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They have, as Tito Vilanova has said, beaten the best Real Madrid team in history, one that achieved 100 points last season, and will reach 100 points themselves if they win their final three games of the La Liga season.
That is something to be proud of, especially considering that they did not win the league last season and that this is Vilanova's first year in charge.
Tito tried to make the team more direct and some games have looked like they were trading punches with other teams but he felt sides had worked out how to play Barcelona.
His change has succeed as they have got good results and won the league despite players like Lionel Messi, Xavi and Carles Puyol having muscle problems and Vilanova being away for a while undergoing cancer treatment.
The return of Eric Abidal has been a plus and Cristian Tello has claimed a place in or close to the line-up, while Andres Iniesta has been the most consistent player in the team, even though Messi has scored 46 goals in the league.
The bad things include the fact that despite what has happened there are people on the Barcelona board who would like to change the coach, while there is a dependence on Messi and the rest of the team need to give more.
Plus, there have been too many injuries and Messi was played before he was ready against PSG and Bayern Munich. Not enough players have come through the lower ranks and made an impact, and there is too much of a gap between the regular players and the substitutes.
The latter began at the start of the season when they decided not to rotate much in order to win the La Liga as quickly as possible and that meant some players were burnt out towards the end.
It is an end of an era; Pep Guardiola didn't have the strength or energy to make the big changes but it is time to act now as three or four major changes need to be made in the line-up.
Alexis Sanchez, Cesc Fabregas, Pedro and David Villa should have given more while only Jordi Alba out of the new players has made a difference, and Barcelona have failed in the big games against Real Madrid in both the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa and against Bayern in the Champions League.
Joan Laporta is on Revista this week to talk about Barcelona, which we are all very excited about.
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Hi Guillem, What about Isco's future at Malaga? Will he play for Barca next season? Are Barca tracking him? Also, how about Asier Illarramendi? People have been lavishing big praise on him to take over from Xavi at Barca as he is similar player. Thanks, Sriram Purushothaman
GUILLEM SAYS: Isco will not play for Barcelona next season and Manchester City and Chelsea are the favourites for his signature at the moment. However, he has told Malaga that he wants to stay for another season. As for Illarramendi, he could take over from Xavi but Real Sociedad don't want to sell anybody, especially if they qualify for the Champions League.
Hi Guillem, What are Real Madrid's chances of signing Edinson Cavani in the summer? Will he get a look in or are Madrid still keen on Sergio Aguero? I understand there will be a number of players leaving in the summer and if Gonzalo Higuain is one of those players, he will have to be replaced with another striker. Alvaro Morata doesn't strike me as a good enough replacement at his current age so will we bring in another striker to replace him? Stuart Oxlade
GUILLEM SAYS: It is quite clear that Real Madrid want to hijack the deal for Neymar to go to Barcelona but I don't think they will succeed, so they could go for Gareth Bale or Kun Aguero because they definitely need a striker as it looks like Gonzalo Higuain might go to Italy. They have other big names in mind, but their main aim is to get Cristiano Ronaldo to sign a new contact and at the moment they are not close.
Guillem, With Manuel Pellegrini being linked to the Man City job how do you think he'd do at the Etihad? Do you think he'd deliver Champions League and Premier League success? Thanks, Gary Hall
GUILLEM SAYS: I broke the news on Friday that City have an agreement with Pellegrini but, of course, nothing is signed yet because he is under contract to Malaga. It is, though, just a matter of time before Mancini gets the sack and as Pellegrini always maximises the ability of his squad and City have the best squad in the Premier League, I think they will win the title next season.
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President Obama wants to go back to the Clinton era tax rates, but only for the top 2 percent of all taxpayers. He claims that this is what the majority of citizens want.
Sure, because the majority of citizens, those who voted for him, don't make that much and, of course, the fairest tax to any individual is the one that someone else has to pay. Again, class warfare is perpetuated.
While I'm not an advocate of paying additional taxes, I think that if the President wants to go back to the Clinton era, we should do so all the way - raise everyone's taxes and cut spending to the Clinton era level. Any excess of revenue over expenditures should be statutorily dedicated to reducing the national debt. The president's announced intention to increase taxes on a small percentage of taxpayers (who are already paying the lion's share of personal income tax revenue) would decrease the number of jobs created, decrease the amount of FIT collected, further class warfare, and hurt the economy in the long run.
While the President digs in and refuses to approve any bill that doesn't increase the top two tax rates, the Republicans should also dig in and refuse to increase the national debt limit, which would force the President to reduce the federal spending level and refuse to send the president any tax bill that increases the tax rate for any American.
The president's arrogance also would force his supporters, many of whom pay no income tax at all, to contribute towards his extravagance with our tax dollars and perhaps make him think twice before enacting any additional excessive spending sprees.
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Steve wanted to use all of Apple's money to crush android....I think Tim Cook is gonna try to use the take-their-money approach instead...better business, and much more destructive...without money, companies fold...if Apple can get, say, 10 bucks per device...plus the 5 MS gets....that's a good percentage of the earnings of most android phones...I'm not sure the manufacturers are gonna want to keep playing with it if it's gonna be that expensive.
Apple reportedly asked for $5 - $15 per device to settle Android patent dispute
Rumor has it that Apple had offered a settlement with an unnamed smartphone manufacturer to license patents for $5 - $15 per device (which worked out to 1% - 2.5% of the total device price). Apple is making ground in its ongoing patent battle with Motorola, but apparently head-to-head litigation isn't the only route they're willing to take.
This goes pretty distinctly against Steve Jobs' desire to crush competitors that are trying to copy Apple's work. With new leadership in the house, however, maybe that draconian approach has subsided. Some sources had clarified that Apple still isn't going to be licensing out to all of the competitors, nor are they trying to get into the royalty business - Apple's making plenty of money as is, after all. They did settle with Nokia, however, and have discussed deals with others.
Should Apple play nice and license their patents? Maybe it would cut down on other manufacturers suing them if there was an amount of mutual goodwill, but unless they're cornered and out of options, Apple tends to go at things on their own - competition be damned. Any guesses as to who Apple might be willing to offer licensing deals to? Would any of the big Android manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola or HTC be off the table?
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Apple reportedly asked for $5 - $15 per device to settle Android patent dispute
No. Absolutely not. Just as Steve Jobs though.... it's not about the money, it's about the fact that you took Apple's idea and called it your own, then claimed it's unfair for Apple to monopolize THEIR idea.
The ignorance of some people. You do realize that Android was in development 2 years before iOS development started? Get real, nothing was stolen. Unlike Apple's Xerox deal, Nokia, stealing notification slide down from android, pushing...... Apple are the thieves. Steve Jobs admitted it himself. Apple and their followers=Hypocrites.
Before spewing Android propaganda, check your facts. The Android "development" before iOS was in a form to mimic Blackberry. Android "development" then turned around to mimic iOS. Their "development" was nothing more than an attempt to copy the leading platform. Android has never been anything more than a second rate copy. Their only success has been to flood the market with cheap phones built on Apple's R&D.
Oh look... More revisionist history. Steve must be soooo proud the sheeple are devoted to his grave.
That second rate copy by the way. Is the market leader. Apple will never be that. It's only a matter of time before history repeats itself just like with the inferior Mac.
Here's hoping Cupertino keeps that cash handy. Oh & as will eventually happen the liberals in gov't will get around to lap dogging Apple for obscene profit taking like the investment banks. Oh & shipping jobs overseas. It's going to be fun to watch.
I'm not sure how android resembled iOS in ANYWAY when it launched. http://quikstarts.com/images/upload/actual/12767737902_thumb.jpg seriously, how does that copy iOS? Cuz it's a touchscreen!? lmao. You are delusional.
"Should Apple play nice and license their patents?" So it's playing nice when Apple does it, but when Motorola asked for the SAME EXACT THING it's essentially blasphemy? Talk about bias...
I love how all the iSheep are debating the look of android rather than debating the only post with actual truth in it. ^^^^^^this one.
I think Motorola can not tough the standard of iphone,the battle b/w both is understandable.cell insurance
I care because i'm a customer of both? good god, do you just spend your money without thinking about it? Fact is, Apple is a bunch of thieves that deceive their customers on a daily basis. Closed down, and full of cronies. I'd rather have a mostly honest company with an open platform and transparency.


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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. --- Lance Stokes (Orlando, Fla.) scored a career-high 13 points in the Chattanooga Mocs (10-15/5-7) 62-59 overtime win over visiting Samford (8-17/6-6) Monday night. Stokes not only sparked the team offensively, he was a game-changer on defense.
After the Bulldogs opened seven of eight (87.5%) from the field, Stokes moved over to defend Samford guard Raijon Kelly. From then on, the visitors shot 14 of 41 (34.1%) from the floor.
That quick outburst helped the Bulldogs jump out to an early 11-point lead. The closest the Mocs would get the rest of the opening 20 minutes was seven points trailing 32-25 at intermission.
UTC scored the first six points of the second frame to cut it to one, 32-31, on Drazen Zlovaric's (Novi Sad, Serbia) three-point play. Gee McGhee (Baton Rouge, La.) evened the score at 35-all two possessions later at the free throw line.
The game see-sawed back and forth from there. Physical defense made either offense earn every point. Brandon Hayman's hook shot at 7:46 gave Samford a two-point advantage, 48-46.
Chattanooga scored the next five points as it held the Bulldogs scoreless for an extended run. Two Ronrico White (Knoxville, Tenn.) free throws with 4:33 to play gave his squad their largest lead of five, 53-48.
Tim Williams ended a 5:28 drought with a layup at 2:18. Next trip down, Tyler Hood drained his only three of the game to knot it up at 53-all.
Stokes put the Mocs on top again with 53 ticks left on a layup. Williams tied it up, 55-55, 11 seconds later. After a UTC miss, Samford set up a final play with just over six seconds left in regulation. Kelly's three-pointer over Zlovaric was off the mark providing free basketball to a crowd that included a very enthusiastic group of students.
Zlovaric got the ball rolling with a jump hook at 4:01 for the 57-55 lead. The Mocs would not trail again. Stokes hit one of two free throws for a three-point cushion nearly a minute later. Kelly cut it to one twice in the final minute, but McGhee and White held the Bulldogs at bay hitting free throws for the 62-59 win.
McGhee scored 14 to lead the Mocs, all in the second half. He played just three minutes in the opening 20 due to foul trouble. Zlovaric matched Stokes' 13 while adding seven rebounds and two assists. Kelly led all scorers with 19 for Samford. Williams posted 14, as Clide Geffrard, Jr., chipped in 12.
Z. Mason (Nashville, Tenn.) led a phenomenal Chattanooga effort on the glass with nine. UTC had a 21-rebound advantage, 43-22. White tallied a career high-tying six assists adding eight points and five boards.
The Mocs shot 42.1 percent (24-57) tonight but just one of 14 (7.1%) from three-point range. The squad converted on 52.3 percent (23-44) of their attempts inside the arc. Samford shot 42.9 percent (21-49) for the game, a mere 19.0 percent (4-21) from three-point range.
The won boosted Chattanooga's lead in the Southern Rail Rivalry series to 13-5 over Samford. The Southern Rail Rivalry is in its third year with UTC claiming the first two. Each school is awarded points for every win in head-to-head competition.
The score was 5-5 entering winter sport competition. The Mocs and Lady Mocs season sweep of regular-season basketball gives Chattanooga its commanding lead.
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a 22mm barrel in a 23 mm trunion would be really loose. A cracked trunion is worth looking into I have heard of it happening.
a 22mm barrel in a 23 mm trunion would be really loose. A cracked trunion is worth looking into I have heard of it happening.
I looked at K-var and two of the barrels are listed as 23mm the other barrel is not. There is about .040" diffference between 22mm and 23mm, so if it was a 22mm I think that it should just drop in the Romy trunnion. How much pressure does it take to remove/install the barrel or what are you using? It should take quite a bit of force to get it in or out.
It could be a cracked trunnion or trunnion on the max spec limit and barrel at the min spec limit. Do you have a mic to check the dimensions?
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I checked the barrel it mic out at 23+mm (as listed on pokies web page) the trunion I do not know, but after inspecting the trunion (no cracks) the i.d. looks to smoth like some one cleand it up. after pushing the barrel back out it did not require that mutch force to get it out. my next step is to A) Ping the barrel or B) use some locktight quick metal or C) ????. I will need to fill in the barrel to trunion slot on the barrel then chuck it up in the lathe and cut it back down to get a good slot recut in the barrel. the barrel is moving when I pin the dam thing. my biy pins are good checked then with a laser mic at work. instaling the pin is the only thing that I can come up with, every thing stays put untill the pin. let me know if there is a batter way to remove the slop from the barrel to trunion fit. muttman
other than having it knurled I dont know another way I dont like knurling BTW but others have done it.. possabluy turning it down and adding a sleve cobled IMOA. sounds like you need a new trunion. my rommy barrel lying here mics at 23.04mm or.9075 " im getting .906" on the trunion = .0015 press fit I like to see .002.
I suspose you could have it plated some how to increase the OD not likely worth it. it reall need to be tight or it will likely work loose and have problems. Id try to mick the trunion some how.
depending on how much it moved you may be able to go with a bigger pin. How were you planing to fill the slot otherwise? cant really weld it IMOA
.001" to .002" press fit is good and .002" is very tight. Much more and the trunnion can crack. Sounds like the barrel is in spec and should be left as is. Some trunnions are looser than others. I've had some factory built rifles that after I removed the retaining pin I could remove the barrel by hand. Maybe a slight knurling of the barrel will help. Maybe not the whole length of the journal though. Barrel steel isn't super hard. Some Garand barrels have their shoulders squeezed to get tighter timing against the receiver face.
Was anything parked with the barrel out of the trunion?but after inspecting the trunion (no cracks) the i.d. looks to smoth like some one cleand it up. after pushing the barrel back out it did not require that mutch force to get it out.
I ask because a friend tried to do a park job and he wasn't happy with it so he stripped it and parked it again, it ended up he did this several times, well he did something wrong and when he went to put it together the barrel just dropped right into the trunion with room to spare.
The only thing I can think of.
I remember that being discussed here.Was anything parked with the barrel out of the trunion?
001" to .002" press fit is good and .002" is very tight.
yea I wouldnt go more than .002. My varmit build is right at that (002). I have seen factory stuff tighter ocasionaly. If you have a lathe I would use as fine of a knurl as you can get away with. this will give you as much metal to metal contact as possable. do you have another trunion that you can try.
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yes and no on the trunion. I have a rommy kit that is slated for a milled reciver (when I get new side plate's) and the trunion is slated for a pistol. I could order one more demilled reciver from aaok and just make it a milled 5.56, hummmmm. the bad trunion(rommy) should fit the chopped rommy barrel. the down side would be, A) making more side plate's, B) making a sleave to press in the milled reciver. the up side would be the slot in the barrel would not be a problem at that point. not sure what I dooing at this point, and yes the tig welder did come to mind after setting headspacing and spacing moved. just kidding. if I stick with this trunion Ill weld the slot (mig) over a 12hr shift and that should keep it from damaging the barrel.
Was anything parked with the barrel out of the trunion?
I remember that being discussed here. "
Sorry I just skimmed through the thread and missed that.
MAN I DONT LIKE WELDING ON BARRELS. IT CREATES A STRESS RISER AT THE WORST POSSABLE SPOT. iD GO WITH A BIGGER PIN IF POSSABLE


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U.S. Sen. Tim Scott backed Mark Sanford in the 1st District special election today, saying he "merits support."
In a statement from his Washington office, Scott, R-S.C., said Sanford is the "stark choice." He did not mention Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch by name.
"On all the most important issues facing our state and country, from dealing with our dangerous levels of debt, to repealing or resisting the government health care takeover, to standing up for Charleston jobs against the NLRB, 1st District voters have a stark choice," Scott said.
"Mark Sanford is hands down better on all of those issues, and that's why I believe he merits support."
The comment came after the state's other senator, Lindsey Graham, issued his own endorsement for Sanford today.
"Mark has a proven track record cutting spending and fighting government expansion, something we sorely need more of in Washington," Graham said of the 1st Congressional District race.
"The Obama Democrats already control the Senate, making the House of Representatives the last line of defense against the Democratic agenda," he said.
Gov. Nikki Haley will be in Charleston tonight for a Sanford fund-raiser.
"The bottom line is that no Republican or conservative independent can afford to sit on the sidelines for this race," Graham added. "In Congress, Mark will vote to cut wasteful spending, eliminate debt and make government work for the taxpayer. We need him in Washington."
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
still searching for an IP reform movement made up of grown ups
If you feel like you've read it before, it's because you have, dozens of times. Unfortunately, you likely haven't learned much. There's just way too much focus on this petty semantic issue. No, downloading something you didn't pay for isn't the same thing as stealing a jacket. But that doesn't mean that it has no negative impact, or that a free society doesn't have a legitimate interest in regulating it. Two things can be different, and yet each can be problematic, wrong, or contrary to the public's interest. I think the focus on the semantic issue has a simple motive: because the "downloading an MP3=stealing a CD" argument is so easily dismissed, it is tempting to keep prosecuting it and acting like one has really achieved something. It's weak manning, something Sanchez knows about.
As for disliking the term "piracy"-- well, tough. That's language. Communities adopt terms, and they don't always make sense, they aren't always fair, and we don't always like them. The very fact that "stealing" is not a term conventionally used to refer to downloading and "pirating" is tells you something about organic etymology.
I would really like it if Sanchez would expand on the point that, yes, copyright fraud is problematic. I think that, rather than telling the same story that has been told over and over again, and always to the same sympathetic audience that accepts the premises in the first place, Sanchez could carve out something new and useful. I am someone who is temperamentally and intellectually predisposed to support reform of copyright and patent laws. I think that there are many problems with copyright, patents, and trademarks. But at times I feel almost physically ejected from solidarity with others who do, because the majority of people who argue against IP online do so in such a willfully immature and unrealistic way. I can't tell you how many people I meet who say that there should be in effect no check on digital copying at all-- that everyone should have unlimited rights to copy all media and distribute it to anyone, for free and without compensation or consequence. You might imagine that I'm exaggerating, but years of experience online tell me otherwise.
When I try to point out that this would swiftly mean the end of much of the media they enjoy, they have no real response; they are stuck in the present world and can't imagine how radical a change that would be. But with perfect digital copying and no impediment to that copying, there's no profit motive to be found in producing these expensive and resource-intensive works.
And, I'm sorry, but dedicated amateurs can't produce Call of Duty; they can't produce Lawrence of Arabia; they can't produce Sgt. Pepper. The dreams of people like Chris Andersen are utopian and false. As Doug Rushkoff has pointed out, they have a lot of schemes for content generators to be paid as public speakers or "personal brand builders," but no compelling mechanism for content generators to be paid as content generators when they give everything away for free. And there's lots of negative consequences from asking every writer or musician to not be a writer of musician but a "brand." Yes, Jay-Z can get by on selling Vitamin Water and t-shirts, but the guy who actually has a new sound and not much else can't survive on free.
Also from Rushkoff: it's never actually free. If you're using Google and your ISP and your power company and your HP laptop to get this content, they're all getting paid. The fact that the costs are so small isn't the same as free, and repeated across millions of users millions of times, that means lots and lots of money... just not for the person who actually created the content you enjoy. You can check out Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget, for necessary pessimism on Linux and Wikipedia; for a description of how music piracy has devastated the musical middle class; and for an analysis and a lament about the death of the artist as a profession.
So many of the grand and self-aggrandizing claims of the pro-piracy crowd have fallen away, I can't even recount all of them. I've often heard that people who pirate something and like it will later pay for it, out of a sense of gratitude and obligation. Does that seem like an accurate portrayal of reality to you? How many people, honestly, do this? I was told for years that people who stop pirating music when there were cheap and reliable ways to access music online. Well, there are now literally dozens of ways to get music online, legitimately, in a way that gives at least a little bit of money to the artist who created it, and usually quite cheaply. Hasn't stopped piracy. People insisted that people only pirate from faceless corporate behemoths. Here's someone involved with the creation of the Humble Indie Bundle, an independent game pack produced for charity and available at whatever price the purchaser determines, showing that 25% of the people who downloaded the pack did so by pirating.
You also get hit over the head with studies that show, or purport to show, the limited effects of piracy, but they are either of dubious methodology or are wielded illogically. For example, a notorious study showed that people who pirate also spend more money on music than people who don't. OK, cool. It does not logically follow that the same amount of money is being captured by the music industry to cover what is lost in piracy. Pirates can spend more on music than their non-pirating counterparts and piracy can still be a net loss for the industry. I don't doubt that many interested parties often oversell the dangers or damages of piracy, and as I said, I support some very broad reforms of intellectual property law. But the loudest voices seem to want it both ways; they make a prescriptive claim that it should be legal to take what you want for free, and then do an end run around it by making the descriptive claim, with dubious evidence, that in fact taking everything for free doesn't hurt the profit motive.
More than anything, I'm weary of the historionics and self-aggrandizement of the pro-piracy set. To read about IP online, everyone who ever downloaded "Who Let the Dogs Out?" from Limewire is a truth-telling revolutionary, smashing a decrepit corporate structure and ushering us into a golden age of free culture, where movies and games and albums descend from heaven in a celestial ball of light into the waiting arms of the IP warriors, who send the love out through the tubes to all who desire them. Any notion of a "pirates code," the old scene ideas about rules and codes that you follow in pirating, has not been disseminated to the broader groups that download media now, apart from that specific cultural moment. Here's what I think: lots of people just want the stuff for free, and don't care about the consequences.
Well, I'll come out and say it: I think that's wrong. I think that it's wrong to make a digital copy of a piece of media that someone else has made and has offered up for compensation under the explicit condition that he or she be paid for it. I don't think that this makes me (or Doug Rushkoff or Jaron Lanier or anybody) some retrograde corporate stooge. And the constant effort to wrap this discussion up in revolutionary terms is just a distraction. I also think that the constant extension of copyright lengths is shameful, that DRM is almost always a useless annoyance and waste, that patents and patent trolling are totally out of control, that there has to be considerable reworking of conventions and statutes regarding fair use and appropriation, and so on. And I think that efforts like Steam and Amazon Music offer reasons for hope. I just think if someone works hard to produce intellectual content that other people want to consume, that person is entitled to reasonable compensation for that content. Call me old-fashioned. That attitude is less broadly assumed than you might think.
In the admirably level-headed and fair post I linked above about the Humble Indie Bundle, the blogger points out that they aren't going to slap lots of annoying DRM on the games, which I fully support. But he also says this: "No -- we will just focus on making cool games, having great customer service, and hope for the best. It sure seems to be working right now!" That's great, and I'm glad. But the fact that it is largely working for them doesn't mean that it will always work out for every producer. At some point, there's going to be (and have been) content producers who run the math and find that continuing to produce a given piece of media no longer makes economic sense, due to the erosion of revenues from piracy. Then everybody loses the product that would have come next. What I want to challenge is the pleasant fiction that such a decision could never be reached, or that our broader feelings about intellectual property and piracy don't make a difference in that regard.
I'd love to see Sanchez attack this issue not from a stance of aggravation, but from a devil's advocate or self-examination position. Take the hardest line possible against his own thinking and his own preferences and see how things hold up. It doesn't hurt to kick the tires. The argument about stealing just doesn't need to be made again.
Update: The inevitable whinge, with bonus retweeting by other paid-up members of the DC politico koffee klatsch. I was unaware that saying "I wish this person would write a bit about this other facet of an issue" is beyond the pale, but as time goes on, the DC social circle only gets more dedicated to circling the wagons.
Honestly, at this point, I really consider the DC blogging corp a pathetic environment. They are so enormously sensitive to any criticism (and this wasn't even really criticism!) that doesn't come from members of their own coterie and that doesn't meet preapproved standards of ass-kissing. I genuinely cannot fathom the mind that wants to be a writer but is afraid of argument that doesn't come wrapped in praise. Then again, I'm not living it up in the DC-area fiefdom, secure in the knowledge that social connections to my purported political antagonists will blunt any criticism. The whole edifice is designed to protect its members and quiet dissent; that is its first and last purpose. What a pack of pearl-clutching cowards.
Update: Since this has come up: SOPA is total, unequivocal bullshit.
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"When I try to point out that this would swiftly mean the end of much of the media they enjoy, they have no real response; they are stuck in the present world and can't imagine how radical a change that would be."
But for "culture consumers" wouldn't that be a good thing? Per your resentment machine post. Hard to imagine that, in the vacuum left in their lives, they would be inspired to creative acts of their own but ...
- December 27, 2011 at 2:23 AM
- ryan said...
I think one of the big problems with this whole debate is the assumption that royalties are an automatic and inherent part of copyright. They aren't.
Royalties are how publishers get paid. When a publisher--record label, movie studio, book publisher, whatever--offers royalties to an artist, they're basically offering to shift some of the risk and rewards of the publishing endeavor to the artist. This lets them offer a smaller advance, which lets them offer more works than they would otherwise. But it's basically asking to partner with the artist on a risk which isn't really particular to artists, but to publishers.
This is why there's such confusion about exactly who piracy is "hurting," even ignoring the fact that most publishers blatantly cheat on their accounting so as to never pay artists a dime in royalties. No, there's this sense that artists get paid for each copy of a work sold, when really that's something which is only inherently true of publishers.
The U.S. Supreme Court addressed this issue in Wheaton v. Peters in 1834, where it held: "The argument that a literary man is as much entitled to the product of his labor as any other member of society cannot be controverted. And the answer is that he realizes this product in the sale of his works when first published." If an artist wants to get paid, the way to make sure that happens is to charge an acceptable advance to the publisher and punt on royalties. Let the publisher deal with that risk. Again, there are arguments to be made as to whether or not this is optimal, but it certainly identifies and allocates the risks correctly.
Of course, this is made all the more complicated because copyright, which was originally a publisher's right, not an author's right, now applies to authors, not publishers.
I think until people work out that there's a difference between authorship and publication, this debate isn't going to go anywhere.
- December 27, 2011 at 8:15 AM
Huh. Didn't realize people enjoyed 'media'. Thought it was just something we did to distract us from the howling incessant tragic emptiness of our post-Neolithic lives. I stand corrected.
As far as the whole piracy business goes, my fear as a would-be published author is that since ebooks make piracy virtually inevitable, they'll no doubt give the novel that final kick to poetry status; i.e. no way in hell you can make a living do this, so you better secure your academic credentials. Sucks, 'cause the novel is meant to be a loose popular form, not a coterie art drawing its last gasp of vitality from 'the flaneur tradition'.
My two cents.
- December 27, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Interesting post, but I don't think this is a fair response to what Julian has written. In rebuttal to him you write:
"But that doesn't mean that it has no negative impact, or that a free society doesn't have a legitimate interest in regulating it. Two things can be different, and yet each can be problematic, wrong, or contrary to the public's interest."
But he writes:
"That's not to say copyright infringement isn't also problematic, or something the government needn't worry about deterring."
Also, you write as if his only point is the same "copyright isn't theft" we've heard a million times before, but his core argument is actually:
"The pillaging of the public domain is real 'intellectual property theft.' How about a crackdown on that?"
which is a much more novel and interesting point you not only fail to give him credit for but act as if it doesn't exist.
- December 27, 2011 at 9:48 AM
- Freddie said...
Adam, I specifically reference the line you've just quoted. I'm not accusing Julian of what you say I'm accusing him of. I'm simply pointing out that the constantly told tale of "digital piracy isn't stealing" is only a small part of the story, and in fact I thought I was praising him for at least mentioning that fact.
As for as novelty-- I don't think that's novel. I think that's boilerplate IP complaints. You really think that there aren't a lot of people out there complaining about Disney et al. constantly getting their copyrights extended and reducing the amount of work available in the public domain?
I want to see someone like Julian take the care he usually takes in prosecuting the anti-IP law to explore the other side. That is clearly asking too much, and of course is being swiftly punished by the blogging social circle which permits no preapproved criticism of its members.
To anonymous and sweet tooth, you are both making the same misreading of a prior piece. I never said you shouldn't enjoy media. I said that you shouldn't use the media you enjoy as a sorting mechanism to determine who you think you're better than.
- December 27, 2011 at 10:02 AM
I think the best answer is a patron system. And I think that's actually a possible effect of the "everything is free" world you're imagining. Rich people are going to want to see movies, listen to music and play video games, and if people aren't making it because piracy makes it unprofitable, then I suspect some modern day Medici will pick up the tab.
We already have a patron system for many of the arts that no longer make money today, in the form of government grants. Many people are paying for art that they wont consume through their taxes. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, it allows the art to exist and be free for anyone, which is how art should be in an ideal world.
On an only tangentially related note, I worry about libraries in the future. Libraries aren't piracy of course, but if you make a truly modern library where anyone can access the books, movies, etc. from anywhere at any time, then that is for all intents and purposes piracy. If we continue down the path of digitization, towns aren't going to want to deal with the costs of a physical library, and won't be able to distribute digitally due to IP law. We could lose one of the only places where people can enjoy art for free without pirating.
- December 27, 2011 at 11:03 AM
To Freddie:
No, you misunderstood me. I was not being ironic, but quite sincere. I believe our post-Neolithic lives are absolutely awful in every way except, for the privileged, comfortableness (Woo Hoo), and so I was just poking fun that anybody 'enjoys' any of these newfangled media. I mean, sure, my friends who play video games all day think they're enjoying themselves...but...um...
I know, I know, my perspective makes me an insipid neo-primitivist romantic blah blah blah.
As for people using the media as a sorting mechanism or what not, well, of course they do, our 'culture' is entirely ersatz and fake and the rot and homogenization and unreality has seeped so deep in our souls we are desperate for some hard edges, and since most people have zero contact with wilderness, the only place they can get a simulacra of those hard edges is by fetishizing taste. Quite humanly understandable, if also sad and pathetic and a waste of life.
You would be a better blogger if you widened your historical perspective and grasped just how much internet behavior is a coping mechanism for our wretched, empty, miserable lives. Of course, you're very sensitive and touchy about being the outsider, so I doubt you'll appreciate the imputation that you're not nearly outside enough!
At any rate, off to cultivate my own angst, be well!
- December 27, 2011 at 11:06 AM
People pirate stuff because they don't want to pay for it. All of the other rationales are just made up nonsense by people who can't admit that they just want free stuff.
- December 27, 2011 at 12:35 PM
I agree "digital piracy isn't stealing" is the commonly told tale. But I think "in fact copyright extensions are more like stealing" is a fairly novel argument. Can you link to places you've seen it before? Yes, it's been said many times that copyright extensions are bad, but that they are more like stealing is distinct from just pointing out it's bad.
"I'd like to see more people grapple with the problem of disincentivizing content creation" is a fine complaint. I'm not saying you shouldn't have written this post. I just think Julian's piece isn't as trite and banal as you're saying.
- December 27, 2011 at 2:51 PM
- Dan Miller said...
Freddie, what precisely could Sanchez carve out that was "new and useful"? After all, it's not like there's a shortage of people denouncing piracy--in fact, those people completely dominate our government on this issue!
Basically, there are two problems--widespread piracy, and the continued destruction of the public domain (via copyright term extension, among other things). Only one of these problems, however, is being addressed by the political system; in fact, the political system is making the other problem worse, in a futile attempt to solve the issues of piracy.
As long as we're calling for honesty, I'd think that the same would be called for on the people saying that piracy is an OMG HUGE PROBLEM. If we really make piracy a priority, we're talking about a world in which it's illegal to film your kid dancing, a world in which Etsy sellers have to lawyer up. These are the unavoidable costs if we make preventing piracy a real priority. I'm not OK with it. The cure is worse than the disease.
This isn't to argue that piracy is right, and I don't think Sanchez was arguing that either. But our current copyright regime, and the even-worse SOPA, are the equivalent of outlawing newspapers to prevent libel. It's ridiculous to say that before complaining about this state of affairs, you have to write a tut-tutting disapproval of piracy. When the public domain is safe and copyright terms have been knocked down to 20 years, then it'll make sense to focus on piracy. Not until then, however.
- December 27, 2011 at 3:06 PM
Also may be worth noting I've never met Julian Sanchez and I've been to DC once in my life, so I'm hardly part of the DC social circle. So it's worth considering that a wagon circling may not primarily be why you're getting pushback.
- December 27, 2011 at 3:13 PM
sweet tooth, read any Paul Shepard?
- December 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- JM said...
The reason pirating is popular is because music industry is getting way more harsher with punishment.
Basically, what Dan said.
- December 27, 2011 at 5:02 PM
You made my day (and it's been a shitty day, as I'm ill and housebound and reading anything serious is a serious drag). I've read ALL of Shepard. I thought no one else had heard of him but me and few Earth Firsters. He was wrong in a few particulars, but that was just because of the emphasis in the sixties and seventies on Australian ethnography. Overall he remains a great visionary and probably the most important thinker since Darwin, though of course his vision is much too tragic, and much too true, to be accepted by our wretched intellectuals. (Not surprisingly, my 'blue-collar' friends have a much easier time accepting the truth; they suffer it every day, and have much fewer status/caste defenses.) If you dig Shepard I strongly recommend as well Tim Ingold's The Perception of the Environment, another neglected through-the-roof masterpiece, and true.
- December 27, 2011 at 5:31 PM
I've only read Man in the Landscape thus far, but was fairly blown away. I often mention him/his theories and there is no recognition and/or ignorant dismissal. I was thought of him the other day when Avedon Carol linked to a great comment by David Graeber:
Link to The Sideshow post, as the direct link is enormous. Will keep Ingold on my mental list.
- December 27, 2011 at 9:23 PM
Man in the Landscape is the outlier, Shepard's first book. He had to go through it to get past it. The choicest meat is in the loose trilogy -- The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game, Thinking Animals, Nature and Madness. Shepard thought the last was his most important; I agree. You won't ever recover from reading it.
The last book, Coming Home to the Pleistocene, was published posthumously and is a fairly good summary of his basic ideas.
- December 27, 2011 at 11:00 PM
"I think that there are many problems with copyright, patents, and trademarks."
Start with this. Expand it. Stay with it. You too quickly leave this and get on the wrong track, ruining your essay. Missing the mark.
Dean Baker has made an imaginative proposal to deal with copyright and another one for patents. Look them up.
He strikes me as a grownup.
As it is now configured, copyright (you defend perpetual tithes to the Disney Empire? I think not.) and patents (ill disguised investment distortions) are little more than state sanctioned (economic) rent collection.
You're a socialist. Stand for radical change on this issue. It's what we're supposed to be.
- December 28, 2011 at 12:12 AM
I have downloaded the internet. I have all the songs. I would never pay for them. I am not using them, I am not listening. I've never bought "entertainment" "products" and I never will. I think they mostly suck and all sound the same.
Thieves and pirates take your booty from you, leaving you dead or penniless. No one has lost anything from my download. I left everything pretty much in place, exactly how I found it.
If you think you own something and every duplication of it that you or someone else makes, go after the photographers. They actually steal your soul with each flash! That's why I copyrighted my face and likeness. The paparazzi and tourists are the true pirates of our age and should be stopped.
I am lazy and greedy like you. I don't want to just write and make music for the sake of doing it - imagine how little music and entertainment would be made if there was little profit to be made from it! The horror! Sheer lawyerless anarchy would ensue, and only poor musicians and artists who care only about art and music would remain! Most people would have to start making real, useful things to sell!
It would be a nightmare of injustice! Useless, middlelevel musicians who can afford copyrights and lawyers should be able to make a comfortable living from their mediocre, derivative hobby-crafts!
And don't even think of quoting any of these words in the order I have placed them in! They are all mine, you petty pirates!
- December 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM
- JM said...
I also have to disagree with deep ecology:it's not technology itself that's troubling, it's more of how it's being used to exploit others. That and deep ecology obsesses a bit too much over the
malthus theory which is rather outdated AND the deep ecology movement seems contradcitory in places as well.
Have you looked into social ecology?
- December 28, 2011 at 5:40 PM
I'm not generally a fan of Julian Sanchez, but his response to you is completely fair. You used his first two sentences as a jumping-off point for a general exposition of your views on digital IP and completely ignored the body of his post. I'd be annoyed too.
- January 3, 2012 at 10:42 AM
- That Fuzzy Bastard said...
I don't see why Sanchez would need to be annoyed, even in his remark; it's just descriptive. Freddie took Sanchez's article as inspiration for his thoughts on copyright reform, which aren't---as Freddie himself notes---particularly influenced by or in response to Sanchez's actual thoughts. "Free-associating" is neither an inaccurate nor an insulting term for it. The only thing that's odd is Freddie's immense offense at having it so described.
- January 3, 2012 at 11:29 AM
I think it's hard to discuss patents, trademarks and copyright together. They are different types of property, and the issues around them are different (i.e., the problem with patents is largely about the poor quality of issued patents, and misusing a trademark has different costs than "piracy").
With that said, most of this post is about copyright, and that's where I think the most of the moralizing, and relatedly, most of the confusion, comes in.
Personally, I think what gets lost in viewing piracy of copyrighted material as a moral question is that what's really being lost is the ability to price discriminate. On the one hand, you have rights holders who want to get paid $X for each copy of their work, and tend to inaccurately see each pirated copy of as a loss of $-X. On other hand you have free advocates who see the loss associated with each pirated copy as zero.
Both, of course, are wrong. There is a set of "purchasers" who won't pay $X for the work and for many pirates, there is some non-zero price they might pay if there was a means to force them to.
Which, of course, is where the free bundle people and Radiohead's In Rainbow's experiments come in. They attempt to match price with the user's actually utility. But they are voluntary and therefore easy for the unscrupulous to abuse.
Unfortunately, unless there is a magic way to prevent copying and/or some type of enforceable auction system, it's a matching problem without a solution and content creators are just going to have to deal with it. Rather than get paid for each individual work, they need to view content creation as marketing for their live shows, sales of merchandise and premium content or even public media-style pleas for contributions. (All of which can be seen in the podcast world, e.g. Marc Maron, Smodcast, Nerdist, etc.).
That leads to a world that's different from the old model of elevated prices and reduced output of content, but with deference to Lanier's complaints, I'm not sure it's a worse world.
- January 3, 2012 at 12:20 PM
Jargon - In today's world, the patron need not be a single rich person but rather can be the collective group of consumers that value a given work. Although I think Freddie's point is that a shift to that sort of system will mean a lot fewer works. I don't know if that's true, but it's an empirical question that could be studied (and probably has).
- January 3, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Broadly, I think you make a really important point: if we want people to produce quality art of whatever type, we will probably need to support them financially. Fair enough. But it's worth pointing out that under the traditional system of copyright, content producers were often totally screwed. Most of the money spent on CDs goes to everyone BUT the musicians involved. So the idea that by downloading music I'm necessarily taking some substantial amount of money from the creative types just doesn't seem true. I'm mostly taking money from all the various middle-people. Some of those middle-folks may actually do useful work: most of them are basically engaging in rent-seeking. It's a racket. And I'm happy to steal--yes, steal--from them.
Of course, you point out that you would like to see major reform of copyright law, etc. and that absolutely makes your whole piece valid. But it's worth pointing out that we live in a complex world--one of mostly grays, not black and white. So in the meantime, taking a hardline position that ever downloading music is somehow some cowardly, economically destructive act seems a bit overblown.
Near the end of the piece, you write, "I just think if someone works hard to produce intellectual content that other people want to consume, that person is entitled to reasonable compensation for that content. Call me old-fashioned. That attitude is less broadly assumed than you might think." This is, like I said, a really solid point. And sure, pirating advocates rarely have an immediate answer on hand to this issue. But under the current copyright system, artists are getting screwed as well.
That said, sure, plenty of the folks who like to defend pirating are full of shit. Good call. And I'll admit that I myself download plenty of media, and no, I don't buy the CDs later--though I definitely will go see bands I like at shows (which they can make much more money on, percentage-wise) and buy shirts, etc. at the shows.
Another aspect of this that needs to be addressed is that, honestly, some people are so wealthy that it's ridiculous to suggest that they'll stop doing what they do if they don't get paid enough. Does Matt Groening make new episodes of Futurama because he needs to pay off a mortgage? It seems unlikely.
Anyway, I'm rambling. Overall, I think your point is solid, but I think it'd be good to approach it from a less dichotomous position, though I understand your frustration with the high-and-mighty rhetoric of some of your detractors.
- January 17, 2012 at 3:54 AM
I am lazy and greedy like you. I don't want to just write and make music for the sake of doing it - imagine how little music and entertainment would be made if there was little profit to be made from it! The horror!
Although Freddie's argument has been properly transformed into the approved straw men, your tone is not in full compliance. To fully align it with approved opinion, please replace "The horror!" by "Oh noes!" Thank you.
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Diggin' Down in the Dominican Republic
Since the creation of Diggin' Down in the DR in 2006, twenty Hilbert College students have traveled to the Dominican Republic and performed service learning projects.
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Nourish the Needy -- ECHO donates seeds to a nutrition center in order for students to construct a sustainable vegetable garden. Goya also donates cans of non-perishables to aid in feeding those in need.
Get in the Zone...With a Micro-loan -- Local businesses in need are granted a micro-loan in order to enhance their establishment.
Business in a Blueprint -- Entreprenuers are invited to an informational session, where they learn how to budget and create a business plan.
Suckers for SIFE, Entreprenuers for Life -- Students at local schools are given suckers and must promote and sell them, teaching them the fundamentals of free enterprise.
Action for Education -- SIFE collects uniforms so children are able to attend school.
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- Summer Session A2 Ends
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Monday, February 24, 2014
Tammy and Sidney Moorer arrested Friday on a warrant stemming from the Heather Elvis case were charged with murder today.
The announcement of the charges was made by Horry County Police chief Sandra Rhodes at a press conference in M.L. Brown Jr. Public Safety Facility Conway.
The charges are based on evidence found during the execution of the search warrant of the Moorers home at 8786 SC 814, about 12 miles northwest of Garden City.
Both Morrers have attorneys and there is no indication whether the couple will cooperate with officials.
The couple was charged Sunday with two counts of indecent exposure and one count of obstruction of justice.
Bail was set at $5,000 for Tammy Lorinda Moorer, 41, of Myrtle Beach on each of the indecent exposure charges and $10,000 in pretrial for the obstruction of justice charge.
Bail also was set for her husband, Sidney St. Clair Moorer, 38, on the same charges.
Each of the indecent exposure charges was $5,000 bail and the obstruction of justice charge was set at $10,000. As of Saturday afternoon, the two remained incarcerated in the J. Reuben Long Detention Center.
A posting on the Horry County Police Departments Facebook page said additional charges for the pair were pending.
The two were arrested Friday on a warrant executed by officials from the Horry County Police Department, the State Law Enforcement Division, the 15th Circuit Solicitors Office, the U.S. Marshals Office and the South Carolina Highway Patrol at the couples home.
Elvis, 20, was last heard from in the early morning hours of Dec. 18.
Her car was found in Socastee the following day.
Since that time, volunteers have held vigils and searched the area on numerous occasions, but no trace of the young woman has been found.
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Exclusive interview started on Thursday and concludes today
(Los Angeles, CA) – Patterson and Georgia Inman, the 16-year-old twin heirs to the massive Duke family fortune, appeared in their first television interview on Thursday and today, describing to Dr. Phil what they claim was a terrifying and abusive childhood.
Although the twins were born into American "royalty" as the great-niece and nephew of famed socialite Doris Duke, once dubbed "The Million-Dollar Baby" and "The Richest Little Girl in the World," they claim their lives have been anything but privileged. For more than a decade, Patterson and Georgia allege they were horribly neglected, abused and starved – even dead-bolted in the basement and in their rooms behind mansion walls. Georgia claims she suffered abuse by some of her more than 50 nannies, including a game of Russian Roulette with a loaded gun.
The twins are the children of Walker Patterson "Skipper" Inman Jr. He died on Feb. 24, 2010 and was buried at his Greenfield Plantation off U.S. Highway 701 near Georgetown.
As a child, Skipper Inman attended the former St. Mary Catholic School in Georgetown.
The twins claim that while it appeared they lived a life of luxury, bringing diamonds to school for show-and-tell and playing with their pet camel, they lived in a state of constant fear. Due to their father's drug dependency, the twins were at the mercy of his erratic and self-destructive behavior. Georgia claims she and Patterson were repeatedly dropped on their heads by Walker, who also had an affinity for guns and pyrotechnics which he left strewn around his homes — easily accessible to the young twins.
"I kind of just thought it was normal," said Georgia of the chaos that reigned in the Inman household, including splashing water on her father's face when he would overdose. Walker, who was the nephew of Doris Duke, finally succumbed to the drugs when he died of an overdose in 2010. It is reported that Patterson and Georgia are set to inherit an estimated $1 billion when they turn 21.
"This is the first time I have ever actually got to have a voice," said Georgia. "For my brother and I, this is the first time that we've ever opened up with our own words."
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According to reports provided by the Aiken County Sheriff's Office:
An Aiken man said on Sunday that he shot himself while he was cleaning a gun and accidently pulled the trigger at his home on Westbrook Farms Trail. A bullet hit the man in the upper back of one of his legs. The man was transported to Georgia Regents Medical Center for treatment.
An 25-year-old Aiken man allegedly entered a house on Beatty Lane on Saturday after breaking a window. The responding officer reported that he found the subject in the house lying on his left side in a fetal position in what appeared to be a pool of blood. The man was semiconscious and had lacerations on a knee and his left arm. According to the officer, who administered first aid to the man, the subject later started to "conduct himself in a boisterous and intoxicated manner." The officer placed the man in custody for disorderly conduct and then rode with him in the Aiken County EMS ambulance to the Aiken Regional Medical Centers. The victim, a 31-year-old man, said he didn't want to press charges because the subject was a friend of his.
A Beech Island man reported on Sunday that someone stole an 18-wheeler truck, trailer and sealed metal container that was loaded onto the trailer from a gas station parking lot on Laurel Lake Drive in North Augusta. The complainant said there were clothes in the container. The truck had been left overnight in the parking lot unattended.
Vehicle break-ins were reported at three different locations on Hermitage Lane in North Augusta on Sunday.
Someone took a Nexus 7 tablet and a Verizon Jetpack Mobile Hotspot from a vehicle in Beech Island after breaking the passenger side window on Sunday. The vehicle was parked at a house on Beech Island Avenue.
A Beech Island man reported on Sunday that someone had damaged several tomato plants in his garden at his house on Hammond Road. He said the tomato plants had been imported from Italy.
The Sheriff's Office investigated a suspicious fire at a residence on Franklin Drive in North Augusta on Sunday. The responding officer went inside twice – once after breaking a window with his baton and once after kicking in the back door – but he didn't find or hear anyone in the home. The officer reported that he spoke to a member of the family that lived in the residence and was told that the home was in foreclosure.
A Beech Island woman reported on Sunday that money, jewelry and silverware were missing from her home on Cary Drive.
A Beech Island woman reported on Sunday that someone had spray-painted the door of the storage shed in the yard of her home on Dunn Drive.
An Aiken man reported on Sunday that someone had taken a smoker, three refrigerators and an ice machine from his home on Odom Street.
A woman who said she used to live at a home on Crawford Avenue in Aiken reported that cash had been taken from her room on Sunday. She entered the house after requesting an escort from a sheriff's officer. The officer reported that the victim said she was getting her clothes but that she didn't have any clothes or other belongings when she exited the house.
An Aiken man reported on Sunday that an air conditioner had been taken from a house on Horseshoe Bend Road in Aiken. At another location on Horseshoe Bend Road on the same day, a woman reported that someone had cut the lock of a shed in her front yard and taken a moped that was in the building.
An Aiken man, who lives on Carriage Hill Place, reported on Sunday that the South Carolina license plate had been taken from his vehicle.
A North Augusta man was found with an apparent gunshot wound in his abdomen in a vehicle parked at a home on Lake Marion Drive in North Augusta on Sunday. The responding officer reported that there was a gun between the driver's seat and the passenger's seat of the vehicle and that there was a note on the dash. The victim was transported to Georgia Regents Medical Center.
A Warrenville woman reported on Sunday that someone had forced entry into her home on Carline Road and had taken multiple items.
A Warrenville man reported on Sunday that someone had taken multiple items from a home on Kneece Street that he was moving into. The responding officer found a black barrel "pushed up" to the bathroom's window at the back of the house.
A Graniteville man reported on Monday that shots had been fired near a house in the Aiken Road/Church Street area "off and on for the past two weeks at the same time of day." The responding officer found "five or six" bullet holes in the front of the house on the outside.
An Aiken woman reported on Saturday that someone had broken out the passenger side front window of her vehicle and taken her purse, $80 in cash, her insurance card and her children's Social Security cards. The vehicle was in a parking lot on Old Jackson Highway in Beech Island. The responding officer found that two other cars in the parking lot had been damaged.
A North Augusta woman reported on Sunday that two bottles of medication were missing from her home on Southern Pines Drive after her son and several of his friends visited her.
A woman reported on Sunday that someone had broken into her house on Robbe Street in Warrenville while she was at her other house in Wagener for the weekend. She said the unknown subject had gotten into the house by breaking a bedroom window. The responding officer found a Wii game that had blood on it on the house's porch.
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On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, an injury collision occurred at approximately 3:25 p.m. on HWY 271 about .5 miles south of Antlers in Pushmataha County.
A 2008 Mazda Tribute, being driven by Patsy R. Brittingham of Moyers, was traveling north on HWY 271 when the vehicle departed the roadway to the left, struck a small embankment, went airborne and landed on a county road.
Patsy Brittingham, a 69 year old female, was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa with head, trunk internal and external, arm and leg injuries. She was listed in serious condition.
Her passenger, Howard R. Brittingham, husband of the driver, a 78 year old male also of Moyers, was transported to Pushmataha County Hospital in Antlers with head, trunk internal and external and arm injuries. He was also listed in serious condition.
According to the officer's report, the cause of the collision was that the driver was fatigued and tired.
This collision was investigated by Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Eric Blades, #209 Pushmataha County Detachment.
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01What is the coolest memento from hockey that you have?
World Jr. Championship Gold Medal
02What is the best advice you have ever received? Who was it from?
"Only share your goals with those that can help you achieve them." –Coach Eaves
03What is something that we don't know about you that would surprise us?
My 2nd cousin wrote the Problem Child movies
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Volleyball Tripped by Thiel
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- March 17, 2011
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Greensburg, PA – The Hawks dropped a three-set non-conference loss to Thiel College March 16th (25-17, 25-20, 25-13) in men' volleyball. Adam Weaver (Stow, OH/Archbishop Hoban) was a bright spot hitting (.273) for Hilbert but the Hawks didn't have much success at the net with the team hitting (.099) and only two blocks total for the match.
Fellow Eden high school team mates, sophomore middle Anthony Blasz and outside hitter, freshman Fred Sickau, both finished with 6 kills. Senior RJ Sykora (Stow, OH/Stow Munroe Falls) passed for 23 assists, had team-leading five digs, while getting credit for one service ace along with each of the Eden boys.
The Hawks (1-21, 0-8) will host the 9th ranked Medaille College (19-4, 7-1) March 18th in the final United Volleyball Conference game of the season. The department will also be honoring the two seniors on the squad, Dan Wolfe and RJ Sykora just prior to the 7 pm game.
Hilbert will then travel Saturday morning to Medaille College to host Eastern Mennonite University in a 1pm match.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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- Aug 14, 2015
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The supply of housing inventory exceeds demand. Buyers have the advantage over sellers due to the abundance of homes on the market, with homes often selling at reduced prices. Price drops are common as sellers compete to find buyers.
Rental property is in high demand and availability is low. Rent prices have increased by 4% over the past 3 months. This is 50% higher than the county average of $1,144 and 50% higher than the state average of $1,139.


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Google Chrome 15 brings some new ways to access your bookmarks. There's a new bookmarks menu below the "new incognito window" option that lets you quickly find your bookmarks. This feature is already available in Chrome 14 (now in beta), but the bookmarks menu is more prominently displayed in Chrome 15.
The new tab page no longer includes the bookmarks bar if this feature is disabled. The main reason for removing the bar is that the new tab page now includes a special section for bookmarks, next to the sections for apps and frequently visited pages. Bookmarks are displayed just like apps, but the thumbnails are much smaller and they seem to be blank, at least for now. You can now drag bookmarks to the list of apps, reorder them or remove them without using the bookmark manager.
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Eligibility Requirements
Services for students with disabilities at Kent State University Regional Campuses are based upon recent documentation (within five years) of their specific disability. In order to be eligible, the student must provide Student Accessibility Services (SAS) with a statement from a doctor or qualified psychologist which meets the standards for indicating the presence of a disability, in accordance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and/or the Americans with Disabilities Act. It is the student's responsibility to provide Student Accessibility Services with this documentation. Services cannot be provided until documentation is submitted and approved by the Office of Student Accessibility Services.
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