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At the White House, the Lincolns dined together. The president and First Lady listened as their son Robert, a young officer on General Grant's staff, excitedly described the siege of Petersburg and the magnificence of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. The Lincolns' other son, twelve-year-old Tad, felt slighted by the attention trained on his older brother and misbehaved to correct the injustice. It worked. Mrs. Lincoln scolded him for neglecting his meal and then, prompted by the mention of the Grants, told her husband that she had invited that lovely Clara Harris, daughter of Senator Ira Harris of New York, to accompany them to Ford's Theatre later in the evening. Young Miss Harris had thrilled at the chance to attend the play Our American Cousin with the First Family and had assured Mrs. Lincoln that her fiancé, Major Henry R. Rathbone, would cherish the opportunity as well. It was settled, then. The Lincolns would collect the young couple at the Harris home on H Street near Fourteenth.
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No raping, no cutting Ricks arm off, really no hate at all.
I will be kind of disappointed, extremely PG version of him.
Episode 6
"Phil" is really named "Neal," but goes by his last name, "Cartulio." (I don't know, some ethnic name I can't spell). Cartulio's kind of a whimp, but figures out Michonne's cryptogram ("Go" spelled with limbs, and a chopped-up zombie back = "Go Back"). Merle's search party doesn't head the warning and is immediately cut in half, down to two members within the opening minutes of the episode.
Rick begs the woman on the phone for help but she hangs up. He checks on Carl and the group and then heads back to the phone to take some more calls. Next up is a man who asks Rick how many people he's killed. Four. He asks Rick how he lost his wife. Rick doesn't want to talk about it and the man hangs up. Any of these voices sounding familiar yet?
Meanwhile at Woodbury, let's get the whole story out of the way right here: Andrea wants to contribute to the community, has a little too much fun jumping over the wall to kill a walker up close and personal and pisses off Crossbow Girl who was training her for wall/look-out duty. The Governor is turned on by Andrea's love for the fight, they flirt for a couple scenes and wind up having sex. Merle eventually interrupts them much later in the episode to give his report on his excursion.
Herschel hobbles all the way over to Rick. He talks about his phantom limb, and Rick talks about his phantom phone calls. Herschel doesn't look like he's buying it, but plays along for now.
Michonne gets covered in guts like the other spoilers say. Cartulio finally mans up and saves Merle during their confrontation with Michonne and a pack of zombies.
Daryl is off securing a wing of the prison with Oscar and Carl. In the distance, it sounds like a zombie is messing with a squeaking door, repeatedly trying to force it open to no avail. Daryl will deal with it later. Daryl and Carl share stories about losing their moms young. Carl confirms he shot his mom in this scene. If only I had been paying attention.
Cartulio is feeling cavalier now, but Merle wants to give up the chase and lie to The Gov. Cartulio says they can't lie to The Gov, so Merle shoots him squarely in the head, saving me from having to attempt to spell the guy's name anymore.
Another phone call for Rick. I think it's Lori on the phone this time, but I'm not going to commit 100% to that.
Michonne watches Maggie and Glenn scavenge for baby formula, toys and food. Merle shows up with his gun drawn, but sets it down to talk. Merle wants to go see his brother, but Glenn says no, you wait here and we'll bring Daryl to you. Merle pulls out a second, hidden gun and takes Maggie hostage, demanding Glenn drive them to Woodbury. Michonne picks up the supplies and makes her way towards the prison.
Daryl finds a zombie with Carol's knife in its neck. He examines the angle of the knife attack. Not looking good.
O.K. It turns out that Rick has been talking to Amy, Jim, and now Lori on the phone. Rick pours out his feelings for Lori. Lori tells him to man up and protect his group. Rick shuts out the voices and hangs up. He returns to the group and holds the baby. Daryl, obsessing over the knife, finally goes to take care of that swinging door... but guess who's inside? Michonne arrives at the prison.
Next episode: been hinting at it for a while, but... things get really bad for Maggie and Glenn. They will not get the same welcome party that Andrea and Michonne got.
Maggie gonna get raped.
Maggie gonna get raped.
And this. Glenn might get killed too
Glenn might get killed too
Doubt it. He is still alive based on where I am in the comics and that is way, way past this.
...maggie will get raped and strain their relationship.
I doubt he and Maggie get killed, but she may be the one raped since Michonne is gone.
Merle interrogates Glenn, tries to make him sound like the bad guy for leaving him on the roof in Atlanta. Maggie can hear Glenn being beaten from the next room over.
The walkers by the prison catch on to Michone's disguise. She fights for her life and passes out. Carl and Rick save her and bring her in. Poor Michone has gone from one prison to the next, locked up and swordless. Carol reunites with the rest of the group. Michone tells Rick's group about Woodbury. One interrogation down!
Merle continues working on Glenn, who's face is looking pretty fricked up by now. Glenn threatens that Rick will come looking for him, along with Shane, Dale, Jim, Andrea... Merle is amused.
Herschel stitches up Michone. Rick and co plan a rescue mission. Carl and Rick have another father-son talk. Carl's the man of the house while Rick's gone. Carl names his sister "Judith."
Over the course of the episode, Andrea helps Milton with a zombie experiment. The subject is an elderly man who's volunteered to have his transformation be observed. Milton uses a record player and other audio/visual cues to study whether any trace of the conscious or subconscious lingers in the dead. The experiment winds up being a complete failure and Andrea has to put the poor guy down for good.
Merle turns up the heat on Glenn. He lets a hungry zombie loose in the room while Glenn is forced to fight while still bound to a chair. Glenn makes an impressive stand against the walker and is able to kill it by smashing his chair into a wall and using a shard of wood. Meanwhile, Merle tells The Governor that Glenn isn't breaking and he's going to work on Maggie next. The Governor replies that's alright, he'll take care of it himself.
Maggie won't talk, so The Governor orders her to stand up and take off her shirt, or else he'll bring Glenn's hand to her. He takes off his belt and bends Maggie over. Cut to commercial before we see the end of the interrogation. Did they or didn't they? A definitive answer is given in a later episode. The Governor does not go all the way off-camera.
The rescue group goes it on foot and is soon surrounded by walkers in the forest. They take refuge in a not-so-abandoned cabin. The owner has been living under a rock and is very confused about the whole zombie apocalypse thing, waves a shotgun around and tries to open the door to the swarming walkers outside. Michone stabs him. Rick tosses the body out the front door as a distraction while the group sneaks out the back.
The Governor pulls a gun on Glenn in front of Maggie and she finally breaks, revealing the location of the prison. Rick's group reaches the gates of Woodbury. The Governor questions Merle's loyalty and plans his next move with his closest advisers. Andrea returns from Milton's lab and gives Gov the bad news. He tells her everything will be alright, much in the same way he said it to Maggie.
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PJ Harvey's British Invasion
Interview: the reclusive rocker on her new album, rural upbringing, and dicey relations with the press.
Let England Shake, the brand new album from British rocker Polly Jean "PJ" Harvey, is an ethereal eulogy to her homeland: a dozen songs of militarism, death, and ambivalent patriotism delivered with uncharacteristic lightness. Harvey, of course, first rose to fame in the early 1990s on the raw power of her delivery. Performing with her PJ Harvey Trio, she released Dry, a highly acclaimed indie debut that led Rolling Stone to dub her 1992's best songwriter and best new female singer. Her follow-up recordings Rid of Me and To Bring You My Love, both on Island Records, brought forth a flurry of Grammy and Mercury Prize nominations, and yet more critical raves—both for Harvey's songwriting and her theatrical stage presence.
In contrast with her music, Harvey is guarded in conversation. Her publicist asked for my assurance that I would avoid "celebrity-type" questions, and I figure she's earned that right. After 20 years of performing, her musical accomplishments and collaborations with rock-and-roll luminaries (Thom Yorke, Josh Homme, Nick Cave) are too numerous to list. But suffice it to say that Let England Shake is pretty different from what her fans are used to.
Tackling such grim topics was a bold and risky move—as was performing the title track on BBC television in the presence of outgoing prime minister Gordon Brown. New Yorker pop-music critic Sasha Frere-Jones gave the album a tepid review, contrasting her relatively twee delivery with the grit of earlier Harvey incarnations, but Harvey told me she deliberately crafted her vocal style as a counterpoint to the very heavy stuff she's singing about. We also spoke about her rural upbringing, her disastrous first gig, and her dicey relationship with the media.
Mother Jones: I've been listening to your new album a lot. It's quite beautiful.
PJ Harvey: Thank you. I'm glad you like it.
MJ: There's this sense of deeply aggrieved patriotism, this mourning for England in its entirety—yet you don't consider it a protest album?
PJH: It's hard to say what that means, exactly. I knew that I wanted to address these matters, this very weighty subject matter, but I didn't want to do it in a way that felt too heavy-handed, and by that I mean I didn't want to come across as if I was preaching or becoming too self-important. That was very much in the forefront of my mind as I was writing these words, wanting to get the balance right between delivering words that were meaningful, but situated in a way that was also palatable enough for people to receive them.
MJ: There does seem to be more directness in this than in some of your past stuff.
PJH: I wanted to present ideas, but I also wanted to leave it open enough for people to bring in their own feelings to the songs, to the ideas being presented. I wanted a certain ambiguity.
MJ: Compared to your past albums, this one seems more reflective of the world and its woes. What inspired these images of war and death?
PJH: I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other. I've always been very affected by politics, society, but I never got to a place as a writer where I felt like I could begin to deal with such things and do it well. I think I finally have the confidence to begin to approach such things. I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels. And at this particular point in time, it's human emotion in relation to the world and specific events.
MJ: I understand you're collaborating with war photographer Seamus Murphy, whose work is amazing. What's that project about?
PJH: When I was writing this record, in 2008, I was in London for an exhibition of Seamus' work, entitled Darkness Visible. That was work from the last 10 years in Afghanistan, and I was very affected by it. So I got in touch afterwards to see if he was interested in doing portrait work with me, or whether he'd ever done such a thing. And he hadn't particularly. He's mostly a photojournalist in conflict areas, but he was willing to have a go. I sent him the demos and the lyrics, and he was interested in working with me. He's made some films for the songs: "The Last Living Rose" is up on my website. The next film is for "The Words That Maketh Murder." We'll be putting them out regularly. Then he's going to edit a short documentary film of his own response to the music. He chose to make a road trip around England and make a photo montage of what he sees.
MJ: You said your work isn't autobiographical, but has your family been affected directly by war?
PJH: Yes, my family in past generations certainly has, on both sides.
MJ: Tell me more about your family. You were raised on a sheep farm in Corscombe, a little tiny village in Dorset. Was that idyllic or sort of lonely?
PJH: Well, that's actually got a bit out of proportion. My father is actually a quarry man—he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
MJ: So the farm was incidental, not a working farm?
PJH: No, it wasn't a working farm, but I did grow up in the countryside being very aware of nature and the cycle of life, and I feel very grateful for that.
MJ: What was your family life like? Do you have siblings?
PJH: Yes, I have a brother, an older brother.
MJ: What sort of kid were you?
PJH: I'm not somebody that enjoys talking about my personal life, I'd rather you ask me about my current work.
MJ: Yes, your publicist said you have a distaste for what he called "celebrity-type" questions. Do you have kind of an ambivalent relationship with the press?
PJH: I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.
MJ: Do you have any pet peeves about the way you've been portrayed?
PJH: I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.
MJ: I guess I mean, are there any misconceptions you'd like people to know about?
PJH: It seems rather pointless for me to go over everything and try to set the record straight. People will think what they will and that's the way that life is.
MJ: I did notice that people often ask you about feminism. Is that the lot of female performers, to be held up as role models for their sex?
PJH: I've never aligned myself with any particular cause other than trying to do good work and get better at it; it's not something that I think about very much.
MJ: Now, I gather your parents were very into music, especially the blues. Did they play, too?
PJH: They didn't play music; they weren't musicians. But they did have a great love for music and the house was always full of music when we were children—and it still is now.
MJ: Did they get you playing as a kid?
PJH: They were very supportive, so it was very natural for me to want to go into music. But at the same time they were very open to letting me and my brother do whatever we wanted to choose; we weren't made to learn instruments or anything like that. I started playing the saxophone when I was quite young, in school.
MJ: Did you sing in a choir or anything?
PJH: Not really. I started with the saxophone and then later guitar. And I wrote lyrics from a very young age, poems and short prose. It came very naturally then to marry that with the guitar—the guitar was a much easier instrument to marry words with than the saxophone.
MJ: Well, sure, you can't exactly sing and play the saxophone! Did you consider them lyrics at that point, or was it more like poems?
PJH: In the early stages they were just very much song lyrics. It's only in the last three or four years that I feel I've looked at words much more in the way that one would a poem, how they work on the page, to be read out loud separately from music. That's happened quite recently.
ML: Your mother was a sculptor?
PJH: My mother worked in stone, letter-cutting mostly, and carving—cutting letters for house names or gravestones. She did mostly functional, commissioned work. Myself, I've always been active artistically, painting and sculpting and drawing. For me it's purely aesthetical work, and it often goes hand in hand with what I'm writing.
MJ: I've never seen your visual artwork. Would you describe it a bit?
PJH: I designed a magazine the summer of last year for Francis Ford Coppola called Zoetrope: All-Story. If you go to the website, you can find the edition I designed, with a lot of my work in it. I just recently started oil painting, so I'm very interested in that at the moment. I'm hoping at some point in the next couple of years to put out a little book of some of my poems and some of my paintings.
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You have come to the right site if you are interested in historical research with an emphasis on Dutch American history of the 19th and 20th centuries, or the history of Holland, Michigan, and its subcultures, or the history of Hope College. To the left, you will find links to our mission statement, our history, our staff, our publications, and our program of visiting research fellowships.
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Portrait of Perley S. Wilcox. A graduate of Cornell University, Wilcox was elected a director and appointed general manager of the newly formed Tennessee Eastman Corporation in 1921. In 1945, he became chairman of the Kodak Board. In 1933, Wilcox led the effort to establish Holston Valley Community Hospital in Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Local home tour extends its borders
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:10
- Written by Jan Masters - Special to the Town Crier
The second "LA Modern" Home Tour, scheduled 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 16, with a Preview Party 6-9 p.m. Oct. 15, features seven homes in the Los Altos area, all built in the new millennium and demonstrating innovations in living.
MODERN FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM: The event is part of a series of fundraisers supporting the Los Altos Neutra House, a historical home from the 1930s designed by famed architect Richard Neutra in the California modern style.
Restored and relocated to city-owned land in 2008 under the aegis of the Los Altos Community Foundation, Neutra House, located at 181 Hillview Ave., serves as a conference center for non-profit groups and city of Los Altos, private and business functions.
The other LA
Los Angeles is usually considered the hotbed of California modern architecture, but the Los Altos area has a fair claim to that distinction. Many prominent modern architects left their marks here, including Neutra, better known for his work throughout the southland but famous locally for the Los Altos Neutra House, a gem in its original incarnation in 1939 and in its refurbished state today.
The tour includes homes in Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Palo Alto, all of which contribute to the area's reputation as a thriving center for modern architecture.
Back in the neighborhood
Ann and Neil Wolff's Los Altos home sits near the original location of the little cottage that became the Los Altos Neutra House.
"We wanted to bring a Neutra-style home back to the neighborhood," said Ann of the inspiration for her home's design and layout.
The minimalist front elevation foretells little of the dynamic spaces beyond the solid-wood entry door. One surprise: twin pairs of wide gray wooden pocket doors that separate or integrate spaces around the kitchen at will, not unlike shoji screens in Japanese homes. The central courtyard, the open floor plan and the attention to detail demonstrate that Neutra is, indeed, back in the neighborhood.
Modern Mediterranean
Scheduled for completion just days before the home tour, Anne and Greg Toth's home off Cuesta Drive is the newest house on the tour.
"I wanted to enjoy our wonderful climate and the continuity of indoors and out," said Anne of her design requirements. "This is really just a modern interpretation of a Tuscan farmhouse."
The interplay of spaces around the courtyard is reminiscent of a village. The towering entry, with its Mondrianlike window, is the pivot point between the living and sleeping spaces. The buff-colored stucco walls paired with the dark-stained wood reinforce the allusion to Italian precedents.
The modern vernacular in the Toths' home, designed by Jonathan Pearlman of Elevation Architects, is expressed in the open plan and interactive volumes. Neutra's legacy is visible in large expanses of glass, sequences of strip windows and truthfulness to the materials. The commitment to being eco-smart is evident in the landscaping, solar water heating and photovoltaic solar electric systems.
Unexpected vibrancy
The home of Jawed Umerani and Mahnaz Fashandi, completed in 2007, integrates well in the established neighborhood behind Los Altos High School.
"Instead of the family room I promised to add right away when we bought the property, I built a whole new house – 11 years later," Umerani said.
The house is not large, but it is exceptional. The steel post-and-beam structure is a masterpiece of design and fabrication. Steel columns and rods support the tall glass walls that frame the reflecting pool and courtyard. Wide overhangs shade the courtyard and frame the sky. Warm maple floors reflect the natural light, while brightly colored niches lend an unexpected vibrancy to the simple interiors.
Creekside living
Jeff and Stephanie Winner love their 2009 modern Los Altos home. California native plants lead to a protected entry. Just beyond the front door is a well-articulated home of graceful proportions. The soaring 18-foot ceiling in the living room and the 6-foot ribbon gas fireplace set into a wall of tile create a feeling of grandeur.
The sophisticated style continues in the kitchen, with its striking Italian lacquered cabinetry and sleek appliances. The dining room features a second wall of tile for balance. Beyond the glass wall is a private dining patio and covered entertainment area. The backyard is more traditional, featuring a wide expanse of lawn bordered by towering oaks and a creek. The house fits well on its site and brings the outdoors inside.
High on a hill
Maryam Dickey's house in Los Altos Hills features a sweeping 270-degree view of the Santa Clara Valley. The careful placement of the house on the property, the open floor plan and the large expanses of glass bring the valley and the hills into the home. Completed in 2008, the home relies on smooth forms and neutral tones to balance the complexity of nature seen outdoors.
The design uses recesses and projections in the ceiling to define areas within larger spaces. The long, sleek fireplace set into a floor-to-ceiling span of stone seems to hover lightly even as it anchors the space. The lustrous and colorful kitchen balances nicely with the calmness of the adjoining rooms.
Nestled in the oaks
Like a tree house for grown-ups, Karl and Diana Garrett's home in Los Altos Hills is closer to the legacy of architects Joseph Eichler and Rudolph Schindler than the other homes on the tour.
The house is artfully situated within nature. The warm-colored dwelling steps up a steep hill to bask in the sun. The ceilings slope upward toward the sky, while the tall windows bring the natural scenery inside.
The site is ideally suited to present a far-reaching view of the outdoors, without feeling exposed or eschewing privacy. The cabinetry and trim are oak and further add to the warmth of the interior and the seeming simplicity of its forms. The contours of the terrain and the home's many levels play off each other dynamically, day and night, to create an ever-changing scene and setting.
Building blocks for living
Built for Markus Fromherz and Heike Schmitz in 2008, the Palo Alto stop on the tour features an arrangement of minimalist "containers" that take full advantage of the property. The house uses a northern European vocabulary. Narrow black wood strips on the second-floor exterior contrast with both the white stucco on the ground floor and the garage articulated with linear detailing. The brushed-metal supporting columns, window frames and hardware speak the same language.
A cluster of redwoods towers above the single-story garage and seems to complete the man-made composition. The interior staircase contributes to the linearity even as it contradicts expectations of enclosure. The outside spiral staircase evokes a playfulness reinforced by the master suite, which appears to float over the pool.
According to Fromherz, his home is a "modern house that celebrates the Californian style of indoor-outdoor living and takes full advantage of the mild Bay Area climate."
A common language
The seven houses on the 2010 "LA Modern" Home Tour display great variety, yet all use the timeless language of the modern style and demonstrate that California and the greater Los Altos area continue to be places of innovation in design, technology and aesthetics.
Before and after the tour
A Preview Party, 6-9 p.m. Oct. 15, provides "A Taste of Los Altos" buffet of specialty dishes from Chef Chu's, Aldo Los Altos, Whole Foods Market and Estrellita Restaurant. The event will include live music and a silent auction featuring items such as a Wine Country getaway, selections from Vintage Bath, original art by Linda Gass and Jeff Owens and wines from Los Altos Hills vintners.
A Post-Tour Party, scheduled 3-5 p.m. Oct. 16, offers an opportunity to meet the homeowners and tour volunteers.
The details
"LA Modern" Home Tour tickets are $40 each, and the Post-Tour Party runs $20. Tickets for the Preview Party, $150, include all three events.
To purchase tickets, visit www.neutrahouse.org or call 949-5908. Tickets may also be purchased 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 16 at the Neutra House.
Note that homes on the tour are not wheelchair accessible and some have stairs. High heels are not permitted, and some homes require removal of shoes before entry. Children under 10 and pets are not allowed. Carpooling is recommended.
Sponsors for 2010-2011 Neutra House events include Le Boulanger; Borel Private Bank & Trust; Elevation Architects; Skidmore Owings and Merrill; Charlene Geers of Coldwell Banker; Cobalt Power Systems Inc.; Courtyard by Marriott; Chef Chu's; Aldo Los Altos; Prochnow Realtors Inc.; Thomas Klope Associates; Young, Craig and Co. LLP; Vintage Bath; Estrellita Restaurant; and Whole Foods Market.
For more information, visit www.neutrahouse.org.


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London 2012: Tower Bridge gets new lights for Diamond Jubilee and Olympics
14:02 30 May 2012
The iconic Tower Bridge has been given a new state-of-the-art lighting system to mark the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
A glittering makeover has been given to one of the capital's most recognisable sights to brighten it up and pick out its architectural features.
The new lights will get their first switch-on tonight.
Both static and coloured bulbs which vary in intensity will beam from the landmark where giant Olympic Rings and the Paralympic Agitos, the swirling symbol of the Paralympics, will shine during the London 2012 Games.
The 1,800 energy-efficient lights, which will be in place for 25 years, will shine white this weekend to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "Tower Bridge is already a global icon and this much-loved landmark is now even more spectacular thanks to a world-class illumination system.
"As London gears up for a summer like no other, this fantastic lighting makeover is another example of how the capital is benefiting from the Games."
It is being funded through a deal between the Mayor, City of London and London 2012 sponsors GE and EDF.


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For years, EFF has been warning that the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act can be used to chill speech, particularly security research, because legitimate researchers will be afraid to publish their results lest they be accused of circumventing a technological protection measure. We've also been concerned that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could be abused to try to make alleged contract violations into crimes.
Viacom's appeal of the district court's decision in Viacom v. YouTube is well underway, and now the amicus briefs supporting Viacom have been filed as well. The arguments in Viacom's opening brief largely rehash many of the same arguments Viacom madeunsuccessfullythe first time around: Generalized awareness of some infringing content, and failure to take down such unidentified content, disqualifies a service provider from the DMCA's safe harbors; YouTube's compliance with the DMCA proves its DMCA-disqualifying ability to control the infringing activity on its network; DMCA protection for YouTube's "storage" of uploaded content does not include the display of the content on the site; and so on.
A Mixed Ninth Circuit Ruling in MDY v. Blizzard: WoW Buyers Are Not Owners – But Glider Users Are Not Copyright Infringers
The Ninth Circuit today issued its decision in the second of a trio of cases that raise the critical legal question of whether "magic words" in a end-user license agreement (EULA) slapped onto a consumer product can turn buyers (or gift recipients) into mere licensees, rather than owners. Following its previous ruling in the first of these cases, Vernor v. Autodesk, the court today said yes but there's a twist.
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Shisui Uchiha (うちはシスイ, Uchiha Shisui) was a shinobi from Konohagakure's Uchiha clan and was renowned as "Shisui of the Body Flicker" (瞬身のシスイ, Shunshin no Shisui, English TV: Shisui the Teleporter).
Shisui was noted to be one of the most talented members of the Uchiha clan.[3] At some point in the past, he fought with Ao of Kirigakure who retained an acute memory of Shisui's chakra colour, as well as the Uchiha's ability to control others with his Mangekyō Sharingan's ability.[4]
Shisui was best friends with Itachi Uchiha, who shortly after joining the ANBU began to act "oddly". Shisui was instructed by the Konoha Military Police Force to monitor Itachi because of this.[5] Soon afterwards Shisui was found drowned in the Naka River with a suicide note stating that he was tired of carrying out the clan's duties. The police suspected that Itachi had murdered him and used his Sharingan to fake the suicide note, since Shisui was very devoted to the clan, and suicide would have been highly unusual and uncharacteristic of him.[6] Itachi later told Sasuke Uchiha that he did in fact kill Shisui and forge the suicide note, all in order to awaken his own Mangekyō Sharingan.[7]
However, Itachi would later reveal the truth behind the incident to his brother: Shisui was perplexed that the clan would not deter from the coup d'etat that they were planning and Shisui was greatly concerned with the consequences that would follow their actions. He told Itachi that he had tried to use Kotoamatsukami to stop them, but Danzō Shimura stole his right eye, adamant on protecting the village his own way. Fearing that Danzō would get his left eye as well, Shisui entrusted it to Itachi, telling him to protect both the village and the Uchiha name.[8] In order to prevent conflict from arising over his eyes within the clan, Shisui made it appear as though he had crushed them before dying.[9] He would later erase his existence, leaving no corpse behind.[9][10] It would appear that Shisui's corpse had in fact disappeared, as even Kabuto Yakushi noted that he was unable to locate it. Shisui was one of Kabuto's prime candidates to be reincarnated.[10]
Itachi was Shisui's best friend; in fact, Itachi thought of him as a brother.[11] Shisui taught Itachi that "self-sacrifice… a nameless shinobi who protects peace from within its shadow…" was the true mark of a shinobi.[12] Shisui was also very devoted to the clan, which is why the Konoha Military Police Force asked him to spy on Itachi. It is because of this devotion that the police did not believe he could have committed suicide.[3]
Along with his clan, Shisui was greatly devoted to the protection of the village which he cared for deeply. He even went as far as to attempt to put his clan under a genjutsu in order to stop their coup d'etat which would lead to civil war.[13] With this in mind, he entrusted his left eye to Itachi and told him to protect the village.[14] According to Itachi, he and Naruto Uzumaki hold similar ideals and goals.[9]
Shisui had short, unkempt, dark-coloured hair and a relatively broad nose and well-defined eyelashes, that were turned upwards at each end. In the anime however, these lines are broken instead of whole. He wore the standard attire of the Uchiha clan which includes a high-collared, dark-coloured outfit along with a tantō strapped to the right side of the back of his shoulder. He also wore what appeared to be a harness for his tantō which ran across his chest and fastened over both his shoulders.
Shisui was noted to be one of the most talented members of his battle-excelling clan. He had earned the nickname of "Shisui of the Body Flicker", possibly implying that he had great mastery of the Body Flicker Technique.[3] He was also hailed as one of the most powerful genjutsu users of the clan.[12] Another testament to his prowess is that Kabuto Yakushi wanted to reincarnate him for the war but failed to find sufficient DNA samples.[10] He also displayed a high level of pain tolerance, as he didn't flinch from ripping out his own left eye to give to Itachi.[14]
Like many members of his clan, Shisui was a wielder of the Sharingan. Alongside his friend Itachi ( though he never able to perform techniques that the Uchiha Itachi performed), he was praised for his mastery and sheer power in its use.[3]
Mangekyō Sharingan
Shisui was one of the few members in the clan's history that was able to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan. It granted him access to powerful genjutsu techniques, the strongest of which was a unique genjutsu noted to be of the highest calibre: Kotoamatsukami.[12] This technique allowed him to enter a person's mind and manipulate them by giving them false experiences, making it seem as if they were doing things on their own free will (the counter to this technique would be Uchiha Itachi's tsukuyomi); the victim wouldn't even notice they were being manipulated.[15]
This ability was so unique and powerful, that Tobi wanted it for himself and was angry that Danzō managed to destroy the eye before he died.[16] Kabuto was also extremely thrilled when he learned that the remaining eye was within Itachi's crow.[17] This genjutsu however, could only be used once a decade,[18] unless the user had a way to augment the process such as with Hashirama Senju's cells, thereby drastically reducing the time required from ten years to only a few hours.[19][20] Shisui's eyes were also seen as something of a treasure even within his own clan, as before his death he had to ensure that it looked like he had destroyed them before he had died, fearing it would end in conflict otherwise.[9]
Throughout his lifetime and even in death, Shisui influenced Itachi greatly as a friend in teaching him self-sacrifice and how a true shinobi must protect his village from within its own shadow. This possibly influenced Itachi in his future actions to the staving off of a possible civil war within the village that may have escalated into a world war.[13] Even years after his demise, Shisui's powers and actions left their mark on the world. While Danzō used the eye he stole for his questionable agendas to maintain their village, Itachi keeps Shisui's other eye to honour his friend's final request to protect the village and their clan's good name.[14] Inserting the eye in the body of a crow, Itachi made final arrangements to implant the bird in Naruto's body as a counter measure against Sasuke if he learned the truth behind the Uchiha Clan's demise and attempted to destroy Konoha.
Both of Shisui's eyes were eventually destroyed: Danzō destroying his eye in his final moments to keep it from Obito Uchiha's grasp and a reincarnated Itachi, after it was accidently used on him, incinerating the crow so that the left eye would not fall into enemy hands. But Itachi also stated that above all else, Shisui wanted someone to inherit his will and ideals, believing Naruto to be that someone.[18]
- Shisui's name has two interpretable meanings. Combining the words Shi (死, Death) and Sui (水, Water), Shisui would mean "death water", which is a reference to his death by drowning. "Shisui" (止水) alone means "still water" or "stagnant water".
- (To Itachi) "…You're my best friend and the only one I can count on… Protect the village… and the Uchiha name."[14]
- ↑ Fourth Databook, page 56
- ↑ Chapter 222, page 7
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Naruto chapter 222, page 7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 459, pages 14-15
- ↑ Second Databook, pages 38-39
- ↑ Naruto chapter 222, pages 4-7
- ↑ Naruto chapter 225, page 3
- ↑ Naruto chapter 590, pages 5-6
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Naruto chapter 550, page 11
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Naruto chapter 520, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 222, page 5
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Naruto chapter 550, page 10
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Naruto chapter 590, page 5
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Naruto chapter 590, page 6
- ↑ Naruto chapter 459, page 15
- ↑ Naruto chapter 482, page 13
- ↑ Naruto chapter 550, page 13
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Naruto chapter 552, page 11
- ↑ Naruto chapter 461, page 10
- ↑ Naruto chapter 479, page 5


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More efficient cashew producing countries in Africa and Asia have taken much of Tanzania's market share and without eliminating the anti-liberalisation and anti-private trader attitudes by key government actors in the cashewnut sector, this trend is likely continue.
This was said on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam at a workshop aimed at analysing the cashewnut marketing situation and how the market and the state have failed to make rightful interventions.
Presenting an analysis on the crop, a stakeholder from Tanzania Development Research Group, Brian Cooksey stressed that the current market failure of the crop is a result of institutional misunderstanding between the cashew producers, the state and private traders.
He said the players are not in a position to solve to make rightful interventions in the market but are engaged in long term competitiveness of the Tanzanian cashew nut industry.
He said that there is need for a more fruitful approach that would be to ask what roles the state and its agents and the private sector should play to make markets work more efficiently, balancing the need for competition and coordination.
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According to him, to date, there has been no systematic attempt by the government to do this.
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"This is not based on an ideological rejection of the merits of state intervention per se, but on the critique of past state intervention in Tanzania," he added.
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V.I.P. is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City given to the protagonist Tommy Vercetti by dispatcher Delores from Kaufman Cabs in Little Havana, Vice City. It is unlocked after the purchase of Kaufman Cabs.
A V.I.P. customer has asked for a ride to Escobar International Airport from his mansion in Starfish Island. So climb into a cab and give him a ride.
The Mission
Once you get on the cab that starts the mission, you will be told you have one minute to get to Starfish Island and pick up a V.I.P. customer to take him to the airport. Make a quick drive to his mansion, (but try not to damage your cab since you'll need it in a good state for later). When you arrive to Starfish, park on the purple marker and sound the horn. The V.I.P. will get out of his house, but suddenly, a driver from VC Cabs will arrive and steal your fare, now you have to get it back! Here there are two choices on how to do this, those are:
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A major settlement reached with insurance companies will provide "a very significant amount" for victims in a nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, including dozens from Tennessee, an official said Friday.
Paul D. Moore, trustee in the bankruptcy of the New England Compounding Center, said the agreement was with the the primary insurer for the now-shuttered drug company blamed for the outbreak. He said there was also an agreement with the insurer for another defendant in a series of civil suits that have been merged before a federal judge in Boston.
Moore described the settlement amount as "a very significant number," but said he could not yet disclose the details.
"Of course, it's never enough," he conceded.
Noting that the fungal meningitis outbreak occurred more than a year ago, Moore said the delay was "intolerable. We want to get this done."
Disclosure of the settlements, which will be subject to court approval, followed a Friday court hearing in Boston before the federal judge who is presiding over dozens of suits filed by victims of the meningitis outbreak, including more than 50 from Tennessee.
Michael Gottfried, who represents Moore in the civil cases, told U.S. District Judge F. Joseph Saylor IV that there was a partial settlement but did not disclose any details.
Records in the NECC bankruptcy case show that NECC itself had at least three insurance policies, but the full details of the coverage have not been disclosed. Details of insurance coverage for the other defendants have not been made public either.
Agreements with the insurance companies are regarded as a key issue because they are likely to be one of the primary sources of funds to pay claims of the hundreds of victims of the 2012 outbreak. Nationwide, 64 patients died and 754 were sickened by fungus-tainted steroids shipped by NECC to doctors, clinics and hospitals around the country.
The other possible source of funding claims could come from a freeze of up to $21 million in assets by NECC's owners imposed by a federal bankruptcy judge in late January.
"This is an important step in holding the wrongdoers accountable for the harm they caused. We still have much work to do to bring all of the wrongdoers to justice," said Mark Chalos of Nashville, one of the attorneys for victims who participated in the Friday hearing.
The case before Saylor includes claims filed by victims from Tennessee, Virginia, Michigan, New Jersey and Virginia. According to the latest federal data, 16 patients from Tennessee died in the outbreak while 153 were sickened. Only Michigan, with 264 victims and 19 deaths, had more than Tennessee.
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A sombre mood reigned in the debating chamber of the House in the morning of Thursday this week as Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda presented a report on deadly blasts at Gongo la Mboto Military Camp.
Although CCM legislators refrained from giving open criticism against the military administration, probably for fear of reprimand, they said something could be wrong within military ranks.
"The recurrence of the fatal incidents in military stores in Dar es Salaam signifies something is wrong in our army that needs immediate attention," said a CCM legislator from Iringa region who preferred anonymity.
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Foreign Affairs Edward Lowasa appealed to the public to remain calm while waiting for the findings of a team formed to investigate the incident.
However, Lowassa's plea raised doubts given that the government is yet to make public a report compiled by a task force to probe the circumstances that caused blasts at the Mbagala Military Store in the city on April 2009, killing 30 people.
Opposition legislators doubted the army personnel's professionalism. "I think there is something wrong in our military system. They are either incompetent and inadequately trained or are doing this thing deliberately because this is the second incident in less than two years,' said Ezekia Wenje (Chadema-Nyamagana).
Wenje added: "The Minister for Defense and National Service Dr Hussein Ali
Mwinyi and Chief of Defense Forces General Davis Mwamunyange are accountable and should resign forthwith as we need discipline in the army".
David Kafulila (NCCR- Mageuzi- Kigoma South) echoed similar sentiments and said that the defense minister is duty bound to follow in his father's footsteps and resign.
"Former President Ali Hassan Mwinyi resigned as Home Affairs Minister in the First Phase Government after his subordinates made serious mistakes. Dr Mwinyi should also follow in his father's footsteps in this regard,"he said.
Also Shadow Minister for Defense and National Service Joseph Selasini (Chadema-Rombo) issued a statement in Dodoma this week in which he called for Mwinyi, and Mwamunyange to stand down.
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Meanwhile, Hamadi Rashid Mohammed (CUF- Wawi) questioned the rationale of possessing heavy explosives in this period of peace when Tanzania faces no threat from its neighbors considering the on going integration process.
"In my opinion Tanzania no longer needs heavy bombs…I don't think there is any country, especially in East Africa, threatening it," Hamad said.
But another CCM MP, who served as minister in the Third Phase Government told The Guardian on Sunday on condition on anonymity, said: "After Mbagala blasts an investigation was conducted but until today no one knows about the findings, although people lost their loved ones.''
He said in the past the army requested for funds to destroy 'expired' explosives but the government turned it down owing to budget constraints.
Addressing the press yesterday at Tanzania Peoples Defence Forces (TPDF) Headquarters in Dar es Salaam army, top officials said the Mbagala blasts' report was information meant only for the military.
On behalf of the opposition camp, Selasini said an independent probe committee or a Parliament- Select committee be formed to investigate the incident as the public no longer has confidence in investigation committees formed by the government.
Selasini speculated, and said excessive heat in the stores or expiry of bombs or a human error could be possible reasons.
However, top military officials played down the heat factor, saying bombs could sustain the temperature between –1 and 50 degree centigrade.
Opposition Chief Whip Tundu Lissu (Chadema-Singida-East), said sabotage may be the reason, as Minister Mwinyi and General Mwamunyange had promised the public after Mbagala blasts that such incidents would not recur.


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Shouldn't this be the November 2009 Challenge?
This month's challenge is the "The Destroyed Lands" map suggested by Gamerprinter
The goal is to map a place that was forever changed by a series of cataclysmic events. The impact op the cataclysm should be clearly visible, maybe even altering the terrain. It's up to you to decide if there's any survivors and what kind of life they now lead. Just remember, the more mayhem, the merrier.
Some examples of possible maps:
- A planet scorched by the sun.
- A city overrun by demons from a portal.
- A regional map depicting a huge crater left by a comet (or a moon?).
- A world wrecked by a godly war.
- The United States after the Zombie apocalypse.
- Lands confronted by a new ice age.
- Nuclear Armageddon.
- Nature fighting back!
- The human colonies after aliens blasted them all to smithereens.
- A dungeon after Gromet and party visited it (certainly a cataclysm for the dungeon master )
The challenge will end around the 25th of november.
Please title your entry with the name of your map. For example: November Entry - The Day The Earth Stood Still
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The United States during the next ice age caused by being overrun by godlike zombie turkeys?
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The Dungeoneer's Handbook, Volume IX, Chapter 12: "Paranoid dungeon owners are known to hide loot in their furniture. Tabletops, for example, may be laminated wood that hide treasure maps. Similarly, table legs may be hollow to hide wands or scroll cases. For these reasons we recommend that all furniture be dismantled and each piece broken to ensure that no items of importance will be missed."
The next time your party comes across a room that looks like it was visited by a family of hyperactive beavers that brought along some rabid wolverines for cleanup then you'll know that the adventurers were merely being "thorough" like they learned in school.
That's a great quote. Last time I played in a longish campaign my fellow party members used to roll up the carpets and scrape off the gold leaf any time we dispatched the bad guy that owned the stuff. No treasure chest? No problem: This flooring is nice, gotta be worth something. Hey! Is that Travertine?
Good to see the map doesn't have to be regional scale. I was thinking of something that shows the effects on a more personal scale.
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The short and simple definition of conservation is "using natural resources wisely". Hunters are a very important group in establishing and driving wildlife conservation throughout North America. Regulated sport hunting does not endanger wildlife. In fact, hunting regulations were created in the late 1800's after many hunters realized that wildlife was threatened by commercial hunting practices. Due to their persistence in establishing and respecting hunting laws, no North American game animal has ever become extinct because of regulated hunting.
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Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon's arrest on bribery charges yesterday is, of course, just the latest in a long line such events in modern American (and North Carolina) history. Indeed, political corruption arrests and prosecutions are such a part of our story that one can easily spend the day perusing lists of political crooks that have been complied by various media outlets and good government websites.
Here, therefore, to save you from that temptation, are a few of the most recent and interesting lists:
First off, it's worth noting that, thanks to the FBI, Cannon is part of a list of politicians arrested yesterday. As the Washington Post reports, FBI stings also reeled in a California state senator and a New York assemblyman.
Wikipedia, quite helpfully, has three lists – one for federal politicians, one for state and local and one entitled "List of state and local political scandals." The second list is also organized by state and North Carolina – home to Stephen LaRoque, Jim Black and Meg Scott Phipps — holds its own but doesn't really stand out. As is often the case with Wikipedia though, all three are incomplete. Perhaps you can suggest an addition or two.
And if you think things are bad here, check out this list published in the New York Times last year entitled "The Many Faces of State Political Scandals," which features 32 New York officials convicted of a crime, censured or otherwise accused of wrongdoing over the past seven years, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group. Read more