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The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on the Cotton Mill project's tax increment financing plan during its Monday meeting.
Public hearings on the Cotton Mill Marketplace, a sprawling retail development planned around the Highway 12 entrance to Mississippi State University, were held at least three years ago, board President Marvell Howard said Sunday, but another is needed after the county adopted a redevelopment plan.
This TIF plan, Howard said, will waive a percentage of ad valorem taxes imposed on the project.
"(TIFs) are a real way of helping a business development to have some funding up front to get it off the ground," he said. "The county has agreed to waive some of the taxes, but we can't waive things like the school tax."
A completed Cotton Mill Marketplace, he said, would improve property value in the area and supply a larger stream of revenue for the county once the waiver terminates.
"The county will see benefits then in an ad valorem stream, and the city will see more benefit from ad valorem and sales taxes," he said. "Hopefully, the project will draw retailers, which will then generate an influx of consumers to shop in Oktibbeha County. I think it'll be a huge thing for the county, city and university."
In other business, the board will hear a request from the District 5 Volunteer Fire Department to seek a Class 8 designation from the Mississippi State Rating Bureau.
County Fire Services Coordinator Kirk Rosenhan said the district is currently at a Class 10 designation, and, if approved by the MSRB, the move would help lower insurance premiums for residents of the area.
"We have three rated volunteer fire stations in the county: East Oktibbeha County Volunteer Fire Department, Central Volunteer Fire Department and Adaton (Volunteer Fire Department). Those three areas have response districts which meet certain criteria with water transport, manpower and administration. Class 10 to Class 8 is a substantial move benefiting those citizens because it doesn't cost them anything to make the move — the rated districts aren't taxing districts."
Rosenhan said District 5 has worked for the past few years to make the jump to a Class 8 designation. Currently, the department is attempting to schedule a water transport exercise with the MSRB, but no date is set. If the exercise is performed properly, Rosenhan said approval for the move is the last needed action.
"Class 8 is about as good as you can get in the county because the levels below that require substantial fire codes, career (full-time) firefighters and, more importantly, water supply. We have hydrants in the county, but they don't have an adequate capacity for those ratings," he said. "With District 5, we're way overdue for making the move."
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CeDR is organizing the screening of a series of interesting and thought-provoking disability-related films. The first screening will be this Thursday, 28th of January, at 6pm on Bowland North Seminar Room 25. The film is called Examined Life. Entry is free and everyone is welcome!
The film will be introduced briefly and after the screening a short discussion will follow. Here is a short synopsis of the film: Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer's thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue's posh boutiques. Michael Hardt ponders the nature of revolution while surrounded by symbols of wealth and leisure. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco's Mission District questioning our culture's fixation on individualism. And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West - perhaps America's best-known public intellectual - compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1279083/
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See studies by M. A. De Wolfe Howe (1931); H. E. Dickson (1969); J. Baker-Carr (1977); C. A. Vigeland (1991).
The orchestra's reputation increased most prominently during the music directorship of Serge Koussevitzky. Under Koussevitzky, the orchestra gave regular radio broadcasts and established its summer home at Tanglewood, where Koussevitzky founded the Berkshire Music Center which is now the Tanglewood Music Center. Those network radio broadcasts ran from 1926 through 1951, and again from 1954 through 1956; the orchestra continues to make regular live radio broadcasts to the present day. The Boston Symphony was closely involved with the creation of WGBH Radio as an outlet for its concerts.
Koussevitzky also commissioned many new pieces from prominent composers, including the Symphony No. 4 of Sergei Prokofiev and the Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky. They also gave the premiere of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, which had been commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation at the instigation of Fritz Reiner and Joseph Szigeti.
Koussevitzky started a tradition that was to be continued by the orchestra with commissions by Henri Dutilleux for its 75th anniversary, Roger Sessions, and Andrzej Panufnik, for the 100th, and lately for the 125th works by Leon Kirchner, Elliott Carter, and Peter Lieberson. On other occasions, they have commissioned works from various other composers, such as John Corigliano's Symphony No. 2 for the 100th anniversary of Symphony Hall.
In 1949, Charles Münch succeeded Koussevitzky who toured with the orchestra overseas for the first time, and also produced their first stereo recording in February 1954 for RCA Victor. Münch was succeeded in 1962 by Erich Leinsdorf, who served as music director for seven years until 1969. William Steinberg was then music director from 1969 to 1973. In 1973, Seiji Ozawa took over the orchestra and remained the Music Director until 2002, the longest tenure of any Boston Symphony conductor.
In 2004, James Levine became the first American-born music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Levine has received critical praise for revitalizing the quality and repertoire since the beginning of his tenure, including championing contemporary composers. To be able to fund the more challenging and expensive of Levine's musical projects with the orchestra, the orchestra has established an "Artistic Initiative Fund" of about US$40 million. This is in addition to the current endowment of the orchestra, which is the largest of any American orchestra at about US$300 million.
An offshoot of the Boston Symphony Orchestra is the Boston Pops Orchestra, founded in 1885, which plays lighter, more popular classics, and show tunes. Arthur Fiedler was the conductor who did the most to increase the fame of the Boston Pops, over his tenure from 1930 to 1979. Film composer John Williams succeeded Fiedler as the conductor of the Pops from 1980 to 1993. Since 1995, the conductor of the Boston Pops is Keith Lockhart.
The Boston Symphony Chamber Players were launched in 1964. They are still the only chamber ensemble composed of principal players from an American symphony orchestra. In addition to regular performances in Boston and Tanglewood, they have performed throughout the United States and the Europe. They have also recorded for RCA Victor, DG, Phillips, and Nonesuch.
Performing with the BSO and Boston Pops for major choral works is the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Organized in 1970 by its founding director, John Oliver, the Chorus comprises 250 volunteer singers. Before the creation of the Tanglewood Chorus, and for some time after, the BSO frequently employed the New England Conservatory Chorus conducted by Lorna Cooke DeVaron, Chorus Pro Musica, Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society.
The BSO also benefits from its close association with the New England Conservatory, located just one block from Symphony Hall with several graduates now occupying BSO musician seats.
Violin virtuoso Willy Hess was concertmaster from 1904 to 1910. The current concertmaster is Malcolm Lowe.
It was under Serge Koussevitsky that the orchestra made its first electrical recordings, also for Victor, in the late 1920s. Using a single microphone for a process Victor called "Orthophonic," the first recordings included Ravel's Bolero. Recording sessions took place in Symphony Hall. Koussevitsky's final recording with the Boston Symphony was a high fidelity version of Sibelius' second symphony, recorded in 1949 and released on LP.
In February 1954, RCA Victor began recording the orchestra in stereo, under the direction of Charles Munch. RCA continued to record Munch and the orchestra through 1962, his final year as music director in Boston. (Please click Charles Münch discography for a complete list of commercial recordings with the BSO under Charles Münch.) During Münch's tenure, Pierre Monteux made a series or records with the BSO for RCA Victor. (Please click Pierre Monteux for a complete list of commercial recordings with the BSO under Pierre Monteux.)
Erich Leinsdorf, who had already made numerous recordings for RCA, continued his association with the company during his seven years in Boston. These included a critically-acclaimed performance of Brahms' German Requiem. (Please click Erich Leinsdorf for a complete list of commercial recordings with the BSO under Erich Leinsdorf.)
Then, the orchestra switched to Deutsche Grammophon under William Steinberg. RCA recorded a handful of LPs with Steinberg and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique with Georges Prêtre during the transition to DG. (Please click William Steinberg for a complete list of commercial recordings with the BSO under William Steinberg.) Michael Tilson Thomas, who was an assistant conductor under Steinberg, also made several recordings for DG; some of these have been reissued on CD. Due to Steinberg's illness, DG recorded the BSO with Rafael Kubelik in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, Ma Vlast by Bedrich Smetana and in Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra as well as with Eugen Jochum conducting Symphony No. 41 by Wolfgang Mozart and Franz Schubert's Symphony 8.
As a guest conductor in the 1960s, Seiji Ozawa made several recordings with the BSO for RCA Victor. Seiji Ozawa continued the BSO relationship with DG while making several other releases for New World. Over the course of Ozawa's tenure, the BSO diversified its relationships making recordings under Ozawa with CBS, EMI, Philips Records, RCA, and TELARC.
The BSO also recorded for Philips under its principal guest conductor, Sir Colin Davis. (Please click Sir Colin Davis for a complete list of commercial recordings with the BSO under Sir Colin Davis.) Leonard Bernstein made records for both Columbia and DG. It also appeared on Decca with Vladimir Ashkenazy, with Charles Dutoit and Andre Previn for DG, and on Phillips and Sony with Bernard Haitink. (Please click Bernard Haitink for a complete list of commercial recordings with the BSO under Bernard Haitink.) James Levine has recorded for Nonesuch.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has also done recording for film scores on occasion. Films such as Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, (both composed and conducted by John Williams) were recorded by the Orchestra at Symphony Hall.


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Good afternoon, welcome to the Last Call. I'm Rob Lorei. Earlier today President Obama held a press conference regarding the ongoing talks on the debate over whet to do about raising the federal ceiling on the debt limit. At the press conference the President acknowledged that he was considering cuts to entitlements. He also said he was not considering raising taxes immediately, that he did not want to balance the budget on the backs of the middle class and that he was in favor of renewing the payroll tax cut this year. We played a portion of what the President said.
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Results have been confirmed in the European Parliamentary elections for the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Six members of the European Parliament have been elected for the region and they are:
Edward McMillan-Scott (Conservative Party)
Linda McAvan (Labour Party)
Godfrey Bloom (UK Independence Party)
Diana Wallis (Liberal Democrats)
Timothy Kirkhope (Conservative Party)
Andrew Brons (British National Party)
Turnout for the region was 32.51 per cent.
The total number and percentage of votes by party were as follows:
British National Party - 120,139 votes - 9.80% share
Christian Party - 16,742 votes - 1.37% share
Conservative Party - 299,802 votes - 24.45% share
English Democrats Party - 31,287 votes - 2.55% share
Jury Team - 7,181 votes - 0.58% share
Liberal Democrats - 161,552 votes - 13.18% share
No2EU: Yes to Democracy - 15,614 votes - 1.27% share
Pro Democracy: Libertas.eu - 6,268 votes - 0.51% share
Socialist Labour Party - 19,380 votes - 1.58% share
The Green Party - 104,456 votes - 8.52% share
The Labour Party - 230,009 votes - 18.76% share
United Kingdom Independence Party - 213,750 - 17.43% share
Full details and a breakdown of the figures for each local authority are here:
Downloadable .pdf files with the figures for each local authority are here:
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The European Parliamentary Elections for Yorkshire & Humber cover 21 local authorities – Barnsley, Bradford, Calderdale, Craven, Doncaster, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hambleton, Harrogate, Hull, Kirklees, Leeds, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, Richmondshire, Rotherham, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby, Sheffield, Wakefield, York.
Six members of the European Parliament were returned for the Yorkshire and Humber Region in 2004. They were: Godfrey William Bloom, United Kingdom Independence Party; Richard Graham Corbett, Labour Party; Timothy John Robert Kirkhope, Conservative; Linda McAvan, Labour Party; Edward Hugh Christian McMillan-Scott, Conservative; Diana Paulette Wallis, Liberal Democrats.
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Are You The Star of Your Own Story? Our lives are works in progress and masterpieces of story telling, so we should embrace our own biographies. You can write more compelling creative non-fiction using novelist's tricks according to Kim Schneiderman, in this article for Psychology Today, January 2, 2012.
A Winning Way to Get Started Writing Your Life Story Susan Heitler provides this story-starting ideas to help you get in touch with your own life story. From Psychology Today, January 18, 2012.
Can Fiction Stories Make Us More Empathetic? Exposure to narrative fiction may improve our ability to understand what other people are thinking or feeling, a researcher reports. Many stories are about people -- their mental states, their relationships. The researcher explains that we understand stories using basic cognitive functions, and there is not a special module in the brain that allows us to do this. Understanding stories is similar to the way we understand the real world. From Science Daily, August 11, 2014.
Editing Your Life's Stories Can Create Happier Endings This piece from the NPR program All Things Considered uses the example of the author Lulu Miller's nephew to illustrate the work of psychologist Tim Wilson. Wilson has been studying how small changes in a person's own stories and memories can help with emotional health. He calls the process "story editing" And he says small tweaks in the interpretation of life events can reap huge benefits. From January 1, 2014. Includes a link to listen to the story, which runs 8 minutes, 54 second.
How You Can Be a Better Storyteller Eric Barker, of the Barking Up The Wrong Tree blog presents this interview with UCLA Film School Professor Howard Suber. Along the way, Suber reveals the power of a narrative to define --- and change --- our lives. Posted March 4, 2013.
The Inside Story Telling stories is not just the oldest form of entertainment, it's the highest form of consciousness. The need for narrative is embedded deep in our brains. Increasingly, success in the information age demands that we harness the hidden power of stories. Here's what you need to know to tell a killer tale in this story by Peter Guber, for Psychology Today, (published on March 15, 2011 - last reviewed on January 23, 2012).
Most Good People Have the Same Basic Life Story Psychology research verifies that the stories we tell ourselves matter. A new study from Northwestern University shows that folks who fit the classic mold of "good people" � those who care about others while also having high well-being and mental health � have life stories that share remarkably similar narrative arcs according to research by Dan Mcdams and Jen Guo and summarized here for Business Insider, March 13, 2015.
Narrative Psychology Vincent W. Hevern at Le Moyne College, explains: "narrative psychology" refers to a viewpoint or a stance within psychology which is interested in the "storied nature of human conduct" (Sarbin, 1986)--how human beings deal with experience by constructing stories and listening to the stories of others...human activity and experience are filled with "meaning" and that stories, rather than logical arguments or lawful formulations, are the vehicle by which that meaning is communicated. This extensive Internet and resource guide includes history and background, links to key theorists, methodology, a discussion of narrative in other disciplines and much more on this perspective.
Our Stories, Ourselves The tales we tell hold powerful sway over our memories, behaviors and even identities, according to research from the burgeoning field of narrative psychology and summarized in this article from the APA Monitor by Sadie F. Dingfelder, January 2011, vol. 42(1), p. 42.
The Power of Our Personal Stories Margarita Tartakovsky, writing for PsychCentral explains how revising our stories and our perceptions of problems can empower us. Posted June 15, 2014.
Psychobiography This website, maintained by William Todd Schultz, Pacific University Oregon, describes psychobiography (the application of psychological theory and research to individual lives of historical importance), the influential people in the field, an annotated bibliography and lots more.
Revising Your Story Social psychologist Tim Wilson argues that a better way of changing behavior may be to try to get inside [people's] heads and understand how they see the world�the stories and narratives they tell themselves according to this article in the American Psychological Association Monitor on Psychology, March 2012, volume 43, number 3, p. 28.
Self-Affirmation: A Simple Exercise That Actually Helps According to research published in the Annual Review of Psychology and summarized here for PsychCentral, one effective way of affirming our values and strengths is to revise our narratives. Published June 2, 2014.
Self-Motivation: How You Can Do it! Beats I Can Do It Research by Sanda Dolcos and Dolores Albarrac�n published in the European Journal of Social Psychology and summarized here for the BPS Research Digest suggests that second-person self-talk (e.g., You can do it!) is more effective than first-person self-talk. The researchers surmised that second-person talk maybe be effective because it cues memories of receiving support and encouragement from others, especially in childhood. July 9, 2014.
Self-Portrait in a Skewed Mirror You're more than the star and author of your own life story. You're also the spin master. How you tell your tale reveals whether you see yourself as victim or victor, even when your story veers from the life you lived. By Carlin Flora, for Psychology Today (published on January 01, 2006 - last reviewed on September 16, 2013).
So, What's Your Story? What are some of the harmful stories you tell about yourself, and how could you rewrite those stories to be more supportive and nurturing of who you really are? Read about how we can change the stories we tell about ourselves by Melissa Kirk for Psychology Today, April 27, 2012.
The Stories That Bind Us Writer Bruce Feiler describes research which suggests that the stories families tell about themselves inspire resilience in future generations. From The New York Times, March 15, 2013.
This is Your Life (and How You Tell It) Presents an overview of the work of Dan McAdams and others on how personality is revealed in the stories people tell about themselves. From The New York Times, May 22, 2007.
We Actually 'Become' Happy Vampires or Contented Wizards When Reading a Book [R]eading satisfies a deeply felt need for human connection because we not only feel like the characters we read about but, psychologically speaking, become part of their world and derive emotional benefits from the experience according to research by Shira Gabriel and Ariana Young, published this month in Psychological Science and summarized here in Science Daily, May 10, 2011.
What's Your Story? The Psychological Science of Life History Research Jesse Bering describes life history research in which how we "spin" our self-narratives can reveal our hidden personalities in this essay for Scientific American, May 5, 2009.
Who's Writing Your Script? You May Be Surprised Are you stuck in an ill-fitting role? A poorly written script? Self-reflection and questioning of where our scripts come from can help us to live more in line with our authentic selves according to this article by Kim Schneiderman for Psychology Today, October 17, 2011.
Why We Write Psychologists Jerome Bruner and Henri Zukier suggest that our minds have two general ways of taking in the world. When we perceive the world in paradigmatic mode, we act like scientists, connecting facts, looking for patterns and universal principles through which we categorize and understand our environment. The narrative mode on the other hand, is what allows us to endow life with meaning through the stories we tell about it. Read about the power of writing our own narrative in this article by Mindy Greenstein for Psychology Today, January 12, 2012.
Writing Exercises Scientifically Proven to Redirect Your Life Inspired by the research of Timothy Wilson and others, writing exercises, like distancing yourself from negative experiences or determining what your best possible self looks like, may be beneficial according to Jane Porter writing for Fast Company, February 11, 2015.
You Can't See It, But You'll be a Different Person in 10 Years No matter how old people are, they seem to believe that who they are today is essentially who they'll be tomorrow. according to the End of History Illusion. According to researcher Daniel Gilbert, Life is a process of growing and changing, and what our results suggest is that growth and change really never stops�despite the fact that at every age from 18 to 68, we think it's pretty much come to a close. You can listen to the original segment and comment by Gilbert here, on the NPR website (runs 3 minutes, 58 seconds) or read a more in-depth summary here.
Your Life Story in Metaphors Susan Krauss Whitbourne writes about the metaphors we use to describe our lives: Think about how you've gotten where you are in life, and where you hope or plan to go. What metaphor comes to mind? Does your life have a shape or a direction? Is it an arrow (upward or downward), a circle, or a series of steps? How about the life of other people you know? Is the metaphor you'd apply to yourself the same as those you'd apply to other people? in this article from Psychology Today, published May 3, 2011.
Assignments, Exercises, and Activities
Life Story When discussing intake interviews and psychotherapy, John Suler, Rider University, point[s] out that clients engage in a process of exploring their life story, usually at first by describing the most important "facts" about themselves. In this exercise, described on his Teaching Clinical Psychology website, students write down four important facts about themselves and one lie. Others in the class read each list and the class discusses patterns which they see.
Case Studies
Courtship Narratives The University of Texas PAIR Project, according to their website, is a long-term study of courtship and marriage that began in 1981 with 168 newlyweds. We collected information on the couples' courtships and early marital experiences, and followed couples across the years to their eventual relationship destinations. The site presents excerpts from the case studies of 7 couples who later divorced. The narratives are from their courtship period.
Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940 From the website: These life histories were compiled and transcribed by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts.
Current Researchers and Research Teams
The Foley Center for the Study of Lives is the research center for Dan McAdams and his colleagues. They describe the center as an interdisciplinary research project committed to studying psychological and social development in the adult years.
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Slide Presentations
Tests, Measures, and Scales
Life Story Interview The Foley Center for the study of lives at Northwestern University maintains a collection of scales related to development and narrative across the life span. The Life Story Interview is one qualitative measure used by Dan McAdams and his research team.
Multimedia Resources
Editing Your Life's Stories Can Create Happier Endings This piece from the NPR program All Things Considered uses the example of the author Lulu Miller's nephew to illustrate the work of psychologist Tim Wilson. Wilson has been studying how small changes in a person's own stories and memories can help with emotional health. He calls the process "story editing" And he says small tweaks in the interpretation of life events can reap huge benefits. From January 1, 2014. Includes a link to listen to the story, which runs 8 minutes, 54 second.
Women's Voices Good stories have always been the most powerful way to engage, inspire, and, over time, shape public dialogue around the values we believe in. That's why Creative Counsel and The Fledgling Fund are co-presenting the 1000 Voices Archive - a curated, national collection of video stories created by filmmakers and communities across the country. Women's video comments on a range of social issues can be used to start discussion or introduce gender issues.
You Can't See It, But You'll be a Different Person in 10 Years No matter how old people are, they seem to believe that who they are today is essentially who they'll be tomorrow. according to the End of History Illusion. According to researcher Daniel Gilbert, Life is a process of growing and changing, and what our results suggest is that growth and change really never stops�despite the fact that at every age from 18 to 68, we think it's pretty much come to a close. You can listen to the original segment and comment by Gilbert here, on the NPR website (runs 3 minutes, 58 seconds) or read a more in-depth summary here.


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February 1, 2006 4:00 AM PST
File-swapping leaders nearing D-day
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Last waltz for GroksterNovember 7, 2005
Legal P2P opens for businessOctober 24, 2005
How label-backed P2P was bornAugust 22, 2005
Industries digest Grokster rulingJune 29, 2005
Record labels settle with Israeli P2P companyJuly 20, 2004
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"There are a number of major players from the P2P community that are still active and are vulnerable to a rollup solution," Summer said. "To the extent that we were able to address a broader universe than the iMesh universe, that could only be seen as good for iMesh and similarly good for the industry."
Yagan said he has also had conversations with Audible Magic and Snocap, the two technology companies who have respectively helped iMesh and Mashboxx create label-approved file-trading services.
"A lot of this is questions of expertise," Yagan said. "What is my team good at doing, versus what other people are good at doing. We're going to need a lot of help to move."
Executives at both iMesh and Mashboxx, which have spent much of the last 18 months developing authorized swapping services, argue that it is unlikely that eDonkey or others could create a similar service without spending millions of dollars.
Along with these business decisions is the starker reality of settling with the RIAA. When iMesh made its peace treaty with the music industry in mid-2004, well before the Supreme Court's ruling, it agreed to pay labels $4 million.
Industry insiders say the settlement for any big file-swapping company that expects to continue swapping is also likely to range into the millions of dollars.
A spokesman for the recording industry said that the group was encouraged by the progress of discussions, but declined to discuss a timetable.
"These conversions are simple notionally, but there is a lot of devil in the detail," said RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy.
Peer-to-peer watchers are quick to note that even the most prominent companies, such as eDonkey and Lime Wire do not have a lock on their own file-swapping networks, however. For example, many people who connect to eDonkey's network actually use a different, compatible piece of software called eMule, which also allows people to swap files, but is not produced by Yagan's company.
That means that even if the RIAA does strike deals with eDonkey and other file-swapping software companies, their networks may stay active as a result of other organizations or individuals creating compatible software that uses the same networking technology.
It remains difficult to say how file-swapping, industry-backed or not, will fit into the future of online media.
The technology itself has been warmly embraced by both record companies and movie studios, assuming the file-sharing outfits can prove that copyrights are being protected. Sony Music was instrumental in helping create the soon-to-launch Mashboxx, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment announced Monday that it will begin selling films through a P2P system in Germany this March.
So far, iMesh is the only file-sharing company to try to go legit. Its music subscription service launched in October, but allowed existing users to continue downloading as much music as they wanted for several months without asking for payment. Summer said that a "small" percentage of those users have now been asked to begin payment, but declined to say what proportion of those users have converted to the fee-based subscription service.
Estimates of usage vary, but Big Champagne, a company that measures file-swapping traffic for record labels and other clients, estimates that the eDonkey network attracted an average of 3.5 million simultanous users a day around the world by the end of December. Attracting even a small percentage of that user base, which could range into the tens of millions worldwide, would be profitable for the record industry, Yagan says.
That's the card he hopes will carry MetaMachine and eDonkey through the critical next weeks and months.
"If you compare us shutting down versus us converting, there's a heck of lot more value in us converting versus scattering those users," he said. "I think we all want to go to the same place."
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- Whack-A-Mole
- This is funny.. Napster - WinMX - Kazaa - Edonkey
Doesn't really matter, they're all the same and there will always be another ready to take the place of the exiting service.
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- Mashboxx is Vaporware
- John you keep on writing that Mashbboxx is a legitamate service but Mashboxx has'nt even made it to a closed beta stage as yet Mashboxx is Vaporware as it currntly stands.
Mashboxx sent me an email saying they have had unavaidable delays in getting to beta .Wayne Rosso promised the service would be avalible November last year and that was after he promised it would be avalible in September last year and IMesh is a Musicnet Store with a crippled Gnutttella p2p client tacked onto the end of it .
Peer Impact is the only sucessful industry aproved Peer to Peer service that is up and running .
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- Where are people supposed to find oddball stuff
- I like Blugrass Music. Yet services such as iTunes for the most part stick there nose up at such. I'm not talking about todays stuff, I Am talking about stuff from 40's 50's 60's and so on. I' am will to pay a fee similar to iTunes.
But, some stuff just can't be found.
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- It's Generational.
- The legal paid for mp3 services have constantly taylor their online music libraries for today's younger generation or else they don't get enough new customers and become irrelevant and lose profits. They have to do this all while not alienating the general public at large. This is the way the music and entertainment industries work.
The older generations can find plenty of their own blugrass and 50's - 80's classic pop, rock and soul tunes on the paid for mp3 sites like Rhapsody, mp3.com and iTunes for $9.99 per month and $.99 per track.
And BTW sure it can be found eventually you just have to keep on waiting searching for the post to appear. :)
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- When It Can't Be Found
- I agree; older music and genres that aren't part of the main stream/Top 40 lits are going to become extinct to those of us that enjoy them. That, for me, is the really sad part of this entire P2P issue. When I actively participated in file sharing, before the legal issues became clear and I stopped, I found some amazing recordings that I either had never heard or cannot be purchased. One such item was a recording of the announcement of the death of a major music performer as it was announced on a radio station in Europe over 20 years ago. Now, I don't know who originally got this broadcast recording to post it, but for me being a major fan of the musician it has been a treasure! I dare say things like that will no longer be available under any P2P or pay-to-download service be it iTunes, Peer Impact, etc. That's just sad.
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- so true.
- People have pirated games for decades which have always pushed the boundries of network traffic and user desire to get.
mp3s are simply smaller and more mobile, there's no way the RIAA will be able to stop this. At the very bottom of it are emails. If the users want, they will be able to exchange mp3s over email.
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- Everyone wants to roast the chicken...
- ... let's see if the the chicken itself wants to get on the spit. =)
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- Convenience = 2 orders of magnitude
- Before Tivo I could have programmed my VCR to tape all my favorite shows, swapped in tapes at the appropriate time and essentially achieved similar performance.
I didn't. Given the same choice, I wouldn't do it today either.
If people have to be more involved/connected to do this stuff it will easily drop by two orders of magnitude. So, while stopping this sort of software won't stop the piracy it will certainly decrease it substantially.
My 2 cents...
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- Try Streamsharing.com
- This is where its all heading - software that allows you to view each others media without the download hence "stream sharing" - meaning any size video, mp3's or pictures or documents can now be searched and looked at instantly - also adding content is easy just click and drag no uploading needing!
Simple , easy http://www.streamsharing.com to download! enjoy!
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- Please refrain from the term 'illegal downloads'
- File sharing of copyrighted material may or may not be illegal, but the term 'illegal downloads' is never correct. Those who choose to share copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holder can be engaged in an illegal act, but person who is downloading the material cannot possibly know if the content being downloaded is in fact what the uploader claims of the content. For all the downloader knows the copy is a term paper or picture. Also, even though material that is copyrighted is shared, there are instances where the uploader may be on legally solid ground.
I have been downloading material for most of my life. Frankly, even visiting a website is technically downloading and is almost always copyrighted material.
Shame on CNet for spreading this lie. As a technical source it should know the difference.
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- WinMX not dead
- While the official servers are dead, there is a hack the re-enables usage..
http://www.slyck.com/winmx.php
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- File Swapping has a Defense-Legal and Powerful
- The copyrite laws are very specific. Consumers are allowed to make a copy of any copyrited material for their own personal keep. I grew up on the media of 8-track. I bought a lot of music in this format. When it went out of style, I bought the cassette. The 45 and the LP were among other formats that I paid for. I am entitle to copies of all the music I paid for Legally. My records are scratched, my cassettes are faded, and the record player is obsolete as with the 8-track. I have paid for the same songs several times over and If I need to download these songs from others, then so be it. The music industry did not complain when they changed the format to keep people like me having to purchase these songs over and over. They made billions convincing me I had to re-purchase. And now they complain. This is their problem not mine and I resent their power to convince everyone they can have it both ways. I have a rite to copies of all the material I have paid for and they are not going to tell me that the law changes whenever it becomes inconvieniant for them.
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- Not any more.
- A recent change to copyright law makes it illegal to store any portion of a copyrighted work in a "shared" location. This of course makes every media center PC illegal, since it does not limit scope of acceptable use. It seeks to fight P2P networks that are more difficult to shut down such as Bit Torrent where you don't need all of the file to start sharing it.
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- are you nuts?
- Don't get me wrong, I'm on the side of the "pirates", but your argument makes as much sense as saying the pair of jeans I bought are worn out and out of style, so I am free to walk into the store and shoplift a new pair of Levis that are not worn and more contemporary.
If we want to make any progress against the powers that be, we need to keep our arguments legitimate.
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- RIAA short vision and greed
- If the recording industry had its way every time it flapped mega dollars in front of our law makers we still be back in the AM analog radio days. At every turn they are suing for copyright violation. Assume they won and forced the old Betamax machines out of existence they surely would not have been able to make mega dollars if that would have happened. Then they argued that if code was written to break their DVD's and got the Digital Rights Act passed. They also sued RIO an original MP3 play for copyright violation and now look Apple Ipod and apple itunes is selling millions of songs for the industry. Now they target peer to peer networks, first Napster and now E-Donkey. Their total control and grip on the whole industry has gone absolutely berserk just this side of crazy. The definition of illegal is in the eyes of who makes the laws. Usually that means who has the gold. So the more money they get the greedier they become. Instead of becoming user friendly they want total control. Even pharmaceutical have a period where they can recoup their cost before going generic why not the same in the recording industry? One last issue to ponder Michael Jackson has the rights to the Beatles music, Lisa Presley sold her interest in Elvis music, and the last big thought to ponder is that Sony/Viacom owns the rights to "Its a Wonderful Life". In this last case all of the original actors like Jimmy Steward are dead and even the original studio does not exist yet a company which was not in existence at the time now owns the movie. Now thats insane.
Lastly the definition between legal and illegal is who persuades law makers to write the rules. Maybe if the people formed a strong enough lobby group but &.. I forgot its not about the people any more its about money and big business. Maybe someone should enforce the law of a person carrying a lantern in front of a car so we dont scare the horses its a law never removed from the books. What would people say if they received a fine for that? Its really time to review the laws and how technology is changing them instead of keeping people in the dark ages.
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- replacing my vinyl to MP3
- hi i use P2P to replace my vast vinyl collection and turn it in to MP3's. i think the record industry has a duty of care to replace all my vinyl tracks with MP3's under the variable format licence, i have over 130,000 vinyl singles and more than 10,000 vinyl lp's, as i no longer have a record player to play them on. the record industry should provide a change of format free to all who already have vinyl. i have already spent 1000's on my music and if i have to transfer each vinyl to mp3 i could be here to the end of time, and why should i have to purchase more CD's just for the same tracks? i understand that the record companies are going broke and they have to blame someone for there own failings. lets face it most of today's music is so bad and the charts are a fix as usual
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- Why should they?
- Why should the record company provide you with a free service? Where is their requirement when you purchased your LP to provide it in 8-Track, then Audio Tape, then CD, then DAT and finally mp3 or any other format yet to come?
They DO have a requirement to recognize that downloaded songs are not going to go away, and they have done that recently with the ever growing downloads of paid for music.
They should recognize the market you present. The problem is proving to the record companies that you own each of these and there-fore should have a digital copy available (at any price, free or otherwise). Do you still have all of your reciepts for every LP? Do you have all of them in their original case? Have you actually taken care of each to ensure it's continued play?
There is a potential for a market here, but it has serious obstacles. Had a LP been destroyed by water, fire, damage or spousal upheaval the record companies should not, nor could they, be held responsible to replace your misshaps. Owned and later lost an LP? What about the dozen that have been loaned out never to be returned?
I hope the RAII sues you for downloading music. Why? So you can bring your LP collection in to court and show that you have downloaded songs you alredy own. I patiently await that case to make it before a judge, because it's a very real concern for people who own any media and download the mp3.
And just for an FYI, there are still record players out there.
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- you're nuts too?
- So if whe change from gasoline to hydrogen, the automakers should provide me with a new hydrogen care because what I really bought was transportation and the method they sold me originally is no longer current?
What would be fair is for you to legally transfer the vinyl to any new format you choose yourself. We can do that. It's considered fair use. With the current digital media we are losing the ability to do even that, and therefore losing our fair use rights.
You're proposing that the industry bears the responsibility to do the conversion work for you since you no longer have a turntable or perhaps your vinyl is damaged. Quite honestly that makes zero sense under any fair use doctrine. Why not just ask them for an extra copy of your CDs while your at it... for the car of course?
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- A matter of time
- It was only a matter of time before the whole piracy issue would hit critical mass. The odd techie person downloading programs is one thing. A person downloading hard to find music, that's another thing two, but every mom, dad, son, daughter and relative you know downloading everything they can get their hands on, now that's a problem.
There are alternatives to piracy, various services exist but they are either not a perfect fit for the user's current needs, or are simply over priced for whatever medium are trying to sell.
personally, if I'm going to download a music cd, i expect to pay less that retail cause if I am willing to pay retail, I'll go to bestbuy and actually buy the CD, at least that way I can get the cover art and jewel case. You don't get thoese when downloading, so I shouldn't have to pay for them!
I saw "Underworld Evolution" in the theater, payed $9.00, loved the movie, hated the movie experience. It was cold, sticky, smelly, lots of talking, and the sound system sucked. The snacks were incredibly over priced.
In short, the RIAA and MPAA want us to stop pirating and start paying full price for everything they shove down our throats. We should stop pirating, but we should also stop going to bad movies and buying crappy music.
That's the key, show them both how we really feel, don't download it or pay for it. When both numbers start going down, they'll freak! "our stuff is so bad, no one will even pirate it!"
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- Music downloads too expensive
- Legal music downloads are too expensive to my opinion. One dollar a song, that's around 20 for an album; on average. And alot of them don't even come close to 20 dollars in a store, while they come pressed on a cd there.
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- yes i have every one in its original case,
yes i have the receipts and yes i have a DB's of every track i have singles and lp's.
and whilst i dont mind contibuting a small amount to obscene profits the music industry makes each year. i dont see why i should..! (singles cost$6+ & CDLPs $18+) and having already paid for each track at least once, and most songs get released several times in the course of a few months if it didnt do well the first time of release. and i have them as well.
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This is one of the state's largest indoor flea markets. Over 200 vendors peddle everything from antiques, estate jewelry, and vintage kitchenware to beanie babies and baseball cards. Three restaurants serve a variety of refreshments, and parking and admission are free. (423-894-3960)
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Though a bit out of the way, this mall remains popular for its upscale atmosphere and excellent selection of shops. There are three major department stores, including Sears, Belk, and JC Penney, as well as a Belk Home Store. More than 100 specialty shops like The Gap, Aeropostale, Pacific Sunwear and T.J. Maxx make for a great shopping experience. (423-875-4351)
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Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: Opportunities for NGOs and Minorities
7 April 2006
Published April 2006, 88 Pages, ISBN 1 904584 38 1
By Magdalena Syposz.
This is a guide to how the FCNM and the Council of Europe work and how minorities can use them to protect and promote their rights. It enables NGOs to identify whether the FCNM is the right mechanism to use for them. It describes the best ways to prepare reports for Council and what action NGOs and minorities can expect if they use these methods.
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If you've entered Silver Lake College through the art wing entrance during the past few weeks, you've probably stopped and marveled at the attention-grabbing charcoal drawing on the pavement, which features a small human figure gazing up at a bare, towering tree. Above the drawing, a quote by St. Francis of Assisi reads, "He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist." The drawing was a collaboration of art professor Erin LaBonte's Drawing and Composition I and II classes.
During her first year teaching at the college level, Erin LaBonte worried that her students were losing interest in class. She asked a friend for ideas of how to spark students' enthusiasm, and her friend suggested having the students create a class or community drawing. After having students draw collaboratively for the past two years, Erin LaBonte decided to take the project a step further and have students produce the piece on the sidewalk in front of the college entrance. LaBonte explained, "I think it is fun and important to put art where people don't expect it. I also hoped that we would inspire people as they entered the college."
LaBonte chose the image and divided it into square. The image of a small person looking up at a tree was inspired by Silver Lake's Franciscan value for the year: Reverence for Creation. The class then decided on a quote by St. Francis to complement the image.
Each student was responsible for a square section of the final drawing and students took care to evaluate how their section fit with the whole. Art student Abby Gerhard elaborated on the process, "At first it was kind of difficult because we all had to make sure we were not on each other's squares. As the time went on we all were able to work together and put all the squares together."
Fortunately, the weather cooperated as well and the drawing lasted long enough to catch the eyes of many students, faculty members, staff, and visitors. The reaction to the drawing has been tremendously positive. The six students who created the drawing were delighted with the amount of feedback they received.
Art student Erin Kiel responded, "I certainly hope we can do something like this again. I really enjoyed doing this project, and it was awesome to share the talents of the Art Department with the rest of the Silver Lake community."


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| December 20, 2012 | Updated: December 20, 2012 6:54am
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The 2,571-square-foot home was built in 2003 in Spring Trails subdivision. John Grey of Texas Corporate Real Estate is the listing agent.
McCants is a warehouse manager at Mud King Products Inc., a Houston-based supplier of oilfield replacement parts. He previously served as a warehouse supervisor at Stewart & Stevenson LLC. Prior to that, he held a variety of managerial positions at UPS Freight. He has also served as a supervisor and schedule planner at Roadway Express, an inventory control supervisor at Lanter Co. and a sales associate and inventory manager at Best Buy.
He graduated from Southern Illinois University with a B.S. in business administration. He also attended North Central College.
According to BlockShopper.com, there have been 3,988 home sales in Spring during the past 12 months.


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Chris Christie said he will travel to Israel as part of his first official overseas trip as New Jersey governor.
Christie made the announcement Monday after meeting with Israeli ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, The Star-Ledger reported.
"We look forward to continuing to strengthen our ties," Christie said. "There's a great, great, great long-term connection between New Jersey and Israel, and I intend to make that as strong as I can along with the ambassador and other important folks in the Israeli government."
The visit will probably take place in the spring, and will include his wife and children, he said.
Mark Levenson, chairman of the New Jersey-Israel Commission, said the governor would probably meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the trip, The Star-Ledger reported.
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Vince Profett and the Dead Man's Bones (Paperback)
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|Vince Profett is no different from any other eleven-year-old. He loves his family. He wants to play baseball for the Boston Red Sox, and he wants to go to Disney World. Never in his young life did he think he had a special purpose. That all changed during his summer vacation trip to see his father when he fell in a hole in the desert while trying to catch a white rabbit. There he met an angel who informed him that he was chosen to have a great responsibility. After he touched the bones of a man who had been dead for almost three thousand years, Vince received great abilities that had not been seen in a thousand years. The only catch was that he could not tell his family or anyone else about his abilities. Now Vince must learn how to use his abilities to help mankind. His problem is that he must protect his family from the enemy who wants to destroy them. He must do this without his parents, brother and sister finding out. With each day bringing a new experience, Vince realizes that everything is not always as it seems. He must have complete trust in God to get through this life. With the help of the mentor Brother Sam, the angel Gabriel, and many others, Vince Profett begins his adventure. Whether it is using great strength, invisibility, speed or the power to heal, Vince knows that he must use his new abilities to show people that young people can be of great use to God and to mankind.
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Kaduna — At the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), female cadet officers excel in academics more than their male counterparts.
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) was established on 5th February 1964 in response to the defence needs of independent Nigeria to train only male officers for the country's Armed Forces. The role of the Academy was to provide each officer cadet with knowledge, skills and values necessary to meet the requirements of a military officer through military, academic and character development.
But history was made when the President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on the 14th of February, 2010 ordered that the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) commences enlistment and training of female regular combatant officers.
At the beginning, only 20 female cadets were admitted into the academy for regular combatant training, but today the number has increased to 56.
Checks by Weekly Trust revealed that while the male cadets are taking the lead in the military training, the female are taking the lead in the academic aspect. Weekly Trust learned that out of the 10 positions in the class, the first eight are female cadets while their male counterparts take the remaining positions.
Speaking, Cadet Rejoice Igom, a 20 year old lady from Taraba State, who is also one of the 20 pioneer cadets that started in the Academy with 63 Regular Course, said it has been challenging.
According to her, "It has been very challenging so far because when we came, we where the first set of female cadets in the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) so most of the male cadets were thinking we can't make it. On our resumption day they were calling us names including prostitutes, asking us why we could not just go to a civil university.
"One of the most challenging aspects of the training for me was "endurance trekking." Our endurance trekking covers about 12 kilometers on a daily basis, but as time went on, I kept on pushing and whenever am with my course mates, I never come back with them because I used to drop on the way but a third or fourth timer will encourage me and bring me back.
She said happily that now when she go for endurance she goes with the male squared and comes back with the male squared.
"During our obstacle training, it was not easy in the beginning because I used to be very weak also especially during horizontal and vertical rope pull, we could not pull through especially the female cadets, so we used to encourage ourselves because at the beginning we were 20 and we were divided into four battalions that is five of us per battalion, so we used to come together and ask ourselves what happened in your battalion and we would share experiences which really helped us pull through till the end of the first four months in the Academy.
"That is when we challenged ourselves that if we cannot do well in the military training then we must do well in the academic training, so we were able to read well and we came out tops in our various departments including our military training," she stressed.
On how she was able to cope, she said "it is a thing of the mind and I tasked myself that since my male colleagues can do it, then I too can do it and even though I knew I was weak in some aspects, I also knew I was strong in some other aspects even stronger than my male counterparts."
She affirmed that none of her course mates in the pioneer set have dropped out and they have intensified efforts to encourage the second set of female cadets so that they can also excel in their chosen career.
"The Academy has been the best place I have been to and it is fun being here and I have no regrets what so ever for choosing a military career.
"My motivation has been that I grew up in Kaduna and I have heard so much about the academy, so it has always been my wish that female cadets be admitted into the academy. Therefore when I heard about it through my mother, I was excited. She did not even know that I was interested in joining, so I bought the form wrote the examination in Maiduguri, Borno state and I was lucky to be one of the short listed candidates for the 63 regular combatant course. I went for the interview and when the final list came out, I was one of the candidates.
"I admire the Army officers and am proud to be an Army cadet; in the history of Nigeria there has never been a female Chief of Army Staff (COAS) so as a pioneer female cadet I hope I can push through because I would like to be the first female COAS Nigeria has ever produced," she said.
Cadet G. Fedemou is a foreign student from the Central African Republic. Though she could not speak very clear English she told Weekly Trust that she has learnt a lot that she would take back to her country when she passes out from the academy.
On her part, officer cadet Fatima Saleh, an 18 year old indigene of Adamawa State who happened to be the only Muslim in the pioneer set, said she was discouraged by her Arabic school teacher from enrolling.
"When I gained admission into the academy, my Arabic school teacher was against it, but my mother continued to encourage me and I was also determined to join the academy and that was how I found myself here," she stated.
She maintained that there is no bias between Christians and Muslims as she has taken all the cadets as her sisters. "We do everything together in pursuit of our dream", she said.
Officer Cadet Nneamaka Adrika is a 21 year old indigene of Anambra State. She said she found it very difficult when she came to the academy at first because there where so many things that she was not used to during her life as a civilian.
"One of the difficulties I faced was the endurance thing; running 13 kilometers everyday is something I did not do when I was a civilian, so I had to get used to that. Another aspect was sleep, sometimes for close to two days we do not see our beds as we are somewhere training or doing one thing or another and before you know what is happening it is morning and you have not slept and the only time you have is to dress up and go for classes.
"So you see yourself struggling between receiving your lectures, sleep and then you see yourself matching and sleeping. Before now, I would never have believed that someone can sleep while walking, but I saw that in the academy because at the beginning I was matching and sleeping at the same time due to tiredness and my body being overworked," she said.
She is optimistic that she will reach the highest position in the Navy which is the Chief of Naval Staff and probably the Chief of Defence Staff since the present CDA is a naval officer.
Captain Roseline Agwai is an Army officer and also a 2IC female training instructor with the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), she said the training in the academy entails physical, academic and character training.
"The training of cadets in the academy entails physical, academic and that of character for them to become commission officers in the Nigerian Army. They are meeting up to the standard required of them in both academic and military training and even some of them are above the standard set because they are performing better than their male counterparts.
Lt. Commander Abimbola Akinkwade, the 2IC Mogadishu Battalion said the cadets will undergo five year programme. She said in the first four years they will get their degrees and the last year is 80% military and 20% academic training.
Speaking, the Commandant of NDA Major General Emeka Onwuamaegbu said the first set of the regular combatant female cadets who commenced training in September 2010 has continued to excel in all aspects of the training in the academy.
"The female cadets in the academy have continued to excel in both their academic and military training, in fact in the area of academics, they have outperformed their male counterparts because in the first 10 positions in the academics training, eight are females cadets, the best cadet for military training is a female cadet.
"In the areas of discipline, they have not been found wanting, in the areas of physical training, they have also done exceptionally well, so I commend Mr. President who ordered for the training of female cadets for regular combatant programme in the academy and I think he has been vindicated by his decision to open the doors of the academy to the female folks.
"I would want to encourage all qualified female candidates who are Nigerians to take advantage of this opportunity that has been opened up for them because in the next 10-20 years, if they do not, they will find out that females from other parts of the world have left them behind", he noted.