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NEW MADRID - Heading into last Friday night's game with Sikeston, the New Madrid County Central Eagles' football team looked nearly invincible, having wasted five straight opponents rather easily.
But the Eagles were upset by the Bulldogs 25-14. Now all of a sudden, NMCC looks vulnerable.
And with traditional Tennessee power Dyersburg invading Eagle Country on Friday night at 7:30, NMCC (5-1) could be in danger of losing two in a row for the first time since 1998.
"From what we've seen on film, they're big, they're fast -- they're quite possibly the best team we'll play all year," said NMCC head coach Steve Rogers.
The Trojans certainly have the resume.
Dyersburg is 6-1 on the season, having won its last six after an emotional 16-14 season-opening loss to rival Dyer County.
The Trojans have defeated their opponents by an average score of 26 to 8.
Dyersburg has already clinched home field advantage in the Tennessee playoffs, the fifth straight year they have made the playoffs.
The Trojans have won 44 of their last 56 games, playoffs included. And they are led by the winningest coach in Dyersburg history in James Counce (51-19).
He has led a once dormant program to two undefeated seasons (1997 and '99), including a state semifinal berth in '97.
That may sound scary for Eagle fans, but Counce seems to be equally concerned about an NMCC squad that may be even more athletic than the Trojans.
"We've got their last two game films so that's what we're going to go by," said Counce. "They look like they're a very talented and a very athletic team. They're not very big but they seem to have a lot of speed at the skill positions and they score a lot of points. We'll have to play well just to stay in the ballgame."
The Trojans are led by a seasoned quarterback in Josh Dye, who combined to run and throw for more than 1,000 yards last season. He has picked it up even more this season, throwing for 350 yards and rushing for more than 500 with 10 touchdowns.
The Trojans are known for spreading the wealth on offense.
Returning 1,000-yard rusher Erick Holland is the top big play threat. He has gained more than 400 yards rushing this year. Blake Jefferies, Roderick Simmons and Antoine Holder are also running backs that might get some carries.
Receivers Orentheus Taylor and Josh Mann are the top pass-catching threats. Both are also starting defensive backs for the Trojans.
Dyersburg also has an outstanding kicker in Joel Miller, who has converted 40-of-42 extra points, including 33 straight at one stretch dating back to last season.
"Their quarterback (Dye) is excellent on the option and throwing the ball," said Rogers. "They've got good speed in the backfield. They've got a couple of good receivers.
They'll run some option, some power, some trap with their fullback, they'll try to toss sweep, they'll play-action. They mix it up some but they're predominantly a running team. They look like the real deal."
Friday night's loss to Sikeston was the Eagles' first home defeat since Nov. 15, 1999 when they fell against quarterfinal opponent Duchesne. And they haven't lost two home games in a row since 1996.
So coming off the team's first loss of the season, Rogers and the Eagles are looking to right the ship fast. Right?
"We're not taking that approach because we're going to rest a couple of guys that have been beat up," said Rogers. "We're getting ready for the playoffs. This is a game where we might get to play some younger guys a little bit and try to get some people healed up. Basically our season starts next week (against Dexter)."
Despite some struggles last week, the Eagles are still averaging 35 points per game. And the defense is only allowing 12 per game.
NMCC is led by quarterback Brian Murph, who has thrown for 653 yards, completing 31-of-69 with six interceptions and 11 TDs. He has also rushed for nearly 200 yards.
Tailback Dereke Tipler leads the team with 795 yards rushing and 13 TDs. Wide receiver Desmond Sims has caught nine passes for 267 yards. He's scored eight touchdowns.
"Their quarterback (Murph) is a real good athlete," said Counce. "He's as dangerous running the ball as he is throwing the ball. The tailback (Tipler) has got real good speed and they've got a couple of good receivers that run and catch the ball well. They've got two or three linemen on both sides of the ball that stand out. They look like they're a real physical football team and look like they're well-coached and well-disciplined."
NMCC's only gauge for the Trojans would be their performances against the Jackson Indians the last two years. In 1999, Dyersburg gave the Indians their only loss in the regular season, en route to an undefeated year.
But last year, Jackson rocked the Trojans 43-14, as they stumbled to a 6-5 record.
This year's Dyersburg team isn't as good as the 1999 squad, but they are considerably better than a year ago.
"We're not as good as we have been the past three or four years, but we're relying on a bunch of young kids and they're coming through for us," said Counce. "It's a rebuilding year for us. We've got 11 or 12 seniors that play. Normally we have anywhere from 18 to 20 seniors that play. We're playing a lot of sophomores and a lot of juniors. We play a lot of kids one way. We have two or three that play both ways, but we especially try to platoon up front with the offensive and defensive line. That could be a factor in the game."
With 1,100 students, Dyersburg will be the fifth opponent this season that has more students than NMCC.
"We play a real tough schedule," said Rogers. "I'd put our schedule up against any other team in 3A. Playing these teams can only make us better for districts."


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PwC is banking on more growth in consulting with its acquisition of Booz. Terms weren't disclosed, but the transaction appears to be among the biggest deals involving an accounting firm in at least the past decade, the WSJ's Michael Rapoport, Julie Steinberg and Joann S. Lublin report. The deal is expected to beef up PwC's fast-growing advisory business and should also help it tap Booz's experience developing strategies for clients. "PwC has made it really clear they're bulking up their management-consulting business," said Tom Rodenhauser, managing director at Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory. The move gives PwC "a real leg up in credibility in terms of business consulting." The FT's Sam Fleming says the hope is that Booz will allow PwC to offer a stronger challenge to the prime end of the management-consulting sector, where McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group and Bain dominate.
But it isn't all smooth sailing. Sarbanes-Oxley bars audit firms from many types of consulting for their U.S. audit clients, so conflicts of interest are almost sure to arise in cases where Booz's existing consulting clients have their yearly audit done by PwC, the Journal says. Meanwhile, former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt, who pushed for rules to curb accounting firms from providing both auditing and consulting services to a client, tells Bloomberg that the deal puts the issue of independence front and center. "As the accounting profession becomes more committed to consulting, their audit activities have got to be questioned," said Mr. Levitt. Some accounting firms "see their future in consulting rather than auditing, and that's unfortunate for America's markets."
And Lynn Turner, the former chief accountant at the SEC, tells Bloomberg that mergers like this raise a serious question: "Are the auditors going to serve management, or are they going to serve the best interests of the investing public?" If the combined firm agrees not to do consulting for companies it audits, "then you eliminate the conflict," Mr. Turner said, but he doubts that will happen. "Do you honestly think Booz partners would turn around and vote for this deal if they gave up all of their clients that PwC audits?"
Exxon is expected to report a drop in Q3 earnings today—likely weighed down by slumping income from refining and marketing. During the second quarter, those so-called downstream earnings collapsed to $396 million, from $6.64 billion a year earlier, Ahead of the Tape's Spencer Jakab notes. Tepid results earlier this week from Valero Energy, a pure play on that sector, don't bode well. Meanwhile, management is targeting volume increases of just 2% to 3% a year in its exploration-and-production, or upstream, output.
Markets flash: Asia ended mostly lower, but Europe is higher on some upbeat corporate-earnings news. The dollar is hanging onto gains spurred by the Fed's statement after its policy meeting (more on that below). And DJIA futures are down.
FASB chairman pushes for consistency. The top U.S. accounting rule-maker signaled this week he wants to focus on improving consistency in corporate disclosures, as the U.S. standard setter starts to move in a new direction. The FASB is wrapping up a decade-long effort to bridge U.S. and international standards. Now Russell Golden, the new FASB chairman, intends to make it easier for investors to compare companies in different sectors with specific financial-reporting needs, Emily Chasan writes. The board's objective is to ensure investors have the information they need to make decisions about how to allocate capital among companies. "That aspect of our mission implies consistency and argues against too much change," Mr. Golden said in comments to a meeting of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy in Hawaii.
Facebook swings to profit, CFO flags worrying trends. Facebook spooked investors with warnings that it may be nearing the limits of one of its most important areas of revenue growth, the WSJ's Reed Albergotti reports. After posting strong Q3 results, Facebook executives told analysts that they may not be able to cram any more ads into users' news feeds, and that U.S. teens are spending less time on the site. The inclusion of ads in users' news feeds, last year, helped propel a big increase in Facebook revenue, but CFO David Ebersman said the company doesn't expect to "significantly increase" the share of ads in those feeds from what it is now. Instead, Facebook will rely on improving the quality and relevance of the ads to drive up prices, he said. Mr. Ebersman also said the number of U.S. teens using Facebook daily declined from the previous quarter. Those worrisome signs overshadowed a better-than-expected earnings report that showed the company swinging to a profit on a 60% jump in revenue, topping $2 billion for the first time.
Former Goldman CFO takes Schultz's spot on Square's board. Digital-payments company Square said that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has stepped down from its board of directors and former Goldman Sachs CFO David Viniar is taking his place, AllThingsD reports. A Square spokesman said Schultz had intended to serve on the board for only about one year; he joined last summer when Starbucks invested $25 million in Square and announced a partnership that made Square the payments processor for all Starbucks credit- and debit-card transactions in the U.S. The addition of Mr. Viniar lends Square credibility on Wall Street, the L.A. Times says. When he retired from Goldman Sachs last January, Mr. Viniar was one of the highest-profile and best-compensated executives in the financial industry. Goldman Sachs is also the lead bank for the Twitter IPO. Square CFO Sarah Friar, a former finance executive at Salesforce.com who also spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs, introduced Mr. Viniar to Square, a Square spokesman said.
Lonmin CFO-turned-CEO talks risk management. CFOs who aspire to be chief executives should take note of Simon Scott's crisis-dominated stint as interim CEO of Lonmin, writes Financial Director's Calum Fuller. Mr. Scott took the reins of the multinational mining company a little over a year ago just as industrial action over pay and working conditions at a facility in South Africa turned deadly. "My interest is broader than just finance—I have a commercial interest and a small amount of common sense and I think all of that assisted in dealing with the situation," Mr. Scott says. At the heart of Mr. Scott's plan to get Lonmin back on its feet was a derisking strategy to guard against labor-force hazards. Managing risk, says Mr. Scott, is both a top-down and bottom-up process, and one integrated into the way business is conducted, rather than a separate issue. Risk management has to be "part of the DNA of the business," he says.
Retailers brace for cut in food stamps. Retailers are bracing for another drain on consumer spending when a temporary boost in food-stamp benefits expires Friday, the WSJ reports. The cuts will fall particularly hard on the grocers, discounters, dollar stores and gas stations that depend heavily on low-income shoppers. Weak spending in that stressed consumer segment has already led Wal-Mart and Target to lower their sales forecasts for the rest of the year ahead of holidays. Wal-Mart estimates it rakes in about 18% of total U.S. outlays on food stamps. That would mean it pulled in $14 billion of the $80 billion the USDA says was appropriated for food stamps in the year ended in September 2012.
China companies line up for U.S. IPOs. China's equivalent of Craigslist, 58.com, starts selling shares in New York today. A strong reception would indicate that investors have become more comfortable with Chinese shares after alleged accounting fraud at a handful of companies hammered some of these stocks two years ago and led to a broad retreat by U.S. investors, the WSJ says. 58.com is the first in a string of Chinese Internet companies looking to debut on U.S. markets in coming months. Early signs seem positive. Both 58.com and Qunar Cayman Islands, which helps users search the Chinese Internet for deals on plane tickets and hotels and also is set to sell shares this week, raised their projected price ranges ahead of their debuts.
Fed stays course, for now. Fed officials emerged from a two-day policy meeting with their easy-money program intact and no clear signal about whether they would begin pulling it back at their December meeting, the WSJ's Victoria McGrane and Jon Hilsenrath report. The latest policy statement implicitly left open the possibility of tapering. But that comes with the strong caveat that the decision depends on whether the frequently disappointing economy lives up to the central bank's expectations. "The housing sector has slowed somewhat in recent months," the Fed said in its statement. All in all, however, officials stuck to their view that the economy is expanding "at a moderate pace" and exhibits growing underlying strength.
U.S. blasts Germany's economic policies. The Treasury's semiannual report says Germany's export-led growth is creating problems for the euro zone and the global economy, the WSJ reports. "Germany's anemic pace of domestic demand growth and dependence on exports have hampered rebalancing at a time when many other euro-area countries have been under severe pressure to curb demand and compress imports in order to promote adjustment," Treasury said in its report. "The net result has been a deflationary bias for the euro area as well as for the world economy." The complaints about Germany's economic model have been conveyed quietly by U.S. officials over the years. The latest venue for the comments were unusual, however, in a report that typically focuses on currencies rather than broader economic policies.
CFTC boosts protection for customer funds. Commodities regulators finalized rules aimed at making the futures markets more secure by boosting protections for customer funds in the wake of implosions at MF Global and Peregrine, the WSJ reports. The CFTC voted 3-1 to finalize a package of rules increasing the amount of collateral that futures firms must hold to cover customer shortfalls, toughening auditing standards and giving regulators access to electronic records of customer transactions and account balances at futures firms. The CFTC also voted to require a firm's senior management to sign off on any significant transfer of customer money.
Diebold, a North Canton, Ohio-based maker of automated teller machines, said CFO Bradley Richardson is leaving the company and a search for a replacement has begun. Christopher Chapman, 39, vice president for global finance, will serve as the company's principal financial officer in the interim. The company also reported third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, which included an unexpected $70 million pretax charge on goodwill in its Brazilian unit. Last year, Mr. Richardson's compensation was valued at $1.9 million, including salary of $520,032, according to the latest proxy.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, a Jerusalem-based pharmaceutical company that trades on the New York Stock Exchange, said Eyal Desheh, the company's executive vice president and chief financial officer, will fill the role of president and chief executive on an interim basis, effective immediately, following the resignation Wednesday of Jeremy Levin after two years in that role. The board of directors has formed a committee to search for a permanent successor to Mr. Levin. His departure comes a day before Teva reports third-quarter financial results. The company's stock was down almost 7% in midday trading on the news.
Ingredion, a Westchester, Ill.-based provider of ingredient solutions to diversified industries, said CFO and EVP Cheryl Beebe will retire Jan. 6 because of family-health issues. She will be succeeded by Jack Fortnum, who is currently president of North American operations. He, in turn, will be succeeded by Jim Zallie, who joined Ingredion in 2010 when the company acquired National Starch. Last year, Ms. Beebe earned total compensation valued at $2.3 million, including a base salary of $557,792 and a bonus of $561,000. Mr. Fortnum's compensation was valued at $2.2 million, including a base salary of $513,542 and a bonus of $553,000, according to the latest proxy. On Wednesday, Ingredion reported third-quarter profits were off 23% from year-earlier levels as sluggish demand and currency impacts weighed on revenue growth. The company's stock was off about 7% in midday trading as investors reacted to the news.

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1. You posted in a ModChip thread;
2. Post in the guide you're following (you are following a guide, right?)
Don't make unnecessary threads.
im a newbie to loading game cube iso's from a usb.. i installed the mios dios 2.8 wad converted usb to 32 cluster, made correct files using DiscEx, launch cfg loader but mios dios is saying i need to update loader. can any one recomend a loader pls.
Moved the thread to a more appropriate place leaving behind a 24-hour expiring redirect in the original place.
To answer your question, links to three loaders that will work with DM 2.8 are included in my signature. enjoy.
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Rilo Kiley Science vs. Romance (Variations on A... Lyrics
Last updated: 01/21/2003 02:46:06 AM
i used to think if i could realize i'd die
then i would be a lot nicer
used to believe in a lot more
now i just see straight ahead
that's not to say i don't have good times
but as for my days
i spend them waiting
crash sites keep me up at night
impact division it splits in two
directly underneath you
as for those things (as for those things)
that act as markers in your life
but in between (but in between)
you can't remember
and so it seems (and so it seems)
that you've grown up and over me (up and over me)
and these silly things (these silly things)
i like to dwell on
test sites keep me up at night
chainlink and meters
i talk to you
it's cold out there
but i'm telling you
i'm lonely too
facts versus romance
you go and call yourself the boss
but we're not robots inside a grid
text versus romance
you go and add it all you want
still we're not robots inside a grid
zeros and ones
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August is here and that means ... starting the countdown to IFA 2014! Manufacturers are lining up to book their press events for one of the mobile world's biggest annual gatherings. Sony is definitely not going to pass up this occasion and has scheduled its conference well ahead of IFA week. Plus, a latecomer to this quarter's photo leaks. But is this the Xperia Z3 Compact or something totally different?
The rumored Xperia Z3 Compact is a rather curious device, if only for the fact that, if the device turns out to be real, Sony would have completely skipped one generation of "mini". However, considering how late it is already, it is almost more probable that an Xperia Z2 Compact will really never arrive. There have been various leaks, both of specs and photos, that point towards that possibility, but this new batch for the supposed upcoming compact flagship has us scratching our heads a bit.
The device showcased in this photoset does look small-ish, but some design details do not seem to match what we've seen before. The placement of the front-facing camera is different, for one, and the sides also look different. Could this simply be a variant or a completely different device altogether? It is possible though perhaps unlikely that Sony also modified the final design a bit. The specs that go with this leak are also quite different and almost sound to good to be true. The screen is a bit larger at 4.6 inches instead of 4.5, but the resolution is also considerably higher, jumping to 1080p from 720p. RAM has also been taken up a notch, now at 3 GB. These are definitely very high end specs, especially for a mini version of a flagship. Though considering how the Xperia Z1 Compact compares with other OEM's mini devices, it sounds almost plausible.
We might not have to wait too long to get the answers to all these questions. Sony has booked a September 3 event, most likely to reveal its second flagship for 2014, as well as, hopefully, this compact variant. Other awaited announcements include a next gen smartwatch. Maybe there's hope that this one will be using Android Wear, but that is quite unlikely as Sony has heavily invested on its own SmartWatch platform.


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Definition of allow in English:
verb[with object]
1Let (someone) have or do something: [with object and infinitive]: the dissident was allowed to leave the country [with two objects]: she was allowed a higher profile
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- Adam reckons I'm not allowed to eat in bed when I move in with him, but we'll see about that.
- Because we are prepared to allow people to make their own decisions we cannot be sure just quite where those decisions will take them.
- Faced with these figures, it beggars belief that the Government is prepared to allow people to drink around the clock.
permit, let, authorize, give someone permission to, give authorization to, give leave to, sanction, grant, grant someone the right, license, empower, enable, entitle, qualify;
consent to, assent to, give one's consent/assent to, give one's blessing to, give someone/something the nod, acquiesce in, agree to, accede to, approve of, tolerate, countenance, suffer, brook, admit of;
legalize, legitimatize, legitimate
informal give the go-ahead to, give the thumbs up to, OK, give the OK to, give the green light to, say the word
1.1 [with object and adverbial of direction] Let (someone) enter a place or go in a particular direction: the river was patrolled and few people were allowed across
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- Legal powers agreed in 1990 allow officers to enter properties and turn off alarms if the owner fails to do so.
- David has some interesting things to say about the game, and the morally dubious world it allows you to enter.
- Thank you for allowing us to enter the throne room of God with our imperfections and doubts.
1.2Declare or decide that (an event or activity) is legal or acceptable: political advertising on television is not allowed
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- The Government has decided not to allow cultural events in the evenings in Lalbagh.
- Swindon Council's planning committee will decide whether to allow the project to go ahead.
- Earlier this month the Federal Justice Minister decided to allow the extradition process to begin.
2Give the necessary time or opportunity for: they agreed to a ceasefire to allow talks with the government [with object and infinitive]: he stopped to allow his eyes to adjust
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- Churchgate will be closed to traffic to allow the event to take place.
- What makes ice so slippery, allowing these fun activities?
- His trembling hand got the glass close enough to his mouth to allow him a sip.
2.1 [no object] (allow for) Make provision or provide scope for: the house was demolished to allow for road widening
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- He said that it might be possible to amend the Coroner's Act to allow for such a provision to be made.
- In some cases the provision which allows for or requires the thing to be done also prescribes that it must be done personally and not by an agent.
- Typically, there will be a provision in the rules allowing for their variation from time to time.
provide for, plan for, make plans for, get ready for, cater for, take into consideration, take into account, make provision for, make preparations for, prepare for, accommodate, make allowances for, make concessions for, arrange for;
bargain for, reckon with
2.2 [no object] (allow for) Take (something) into consideration when making plans or calculations: income rose by 11 per cent allowing for inflation
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- Plan your trip allowing for short breaks and start out fresh by getting enough sleep in the week leading up to your trip.
- A business plan that does not allow for adjustment can end up very far off the mark.
- A wrong calculation allowing for too little time will result in an unfinished work.
2.3Provide or set aside for a particular purpose: allow an hour or so for driving
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- Further questioning revealed that the purpose was to allow flood water to escape more quickly.
- The scarf's purpose is to allow the bobbin case hook to get close to the needle eye and catch the thread to form a stitch.
- The cup of cream for six eggs is there for one purpose only: to allow the recipe to succeed.
set aside, allocate, allot, earmark, designate, spare, devote, give, afford, apportion, assign
3 [reporting verb] Admit the truth of; concede: [with clause]: he allowed that the penalty appeared too harsh for the crime [with direct speech]: 'Could happen,' she allowed indifferently
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- The Federal Court has allowed that treatments are patentable.
- I hesitated, but allowed that we'd do sort of a trial run for a few months.
- He should have allowed that the British Empire was made out of empty spaces or, in India, collapsing states.
admit, acknowledge, recognize, agree, accept, concede, grant, own, confess, accede
3.1 [with clause] North American informal or dialect Be of the opinion; assert: Lincoln allowed that he himself could never support the man
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- He allowed that Social Security was 'the single most successful government program in American history.'
- He allowed that he was going to stay and eat supper with the big old bear.
allow me
- Said when making a polite request or offering help: please allow me to introduce myself 'Here, allow me,' came a woman's voice from behind himMore example sentences
- Hurriedly, she added, "Please allow me to thank you for your service."
- Allow me to be among the first to congratulate you on your acceptance.
- Kindly allow me the courtesy of your columns to convey the following to my Indian brethren.
Middle English (originally in the senses 'commend, sanction' and 'assign as a right'): from Old French alouer, from Latin allaudare 'to praise', reinforced by medieval Latin allocare 'to place' (see allocate).
This was originally used to mean 'commend, sanction' and 'assign as a right'. Both meanings were adopted from Old French alouer in about 1300. The source was Latin allaudare 'to praise', reinforced by medieval Latin allocare 'to place'.
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It's easy to jump into the holiday spirit, espesically when there's a holiday ride to start it off.
Downtown Los Altos was filled with people and activity during the city's First Friday on Friday. This month's theme was "All Aboard for the Holidays," which featured train rides, street music, and a visit from Santa Claus.
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Nonet No.2, H.374 (Martinů, Bohuslav)
It is very unlikely that this work is public domain in the EU, or in any country where the copyright term is life-plus-70 years. However, it is in the public domain in Canada (where IMSLP is hosted) and other countries where the term is life-plus-50 years (such as China, Japan, Korea and many others worldwide). As this work was first published before 1923 or failed to meet notice or renewal requirements to secure statutory copyright with no "restoration" under the GATT amendments, it is very likely to be public domain in the USA as well.
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Prague: Státní Nakladatelství, 1959. Plate H 3022.
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Prague: Státní Nakladatelství, 1959.
Boca Raton: Edwin F. Kalmus, n.d.(after 1991).
Public Domain - Non-PD EU [tag/del]
General Information
|Work Title
|Alternative Title
|Nonet "No.2"
|Martinů, Bohuslav
|Opus/Catalogue Number
|3 movements
|Year/Date of Composition
|1959 February 1
|First Performance
|1959 July 27, Salzburg, Czechoslovak Nonet
|First Publication
|Czech Nonet
|Composer Time Period
|Piece Style
|Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass
Misc. Comments
The composer wrote two nonets; an early unpublished (and rarely-performed) H.144 (1925, Paris), and the better-known H.374 of 1959. One way to tell: H.144 has a piano part. I can only see the first page of this work here, but there is no piano part. I think that's fairly good evidence.
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"The world is a stage, and I will always be one of the principle actors." – Archie Moore, 1966
When looking back on Archie Moore's extraordinary boxing career, we tend to think of him as a kind of traveling one-man circus. He was the ringmaster, clown, magician, and the fellow who would challenge any member of the audience to a brawl. Hands down, he was the most colorful, most interesting and most loquacious fighter of his generation, a sportswriter's dream. But what is sometimes forgotten is that for a few months in 1960, it seemed as if Moore were going to dump the whole boxing gig, light heavyweight championship and all, to become a movie star. That's what many were thinking when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast Moore in a big-budget, Cinemascope and Technicolor version of Mark Twain's most celebrated novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Of course, Moore didn't stop boxing. He had several more fights after his acting debut, including a disastrous loss to a young Cassius Marcellus Clay, but if ever there was a fighter who could have left the Byzantine world of boxing for movies, it was Archie Moore. He had the goods.
Fighters since the days of John L. Sullivan had gravitated toward show business, but few had ever matched the buzz created by Moore's try-out at MGM. Some called Moore's test loop "one of the best in studio history." Moore, 46 at the time, was at the height of his fame in those days, appearing on TV shows like What's My Line? and You Bet Your Life. Producer Norman Lloyd thought Moore would be perfect for the role of Jim, the runaway slave who befriends Huck Finn. Script pages were sent; an audition was arranged.
Director Michael Curtiz, who'd directed such classics as Casablanca and Yankee Doodle Dandy, called Moore's screen test "remarkable." The camera crew reportedly broke into spontaneous applause when Moore finished. "It made me feel good, but I suppose they do that for everybody," Moore said.
Unlike most fighters, Moore wasn't stiff and self-conscious. He was articulate. He could emote. His voice was soft, but with a small amount of grit in it, bred by years of shotgun shacks and hard travel. Could he do the Mississippi dialect? Hell, he was born there. Moore's physical appearance was also unique. If casting agents didn't have a category for aging gunslinger-Buddhas, they created one the day they saw Moore. Then there were the eyebrows, once described by A.J. Liebling as "rising like storm clouds over the Sea of Azov." Punctuating the entire look was Moore's eyes, tiny dark buttons hinting at mischief, wisdom, delight, and danger.
The Finn project, which had been lingering around MGM for nearly a decade, would kick off once and for all with the signing of Moore. "I must have some natural talent," Moore said. "Otherwise these people wouldn't be bothering me." After a pit stop in Montreal to dispose of Yvon Durelle for the second time, Moore began teasing sportswriters about his future.
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Veroustraete, F; Li, Q; Verstraeten, WW; Chen, X; Bao, AM; Dong, QH; Liu, T; Willems, P (2012). Soil moisture content retrieval based on apparent thermal inertia for Xinjiang province in China. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING, 33(12), 3870-3885.
AbstractIn the arid to semi-arid regions of north-western China, soil moisture is the main hydrological driver for vegetation growth. With the launch of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), the local MODIS reception capacity and the strong pressure on water resources in the province, the detection and mapping of soil moisture content (SMC) has become a major issue for the regional water management authorities of the province. In this article, we apply the apparent thermal inertia approach to quantify SMC in the soils of the province of Xinjiang using locally received MODIS data. We report on SMC mapping for the entire province for the year 2005. For the estimation, diurnal land surface temperature (LST (T-sigma)), LST difference (Delta T-sigma) and broadband albedo (alpha(0)) were applied to determine the space-time variability of SMC. The retrieval of SMC was based on the rationale that high apparent thermal inertia (I-tau) values correspond to high SMCs and low I-tau values correspond to the minimal ones. To enable the application of the technique, a new classification of soil texture was established based on an existing Chinese soil type classification. Typically only topsoil surface moisture content is retrieved with thermal remote sensing (RS). However, SMC retrieval for a 1 m soil profile was performed by applying a semi-empirical modelling approach. The model uses a two-layer water balance equation, and its SMC (theta(g)) input is based on its linear relationship with the soil moisture saturation index (theta(si)) at time t. For validation purposes, the automatic weather station and time domain reflectometry (TDR) monitoring network included eight sites in the province, including the Mosuowan and Tianshan snow sites and the Turpan, Bayangburk, Kuerle, Yinsu, Alagan and Yiganbujima TDR sites for which data for the year of 2005 were acquired by the Xinjiang Meteorological Bureau (XMB), the Tarim Management Bureau (TMB) and the Xinjiang Institute for Ecology and Geography (XIEG).
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Speak Chapter 89 Summary
- When Melinda is in her last class of the day, algebra, an idea suddenly strikes her: she's done "hiding" (88.1).
- When class is over, she follows Rachel. Andy Evans tries to get Rachel's attention, but she won't give him the time of day. She has a new boyfriend now, an exchange student from Portugal.
- Melinda is really glad to be seeing Andy get some of what he deserves.
- Andy keeps walking behind Rachel and Greta-Ingrid, but Greta-Ingrid turns and tells Andy off.
- Melinda thinks that Greta-Ingrid has come a long way with her English.
- Next stop: the closet. Melinda leaves the door open a little while she gathers some of her tree drawings and her turkey bone sculpture.
- She needs her backpack to carry the blanket, and she leaves the closet to go get her bag from her locker.
- Somebody hits her and forces her back into the closet, closing the door behind her.
- Melinda is stuck in the closet, with the light on, staring into the face of Andy Evans.
- Andy tells Melinda she's a liar – she messed things up for him by telling Rachel that he raped her. Andy says that girls have sex with him because they want to – he doesn't have to rape them.
- He asks Melinda if she's telling lies about him because she's jealous that he can get dates and she can't.
- Melinda tries to walk past him, but he blocks her and locks the door.
- He pushes her against the door.
- Maya Angelou watches from the poster.
- Andy tells Melinda that he's sure she won't scream, because she didn't scream last time. She's just jealous because he's dating Rachel instead of her. He plans to "give [her] what [she] want[s]" (88.12).
- Andy puts his mouth on Melinda's face and his teeth on her neck. He takes both of her wrists in one hand. She remembers what he did with the other hand last time.
- Suddenly, Melinda screams, "NNNOOO!!!" (88.16). Melinda pushes Andy off her and he punches her in the face. She keeps screaming.
- Andy smooshes her body against the sink. He's choking her. He moves his hand from her throat to her body.
- She grabs for her turkey bone sculpture and throws it at the Maya Angelou poster, breaking the glass of the mirror the poster is taped over.
- This confuses Andy enough that he loses his grip on Melinda. She picks up a piece of glass and puts it to Andy's throat. She wants to stab him, but she's happy with the fact that now Andy is the one who "cannot speak" (88.20). Melinda tells him, "I said no" (88.21).
- Now, somebody is banging on the door.
- Melinda opens it up and sees Nicole with the lacrosse team, and their sticks. They look pretty mad.
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In contrast to the Lost Generation of youth in the West, who were disoriented and disillusioned by the First World War and its aftermath, the Chinese youth born between 1895 and 1905 not only believed they had a duty to "save" their nation but pursued their goal through social and political experimentation. The vigorous purpose and optimism of this Found Generation contrasted with the apathy and detachment of their Western counterparts, who followed a different path in coming to terms with the new world of the twentieth century.
Just after the First World War, sixteen hundred Chinese young men and women traveled to Europe, most of them to France, as members of the Work-Study Movement. Their goal was to study Western technology and culture and utilize this knowledge to achieve "national salvation," and they planned to finance their study at European schools by factory work. While in Europe, many of these students became politicized, partly through their exposure to European political ideas such as Marxism, and partly through the social network based on shared experience that transcended what would have separated them in China. One important result of this political activity was the formation of the European Branches of the Chinese Communist ORganizations (ECCO).
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explores the origins, development, and significance of the ECCO, highlights the differences between it and the Communist home organization, and describes its impact on the Chinese Communist Party. The founders of the ECCO shared values and goals with their compatriots in China, but their experiences and opportunities in Europe molded them in different ways that can be traced in their later careers.
On their return to China, many of the young activists - including Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yi, Cai Hesen, Li Lisan, Zhu De, Nie Rongzhen, and Wang Ruofei - quickly assumed powerful positions in Chinese politics, and their influence is still felt today. Levine's examination of the early experiences of this important cohort of Chinese leaders helps explain their adherence to the Leninist concept of Party discipline and their tenacious hold over central governmental power.
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In the Penal Colony
by Franz Kafka
Analysis: Steaminess Rating
Exactly how steamy is this story?
G…or is it R?
On the surface, the story has nothing to do with sex, though it's got enough in the gruesome violence department to get it at least an "R" rating for other reasons. On the other hand, many people think much more in Kafka is about sex than meets the eye. At times the officer's dedication to the apparatus and what it does to the naked human body does seem almost erotic. Likewise, there's that interesting connection between pleasure and pain, and you might wonder if the officer finds something uniquely pleasurable in the extremely intricate torture of the machine (even before going into it, he does express a desire to try it himself). So yes, there could turn out to be a lot of pretty weird, violent, sex-related stuff in this story, but like everything else it's only there if you start to dig beneath the surface. For a G-rated mind, this story is "G;" for an R-rated mind, who knows?


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2d. Convert a rational number to a decimal using long division; know that the decimal form of a rational number terminates in 0s or eventually repeats.
Like pop stars and fashion models, rational numbers love to wear different outfits. The trick is recognizing them when they've slipped out of their winter fractions into their more comfy summer decimal-wear.
Any fraction with an integer up top and another integer down below (with the exception of 0!) is rational, and we can turn any of 'em into decimals the old-fashioned way: long division. This shouldn't be big news to your students—they've known the fraction bar is interchangeable with the division sign for a while now. The new thing here is that we can use division to switch between rational fractions and rational decimals.
Make sure your students understand that the decimal version of a rational number might not be pretty; it might even be a decimal that's infinitely repeating (like reruns of Seinfeld). The fraction looks pretty chill in fraction form, but dividing it gives us 2 ÷ 3 = 0.66666666… (a.k.a. 0.6), with an endless parade of 6's marching off into infinity. Students should be able to swap between the two forms deftly, like a translator who's awesome at English and Korean.
They should also know that every rational decimal will either stop eventually or repeat itself infinitely. (In fact, they should know that even decimals that stop eventually actually have an infinite number of 0s at the end.) The one thing a rational decimal can't do is have an infinite number of non-repeating digits after the decimal point. That's a weird honor reserved for irrational numbers only, so make sure you emphasize the difference between "non-repeating, non-terminating" and "infinitely repeating." They're different kinds of infinity, ya know?


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- This question is significant because Ruan built her career in the era of silent films, and she herself does not even speak very standard Mandarin Chinese.
- Influenced by Han culture, most Yao people can speak and write Mandarin Chinese.
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- But civil service mandarins already have their defences prepared if they are called before the inquiry to be headed by Lord Fraser.
- A French philosopher had more in common with a Chinese mandarin than with his barbaric Frankish ancestors in the Dark Ages.
- And the spoken Chinese uttered by the Qing emperors' officials and the court mandarins in Beijing was none other than the Beijing dialect.
- To many British people, the idea of a mandarin or senior civil servant will forever be associated with Sir Humphrey Appleby.
- One minister did so, and claims to have been told by a senior mandarin that it was 'disconcerting' for officials to find their minister talking independently to outside sources of advice.
- On front after front, bureaucratic mandarins are deciding how everyday Europeans will live.
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- Tangerines are actually a type of mandarin orange as are clementines, but here in the US, the names are used interchangeably.
- In addition to my astounding mental powers, my most notable physical accomplishment is that I can put an entire mandarin orange in my mouth all in one go.
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I knew Roy had acccidently added a couple of noughts onto his estimate - Blyth Spartans might be interest in him as a reserve striker. Throw in Cisse and sell the double package for ₤50 grand.. these 2 characters sum up the phrase complete waste of money.
Its not 4 months ago you lot were laughing at the £20 million Spurs offered for Jones, saying it wouldn't buy his boots.


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Stage II - Cancer has invaded deeper layers of the lining of your esophagus and may have spread to nearby lymph nodes.
Stage III – Cancer has spread to the deepest layers of the wall of the esophagus and to nearby tissues or lymph nodes.
Stage IV – Cancer has spread to other parts of your body.
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Anushka to play 'Love Aaj Kal' Meera
Earlier it was reported that Deepika Padukone will be playing the lead role in Telugu version aswell. It was also said that movie bosses are also trying to bring her into Telugu version of Love Aaj Kal. Now the news is that Anushka has agreed to play the lead role and soon she will be joining the team.
Pawan Kalyan is playing the lead role, which was played by Saif Ali Khan in the film. Jayant C Paranji is directing the film. Popular comedian Ganesh is producing the film, Trivikram Srinivas is penning dialogues, Binod Pradhan of Devdas(Hindi) fame is handling the camera and other cast and crew are under wraps.
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Definition of infrared in English:
1(Of electromagnetic radiation) having a wavelength just greater than that of the red end of the visible light spectrum but less than that of microwaves. Infrared radiation has a wavelength from about 800 nm to 1 mm, and is emitted particularly by heated objects.
Example sentences
- Terahertz light is a little-studied realm of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwave and infrared light.
- It isn't hot enough to radiate UV rays but it does radiate in the visible and infrared parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- The sight does not emit visible or infrared light (except from the eyepiece) that can be detected by the enemy.
1.1(Of equipment or techniques) using or concerned with this radiation: infrared cameras
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The infrared region of the spectrum; infrared radiation.
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Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is known for running on Playstation 3 and Apple G4s and G5s. Its manufacturer, Fixstars, has now released version 6.1.
The new YDL version includes some major enhancements. Among them is new support for Firefox 3.0 and, coming soon, OpenOffice 3.0 on Linux. And improvements were made to the graphical wireless configuration tool. Thanks to ps3vram, YDL uses PS3 video RAM for temporary storage or swap. The usual home tools are also included: Thunderbird, Ekiga, Pidgin, Gthumb and Gimp. A surprise: Fluendo serves as multimedia player, presumably because of the integrated MP3 support.
Developers should be happy with Kernel 2.6.27 and IBM's Cell SDK v3.1. X.org 1.4.999 is also on board together with xrandr 1.2.2, which does monitor resolution without an X server restart. Add to that the GCC 4.1.2 compiler and Cell Superscalar from Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Yellow Dog, based on Red Hat's CentOS, recently made headlines by being acquired by Fixstars, whose rationale was that YDL is the only Linux system on the market supporting the Cell Broadband Engine.
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The University of the Cumberlands (UC) Women's Basketball team continued their overall stellar play during the 2011-2012 season this past week as they continued conference play by hosting the University of Pikeville Lady Bears on Thursday, December 1 and University of Virginia at Wise Lady Cavaliers on Saturday, December 3.
The Patriots were staggered in the first half shooting only 27% from the floor and trailed the Lady Bears by 2 at the break. However, the 2nd half was a much different story for the Patriots as their defense was stifling and the nets were constantly being shook as the Patriots outscored the Bears 48-19 in the 2nd half to come away with a 74-47 victory.
Senior Lauren Wombles (London, KY) posted a double-double as she finished the night with 22 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists, and 1 block. Senior Jade Howard (Salyersville, KY) added 16 points, 2 rebounds, and 7 assists in the Lady Patriots winning effort.
The 2nd MSC showdown of the week had the Cavaliers of UVA-Wise coming to Williamsburg. The Patriots started the game strong, but only held a 3 point lead at half over UVA-Wise due to a big 3-pointer at the buzzer. Fortunately, the Patriots defense once again stepped up and were able to hold the Cavaliers to just 29 points in the 2nd half as the Patriots pulled away with an 80-66 win to stay undefeated in MSC play at 3-0.
The Patriots offensive attack was led by forward Vernisha Moss (Nassau, Bahamas) who finished the game with 23 points and 9 rebounds, setting a new season high for herself in scoring. Guard Jade Howard added 19 points, 2 rebounds, and 7 assists to round out the Patriots win.
The win was big in more than one way for the Patriots on Saturday. Senior forward Lauren Wombles ended the game with 22 points and 8 rebounds to go along with her 2 assists, 1 block, and 4 steals. Her 22 points takes her to 1,625 career points surpassing UC's number two all time scorer, Hope Peace-Akins who had 1622 points to boast. Wombles now is just 391 points away from setting a new all-time scoring mark at UC that is currently held by Soni Smith (1980-1984) with 2,015.
The Patriot ladies will be back in action on Thursday, Dec. 8 as they host Trevecca Nazarene University with tip-off set for 6pm. They will also travel next week on December 10th to take on #18 Columbia College. Tip-off is scheduled for 3pm.
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Some economic variables are determined by our models, while others are usually assumed to be determined by factors outside of our models. We call the former endogenous variables and the latter exogenous variables.
For econometric applications, the crucial difference between an endogenous and an exogenous variable is that we must assume that exogenous variables are not systematically affected by changes in the other variables of the model, especially by changes in the endogenous variables.
For example, if we are modeling the individual supply of corn produced in a year by Farmer Jones, the endogenous (or dependent) variable would probably be the amount of corn sold. This is the "output" of our economic model of Farmer Jones's production decision. The "inputs" would be the explanatory variables that influence the amount he sells, which might include the market price and the amount of rain that falls during the summer.
Can these inputs to the model be safely treated as exogenous variables? In this case, the answer is probably yes. Suppose that something (other than price or rainfall) were to cause Farmer Jones's production to be higher than normal (perhaps an unexpectedly good application of fertilizer). To decide whether the "input" variables are exogenous, we would have to determine whether this increase in production would cause them to change.
A rise in Jones's production will have no effect on the weather, so it seems safe to judge rainfall to be an exogenous variable. Corn prices could be a more difficult question. However, since Jones is only a microscopic part of the U.S. corn market, it seems likely that any imaginable increase in his production would have no discernable effect on the market price. Thus price can probably also be treated as exogenous.
To see how the exogeneity of an explanatory variables can be a difficult question, consider a closely related model: the supply of corn produced in a year by all the farmers in the state of Iowa. Once again, Iowa corn production would have no effect on the weather, so rainfall is clearly exogenous. However, if Iowa corn farmers increase their output significantly it is very likely to lower the U.S. price of corn. Thus, market price would be an endogenous variable in this model.
The presence of endogenous variables as explanatory variables in our economic models creates significant difficulties for estimating our model. For the present, we shall assume that all of the explanatory variables in our models can safely be considered exogenous.
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A 61-year-old male was robbed around 10:05 a.m. on June 16 in Carmel Valley. The victim was carrying a deposit bag for the Village Nursery and was outside the Bank of America at 3535 Del Mar Heights Rd. A black male came up behind the victim and knock him down and took the deposit bag.
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Batter my heart (Holy Sonnet 14)
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Romance with God
Symbol Analysis
So, in classic Metaphysical Poet tradition, Donne doesn't make anything super-explicit, but it's hard to read this poem without noticing some sexual overtones. "O'erthrow me, and bend Your force" and "[I] labour to admit you" are examples of moments that carry sexual weight.
Plus, the final line of the poem is hard to ignore: "Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me." The speaker seems to try to give a more specific flavor to his demands here at the end of the poem. How about this: in struggling to make what he really wants concrete, the speaker finally admits his thoughts through the entire poem – the closest he can come to describing what he wants from God is through the metaphor of being ravished by God.
- Lines 3-4: "o'erthrow me, and bend / Your force" might be a part of the sexual metaphor.
- Line 6: "Labour to admit you" may be similarly part of the sexual metaphor.
- Line 13: To "enthrall" someone means to put them in captivity or slavery. But, the word can have some sexual overtones, if it refers to being under someone's erotic power.
- Line 14: "Ravish" carries the connotation of "taking advantage of someone," even if it also means the less sexual "fill with delight." This is where the sexual metaphor is most prominent.


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There is a fierce and ongoing debate regarding online file sharing, popularly known as piracy. One component of the debate many people tend to ignore is the vast advantages of pirating content. As the artist of the following comic rightly points out, you will always have access to content you pirate as opposed to DRM-protected content you purchase. Check it out:
…Okay obviously what I've said above is a bit tongue-in-cheek. Anyone that knows me knows I don't encourage piracy and never will. However, the comic artist makes a good point…
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- Shava Nerad
Made me think about rhetoric in modern life.
- Shava Nerad
I'm just saying @ashraf, you are not — I think — serving your ultimate ends with your language around the issue. And this isn't the first time by a long shot.
I'm not saying you should stop writing. I'm saying you should stop using that specific idiom which you've used before and is not the connotation you *mean* to put forward.
Because I think you have influence and reach, I urge you to consider rhetoric as a tool. You are going to be using it whether consciously or not. It's always best to use it with art.
It's very unfashionable today to talk about using rhetoric in writing. It's "inauthentic" — but the fact is that every writer uses persuasive fillips by instinct, training, or formula (the formula ones are the ones who make us cringe — marketingspeak).
The best writers use rhetoric by training in a way such that it looks like instinct, and so move under the radar of the authenticity police.
But really, it's just an issue of proofreading for connotation for most of us to keep our writing consistent with our context and beliefs.
I just hate to see people with activism in their hearts working against their own interests with their own language. As a professional, it grates — a good instrument out of tune.
- Ashraf
@Shava Nerad: In my defense, I meant exactly what mukhi said. In your defense, I could have phrased it more clearly.
@mukhi: Yep. As long as it is civil (which this discussion is) then everyone is free to say whatever they want.
- mukhi
@Shava Nerad: never mind, everybody should be free to express within certain limits…and, dottech is very open to that, right ASHRAF?
i am a scientist, not a linguist but i like your language since i am pretty much fan of beauty of variegated language. ^_^
keep writing please…
- Shava Nerad
@Mukhi – On the contrary I responded precisely to what Ashraf wrote, understanding the connotation of his language. I write for a living and I track the tone of his posts over time. I've worked in the field of online privacy and security, and I have a reasonable literacy in this topic and am deeply familiar with its rhetoric.
I know exactly what I was responding to. Look up my resume if you like.
My objection is equally exact: file sharing is not piracy and assumptive language (a phrase you might want to look up) indicating that it is harms the debate as to whether file sharing should be considered to be legitimate under any circumstances.
It serves the forces that would rather see tracking in every packet, regardless of content, and that kind of escalation is not in the service of the idea that "information wants to be free" — which I think is where Ashraf leans.
Unfortunately, extremism in the defense of liberty is a vice, as it tends to justify those who would tread on rights, privileges, and civilities and bring jackbooted order and control to obliterate our freedoms.
So we all need to be civil and moderate in our language.
Like I just wasn't — see how you are reacting? Language is important. I'm not an extremist but I just got your adrenaline up by using one or two phrases. Just a few words.
So, when I read a blog for a while and see the tone veer into dangerous territory for a while — where it doesn't serve even the bias of the author — I sometimes feel obliged to comment on it (assuming I like and respect the author, and sometimes whether or not I agree with their bias ;).
- mukhi
@Shava Nerad:
"Please stop. Online file sharing is not popularly known as piracy."
please stop commenting without understanding the write-up. please don't misquote him. ASHRAF said, "popularly known as piracy" (means people say, in general), and did not say, "online file sharing is piracy".
IMHO, piracy is a rather complicated term than what most people think it is. it has lot to do with T&C, and it varies from country to country, from group to group and so on. you have given good examples though.
piracy may actually be referred to the materials that you are not entitled to use, modify or transfer without prior consent. unfortunately, if someone strictly adheres to this definition, he may not be able to deal with real life at all. in other words, none can claim that he has never done piracy in his life, knowingly or unknowingly.
i even see pirates claiming "copyright" of the materials he creates, LMFAO.
- Shava Nerad
"There is a fierce and ongoing debate regarding online file sharing, popularly known as piracy."
Please stop. Online file sharing is not popularly known as piracy.
Online file sharing is done all the time in ways that are not known as piracy. They are done with files that are shared with the consent of both parties — for example, an email message that is sent between two email client is sent as a file, presumed to be only for the recipient (however valid that assumption may be) and is transferred from carrier to carrier in trust on its way to the recipient's ISP. That is file sharing.
Companies like Pando make a business of using torrents to fileshare copyrighted material like game programs or large data files to clients of companies all over the world. That is file sharing.
Archive.org is a wonderful repository of public domain and Creative Commons licensed materials that allow the files to be freely shared under open or limited license (for example, they can be shared but not modified, or shared but must include information on the origin). And that is file sharing.
This "piracy" you speak of is only a certain case where copyright holders disagree about the distribution of their materials over digital channels. It's a large case but it is not all cases.
By describing all file sharing as piracy you are dissing the work of groups like archive.org and Creative Commons who are working hard to liberalize practice and laws, and to educate the public on how culture can change the laws to better fit changes in technology.
Please stop. I keep seeing this here and it doesn't help your presumed bias on the topic to phrase things this way.
- Ed
I forgot to mention , I got all the free music i could ever want when Napster was free, I dam near wore my ISP out with downloads 24/7 for practically a year straight before they shut Napster down.
- Ed
You know, I am old enough and have bought the same music SO MANY times over I think I am entitled to pirate !
Seriously , I have gone fom buying music on vinyl, then 8 track tapes, then casset tapes, then CD, now I have to do digital downloads? I think not, the music industry has gotten more than enough of my money over the years.
Those of you that download DRM content, not to worry there are some quite good DRM rippers out there I hear …….. LOL