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Do shoes make you crazy? Are higher heels better, or is it all about comfort for you? It comes as no surprise that many women question their shoe choice. Too sexy? Too cozy? Sometimes we're walking a fine line (or a fine heel, as the case may be). Sigmund Freud described women's shoes as power symbols. It's fair to assume that he wasn't talking about foot-warming fuzzy boots kind of power. He was talking about woman power.
How do you determine if your shoe is too casual, too sexy, or just right? How do you balance femininity versus comfort?
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· Wear quality-made, supportive shoes — whatever the fashion — and only if they can be worn safely.
· Remember: You must highlight the ends of your personal image —the eye naturally follows up and down; hence, coiffed hair, and tidy, well-chosen shoes are critical to a polished image.
· The higher the heel, the sexier it is intended to be. Likewise, the less foot coverage there is, the sexier the shoe. Consider if the intended sex appeal of the shoe is appropriate to the occasion.
· Remember too, the ultimate physical effect of high heels. Heels behave like a pedestal. Higher heels make us change our posture. Our altered posture pushes our chests out farther, our "derriere" appears firmer, and our legs longer. It doesn't necessarily take a flashy shoe to create the desired effect.


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Metal pallets made from steel or aluminum might not be as common as plastic pallets, but in some applications, they have real advantages, especially for companies that take a long-term approach to their assets.
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In this religion-infused election cycle, just when we've gotten used to mud slinging, we have to witness the casting of the first stone.
In a bodacious blog in the Jewish Journal, of all places, Mark Paredes, a Mormon and a member of the Jewish Relations Committee of the LDS Church's Southern California Public Affairs Council, actually made the call on who's the BETTER Mormon–Mitt Romney or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
I have to admit I was stunned to see a Mormon of some stature actually presume to rate the spiritual credentials of two co-religionists. I've got to wonder if he ran his blog up the heirarchy in Salt Lake City?
According to Paredes' score card, including stands on gambling and abortion: "Mitt wins the Better Mormon Award, though not by a landslide."
Paredes writes that Reid really falls spectacularly spiritually short on gay-marriage yardstick:
...since LDS prophets have repeatedly and publicly opposed state-sanctioned gay marriage. Romney agrees with the church's position; Sen. Reid recently announced that he opposes it. In other words, men whom the senator regards as modern-day prophets have officially spoken on one of the major moral issues of the day, and the good senator thinks that they're wrong. It is not possible for a faithful Mormon to support state-sanctioned gay marriage because it entails rejection of prophetic authority. On this issue Sen. Reid's stance is not a liberal Mormon position; it is an anti-Mormon one.
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just mill a bols/carrrier out of square stock and weld on a guide rod. This will make it much simpler.
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just mill a bols/carrrier out of square stock and weld on a guide rod. This will make it much simpler.
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kiss is the way i look at everything. i work in the engineering field and it amazes me at how many seemingly competent engineers NEEDLESSLY over complicate designs. i have gotten into more pissing contest over this than one should.
now on to more important things. i have a chunk of square stock. what i do not know is whether i need exotic steel (ie 4130). what i have is regular run of the mill steel. my thoughts were, if i go this route, is to drill it cut it heat it quench it. if you really look at the eod bolt, it is a simple as it gets. 1bg you mention welding the guide rod like the eod bolt. i read somewhere on another board, several were slamming the welded process. i didnt feel that was an issue. there are purist who think it has to be the "perfect" way or no way. based on the numbers of ak's running around places that have nothing more than a camels hip bone for tools, i think i may be ok.
reg. heat/quench on common steel will not work ovet time. just to be safe use 4140 normalized (no temper) slightly harder than 4130 with no heattreat, not needed with pistol ammo. common steel is too soft and will eather deform or ware out to fast.
Id go with a better steel also the price of it will be small change in the long run. you can heat treat it then if you desire.
As far a purists an the AK, I see it like this you can have perfect rivets, spot welds,demples, markings ect and it will still never be original and a fake is a fake now matter how you make it look. unless its a original full auto then its never going to be the same. I saw the other day were some air soft guys were going to great lenghts to make there guns look origional as well LOL. In the long run its about as important as a Beanie babay that has a certain color thread VS one that dont. :) I admire the work and skill it take to do a build like that but its still not a real AK so why get that carried away. I saw a VW bug awhile back with a fake rolls front end on it and it made me think of how a SA AK is really just a fake also.
if your not into having a welded part then just make the block taller and thread in a gas pistion. Im not real sure why you neven need the rod or pistion or gas tube at all. Id just eleminate all un needed parts. I plan on doing a guide rod type deal on mine I dont see the since in having a non functional gas block,tube an pistion loose the weight IMOO. Id keep only the needed parts if i was building from scratch.
And to add to that, it's like saying "I have a Porsche" and then show me a VW Bug :DQuote:
I saw a VW bug awhile back with a fake rolls front end
I'd think the only thing the fake piston like EOD uses might help keep the bolt straight if the bolt is made kind of short in length. Just guessing at this, never tested it.
i was wondering the same about th rod. unless it adds some weight i dont see the point either. the mpi69 22 trainer doesnt have one. bg i'm with you. a guide rod makes better sense. i am lookingat some 4140 steel frm a place tht sells remnants. its called onlinemetals. an 18" long bar of 1.5" dia round was $18. they didnt have any square in stock.
Also check this place, it's their eBay store. Look at the side bar for metal types.
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interesting stuff there. might be worth contacting them about other sizes.
And here's their actual web site, I haven't looked through it yet.
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One of three seniors and four overall returning starters on ECU's offensive line ... Remains a highly-regarded, strong and physical lineman who should contend for the honors candidacy at the conference level in 2013 ... Will open final collegiate season locked in as the Pirates' top left guard for the third-straight campaign after successfully making the move over from tackle early during the 2011 season ... Has opened 20-straight games at left guard dating back to Oct. 15, 2011 (Memphis) and has appeared in 37 career contests with 24 starts (LT/4, LG/20) ... Part of an offensive line unit that has provided pass protection for 20 300-yard passing games over the last three seasons ... Understanding of offensive scheme, continued development of leadership skills and strength have been lauded by coaching staff ... Earned "excellent" status on the strength and conditioning program's rating system, logging a 655-pound back squat, a 370-pound bench press, 340-pound power clean and a 300-pound push jerk.
2012: Started all 13 games at left guard ... Key member of a line that helped produce five 100-yard rushing performances and four 300-yard passing contests ... Part of three games where ECU produced 550 or more yards of total offense (600/UAB, 550/UH, 555/MAR) ... Paved the way for a season-high 245 yards rushing against Houston ... Played pivotal role for an offensive unit that provided pass protection for Shane Carden's single-game passing record of 439 yards vs. Marshall ... Also provided running lanes for Vintavious Cooper's 1,049-yard season.
2011: Played in all 12 games and took hold of a starting spot along the Pirate offensive line, receiving the nod in 11 contests ... Started the first four games at left tackle before shifting over to left guard for the final seven tilts ... Lone game not in the initial lineup was at Houston ... Also served in blocking roles on the field goal and PAT units throughout the campaign ... Guided Pirates to a No. 20 national ranking in passing offense (286.1 yards per game) ... ECU finished second in Conference USA in passing offense and fifth in total offense (395.2 yards per game) ... Provided protection for ECU quarterbacks to throw for more than 300 yards in six of the last 10 games ... Aerial attack ended the season with the second-most passing yards in program history (3,433) ... Opened holes for 12 rushing touchdowns in the last seven games ... Provided space for ECU's season-best 186 rushing yards against UCF, the most since tallying 194 versus Marshall on Oct. 23, 2010 ... Pirates averaged 11.4 yards per completion against Southern Miss ... Provided pass protection for quarterback Dominique Davis to set NCAA records for consecutive completions in a game (26/Navy) and season (36/Memphis and Navy) ... Allowed time for Davis to set the East Carolina single-game completion percentage record of 88.9 against Navy, the second best in NCAA history for a passer converting at least 40 throws ... Pirates averaged 7.0 yards per play and 12.2 yards per completion at Memphis while gaining 524 total yards ... Provided pass protection for Davis to throw for a program single-game record 417 yards against North Carolina as the team averaged 10.2 yards per completion ... Against UAB, helped the Pirates to 361 yards passing, 181 on the ground and 7.3 yards per play ... In the season opener against South Carolina, provided pass protection for Davis to throw for 200 or more yards (260) for the 14th-straight game.
2010: During first active season on the Pirates' roster, played in 12 games as the top backup at the left tackle and left guard positions, earning initial varsity letter ... Lone game missed was against N.C. State ... Served in blocking roles on the field goal and PAT units throughout the campaign ... Blocked for Michael Barbour's record-breaking 56 PAT and 104-point season ... Helped the East Carolina offense establish 14 single-season records ... Providing pass protection for Pirate quarterbacks to set new standards in attempts (632), completions (408), yards (4,143), yards per game (318.7) and touchdowns (39) ... Opened holes for the offense to score a school-record 60 offensive touchdowns, surpassing the 2007 team's 50 offensive TDs ... Helped the offense to program bests with 478 overall points, 346 points in C-USA games and 36.8 points per contest ... Passing yardage against Tulsa (383) was the first 300+ performance for the Pirates since tallying 406 against North Carolina Sept. 8, 2007, a span of 40 games ... Team threw for 300 or more yards nine times during the year ... Guided Pirates to a No. 8 national ranking in passing offense (318.7 ypg) and a No. 16 standing in scoring (36.8 ppg) ... Unit ranked 20th at the FBS level in fewest sacks allowed per game (1.2) ... ECU finished second in Conference USA in passing offense and fourth in scoring and total offense (437.6 ypg).
2009: Spent developmental season on offensive scout team and benefitted from year in strength program ... Redshirted during initial season in ECU program ... Was nearly promoted to active roster on several occasions because of depth concerns, but previous coaching staff elected to maintain redshirt status ... Officially signed with the Pirates in February.
High School: A team captain, three-year starter and four-year letterman for coach Greg Thomas's Indians at Choctawhatchee High School ... Earned All-Northwest Daily News (Fort Walton Beach) honors in 2007 and 2008, and was also selected as area's offensive lineman-of-the-year as a senior ... Chosen as a 2008 Pensacola Sports Association All-Star and played in Pensacola All-Star game ... Recipient of Coaches Award after final campaign ... Member of the 2008 "Dandy Dozen" list ... Received prestigious FCA Challenger Award for Choctawhatchee in recognition of character, leadership, integrity and excellence ... Prep coach was former Pirate offensive lineman who also enjoyed a successful tenure as head coach at Greenville's J.H. Rose High School ... Earned three additional letters as member of CHS's weight-lifting squad, a recognized sport program in the state of Florida.
Personal: Full name is Ronnie Jordan Davis ... Born February 9, 1991 at Fort Walton Beach, Fla. ... Son of Ronnie and Jennifer Davis ... Hobbies include fishing and producing films ... Earned a bachelor's degree in communications during ECU's 2013 Spring Commencement Exercises ... Currently pursuing a second undergraduate degree in information technologies.


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The "Terrorist Financing" report issued today is an opinion formulated by an independent task force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. This opinion is based on false and inconclusive information.
According to Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Kingdom's Ambassador to the United States: "Government officials who are privy to current law enforcement efforts know and appreciate the close cooperation the United States and Saudi Arabia have in the war on terrorism. The Task Force is clearly out of touch with current activities."
The Kingdom has implemented new laws and regulations to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, such as:
Freezing dozens of bank accounts suspected of links to terrorists;
Supporting UN resolutions related to the fight against terrorism and implementing the 2001 UN Security Council Resolution 1368 related to the financing of terrorist activities;
Working with the United States and other nations to block more than $70 million in suspect terrorist assets located in accounts throughout the world;
Auditing all charitable groups to ensure that there are no links to suspect organizations;
Putting in place new guidelines and regulations, including financial control mechanisms, to ensure that terrorist organizations cannot take advantage of legitimate charitable groups;
Requiring that charitable activities that extend beyond Saudi Arabia be reported to the Foreign Ministry.
Even before September 11, Saudi Arabia was more aggressive than most countries in the implementation of monitoring systems and controls over charitable funds.
"It is unfortunate that the Task Force prepared their report without input from the United States or Saudi governments," said Prince Bandar. "The Task Force was either unaware of or chose not to recognize the many actions we have taken."


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"The man that can figure out how to give me just enough attention to make me feel safe and adored while allowing me just enough freedom to keep from being smothered is a very special man indeed."
- Jessica Chobot
Who can forget the tantalizing picture of Jessica Chobot seductively licking a PSP? Gamers (and men) everywhere felt their hearts skip a beat. Jessica Chobot is every geek's (and regular guy's) dream come true -- she's beautiful, smart and she loves video games. She's also not afraid to speak her mind. Jessica Chobot hosts IGN Weekly and is the video game correspondent for The Daily Habit as well.
Jessica Chobot's profile has increased immensely over the past couple of years, owing to her appearance in commercials for ADV's Anime Network On Demand cable station, and in ads for J!NX female gamers clothing line. She also cowrote a movie script with Stev Lisberger of Tron fame in 2007.
Jessica Chobot BiographyBorn on July 7, 1977, in Buffalo, New York, her family moved from town to town frequently during her youth. Before entering high school, Jessica Chobot lived in several places on the East Coast and all around the Midwest. Perhaps to make amends for the stress caused by so much relocating at such a young age, her folks indulged her increasing addiction to video games by buying just about any system the budding hardcore gamer desired.
By the time she reached her teens, Jessica Chobot was supplementing her gaming obsession with other interests. She went through a punk/goth phase that encompassed a preference for combat boots, Nietzsche and vampires. She also discovered role-playing games during this time, as characters like Malkavian and Toreador from White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade became her alter egos. She joined her first LARPing group while she was attending college in Ohio.
jessica chobot poses with psp After earning her bachelor of fine arts degree, Jessica Chobot attempted to overcome her gaming obsession and joined the nine-to-five world as an administrative assistant at a real estate agency. After a few years of steady office work, her obsession was reignited when she started getting into games like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XI. A sizable tax refund, coupled with an emotional meltdown, made her decide to buy a one-way ticket to Japan to start a whole new life. As her money ran out before she could secure any long-term work, she eventually found herself back home in the States. She got married and returned to college to obtain a teaching certificate in art education with a minor in literature and video game character design.
Following her graduation, Jessica Chobot landed a job at EB Games, and also started doing some modeling work for the I Group and Talent Shop in Detroit. In 2005, she showed up for a photo shoot with a Sony PSP pack she just happened to have picked up before the session. Eager to show off her latest toy, shots of her with the system were taken, including one in which she sensually licked the PSP.
She sent the sexy snap shot to Kotaku.com on a lark, not believing they'd actually ever post it. To Jessica Chobot's surprise, the image was put up on their site and they quickly began receiving e-mails inquiring about the identity of the licker. Kotaku's EIC then offered her a job as a game reviewer for RedAssedBaboon.com. At an IGN E3 party that year, she met an IGN.com rep and began freelancing for their Insider channel.
jessica chobot is no. 88 on 2008 top 99When Jessica Chobot was offered the hosting gig for the IGN Weekly show, it prompted her to move out to California and get a divorce. Many other avenues opened for her since she moved out West, including that of game advisor for The Daily Habit and dating advice columnist for IGN's Babes channel. She also appears regularly as a guest on Maxim Radio, and began reporting for the Championship Gaming Invitational.
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Published: Friday, November 8, 2013 at 12:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 11:58 a.m.
Another election has come and gone. But a vast majority of people who live in Davidson County's five municipalities failed to make the effort to vote. Some can be forgiven: Wallburg voters saw uncontested races for mayor and town council, and two of Lexington's wards had only one candidate on the ballot. Mayor Newell Clark also faced no opposition. But that left voters with choices in two ward races in Lexington, Thomasville mayor and city council, Denton mayor and town council, and Midway Town Council, yet turnout remained low in those areas as well.
Overall, turnout was about 11.35 percent. That means only about 1 in 10 voters made it to the polls. Even in Thomasville, where all seven council seats and the mayor's position were up for election, turnout ranged from 3.33 percent to 14.01 percent in the nine precincts. Lexington's Ward 1, which featured a tight race between incumbent Ronald Reid and the eventual victor, the Rev. Herbert Miller II, only saw 14.46 percent. A nod goes to Denton voters, where 37.06 turned out in the Denton precinct, and 54.48 percent voted in the Emmons precinct. Still, that means only half of the eligible voters in the Emmons precinct made it to the polls.
Denton voters also provided the one surprise, turning out incumbent Mayor Scott Morris. Morris had served for 10 years as mayor and 30 years in city government. Yet he lost to newcomer Larry Ward, 56 percent to 44 percent. Interestingly, the two incumbents seeking re-election to the town council, Deanna Grubb and Wayne Plaster, both won. The Morris family has a long history of leadership in Denton, but some citizens may believe it's time for someone else to have a go at it.
The only other incumbent to lose was Reid, but that can't be considered an upset. Miller almost won a seat on the city council two years ago, narrowly losing out for the second at-large seat. He's served on several boards and leads one of the city's prominent churches, First Baptist on Village Drive. Reid served one term on the council.
The make-up of the Lexington City Council continues to change. The election two years ago saw a new mayor in Clark and three new council members. Two more newcomers will take their seats next month, as Tobin Shepherd will join Miller. Shepherd ran unopposed in Ward 2 after long-time councilman Donnie McBride decided not to seek re-election. So when leaders talk about change in the city's leadership, the turnover on the council reinforces that position.
Now attention will begin to focus on the 2014 primary, which will come in six months. Some races already promise fireworks, such as the battle for N.C. House District 80. All the courthouse positions will be on the ballot along with four seats on the board of commissioners. Hopefully the turnout will be closer to the 67 percent in 2012, too.
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Google Needs to Release Real Usage Numbers for Google+
Google needs to quit being coy and release real usage numbers for Google+. Google owes this to the brands and people risking their time and reputations on the service.
We're told repeatedly by Google executives that Google+ is not a social network like Facebook. It's a "social layer," a means of unifying disparate products and services including search, Android, YouTube, and 120 more into a single, unified platform.
And that's great, but it also leads to handwaving by Google when called on to answer the simple question: How many people use Google+ regularly?
MarketingLand's Danny Sullivan runs down the history of Google's evasions on this issue, and calls on Google to just answer the question.
At first, Google said it had 10 million signups in July, then 40 million in October, 90 million in January, and 170 million in April. That looks like fantastic growth -- but it turns out the early figures were simply people signing up for the service. If someone created an account, took one look at Google+, turned up his or her nose and never came back, that person counted as a signup.
Later, as Google began integrating YouTube, search, and other services into Google+, it counted many of the logged-in users of those services as Google+ users, even if those users never actually visited plus.google.com.
"The numbers don't really mean anything, and it's becoming absurd that Google keeps quoting them as if they do." Sullivan says.
What Google won't share are the real active user numbers: the number of people who visit plus.google.com with the intent of interacting with the content and people there.
I asked Google to reply to Sullivan's post. The company declined to comment, referring me to this video interview featuring Vic Gundotra, Google senior vice president for social business, and Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management for Google+. The first six minutes are particularly interesting, in which the two men describe how Google counts usage numbers, Google+'s mission, and how it differs from other social networks.
When Google discloses usage for Google+, "we really mean anyone using a Google property, signed in as a Google+ user and taking advantage of the social graph, seeing their friends' comments, or themselves commenting or endorsing," Gundotra says.
Google's unwillingness to disclose true usage for Google+ is a shame because Google+ is active. There's a lot of great content and smart people and brands interacting there. It's probably a small town compared with the mighty city that's Facebook, but it's still early days yet. Google+ is less than a year old. It's off to a great start.
True usage numbers from Google would be a little disappointing at first. Google would be the butt of a lot of jokes on blogs. But that storm would pass, and Google would then have a solid foundation on which to demonstrate future growth.
And indeed, third-party numbers are promising. For example, some 61 million people visited Google+ in March, up 27 percent from February, according to Experian Hitwise.
That usage should see a significant boost due to a big redesign launched Wednesday. Among the many changes: more prominent placement for shared photos and videos, and a more flexible and expandable sidebar for apps, indicating that Google+ will become an app platform, as Facebook is, including branded apps.
More good news: Hangouts are about to get a lot more useful for brands. The Google video chat feature is currently limited to 10 participants. But Google has been working on streaming video from Hangouts through YouTube. That capability is available only to a chosen few test users, but soon that livestreaming will be available to everyone.
Google+ is a great platform. Google needs to quit handwaving about its usage, and come clean. Brands including Ford, H&M, Starbucks, and others that have staked a claim on Google+ deserve it.
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More: Has it really been 30 years since the making of E.T.?
Dee Wallace: I know—staggering, isn't it?
More: How did playing the role of Mary change your life?DW: I don't think it changed my life, but it changed a lot of my business. When E.T. came out, Dee Wallace was a name everyone knew, but in a different light. WhenE.T. became the biggest blockbuster of all time, then it upped my money, my possibilities and my professional opportunities.
More: With the movie's massive success, did you let fame go to your head?
DW: I was raised as a good old Methodist girl from Kansas City, Kansas, and my roots are pretty strong. I never forgot who I was, and I didn't change my life too much either. In fact, I didn't even move to a bigger home.
More: What strikes me as so interesting is that your character was a single mom struggling to raise three kids, a storyline rarely addressed back in the early '80s.DW: Yeah, I was the first single mom in a major film. I have had so many people come up to me and say, Thank you for helping me make it through my childhood. Back then divorce was not as common as it is today, so if someone's parents were splitting up, many times they thought they were an outcast, not accepted, or they were embarrassed about their situation. We showed them it was OK, to be raised by a single parent and have good values.
More: Do you still talk to your onscreen children?
DW: Every once in a while.
More: 'Fess up—how many times have you watched E.T.?
DW: I think I have seen it over 150 times, and I still cry and laugh.
More: Do you remember the lines?
DW: Like "penis breath"? (laughs)
More: Do you believe there is life on other planets?
DW: Absolutely. I think we would be terribly naive to think they were not here. I do a lot of healing work, and I believe they are here to help us, guide us and protect us. The alien you saw in the movie is much closer to the truth than the aliens you see in other films that are trying to attack and blow up Earth.
More: Before E.T., you had some experience as a horror movie actress?
DW: I did The Howling and The Hills Have Eyes. Then after E.T., Cujo and other horror films continued to follow.
More: A special section of the disc, called "TheE.T.Journals," features never-before-seen footage from the set of the film. Dish on some of the secrets from behind the lens.
DW: It is so awesome because it makes you feel like you are on the movie set with us. Now you will see how some of those famous scenes were shot. One great example is Steven Speilberg directing Gertie, Drew Barrymore's character, when she is talking to E.T. dying in the incubator. You will also see Steven directing Henry Thomas as Elliott, and of course you will see how the famous bike scene was shot.
More: In addition to acting, you are also an author and a motivational speaker. Tell me about how that happened.
DW: At one point I dropped to my knees and said, I don't want to be angry anymore. I decided I wanted to recreate my life and recreate myself.
More: Did recreating yourself help you overcome tragedy in your life? [Wallace's second husband, Christopher Stone, died of a heart attack in 1995.]DW: Yes, except that most people define tragedy as if they were the victim, and that keeps them locked in the hole of still being the victim. Where we all want to get is to say, "Shit happens, and it happens to everyone."
More: I am sorry it happened to you.
DW: There is a bunch of poop, and you need to go and look for the pony that made the mess and then try to figure out the lesson you learn in all of this.
More: What did you learn?
DW: I thought, How can I go out and empower myself? I began asking, How can I make myself better instead of shutting myself down to protect myself from what just happened?
More: You made reference to being angry. Given your successful Hollywood career, what could Dee Wallace possibly be angry about?
DW: Read my book. I started out in a very poor family with an alcoholic father who went on to commit suicide.
More: Point made.
DW: We have all been betrayed, raped, abandoned and disappointed at some moment in our lives, and we keep blaming them for not being the joy and love we want them to be. I wanted to be happy and enjoy the gifts I have.
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It isn't quite Lake Carnegie, but the fifth-seeded Princeton heavyweights won't travel far to compete at this weekend's IRA national championships. They are hopeful to thrill a Reunions-laden crowd with some Sunday fireworks, though the journey there will be laden with challenges.
Princeton will compete for its fourth IRA national championship this weekend at nearby Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J. The Tigers haven't medaled at IRAs since their 2006 runner-up finish, and they will need to outperform their fifth seed to find a spot on the medal dock.
The traditional Western powers, Washington and California, bring the top two seeds to Mercer Lake, while the Ivy League will produce the remaining teams in the Top 5. Sprints champion Harvard is the third seed, while runner-up Brown and bronze medalist Princeton take up the next two spots.
Princeton hasn't seen either Western school yet this year, but it has raced both Ivy programs twice over the last seven weeks. The Tigers split with Brown and lost twice to Harvard, including a narrow defeat on the Charles River during the Compton Cup regatta. Both teams pulled away from Princeton in a tough Sprints showdown, but the Tigers are confident that they came away from the championship event more prepared for nationals.
"We had a good battle for third with Northeastern as we approached the finish and were able to get ourselves onto the medal dock, something that is not easy to do in today's league," senior Dave Mackasey said. "As a team, we left the Sprints happy, but not satisfied. If anything, we learned that this league is wide open, and there's no reason we can't medal at the IRA this weekend."
The journey begins Friday morning at 8:45 during the fourth of four heats, where two boats will advance to the Saturday semifinals. Princeton will open in Lane 4 and compete against the Florida Institute of Technology (1), Navy (2), Brown (3), Stanford (5) and Holy Cross (6).
While Brown and Princeton are the top two seeds in the heat, both Navy and Stanford could provide major challenges to either. Princeton defeated Navy by only 1.4 seconds during the regular season, while Stanford is an unknown entity to the rest of the Eastern field.
Regardless, Mackasey believes in the work that Princeton has put into its preparations.
"We've put in a lot of good miles this past week to tune up our racing and speed," he said. "The boat has been moving well and we're excited to get back to racing, especially to test ourselves against some of the west coast crews that we haven't seen yet. We've set small goals with an aim at the bigger picture, starting with our heat on Friday morning."
If Princeton finishes in the top two and avoids the afternoon repechage, it will compete in one of the two Saturday semifinals (11:15/11:30). Three boats will advance directly to Sunday's national championship race, which is slated for 12:45 pm.
A trip to Sunday's grand final would be Princeton's second in as many years, a feat unmatched since 2006-07. Between its 1998 national championship and the memorable 2006 showdown with California, Princeton was in six of seven IRA grand finals and medalled four times.
After 2006, Princeton has made three finals (2007, 2011 and 2013) and has never finished better than sixth.
The opportunity to do so this year could come in front of a heavy Princeton crowd, considering both the proximity to campus (about 10 miles) and the fact that Reunions takes place on campus Thursday-Saturday.
"Hearing your fans on the sidelines can really give you an advantage at the end of a hard race to push to the line," Mackasey said. "For the seniors in the program, it's one final opportunity to line it up for Princeton. Most of our families will be there to watch, as well as a lot of the guys we've raced with in previous years. A medal at the IRA would be a great end to our time here as racers and a good start to graduation week."
Princeton will send four boats to IRAs, including a varsity four. The second varsity eight completed an undefeated regular season and lost only to Northeastern in the Sprints final. The Tiger 2V will be the fourth seed behind California, Washington and Northeastern, and will open its weekend in a 9:30 am heat Friday. Princeton will be in Lane 3 and will be joined by Holy Cross (1), Columbia (2), Navy (4), Syracuse (5) and Hobart (6).
The third varsity is seeded sixth and will race in Lane 4 at 10:45 against Syracuse (1), Navy (2), Washington (3), Harvard (5) and Hobart (6). The varsity four will race at 11:15 in Lane 3 against Temple (1), Colgate (2), Milwaukee School of Engineering (4), Navy (5) and Boston University (6).


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Werner Van Mechelen
From Schubert's fervent Litanei as a tribute to dead souls, to Strauss's timeless Morgen celebrating everlasting love, and Mahler's moving farewell to the world – Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen – Werner Van Mechelen brings us a programme of sublime melodies of contemplation and introspection for his first recital in the auditorium at La Monnaie. The Belgian baritone is a familiar figure on our stage, much acclaimed recently for his performances in Le Grand Macabre, Don Quichotte and Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne. He will explore a century of romantic German lieder by three of the most emblematic composers, accompanied by pianist Eric Schneider. The dialogue between voice and piano lifts these outpourings of the soul to their peak.
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No area of law today is more dynamic than intellectual property law and Connecticut is at the epicenter of the emerging information economy. Located between Boston's Route 128 and New York's Silicon Alley, it is the home of many of the country's leading technology firms, including United Technologies, Xerox, and General Electric. Four major pharmaceutical companies, including the research facility for the world's largest pharmaceutical, and a cluster of other research institutions, create a robust presence for pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Connecticut is the first in the nation in the number of patents issued per capita. It is one of the top ten states in the country for the number of domain names registered. With such a variety of information economy industries; its strong tradition of Yankee ingenuity going back to the Industrial Revolution; and its location in the heart of New England, it is not surprising that Connecticut has recently been ranked one of the five leading states in preparing for the new economy.
The Program in Intellectual Property at the University of Connecticut prepares students to participate in this new information economy. It draws upon the strength of the Law School as the leading public law school in the Northeast United States; the school's commitment to international law, financial services and insurance law; and New England's and Connecticut's significant place in the new economy.
There are two sets of certificate requirements: one for JD students and one for LL.M. students.
There is no application procedure for the certificate in Intellectual Property Law, though students are encouraged to announce their intention to seek the certificate early in their studies. Additionally, students are not required to begin taking their intellectual property courses in a certain point during their law study. All J.D. candidates for the certificate in Intellectual Property must complete:
- (15) credit hours of courses, including the introductory Intellectual Property course plus at least one regime class (see below) or, alternatively, two regime classes. Students will also be required to take an intellectual property seminar.
- Students may include in the (15) credit hours one class from a list of adjacent field courses.
- A supervised writing (which meets the Law School's upper-class writing requirement) project under the direction of a member of the Intellectual Property faculty or, alternatively, a supervised externship in intellectual property, with a significant writing component; or participation in the Intellectual Property Clinic.
There is no application procedure for the certificate in Intellectual Property Law, though students are encouraged to announce their intention to seek a certification at the beginning of their academic year. All LL.M. candidates for the certificate in Intellectual Property must complete:
- 9 credit hours of intellectual property courses
- Fulfill their writing requirement in an Intellectual Property course or an independent writing project on the subject.
- Students must achieve a minimum of a B average in their certification courses and writing requirement in order to be awarded the certificate.
At the core of intellectual property are its traditional regimes: copyright, trademark, and patent, as well as trade secrets, moral rights for artists, and rights of publicity.
- Trade Secrets: protects concrete information of economic value which is the subject of reasonable efforts under the circumstances to maintain secrecy. This protection is most commonly provided under state law regimes, and does not require any formalities.
- Trademark: provides for the protection of any word, symbol, or device adopted and used to identify goods and distinguish them from others. As established under the Federal Lanham Act, trademark protection may attach through use, although registration affords procedural and remedial advantages.
- Rights of Publicity: grants an individual exclusive control over commercial use of his or her identity, including name, likeness, and performing style. These are protected as common law rights or through state statutes.
- Copyright: grants holder exclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, display, or license his or her work. These rights arise automatically when an original work is fixed in a concrete medium of expression. As defined under the amended Copyright Act of 1976, the scope of copyright protection is limited in time and through such additional limitations as fair use.
- Patent: confers rights upon any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of nature. According to the Patent Act, a patent may be obtained only through filing a timely application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which will determine if the invention falls within the subject matter of patent, meets its three requirements-utility, novelty, and non-obviousness as a over the prior art, and includes an enabling description.
Clinic: Intellectual Property Clinic: Intellectual Property Students in this clinic represent individuals and small businesses in matters relating to intellectual property as well as business organization and planning. The clinic is part of the University of Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship, established by the state legislature in 2006 to "train the next generation of entrepreneurs in an experiential manner that would assist businesses in the state today." Students will receive intensive training in the relevant law and lawyering skills and will represent clients under the supervision of a full-time supervising attorney. Opportunities for collaboration with students and faculty from the University's School of Business may be presented. Some classes, and other activities, will take place off-campus at the Center for Entrepreneurship's offices in East Hartford. A scientific or engineering background may be helpful but is not required. Check course catalog for course prerequisites.
Copyright in the Digital Age: This seminar examines how the legal regulation of expression is shaped by the expansion of copyright's subject matter. These include media constructed through such new technologies as digital platforms for electronic distribution of information, transdisciplinary visual art, and music sampling. While the course considers new media, it also is intended to serve as an advanced copyright course for students seeking to pursue studies beyond the general intellectual property class. The seminar will begin with a consideration of the conceptual basis for copyright, its historical development, and comparative law. It will analyze legislative proposals and court decisions, policy arguments, and pose questions about copyright's relationship to participation of the public as informed citizens, privacy and access to markets. Both seminar's deep probing of the underlying principles of copyright law and its focus on new digital media probes the broader question of how legal regulation is transformed in a period of rapid technological change. Pre-requisites: Intellectual Property.
Copyright Seminar: This course is an examination of the philosophical, psychological, and economic bases of the legal protection of intellectual and artistic works. Topics include the term and scope of protection, international protection, the relationship of copyright and the first amendment, the relationship of federal and state law in the protection of copyrighted material, and the impact of technological change such as developments in computer technology, record piracy, and photocopying.
Cyberlaw, Special Topics: This course is a seminar providing intensive examination of a selected set of theoretical and/or practical issues concerning the rise of the global information network. Specific content varies, but there is s consistent focus on the interaction of legal developments and cultural change in this rapidly-developing field, as well as the important role academic scholarship can play in helping to shape public policy. Requirements include weekly 1-3 page reactions to the assigned readings, as well as a term paper on a topic mutually agreed upon between instructor and the student. The term paper may fulfill the Upperclass Writing Requirement. Please note that, because the course takes a cultural rather than technical approach to cyberspace issues, technical expertise or experience is not required.
Cybercrime: This is a course that examines legal and policy aspects of computer and electronic crimes and related issues. The primary focus will be on modern "cybercrime", including the legal frameworks, prosecutorial tools/discretion, and other measures available for deterring, investigating, prosecuting and punishing criminal acts which leverage, target, or otherwise involve modern information systems. Topics will include "hacking," electronic surveillance, the Fourth Amendment and technology, digital forensics, cyberbullying, identity theft, electronic espionage, cyberterrorism, digital copyright and related issues, privacy, the era of "forced disclosure", and the challenge of cross-jurisdiction enforcement.
Cybersecurity and Privacy Regulation: This seminar that explores emerging issues in the regulation of information technologies and the Internet, with a specific focus on cybersecurity and privacy regulation. Students will review and discuss the regulatory actions of the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Health and Human Services, federal financial regulators, and other state and federal actors. Neither a technical background nor prior Cyberlaw experience is required, and appropriate background material will be included to facilitate student engagement.
Defamation, Privacy and Publicity: This course examines the rights attaching to personality interests. To what extent do individuals have the right to control the reputational aspect of personality; to exercise freedom from public exposure, and to authorize commercial use of his or her identity? Beyond the increasingly important role that such rights play in an information society, the subject of this seminar provides a laboratory for looking at the way new rights are created and sustained. Are the rights discussed in the course grounded in the Constitution, common law, or statutory innovation? Defamation has its roots in the common law of slander, privacy rights are traced (in modern American law) to the search of Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis (1890) for a common law of privacy, and the rights of publicity emerged from a privacy tort to a vested property right of commercial exploitation of one's own likeness.
Entertainment Law: This course explores many of the legal, business and policy issues which a lawyer encounters in music, film, television and sports industries. Some of the topics which the course covers are intellectual property issues in the entertainment industry; conflict of interest and other legal ethics issues; contractual rights and relations among entertainment industry workers in television, motion pictures, and recordings, including agency and management agreements; an analysis of the economic structure of the entertainment industry; basics of film and television practice including financing, production and distribution arrangements and agreements; and a survey of the various unions and guilds having jurisdiction over the various personnel in the entertainment industry, including the Writers Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Radio and Television Artists, American Federation of Musicians and Actors Equity.
Entertainment Law, Topics In: This course examines the role of the music industry lawyer within the broad area of law and practice known as 'entertainment law'. Entertainment law embraces a variety of subjects, including but not limited to business law, copyright, trademark, contracts, estate planning, real estate, and bankruptcy. This course focuses on the relationships between recording artists and their managers, agents, and record companies, and how lawyers interact with and advise these individuals and entities, as well as other players in the music industry. Key entertainment law cases are analyzed, as is the critical role of the music lawyer in licensing and protecting song copyrights. Assessment is based on a paper, short-form exam and simulated contract negotiation. Pre/co-requisite: Business Organizations (LAW 7605).
Food and Drug Law: The Food and Drug Administration is the oldest federal regulatory agency. Its lineage can be traced back to 1848 when it was established as the Agricultural Division of the Patent Office. It has grown into one of the most important agencies of the federal government; products regulated by FDA account for approximately 25 cents of every dollar spent by US consumers. Its influence is pervasive, extending to standards for foods, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, and even aspects of consumer products such as microwave ovens and color television sets. This seminar is intended to provide students with a grounding in the basic statutory and regulatory authorities under which FDA operates. Many of the issues to be discussed represent major current policy issues: drug approval standards, food safety regulation, regulation of biotechnology, advertising and promotion (including the tension between the First Amendment and constraints on manufacturer speech), dietary supplements, availability of AIDS and other drugs prior to approval, and FDA's involvement in both the intellectual property and scientific issues surrounding approval of generic drugs and biotech products. The course will require a written paper.
Global Intellectual Property Policy: This two-credit class is designed to expose students not just to comparative and international intellectual property law, but also to students, attorneys, and intellectual property scholars from other countries as well as to WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), the leading organization for establishing international intellectual property frameworks. Students will meet as a regular seminar four times during the semester to acquire a basic understanding of this area of law. Under the supervision of the professor, each student will write a paper of about fifteen pages. From May 19 - 21st, students and faculty members from the Law School of the University of Connecticut and a select number of United States and foreign law schools will gather at WIPO headquarters in Geneva for a comprehensive meeting on Authors and Creators. Students will present their research, and will receive comments from participants. In addition, WIPO officials will conduct workshops. The seminar will examine a taxonomy of business strategies that authors and creators might rely upon to promote and secure their interest in a variety of sectors, including the music industry, visual arts, theater, book publishing, and digital arts technology. Topics to be discussed include, but are not limited to, issues such as publicity rights, economic aspects of author's moral rights, the role of collecting societies, trademarks, best contractual practices for authors and creators, and comparative law. Due to the special nature of this educational experience, all participating law schools are limited to one professor and four students. This course does entail additional costs for travel. However, the Law School will provide a limited subvention to offset these costs. Instructor approval required for enrollment.
Information Governance: Data is exploding. Approximately 90% of the data in the world was created in the past three years. The sheer volume of data needed for the everyday operations of modern companies is staggering. When combined with the complex patchwork of overlapping, uncoordinated regulations, both domestic and international, that predate contemporary modes of data usage, properly implementing policies for data development, preservation, retention, and security emerges as an essential aspect of corporate governance in the modern era. This course examines the myriad connections implicated by this complex tapestry and how these advances have transformed most modern industries and the work of those who regulate and advise corporate entities. This class will cover many issues around data governance, focusing on the implications for U.S.-based corporations, with a particular focus on two sectors: Finance (Banking) and Healthcare (Hospitals). Topics will include data retention and discovery, cybersecurity and privacy, and regulatory compliance. The course will review existing domestic and international legal frameworks and regulations in the data retention realm (e.g., Dodd-Frank Act, Basel Accord, MiFiD II, Bank Secrecy Act, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, Sarbanes-Oxley, Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014), and in the cyber-security realm (e.g., FTC, HIPAA, CLEA, GLB, Tallinn Manual, DoD, FFIEC IT Handbook, Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, the European Data Directive, the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act, Russia's Law on Data Protection and Law on Information). Although the subject matter of this course involves technology, no background in technology is necessary for the class.
Introduction to Copyright: This course explores how copyright has shaped our culture and how the legal underpinnings and emerging technology have shaped copyright.
Intellectual Property: Intellectual property law is concerned with the legal regulation of mental products. It affects such diverse subjects as the visual and performing arts, new plant varieties,electronic databases, advertising, insulin producing bacteria, and video games. This course seeks to mix practice-directed material with public policy concerns. It will approach intellectual property as a regulatory system, balancing incentives to foster human creativity while at the same time seeking not to unduly restrict its diffusion. Since intellectual property is such a dynamic, rapidly changing area of law, many of the cases and statutes discussed are of quite recent vintage. In order for the course material not to become obsolete within just a few years, the organizing focus of the course is conceptual (upon the core doctrines of intellectual property and how they are interconnected) and upon directly confronting the question of legal change itself-how are intellectual property regimes evolving? What new judicial and legislative developments are in the works? And how should we respond?
Intellectual Property in the European Union: This course will analyze the past and present intellectual property policies of the Commission of the European Communities and the European Court of Justice. Topics for discussion may include the concept of international exhaustion, the problem of parallel imports, and European Union harmonization efforts in the area of intellectual property. Readings for discussion will be taken from Commission decisions, Court of Justice opinions and law review articles. An intellectual property course must be taken prior to or concurrently with this course. Also helpful, but not required is the basic European Community Law course.
Intellectual Property Policy: This course will investigate the phenomenon of information flow: how information is created and disseminated, the legal incentives to create and protect information, and the public policy reasons for doing so.
Intellectual Property Practicum: This course is designed as kind of a laboratory parallel to the introductory Intellectual Property class. Intended to supplement the conceptual proficiency developed in Intellectual Property, the Practicum will included training in practice skills such as drafting a confidentiality or non-compete-agreement, conducting a digital trademark search, filing domestic and international trademarks, IP tax counseling for international transfer of intangible assets, negotiating trademark licensing agreements, copyright registration, notice-and-takedown actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), patent landscaping software, and international patent (PCT) procedure. Although the instructor will attend all sessions and be responsible for grading, practicing attorneys will be invited to co-teach individual sessions. Enrollment is restricted to upperclass students simultaneously enrolled in Intellectual Property.
Law and Technology: Computers and the Law deals with selected issues involving the general question of how the new technology is affecting, and is affected by, the law and the legal system. Each student undertakes a substantial project on a topic mutually agreed upon by the instructor and the student, and is required to report on or critique projects prepared by others. These projects may include research papers or the preparation of computer-assisted materials. Research papers may fulfill the Upperclass Writing Requirement.
Law and Cultural Issues in Cyberspace: This course deals with selected issues involving the general question of how the new technology is affecting, and is affected by, the law and the legal system. Each student undertakes a substantial project on a topic mutually agreed upon by the instructor and the student, and is required to report on or critique projects prepared by others. These projects may include research papers or the preparation of computer-assisted materials. Research papers may fulfill the Upperclass Writing Requirement.
Legal Regulation of Art and Public Culture Seminar: This course focuses largely upon public law issues surrounding the legal regulation of art, assigning particular attention to the problem of balancing the interests of owners, visual and performance artists, and the public in creating a system of legal governance. Among the topics examined are the protection of art works through existing intellectual property regimes; obscenity, parody, and defamation; artists' moral and economic rights; museum board fiduciary responsibilities and deaccession; government funding for the arts; reparation of stolen art; cultural property and issues of cultural identity; and the challenge of new technologies for art law. International and comparative aspects of art law will be addressed. The seminar is neither an entertainment law course nor a survey of private art law practice.
Ownership and the Law of Arts and Antiquities Seminar: This course explores the body of law that has developed around cultural property. Our focus will be on the recognition and reconciliation of competing ownership interests in cultural and artistic items. When disputes arise as to the ownership of a cultural object, or when an object is moved, sold or even threatened, the resolution process is usually both contentious and emotional. Many questions are raised: What makes an object special, or comparatively more special than another? Is there a single right answer to the question of where a given object belongs? What interests are to be served in the legal administration of cultural property? How do we evaluate duties to protect and restitute these items? What laws, market forces and institutional policies can be brought to bear on these issues?
Patent Law and Procedure: This course looks at practice and procedure in preparation and prosecution of patent applications, including interferences, appeals, and patent conveyancing as well as the substantive law of patents, patent litigation, including patent antitrust problems, and license litigation.
Patent Litigation: This seminar explores, in depth, the life cycle of a patent infringement action from a hands-on practical perspective. The course will cover how to conduct a pre-suit investigation, prepare a Complaint and select jurisdiction. The course will also cover how to prepare patent-specific written discovery and explore the different facets of fact and expert discovery, including document production, motion practice and depositions. A discussion of Markman proceedings and summary judgment will follow. The course culminates in a Markman Hearing based on a real-world patent and a hypothetical fact pattern. The Hearing will include briefing and oral argument. By practicing the actual mechanics of litigation, students will develop writing, analysis and oral advocacy skills. Prerequisite: Patent Law.
Trademark and Unfair Competition Law: This course considers legal and policy problems in the law of trademarks through case analysis and examination of the Lanham Act. Topics include marks subject to protection, the federal registration process, likelihood of confusion, "palming off," and remedies. At the end of this seminar you should have acquired general knowledge about Trademark law and practice. To that end, the course will examine the case law in the required textbook and will also spend some portion of the time allotted in actual trademark practice--i.e., preparation of a trademark application, opinion work and responses to the Examiner.
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The National Stonewall Museum and Archives is home to a treasure trove of more 5,000 professionally catalogued and maintained items documenting a century of LGBT cultural and social history. A tennis racket signed by Martina Navratilova, gay pulp fiction novels from the 1950s, organizational records from local and national LGBT organizations, film and oral histories are only a small part of the invaluable items gathered there.
Guests can browse through Stonewall's circulating book and film library, which now numbers over 20,000 books and 1,000 DVDs with new titles added each week, or relax in the John Graves Reading Room and peruse the over 60 national and regional periodicals available. The library also houses a separate special collections area to maintain and protect unusual or rare items such as early editions of works from Willa Cather, among others, and signed copies of books by dozens of prominent gay and lesbian authors.
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Stonewall Exhibit at North Regional/Broward College Library Honors LGBT Pride Month
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