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Apparently Shepard Fairey lied to his lawyers about which photo of Barack Obama formed the basis for his iconic HOPE poster. (source) The sad thing is, it shouldn't matter. The poster
is clearly seems like fair use.
Shepard Fairey Lied About Source of HOPE PosterOctober 18, 2009
Apparently Shepard Fairey lied to his lawyers about which photo of Barack Obama formed the basis for his iconic HOPE poster. (source) The sad thing is, it shouldn't matter. The poster
The North Face claims that consumers don't know their heads from their assesOctober 3, 2009
Clothing producer, The North Face (TNF), recently got a lesson in how bad trademark enforcement decisions can make a company look silly. It seems a St. Louis teen thought that it would be amusing to create a clothing line parody, calling it "The South Butt," — south being the logical opposite of north and butt being… well… you get the idea. TNF was not amused, however, and they set their attorneys to attack mode, sending a cease and desist letter to the college freshman (source).
TNF's letter asserted that use of the "South Butt" logo (pictured below) constitutes an infringement of their own federally registered trademark (pictured above). On its face, TNF's claim is not so unreasonable. As any trademark owner (who has a decent attorney) can tell you, trademark rights can be lost if you don't enforce them. TNF must, in order to maintain its ability to sue legitimate infringers, actively look for unauthorized uses of its logo. However, owning federal trademark rights does not mean you can stop every use of your mark that you don't like. Federal trademark law was created to prevent consumers from becoming confused about the source of goods, not give complete exclusionary rights in logos, words, and phrases. It certainly wasn't meant to give companies the power to stifle criticism — a point that corporate attorneys seem to frequently fail to explain to their clients.
In order to be actionable as an infringement, the South Butt logo must be likely to cause confusion in the minds of the consuming public. In other words, if "an idiot in a hurry" would not be able to tell the difference between these two logos, then TNF could conceivably stop South Butt from using their logo. I think South Butt's attorney states the issue with TNF's claim pretty well:
I did try to explain with a great deal of candor to counsel for the North Face that the general public is aware of the difference between a face and a butt. (source)
The irony is that, as many other companies have learned in the past, over enforcing your trademark rights can have the exact opposite effect from the one that you intended. In this case, only a few people were even aware of the "South Butt" brand before TNF took any action. Presumably, TNF wanted to suppress this innocent gibe at their popular brand, but instead, they only managed to boost web traffic at shop.thesouthbutt.com.
This story has also been published on The Tactical IP Blog.
Obama Poster FlapSeptember 7, 2009
I have refrained from writing about this issue, since I am representing NORML in connection with this matter. However, Sam Bayard over at the Citizen Media Law Project Blog has done a great job of it. See Yes We Cannabis: Another Obama Photo Sparks Fair Use Controversy.
The Asshat in the RyeJune 2, 2009
J.D. Salinger wrote one of the most influential novels in modern history. If you don't know which book that is, then you're a moron. That might piss you off, if you are one of those who don't know which book Salinger wrote, being called a moron and all. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
Since writing his book, Salinger pretty much didn't do anything worthwhile. Sure, he wrote a few more books, but nobody read them and nobody much cared. The Catcher in the Rye (fine, morons, there it is) was his magnum opus, and if I ever wrote something that damn good, I probably wouldn't bother to write anything anymore either. I'd just go off and sit on a beach and drink mojitos with my royalty check money. Of course, then I might get drunk and call the guy a moron, because the guy usually is a moron.
But back to the book. What really knocks me out is a book, when you're all done reading it, you wished the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. The Catcher in the Rye knocked me out that way. I think it knocked out this Swedish guy, goes by the name J.D. California, because he wrote a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye where the main character is in his 70s and runs around New York City as a crazy old coot. I'm pretty sure that the book, 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, sucks. I haven't even read it, but if it was written by a Swedish guy obsessed with America and he can't come up with a better pen name than "J.D. California?" I'm sure the book is a bunch of lousy recycled crap about what he sees on T.V. and thinks that is anything to do with the crumby America we live in.
Crumby and stupid or not, it was probably about time someone writes a sequel to The Catcher in the Rye. You might figure that Salinger would do it, but until today, I thought the old coot was dead. I guess he is still alive, 90 years old, he probably smells like that old guy smell, writing crap wishing he could write The Catcher in the Rye again.
Well, old man Salinger got right sore at "J.D. California," for writing his sequel, and he's suing him for it. I can see him now, old man Salinger and some stick up his ass crumby Ivy League lawyer, maybe even an academic with stupid patches on the elbows of his jacket, in court to stop J.D. California from writing the words "Holden Caufield," because Old Man Salinger thinks that he owns that. Crazy old bastard. But, phony J.D. California doesn't even call the guy "Holden Caufield." He just uses the name "Mr. C." Here's Salinger's lousy complaint full of self-important goddamned junk. God I hate that stuff.
If you really want to hear about the suit, the first thing you'll probably want to know is what "fair use" is, and what Section 107 of the Copyright Act says and all that Mel Nimmer kind of crap but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. I don't really write this blog for people who don't know that kind of stuff already.
And like I said, I haven't read anything by "Mr. California," so maybe it is a "rip off," like Old Man Salinger says, but I doubt it. Among other things, you'll find that Old Man Salinger is not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior and wrote a book about it. If his book is about a guy right out of high school, and "California Man" writes his about an old bugger, with maybe the same name and all, I can't see any way that could be "copyright infringement," at least not the section 106 or 107 version of it they taught us in my crumby law school. And if it pisses you off that there are guys out there who contribute one thing to the collective culture, and then think they have a monopoly on anything related to it, well you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now.
The thing is, anything that pisses you off and sickens you or stimulates you is probably something that another alienated wack job felt. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them – if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. But, don't you know, Old Man Salinger's mind must be so addled by brain rot and the whisperings of his crumby Ivy League lawyer that he doesn't give a shit and now "Mr. California" will stand trial for more than picking a really queer pen name.
The crappy part of it is that we're seeing this happen again and again. First crappy Seinfeld and his suit in Castle Rock.Then bitchy J.K. Rowling proved that you can take the white trash out of the U.K. ghetto, but it doesn't change that she's trash. And we're supposed to be all nice about it, and say that they are just living off the fruits of their creative labors. But really, they are just putting big "Fuck You" signs on every stupid corner of the culture and they don't care – because they made their money, and their stupid stick-in-the-ass Ivy League lawyers don't care either, because they feel entitled. And if you ever wondered reasons why Sonia Sotomayor is a crumby judge, all you need to do is read her Castle Rock opinion – Castle Rock Entertainment v. Carol Publ. Group, 955 F. Supp. 260 (S.D.N.Y. 1997) where, like morons usually do, she stacked the deck for the big guy and crapped on the First Amendment.
In that case, Beth Golub watched too much Seinfeld, so she wrote The Seinfeld Aptitude Test, a bunch of trivia questions testing the reader's knowledge of the Seinfeld TV Show. It doesn't get much more "fair" use than that, but Sotomayor decided to apply a quasi-trademark law view mixed with a bizarre and narrow view of the fair use doctrine – and that since Castle Rock might have one day expanded their works into the trivia book realm, that Golub was infringing on Castle Rock's derivative use rights. Then the crumby Second Circuit upheld her opinion. See Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publishing Group, Inc., 150 F.3d 132 (2d Cir. 1998).
So with the crazy opinion in Castle Rock, you know that this is why Old Man Salinger filed in the Southern District of New York. After he saw Rowling win her case – even though Ol' Bill Patry even thought she shouldn't have – then you know that Old Man Salinger was just drooling on his remote control when Matlock came on and then his Ivy asshole lawyers told him he could win. And you know he will even though there's no way he can say that he was gonna write the sequel, because he just hides in some cabin in New Hampshire, writing nothing or writing something but not publishing it.
Knowing that is half the way to knowing that copyright law has gotten seriously fucked up. The Copyright Clause says that it is there to promote the progress of science and the useful arts – and they thought that writing books was a useful art, don't you know, so how is it "progress" to stop this "California Dreamer Guy" from writing his sequel, when all that Salinger should be writing is his stinking tombstone. If you think about it, and read Sotomayor's anti-speech dribble and drabble and drivel you'll start to see that she, and Old Man Salinger are the reasons that the whole damn culture is covered with "Fuck You" signs written by Ivy League assholes. And all it proves is that if you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the 'Fuck you' signs in the world. It's impossible. So I'll just make one of my own.
Fuck You, Old Man Salinger. Fuck You.
Whatever happened to playing fair?April 20, 2009
By Matthew Sanchez
A few recent intellectual property disputes have highlighted the fact that the decision to pursue legal action is both a legal and a moral choice. While concepts such as "fair use" help to ensure protection of both intellectual property rights while promoting creative expression, they can't replace a simple concept we all learned in kindergarten: "treat others the way you'd like them to treat you."
A couple of days ago, New York TV news station CW 11 convinced YouTube to take down a video from prank group Improv Everywhere that copied part of a CW 11 newscast. The twist as that the CW 11 newscast itself copied an earlier Improv video to unintentionally hilarious effect.
In the original Improv video, the troupe hijacked a staged funeral as an April Fools Day prank on viewers and passers-by. CW 11 reported the hijacking as a real prank on real funeral-goers that might have gone too far. The newscasters missed the fact that the prank wasn't on the fake funeral-goers but, instead, on those who believed the video was real.
Judged solely on the legal merits, CW 11 might have the (slight) upper hand on the competing questions of infringement. CW 11 used only snippets of the Improv video and added news commentary, while Improv seems to have simply lifted a portion of CW 11 broadcast and uploaded it as is. Its arguable whether Improv has a fair use argument: the group does have in its favor that the use was noncommercial and it put the clip in wildly different context — that is, exposing CW 11's blunder.
Regardless of the legal merits, there is no reason for copyright law to be involved here. CW 11 borrowed from Improv, and Improv then borrowed from CW 11. Both created expression that would not have been possible otherwise. If not for this needless legal dispute, we would all win.
A even more disappointing recent example comes from "fair use" darling Shepard Fairey. For those who haven't been following along, he's the defendant in the Associated Press' big copyright flap over the Obama "HOPE" poster.
Last month, Fairey's company Obey Giant Art Inc. alleged trademark violations in a cease-and-desist letter to Larkin Werner, a Pittsburgh Steelers fan who created a character that plays off of Fairey's "Obey" images. Dubbed "Steelerbaby," Werner's character is a baby doll in a knit Steelers uniform who appears in images and merchandise, typically accompanied by an admonishment to "Obey" or "Obey Steelerbaby."
Fairey has built a career and no small amount of celebrity by creating new art from existing material. The Obama poster, based upon a photo allegedly owned by AP, is a notable example. Werner's Steelerbaby, which is more Internet meme than profitmaking venture, is no different. Like CW 11, Fairey might have the better end of the legal argument, but a little dose of common good sense shows that he (or his company) doesn't have it "right."
It's my humble opinion that our IP system can only function alongside free creative expression if IP-holders — and IP-holder's lawyers — first ask not whether they can win, but whether they should draw the line in the sandbox at all.
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Peter Needed a Jew… Bourne Co Needed a Lesson in Fair UseMarch 19, 2009
Congress shall have the power … To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
Unfortunately, the music industry is run by twats who believe that the Copyright Clause gives them a complete monopoly over the use of their material. For example – music publishing company, Bourne Co., the owner of the copyright to "When You Wish Upon a Star," objected to a parody of the song in the Family Guy episode, "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein." In this episode, Peter Griffin gets scammed into buying volcano insurance on his home in Quahog, Rhode Island. Lois gets fed up with the family's constant financial problems, so peter decides that he needs a "Jewish money guy" to help him.
The scene at issue in this litigation depicts Peter looking out of a window up at the night sky in a manner similar to that of the toymaker Gepetto in Walt Disney's Pinocchio when Gepetto is wishing for a "real boy." (Op. at 4-5)
Peter then sings the now-famous parody, "I Need a Jew" to the tune of "When You Wish Upon a Star."
Nothing else has worked so far
So I'll wish upon a star
Wonderous shining speck of light
I need a Jew
Lois makes me take the rap
Cause our checkbook looks like crap
Since I can't give her a slap
I need a Jew
Where to find
A Baum or Steen or Stein
To teach me how to whine and do
my taaaaaxesss…
Though by many they're abhored
Hebrew people I've adored
Even though they killed my Lord
I need a Jew
While he sings the song, Jews are depicted "as magical creatures that come to Peter in the form of a magical spaceship that turns into a flying dreidel." (Op. at 5).
Family Guy's creators initially sought permission from Bourne Co. for a license to use "When You Wish Upon a Star," but Bourne refused. Therefore, the Family Guy creators decided to commission a song that would be close enough that the average person would recognize it as a parody of the original. When Bourne found out, from seeing a clip on YouTube, they filed a copyright infringement suit.
Any fool knows that parody is "fair use" under Section 107 of the Copyright Act, and constitutes protected speech under Campbell v. Acuff-Rose, 510 U.S. 569, 575 (1994) (2 Live Crew's parody of "Pretty Woman" not an infringement upon the Roy Orbison original). However, there is a strange wrinkle in copyright law where many courts hold that parody is protected fair use, but satire is not. The difference comes down to whether the later work is criticizing or parodying the original, or if the later work is making a humorous commentary about something else — but using the original work as a tool to do so.
I believe that this distinction is a false one, and I am in good company. However, in Dr. Seuss Enters., L.P., v. Penguin Books USA, Inc., 109 F.3d 1394 (9th Cir. 1997), the Ninth Circuit held that a book about O.J. Simpson called "The Cat NOT in the Hat," was merely riding on Dr. Seuss' work to make fun of Orenthal, not making any kind of commentary about the Dr. Seuss original. The Second Circuit has largely adopted this logic, finding that a Jeff Koons photograph was satire, targeting entire genre but not the original upon which he relied to do so. See Blanch v. Koons, 467 F.3d 244 (2d Cir. 2006). Compare Liebovitz v. Paramount Pictures, 137 F.3d 109 (2d Cir. 1998) (Naked Gun advertisement that mocked the Annie Liebovitz photo of a pregnant Demi Moore was parodical use).
Family Guy's attorneys argued that their use of "When You Wish," directly lampooned the original in two ways: 1) By skewering the saccharine nature of the original and by making a "sharp point about Walt Disney's reputed anti-Semitism. (Op. at 14). Bourne Co., argued that "I Need a Jew" merely "ridicules anti-Semitism and Jewish stereotypes," (Id.) but makes no criticism of the original Disney tune.
The court found Family Guy's perspective to be more compelling:
The Court finds that by juxtaposing the "saccharin sweet" song "When You Wish Upon a Star" with "I Need a Jew" the Defendants do more than just comment on racism and bigotry generally, as Plaintiff contends. Rather, Defendants' use of "When You Wish Upon a Star" calls to mind a warm and fuzzy view of the world that is ultimately nonsense; wishing upon a star does not, in fact, make one's dreams come true. By pairing Peter's "positive," though racist, stereotypes of Jewish people with that fairy tale world-view, "I Need a Jew" comments both on the original work's fantasy of stardust and magic, as well as Peter's fantasy of the "superiority" of Jews. [I Need a Jew] can be "reasonably perceived" to be commenting that any categorical view of a race of people is childish and simplistic, just like wishing upon a star. (Op. at 15-16).
Bourne argued that the parody itself was unclear and unsupported by the evidence in the case. However, parodies are protected by the First Amendment, "even when they fail to speak clearly." Relying upon Campbell v. Acuff-Rose, the court reminded Bourne that First Amendment protections do not only apply to clear, funny, or successful parodies. Even "inside jokes" and parodic falures are protected if the "parodic character can be reasonably perceived." (Op. at 19).
Barack Obama: Champion for Copyright Reform?December 2, 2008
by Jason Fischer
I'm no fan of our President-elect, but I have to tip my hat to him on this interesting bit of P.R.:
The new administration's transition site, Change.gov, is being published under a Creative Commons license. (source) This means that the content is not subject to the draconian, life-plus-70 protection that is the default under the current federal copyright act. Does this mean that our next president may be in favor of copyright reform? One can only dream.
McCain Feels the Pain of the DMCAOctober 15, 2008
Perhaps McCain should have had someone who knows how to use a computer explain the DMCA to him before he voted for it.
UPDATE: Public Citizen sent this outstanding letter to both McCain and Obama.
JK Rowling Case (I told you so)September 8, 2008
Back in November, I wrote about the Harry Potter Compendium lawsuit in J.K. Rowling – Worst British Export Since Rick Astley. At the time, it seemed like I was the only one who thought that JK Rowling would prevail (even though I didn't think she should).
Looks like I was right, unfortunately. The S.D.N.Y., following the Second Circuit's decision in Castle Rock, held that the Compendium was not fair use. Opinion here. This is not a good day for fair use.
The DMCA? She Bite Sometimes – Lenz v. UniversalAugust 21, 2008
In February of 2007, Stephanie Lenz videotaped her toddlers dancing in her kitchen to the Prince song, "Let's Go Crazy." She then uploaded the 29 second video to Youtube. "Let's Go Crazy" can be heard for 20 muffled seconds. Universal then sent Youtube a DMCA takedown notice, and Youtube complied.
Lenz sent YouTube a DMCA counter-notification pursuant to the little-used portion of the DMCA codified at 17 U.S.C. § 512(g) Lenz took the position that her video "constituted fair use of '"Let's Go Crazy' and thus did not infringe Universal's copyrights. Lenz filed a counter-notification and demanded that the video be reposted.
YouTube re-posted the video on its website about six weeks later." (Source at 2) Lenz then utilized an even more rarely-employed portion of the DMCA, 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), which provides for liability to be imposed on those who file DMCA notices without the requisite good faith belief that the material in question is an infringement of the copyright owner's rights. Universal moved to dismiss claiming that it did not need to consider fair use when sending a DMCA notice.
Universal contends that copyright owners cannot be required to evaluate the question of fair use prior to sending a takedown notice because fair use is merely an excused infringement of a copyright rather than a use authorized by the copyright owner or by law. (Source at 5)
Lenz countered:
Lenz argues that fair use is an authorized use of copyrighted material, noting that the fair use doctrine itself is an express component of copyright law. Indeed, Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976 provides that "[n]otwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work . . . is not an infringement of copyright." 17 U.S.C. § 107. Lenz asserts in essence that copyright owners cannot represent in good faith that material infringes a copyright without considering all authorized uses of the material, including fair use. (Source at 5)
The Court found that Lenz had the more persuasive argument:
Even if Universal is correct that fair use only excuses infringement, the fact remains that fair use is a lawful use of a copyright. Accordingly, in order for a copyright owner to proceed under the DMCA with "a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law," the owner must evaluate whether the material makes fair use of the copyright. 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A)(v). An allegation that a copyright owner acted in bad faith by issuing a takedown notice without proper consideration of the fair use doctrine thus is sufficient to state a misrepresentation claim pursuant to Section 512(f) of the DMCA. Such an interpretation of the DMCA furthers both the purposes of the DMCA itself and copyright law in general. (Source at 6)
Universal then complained that it would be too hard to evaluate whether something was fair use. The Court didn't buy it.
Undoubtedly, some evaluations of fair use will be more complicated than others. But in the majority of cases, a consideration of fair use prior to issuing a takedown notice will not be so complicated as to jeopardize a copyright owner's ability to respond rapidly to potential infringements. The DMCA already requires copyright owners to make an initial review of the potentially infringing material prior to sending a takedown notice; indeed, it would be impossible to meet any of the requirements of Section 512(c) without doing so. A consideration of the applicability of the fair use doctrine simply is part of that initial review. (Source at 7)
Too many copyright owners misuse the DMCA as a mandate to squash all use, fair or not, of their material. In a particularly egregious example, Professor Wendy Seltzer posted a clip of the NFL's copyright notice, and the NFL issued a DMCA takedown notice. Story here. With any luck, this N.D. Calif. case will make copyright owners think twice before sending out a ham-fisted DMCA notice.
Why We Need Fair UseAugust 5, 2008
Because there just 'aint enough soul-music-hitler-humor these days…
HT: Andrew Sullivan
Old is New … Satire v. ParodyMarch 12, 2008
I've always been a bit uncomfortable with how the 9th Circuit dealt with the Cat in the Hat case. Dr. Seuss Enters., L.P., v. Penguin Books USA, Inc., 109 F.3d 1394 (9th Cir. 1997).
I just came across a 1998 article by Santa Clara intellectual property professor, Tyler Ochoa. Ochoa criticizes the 9th's decision in DR. SEUSS, THE JUICE AND FAIR USE: HOW THE GRINCH SILENCED A PARODY, 45 J. Copyright Soc'y USA 546 (1998)
[The book] it was a satirical account of the O.J. Simpson trial written in the style of Dr. Seuss. Entitled The Cat NOT in the Hat! and labeled "A Parody By Dr. Juice," the book recounted the events of the trial in simple and repetitive rhyming phrases like those used in The Cat in the Hat and 46 other children's books written by Theodor S. Geisel under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss. The Cat NOT in the Hat! was illustrated with thirteen depictions of a cartoon caricature of O.J. Simpson, also in the style of Dr. Seuss, wearing the Cat's distinctive red-and-white stovepipe hat.
Based on a pre-publication advertisement, Dr. Seuss Enterprises filed suit against the authors and publishers of the parody, claiming that it violated the Copyright Act, the Lanham Act, the Federal Trademark Dilution Act, and California Unfair Competition law by using copyrighted expression and registered and unregistered trademarks belonging to the plaintiff. The District Court entered a preliminary injunction against the defendants, holding that the plaintiff had demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits of its copyright claim, and that the trademark claim presented serious questions for review and the balance of hardships favored the plaintiff. On an interlocutory appeal, the District Court's rulings were affirmed by the Ninth Circuit in a published opinion.
In this article, I will demonstrate that the Ninth Circuit's opinion was incorrect, both as a matter of law and as a matter of public policy. In its opinion, the Ninth Circuit misapplied controlling U.S. Supreme Court precedent in holding that The Cat NOT in the Hat! was not a parody and was not a transformative use; in holding that the defendants were limited to that copying necessary to "conjure up" the original; and in presuming that the defendant's commercial parody would cause harm to the potential market for the original and licensed derivatives.
Part II of this article will discuss the social importance of parody and the related forms of burlesque and satire. Part III will briefly review the development of the parody defense to copyright infringement, with particular attention to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1994 opinion in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. [FN5] Part IV will summarize the Ninth Circuit's opinion in the Dr. Seuss case, while Part V will offer an alternative analysis explaining how the Ninth Circuit erred in enjoining publication of The Cat NOT in the Hat!
I definitely place Ochoa at the top of the hill when it comes to IP professors that have earned and maintained my respect. (He could a bit of tutoring in 1980s pop culture, but that is a private joke). I really wish that I had read this article a long time ago.
Best… Fair… Use… Ever?March 10, 2008
Safe for work… I promise.
If you have no idea who Bauhaus was, or if you never saw the movie "The Hunger," don't bother clicking.
Everyone else… click.
Fox News Porn – Fair Use Orgy!February 26, 2008
This is going to be a fun election for intellectual property wonks. We've already seen the Clash of the Anti-Hillaristas!
Now, Fox News finds itself in a fair use maelstrom.
In an effort to criticize the network that brought us eight years of darkness, an anonymous webmaster has created the Fox News Porn website. Apparently the webmaster has detected higher than normal levels of T&A on Fox News.
One of the links brings you to Fox Attacks, a blog that seems to be devoted to tearing down the Fox Network.
Disclaimer, I do occasional legal commentary on Fox. Nevertheless, I don't allow that to bias my opinion of the network. I do think that Fox is open to plenty of honest criticism, but I find this kind of attack to be more than a little dishonest. Every network dishes up the skin. If these people have a beef with Fox's content and political leanings, so be it. That is the arena in which they should take on Fox – not some faux morality crusade.
This kind of shrieking is far too reminiscent of the McCarthy-like tactics employed by the religious right.
Lets sit on the sidelines and see if Mr. Murdoch takes the criticism, or if this winds up being a really interesting intellectual property case. The site clearly uses the Fox News logo (trademark infringement) and clearly uses Fox's copyrighted materials. However, I'm certain that if Fox attempted to bring a claim for either one, the fair use defense would obliterate the claims.
Scandalized? Heh.


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One of the best Dunkles. Great flavor and head retention. Love the malty, clover tase. Not very hoppy....true to style. Wonderful mouthfeel and smooth, malty aftertaste. Cloudy as a summer day in Seattle....and that's a good thing! Enjoy this one in the summer. Some like it with fruit, but I think it's much better straight up!
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An Austrian-American neighbor turned me onto this beer over a decade ago back when it was more readily available in bomber size bottles before the Paulaner merger. A most exceptional dunkle-weiss in most respects although I think it has gone down a bit in quality over the years from mass production. I do remember when availability of this beer would be hit or miss back in the day from import shortages here in the States.
Current formulation pours with an extremely thick head into a fluted glass no matter how careful you are. Thick bandy lacing. Mouthfeel is wet and warm. Taste is nice and roasted, thoughts of hot fresh bread with hints of caramel and sweet dried fruits assail me with every sip. A bit of acidicness is prevalent when drinking.
This beer is best experienced when combined with a ligher beer like Hoegaarden White. Enjoy.
Like with current Paulaners a 6 or 12 pack may contain a sour stinker, if you drink this and it's sour or metallic tasting then it's gone over, pour it out and move along to the next.
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4.75/5 rDev +19.3%
Sampling right now on 3/7/14. Comes in a 330ml (11.2 oz.) bottle. Bottle chiled down to 36 degrees F and poured into a tulip glass.
Pours a dark copper-amber in color with a 2-finger off-white foamy head that settles along the top and sides. LOTS of sticky lacing is seen. The aroma is of yeast, caramel malts, wheat with a hint of spice. The taste is about the same with a good mild flavor that goes down very easy with a sweet finish. No bitter aftertaste. A super good brew!
03-07-2014 23:28:32 | More by BeerWithMike
4.75/5 rDev +19.3%
12-29-2012 15:56:32 | More by Griefdog
District of Columbia
4.75/5 rDev +19.3%
04-26-2014 00:18:18 | More by Chav27
Ontario (Canada)
4.72/5 rDev +18.6%
Had this on-tap at Smokeless Joe in Toronto. I hadn't had a Dunkel Weizen in ages, and on tap even! :) Hazy mahogany, with a thick creamy white head, lots of lace. Aroma of cloves and some fruit, definitely inviting. Taste of bananas, with some smokiness and malt coming in second, hint of chocolate crept in and well. The mouthfeel was quite effervescent and full, with the creaminess of a weizen. I think this is one of my favourite draft beers, if not my absolute favourite. I don't think I could drink enough of this.
10-05-2005 04:50:48 | More by tatterdash
4.72/5 rDev +18.6%
Bananas Foster beer. Thick hunks of banana covered in gooey caramel tickle the nose. Hints of cloves, phenols, and classic hefe yeast emerge from that big, billowing head.
This takes me on a trip down memory lane: When my favorite bar was changing ownership a few years back, the old owner put everything on special to try to get a few bucks back and clear out inventory before taking off. Five dollar pitchers. Only five fucking dollars for this gem of a brew on tap. And it was one of a few select beers that really started me down my path of love...er, obsession.
And why not?
It's near fucking perfect beer. Something akin to a peppery feel -- cloves, perhaps? -- tingles the tongue while the palate is stimulated by the tiniest hints of oak and those same forceful caramel-banana overtones. It's sweet, but it's not sweet. It's flavorful, but it's refreshing. It's drinkable, but it's got some character. This is unquestionably one of my favorite wheat beers on the planet.
12-30-2003 17:48:55 | More by marburg
4.65/5 rDev +16.8%
poured into goblet. large, rocky white head, rustic reddish brown with golden edges. nicely retained head. smells like wheat, banana, and a fair dose of clove. fairly caramel-malt sweet on the nose as well. i take a nice quaff and its got good spice zip up front that quickly turns sweeter, with banana and malts coming in nicely. very bready all the way through, has good medicinal clove and banana interplay on the mild finish. excellent mouthfeel; very delicate and balanced well with the carbonation. could drink these all day. an excellent dukelweizen.
05-27-2010 20:56:13 | More by jizdepski
District of Columbia
4.65/5 rDev +16.8%
Appearance: Opaque brown with reddish hints. Good full head.
Smell: Smells like bananas and cloves. The beer had a slight tang to it.
Taste: Banana flavor mixed heartily with the wheat. Spicy cloves aftertaste. It leaves a nice bread feel to your mouth.
Mouthfeel: It has a weight to it, it goes down smooth. The beer has a nice light carbonation.
Drinkability: Easy to drink on the whole. A good standard for this beer style.
09-30-2009 21:32:39 | More by pzrhsau
4.63/5 rDev +16.3%
Cloudy dark chocolate brown with a beige lofty spectacular head. Smells rich of dark malts mixed with esters, wheat, yeast and clove. Taste is smooth and delicious. Banana bread, caramel and a yeast tang all come together seamlessly. Touch of clove on the finish. Enough carbonation to quench my thirst, and this one was gone way too soon. Exceptional style and an exceptional brew.
10-27-2003 14:49:37 | More by chaduvel
Ontario (Canada)
4.6/5 rDev +15.6%
On Tap:
-- puts a lightly clouded cooper-tea colored ale in the flute, nice puffy off white cap- good retention and glass lacing....lively natural carbonation.
Aroma of dark toffee, roast grains, toasted wheat, big on fruits> banana, exotic fruits, some clove and spice...very pungent aroma.
Flavor profile sees roast malts and dark toffee up front almost instantly balanced with fruity-spicey complexity, some cocoa, some mustiness....long drying finish with some herbal hopping pucker.
This is my favorite H-S Weissbier...just loaded with favor, refreshing and sessionable.
04-26-2010 16:23:22 | More by pootz
4.55/5 rDev +14.3%
Cloudy orange hue, huge two-finger head, thick and foamy, lacing quite noticeable. Ear shattering carbonation, some spices and banana cloves on the nose. Spicy notes up front, refreshing and cleansing, quite tasty; hangs on the chewy side. Some vanilla beans noted, and some wheat notes, rather sweet for the style. Fresh palate, Munich malts noted towards the end, with a rather dry and grainy feeling, leaves you yearning and itching for more. Great, awesome, fill in the blanks, seek-and-destroy, this baby is awesome!
01-25-2004 04:16:32 | More by GeoffRizzo
4.55/5 rDev +14.3%
Purchased as part of "build-your-own-six-pack" at local grocer. poured a thick, foamy head on a light caramel colored body. Smelled of a typical weisse, with a nice measure of sweetness. Throw banana and caramel in there as well. Taste was along the same lines, with the caramel and sweetness a touch stronger than the smell led on. Interesting that I detected little or no citrus. Exceptionally smooth, very, very easy to drink. Excellent brew.
07-28-2008 18:02:05 | More by ibashmuck
Hacker-Pschorr Dunkel Weisse (Weisse Dark) from Hacker-Pschorr Bräu GmbH
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Organizers of the annual Roar on the Shore motorcycle rally today announced some of the musical acts for the 2013 event. It will take place July 18, 19, and 20 in downtown Erie.
The bands FrenchKiss, the Bastard Bearded Irishmen, and Hammersmith will open for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday headliners.
The bands were winners of the RocktheRoar Facebook contest . More than 6,000 votes were cast.


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How To Mark Property
An etching pen and an electric engraver can be used to mark property. Most models are relatively inexpensive. Relatively large and durable items like radios, cameras, tools, DVD players and the like are ideal for etching or engraving.
Precious or delicate items like jewelry, antiques, artwork and heirlooms would not be items ideal for etching or engraving. A jeweler can make fine engravings for very small items like jewelry. An alternative to marking would be photographing the item and having it professionally appraised.
There is an identification product called Data Dots that is available. Data Dots are about the size of a grain of sand. This technology allows identifying information to be embedded into the Data Dots. Multiple Data Dots are applied to an item. They are not easy to detect. Complete removal of the product is extremely difficult. Specific tools are used for Data Dot detection and viewing.
Expensive clothing can be marked with a contrasting permanent magic marker. A UV (ultraviolet) marker could also be used to mark property. The mark is only visible with a black light or ultraviolet light.
marking being used can your name, date of birth, address or phone number. Your
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21-year-old woman waiting for liver at Cleveland Clinic dies after transplant surgery
CLEVELAND - The 21-year-old Ohio woman in need of a liver transplant died Monday afternoon.
Chelsea Lingenfelter was diagnosed with a rare kind of liver cancer at the age of 4 and received a partial transplant from her mother. But over the years, complications left the organ scarred and damaged, meaning only a full-size liver would help.
"I've just been really waiting a long time," she said earlier this month from her room at the Cleveland Clinic, where she spent more than a year. Family and friends calling themselves "Team Chelsea" organized fundraisers on her behalf. "I'm so thankful… It's amazing.
The family received an offer for a liver and got the all-clear that it was a perfect match Monday morning. She went into surgery at about 10 a.m.
"While we are ecstatic at the possibilities, we are also humbled that none of this would be possible if there wasn't a family out there suffering with the loss of a loved one. Our hearts, prayers, and deepest gratitude go out to them as we begin our long night of worry and anticipation," the family posted on her website .
Chelsea's mother, Joni Lingenfelter, knew that in order for her daughter to survive, another family would have to experience a loss.
"We're hoping to find maybe a family in a horrible situation for themselves right now that maybe have already made that decision for themselves that yes, they want to be an organ donor," she told NewsChannel5's Deb Lee in early February. "And if they would happen to be O negative blood type and small body stature, if they would consider possibly donating the liver directly to Chelsea."
Chelsea died at 2:43 p.m. on Monday, her family said.
Nationally, more than 116,000 people are waiting for organ transplants. For more information about organ donation, go to http://lifebanc.org


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Georges Poulet's cyanotypes of the construction of the Santa Fe railroad network in Argentina are evocative curiosities in the photography world. After all, Poulet was not so much a photographer as a French engineer, a builder of roads and bridges, whose commission to set up the Santa Fe Railway Company led to six years of pioneering work, from 1889 to 1895. In that time, he documented the railroad's progress with a rigorous series of cyanotypes, charting a new frontier in the Southern hemisphere, from Santa Fe to San Cristobal, Rosario, and finally Tucuman.
More commonly known as blueprint, cyanotype ranks as the third photo process to be discovered, after the daguerreotype and the talbotype. Invented in 1842 by Sir John Frederick Herschel, the cyanotype is the result of iron salts that leave behind a characteristic blue deposit when rinsed away by water after exposure to light. The relative ease, low cost and practicality of this running-water technique accounted, in part, for its popularity among artists, architects and engineers. Poulet took advantage of this, making contact prints from collodion-glass negatives as he moved along with the construction of the railroad. With its informative essays and full annotation, this book is a fine appreciation of Poulet's achievement.
Poulet's blue chronicle admirably sets its scenes, from the Argentinean ports where railroad supplies arrive to the interior of the rugged country. His images capture crisp details of the railroad trestles and ironwork that begin the industrial transformation, and many of his shots view the railway construction from a distance, over swampy, scrubby expanses. These photos of an undeveloped terrain in the throes of modern change are vital documents, memorializing not only the engineering spectacle but also the humanity behind it, as teams of workers are caught in the act of hauling, hammering, and subduing the rough clay of Argentina.
Railroad tracks, of course, are ideal subjects for photography, affording a receding perspective from the bottom of the frame to a vanishing point on the horizon, and Poulet's instincts in suggesting the infinity of distance were superb. One shot, titled "Canada Vigre" is a masterpiece of such perspective, as the tracks lead our eye to a tiny glimmer of light notched in the dead center of the frame, with a cloudless sky smoothly contrasting the modules of earth, scrub, water, trees and iron that occupy the bottom half of the image.
This was a favorite technique of Poulet, and he worked wonderful variations on it, with groups of workers along the tracks or glimpsed in their makeshift camps by the trackside. The monochromatic blue lends a dreamlike aura to each scene, no matter how mundane some of them are, and the effect is of a landscape that exists only in memory--a primal garden on the verge of irrevocable change. Poulet was certainly sensitive to the upheaval that his engineering project was causing, and his images of Argentina's natives and its natural wonders--giant, serpent-like cacti, or the grassy pampas--reveal a genuine love and comprehension of this wild world.


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GM Jim Schoenfeld: Whale callups knew system, were well conditioned, seemless. NYR would not make playoffs without what guys here did.—
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Id you discount Ryan McDonagh and Mats Zuccarello, Kris Newbury played the most games of any call up with 11. Dale Weise was at 10, Evgeny Grachev at eight, Chad Kolarik at four and Jeremy Williams and Brodie Dupont at one each. Impact goes beyond points, combined they had two assists, and guys like Newbury and Weise had the jam that John Tortorella liked.
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DURANT, OK -- Excitement is in the air at the Bryan County fairgrounds, as people were getting their cows, and sheep and pigs ready for the fair.
They brought in animals from all around the county on Thursday to be weighed and judged as part of the annual Bryan County Free Fair. The animals will appear in several shows starting tonight and continuing for the next two days.
"It's a real good experience for these kids to showcase their animals be able to show the public what we do and how we treat our animals," says extension agent Robert Bourne.
There will be a carnival in the evenings, a goat show on Friday, and a beef show on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. The fair will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.


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Chapel Hill native and proud Carolina graduate, Zach Ward has been performing and directing comedy professionally for 20 years. Zach owns DSI COMEDY THEATER in Carrboro, NC where he serves as Executive Producer for the theater and #NCCAF.
In the world of comedy, Zach has been employed as Managing Director of IMPROVBOSTON, a 501(c)(3) non-profit Comedy Theater in Cambridge, MA, by the Chicago Improv Festival (Associate Producer), Toronto Improv Festival (Producer), Richmond Improv Festival (Producer) and ComedySportz Chicago (Director of Education).
Zach has received critical acclaim from the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Tribune for his performance with DUAL EXHAUST (Critic's Choice, Top 10 "Most Influential Comedy Duos of the Past Decade") and THE BEATBOX (Critic's Choice, Best Bet, "Top 5 Latenight Shows in Chicago"). Zach can currently be seen performing and teaching at theaters and festivals around the country.
Zach has studied the art of improvisation with Todd Stashwick (Burn Mahattan), Mick Napier and Susan Messing (Annoyance), Craig Cackowski and TJ Jagodowski (ImprovOlympic), Matt Besser (Upright Citizens Brigade), Amy Poehler (SNL), Michael Gelman (Second City), and with every student he teaches. Zach translates success both in business and on stage to Professional Speaking, Business and Brand Consulting, Leadership Development and Team Building for clients including GSK, Biogen, Cisco, Motorola Latin America, Old Navy, P&G and the YMCA. He might enjoy making suits do comedy most of all.
Born in North Florida, Ashley is a freelance media professional with a Bachelors in Cinematic Arts from the University of Southern California and Masters in Folklore from UNC-Chapel Hill. She has been a credited author, photographer, producer and editor of print, film and digital media. Ashley spent the last three years on staff organizing the Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Ashley has worked with the Center for the Study of the American South at UNC, the Independent Weekly, Thornapple Films, eMusic, Paste Magazine, NPR Member Station WUNC, and the Southern Foodways Alliance. Ashley believes the best work comes out of impeccable preparation in advance and cool-headed flexibility in the moment — no surprise, she's also an improviser.
Artistic Director of DSI Comedy Theater, Paula has been performing and teaching comedy for over a decade. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Art Institute of Chicago, is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has a Masters Certificate in Project Management from the George Washington School of Business.
A veteran of ImprovOlympic, The Playground Theatre and ComedySportz Chicago, Paula studied the art of improvisation with Mick Napier, Charna Halpern, Noah Gregoropoulos, Susan Messing, and Joe Bill. She has been recognized for her work with THE PLACEBO EFFECT, The SPEAKEASY PLAYERS, and CHEETARAH as well as with the sketch troupe ASTERISKS (CHICAGO SKETCHFEST 2004-2006). Paula can currently be seen performing with MISTER DIPLOMAT at DSI and around the country.
Paula has conducted improv workshops for professional growth for years; most recently she has worked with Motorola, Duke University, Durham County Health Department, Town of Chapel Hill, SUN (Southern University Newspapers) Conference and Leadership Triangle. Needless to say, Paula takes comedy seriously and believes in serious applications of comedy.
Carrie Gorn has more than 15 years experience in the field of media and public relations. She began her career in sports journalism, where she focused on ideas and stories from unique angles and perspectives. She took that mindset into the Public Relations arena, and has built a reputation for increasing media exposure for people and organizations, who have seen increased attendance, sales, accolades and membership from her efforts.
Her business, Perpetual Motion PR, has worked with DSI Comedy Theater and the North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival for more than three years. Carrie has helped the festival and theater expand its reach in the Triangle. Elsewhere, Carrie has recently started working with ImprovBoston and the Boston Improv Festival. She has also worked with the Philadelphia Improv Festival and Philadelphia Comedy Month for the four years, as well as handling PR and Marketing for the 2010 ComedySportz World Tournament in Philadelphia.
Based in the City of Brotherly Love, Carrie works with some of the Philadelphia's top up-and-coming theatres. She has been the in-house PR person for The Wilma Theater and Walnut Street Theatre. She continues to get strong results with her tenacious and thoughtful PR strategies. As a publicist, she has generated feature or news coverage in most of the media outlets in the Delaware Valley. Organizations who have worked with Carrie have been placed in Variety, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Magazine, and many others.


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Highland Heather Ale - Highland Brewing
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South Carolina
3.75/5 rDev +8.4%
07-22-2013 22:03:30 | More by WOLFGANG
3.45/5 rDev -0.3%
Pours a deep ambered brown color witha very sparse head. Nose is very herbal. Definately heather. Flavor is right there. Herbal heather with a brown sugary sweetness in the finish. Not bad at all. Feel is a very light moderate with a moderate carbonation. Nothing bad to say about this one. Its pretty drinkable. I'd have it again.
10-26-2005 01:18:03 | More by kmpitz2
3.93/5 rDev +13.6%
This 12 oz bottle pours a deep, chestnut brown body with a small beige head that quickly falls into a collar. Island chain patch lacing is prevalent.
Aroma is subdued, with toffee maltiness and a pronounced floral note that is difficult to describe. The floral aroma is like dried lavender, and is definitely not derived from hops.
Mouthfeel is unremarkable, but decent, with a light medium body and medium carbonation.
Taste features some bready malt that blends well with the heather bitterness. Very unusual taste, that evokes the idea of a bitter Coca Cola with a mild alcohol component, accented by dried lavender. Clean finish actually makes this one a bit tasty.
Good drinkability for this well constructed example of an ancient Scottish style. Definitely, worth a try for its unique floral accents.
08-07-2005 18:55:55 | More by merlin48
3.3/5 rDev -4.6%
Presented in a 12oz. brown bottle, no freshness dating on the label
Pours a dark brown, not black. Loses the tan foam and carbonation quite quickly, lackluster lacing.
Very interesting floral aroma. Not perfumy, but like you were sitting near a hill of wild flowers as the breeze brings the aroma over.
Earthy malt with a lingering perfumey floral aspect. Tangy, not bad.
Light bodied and easy drinking. Finishes clean, with a bit of residual maltiness
06-11-2005 01:18:05 | More by Dithyramb
North Carolina
2.38/5 rDev -31.2%
I'm glad I ordered a small glass rather than a pint. Medium dark brown in color with a nice, chunky head that leaves no lace as it settles into a thin veil. Aroma is all malt, caramel, molasses, dried fruit, and florals, no hop . Tastes the same, slightly sour, perfumey , bready, earthy(dirt), woody. Not even a suggestion of hops to be found. Thin in body and over-carbonated. I can't even finish a 10 oz. glass, not my bag at all.
12-21-2004 16:31:56 | More by AlexJ
3.18/5 rDev -8.1%
Dark brown to mahogany with a decent tan head. Aroma and flavor is earthy, malty, and flowery with an almost tar-like(?) character. Medium bodied and smooth with a roasty finish.
Only slightly better in mouthfeel than the original draft version I tried. Very different than Fraoch Heather Ale but neither set the beer world on fire...
'04' bottled version
Tasted: 12/06/04
12-07-2004 19:36:57 | More by RBorsato
North Carolina
3.75/5 rDev +8.4%
Deep reddish brown with a light tan head.
Nose is faintly herbal.
Very light body.
Lightly flavored, delicate hebal notes over a sweet malt. Very short finish.
The dark color belies a very light and quaffable brew. The boys up the mountain have produced a very popular, albeit bland brew.
08-26-2004 22:37:54 | More by homersimpson
North Carolina
3.95/5 rDev +14.2%
Wow I seemed to like this beer alot more than the other person who reviewed this one,pours a deep brown with some reddish tints thru out with a creat creamy head that settled nicely leaving sheets of lace.Aromas of roasted malt and an odd floral note (the heather?),taste had a lactic quality to it with some chocolate with a late sour note.Nice creamy mouthfeel,a beer with some complexity and oddities I really liked this one if it's bottled I will buy some more for sure.
08-15-2004 17:16:06 | More by oberon
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And so if you're hoping to see Aldo in the Octagon or Jones fighting for a belt, don't hold your breath.
White said on The Fight Fix on CSN Washington that Aldo had a chance to move into the UFC lightweight division and fight Kenny Florian, but Aldo chose instead to keep defending his featherweight belt. And he said Jones won't fight for the light heavyweight title for at least a year.
Sounding a little surprised that a fighter would turn down a chance to jump from the WEC to the UFC, White said Aldo declined an offer.
"Jose Aldo's been talking about moving up to 155 pounds," White said. "Well, we had a slot and said, 'All right, you want to move up to 155 pounds?' And he said, 'Uh, never mind.'"
Ultimately, White sounds content to let Aldo fight at whatever weight he's most comfortable fighting at.
"It depends on what this kid wants to do," White said. "If he wants to stay in the WEC and defend that title, that's cool. But they were talking at one point about moving to [155] so we talked to him and said, 'How would you like to move to the UFC's 155 division and take on Kenny, and they turned it down."
As for Jones, White says it's important not to rush one of the best young fighters in the sport into a title fight before he's ready. Instead, White says, he's going to match Jones and Ryan Bader up in a battle of the two best young 205-pounders.
"The fight will happen with Ryan Bader," White said. "Jon Jones is obviously the talk of the industry right now. He's the whole package. He's a good-looking kid, he's smart, he's incredibly talented, he's got the size, he's got the strength."
But when asked whether the Jones-Bader fight is for a title shot, White threw cold water on that idea.
"People drive me crazy," White said. "They're always like, 'Jon Jones is great, let's get him in there with Shogun Rua! Get him in there now! He's ready!' Listen, this guy's a young kid. Yes, this kid is dominant. Yes this kid has done amazing things. In the fight business, you work your way up the ranks. He just broke into the top 10, he's going to take on Ryan Bader, who just beat Nogueira. If he gets through that fight he's going to fight nothing but the Top 5. Jon Jones is probably a year away from a title shot."
So if you're dying to see Aldo in the UFC or Jones fighting for the title, be patient. It's not going to happen just yet.


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Befitting the day I suppose, I caught this over at IntoMobile last week during their coverage of Nokia World.
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BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WECT) – Different law enforcement agencies from across the state spent Wednesday at the CSX Railway in Navassa, learning how to respond to an accident on the railroad tracks and prevent them from happening.
The U.S. Army (Sunny Point), along with Operation Lifesaver conducted a Grade Crossing Collision Investigation Course on Wednesday.
The course is designed to prepare and educate area emergency management, first responders and law enforcement in emergency and investigation procedures for a post railroad incident or disaster.
Several area law enforcement agencies including Brunswick County Sheriff traffic division, NC Highway Patrol and several departments throughout the state got a hands-on experience, learning everything from post investigations to traffic enforcement and HAZMAT situations.
Although the course is taught 5 times per year in NC, this is the first time in 5 years the course has been taught in the Brunswick /Pender County area.
Most agencies were eager to attend the course remembering the train incident that occurred in Bladenboro last February.
Sergeant Brian Hakey from Sunny Point says it's especially important for law enforcement in our area to be ready for any dangerous situation. "In Brunswick County and Wilmington, we do rely quite a bit on our railroad system," said Hakey. "So this training is pretty unique, but very specific to our area."
Organizers hope this event will kick start their push for safer railways across the country. Railroad Safety Week begins on May 7.
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A new road brings new issues to one Hannibal neighborhood.
The Stardust Drive extension has opened the neighborhood to more traffic, but also an increase in speeders.
Several residents that live off Stardust between Rosewood and Head Lane tell WGEM News that the amount of speeding cars that go through their neighborhood has gotten out of hand.
Because of the complaints, Hannibal officials are considering putting in speed tables, similar to the ones installed by Holy Family Schools. Officials say the speed table would help keep drivers under the 25 mph posted speed limit and local residents agree.
"The speed bumps would help, definitely. There's a lot of speeding in the neighborhood and it's just a safety issue, it would be a good idea to go ahead and put them in," Linda Daniels said.
Hannibal City Manager Jeff LaGarce says the city is also considering putting in 4 way stops at Stardust and Clover, and at Stardust and Head Lane.
The issue will be voted on in the coming months. If passed, the speed tables could be implemented as early as this spring.
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Archiving the Future: Fanfiction as an Artistic Practice
By: Megan van der Nest (Ph.D. Candidate, Rhodes)
In a 2011 article in TIME Magazine, Lev Grossman gives the following description of fanfiction:
fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couch bound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
Many people think of fanfiction as something written by 13-year-old girls with no concept of grammar or plot, who wouldn't know a good story if it hit them on the head. In this paper I will argue that, contrary to this point of view, fanfiction ought to be considered a legitimate artistic practice, in the tradition of archival art. In addition, by drawing on Derrida's theory of the archive and Michel de Certeau's theory about the relationship between consumers and producers, I will argue that fanfiction can serve an important social and political function, as a mechanism for questioning and transforming the dominant ideology of a society.


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Earth Day Smoothie
celebrate earthday everyday
A healthy green smoothie to help you celebrate mother nature.
1½ Cups Almond Milk
1 Cup Spinach leaves
2 Stalks Celery
3 Kale leaves
1 Cup of frozen Pineapple
1 Cup of Orange Juice
½ Lemon (squeezed)
2 Tbsp Navitas Naturals Sprouted Omega Blend
1 tsp Navitas Naturals Wheatgrass
1 handful of ice
Blend all ingredients and enjoy.
Chef's Notes
Greens are both cleansing and alkalizing and the citrus and pineapple mellow out this electrifying blend.


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