proceedings is plain, especially via a medium so carefully attuned to the Internet Generation captivated by these file-sharing lawsuits," Judge Nancy Gertner wrote. "'Public' today has a new resonance, especially in this case."
Sony had opposed the Internet broadcast, arguing in court documents that the goal of the request was "to influence the proceedings themselves and to increase the defendant's and his counsel's notoriety," The Boston Globe reported.
Judge Gertner called Sony's objections "curious." Recording companies' mass-lawsuit campaign, she said, "effectively relies on the publicity resulting from this litigation." (In a footnote, however, she acknowledged the recording industry's move away from mass lawsuits, saying, "It is possible the plaintiffs have now changed their minds about the virtues of this strategy.")
Interesting to see a judge slap a plaintiff silly! The decorum of the courtroom rarely admits of such directness. I can hardly wait to tune in.
[N]ext Thursday the Courtroom View Network will narrowcast the hearing — an oral argument — to the Berkman Center's site.
The January 5 NYT article by Motoko Rich, Google Hopes to Open a Trove of Little-Seen Books [sorry, I would link to it but NYT insists I register or login to access the article (it's 8:14 PM) and I don't do that kind of thing], included a really nice statistic that hints at one important aspect of the story's ending. Or maybe it's just a beginning. The stat carries a lot of the load for his story about tapping "a trove of information that had been locked away on the dusty shelves of libraries and in antiquarian bookstores.
According to Dan Clancy, the engineering director for Google book search, every month users view at least 10 pages of more than half of the one million out-of-copyright books that Google has scanned into its servers.
Google's book search "allows you to look for things that would be very difficult to search for otherwise," said Mr. Zimmer, whose site is visualthesaurus.com.
A settlement in October with authors and publishers who had brought two copyright lawsuits against Google will make it possible for users to read a far greater collection of books, including many still under copyright protection.
Read that again, the part that says that "every month users view at least 10 pages of more than half of the one million out-of-copyright books that Google has scanned into its servers." Wow. Think about what that means for the life of most books on our "dusty shelves." Actually, we don't let them get dusty, at least not so far.
The overwhelming majority of our books can start up their long-silent engines and back out of the dead ends their normal commercial lives rolled them down. People are searching online, books are coming up high enough in the search results that people see them, and they are clicking on those book links and using even public domain works. I'll dare to say, people seem to be reading public domain (ie, really, really, really old) books. At least 10 pages of over 1/2 of the million public domain books so far digitized — every month.
So, if you work in a library, take an old book off a shelf, any old book, and open its front cover and see how often it was checked out in the last 5 or 6 decades. Pick another book. And another. You can see where I'm going with this. I think these GBS "uses" are a wonderful thing for books, for their readers, their authors and, when we can get in-copyright works, their publishers or other copyright owners.
But Rich goes on to note how troubling this may be as well:
Some scholars worry that Google users are more likely to search for narrow information than to read at length. "I have to say that I think pedagogically and in terms of the advancement of scholarship, I have a concern that people will be encouraged to use books in this very fragmentary way," said Alice Prochaska, university librarian at Yale.
Yale's many libraries are fantastic places and all its librarians are lucky to work there. Alice, I think I understand what you are saying here, but look at those stats. People may not be reading Jane Austen cover to cover in GBS (maybe they are, maybe they are not), but isn't the possibility that a book that rarely would have come onto the radar screen at all has such an amazing chance to be found by someone and used for something, isn't that a good thing?
Surely Alice does not mean that books should be enjoyed a certain way or not at all. Maybe she worries that the numbers of people who read cover to cover will diminish. Or that people will "cite" a book for something that a more thorough reading might not support. But I don't think that's how it's going to work. Exposing books to search brings them to the attention of a much bigger audience then they could ever have on our shelves. Among the many people who will discover a book on GBS, a percentage, let's say a small percentage, will not just look at 10 pages. A small percentage will download the whole book and read it, or substantially all of it, cover to cover. These are people who never would have known the book existed except for having found it in a search for something else on Google. We will add these readers to the ones who come to the book from other, more traditional, perhaps scholarly, places. Scholars must stay within ethical bounds when they cite authority for other reasons besides the inability to find material with a narrow search. So, if a much larger percentage of those GBS readers who discover the book will not read it cover to cover or cite it at all, so what?
Neither the book's author nor the librarian who collected and protected it for decades can know what use someone not of our time, or our culture, or our values might have for a book that the author wrote to be read cover to cover. But we can take pleasure in the idea that people will use books in ways we never imagined. Isn't anything better than being parked and forgotten by most everyone at the dead end?]]>
Environmentalism has managed to win the battle for clarity—to make its points clearly enough that they ceased to be dismissed as "arcane" or technical, to overcome neglect by the media, to articulate a set of concerns that are those of any educated citizen. The other striking phenomenon of the last ten years is the migration of intellectual property issues off the law reviews or business pages and onto the front pages and the editorial pages. Blogs have been particularly influential. Widely read sites such as Slashdot and Boing-Boing have multiple postings on intellectual property issues each day; some are rants, but others are at a level of sophistication that once would have been confined to academic discussion.18
Scientists passionately debate the importance of open access to scholarly journals. Geographers and climatologists fume over access to geospatial data. The movement has been pronounced enough to generate its own reaction. The popular comics site "xkcd" has strips critical of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,19 but also a nerdily idyllic picture of a stick figure reclining under a tree and saying, "Sometimes I just can't get outraged over copyright law."20 That cartoon now resides on my computer desktop. (It is under a Creative Commons license, ironically enough.)
His last book, more than 10 years ago, Software, Shamans and Spleens, and this book are sharply contrasting on this very point. Shamans is striking in its density and difficulty. I can honestly say that I have not read another book about copyright during my entire career as an attorney that was harder to understand than Software, Shamans and Spleens. It almost seemed deliberately difficult.
This book is striking in its appeal to common sensibilities and understanding, relying on common language rather than legalese or academic vocabulary that excludes the majority of potential readers. The book is anything but a yawn. I had read many of its arguments in earlier works by Boyle and others, but I still found it fascinating to see how he brought these arguments alive, gave them force and the power to ignite. The book moves effortlessly from one piece of his argument to the next, building patiently, referring to earlier points frequently enough to make them an integral part of later chapters.
In another post I wrote as I started to read the book, I indicated that I had given up on the idea that the problems with copyright could be addressed by our legislators, that the force of competition with the mass of free was more likely to move intellectual property practice (if not policy) than legal change, but that I hoped that Boyle could, well, here's what I said:
Well, I have to say, I love this book. It is really readable, brings together many of his past writings with other authors I've read (many thanks to Phil), but focuses on the dire implications of our current trajectory. He is determined that the law has to change. As I've said many times, I've given up on that. I want to hope, but the underlying process seems so irretrievably lost to money, or so I believe. *** So where does [his] hope come from?
I'm going to keep reading. Maybe he explains his hope as well as he explains history, economics and philosophy.
And indeed, he does! You know, he could be just as discouraged as I am about the prospect for Congressional action, but he is convinced that the costs of inaction are far too high to give up. After reading this book, I can see pretty clearly that I tend to see things too simplistically:
Law is an impediment? Route around it.
Monopoly actually impedes progress and creativity? Competition will win out.
This stuff is way complicated. But, as I've tried to make clear, he makes it accessible without oversimplifying it. Most importantly, he makes a very compelling case for not giving up while we route around the law as best we can (for example, Creative Commons), while we wait for competition to prevail (for example, that openness turns profits too). He also makes a compelling case that it is possible to make a compelling case, and that we are on the way there, and that there are particular tools we can use to enhance the communication of the case to the public. The book actually has changed my mind about the futility of it all!
And small wonder. He has been working on these ideas and writing about them and studying them for 15 years (at least) and weaves together a vast quantity of knowledge, insight, perspective and conviction. A genius. And a great keynote speaker!
Ah, but then I think about Disney and the next go at term extension. 2017. Eight years from now. That's a short time to pull it all together, isn't it? But it's possible…]]>
I really like how nicely this ap demonstrates the value of a freely available and accessible digital public domain. All of the materials apture pulls together are in the public domain, so the barriers to its entry into this market are a lot lower than they would be if apture had to seek out and negotiate licenses to use every little shred of information about our representatives. Very good example of the idea that free can be the basis of a lot of value.]]>
As I commented on Collectanea at the time that the latest Congressional effort to deal with orphan works failed, now it's time to try a process other than legislative "compromise." Public Knowledge did a fabulous job of describing the horse trading that goes on behind the scenes to try to get legislation past the numerous barriers. PK still holds out hope that next session the bills will come to reflect the perfect combination of freedom to use orphan works and protection for the interests of those copyright owners caught in the cross-fire between new technological capabilities and old-fashioned sloppiness about attribution and keeping contact information about owners up to date. "Who cared?" "Who knew we needed to care?" "We didn't care — we didn't need to." My how things have changed.
So, Google Book Search is freeing itself from the constraints of a gazillion billion dollars worth of lawsuits and walking off into the bright sunshine of 'tomorrow's another day,' arm and arm with the publishers and authors who still disagree with it about whether Google's original plan was fair use, but hey, that plan is so 2004. It's 2008 and almost 2009 and we've got some books to find, browse, read and download, some to buy and download (and pretty soon maybe buy in other ways besides download). So a new approach to orphans, at least orphan books. And as PK authors point out, this is just about books. They note we may still need legislation for the other kinds of media. But I give the markets a much better chance of success than legislation. Not just success as in, "oh, you actually reached an agreement that doesn't allow one side to purposely cripple the other," but success as in, "oh, you actually reached an agreement that will work, in practice, to enable identification and use of orphan books." Not that it will be easy and without fits and starts (I have expressed my own concerns about the lack of transparency in the Book Rights Registy), but I think these book guys and gals have a much better sense of the benefits for everyone than the gangs that conspired to torpedo the legislative effort (and are therefor motivated to make it work, rather than motivated to make it not work). Well, let's see what happens. At least something will happen.]]>
The following post appeared yesterday in the Public Policy Connections blog of the Special Libraries Association (SLA).
"After passing in the Senate on 26 September, the Orphan Works bill, which limits remedies in copyright infringement cases involving orphan works, died in the House on 3 October after Congress voted on the financial rescue bill and ajourned.In June 2008, The Library Copyright Alliance, of which SLA is a member, wrote a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), Chairman, Committee on the Judiciary and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) expressing appreciation for their continued leadership on the bill. The letter proposed amendments to orphan works legislation."
The blog post is self-explanatory and linked, at least for the time being, to all pertinent events, documents, and commentary, including the full-text of the Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 that had passed the Senate in September. The SLA blog post also includes links to a CBS news article about the approval of the financial rescue bill. The brief CBS News article puts the process of keeping the orphan works issue in perspective. Like so many other issues that are central to our academic work and policy concerns, orphan works have been pushed off the radar screen by the present economic collapse.
Nevertheless, Gigi Sohn at Public Knowledge remains confident that orphan works–like the Mets–will return to Congressional attention as a policy issue. Sohn noted that it was not just that the bill was eclipsed by economic concerns but that there are substantive issues yet to be worked out.
We should stay tuned to this ongoing debate and watch some of the key players recognize the changing environment in which they create and alter their positions.
This year's symposium is titled MONOPOLY: PLAYING THE INNOVATION GAME. Three days of keynote addresses, panels, and round tables will address the conflicts resulting from the exclusive ownership and limited monopolies fostered by U.S. copyright laws and the technologies and practices that encourage sharing and collaboration.
The Center has invited an impressive line up of speakers and panelists including James Boyle, co-founder of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and professor of law at Duke University School of Law as well as Georgia Harper, the CIP's Intellectual Property Scholar (2006-08) and Scholarly Communications Advisor for the University of Texas at Austin Libraries. For a longer list of presenters with brief bios, browse the link at http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/symposium/speakers.shtml
In addition the Center will host "The Institute for Copyright Leadership and Management," which consists of pre- and post-conference seminars and workshops designed to help individuals or teams develop basic skills for effective leadership in copyright management while focusing on influencing skills and building strategic institutional partnerships and
You may take advantage of the Early Bird registration fee, if you register before May 9th. The cost of the symposium is $350.00. For the Institute for Copyright Leadership and Management the cost is $900.00 per individual or $2,295.00 for a team of three.
Lodging is separate and runs $150 to $200.00 per night, depending on where you choose to stay.
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- 3 cups (packed) baby arugula (about 3 ounces)
- 1 1/2 cups small cherry tomatoes, halved
- 1 cup cooked white beans (see Cannellini Beans with Garlic and Sage), drained, room temperature
- 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
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- %Calories from Fat 55.7
- Fat (g) 21.0
- Saturated Fat (g) 3.1
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UPDATE, 3:30 p.m.: In a statement released Saturday afternoon, the Ocean County College Board of Trustees affirmed its decision to end the contract of Gloria Villalobos, the current director of the college's Robert J. Novins Planetarium:
"The Board of Trustees stands behind the action taken at today's meeting for the non-renewal of the employment contract for 2013-2014 of Ms. Gloria Villalobos, Planetarium Director. However, having heard the recommendations of the planetarium community, the Board also confirms that, after July 1, 2013, the Planetarium will continue to be managed by an appropriately credentialed planetarium leader."
Previous: The Robert J. Novins Planetarium could be without a director starting July 1, after the Ocean County College Board of Trustees voted Friday to notify its current director that her contract will not be renewed.
The vote, which resulted in planetarium director Gloria Villalobos being officially notified that her position would be eliminated at the end of this school year, is the first step in the implementation of a new business model for the planetarium, according to those who spoke against the move at the trustees' meeting.
Moving to have a committee to manage the planetarium is a recipe for disaster, especially in the wake of the more than $4 million spent to renovate it in 2009 and 2010, said Richard Gamba, who was president of the Save The Planetarium Fund, which helped raise funds for the renovation.
"There has not been any planetarium that has operated successfully without a director," Gamba said.
Villalobos has been the planetarium's director since November 2001 and received a salary of $76,174 as of July 1, 2011, according to records on the DataUniverse site maintained by the Asbury Park Press. In addition to being the public face of the planetarium, she told the trustees that she handles a wide range of tasks that keep the planetarium operating, from taking reservations for shows to operating the planetarium equipment during presentations.
"Eliminating that salary is a quick fix to help the bottom line," Villalobos said, adding that doing so will create bigger problems long-term.
"What's needed is to let your director be a director," she said.
Details on the new business model and on why it proposes to eliminate the director's position were not released Friday by the college. OCC President Jon Larson and Vice President of Finance Sara Winchester went into a closed meeting with trustees immediately after the adjournment of the public meeting and were unavailable for comment.
Trustee Stephen Leone offered the only response to those who spoke, saying, "The administration is very committed to the success of the planetarium."
"We all share the same objective," Leone, who has been a big supporter of the planetarium, including making a significant donation to help fund the renovations. "The administration has given a lot of thought to this."
John C. Sahradnick, attorney to the board, said the vote by the trustees may not be the final decision. There is a legal requirement to notify contract employees of the college -- of which Villalobos is one -- by Dec. 15 if their contract will not be renewed, he said.
But that vote does not mean the trustees cannot change their minds and change the direction by voting again at another public meeting.
Those opposed to eliminating the director's position in favor of a committee running the planetarium said there was much that would be lost by eliminating Villalobos' job.
Gamba said moving to a committee to manage the planetarium is a recipe for disaster, especially in the wake of the more than $4 million spent to renovate it in 2009 and 2010.
Novins Planetarium staffers told the trustees that Villalobos typically works long hours, between outreach and day-to-day operations of the planetarium.
"She spent six months as the sole operator (of the equipment during a planetarium show) so that we as presenters could concentrate on presenting," one man said.
He noted it is Villalobos who knows the planetarium's systems inside and out, allowing her to quickly solve problems that arise.
Bil McClain, another presenter who has worked at several planetariums in the state, said the Novins Planetarium is state of the art, and in the two years since the renovated planetarium reopened, the public is starting to return and take in all the planetarium has to offer.
"If you lose the one person keeping it together, you're going to lose that," McClain said.
Word of the proposal to eliminate Villalobos' position was only released a week ago, and in that time, Gamba said, the Save the Planetarium Fund and the college have received a number of emails urging the college to retain a director for the planetarium. Many of those came from the national planetarium community, from peers of Villalobos, in support of keeping a director.
"Obviously this is a financial issue," Gamba said. "We can deal with financial issues in another way. We have before."


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The End of Midnight Sales for Record Store Day
I chatted with Steve Warrenfeltz, the owner of my local record store Kiss The Sky in Batavia, IL, the other day. They had moved to their new location last summer and being that the store is about three blocks from my front door, I informed him I was excited to be able to walk to his location for Record Store Day, even late at night for their usual midnight sale. "No midnight sale this year," Steve replied. He explained that it was part of each store's pledge (an agreement made with RSD in order to participate and carry several RSD-sanctioned releases), and that although he disagreed with the policy, Kiss The Sky would not be a participating RSD store if they didn't oblige.
Having interviewed Carrie Colliton (co-founder of Record Store Day) on an episode of the Sock Monkey Sound podcast prior to RSD 2012, I reached out again to her via a message on Facebook; wanting to refrain from posting my questions as comments, which I felt would lead to a long back-and-forth between commenters (or even between commenters and Carrie) and I didn't feel it was my business to "announce" this change publicly before RSD did, if they choose to.
RSD has its detractors, especially from those who actively shop in physical record stores every day of the year. The complaints are often same (limited releases create over-crowding and scalpers; "I don't need a special day to support my local store") but for me, I use a probably somewhat-broken analogy of attending a sporting event: Scalpers may take the best tickets and hike up the prices, but I still am going to buy a ticket to the game. I still want to participate. I just don't let it ruin my outlook. Unless they're doing something illegal or that could be perceived as soulless, attempting to get more bodies in record stores is something I can always get behind.
Here's what I said about the experience of midnight sales in my recap of RSD 2012:
The last album I can remember standing in line for is Radiohead's seminal Kid A, and it was a neat experience being there: You'd talk with folks in line about what you heard the album might sound like, then you'd walk in and hear it being played overhead. You'd rush to your car after purchasing it and play it the whole way home, and probably one more time all the way through before bed to soak it all in. So as romantic as it is to stand in line at a record store now – and it's great for RSD to give folks a reason to, who wouldn't normally – it's sad that those record release lines are a thing of the past. (An argument could be made that Radiohead themselves have been the primary champions of the communal listening experience in the Internet age: They've avoided leaks for their last two records by quietly releasing both In Rainbows and The King of Limbs seemingly overnight digitally, therefore forcing millions fans to hear the album at the precisely the same time. It's a nice, welcome strategy in the 2000's, when release dates don't mean much to your average music consumer.)
Even without midnight sales, RSD is pretty much the only time you'll stand in line to purchase music these days. With the digital revolution, there is a severe lack of chances for people to await similar, or the same, releases in the flesh at one time. I enjoy pretty much everything about RSD, from the lines to the new releases to the general joy everyone seems to exude in a store that day. And this year in particular, they've made a perfect choice in Jack White as their ambassador, inarguably the biggest artist doing the most to keep physical vinyl media alive.
But I wanted to know the reasoning behind this change, and why stores that want to open early, like Kiss The Sky, can no longer do so without breaking the RSD pledge.
Despite all the work that goes into organizing a national event like Record Store Day, Carrie found time to reply – something she didn't have to do – and her points are well-made.
Here is Carrie's reply to me, which she has given me permission to post:
"We did ask the stores to refrain from midnight sales, and there are several reasons why. It's also not the only thing we asked of them. It was part of our revamped Pledge, which was revamped after reading through and taking into consideration every compliment and complaint from customers and stores in the past year. We actually received quite a bit of feedback about midnight sales, and we put a lot of thought into our request to the stores. It basically broke down into three reasons:
1. CUSTOMERS: One of the things RSD does is bring NEW people into record stores. I have said or typed the phrase "find a store near you" so many times, I probably say it in my sleep. But customers are finding stores near them. And going to them, the morning of Record Store Day, to find that all the releases were sold by 12:15 AM. And they are not pleased. No matter how good a store's promotion is, no matter how complete their email list, or full their Facebook page, they are never going to get the word of a midnight sale out to all their customers, and that leaves them feeling frustrated and angry. We heard from quite a few of these.
2. FELLOW STORES: Midnight sales were originally created as a way to let folks be the first to get a release — before they could go to a big box store or some other place and get it. These are releases where the competition was those big box stores and midnight sales were a way to turn it into an event. Well, RSD releases are ONLY at record stores, the only competition is your fellow indie record store, if you have one in town. And I hope I don't sound immodest when I say that RSD is the biggest event a store can have — bigger than any midnight sale. RSD is the one day of the year when a store can open their doors at any time they choose and still have a line of people out the door. But you're right that when one store in a market opens, the other stores feel they have to as well. And that isn't always wise or fair. And it also, to be honest, starts leading to a sort of "Black Friday" creep — with more and more focus on the releases, and less on the idea of the day itself — a celebration of the stores.
3. THE INTERNET FLIPPERS: Finally, there's this. People who buy items and flip them are the bane of our existence. Of course, we do whatever we can to control this if it's a store employee doing it, but when a customer walks out of a store with a piece, they are free to put it on the internet. And they do. Lots of them. And if someone on the East Coast buys a piece at midnight and immediately puts it on eBay, it's still 9 PM on the West Coast, and it actually begins to effect whether people will go out to the stores on the West Coast to buy what they're looking for. There's a big difference between buying something on eBay at 9 PM the night before, and buying something on eBay at 5 AM the morning of.
As I've explained to a few stores upset with our decision, and maybe even to the owner of your store, we don't have a lot of rules or regulations for the stores. In fact I think most people would be surprised at how few we do have. But when we do implement something like this, it's after we've listened to and weighed a lot of feedback and think it's best for Record Store Day, the stores, and the customers, taken as a whole."
I can see the points made about "new" customers, but like anything, it's a shame that a few bad apples – primarly folks snatching up releases only to sell them immediately for inflated prices – had to spoil an aspect of record shopping that others look forward to. Luckily, it's just an aspect, and I'll still be shopping on RSD, and every other day of the year.
Record Store Day is Saturday, April 20, 2013. You can find your participating stores via the RSD website, and follow them onFacebook and Twitter. You can listen to my interview with Carrie prior to RSD 2012 here.
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Creedence Clearwater Revisited (aka CCR) brought its brand of Southern rock stylings to the estate of Joan Waitt in La Jolla on Aug. 11, performing at a benefit gala for Promises2Kids. Since 1981, Promises2Kids has led the fight against child abuse and neglect in the County of San Diego.
A bit of CCR trivia: John Fogerty, Doug Clifford and Stu Cook (all born in 1945) met at Portola Junior High School in El Cerrito, Calif., and began playing juke box standards together under the name The Blue Velvets. The trio also backed singer Tom Fogerty (John's older brother by three years) at live gigs and in the recording studio. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 and ranked at 82 on Rolling Stone's 100 greatest artists of all time. The original group disbanded on Oct. 16, 1972.
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The San Diego Chargers dropped a 24-17 defeat to the Oakland Raiders Thursday evening and Philip Rivers had another "conflicted" performance. On the one hand, Rivers is creating fantasy value as he posts some solid counting stats. On the other hand, when it comes to leading his team to real world victories, he continues to struggle through his worst season as a starting QB.
Thursday evening, Rivers threw for 274 yards, two touchdowns and one interception, and lost one fumble. For fantasy purposes, that equates out to approximately 15 fantasy points in a basic four-point per TD league. That is not a fantastic performance, but depending on the rest of your team, it is not exactly awful.
That might best describe his evening against the Oakland Raiders. Rivers completed only 49% of his passes as he was roughed up all night long. The Raiders pass rush brought the heat on a regular basis and Rivers had very little time to get settled in the pocket. He was forced to hurry many of his throws, leading to the accuracy issues.
At this point, Rivers remains a decent enough fantasy QB option, but his high status is falling fast and furious. He was outperformed by Carson Palmer Thursday evening, and things don't get any easier when he faces the Bears on the road next week. If you have another QB option, it might be time to consider benching Rivers if you haven't already.
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Six hundred people braved the frigid conditions Friday to get Lincoln Financial Field ready for when the New Orleans Saints face the Philadelphia Eagles Saturday night.
Crews worked through the night, plowing and shoveling out the product of 2014's first winter storm.
A few blocks away, fans gathered for a pep rally psyched for the game.
Forecasted temperatures at kickoff will be in the twenties, with a wind chill near single digits, but fans say they're ready.
"I'm actually going to wear my sweatshirt, I'm going to wear my big eagles jacket and I'm going to wear my jersey," said Eagles fan Alexander Garcia.
The Eagles faithful feel the frigid temps help their chances.
"Drew Brees, not a good record on the road, his play in the cold has been suspect, so we're looking to take advantage of that baby," said Eagles fan Matt Thesing.
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"You got to hide this because you're liable to get beat up over here," he said.
But he wasn't short on confidence.
"We were hoping to get up here and get a little dirty bird gumbo," Foti said. "We usually reserve that for the Atlanta Falcons, but an eagle makes a pretty good gumbo too."
He has family in Philly who will be rooting on the Eagles Saturday night.
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As if Baltimore's offensive line issues couldn't get any worse.
It looks as if the unit will be without starting left guard Kelechi Osemele for the remainder of the 2013 season.
John Harbaugh announced that Kelechi Osemele will be out this week and will likely miss the rest of the year.— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) November 1, 2013
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When I discovered that my kids had no idea what Purim was, I placated my very loud Jewish guilt by giving them my own Hebrew school lesson during Tuesday's dinner.
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An old show tune brought me back to my Nana's kitchen when I was a little girl, listening to her sing along as she prepared Shabbat dinner.
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NASHVILLE (BP) -- It's another week and thus another interview with Pope Francis. This one, I'm sorry to say, is more than just confusing. It's a theological wreck.
In an interview with La Repubblica in Rome, the Pope responded to a question about whether there is a "single vision of good" by saying, "Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place."
The Pope also said, "The Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood." When the reporter commented, "Some of my colleagues who know you told me that you will try to convert me," the Pope said, "Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us."
From Augustine's "Confessions" to "Well, everyone has his own ideas about good and evil...." is a mighty long path.
First of all, I am a Protestant so, of course, I do not accept the church's claims about the papal chair as Vicar of Christ. But though I protest, I don't throw rocks (no Petrine pun intended). My mother's side of the family was and is Roman Catholic, and some of the most significant influences in my life personally and intellectually are Roman Catholics.
Second, I don't dislike Pope Francis. I think he is quite right about the primacy of Christ's Gospel over the culture wars. In my much smaller pool and from my much smaller perch, I've tried to say that outrage itself isn't a Christian virtue. Our mission ought to be toward reconciliation, not the vaporization of our perceived enemies.
If Pope Francis wishes to reclaim the gospel's primacy, he must simultaneously speak with kindness to those outside of its reach and speak of the need for good news. What these interviews seem continually to do is what evangelical theologian Carl Henry warned Protestants of in the 20th century, of severing the love of God from the holiness of God. God is, Henry said, against both the liberal Social Gospel and obscurantist and angry fundamentalism, the God of both justice and justification.
Without speaking to the conscience, and addressing what the sinner already knows to be true about the day of giving an account, there is not love, only the consigning of the guilty conscience to accusation and condemnation. If the church is right about the personhood of unborn children (and I think it is), then why would we not be "obsessed" about speaking for them, and for the women and men whose consciences are tyrannized by their past sins?
It is not good news to say to such consciences, "Well, we're all brothers and sisters," if what they feel in their psyches and read in their Bibles (and in their Catholic catechisms) is that those who commit such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God. We must speak with tenderness and gentleness, but with an authoritative word from God, that there is a means of reconciliation. The burdened conscience doesn't wish to hear "It's all OK." The burdened conscience is freed by "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ" (Romans 8:1).
There's little purpose in refighting the Protestant Reformation here, but we do, in some sense, return to Martin Luther's problem. With a guilty conscience, he could find no way to reconciliation in himself or by the purported economy of grace. In the church, he saw rules and rituals but, in that, felt only condemnation.
But opposite a harsh, rule-oriented Christianity is a way that is just as condemning, a way that we've seen often in hyper-Protestant communions: the tendency to downplay sin at all. This leaves sinners like us in a kind of earthly purgatory that never purges, and leads us to hide from the face of God because, like our first parents, we know who we are and what we've done.
I'm in no position to advise the Bishop of Rome, but I hope we'll see a fuller-orbed message from him. I'm with Pope Francis on the need for kindness but I pray it will be a convictional kindness that addresses both the reality of God's holy justice and His reconciling love.
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The BBC have a couple of new interviews up with the Harry Potter cast from the BAFTA Film Awards which are taking place in London's Royal Opera House this evening. You can find a short interview with Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) from the red carpet here and an interview with Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange) talking about the success of "The King's Speech" here on the BBC website. As we told you over a week ago, the Harry Potter films have won this year's Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has been spotted on the red carpet.
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Speaking to Lizo Mzimba from BBC News, J.K. Rowling described being at the BAFTA Film Awards to get a special BAFTA as an "incredible thrill" and "a particularly meaningful award because it was very important to me to keep it British and we had these amazing British actors". Watch a video of the Harry Potter author on the red carpet here on the BBC News website. "It is mindblowing, actually," said Rowling of the franchise's success, "it is extraordinary. I never got over the thrill of going down to Leavesden Studios and walking onto a set, physically walking into a space I'd imagined in my head."
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