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ESQ would like to welcome Marlowe Daly-Galeano as our inaugural Year in Conferences (YiC) Director. Now in its fourth year, the YiC is designed to enhance the circulation of ideas between and among scholars by covering ALA, ASA, C19, MLA, and SSAWW--the major conferences in the field. These reports from the field are written by graduate students from across the country in a collaborative group-authored article published annually in the first issue of the journal.
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House OKs copyright czar, new piracy penalties
Approved bill would enable seizure of property linked to piracy or counterfeiting, but Justice Department isn't wild about creating a White House-based copyright enforcer.
A bipartisan proposal to create an intellectual-property czar and impose new penalties on pirates sailed through the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday.
By a 410-10 vote, the House approved the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property, or Pro-IP, Act, which is backed by the entertainment industry and other major copyright holders. The proposal is chiefly sponsored by Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the chairmen of the House Judiciary Committee.
The bill would rewrite U.S. law to allow federal officials to seize property--including computers or other equipment used to commit intellectual-property crimes or obtained as a result of those proceeds--from people convicted of making unauthorized copies of music, movies, or live performances. In civil cases, federal agents would have to establish that there was a "substantial connection" between the property and the offense.
In addition, the bill would also create a new position, presidentially appointed within the Executive Office of the President, charged with acting as a chief adviser on intellectual-property enforcement matters. The U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Representative, as it would be known, appears to be modeled after the U.S. Trade Representative, which already has some intellectual-property enforcement responsibilities and puts out an annual report on global piracy .
The measure had previously drawn harsh criticism from consumer advocacy groups because of a controversial provision that would have dramatically increased fines in copyright infringement lawsuits. But that section was stripped out during a committee vote, seemingly to avert proposal-killing opposition, though the bill's sponsors said they plan to revisit the issue.
Thursday's vote may have arrived scarcely a week after the House Judiciary Committee lent its backing to the bill, but it seems unlikely to be on a fast track to becoming law, thanks to vocal objections from the Bush administration.
The U.S. Department of Justice has complained that establishing such a new White House-based intellectual-property officer is unnecessary and could undermine its traditional authority in prosecuting copyright cases.

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Year after year the AIMIA Awards continue to grow in size and success. The AIMIA Awards, also known as "The Amys" in the digital industry, are a celebration of the great work from Australia's Digital Content, Services and Applications industry. Entries are judged by a panel of over 140 Australian and International industry experts.
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LOS ANGELES -- Yasiel Puig lived up to the hype in his major league debut, and then some.
Puig had two singles and made a strong throw from right field to first to complete a game-ending double play, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 2-1 on Monday night.
"Storybook," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said.
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Adrian Gonzalez and Scott Van Slyke homered for last-place Los Angeles, which had lost two in a row. Stephen Fife allowed one run and five hits in 5 1/3 innings to earn his first major league win.
Puig batted leadoff and singled in his first at-bat, drawing high-fives from his new teammates. The 22-year-old Cuban defector was brought up the same day left fielder Carl Crawford went on the disabled list with a strained hamstring.
After the game, the ball from Puig's first single was in a plastic bag with the date and description labeled in black marker. It was stashed in a half-opened drawer in his locker.
"Impressive," marveled infielder Luis Cruz.
San Diego got the potential tying run on first in the ninth when Brandon League walked Chris Denorfia with one out. But Kyle Blanks flied out to right, and Puig fired to first to get Denorfia.
"I'm going to do little things on the field to help the team even when I'm not hitting," Puig said through a translator.
He took a curtain call after the game, obliging the cheering fans.
"I thank the fans for coming out and being here," he said. "I know there's a lot of people in Cuba cheering for me. I'm very happy."
The Dodgers had lost six of their previous 10 games, and as the ball flew off Blanks' bat and went high in the air, Mattingly couldn't help but anticipate the worst.
"I'm thinking that ball is going out of the ballpark the way things have been going," he said.
But Puig caught it and made an on-target throw to first standing about a step from the wall.
"With all the hype, it's really just amazing the game ends like that," Mattingly said. "Yeah, it surprised me, but that's Hollywood."
Padres manager Bud Black was impressed, too.
"You don't see that play very often," he said. "Deno reacted well, hustled back, but I think the play was made by the strength of the arm and the accuracy of the throw."
Puig signed a $42 million, seven-year contract with the Dodgers last June. He showed promise in spring training, hitting .517 with three homers and 11 RBIs in 27 games before he was sent to the minors.
"He's an energetic guy, eager to get on the field, loves the game and always has a smile on his face," Gonzalez said. "We all know he's got a great arm."
Fife (1-0) struck out five and walked two. The right-hander was recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque earlier in the day to replace left-hander Chris Capuano, who was scratched because of a strained left triceps.
"Seven tries and finally got one," he said, with a ball noting his first big league win in his locker. "It was jitters to start the game with a leadoff walk. The first double play in the first inning kind of settled me in."
Fife made the second consecutive spot start for the injury-riddled Dodgers after Matt Magill filled in for Hyun-Jin Ryu in Sunday's 7-2 loss at Colorado. The 26-year-old right-hander made one previous start for Los Angeles on April 21 against Baltimore, resulting in a no-decision.
He then went on the DL with right shoulder bursitis before making one rehab start.
League pitched the ninth for his 12th save in 15 chances.
Left-hander Eric Stults (4-5) pitched seven solid innings but was saddled with the hard-luck loss.
Gonzalez hit his team-leading eighth homer into the Padres' bullpen with two outs in the first inning. Van Slyke made it 2-0 in the second with a leadoff homer.
The Padres cut it to 2-1 in the sixth on Chase Headley's RBI single that scored Alexi Amarista, who doubled. They had won five straight games at Dodger Stadium dating to last season, including a three-game sweep from April 15 to April 17.
The Padres also threatened in the eighth when Everth Cabrera singled and stole second with one out. But Kenley Jansen retired the next two batters to end the inning.
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Dodgers INF Hanley Ramirez made his third rehab start for Class A Rancho Cucamonga, playing six innings at shortstop and going 1-for-3 with a double. He could return to club Tuesday. ... The Dodgers improved to 6-9 in one-run games. ... The Dodgers turned four double plays, while the Padres had two. ... Padres OF Carlos Quentin was nursing a sore right shoulder after running into the wall Sunday. Manager Bud Black said he likely would return to the lineup Tuesday or Wednesday. Quentin has yet to face the Dodgers since he charged the mound and confronted Dodgers RHP Zack Greinke on April 11. Greinke broke his collarbone, and Quentin was suspended eight games. ... Padres INF Yonder Alonso is regaining strength in his right hand and could be back in action later this week. He was hit on the hand by a pitch Friday. ... Former Dodgers OF Milton Bradley was convicted Monday of nine misdemeanor counts of abusing his estranged wife, including assault with a deadly weapon. He faces up to 7 1/2 years in jail at his July 2 sentencing in Los Angeles.
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Students who have completed at least 60 semester credits of transferable coursework, from an accredited college or university, with a 2.0 or better grade point average (GPA) are eligible for admission.
The program is a collaborative effort of four University of Wisconsin campuses ~ UW-Parkside, UW-River Falls, UW-Stout, and UW-Superior ~ and UW-Extension. It provides the knowledge and skills that students need to create profitable businesses, vibrant communities, and a healthy environment for Wisconsin, the United States, and the world. At UW-River Falls, the sustainable management major is housed in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences.
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Dr. David B. Allison, Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean for Science at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, will present the 2013 Joy Goodwin Distinguished Lecture on Oct. 10 at Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Dr. Allison, who also holds the Quetelet Endowed Professor of Public Health and is director of the NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center, will give two presentations, one at 11 a.m. on "Myths, Presumptions, and the Need for Probative Research in Obesity" in 101 Overton Educational Wing on the College of Veterinary Medicine campus.
A second address will be held at 4 p.m. on "From Evolution to Ecology to Economics: Some Curious Conjectures Connecting Social Dominance, Energetics, Perceptions, Adiposity, and Lifespan" in Overton Auditorium.
Dr. Allison has authored more than 450 scientific publications and edited five books. He has won several awards, most recently the Alabama Academy of Science's "Wright A. Gardner" award and the American Society of Nutrition's "Dannon Institute Mentorship" award.
In 2009, he was awarded the Centrum Award from the American Society of Nutrition and the TOPS Research Achievement Award from the Obesity Society; three years earlier he won the National Science Foundation administered Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring.
In 2002, he garnered the Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society and the Andre Mayer Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity.
Dr. Allison is Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the American Psychological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2012, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
Dr. Allison's research interests include obesity, quantitative genetics, clinical trials, and statistical and research methodology. He also serves as a frequent consultant and expert witness in the legal setting.
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Barry Berkus, AIAB3 ArchitectsSanta Barbara, Calif.
"I'm high on the idea. Prefab offers great opportunities, whether it's panels and modular components or entire houses made in a factory, and it's receiving a great deal more design attention now than it did in the past—it may be the preferred way to build in the future. The strength is that you can create architecture that's flexible, from affordable to luxury housing. It gives you the ability to deal with someone who makes a house for you, almost like dealing with a car manufacturer. You can send pieces back and get new pieces sent to you."
Gary Lapera, AIAMichael Graves & AssociatesPrinceton, N.J.
"It depends on who's doing the prefab. Companies who've addressed not only the design but also the production and execution are farther ahead. Kit-home companies such as Lindal Cedar Homes have the best process because they manufacture a good product and they have a builder network to deliver it—that's 70 percent of the battle. But their products are expensive. The most promise I see for affordability is in modular components, particularly for use in urban markets, but it is such a fragmented industry. When people like Warren Buffet start buying into the prefab industry, they may have a significant impact."
Michael Pyatok, FAIAPyatok ArchitectsBerkeley, Calif.
"The quest by architects to find a technological silver bullet that will solve the affordable-housing problem is often naive. As long as housing is treated as a commodity in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt. If we do not look at the larger structure of our economy, then we will be blinded by the promises of technology as applied to housing production."
Mark Simon, FAIACenterbrook Architects and PlannersEssex, Conn.
"This is an issue of class and perception. I don't think the current 'high design' will appeal to people who now use modular housing. As for upper-middle-class buyers, they are interested in many other issues beyond design—status, security, maintenance, convenience, ease of purchase, resale value. If a manufacturer could come up with a well-designed, superbly engineered modular home system, well then, yes, it might appeal to a few of the people who build custom homes now, just as exotic cars do. But I am not convinced it would be a great success across our culture."
Taal SafdieSafdie Rabines ArchitectsSan Diego
"The advantages of prefab for multifamily dwellings are the opportunity to provide more affordable housing and to use interesting materials in large quantities. But the disadvantage is the difficulty of capturing the essence of a place and responding to the vernacular architecture. Customized prefab can only go so far, and so far it has not been inexpensive to build. Unless you have a flat piece of land, there will have to be a lot of parts to make a single-family house work. On the other hand, there is a need for affordable housing, and sometimes you have to give up that kind of specificity to create better places for people to live."
David Baker, FAIADavid Baker ArchitectsSan Francisco
"I'd compare the percentage of people who want a modernist prefab house to vegetarians or even vegans. It's great to have a good vegetarian restaurant, but the percentage of restaurants that are vegetarian is pretty small. So as a solution, prefab is not earth-shattering. Prefab techniques are not well adapted to high-density housing, and that's where the future is going. When housing is spread out, the infrastructure costs get very high. Single-family homes become very expensive when you start to pay those costs directly."
Ray Kappe, FAIAKappe Architects PlannersPacific Palisades, Calif.
"I've been a proponent of prefabrication since the early part of my career in the 1950s and 1960s, and I think the interest that exists today is positive. What I was always after was getting more diversity from modular components. They shouldn't be fixed between a floor and a ceiling, but have the potential to be opened up and have rooms working over rooms, to be more site-appropriate. But the method is not as important as the quantity. You need high demand to make the cost of construction cheaper, and with higher demand, building quickly has more advantage for the builder. I'm hoping that this time we'll have some success, but it becomes a question mark."
Doug BusterBSB Architects and PlannersChicago
"The modular industry has already hit the scenario of Mr. and Mrs. Smith wanting to buy their dream home and put it on two acres. That part of the business is a no-brainer. The issue that needs to be solved is how to do large-scale development with modular housing. The problem isn't public acceptance. Rather, it's a legislative issue in terms of getting governing bodies to approve those kinds of communities. What codes do they need to meet? Whose jurisdiction do they fall under? If the building industry could solve those issues, the public would accept modular housing."
Donald Rattner, AIAStudio for Civil ArchitectureNew York City
"At only about 3 percent of the residential market, it is unlikely that prefabricated housing will substantially revolutionize how we build homes in the near future, for several reasons. Building culture changes slowly. There's a culture gap between the prefab industry and the architectural community that needs to be bridged. And prefab's advantages are mitigated in low-cost regions and when applied to one-off designs, as evidenced by several recently published projects. Still, the interest in exploring its possibilities is invaluable, because it will continue to advance the industrialization of construction that has been ongoing since the 19th century.
Julie Eizenberg, AIAKoning Eizenberg ArchitectureSanta Monica, Calif.
"Prefab will not automatically generate high design. Construction methodology is not the determinant—there is plenty of traditionally styled prefab out there. The connection may be that prefab's cost-effectiveness makes high design affordable to an as-yet-untapped younger, design-conscious market."
Adele Naude Santos, FAIADean, MIT School of Architecture and PlanningCambridge, Mass.
"Advanced technology lets us rethink this whole issue. Prefab used to be the same parts assembled with the same choices; now we can change the parts themselves and do something entirely different. The key is making prefab work for high-density housing, but it will require a technologically sophisticated set of studies. All attempts have failed miserably in the past, for different reasons. It's weird we can mass-produce a car but haven't been able to crack the housing system. It's a very fertile area for research and something I'd like our school to be working on."
George PetridesPetrides HomesNew York City
"There's a sub-niche of people who are buying a Modernist prefab house because of what it is, but most people are trying to get a high-quality home at a reasonable cost and don't give a hoot how it was made. Architects generally aren't aware of panelized systems, and that's a lost opportunity. As two-dimensional components, they allow more design freedom than the typical 3-D box, and building with them can save clients up to 20 days of construction time. The panels also offer green benefits—less production waste, and the higher R-value results in energy savings over time."
Jonathan Segal, FAIASan Diego
"There's a huge market for hip, modern housing here. But prefab offers no assistance whatsoever if you're trying to do urban high-density housing. If you used modular components, you'd have to tear up half of the building to put the infrastructure inside, and you'd give up precious inches on the footprint. How would you seismically stabilize the modules to meet earthquake codes? Urban architecture is still site-specific. There are buildings across the street that you need to relate to scale-wise. That doesn't mean it can't happen. I haven't figured out how to do it."
Walt Richardson, FAIARNM Architects and PlannersNewport Beach, Calif.
"There's a place for prefab, particularly in isolated locations where you don't have the trades to build mass housing. But I can't see prefab happening in Southern California or in urban areas. The houses that are so popular here have courtyards and atriums, and those spaces can be difficult to create with modular components, particularly on 40-foot-wide lots. You need the freedom to make things any size and width that works."
Kenneth FramptonWare professor of architecture at ColumbiaUniversity Graduate School of Architecture and Planning, New York City
"Prefab is a positive thing, in terms of rising costs and the difficulty of providing standards for sustainability. The only question mark I have is its reception from the powerful home building and real estate industries. They produce and sell houses with certain kinds of associations that are not modern, and the choices are more limited than we'd like to think. The whole issue is marketing. Between mortgage companies, banks, the building industry, and the real estate industry, local bylaws are stacked against prefab. If that's not changed, housing will continue to be a fixed market."
Frank Harmon, FAIAFrank Harmon ArchitectRaleigh, N.C.
"The real challenge of good home design is not the house but how it relates to everything around it. Prefab houses offer a great opportunity, but unless they fit the site and go with the other houses, what have you got? Just another Levittown. You have to invest $30 million to $50 million in the development of a really sophisticated prefab system, and right now house building is a fragmented industry."
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For fans that may be having "Twilight" withdrawals, you're in luck because a poster for Robert Pattinson's new film "Cosmopolis" has been released. The poster shows the 26-year-old heartthrob sitting in the back of a limo wearing a sharp suit and deep in thought.
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Facebook was recently scrutinized for trying to change its privacy settings. Although it was not implemented, the company wanted control over user's personal information, even after accounts were closed. Now, the site is a common target for hackers.
With more than 175 million users, Facebook currently takes the throne as king of the social-networking scene.
Other social sites like multiply.com may not be as popular, but they may be a safer bet. The social network site prides itself on strict privacy settings.
The six-year old multiply.com has more than 12.5 million members. It aims to keep online relationships real by using the six-degrees-of-separation approach.
Before you can publish anything on the site, you specify exactly who you want to see it. You can choose the entire World Wide Web or just certain individuals.
Often times we forget who our hundreds of so called "friends" on other sites are. Multiply.com identifies people by our specific relation to the person like "my cousin's friend Mary".
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Resident Raptor - Rough-legged HawkTyee and KenaiTyee (A male) was found in a school yard in Corvallis in January 1997, with muscle damage and punctures to the shoulder. Unable to fly well enough for hunting and his long migrations, he was placed with CRC for education in August 1997.
Kenai A female based on size and coloration - was found alongside a road in
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Seattle, WA (Sports Network) - Mark Teixeira led off the ninth inning with the go-ahead solo homer, catapulting the surging Yankees to a 4-2 win over Seattle at Safeco Field.
Derek Jeter, Nick Swisher and Jerry Hairston Jr. all drove in a run for New York, which won for the 11th time in 12 games. The Yankees moved 30 games over .500 (73-43).
Phil Hughes (5-3) pitched the eighth inning to get the win. Mariano Rivera, making his 900th career appearance, retired the side in order on three groundouts in the ninth to get his major league-leading 34th save. His current streak of 30 straight converted save chances is the longest in the majors.
Both starting pitchers were strong in the second portion of the four-game series. Andy Pettitte allowed six hits and two runs while fanning a season- high 10 over six innings for the Yankees. Ryan Rowland-Smith permitted three hits and two runs over seven frames for Seattle.
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was out of the lineup due to back spasms.
Ichiro Suzuki had two hits and scored for the Mariners, who were 11-1 losers Thursday night.
In the ninth, Mark Lowe (1-5) served up an 0-2 pitch to Teixeira, who deposited the ball into the seats in right field for his 30th homer of the year. Robinson Cano hit a two-out ground-rule double to left and then scored on Swisher's soft line single to right-center.
"I have one thing in mind right there. When you have a good pitcher out there, you hope he makes a mistake," said Teixeira. "I had one thing in mind and he left a pitch over the plate. No one wants to go into extra innings on the road. For us to get it there in the ninth with Mo out there in the bottom half, it's all you could ask for."
Lowe pitched a shutout eighth inning, extending his scoreless streak to 10 1/3 innings, but had the string broken in the ninth.
"Lowe, there was really one pitch that cost him and that was to Teixeira," said Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu. "He's been so good for us and he came out in the eighth and just dominated, and he made the one pitch that cost him."
The Mariners put together three hits to begin the bottom of the first. Suzuki and Franklin Gutierrez singled before Jose Lopez roped a run-scoring double to right. A groundout by Ken Griffey Jr. plated Gutierrez.
Jorge Posada barely missed a homer, doubling off the top of the wall in right to start the second. He scored later in the inning on a fielder's choice from Hairston.
The Yankees then tied the game in the fifth. Melky Cabrera legged out an infield hit with two outs and went to second on a wild pitch before scoring on Jeter's single to left-center.
Griffey and Russell Branyan walked with two outs in the eighth, but Hughes came back to strike out Jack Hannahan.
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Demi's been out partying nights in a row and falling for older men. Now, the people closest to her are concerned that she's 'reverting back' to her old self!
Demi Lovato finished rehab for her depression and eating disorders successfully six months ago — but it seems that she may be heading down the same road that took her to rehab in the first place. People are worried about Demi, 18, and her recent partying!
"She seems to be reverting back to her old party-girl ways," a source tells In Touch magazine. "She's a typical 18-year-old who wants to party and have fun."
Demi for sure has been doing just that. On July 19, she hit up the HTC Status Social Launch in L.A. and was spotted flirting up a storm with Glee star Darren Criss. "I'm having fun!" Demi said herself that night to In Touch.
Just the next day she was seen out on the town again!
Demi's even planning her August 20, 19 birthday celebration in Sin City, a.k.a Las Vegas — not a good place for a young girl or someone who's trying to stay on the right path to getting better.
And Demi's also reportedly falling for older guys. Most recently, Demi has been linked to 36-year-old Ryan Phillippe!
"I'm going to mess up and I'm not going to be perfect," Demi has admitted. But Demi — you don't have to try so hard to mess up. Just think to yourself — is it wise that I'm hanging out with a guy who is so much older than me? And should I really be out partying so much instead of getting better?
Hopefully Demi is just living her wild child years to the fullest and it doesn't cause her world to come crashing down around her!
A source close to Demi tells HollywoodLife.com that Demi hasn't been out partying. "She was at a paid appearance at the HTC party and other than that hasn't been out," says the source. "She's been focusing on her music and getting her album ready for the fall."
The source also adds that Demi definitely isn't throwing her birthday party in Las Vegas.
- Lindsey DiMattina
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WOW I just lost any and all respect for this website. Take time to investigate your work before you run your mouth. You just ran an article about Miley smoking in Hawaii when she was CLEARLY in Michigan lmao and now this? As if that mag is a reliable source? If you'd done any investigative research you'd realize Demi has been with her parents when traveling and working in the studio nonstop. Would someone who's trying to party bring her parents? I don't think so. And hey, Demi has this cool thing called a Twitter where she updates CONSTANTLY to her fans…she's always working or laying around the house or working out or something…nothing alarming. You should check it out before you start typing this crap. HTC was def a paid appearance, you can tell by the photos she took which have HTC plastered all over it. Demi may slip, anyone in her situation can, but stop talking about her like she's some idiot who ran out to get drunk or high. There is NO evidence of these "partying" ways that your "source" claims she's falling into. And with the way the fans and paps follow Demi, trust me, there'd be SOME photos somewhere. You don't think SOMEONE would have leaked by now if she had been partying at the HTC event or after? And flirting, really? Since when is that a sin? You should research your stories and be more responsible as journalists. Why not do a story about how amazing & strong Demi has been and how girls should look at her as a role model instead of some others? Oh wait, that might take work and research. Demi is a strong and beautiful young woman who has had some really rough stuff thrown at her through no-fault of her own. She's overcome it and even stepped out in the public to say Hey, this shouldn't be so silenced, other people are going through this and I'm going to be a voice for them. She's amazingly strong for her age. Why not work on building someone up instead of tearing them down?
And hey, if you still wanna write BS articles, at least go after someone like Lindsey Lohan who seems to not care at all and jus eff her life up for fun.
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OMG this article makes me sick! Seriously why your wrote this about her' Leave Demi alone. She is just trying to get back to her life! Whats wrong to go to parties!? So if I go to parties it means that I need to go to rehab!? Thats a stupid argument! And by the way she never met that oldman Ryan and she just met Darren for a few minutes and it's not your business if she was flirting with him or not! And if I was flirting with a guy that means that I need to go to rehab too!? Once again your argument it's no sense! And by the way it was not because of the parties that she checked herself in a treatment center! To the person who wrote this thing you need to go read some articles about Bipolar disease. Just one question to the person who wrote this. Are you trying to look like a virgin saint or you don't have any culture?
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F*** HOLLYWOODLIFE 'Hopefully Demi is just living her wild child years to the fullest and it doesn't cause her world to come crashing down around her!'
ya so you guys are lovin demi partying and LIVING HER LIFE TO THE FULLEST AT 18 PARTYING but miley cant even do a photo shoot without you guys calling her a bad person
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half of this story isnt even true? First she isnt dating anyone, and has never actually met that ryan bloke. Second partying isnt what sent her into a treatment facility, it was because she has bi polar disorder which made her manically depressed. Which lead on to more serious issues such as anorexia, bulimia and self harm. People are going to read this article and instantly start calling her names, and the name calling is what made her so bothered about the way she looked!
Posted at 11:49 AM on July 27, 2011
It's amazing how people can't stand to see someone happy with out trying to tear them right back down. It's called the crab mentality. This article is horrible. It makes me sick to see someone try to profit off of this young woman's struggle. Just because she flirts with a guy and goes to some parties she's headed back to rehab? Stupidest thing I have ever heard. She's human. She didn't say she was gonna be a nun. She is young and she is just trying to live a normal live and manage as best she can. And it's also called trying to put yourself back out there and get back on top. Nothing she has done would be any signs of alarm. You are just using this platform to be a jerk and cause false alarm and get people to stop by and read, but with no regard for the damage your words may cause. That, to me, is sickening. But it's the job the chose and obviously the niche you have desired to put yourself in. I just thought I would stop by and let you know that everyone that reads this doesn't feed into ridiculous unfounded accusations.
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Policy and Pizza in the Pit Series Looks at Origins of the Current Financial Crisis
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- Published: October 17, 2008
On Monday, October 14th at 12 pm, Professor
Juliet Moringiello
, Professor
Katherine Jones
, and Dean of Students
Ann Fruth
spoke to students, faculty, and staff about the origins of the current financial crisis. The first of several Policy and Pizza in the Pit events, the engaging discussion offered students insight into the problems facing the economy.
Professor Jones spoke first, describing some of the legislative history of banking regulation, focusing specifically on the Glass-Steagell Act of 1933, which mandated the separation of commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group on April 7, 1998 to create Citigroup challenged the provisions of the Glass-Steagell Act that forbade banks to merge with insurance underwriters. Under the then current regulations, Citigroup had two to five years to divest the prohibited assets, but the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on November 12, 1999 reversed Glass-Steagell and allowed financial services companies to offer commercial banking, investment banking, insurance underwriting and brokerage services.
As Professor Jones noted, "The moral hazard was saying that 'we will let banks do things that are very risky'. If they make money on them, they get to keep the money. On the other hand, if they lose the money, FDIC is going to come in and pay everybody, and they're not going to have to go under if the risk turns bad. This incentivizes people to take big risks that they wouldn't take if they knew that there was a bigger downside to their losing. So, even some very conservative economists said that you should restrict what people are allowed to do with money that the government is going to insure."
Professor Moringiello then spoke about how loans, including those people took to purchase homes and cars, turned into the securities that have dragged down the financial market. In addition to issuing loans that allowed people to spend beyond their means, financial institutions packaged the bad loans together as securities and then sold them off. As Professor Moringiello noted, "When the mortgages are carved up and sold to lots and lots of investors, the risk is removed from the originator."
Dean Fruth then spoke about why these securities had become such a problem. Imprudent lending resulted in people being unable to pay their loans, which in turn resulted in foreclosures. Those foreclosures drove down the values of homes, making the securities less valuable, and tying up bank assets so that additional lending became more difficult because of the lack of liquidity in the market.
At the conclusion of their presentation, the three faculty members took questions from the student audience. One student asked about how the bank bailout package would help individuals. The three panelists essentially agreed that the package would do very little to help individuals, but Dean Fruth noted, "When banks stopped lending money, that caused the economy really to grind to a very slow pace," adding later, "I think that the bleeding was so bad that this was triage."
The next Policy and Pizza discussion will be on Thursday, October 23rd at 12 pm in the Pit. Professors Wesley Oliver, Harry Witte, and Amanda Smith will recap and critique the debates between Barack Obama and John McCain.
Policy and Pizza in the Pit Series:
Oct. 14, 12 pm: "The Financial Crisis" with Professor
Juliet Moringiello
, Professor
Katherine Jones
, and Dean of Students
Ann Fruth
Oct. 23, 12 pm: "Presidential Debate Recaps and Critiques" with Professors
Wesley Oliver
Harry Witte
, and
Amanda Smith
Oct. 31, 12 pm: "The Impact of the Election on the Supreme Court" with Professor
Robert Power
Nov. 6, 12 pm: "Implications of the Presidential Election Results" with Professors
Wesley Oliver
John Dernbach
, and
Amanda Smith


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The DeKalb County Board of Education supports supervised, unstructured break times as an integral component of a child's physical, social, and academic development. Schools shall schedule time for all students in kindergarten and grades one through five to have at least 15 minutes of supervised, unstructured break time each school day. The school principal shall determine the timing and location of breaks at each school.(not-being-able-to-withhold my enthusiasm italics are mine)The school principal shall consult with school-level and system-level instructional staff as appropriate to ensure that students in kindergarten and grades one through five receive maximum instructional time to promote increased academic achievement and that breaks are scheduled to support the learning process. The principal also shall issue directions assigning responsibility for supervision of students so that break time will be a safe and positive experience for students.
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You know, I would be pretty disappointed if the Kages is winning this battle because of Itachi is canceling this jutsu.
and people like me is going to more disappointed if this is going to be like bleach.
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You know, I would be pretty disappointed if the Kages is winning this battle because of Itachi is canceling this jutsu.
and people like me is going to more disappointed if this is going to be like bleach.
a War with no casualty or one sided casualty
dont' compare naruuto to bleach!
bleach story line is only enjoyable for kids in elemantary school.
the fighting in bleach is redundant, monotone, and boring.
BLEACH is simply turn pale and boring,
I believe that the Kages going up against Madara was meant to normalize the flux of power levels in the manga. I know this may sound counter-intuitive, but bear with me!
Thinking back to the first Konoha invasion, it was a chance for us to see what all the hype around this shinobi rank was about. All the chapters leading up to the decisive battle between Oro and the Third gave us an indication of a Kage's responsibilities and abilities, and finally seeing the fight, itself was thrilling IMHO; the big talk, the live commentary from the elite ANBU members, and the elaborate jutsus. The point is, we had an indication of how powerful each of the respective ranks was, but only verbally. Aside from taking their words at face value, I felt there was too much of a mess of strengths for us to understand what that meant. For instance, what did the rank of jounin mean before the destructive hell that Gaara (arc 1) could unleash?
For me, seeing the Third take on the gravest threat ("LOL" - Hindsight) at the time helped to put things in perspective. That yes, there could be unbelievably powerful monsters out there, but when you're a top-tier ninja, it's not all about who can punch the hardest; that there's something to be said about battle experience! This was the genius of the writing that went into the first arc!
I believe Kishi is trying to pull the same maneuver here, but in a more elaborate way. In much the same manner that Naruto and Gaara (the aforementioned 'unbelievably power monsters') were going at it with some over the top stuff, we have Tobi and Naruto literally wrecking landmasses. To balance it out and keep things in perspective, we get Itachi (ironically) reminding us that not all jutsus are nigh unstoppable and the five kages taking on their respective 'equal' from ages past. However, the delivery, though still enjoyable IMHO, falls short of that in arc 1.
Madara's nigh insurmountable strength is reflected in the helplessness of the combined power of the five kages assembled before him. As a rightfully legendary character in the established canon of the story, his strength should be reflected in the might of the creme of the crop of the current generation. However, I don't feel that the kages are fighting like kages, and that cheapens the experience because it relegates Madara into 'just another cheap Uchiha punk'.
Similarly, the Uchiha brothers and Kabuto was a case study in the concept of a cruel irony.
The root of this deficiency, I believe, lies with the constantly shifting perspective and how it wasn't handled as well as it should have. But then again, this is no simple feat, and I digress by saying that I'm still enjoying it all, none-the-less.
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Okeedokie, I now have two nice new shiny DSE701's.
One I picked from a local supplier as a backup to one I purchased roughly 2 months ago from the same guy (flea market). The other I picked up at BigBixStore.com for $24 bucks IIRC.
Both are identical to my original and each other. All three came in a presentation box, lined with foam. Each came with 5 pre-filled carts, two 10440 Lithium-ion rechargable batts, charger w/ US adapter, instructions (Chinglish), and a little QC card with the model number on it.
To start with, all three have been tested and function. The first one has been in use for about 2 months and is still running strong. Runs smooth with a nice even easy drag. The others have only been in use for a few hours since I picked them up around noon.
The cart filler is glued into the carts. The carts are attached by crewing them onto the cigar body. The white section of the cart freely rotates on the whistle-type mouthpiece and is a snap on fit. The carts have screw on covers which seal on a o-ring near the ends of the mouthpiece threads. This o-ring also insures that the cart won't back-leak onto the user when its attached to the cigar. The cart and its cover fit inside a wood grain bullet shaped carrier.
The battery end of the cigar has a clear, knurled cover with a brass threaded section. Its hollow and contains no functional parts. The LED is inside the cigar body and is EXTREMELY difficult to see outdoors or in well-lit areas. In lower light, the led is visible through the cover and through a small hole near the end of the cigar. This is a sort of witness hole for viewing the LED status light and, if you push a pin into it, is used to manually engage the atty for cleaning.
The cigar bodies are metal with a painted on wood grain finish similar in pattern to the allen wrench assembled furniture you see at Wal-mart. At a distance, it could possibly be mistaken for a cigar but at close range it looks like your sucking on a dowel rod with brass rings.
As far as function goes, my first one broke-in in less than a day or so. The two new ones are just starting to settle in. Vapor production from my original is astonishingly good and almost up to 601 e-pipe level with excellent flavor. The newer ones aren't bad in the vapor area right now but nowhere near the broken-in one. All three came with the standard level of primer in the attys which took about 20 mins to fully eliminate.
As for factory cart flavors....some might like it but to me it's horrid stuff. Rinsing and cleaning carts with glued in filler ain't easy and it would appear that these carts are good candidates for fish tank filter foam. The carts have plenty of room and should keep a heavy vaper going for at least an hour or two. I'm not a chain vaper most of the time, but I use them often. They take me around 5 hours to dry out.
The batteries last me approximately 3-5 hours depending on intensity of use. They only take approximately 30-45 mins to charge.
If you are looking for a cheap PV and don't have the bucks for a mod, these would probably suit you. Considering that the one I got from BigBox was only $24, it isn't all that bad. Downside to any order from a Chinese site is the shipping. It's like $15-20. Since I ordered a cigar, another e-pipe, a cheapo camera, MP3 player, and a few LED computer lights, the price of shipping doesn't seem so bad. Another downside is that it takes a while to get to ya. Ordered on 12/20/09 and received today (1/5/10). They also didn't seem to take much time with packaging, just cramming everything into a box without much to protect it aside from a wadded up handfull of bubble wrap. Nothing was dented or beat up and everything worked so I guess I shouldn't gripe.
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