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To pirate or not to pirate: Convenience vs compensation in the Internet age
June 19, 2012 | 8:39 pm
By Chris Meadows
Here are two articles that expressly discuss pirated music, but a lot of the same issues of morality and artist compensation apply to any pirated media—movies, games, and, yes, e-books. They make an interesting presentation of two sides of the piracy argument: what can be done to get artists paid for their music?
On one side is 21-year-old NPR All Songs Considered intern Emily White, who penned a piece at the NPR website discussing how she'd accumulated her 11,000 song music collection largely by copying CDs from the radio station she ran, mix tapes from friends, and so on. She writes:
As I've grown up, I've come to realize the gravity of what file-sharing means to the musicians I love. I can't support them with concert tickets and T-shirts alone. But I honestly don't think my peers and I will ever pay for albums. I do think we will pay for convenience.
And adds that she would be willing to pay a subscription fee for a Spotify-style universal database of music to which she could listen at any time, anywhere, with play-count-based compensation so artists played more got paid more.
Then on the other side is 51-year-old music industry veteran, teacher, and trained mathematician David C. Lowery, formerly of music acts Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker. Lowery responds with an open letter several times longer than White's piece, in which he discusses the ethical issues inherent in the younger generation's approach to acquiring music.
Lowery writes that the oft-cited "record labels screw the artists anyway" defense is not actually true, and the majority of artists have fair and equitable deals with their recording studios (or even own their own independent labels themselves). He also writes that more and more artists are finding themselves unable to make a living, and cites the cases of a couple artists he knew who committed suicide in abject poverty.
Now, having said all that, I also deeply empathize with your generation. You have grown up in a time when technological and commercial interests are attempting to change our principles and morality. Rather than using our morality and principles to guide us through technological change, there are those asking us to change our morality and principles to fit the technological change–if a machine can do something, it ought to be done. Although it is the premise of every "machines gone wild" story since Jules Verne or Fritz Lang, this is exactly backwards. Sadly, I see the effects of this thinking with many of my students.
He goes on to accuse the Free Culture movement (and specifically, via a financial document link, the Creative Commons Foundation) of being effectively an astroturf cat's paw of "a handful of large tech corporations and their foundations" who want to earn money through enabling the illicit distribution of content.
Who are these companies? They are sites like The Pirate Bay, or Kim Dotcom and Megaupload. They are "legitimate" companies like Google that serve ads to these sites through AdChoices and Doubleclick. They are companies like Grooveshark that operate streaming sites without permission from artists and over the objections of the artist, much less payment of royalties lawfully set by the artist. They are the venture capitalists that raise money for these sites. They are the hardware makers that sell racks of servers to these companies. And so on and so on.
I'm sure that's news to Lawrence Lessig and the other people who simply feel artists should have the ability to forego specific copyright protections on their own works, and an easy way to codify exactly which protections they wish to forego. And speaking of free culture in general, I expect such claims would also surprise Richard Stallman, rabid free-IP advocate who is about as anti-corporation as you can get.
Lowery also compares prices for the computer equipment and services necessary to download songs cost, or the cost of tuition, or car insurance, and compares these to the $2,139.50 value he placed on the 11,000 songs White copied. "Why do you pay real money for this other stuff but not music?"
In paying big corporations for network services and computer equipment, but not paying for the songs they consume, Lowery writes:
Congratulations, your generation is the first generation in history to rebel by unsticking it to the man and instead sticking it to the weirdo freak musicians!
And Lowery also addresses White's statement I quoted above, about saying she'll pay for "convenience" but not albums,, by asking what's so inconvenient about iTunes, or services like iTunes Match or Pandora Premium, apart from having to pay for them. He closes by suggesting that people should seek out pirated music by their favorite artists and complain to the pirate sites' advertisers. He also suggests that Ms. White should donate some money to charities in support of music artists and their causes in lieu of paying back the artists of those 11,000 songs she copied.
Lowery makes some convincing arguments in his letter—especially when it comes to the convenience of iTunes and other such services. I'm in the process of uploading my own music library to Amazon's cloud storage right now, and I don't see any problem paying $20 a year for the ability to stream my own music. But Lowery's presentation is marred by some of his other claims. This is certainly the first time I've ever seen it suggested that the Free Culture harbors a secret corporate agenda! This whole "conspiracy theory" thing makes it a little hard to take him seriously.
I'm also kind of wondering what possessed Emily White to be so forthright about her method of music acquisition. It made for an interesting article, but I tend to agree with Lowery that her attitude is probably going to make it harder for her to find a job in the music industry. "Oh, you're the one who wrote that article on NPR saying you pirated 11,000 songs?"
As I said at the top, the essential arguments also apply to other pirated media, though perhaps a little less so to e-books. It's not quite as easy to "rip" some else's paper books, after all, and the convenience of buying them online rather than trying to hunt down pirated versions makes paying for them a lot more attractive. Still, there's a lot of the same sort of entitlement going on across all digital media, with people feeling justified in downloading illicitly because they can.
In the face of that, I don't know how realistic Lowery's "Stop that right now, you naughty children" approach is. Maybe it will change a few minds, but as addicted as today's youth is to illicit content, it'll take a lot more than telling people don't do that to turn the tide. It may not even be a matter of refusing to "change our morality and principles to fit the technological change" anymore—that ship may already have sailed, as it looks like the morality and principles of a whole generation are pretty much set and hardened.
A lot of people scoff at the idea that, "If this keeps up, someday there won't be any artists left." Many artists (such as the authors of the fanfic and Internet fiction I mentioned earlier today) work for reasons other than money to begin with. But if this does keep up, the number of artists who can work for pay will definitely decline, and the quality and type of art and literature we see may shift dramatically. I wonder what the world will look like if that happens?
My suspicion is that people will come up with payment models that work in the new Internet era. Perhaps it will be the artists themselves who do it, given that they're the ones with the biggest incentive to see that artists get paid, and necessity is the mother of invention. A lot of Kickstarter projects have been rather successful in that regard lately; Seth Godin has already tallied more than many published authors make on several books in donations on his Kickstarter, with still most of a month to gather even more momentum. Maybe it will be that, or maybe it will be something else. But if there's a vacuum in the market, where people who do have money are willing to pay for art, the market will probably figure out how to connect them to artists in a meaningful way.
Update: Mike Masnick on Techdirt says much the same thing as I did above, accusing Lowery of "want[ing] a pony" that he won't be able to have, and saying that even the file sharing Lowery decries is on its way out, replaced by free or paid streaming services like Pandora or Spotify (which recently released a free service to compete with Pandora, by the way). As for Lowery's claim that streaming services offer low payouts, Masnick calls it a "mirage" and points to a post from the TuneCore blog that runs the numbers and estimates streaming could have brought in over $50 billion in 2011. "The innovator's dilemma teaches us that the old guard always mocks the new players for being too small or not paying enough," Masnick writes. "But they miss the trendlines for the snapshot. And when the trendlines converge, they get run over. "
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"But if this does keep up, the number of artists who can work for pay will definitely decline, and the quality and type of art and literature we see may shift dramatically."
But we already have far more books than we can read, far more movies than we can watch and far more music than we can listen to in a lifetime. What does it matter if the quality or amount of new stuff drops, even to zero, once we have unlimited access to the old stuff?
Isn't it like saying: 'Hey, the quality of the new oxygen we manufacture will go down if we don't limit people's access to free oxygen?' What's more important — providing free access or artificially propping up prices by limiting supply?
"…the convenience of buying them online rather than trying to hunt down pirated versions makes paying for them a lot more attractive."
Unless your IP address doesn't come up as being in the US, in which case "hunting down pirated versions" is significantly more convenient than paying for them. I'd take the bleating about "teh eeeebul piratezez" a lot more seriously if it weren't coming from people who refuse to allow me to buy their books…
Stealing is stealing. I see many otherwise "honest" youth who think nothing of obtaining pirated software or music for free. The argument that "it isn't worth paying for" is absurd. If I don't think a Ferrari is worth $150,000, I just don't buy it, or I choose to do without, I don't steal one. I have outwardly "religious" members of my estranged family who have more pirated music than they can ever listen to, and who think nothing of stealing more and more.
So the real question is how to stop it. We can't afford to prosecute people for a few hundred dollars worth of loot. Where did the moral fiber of our youth go, what happened to the parental oversight? Where do we get the sense of self-entitlement that we see all the way from a school kid stealing music to the CEOs that run our corporations and our government? And how do you stop a child from stealing music behind your back when "everyone else is doing it and has more music than I do?"
Both of these points of view are utter nonsense and contribute nothing to the real world of music, media and piracy. They represent the two polar opposites of the spectrum and don't represent any viewpoint worth listening to.
I don't accept that White's actions represent the vast majority of young people's actions and I don't accept Lowery's moral analysis or perennial claim that piracy will lead to a catastrophic decline in new music.
Lowery: "He also writes that more and more artists are finding themselves unable to make a living, and cites the cases of a couple artists he knew who committed suicide in abject poverty." I don't believe this drivel for one moment. Artists have no inherent right to earn a living and the real truth is too many of them are devoid of actual talent and deserve their fate. Talented musicians are more successful than ever before. The music industry is booming. The actual level of piracy is a tiny minuscule fraction of what the media industry claims and reliable independent research has shown many times that piracy more often than not helps musicians sell more.
Reliable research has also consistently shown that downloaders are bigger spenders on music. My own life experience is that young people who download also spend more on their music. The portrayal of young people as nothing but vacuums for free music is a tired old lie that has been spread about by the media industry and no one with a brain can really believe it any more.
We are living in a new world and people like Lowery who have such trouble adapting their black and white sense of morality, have nothing to contribute to the debate imho. It is a nonsense for him to imagine that he can persuade my nephew that downloading Abbey Road is stealing from anyone least of all Paul McCartney, who has more than enough money already, or the Music industry who have already earned more than enough from his music.
Howard makes my point. Somehow, by changing decades, we alter basic moral, ethical standards to fit our desires, and rationalize theft by saying the artists have enough money already – as though that is our decision to make. Theft is theft. It is defined loosely as taking something that doesn't belong to you without the owner's permission and depriving the owner of just value or compensation for his/her artistic talents and expertise. Somehow, we change the definition of digital media to vary from that of "real" physical property. It is that mindset that has permeated our youth, not all of them to be sure, but enough of them that the question is how to deal with it. Ignoring it is not a solution. This is not a "new world" in which we can simply take what we want anytime we can get away with not paying for it. There is no difference between the physical polycarbonate CD with digital information, and the exact same content stolen through a wire. No wonder we're in a mess.
For the millionth time, copyright infringement is not "theft'. Period. I know that it suits your emotional needs to redefine copyright infringement as "theft" so you can demonize it. Too bad.
Capturing a digital copy of electronic bits that float through the internet does not deprive anybody of anything. It simply infringes their legally granted monopoly over copies.
Copyright is not an inalienable self-evident right of man. It is a monopoly granted by government because it is seen to serve a good. Copyright is supposed to be granted for a strictly limited term. But corporate money and corrupt legislators have caused it to be extended to an essentially endless term. In addition, many traditional fair use rights have been abridged or withdrawn.
Because of this a great many people see the current state of copyright law as deeply unjust. They also see our Justice Dept focused more on enforcing copyright rather than pursuing financial fraud and corporate crime. This is a large part of the reason why copyright infringement is not taken seriously.
As long as people like you are jumping up and down screaming, "thief, dirty thief, making digital copies is the same as stealing grannies groceries", we'll never have a rational discussion about any of this.
A copyright is a legal attempt to protect intellectual property that follows the logical flow of protecting personal freedoms and security of personal property and possessions. The fact that an idea or performance is available online does not take into account the way in which those bits were made available – usually by illegally copying a CD and giving the result away, thus depriving the artist of just compensation. By that logic, if I see an expensive camera on the seat of someone's car and the doors are unlocked, it's mine for free? Production of sound tracks is not cheap. It involves paying musicians, sound studio time, marketing and production. It has a monetary value and expense in addition to the intrinsic value of the interpretation.
Regardless of the laws in effect, what we are dealing with here is a matter of moral, ethical concern. Most laws are based on the Judeo-Christian idea of the Golden Rule. Being unwilling to give away your talents and performances for free is a right as well. The fact that music can be converted into a bitstream, captured and given away, does not justify doing so, nor does it validate the practice by comparing it to more egregious crimes. Those who so adamantly defend their "right" to take what they want in exchange for no compensation to the original provider, would be the first to scream should their personal rights be infringed should the situation be reversed. Do unto others …


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The Department of Defense is the largest customer for goods in the United States, one of the largest land managers and a major operator of facilities and bases. Therefore, DoD's policies can have a substantial impact, both positive and negative, on the environment throughout the country.
The department's major mission is to protect the nation and its interests throughout the world. Meeting environmental requirements is an important, but corollary obligation similar in nature to the environmental management role in industrial operations, whose major mission is to produce goods and services.
This Defense Science Board Task Force is concerned about both the rising costs and the barriers to readiness, exemplified by restrictions on training and vessel mobility, caused by environmental requirements. Since a primary requirement for any society must be to defend itself, the task force needed to determine what strategy would best suit this objective, while meeting other national priorities, such as environmental quality.
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Almost all premier private sector firms are providing environmental leadership. They are finding opportunities for cost savings through prudent environmental management, technology investments and pollution prevention. They are also involving local and state stakeholders in their decisions.
This proactive management approach is not pursued for altruistic reasons. The management of these companies are convinced that they can reduce environmental costs in the long run, have greater flexibility in their operations and, hence, gain competitive advantages through such an approach.
The task force believes that the department faces a similar set of decisions. If the DoD takes a proactive, leadership position working with stakeholders, pursuing new technology and pollution prevention, leveraging its buying power and pursuing the most significant risks first it will be in a much stronger position to assure U.S. national security interests.
Public support in the communities in which the department operates will be key to preserving operational flexibility. Moreover, there is little doubt that the DoD will ultimately need to meet environmental requirements. The task force believes that it will be cheaper in the long run to meet its requirements in a proactive fashion than to be forced to do so through protracted regulatory proceedings at the state and local levels.
In recent years, the department's investment in environmental security has been sizable: a direct annual investment of over $5 billion and about $2 billion of additional defense industry costs absorbed annually. Even at this level of investment, it is difficult to satisfy all local, state and federal regulatory requirements in a timely fashion.
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A recent Congressional Budget Office report states that: "DoD will probably need additional funds beyond those in the current budget plan to continue to meet the program's objectives ... legislative relief may be required..." (January 1995). The recent congressional FY [fiscal year] 95 recisions only compound the problem, Thus, at a minimum, the DoD needs a rational way to set priorities.
The demand for more resources is coupled with projections of shrinking environmental budgets. The task force has identified several initiatives aimed at achieving the DoD environmental needs at lower costs. Specifically:
DoD is one of the largest landowners in the United States (more than 25 million acres). With overseas areas increasingly restricted and with longer-range weapons needs, the requirement for domestic air, land and water for training, testing and operations is growing. At the same time, conservation demands are increasingly restricting DoD's domestic land, air and water activities.
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Significantly, with restrictive budgets and growing resource needs, the DoD will not be able to satisfy its environmental commitments in a timely fashion. There is clear evidence that better results are achievable. The DoD must set goals and establish metrics to measure accomplishments against such goals through the year 2000. Specific actions must be initiated today in order to achieve these objectives.
The task force has identified seven opportunities that offer the potential for significant improvements in the DoD environmental security program. In order to capitalize on these opportunities, the task force makes the following recommendations:
A management program of cleanup, compliance, pollution prevention and conservation projects based on comparative risk reduction.
DoD environmental security funding will not be sufficient to fully satisfy all cleanup, compliance, pollution prevention and conservation requirements in a timely manner. DoD's current reactive, case-by-case approach often falls to address highest risks first.
A resource-constrained, comparative-risk-reduction management solution is required to set priorities. DoD must evaluate the risk reduction potential and costs associated with its various investments across the spectrum of activities and make decisions based on the greatest overall return. To fully implement such an approach will require close cooperation with regulators and other stakeholders (particularly at the local level).
Increasing focus on pollution prevention.
Pollution prevention is the reduction or elimination of pollution generation through substitution of inputs, process changes and better housekeeping. The task force finds too little emphasis on pollution prevention, even though it has demonstrated significant returns on investment. The result is that pollution prevention projects are underfunded during budget tradeoffs. Today, there are insufficient incentives for cost-reducing, longer-term investments.
Many existing cleanup technologies offer significant risk and/or cost reduction potential that is not currently being realized due, in significant part, to institutional inertia and regulatory barriers. Many DoD problems are identical to those of the public and private sectors and are amenable to treatment by technologies developed outside DoD. There are, however, some DoD-unique environmental problems requiring development of new technologies by DoD, and there are numerous technologies for early exploitation.
In both categories (i.e., of commercial and DoD-unique), there is a need to significantly reduce the timeframe for environmental technology demonstration, validation and application. The biggest bottleneck today is in the early deployment of new technology.
Technology demonstrations can be an important part of DoD's process for achieving more rapid verification and deployment of the most promising technologies. There is also a concern that with shrinking budgets, sufficient environmental science and technology investments will not be made that could dramatically reduce future costs.
Approximately 80 percent of environmental costs (associated with hazardous wastes) relate to weapon systems' life-cycle costs, including those at military bases (per the DoD inspector general). For this reason, the task force focused attention on the weapon system acquisition process.
DoD must identify and integrate environmental issues (including pollution prevention) into all aspects of the life cycle for systems and components (R&D to disposal). Commercial experience has clearly demonstrated that front-end design for a system's life cycle pays big rewards. Acquisition practices of the department should adopt appropriate commercial, best environmental practices. This should be a subset of the DoD initiative in acquisition reform.
Assuring efficient and effective implementation through benchmarking and appropriate metrics.
The task force found that little quantitative data is currently available to compare DoD implementation with other agencies (e.g., EPA, DoE) or, particularly, with commercial or international best practices. In each area of environmental security, goals need to be established and implementation results measured over time. Congress needs to be assured that environmental security appropriations are being spent efficiently and effectively.
Developing a DoD proactive focus on natural and cultural resource conservation affecting military readiness.
Readiness requirements include large areas of land, airspace, harbors and coastal areas for training, testing and operations. Force modernization and changing geopolitical considerations are increasing the requirement for domestic activities in these areas (e.g., larger test ranges).
Additionally, installation realignments could increase the intensity of the use of existing areas. The DoD must fully understand and manage the relationship between readiness and conservation of natural and cultural resources in the land areas. The issue is not tanks vs. environment, it is tanks and environment.
The DoD Biodiversity Initiative is a positive example of proactive leadership to address the need and to build community understanding and support for necessary DoD operations on lands that are habitats for threatened and endangered species and contain delicate ecosystems.
Today, conservation requirements are considered soft in the DoD planning and budgeting process, in comparison with cleanup and compliance which relate directly to protection of human health. As a result, conservation suffers poor support in resource allocations. This cannot continue.
Only if DoD is perceived as a good steward of its lands will it likely attain the needed flexibility for its future operations and training. It is especially critical that stewardship be perceived in a positive way by local stakeholders.
Creating a stable, $5B/year budget for five years to credibly satisfy DoD environmental security needs.
DoD's environmental requirements are still rising and will continue to do so through the 1990s. Specifically:
Cleanup. DoD is just now shifting from measurement and analysis to the far more expensive efforts at actual cleanup of active bases.
Base realignments and closures. A large, unfunded need remains, yet local stakeholders and regulators desire full implementation of cleanup requirements; additionally, environmental impacts for BRAC-95 are unfunded and only compound the resource problem.
Compliance. New compliance requirements are just now being quantified and some have been found to be inordinately expensive and detrimental to military operations.
Pollution prevention. There is too little emphasis on pollution prevention throughout DoD; budget mechanisms are needed for pollution prevention investments.
Conservation. DoD is just now beginning to understand and quantify its conservation needs such that it can ensure operational flexibility and readiness.
Technology. DoD must accelerate technology demonstration and application in order to achieve its goals within constrained budgets; further, in order to achieve long term cost savings, DoD needs a stable science and technology base focused on defenseunique and very-high-cost environmental demands.
Base realignments and closure environmental requirements are of particular concern. In most cases, land cannot be transferred to local entities until cleanup has occurred. Yet BRAC funding is clearly insufficient. The DoD is not now able to meet all of its BRAC-91 environmental funding requirements, and the environmental funding for the most recent round of proposed closures (BRAC-95) is not included in current DoD plans and budgets.
Even if the total budget can be kept stable, it may not be possible to fund all BRAC work in a timely fashion. Priorities should be established based on the following: significant environmental risks; community organization and capability to develop economically productive uses for the land; community and regulator willingness to accept a reasonable cleanup approach.
To implement a more efficient and effective environmental security program, budget stability, a long-range vision, and metrics to measure program success are all critical. Even a stable, $5B/year funding level will be insufficient without significant process improvements -- both are required. After FY 2000, the required dollars should be less, as a result of the process improvements being fully implemented.
On this, the 25th anniversary of Earth Day, the environment continues to be a major issue for the nation and the DoD and must continue to be incorporated into the mainstream of the DoD's activities and resource allocations. The task force sees the potential for the DoD to dramatically improve its environmental security programs.
The task force believes that the DoD must take a leadership role in those environmental security areas that impact its operations and costs. By showing such leadership and working closely with regulators and community stakeholders, the DoD can put itself in a better position to greatly lower its environmental costs and minimize the environmental impacts on its readiness.
In order to implement these recommendations, the undersecretary of defense (acquisition and technology) should:
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LITTLE ROCK – The Trojans returned home and got back into their winning ways with a 9-3 win over UAPB at Gary Hogan Field. The UALR seniors sparked the team to victory on the mound and at the plate.
It was the first of ten games against in-state teams this season with the next three coming at Arkansas State. The win moves Scott Norwood to 18-17 against opponents from the state of Arkansas.
Senior Ethan Schlechte got the start but was only used for three innings so he would be ready for the big series in Jonesboro. The senior gave the UALR coaching staff just what they wanted. Schlechte went 3.0 innings striking out five and didn't allow a hit.
The Trojans offense, which struggled last weekend at Ole Miss, didn't wait at all to score. Senior Ben Crumpton led off with a single to right center then another senior, Austin Pfeiffer, drove a double off the wall in left field which allowed Crumpton to score from first. Tanner Rockwell followed with a double of his own to score Pfeiffer before coming around to score on senior Bryson Thionnet's double to left center. After the first inning UALR held a 3-0 lead.
In the third inning the Trojans got a leadoff single from Thionnet. Sam Vogel stepped to the plate and homered to right field to make it 5-0.
The Golden Lions threatened in the fourth against Jake Busiek getting their first two batters to reach base. However, a double play and a groundout back to Busiek allowed the Trojans to get out of the inning without a run.
UALR added to its lead in the fourth as Pfeiffer got a single before stealing second. The senior advanced to third on a balk and came around to score on an RBI groundout from Justin Steelmon.
UAPB came back drawing two walks off Busiek before Dyllon Brownmiller came on in relief. Brownmiller got the first batter to groundout to Pfeiffer at shortstop, but then allowed a single to Rashawn Tillman to drive in two runs and make it 6-2 before UALR could get out of the inning.
The Golden Lions pulled within three when they added a run in the seventh off of Garrett Sherrell. The freshman making his collegiate debut walked the first batter he faced and it came back to hurt him when the runner scored on a single by Mitch Bruckshaw.
The Trojans played add on in the bottom of the eighth to add some room for the bullpen. Crumpton and Pfeiffer drew walks before Rockwells double to deep right center brought them both in to make it 8-2. Hayden Martin came in to pinch run for Rockwell and came around to score on Thionnet's RBI groundout to give UALR a 9-3 headed to the ninth.
Busiek pitched 1.0 innings allowing two runs on one hit and three walks. Brownmiller worked an inning striking out one and allowing one hit. Sherrell struck out two in an inning of work allowing a run on one hit. In a three-run game, senior Chase Rousseau went right through the middle of the Golden Lions lineup to work a perfect eighth. Brent Mason got the first two out of the ninth inning inducing a fly out and striking out a batter. Finally, senior Dillon Moritz sealed the game by getting a groundout to second to end the game.
The UALR offense tacked up 13 hits on the way to scoring nine times. The team was led by its seniors at the plate. Crumpton went 2-for-3 with two walks, two stolen bases and two runs scored. He is now at 57 career steals, just six away from tying Miguel Miranda's school record. Pfeiffer went 3-for-4 with three runs scored and an RBI double. Thionnet had three hits, two doubles, to go with two RBIs and a runs scored. Rockwell continues to lead the team at driving runs in with three more today to get to 16 on the season, also added two doubles. Joseph Paulino collected his first career hit and Drew Merten added the team's final hit.
UALR will be back on the road this weekend at Arkansas State to open Sun Belt Conference play. The series will start Friday at 6:00 p.m. with game two on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. and the series finale at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday.


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'Pretty Little Liars' Ian Harding on the premiere: Mr. Fitz and Noel Kahn 'get pretty heated'
When we last left Mr. Ezra Fitz and his high school honey Aria on "Pretty Little Liars," Ezra had decided, as star Ian Harding tells Zap2it, to "stop flip-flopping around" and was "gung ho" about his relationship with Aria.
But then someone wrote "I see you" on the back of their car window. And that someone turns out to be none other than "good ol' Mr. Kahn." And everything seems to be OK, until ...
"Everything seems to be cool until Mr. Kahn wants me to do a few things for him, which just sets up a whole slew of juiciness that happens," Harding teases. "From other shows that you will be tuning into and see, it will get pretty heated."
We're hoping for a big fight scene.
Brant Daugherty, the aforementioned Mr. Kahn on the show, previously told us that he was going to become "a thorn in Ezra's side." And Harding teases to us that the resolution should be pretty juicy.
"Let's just say that Brant and I have several one-on-one scenes. A nice of mix of [confrontational and relaxed]. I don't pull a gun on him," laughs Harding. "We fight with words. It's a lot of fun, it's a great time to play with Brant.
"You know that this is going to be a problem. It's just how it gets solved that is going to be fantastic to watch," Harding continues. "He is a thorn in my side, but how everything gets dealt with is going to be nice."
"Pretty Little Liars" airs Monday nights at 8 ET on ABC Family.
Photo/Video credit: Andrea Reiher, Zap2it


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Cook du Jour Allie Grandpre takes artful approach to creative cooking
Name: Allie Grandpre
City: Thousand Oaks
Specialty: Pastries
Secret: Adding her personality
Life imitates art: Allie Grandpre is proof positive that art can imitate life. Every whimsical idea can be translated into a creative dessert, Grandpre believes. "I loved art throughout school," she says, "and pastries are a way to put art into my food." Her imaginative take on life and art sparked her culinary journey, and she recently received her pastry certificate from the Westlake Culinary Institute. She has found the best canvasses for her artistic expressions in her cakes and cupcakes, which she adorns with decorations, often retro, but always ultrafeminine, such as her Blueberry Cupcakes with Sour Cream Icing with sparkles. "I try to make them as cute as possible," she said.
A wonderland of possibilities: Living five minutes from her grandmother, Trudy Phillips, provided the stage for a lifetime of warm memories. Phillips introduced Grandpre to a wonderland of possibilities. "Grandma's Girl's Cookies" included an interesting mix of oatmeal, nuts and brown sugar, resembling "Quaker oatmeal bars." Then there were times when Phillips and Grandpre would simply "throw in a bunch of stuff trying to make different types of cookies. We just didn't want to do the plain old chocolate chip," Grandpre explained. Her aunt Holly also modeled a love for cooking, and shared cherished family recipes for lasagna and ravioli. "It took me 18 years to learn the secret of the sauce," Grandpre said, "so I'm never allowed to share the recipe."
An eye for detail: Because her mother worked long hours, Grandpre had numerous opportunities to lend her creative signature to family meals. She often borrowed her grandmother's recipes for healthy pastas and vegetable soups, as well as her aunt's lasagna and ravioli. She also created a series of homemade desserts. She holds a special fondness for her Fourth of July cupcakes — red velvet, with fresh blueberries and a cream cheese and blueberry frosting. "I feel like I have an eye for detail," she said. "I try to put a unique, different twist on my cakes and cupcakes."
To nominate an amateur cook to be Cook du Jour, email Mike Blackwell at email@example.com.
Makes 30 cupcakes
1¹/ cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
¾ cup softened butter
1 cup superfine sugar
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ orange, finely grated rind
1 cup fresh blueberries
1 Combine and blend all ingredients except blueberries, which are carefully folded in.
2 Heat oven to 375 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove and cool fully before applying icing.
1½ cups confectioners' sugar
3 tablespoons sour cream
1 Mix, then apply to cupcakes.
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Bill Amberg tells Justine Picardie where to buy fashionable gifts for men this Christmas
When I was writing my first novel a couple of years ago, I found myself perplexed over what Christmas present should be bestowed upon the hero, and as it was mid-December at the time, I was also trying, and failing, to come up with a suitable gift for my husband. In the end, both men got a cotton shirt - material evidence that I'm not very good at buying masculine presents.
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Which is why I've decided to consult an expert - Bill Amberg, who manages to produce unquestionably manly leather accessories while retaining a quirky individuality (and making some very nice bags for women, as well). This year, he has come up with all manner of good things (see www.billamberg.com ), including beautifully finished leather gloves made by the same factory that supplies fighter-pilot gloves to the RAF. He's also full of ideas about other sources of unusual Christmas presents; indeed, he buys his throughout the year, with admirable originality.
"The thing to look for," he says, when I admit to my own inadequacies in this respect, "is something authentic and real that has true value, and will improve with use, as opposed to junky, frivolous stuff that holds your interest for less than five minutes."
So what should I buy for my 15-year-old son?
"A Swedish throwing axe," he replies, without a second's hesitation (the relevant website, if you're interested, is www.gransforms.com ).
Amberg assures me that Swedish axe throwing is a marvelously healthy and legitimate sport, but it sounds a bit dangerous to me, so he suggests I take a look at www.silvermans.co.uk , an East End institution that offers everything from army boots and rucksacks to a Russian pilot's helmet and flying suit - "proper action man equipment", says Amberg.
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As for his own Christmas wish list, "I'd love a wood-burning oven for the back garden. It's like an Italian pizza oven, but is also fantastic for roasting meat - you could cook your turkey outside on Christmas Day." This is exactly the sort of gift that my husband - a barbecue enthusiast - would adore, but unfortunately, when I investigate www.fornobravo.com , it turns out that the cheapest is £956.
So, back to the old familiars (socks, scarves et al), but before I give up entirely on my attempt to discover a more radical solution to the present conundrum, I ring Mrs Bill Amberg, otherwise known as Susie Forbes, editor of the soon-to-be launched Easy Living magazine.
"What are you going to give Bill for Christmas?" I ask. "An outdoor oven and a Swedish axe to chop up the wood for it?"
"Actually," she says, "he keeps stealing my favourite ivory-coloured pashmina to wear as a scarf, so I was planning to buy him one of his own, instead."
Cheap but cosy :cashmere socks, £20, Brora (mail order: 020 7736 9944, or www.brora.co.uk ). Ordinary socks may be boring but cashmere socks are a pleasure. These come in 10 different colours and four sizes, so no one need be uncomfortable. Or join the queue at Gap (0800 427 789): it has cashmere scarves for £29.50, with matching ribbed hats for £19.50 (both designed by Emma Hill, who came to Gap as head of accessories from Marc Jacobs; hence the fact that these look luxurious, and will sell out faster than hot mince pies).
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Indulgent gifts :men's travel collection, £79, Elemis (01278 727 830, or www.elemis.com ). The latest male grooming products (far preferable to others) in a limited-edition Mulberry washbag - there are only 500, so you'd better move fast. Striped mohair scarf, £79, Missoni (from Matches, 020 7221 0255). Missoni makes wonderful scarves and this is suitably masculine, in white, grey and black. If you'd prefer a pashmina scarf, then Trevor Pickett does good plain ones, from £55 (mail order: 020 7493 9072, or www.pickett.co.uk ).
Over the top :fighter pilot gloves, £145, Bill Amberg (mail order: 020 7727 3560, or www.billamberg.com ). In cognac-coloured calfskin - what more could a man desire? Except, perhaps, a second pair of Bill Amberg gloves, hand-stitched in peccary leather, for £195?
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One mother describes the moment she accidentally locked her two-year-old in a hot car while trying to change a dirty diaper.
"In those brief couple of minutes he was sweating, he was hot, his cheeks were rosy," she said. "I went to get him out and he had an accident so I put him back in. I threw my purse back up front and got out to go get in the driver's seat and as soon as I shut the door, I realized that he was locked in there.
She said panic overtook her.
She immediately called EMSA while she tried to break the windows with her elbows.
"He could have died, he could have gotten brain damage. There are so many things that runs through your mind when that happens its scary, very scary."
At first medics tried to get inside the mother's car through three different doors.
Eleven minutes later she says EMSA had to break a window to save her son.
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Since May, they've had at least 50 calls for kids locked inside vehicles.
That averages to about three a day.
"People are forgetting and accidents happen, like locking your keys in the car. So we're seeing a few different scenarios," said John Graham EMSA Operations Manager.
Not all of the children suffered heat related injuries but the rush to save them was a life or death situation.
"Be hyper vigilant, super focused. It only takes a second. It just doesn't take any time at all to get them overheated and it's truly a life threatening emergency in a short amount of time."
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Radio Espantoso is a radio station that appears in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. This station plays Afro-Latin American tropical music, ranging from Latin Jazz to Mambo, Son, Salsa and Latin Funk/Disco among other genres. The DJ of the station in 1984 is Hector Hernandez. In 1986, Pepe replaces Hector, and Pepe is of Cuban descent. Radio Espantoso is also the preferred radio stations of the Cubans/Los Cabrones. The word "Espantoso" directly translates to as 'Horrible' or 'Awful' in Spanish.
GTA Vice City Tracks
- Cachao - "A Gozar Con Mi Combo" ("Let's Rejoice With My Combo") (1994)
- Alpha Banditos - "The Bull is Wrong" (Unknown. 2002 in real world)
- Tres Apenas Como Eso - "Yo Te Miré" ("I Saw You") (Unknown. 2002 in real world)
- Deodato - "Latin Flute" (1973)
- Mongo Santamaría - "Mama Papa Tú" ("Mom, Dad, You") (1969)
- Mongo Santamaría - "Me and You Baby (Picao y Tostao)" ("Chopped and Toasted") (1969)
- Machito and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra - "Mambo Mucho Mambo" ("Mambo Much Mambo") (1952)
- Unaesta - "La Vida Es Una Lenteja" ("Life Is A Lentil") (Unknown. 2002 in real world)
- Lonnie Liston Smith - "Expansions" (1974)
- Irakere - "Añunga Ñunga" (1980) (Incorrectly credited in the booklet as "Aguanile")
- Deodato - "Super Strut" (1973)
- Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra - "Jamay" (Nahuatl word, means "adobe crafting place") (1955)
- Benny Moré - "Maracaibo Oriental" ("Eastern Maracaibo") (1957)
- Tito Puente - "Mambo Gozón" ("Enjoyable Mambo") (1958)
GTA Vice City Stories Tracks
- Ray Barretto – "Acid" (1968)
- Pete Rodríguez ' band– "I Like It Like That" (1967)
- Tito Puente – "Oye Cómo Va" ("Listen How It Goes") (1963)
- Bobby Valentín – "Mi Ritmo Es Bueno" ("My Rhythm Is Good") (1974)
- Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco – "Químbara" (an onomatopeia of the drums sound) (1974)
- Héctor Lavoe – "Mi Gente" ("My People") (1975)
- Eddie Palmieri & Ismael Quintana – "Revolt / La Libertad, Lógico" ("The Freedom, Logical") (1971)
- Willie Colón & Héctor Lavoe – "El Malo" ("The Bad") (1967)
- The song "A Gozar Con Mi Combo" by Cachao (1994, from the album "Master Sessions Vol. 1") is the only one which is anachronistic in the playlist.
- Although Irakere's song "Añunga Ñunga" is incorrectly credited in Vice City's booklet as "Aguanile", there's another song from the band called "Aguanile Bonkó".
- After playing "Jamay" from Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra in Vice City, Pepe says "ha hecho el otro día un come mierda italiano grasoso me trató de robar el carro cuando estaba manejando, ¿qué es eso, gente...?, seguro que ese tipo no sabía con quién él estaba jugando, ¿ah?, here we go more music!" which means "in fact the other day a shit eating, greasy Italian man tried to steal my car when I was driving, what's that, people...?, sure that guy didn't know with whom he was playing, eh?, here we go more music!" which implies that it was Tommy Vercetti that tried to carjack him, it would also mean that Pepe is one of the pedestrians around the city.
- Despite the name of the station meaning "awful" or "horrible", the station is very popular amongst the Latin American and Spanish fandom of GTA, having achieved cult status, with "La Vida Es Una Lenteja" ("Life Is A Lentil") being the most recognized song.
GTA Vice City soundtrack
GTA Vice City Stories soundtrack
See Also
- San Juan Sounds - A radio station in Grand Theft Auto IV which also plays Latin American music.
- East Los FM - A radio station in Grand Theft Auto V which also plays Latin American music.


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We're planning a trip to NC mid May and are trying to figure out what beach we want to visit. Mothering seems to be my first go to in all research I do and I thought I'd try here for my vacation as well!
Any suggestions for specific beaches you love? We'd probably want to rent a condo as well...
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Hi- My first time on these forums :) There are lots of beaches in NC so it depends on what you are looking for. I live near Topsail beach and LOVE it. It is not as built up as Wrightsville Beach but still has some fun family things. You are also within 2 hours of Myrtle Beach and Raleigh (if you want to go to the big city). We always take the kids to Topsail because we can find parking and walk to the water without stepping over millions of people. Here is the website: http://www.topsailbeach.org/
Good luck on your trip :)
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We like Kure Beach. But really, we went to Myrtle in SC for the first time last summer, and it is a gorgeous place. Perfect beach, perfect water. It is very commercial, so you have to zone all that out. We also have spent time at Wrightsville Beach (OK) and rented a place at Kitty Hawk last Memorial Day. Kitty Hawk is very pebbley, so it you're looking for great swimming that's not it. However, we had fun at the Wright Brothers memorial there, stopped in Roanoake for some history, visited the aquarium, and drove up and down the two lane highway there. Overall, Kitty Hawk/Nags Head was a lot to fun, but my feet were too torn up from the rocks to say it was great on the beach--beautiful though! If you're looking for nice sand and waves, go to North Myrtle. Kure is a nice inbetween--a little more natural, but still a decent place to swim.
Amy M, that made me giggle. I don't see Raleigh (or the Triangle area) as "big city" at all, just a busy spread-out one.
Anyway, I always enjoyed Topsail as a kid. My aunt and uncle used to have a small vacation/mobile home there. It was flooded years ago after a hurricane I think. All I remember is a lot of people fishing... it's been a while.
More recently, my in-laws used to have a timeshare in Duck, and we spent time every spring in Nags Head, Kitty Hawk, Manteo, Kill Devil Hills... I really like that whole area, but I don't think it's price-friendly when you have to rent. I'm sure other people know more about that. On the beach in Duck, we spent our time playing in the sand and flying kites. We always swam in the pool. That is all I have visited of NC beaches in ages.
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It takes me 10 minutes to get to the local piggly wiggly and my neighbors are cows. To me Raleigh is the "big city: :) I grew up in Northern VA so I know it's not really big but around here it's all relative.
I know nothing about the northern NC beaches but I do believe the Pender or Brunswick county beaches are cheaper.
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I hear ya! I grew up with nothing but cows as neighbors, and Rocky Mount or Wilson were my cities from 1977 up until 2001. We lived in Locust Grove, VA and DH worked at Quantico for a while... I don't miss that kind of busyness (wow, looked it up and that's a real word!) around Fredericksburg at all. Living and VA Beach and driving through the bridge-tunnels to Newport News was worse though.
Anyway.... I digress from the topic of this post! I apologize, sere234. Good luck finding the info you're looking for!
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We love the Outer Banks. In May, though, you'll want to stay in the southern part of OBX if you want warm(ish) ocean water! We often go south almost to Hatteras in early June--the water is really nice then. Also, much of the Outer Banks is a national seashore, so there are stretches of totally undeveloped shore. So, if you like nature, minimal commercialization, and not too crowded beaches, then Hatteras or the area around Buxton/Avon/Frisco is perfect. Also, May is before the high season, so rentals are likely still available and are discounted. Have a wonderful time!
hey to those of you near wilmington, we're relocating there in a few months! any recs on peds there...my kids need a non vax pushing wholistic type of ped
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Love love love Topsail Beach and the Outer Banks (Nags Head). They are the only 2 beaches in NC I've been to, but they are my favorites! My mother was even married at Topsail Beach, and we just stayed at the Jolly Roger's Hotel this past May. It's a great, laid-back, non-crowded beach.
We've been going to the Outer Banks off and on since, oh, 1998? I love it there too. If you just want to go see the ocean, and not be over crowded with people stumbling all over each other (like Virginia Beach lol) then Topsail or Nags Head are great.
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We absolutely love Ocracoke Island, especially for camping (in a camper -- the mosquitoes are fierce)! However, if you go up an island to Hatteras you can find property that right on the beach to rent and that seems to work out better for families. Both islands are laid back and not overrun with traditional tourist town attractions. Just simple, awesome family vacation time.
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How Catholic universities can be models of authentic higher education
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The seven pontifical universities of Rome started their academic year Oct. 7, welcoming thousands of new and returning students from around the world.
Because they are located at the center of the universal church, these Vatican-chartered institutions have traditionally educated a disproportionate number of Catholicism's leaders, including bishops, cardinals and popes. Their core function remains as always to prepare seminarians, priests and religious in the subjects of theology, philosophy and canon law. Yet their enrollments today include an increasing number of laymen and women, studying in disciplines as varied as economics and communication.
According to the head of one of the most prominent of these universities, they also perform an invaluable service for international higher education, both Catholic and secular, by keeping alive the "authentic idea" of the university in the face of negative economic and cultural pressures.
For Bishop Enrico dal Covolo, rector of the Pontifical Lateran University, any university worthy of the name organizes all of its activities with the goal of addressing the "crucial questions that no one can avoid, that is: 'Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? What is my relationship with others, with the world? What is the final meaning of existence?'"
The pursuit of such questions remains a university's goal even when the disciplines it teaches are "apparently only technical," said the bishop.
This idea, which dates back to the birth of universities in the Middle Ages, and whose recent champions have included Blessed John Henry Newman and Pope Benedict XVI, has fallen out of fashion in Europe and North America, Bishop dal Covolo said. Prevailing tendencies there promote instead the model of the technological institute, or the "multiversity" with no core curriculum.
"The big risk is that the university ends up at the service" of the "dominant ideologies" and "economic systems of the moment," the bishop said. "The university has always been understood as a critical alternative to the powers, ideologies and lobbies of the world."
If Catholic universities are to play such a critical role today, the bishop said, professors must learn to act also as pastors.
"The university instructor is not an instructor for himself, his research is not an end in itself," he said. "The instructor is an instructor for his students, his research is for his students."
To that end, the rector organizes an annual series of lectures on the pastoral care of university students, for his own staff and those of other universities. The theme of this year's course is the "new peripheries of evangelization," a signature expression of Pope Francis. Among the scheduled lectures is one on counseling youth who are "indifferent and/or hostile" to the faith, and another on pastoral practices at Latin American universities.
The Lateran is under the direct authority of the Vatican and is thus known as the "university of the pope." Bishop dal Covolo identifies its particular charism as the teaching of law, and its distinctive approach to that field exemplifies the synthesis of philosophy and theology that he says is vital to pursuing the fundamental questions.
Uniquely among Rome's pontifical universities, the Lateran offers degrees not only in canon law but also in Italian civil law, and the two branches of the discipline inform each other, he says.
The civil law program shows the influence of the universal church in its emphasis on international law, he says, and in its special attention to current church concerns such as bioethics and the sexual abuse of children.
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According to Radar Online, it wasn't long before Teresa and her bro were screaming at each other — all because Kim D.'s assistant encouraged Joe to work things out with his sister. After reportedly telling Kim's assistant to "shut up and get the f—k out of here," Joe — who was hospitalized for the flu earlier this month — gave Tre a piece of his mind.
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A former trainer who wished to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the subject told me recently that, while the proponents of synthetics had only good intentions, the artificial tracks have turned into a disaster.
"The synthetics are terrible," he said. "I can tell you, they suck, and if I was (still) training horses, I would not know my (butt) from first base."
Asked if he felt synthetics will still be a part of California racing in five years, he didn't hesitate.
"I don't see how," he said. "The only thing is the dollars that have gone into them, but maybe after going through this they'll figure out another way to keep improving them. I really think we were sold a bill of goods. All the stuff they were supposed to do, they didn't do any of that stuff. Will they still be here in five years? No, I don't think so."
Add this former trainer to a growing list of horsemen who maybe at the beginning of synthetics were pro-artificial tracks, but they've since adopted a new attitude after seeing how they perform.
"There have been more injuries that you can't bring horses back from than the regular dirt track," the ex-trainer said. "I think the overall horse population has suffered more with synthetics than dirt."
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"I feel terrible for all the people who tried to do the right thing," he said. "Santa Anita tried to do the right thing. You don't put $10 million up to try to screw up racing. They didn't spend their $10 million thinking what they were doing was going to be a bad thing. They thought they were really doing something special, and they intended to do something special.
"Hindsight being an easy deal, obviously it looks like it maybe would have been better to try it on maybe the training track at Santa Anita and saw how it handled the winter and the traffic and had a little better idea with it. It was a rush to action. I believe everybody believes that now. What do you do? You try to take action and do the right thing, and as it turns out it might not have been the right thing. But it wasn't because people didn't have great intentions."


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The entire northern hemisphere will get a great view of the Quadrantid shower, which is considered the year's most intense, with a maximum rate of 200 shooting stars an hour.
Central South America, southern Africa, and Australia will see a few Quadrantids, but New Zealand's South Island and the southern tips of Chile and Argentina won't get a chance to see the meteor shower.
The prime time for watching the Quadrantid meteor shower is after moonset at about 3 a.m. Shooting stars will light up the night sky at a rate of between 60 to 200 an hour until sunrise. The window for meteor viewing is small, though. Unlike the Perseid and Geminid showers which peak on multiple nights, you'll only get two hours on Wednesday morning to view the Quadrantids.
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The Quadrantids are named after a constellation that no longer exists by the same name. The shooting stars come from an asteroid named 2003 EH1, which scientists think broke off of a larger celestial body, an event that caused the meteors you see in the shower to fall through Earth's atmosphere at 90,000 miles per hour more than 50 miles above the Earth.
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There will be marquees with activities for the children to take part in and one of the activities is a bike powered disco for the young 3-6 year old audience. They are seeking some enthusiastic volunteers to explain to the children in very simple terms how it is possible to generate power using a bike.The BBC are able to cover travel expenses and lunch will be provided.
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