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May 25, 1921 - July 14, 2012
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Constance Iglesias Glasser of Neversink, NY and formerly of Little Falls & Teaneck, NJ passed away at her home on Saturday, July 14, 2012. She was 91.
Connie was born on May 25, 1921 and was the daughter of the late Remi and Stella Iglesias. She was predeceased by her brother, Victor Iglesias and by her husband, Norman Glasser, the love of her life for 17 years.
A graduate of Farleigh Dickinson Community College, Connie worked at Schulton's in Clifton, NJ as an assistant to the President of the company. She also worked for Singer Sewing Machine Co. as an assistant to the Vice President of the International Dept. Connie's final position was with the Japanese firm Komatsu Corporation with whom she developed a lifelong friendship with the Murai family. Mr. and Mrs. Murai and their children have and will continue to be considered Connie's adoptive family, who are a world away, yet always close in heart.
Throughout the course of Connie's life, she enjoyed worldwide travel, local arts and theater as well as the New York City art and theater life. Her travels with her brother, Victor, took her frequently home to Spain for family celebrations. Connie's travel stories began right after World War II and continued until just before her death. She was also an avid reader who was proud of and enjoyed our local library and all the community had to offer.
Connie is survived by her cherished nephews, Michael Iglesias (Dawn) and Mark Iglesias; her beloved cousins: Santiago Iglesias (Magali), Angeles Mendez, Consuelo Diez (Claudio), Carmen Tejada, Joan Ward (Anthony), Domingo Iglesias (Blanca), Jorge Iglesias (Carmen) and Jose Maria Iglesias (Mari Paz). Connie is also survived by her devoted in-laws: Christine and Robert Glasser, Sylvia and Anthony Santone, Sidney and Mae Glasser; her brother's widow, Dolly Church, as well as many nieces and nephews. Connie is also survived by many loving neighbors and friends who have been there for her throughout her life in the Catskills.
The family would like to thank Thomas and Michelle Dexheimer, Liz Ruhren, Allison and Marty Ruef, Rhonda and Steve Hough and Marie Agnesi for all their love, concern, comfort and support. These are the people that make our community a family and for this we thank them endlessly.
Friends may call at Ramsay's Funeral Home, 275 S. Main St., Liberty, NY on Saturday, July 21, 2012 from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a.m. at St. Peter's Church, 264 S. Main St., Liberty, NY. Interment will follow at the Grahamsville Rural Cemetery where Connie will join her love, Norman, in everlasting life.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Connie's memory to either the Neversink Fire Dept., 7486 Route 55, Neversink, NY 12765 or the Daniel Pierce Library, P.O. Box 268, Grahamsville, NY 12740.
Funeral arrangements are by Ramsay's Funeral Homes Inc., Liberty, NY.


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Presbyterian Heritage Tour of Georgia and South Carolina Lowcountry and Upcountry , April 3-8, 2006
Decatur, GA—Columbia Seminary's Lifelong Learning program is offering a tour of the Georgia and South Carolina lowcountry and upcountry from April 3-8, 2006. Tour hosts are Erskine and Nan Clarke and Bert and Kaye Carmichael. Clarke, who is professor of American religious history at Columbia Theological Seminary, will provide background and stories about the places being visited. His most recent book, Dwelling Place: A Plantation Epic focuses on the Georgia and South Carolina lowcountry. Carmichael is Columbia's director of alumni/ae and church relations. The tour will focus on the historical influence of Presbyterianism in the lowcountry with a return excursion through the upcountry. Participants will visit elegant country churches and cemeteries (both European American and African American) on the mainland as well as Georgia's fascinating Sea Islands. The tour will explore Savannah and Charleston in all of their springtime glory with visits to churches as well as to homes, gardens, and sites of slave markets. The return trip will pass through Columbia with a visit to the mansion that housed Columbia Theological Seminary for almost one hundred years. Following an overnight stay in Clinton, SC, there will be a tour of Presbyterian College and Thornwell Children's Home in that city. Another highlight will be a visit to Due West, the Mecca of Associate Reformed Presbyterians, with its Erskine College and Seminary. For the complete itinerary and further information about pricing and accommodations, or to register for the tour, you may view or print out the attached brochure or call 404 687-4587. Columbia Theological Seminary, located in Decatur, Georgia, was established in 1828 and is one of 10 theological institutions of the Presbyterian Church (USA).
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Second- eliminating the term limits- that is contrary to what everyone else is doing- look at Broward County. It is confusing as hell- anyone can run for anyone's seat? Taking care of Eric here?
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High Tide: From A Private-Public Divide To Sanctions On Corrupt Somalis
A roundup of corruption-related news from Dow Jones and other sources.
U.S. prosecutors have sent News Corp. a letter seeking information about possible payments made by its U.K. tabloid newspapers to British policemen. (WSJ)
More here from Bloomberg.
Since 2005, 70% of individuals charged in FCPA investigation were employees of or affiliated with private companies. (FCPA Professor)
Raymond Baker, director of the anti-corruption group Global Financial Integrity, has written Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner threatening to confront the Republican's campaign donors if he introduces legislation that would reduce corporate liability under the FCPA.
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Money laundering in Colombia totals $8 billion each year, a sum equivalent to 3% of the country's gross domestic product, according to Colombia's interior minister. (TrustLaw)
Swiss banks will have to provide some information about their Russian clients' accounts after Bern and Moscow sign a disclosure agreement by the end of this week. (Russian state media)
Turkey is considering imposing sanctions against Syria for its brutal crackdown on the country's uprising and is coordinating its efforts with the U.S., Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying Wednesday. (AP)
U.S. officials are drawing up guidelines that will allow U.S. oil companies to operate in South Sudan, without breaching sanctions imposed on its neighbor to the North. (Petroleum Economist)
Corrupt Somali politicians could face travel bans and have their foreign assets frozen under tough new United Nations sanctions, a U.N. official said Tuesday. (AP)
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Switzerland's highest court has ordered the retrial of the son of the late Nigerian military ruler Sani Abacha, who prosecutors say may have stolen $2.2 billion. After his father's death in 1998, Abba Abacha and other members of the family controlled the funds. (BBC)
Kevin Ring, a Jack Abramoff aide who was prosecuted in Washington's lobbying scandal, faces a guideline range of 46 to 57 months in prison when he is sentenced next month, far less than the more than 17 years that federal prosecutors recommended. (BLT)
French prosecutors have asked a Paris court to dismiss a corruption case against former president Jacques Chirac. (VOA)
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Dallas County Health and Human Services announced the third human West Nile virus case Thursday for the 2013 season.
The resident lives in the University Park ZIP code of 75225 and was diagnosed with West Nile Fever. For medical confidentiality and personal privacy reasons, the county does not provide additional identifying information.
According to the city of University Park, the victim was an adolescent boy who lives in the north-central portion of the city and suffered flu-like symptoms. He was not hospitalized.
The city sprayed insecticides in streets and alleys near the victim's home last night in response to the reported case.
In 2012 North Texas suffered its worst West Nile outbreak since the virus arrived here in 2002. One University Park resident died from the virus and six others tested positive, according to the city's website.
On Tuesday, a West Nile infection was confirmed for a Richardson man, and on Wednesday for a Grand Prairie woman.
"Dallas County wants to alert the public that the mosquitoes that carry West Nile virus are here and they're active," said Zachary Thompson, health department director.
"Our mosquito surveillance program and the county and municipal abatement teams are taking the appropriate actions to ensure the safety of our residents. However, it is important that residents do their part by taking the necessary precautions to avoid exposure to the virus."


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by Herman Melville
Moby-Dick Chapter 121: Midnight – The Forecastle Bulwarks Summary
- Stubb and Flask work to lash down the anchors hanging over the forecastle bulwarks to stop them swinging wildly loose.
- Stubb teases Flask and insists that Flask ought to be less worried about what might happen to the ship: even though Ahab's behavior is reckless, it doesn't necessarily mean anything bad is going to happen to them.
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From the Bellevue Hospital Center of New York University, New York, New York.
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The management of HIV infection has advanced dramatically since its discovery. The HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS) highlighted the statistically significant decrease in HIV-related morbidity and mortality, which was attributed to improved prophylaxis against opportunistic infections and the introduction of a potent combination of antiretroviral therapies (highly active antiretroviral therapy [HAART]) (1). The results from HOPS and other studies began a shift in the delivery of care for persons with HIV infection (2–5). The initial Agency for Health Care Policy and Research guidelines for managing HIV infection did not discuss vaccination because vaccinating a population that was unlikely to survive long enough to receive benefit was not cost-effective (6). Not only do the HIV primary guidelines now recommend vaccination, but documentation of hepatitis and pneumococcal vaccination are part of the American Board of Internal Medicine HIV Practice Improvement Module that is required for recertification (7). The physician of choice has also changed. Early in the HIV epidemic, primary care providers referred their HIV-infected patients to HIV experts (usually infectious disease physicians or physicians who provided care to more than 20 HIV-infected patients) to manage HIV-related conditions, oncologists to manage HIV-associated malignant conditions, and palliative care specialists. These HIV experts found themselves in unfamiliar territory as their patients were developing age- or sex-specific non–HIV-related conditions, such as hypertension, cancer, diabetes, and coronary heart disease (CHD). The antiretroviral medications were associated with dyslipidemia, diabetes, and neuropathies (8–10). The HIV experts found that they had to either refamiliarize themselves with general primary care or refer their patients to primary care providers. In recognition of the need for a paradigm shift, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association released primary care guidelines for persons with HIV in 2004 (7).
Manfredi (11–12) contributed to the emerging paradigm by suggesting that the life expectancy of HAART-treated, HIV-positive people now approximated that of the general population. He noted the challenges faced by physicians as the HIV population aged and developed common, age-associated chronic diseases in addition to atherogenic dyslipidemias that are associated with HIV infection and its therapies. Other researchers continue to argue whether the metabolic complications that are associated with HIV infection and its therapies are somehow different from the metabolic diseases (for example, diabetes and hyperlipidemia) in the noninfected population. In any case, people with HIV infection are living longer in a state of health in which they may eat more and become overweight and may develop the same consequences of hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and ultimately CHD as those of persons without HIV infection. But the skeptics still ask: "Where is the proof that we should treat HIV-infected patients as if they were subject to all of the ills of uninfected persons?"
In this issue, Sackoff and colleagues (13) answer these skeptics. They report that among those with HIV infection in New York City, the percentage of deaths due to non–HIV-related conditions increased significantly from 19.8% to 26.3% (P = 0.015) between 1999 and 2004. Furthermore, 76% of the deaths due to non–HIV-related conditions were attributed to substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, and age-appropriate malignant conditions. The authors performed a population-based analysis by using data from 2 registries: the New York City HIV/AIDS Reporting System and Vital Statistics Registry. The authors acknowledge the inherent flaws of using death certificates and retrospective data, but I suspect that they actually underestimated the number of non–HIV-related deaths. The authors excluded only 1.8% of the total deaths because of an unknown underlying cause. As a clinician practicing in a teaching hospital, I find that obtaining consent for autopsies has become more difficult, and we frequently attribute deaths to HIV infection when we don't know the precise cause. Nevertheless, Sackoff and colleagues' analysis supports the general impression that HIV infection is becoming a chronic disease and that persons with HIV infection are living longer. In New York City, the rate of HIV-related deaths decreased 54.9% (from 458 deaths to 206 deaths per 10 000 persons with AIDS) and the rate of non–HIV-related deaths decreased by 34.3% (from 120 deaths to 79 deaths per 10 000 persons with AIDS) during the analysis period (13). Despite all the advances in HIV management, many patients with HIV infection still present in the late stages of the disease and experience significant morbidity and mortality. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends HIV testing as part of routine care to identify HIV earlier and get individuals into care before they develop HIV-related conditions (14).
The demographic characteristics of HIV infection in New York City highlight that it remains strikingly a disease of people of color: Only 18.2% of cases in Sackoff and colleagues' analysis were white. Almost 70% of them were men, the median age was 46 years, and 60% of them lived in poverty. Compared with white people with HIV infection, black people with HIV infection were at statistically significantly higher risk for death, followed by Hispanic people with HIV infection. Mortality rates were lowest among men who had sex with men and were highest among intravenous drug users, which may reflect different rates of adherence to care and medications. Advancing age was a predictor for both HIV-related deaths and non–HIV-related deaths. For non–HIV-related deaths, the rate was 19.4 deaths per 10 000 persons with AIDS for persons 13 to 24 years of age and dramatically increased to 268.9 deaths per 10 000 persons with AIDS for persons older than 65 years of age.
Sackoff and colleagues' article provides useful information about predictors of death in HIV-infected patients. By Cox regression analysis, the authors found that the CD4+ T-cell count remains the strongest predictor of HIV-related death, which emphasizes the need to identify individuals as soon as possible after HIV is acquired and the importance of patient adherence to antiretroviral therapy. The CD4+ cell count was also a statistically significant predictor for non–HIV-related deaths, which is consistent with the previously reported finding of increased all-cause mortality in persons with AIDS (15). Intravenous drug use was an important predictor in both HIV-related and non–HIV-related deaths, which may reflect high-risk lifestyles and failure to obtain routine medical care. Although substance abuse was the most common cause of non–HIV-related deaths, CHD and cancer were the most common causes after statistical adjustment for differences in age at the time of death from different causes. Coronary heart disease was the leading cause of non–HIV-related deaths in persons 55 years of age or older, followed by lung cancer, which was responsible for 6 deaths per 10 000 persons with AIDS among Hispanic people and 12.6 deaths per 10 000 persons with AIDS among black people. The New York City average yearly death rate due to lung cancer is approximately 4 deaths per 10 000 residents, upward to 28 deaths per 10 000 residents for persons 65 years of age or older. The high frequency of lung cancer deaths is consistent with an increase in age- and sex-related cancer among those with HIV infection in previous reports (16–18).
Whether primary care physicians and HIV care specialists have many HIV-infected patients or one, they must develop practice routines to assure a high standard of HIV-related care to all of their patients. We have an aging baby boomer population whose members may not perceive themselves to be at risk for HIV infection, so we need to implement the CDC recommendations for routine HIV testing. We need to teach our non–HIV-infected patients how to avoid acquiring HIV infection and teach our HIV-infected patients how to avoid spreading it (19–20). We need to maintain a high standard of preventive care regardless of HIV status, which includes modification of risky behaviors, vaccination, chemoprophylaxis, and chronic disease and cancer screening. We need to treat chronic diseases as aggressively in HIV-infected patients as in non–HIV-infected patients. As our aging HIV population develops other common comorbid conditions, we will have to deal with interactions between HIV medications and chronic disease medications. Finally, we must know how to address the concerns of people who recently receive a diagnosis of HIV infection, especially questions about their prognosis and the type of life that they can expect. Now more than ever, HIV care is primary care.
As I read Sackoff and colleagues' paper, I thought of words of wisdom I acquired through the years of my training: "Never reject the obvious" and "Common things are common." Why should HIV be any different? Sackoff and colleagues point to the obvious: Common things are common. Developed countries are experiencing an epidemic of conditions: obesity, CHD, diabetes, and lung cancer. Physicians everywhere must remember that most of their HIV-infected patients will survive to develop the diseases that plague the rest of us.
Judith A. Aberg, MD
New York University at Bellevue Hospital Center
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Elkins couple Michael and Carrie Kline have spent the last 20 years telling people's stories.
The couple has interviewed and recorded a wide variety of people who have never had the chance to share their stories or realize their importance. The subjects have ranged from the evicted mother to the evicting police officer, from the coal miner to the mine owner, and from local business owners to local musicians.
Their company, Talking Across the Lines, has given the Klines the opportunity to collect oral histories from people throughout the Appalachian region. Their radio documentary pieces have been featured on West Virginia Public Radio, NPR's "All things Considered" and WWVA-AM in Wheeling.
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The Klines have worked to find stories in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Maryland as a way to preserve the Appalachian culture around them. They often record folk artists, who share their music as well as stories.
"It's a double kinda deal, to find songs and then be completely engaged in the singer," Michael Kline said.
The Klines, who also are musicians and performers, said they learn songs from their interview subjects. They often perform them later for live audiences or for other musicians, preserving the folk culture in the process.
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The Klines performed with fellow musicians and friends at the Charleston Civic Center on Sept. 10 when they received the FOOTBridge Award for their dedication to preserving Appalachian culture. The Award is given to West Virginian musicians annually. From left, David Norris, Jane Birdsong, Carrie Kline, (partially shown), Angie Richardson, Sam Hermann, Michael Kline, Joe Hermann, John Lilly and Hannah Musserthurman.
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After accompanying their music with her voice for 14 years, Carrie Kline asked Michael Kline to teach her how to play the guitar. She's been playing for six years now and says she's always learning more.
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The roles are reversed, when intern Miranda Brown teaches Michael Kline how to use a new editing program in the Kline's home studio in Elkins. The two work on a piece of audio from their Mountaintop Removal project.
The tradition of oral story telling became important for Michael in his childhood. He said he grew up with dyslexia, which made it extremely difficult for him to read. When he did poorly in school, he said his teachers assumed it was because of his attitude. Michael wanted to learn, though, and his listening skills became his lifeline.
That importance of oral communication has been a constant in Michael's life. He says everyone has a story, and one question can open up an entire history. Having felt stifled because of his early disability, Michael said he found oral communication empowering and now uses it to empower people who feel they have no story or no right to speak.
"My mission, my intent, is to give voice to people whose accounts of their lives are excluded from the public record, intentionally," Michael said.
A collection of more than 25 CD cases full of hundreds of hours of recorded histories and songs is on display in the Klines' kitchen. The CDs, which showcase more than 20 years of their work, are available on the couple's website, folktalk.org.
In 1984, Michael did a story on The Stonewall Jackson Dam being built in Weston. He interviewed Barbara Hefner, who was being evicted from her home because it was in the way of the planned construction. Her family had owned that land for four generations. Michael got her story, but also got the side of the city marshall who evicted her. He said he shared both sides of the story, which eventually was edited into a radio documentary because for Michael, "everyone has a story." The piece aired in Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties on WVMR radio and was titled, "We're Here to Take You Out; evictions of farmers for the Stonewall Jackson Dam."
This summer, their unique preservation efforts hit a potential roadblock. Michael accidentally shut his left ring finger in a truck door, severing the tip. He has used his left ring finger to play notes on his guitar for the last 50 years of his life. Without part of his finger, Michael said he knew his guitar playing would change forever.
With his finger still bandaged, Michael said he picked up his guitar and changed the tuning of the low E string to a D. This allowed him to play chords with one or two fingers instead of three. Michael began playing the guitar three days after he lost part of his finger, and just three months later he said he plays better now than ever.
"There isn't an ill wind that doesn't blow some good," said Kline.
In addition to sharing Appalachian culture, the Klines say they love teaching other people about their approach to preserving it. They offer workshops, some of which they host in their own home. The couple teaches students of all ages about their work and how they do it. Michael said he enjoys going to elementary schools to teach West Virginia history through songs because he feels a connection with many of the students.
They also have had several interns in the past and currently are working with Miranda Brown, a recent graduate of Mary State University in Kentucky. So far, she has worked with the couple on a mountaintop removal piece. The three traveled to Frostburg, Md., to share a presentation that Brown had a large part in creating.
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DORCHESTER Rugby Club recently celebrated another success with their U14's seven team winning the final of the JP Morgan cup at Bath.
The team won all of their games on the day and delivered a superb demonstration of 7's rugby to convincingly win the final.
The team were lucky enough to be presented with their cup during the half-time break at the Recreation Ground during the Bath versus North Hants Premiership match.
This is the first rugby sevens tournament they have played in and even more rewarding a victory as they were only introduced to this faster game five weeks ago.
As part of their prize they will be invited to Twickenham to watch the finals of the Seniors sevens competition in the summer.
This is the second trophy picked up this season by DRFC U14's who also won the 15-a-side County Cup.
The team are scheduled to play Wiltshire in the two counties cup final on Sunday, April 22nd.
Pictured below with the winning team are From Left to Right, Defence Coach Rich Warburton. Attack Coach Mike Sams, Theo Boyesen, Ben Wellman, Jake Bosher. Dan Allen, Jamie Brown, Jack Warburton (capt), Jack Cartwright, James Thompson, Luke Robson, Caspar Bailey, Toby Ingram ,Ryan Haskell, Marcus Sams, Lead Coach Gordon Harding.
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Your first sliding saw or cyclone might be a Grizzlycomments (2) July 16th, 2009 in blogs
There was a lot of buzz in the AWFS pressroom about Grizzly's new sliding tablesaw, the G0700. With a crosscut capacity up to 34 in. and the ability to accept a full dado set, it is squarely aimed at North American furnituremakers. Though it can't crosscut a full sheet of plywood, it does include a fully adjustable scoring blade for tearout-free cuts of panel goods. And the footprint is about the same as a standard cabinetsaw.
What is also about the same as a standard cabinetsaw is the price tag, a surprisingly low $2,600. This is true European-style sliding tablesaw, with a table that sits right up against the blade and runs on ball bearings and hardened steel ways. It also has a Euro-style riving knife system. The blade cover pictured on this production protoype will be replaced by a clear one, making it easier to line up cuts. Other nice features are an arbor lock for blade changes and cast-iron trunnions. There is dust collection above and below the table.
If you haven't tried a sliding tablesaw, you'll be surprised at how versatile they are. For one thing, you can throw away your shopmade crosscut sleds. This is a lot of machine for the price; you'll just have to wait until the end of the year for the final production models to be ready for shipping.
On the dust-collection front, Grizzly is offering a shockingly low-priced cyclone, which seems to have all the features a hobbyist needs (the G0703), including a 0.2-micron filter for the most dangerous dust, with crank-and-flapper system that unclogs it. The motor is only 1-1/2-hp, but the whole thing is one a roller stand, meaning you can move it from amchine to machine to keep your hose runs short and the suction high. The price tag: $825. And it includes a remote control. Bill Crofutt of Grizzly said they expect this cyclone to be very popular for folks with basement or one-car-garage shops. I agree. This one will be available sooner than the sliding saw, but you'll still have to wait a few months.
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Seems as if I will be really sad if I buy this machine and cut my finger.
Q. I use a woodpeck table saw fence for the great measuring system. Do these sliding saws have anything similar?
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I loved the comic from Duke Law School. It was readable, engaging, visually stimulating, and cleverly referential. As a die-hard Terps fan, I consider Duke an arch-rival (I must mention this on the night of the Final Four… Go Mountaineers!) but I can temper my passions for the purposes of this post.
In any case, how does copyright apply to digital storytelling? Actually, I think that our readings tackled that rather well. Instead, I'd like to ask how digital storytelling affects copyright.
So there are all of these lo-fi, amateur videos floating out there on the web. Are they published? Are they copyrighted? I think that the answer is probably yes on both counts, but it's stunning that this massive volume of content has been published in a way that is completely different than the ways described in the Library of Congress document and the Duke comic. Instead of applying for protection at LoC or letting a production company or distributor handle this task, digital stories seem, more often than not, to be uploaded without any assertion of ownership on behalf of the creator. This new way of self-publishing challenges our older understanding of what publishing even is.
Not to mention that there could be sites out there that might assert ownership over any content that a user might submit through the fine print of a Terms of Agreement during a username registration stage.
The question isn't just a matter of categorization (whether something is published/copyrighted or not) but a matter of culture. Are content creators going to assert their rights? Will they mind if a corporation like Oxygen (NBC Universal) or Coca-Cola uses their content (in excess of fair use standards) to sell their products? Or if someone sells ('pirates') their content commercially? I think that remains to be seen, although I'd like to be enlightened if there's anything I'm missing.


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Out against Berdych
Sorry to say that Roger lost in the semi finals of the Dubai Open to Tomas Berdych. In the first set he was strong and positive winning 6-3, then followed a score line of 6-7(8), 4-6 to see the match finish in favour of Berdych. The tiebreaker in the second set was back & forth with Berdych coming out the eventual winner – at one point our Champ was 5-4 in the tiebreak but could not convert this in to a set win. Berdych then upped his game and went on to win the 3rd set 6-4 helped by some untypical Roger errors. "Pity to lose that one, but Tomas did well to hang in there," Roger said. "Obviously I leave this match with a lot of regrets. "You do all the right things for so long, and then at the end you've got to explain why you didn't hit two shots decent," he said. "So it's disappointing."
What can I say but NO WAY. I am so sorry that you lost the match. Have a good rest before the next tournament and come back fighting fit. It can't have been easy playing day after day without a break. Don't let this disappointment get you down.We still love and respect you.
Lots of love to you and your girls
You now, need to go to Miami to catch some points... i hope to see you there
Anyway you´re still the best player in the world and history... there is no player with your talent


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Barnard and everyone associated with the fledgling International team had been impressed with the side's progress during their first two Grand Prix games.
Sure, they lost to Kazakhstan and the Czech Republic in straight sets, but the Volleyroos showed plenty of the underdog spirit Barnard spoke so openly about in the event lead-up.
On Sunday, it was gone.
"We just did not play very well for probably 70 per cent of the match," Barnard said.
"There were spurts there, but we were physically outmatched. We made way too many errors. The experience of being resilient, of going through that a lot of times and learning how to get out of it, we haven't learned that."
Barnard took the decision to give the players the morning off from training ahead of the Croatia game because he was worried about burn out.
He's now not sure that was the right call.
"Maybe we should have pushed through it," he said.
"But in the back of my mind I know they don't play and train all the time, so it's very easy to train them into the ground. Part of the intention today was to have them rest. I'm just not sure what the correlation between not doing anything this morning and the result this afternoon."
The reality is this is a steep learning curve for the Volleyroos, and anyone who follows the sport in Australia knows this is the first step down a long and winding road.
Volleyball Australia President Craig Carracher knows.
"Let's remember this is off the back of a decade of limited support," he said after Sunday's loss.
"This is the start of a rebuilding process, a process to create opportunity for a generation of players and coaches and administrators and officials.
"There are 200 countries playing women's volleyball, and this was always going to be a long road. But we can't not start the journey just because we know it's a long and difficult one."
Australia has the nucleus of a very good volleyball team, and with several players about to head to overseas leagues, and with several more hoping to follow, there is going to be more consistent exposure to the best.
But there are also a handful of players contemplating retirement. Some are listening to the protests of their own bodies, others are finding it difficult to balance full-time jobs with the commitment needed to play at the top level.
Which will leave enormous holes to fill. All the more reason Australia needs this Grand Prix experience to work.
Judging by the reaction of younger squad members like Nikki Cunningham and Jess Ryder, it's a good news story so far.
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The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has released a new information paper that explores the needs of users and preparers of the financial reports of micro-entities. Entitled Micro-Entity Financial Reporting: Perspectives of Preparers and Users, the paper comprises a review of the existing research on the topic, a survey of the legal status of micro-entities in different countries, and the various definitions that exist in different jurisdictions.The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has released a new information paper that explores the needs of users and preparers of the financial reports of micro-entities. Entitled Micro-Entity Financial Reporting: Perspectives of Preparers and Users, the paper comprises a review of the existing research on the topic, a survey of the legal status of micro-entities in different countries, and the various definitions that exist in different jurisdictions.
The research was prompted by a concern that the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB) proposed accounting standard for SMEs, International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-Sized Entities (IFRS for SMEs)*, may not be suited to micro-entities, which for the purpose of this study are defined as those with less than ten employees. The IASB's proposed IFRS for SMEs is expected to be released as an exposure draft in late December 2006 or January 2007.
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- The cost/burden implications of new regulation on the smallest entities;
- The issue of enforcing such regulations;
- The increasing demands of users of micro-entity reports; and
- Issues of literacy and training in some developing countries.
The research contained in the paper was undertaken by Dr. Suki Sian of the Cardiff Business School, Wales and Professor Clare Roberts of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. In their findings, the researchers state, "Very little research has been previously conducted looking specifically at micro-entities as these tend to be subsumed in the term SME. Furthermore much of the published literature is restricted to studies conducted in developed countries and does not reflect the very different environment in which micro-entities operate in developing, emerging or transition economies." They conclude that "This gap in the literature indicates that this is an area that is ripe for further in-depth examination and research."
IFAC is considering undertaking further research in this area, in particular, to investigate whether the proposed IFRS for SMEs is likely to meet the needs of users of financial reports of micro-entities. IFAC is also encouraging its member bodies and regional accountancy organizations to respond to the IASB's exposure draft on IFRS for SMEs.
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by Henry M. Tichenor
Foreword by Robert Merciless
Underworld Amusements is proud to announce the release of a long-forgotten historic masterpiece of anti-religious social commentary, "The Sorceries and Scandals of Satan".
Henry M. Tichenor was a writer and magazine editor prominent in the socialist and freethinking movements during the Progressive Era of American history. His writings frequently condemned organized religion, Christianity in particular, as a tool used by the upper classes to maintain control over the working class. In the realm of opposition to religion, he has been ranked beside Clarence Darrow and Madalyn Murray OHair as a leading American freethinker of the twentieth century.
In "The Sorceries and Scandals of Satan", Tichenor employs the figure of Satan as a literary symbolic character to represent rebellion against tyranny — a symbolism with a robust tradition in literature and political works. In his book, the character symbol of Satan is employed as a foil against which to compare the horrors of organized religion, especially Christianity More importantly, however, Tichenor reminds us all that there was a time in American history that open skepticism and opposition to religion was a major facet of social political discourse so American's certainly should not shy away from it today. Vocal opposition to religion is not novel or new.
Released on the 122nd Anniversary of the publishing of Nietzsche's "The Anti-Christ", and the 2nd Annual International Blasphemy Rights Day – a commemoration of the publishing of the Danish cartoons of Muhammad.
"Some 'Debsians' who think of Eugene Debs only as a pioneer labor and Socialist Party leader may not be aware of some of his more radical associates. The unifying concerns of all these social reformers was an anti-establishment awareness of the role of religion in helping provide a moral basis for inequality, justified earlier in the divine right of kings, then in the superior rights of the capitalist ownership class over the workers. For men like Debs, trade unions and eventually a Socialist society were the mechanism. These were men who by and large emphasized the programmatic aspects of the movement. Others were popular literary figures such as Jack London, Lincoln Stephens and Upton Sinclair. Others, including Henry Tichenor, were poets, essayists and pamphleteers who in their writing attacked the mindset which caused workers to accept their powerless and exploited state. They focused on the role which organized religion played in shaping this world view. There is a literary tradition going as far back as John Milton in his "Paradise Lost" which portrays Satan as, not the evil demon of Christianity, but as the advocate of pleasure, personal freedom and equality. By late 19th and early 20th century, the focus had shifted from ridding society of the tyranny of kings as in Milton's work, to liberating it from the capitalism born of the industrial revolution. Marx expressed the role of religion in justifying structured inequality by referring to it as the 'opiate of the masses.' Tichenor chooses in the 'Sorceries and Scandals of Satan' to develop the fictional struggle of 'good' and 'evil' from the vantage point of a 'Good-seeking' persona called Satan. Today we are spoiled to get our social criticism lite, perhaps from TV satirists such as Steward and Colbert, but we can be enticed at times to read a book which appears interesting. The books by Tichenor are a challenge worth undertaking, and we are fortunate to have this lesser known of his books re-released. It is fortunate also to have included the highly informative 21 page Foreword by Robert Merciless. Don't dig into the text without first reading the Merciless essay which locates Tichenor's work in the late 19th and early 20th century progressive movement. You may want to go back and read it again once you have finished the book."
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"Tichenor's "The Sorceries and Scandals of Satan" is a withering and ironic indictment of Christianity wrought with passion and wry humor. Slaughter's handsome re-publication resurrects an almost forgotten monument of diabolical rhetoric. Exposing the lunacy inherent in twisted tales of Christian saints and surreal biblical fables, Tichenor climaxes the book by detailing the horrors of European persecution of heretics and the murderous madness of the New England witch trials. He extols anti-Christian writing from Milton to Ingersoll with deft quotations, and even champions the pagan Greek deities over the foul phantasms enshrined by Christ-lovers. The informative foreword by R. Merciless places this classic of free-thought in a historical context, listing predecessors and descendants, offering a pithy guide to literate thinkers who have embraced Satan as an image inspiring joy in life and liberty of mind."
-Peter H. Gilmore
High Priest, Church of Satan
Author of The Satanic Scriptures
"In the forward to the new edition of SaSoS, Merciless discusses the author, Henry M. Tichenor, known today only to a few scholars, mostly in the study of Socialism. Meticulous research into Tichenors life and works is presented in the foreword of this "lost" work, and Merciless puts the book into the context of Tichenors lifetime, and into today. Those who research the areas of freethought, atheism, non-theism and works controversial to organized religion should read this work."
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Have you ever watched a woman (or man) park in a handicapped parking spot and then you see her get out and walk into a building? Perhaps people around you may also be watching. . . and doubting that she has any kind of health issue.
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Ship emitted NO2 in the Indian Ocean: comparison of model results with satellite data
- DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-7289-2009
The inventory of NOx emission from international shipping has been\nevaluated by comparing NO2 tropospheric columns derived from the\nsatellite instruments SCIAMACHY (January 2003 to February 2008), GOME\n(January 1996 to June 2003), and GOME-2 (March 2007 to February 2008) to\nNO2 columns calculated with the atmospheric chemistry general\ncirculation model ECHAM5/MESSy1 (January 2000 to October 2005). For both\nmeasurements and model consistently the tropospheric excess method was\nused to obtain mean NO2 columns over the shipping lane from India to\nIndonesia, and over two ship free regions, the Bay of Bengal and the\ncentral Indian Ocean. The long-term data set from SCIAMACHY yields the\nfirst monthly analysis of ship induced NO2 enhancements in the Indian\nOcean. Comparison of data from the three instruments and in addition OMI\nreveals differences between the datasets which are discussed with\nrespect to the diurnal cycle of NO2 and the increase in shipping traffic\nover the time period studied.\nIn general, the model simulates the differences between the regions\naffected by ship pollution and ship free regions reasonably well. Minor\ndiscrepancies between model results and satellite data were identified\nduring biomass burning seasons in March to May over India and the\nIndochinese Peninsula and August to October over Indonesia. We conclude\nthat the NOx ship emission inventory used in this study is a good\napproximation of NOx ship emissions in the Indian Ocean for the years\n2002 to 2007. It assumes that around 6 Tg(N) yr(-1) are emitted by\ninternational shipping globally, resulting in 90 Gg(N) yr(-1) in the\nregion of interest when using Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue\nSystem (AMVER) as spatial proxy. A second model run using lower ship\nemissions estimates of 3-4 Tg(N) yr(-1) globally results in poorer\nagreement with the satellite data.
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The Grrreat Escape: Accused Dog Goes Missing
In Salem, Mo., a tiny city in the heart of the Ozarks, there's one question on everybody's mind. Where's Phineas?
For the past year, residents there have agonized over the fate of Phineas, a 4-year-old yellow Labrador who was sentenced to death for allegedly biting a little girl.
His owners maintain that Phineas is innocent, saying he's a friendly, tail-wagging dog, not the vicious animal authorities made him out to be. The dog's plight and legal limbo captivated the town, turning him into a canine célèbre and launched Internet campaigns to rescue him.
But then Phineas disappeared.
Days before his owners were scheduled back in court to argue once more for his life, someone snatched him from a veterinary clinic where he had been held in custody.
Authorities aren't sure who nabbed the yellow Labrador retriever, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
There were no signs of a burglary. The dog was just gone. And in a town where strong feelings about the case are common; 'Phineas for Mayor' bumper stickers have been seen; and Phineas billboards along Interstate 44 beg 'Don't let Salem, MO kill me,' the list of possible suspects is long.
And in the latest twist, the owners and their lawyer say they got an anonymous letter from someone claiming Phineas was safe. "If I were on death row I wouldn't want my fate in the hands of a judge. So Phineas is now safe and happy playing with friends," the letter said, according to the newspaper.
The owners, Patrick and Amber Sanders, have been petitioning a judge to reverse an earlier ruling against the dog, citing a Missouri rule of civil procedure that allows a party under extraordinary circumstances to void a judgment that was based on a mistake.
Law Blog reached out to the mayor's office, which is prosecuting the case, for comment and is waiting to hear back.
The dog was accused of biting a 7-year-old girl playing near their home. The girl's mom told police that the dog had been involved in two other biting incidents, according to court records. The police relayed her claim to Salem's mayor who ordered the dog euthanized last July. But the girl and her older sister later testified that the two other alleged bites never happened, court records say. Her older sister testified that Phineas had merely nibbled on her arm while being petted.
A forensic examiner and another witness, reviewing photographic evidence, also testified that the shape of the alleged chomp was inconsistent with a typical dog bite and much too small to have been made by a dog the size of Phineas.
"We proved it wasn't his bite," Ms. Sanders told Law Blog.


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After more than eight months of back and forth between Talbots (NYSE:TLB) and Sycamore Partners, we're now closing in on a final resolution for shareholders. They buyout price of $2.75 would give current shareholders a 10% return should the transaction close.
Why the large spread? This merger has been unique and presents a variety of risks. Sycamore Partners has been pursuing Talbots for nearly a year. In November 2011 Sycamore gained a controlling interest in TSAM Global Fashions, a large apparel sourcing organization. It's believed that there will be certain synergies between TSAM and Talbots that made Talbots more attractive as an acquisition target for Sycamore.
Here is the history between Sycamore Partners and Talbots:
August 1, 2011: Sycamore announced they owned nearly 7 million shares of Talbots
December 5, 2011: Talbots announced that CEO Trudy Sullivan would retire when a successor was found.
December 6, 2011: Sycamore proposed a $3.00 per share buyout and suggested the offer could be raised if Sycamore were allowed to perform proper due diligence.
December 20, 2011: Talbots notified Sycamore that the offer was rejected and that Talbots was exploring a sale.
January 27, 2012: Talbots and Sycamore entered into a confidentiality agreement so Sycamore could perform due diligence.
February 24, 2012: Sycamore submitted an indication of interest for $3.00 per share and opened the door for a minority equity investment.
April 20, 2012: Sycamore submitted a new offer of $2.65 per share.
May 2, 2012: Sycamore once again altered their offer, this time to $3.05 per share.
May 9, 2012: Talbots finalized its Q1 financial results.
May 22, 2012: Sycamore withdrew its $3.05 offer.
May 29, 2012: Sycamore submitted a new offer of $2.75 per share.
May 30, 2012: Talbots accepted the offer and finalized the terms.
June 15, 2012: Sycamore commenced the tender offer at $2.75 per share.
It's no surprise that investors are still factoring in a high chance of failure. Since Sycamore Partners' first public indication of interest on August 1, 2011, the share price has whipsawed between $4.07 and $1.28. After Sycamore pulled their offer in late May, shares dropped to 52 week lows.
In the latest incarnation, shareholders have until July 13 to elect to tender their shares to Sycamore Partners. Sycamore has announced that they've obtained financing. If it falls through, there is an $11 million breakup fee.
If the deal does fall through, shares would plunge. Furthermore, there doesn't appear to be interest from any other suitors. Sycamore seemed to know this with their frequent offer adjustments.
If the deal goes through, investors buying at today's prices will see a tremendous return. The transaction will close this quarter. With a 10% spread, that gives an annualized return north of 40%. I believe the transaction will be completed. Financing appears secure, and Sycamore has no further ability to adjust the price short of backing out of the deal. There should be no further surprises from Talbots concerning their financial status over the next two months.
Because of the history of this deal, it's prudent to allocate a smaller position size than normal because of the risk. That's what I've done. The completion of the transaction is surely no slam dunk, but I believe there is an additional, unwarranted, risk premium attached to it because of what has occurred over the last six months. Of course, do your own homework. You might want to start with the tender offer agreement, which can be found here.
Disclosure: I am long TLB.


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Man defends decision to shoot dog, saying it had killed his chickensUPDATED 7:45 PM EDT Jul 11, 2013
His shot was on target, but James Eggleston has come under fire after shooting and killing a neighbor's dog with a bow and arrow.Video Transcript
PRACTICE WITH HIS BOW AND ARROW. GOOD EVENING, I'M MIKE DARDIS. AND I'M SHEREE PAOLELLO. A MAN... KILLED HIS NEIGHBOR'S DOG... AFTER IT CAME ONTO HIS PROPERTY. AND ATTORNEYS SAY ... HE PROBABLY WON'T BE CHARGED. WLWT NEWS 5'S BRIAN HAMRICK.... LEADING THE WAY... WITH THE STORY YOU SAW FIRST ON WL-WT. HE HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED BY BOONE COUNTY DEPUTIES... AND CHANCES ARE SLIM THAT HE WILL BE ... ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS CASE... AS BIZARRE AS IT IS. HIS SHOT WAS ON TARGET... BUT JAMES EGGLESTON HAS COME UNDER FIRE AFTER SHOOTING AND KILLING A NEIGHBOR'S DOG WITH A BOW AND ARROW. (james eggleston/neighbor "i just yelled at it a whole lot and it came back and started coming towards me with its hair standing up...") WE BROKE THE STORY ON WLWT- DOT-COM... EGGLESTON SAYS THE HUSKY NAMED UCONN ... HAD ATTACKED AND KILLED HALF OF HIS CHICKENS LAST MONTH... THEN WHILE HE WAS TARGET-SHOOTING IN HIS BACK YARD... HE SAYS IT CAME BACK CHASING THEM AGAIN... ATTACKING HIS DOG... THEN HE SAYS IT CAME AT HIM... (james eggleston/neighbor "it got close enough to me where i took an arrow and stabbed at it and it backed up and was coming towards me again and i just pulled back and shot.") (sonia/dog owner im heartbroken this was a member of our family.") SONIA AND GUS ARE THE DOG'S OWNERS. THEY SAY UCONN GOT OUT... THEY WERE CHASING NOT FAR BEHIND... ALONG WITH THEIR HER SON... WHEN UCONN WAS SHOT. (sonia/dog owner "i understand he was on their property but what if he had missed and shot my son my son was within feet on the other side of this brush) EGGLESTON HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED AND LEGAL EXPERTS SAY... UNLIKELY THAT HE WILL BE... (mark krumbein/attorney "It would become criminal only if he were cruel to that animal... and I doubt defending himself would be cruel to an animal.") (jason phillabaum/attorney "If you believe that a dog is going to attack you...then you can terminate that dog...") JASON PHILLABAUM IS A FORMER PROSECUTOR... HE SAYS YOU CAN PROTECT YOURSELF AND EVEN YOUR PROPERTY FROM A DOG ATTACK... AND WHILE A CIVIL SUIT COULD BE FILED... THAT COULD END UP BITING THE OWNER. (jason phillabaum/attorney "lets say the family sues him for the loss of the dog... then he would likely sue them for the loss of the live stock.") DISCHARGING A WEAPON CAN BE A CRIMINAL CHARGE IN CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS ... EVEN A BOW AND ARROW.... BUT THERE IS NO LAW AGAINST IT IN THAT PART OF BOONE COUNTY. SHEREE...
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a1 Geology Department, Chelsea College (University of London), 552 Kings Road, London SW10 OUA, England.
a2 Laboratoire de Paleobotanique, L.A. 327 CNRS, Institut des Sciences de L'Evolution, U.S.T.L. 34060 Montpellier, France.
a3 Geology Department, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland.
Twelve localities of Lower Carboniferous strata in Scotland (Loch Humphrey Burn, Glenarbuck, Pettycur, Oxroad Bay and the Berwickshire localities of Cove, Burnmouth, Gavinton, Edrom, Foulden) and in France (Esnost, Roannais, Montagne Noire) have been investigated with particular regard to their anatomically preserved floras. New data on the composition and preservation of the assemblages, their geological setting and stratigraphical age, using palynology in particular, are presented. Present data suggest that four successive groups of floras obtained from these localities can be recognised: from the Montagne Noire (mid to late Tournaisian), from the Berwickshire localities and Oxroad Bay (late Tournaisian to early Viséan), from Loch Humphrey Burn and possibly Glenarbuck (mid Viséan) and from Roannais, Esnost, and Pettycur (late Viséan). The similarities and differences between the floras are discussed with particular emphasis on stratigraphical as opposed to ecological controls. Comparisons are made with the New Albany Shale floras of the U.S.A., the Saalfeld and Glätzish-Falkenberg floras from the German Democratic Republic. The data suggest that the ferns and pteridosperms show the most striking changes through the Lower Carboniferous strata.
(Received August 12 1982)
(Accepted August 29 1984)


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chacaman wrote:ok, i am working now on the pluging.
in this moment i have new version with the next commands:
#-Video Settings-#
Shutdown PC Windows
Shutdown PC Windows Restart
Shutdown PC Windows Hibernate
Shutdown PC Linux
Shutdown PC Restar Linux
Shutdown PC Linux Hibernate
The linux command Shutdown and Restar work on all linux
Hibernate is only for ubuntu.
ubuntu user have to install:
1 - apt-get install hibernate.
2 - modified the file /etc/sudores
3 - in the last line add <yuor_user_name> ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hibernate , /usr/sbin/hibernate-ram
PMSv2.JAR Turnf Off PC From PS3 v2
Test on PS3 Media Server 1.20.401
Note: Download the file make a backup of you old pms.jar and copy the new file to the ps3 folder
Minor update
Now i put a new version
1 - all shutdown options in the folder: #- Computer Options -#
2 - Sleep Mode for Windows.
some new change soon
and more utilits


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Product Description
Each player plays the part of the owner and chef of a restaurant, who is competing with other restauranteurs to provide the best selection of meals and make the most profit.
Players must collect ingredients which make up complete meals and then claim the recipe as their own, and earn the money for it. It is possible to use other players' recipies, but the rewards are less. At the end of the game there are bonuses paid for the restaurant which specialises most successfully in each of 5 types of cuisine, and penalties for restaurants which do not provide a vegetarian option!
Beware, the restaurant business is a harsh one, and it is quite possible to lose money. Watching your cash flow is very important, and unused ingredients are worthless at the end of the day.
Product Information
Andy Merritt
Andy Merritt
Year: 2001
Players: 3 - 5
Time: 60 - 90 minutes
Ages: 12 and up
Weight: 330 grams
Language Requirements: Game components are printed in English. Manufacturer's rules are printed in English.
- game board
- 20 recipe cards
- 60 ingredient cards
- 4 information sheets
- 2 game progress cards
- turn marker (large nut)
- game money (beans)
- rules
Product Reviews
Average Rating: 4 in 1 review
We played this game for several time, and think it is an interesting game. During the game, you need to use indegrients to make your meal, and the ingredients mainly gets by bidding it among players.
All the ingredients and the meals are real, that means you can find them in the real world. Once I play this game with my friends, they said the dishes are very delicious.
One disadvantage to this game is that the decision maling is quite long -- as you need to refer to both ingredient and dishes quite often to see if they are match, so you will be familiar most of them by playing lots of times.
For designer/publishers the process has three stages. First, you have this great idea for a game. Then you alienate your friends and relatives by pressuring them into innumerable playtests of versions that "aren't quite there yet". Finally, when you are convinced that your creation is now perfect, you give a large cheque to a printer. Your rewards, which you will only get if you were right in your estimate at stages 1 and 3, are that your friends will eventually forgive you and that financially you will break even. If you weren't right, all you get is a storage problem and a lot of pitying looks.
One of the most recent to chance his arm is Andy Merritt, a name that will be familiar to readers of G3, where he was one of the regular reviewers, and he has come up with a game more than good enough to ensure that he will clear his costs and that the storage problem doesn't arise.
Viewed abstractly, Too Many Cooks is a bidding and collecting game. Players buy items (usually by auction) and then have to form them into prescribed sets before they can sell them again. The items are food ingredients, the sets recipes and the idea is that players are taking on the role of the chef/proprietor of a restaurant. The restaurant business is a very competitive one where it is very easy to lose money and that is how it works out here also.
The start of the game sees each player with their starting cash and with the two decks of cards (recipes and ingredients) face down in the middle of the table. A number of recipe cards (3 more than the number of players) are then turned face up. These are the initial targets that players have to aim for and more will not appear until at least some of these have been claimed.
On your turn you may do one of four things:
- purchase 2 randomly chosen ingredients;
- auction 2 ingredients from the deck;
- auction 2 ingredients from your hand;
- fill an empty recipe space.
To purchase 2 randomly chosen ingredients costs you 10 and you just take the top two cards from the deck. It is an option that people tend to go for at the start of the game, when they don't yet know what they want to collect and are relying on fate to point them in a direction. Later, when they already have partly completed sets for a recipe, they are more likely to take the second option, for with this one you have a choice. The procedure is that you take the top 4 cards from the deck and select 2 of them. The ones you didn't choose are placed face down on the discard pile and the pair you did are auctioned off -- a "once round" affair, beginning with the player on your left.
Selling stuff from your hand is something you do either if you are short of money -- an easy state to get into -- or if you are nearing the end of the game and are holding ingredients that you are unlikely to be able to use. The bank will take the two you offer for 5 if no one bids higher than this. What you get will almost certainly be less than what you paid for them in the first place but (1) what do you expect for second-hand mushrooms? and (2) ingredients left in your hand when the game ends will be valueless.
Replenishing the stock of available recipes is another case of "drawing several and choosing one" and is something you will do when you have the ingredients for a dish whose card has yet to appear. Take the top three cards, pick one and place the other two back at the bottom of the deck. If you are unlucky, the card you choose will be placed with the other face-up ones on offer; if you are more fortunate, you will produce the required ingredients from your hand and claim it.
And that brings me to how you make money in this game -- so far all we have been doing is either spending it or cutting our losses. Each recipe card carries a reward, which will go to the first player who "makes the meal", something they do by playing the ingredient cards from their hand, taking the recipe card and placing it in front of them. The size of the reward is determined by the number of ingredients required and their rarity. At the bottom end are 2-ingredient recipes, which bring you a pay-off of about 10, and at the top are 4-ingredient ones, where the range is 28-35. A recipe can be made more than once, but the reward for the second and subsequent players is less and the card stays with the player who first claimed it -- an important point because the scoring at the end involves the cards as well a player's cash.
The game ends when the ingredients deck is exhausted for the third time and here you will find that the timing is a little like that in Bohnanza in that the second pass through the deck is quicker than the first and the third is quicker than the second. This is partly because of the build-up of cards in players' hands and partly because, as recipes are completed, ingredient cards go out of the game.
Scoring at the end is cash in hand together with bonuses and penalties, the presence of which adds significantly to the tactical thinking you need to do during the game itself. We have found that the scores at the top tend to be close, with these extras often being decisive. The bonuses are awarded for being "best French", "best Indian", etc. and arise from the national origins of the various dishes. Each recipe is assigned to one of five countries and for each of them the player who has collected most cards from that country picks up a 7 point bonus. The penalty comes for not catering for vegetarians -- 10 points off your score if you haven't acquired a vegetarian recipe card.
The game is one where the difference between winning and not will often be down to luck. Games where you are drawing cards and collecting things are usually like that, particularly when, as here, you have a fairly "lumpy" scoring system. Going into what looked like being the last round of our third game, I was holding the ingredients for a recipe that I knew was one of the six cards still in the face down deck. I naturally took the "draw 3, choose 1" option, which gave me a 50-50 chance of getting the card I wanted. It was worth 19 points, I didn't get it and scraped home by 1. I mention this because the balance between luck and skill is one that the more competitive types among you care about and if you are going to enjoy Too Many Cooks, you will need to accept that it is not a game where doing all the right things will necessarily bring home the glory. That said, to do well you will need to do a lot more than just cross your fingers and hope. There is a lot of judgement that needs to be exercised and decisions that need to be made during the play and unless you get all this right, you will certainly lose. For me that is enough. Provided the game play is interesting, I don't mind too much who wins and the game play in Too Many Cooks is interesting.
The game plays well across its range, but is probably best with four. With three you have less competition and therefore more chance of getting the ingredients you want, but players will need to remember this and bid up in order to stop a rival getting things too cheaply. With five the competition is obviously a lot tougher and here the advice is that if the ingredients are ones you really need, be prepared to bid high. There is no point ending the game with three of the ingredients for Boeuf Bourguignonne, when bidding an extra 5 at some point would have got you the fourth and the recipe card, which is worth 31 points.
The components are, as you would expect, not quite up to the standard you would get from one of the main, professional, German companies, but they are very good for a self-published game. The cards, player information charts and the mini-boards that you use for organizing the card decks and the recipe displays are all professionally printed, in full colour and on good quality cardstock. There are also some wittily appropriate bits in the form of a walnut for "current player" marker and three types of dried beans for money (butter beans are 10s; kidney beans are 5s; small black turtle beans are 1s). Even more impressive than the physical qualities of the cards is the way that the information that players need has been organized and presented. All the things you are likely to want to know are in all the places you are likely to look. For example, each ingredient card tells you how many cards of that type there are and lists all the recipes which require the ingredient, together with their pay-offs, their nationalities and all the other ingredients you need for each. The recipe cards are similarly helpful and in case this is not enough, players also get an information chart which gives all the information and a table cross-indexing recipes and ingredients. This could not be done better and the professionals usually do it a lot less well.
The only quibble I have with any aspect of the presentation is with the substitute that is used for a box. This is a foil pie-tray, which is amusing but not very practical. Such trays are designed to be thrown away; the game deserves something a lot more permanent. But this is a minor problem. We have all bought games where the best thing about them was the box. Take one of them, chuck out the contents and use the box for Too Many Cooks.
In summary, this is an impressive effort. It doesn't break any particularly new ground in terms of mechanics and it might not be a game that we are still talking about in two year's time, but it has been lovingly put together, has been thoroughly tested and polished, and is both interesting and enjoyable. I am told that the print run is only 300 and so if you want a copy, my advice is that you should move quickly, as I don't think that Andy will have them on his hands for long.


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n The change would begin Jan. 1 and not affect unelected state workers if passed
in the Senate and signed.
The Associated Press
JACKSON – With little debate, the Mississippi House on Thursday narrowly approved a bill that would give pay raises to a host of elected officials, including the governor, judges, district attorneys, county supervisors and legislators.
The bill received 61 "yes" votes – exactly the number it needed to pass; 60 members voted "no." The bill was held for the possibility of more debate. It eventually would have to pass the Senate before it could go to Gov. Haley Barbour.
This is the first year of most officials' four-year terms, although appellate judges serve for longer periods. Raises for state officials would take effect Jan. 1. Those for county officials would take effect Oct. 1, the first day of counties' budget year.
House Appropriations Chairman Johnny Stringer, D-Montrose, said there is never a good time for legislators to consider increasing their own $10,000-a-year base pay. Members of the House and Senate also receive $1,500 a month when the Legislature is not in session. They're usually in session three months and out of session nine. Lawmakers also are paid mileage and expenses.
The bill would set legislators' new base pay at $15,000 and could increase the out-of-session pay to $2,500 a month.
With salaries, out-of-session pay and expenses combined, many legislators received more than $40,000 each from May 2006 through April 2007 – the period covered by the most recent state auditor's report of legislative costs.
To compare: The 2006 per-capita income in the state was $26,535, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Legislators are not expected to consider a broad-based pay raise for state employees during this tight budget year.
Stringer said statewide elected officials are making significantly less than their counterparts in other Southeastern states. Under the bill:
n The governor's pay would go to $152,000, up from the current $122,160.
n The attorney general's pay would be $140,000, up from $108,960.
n The pay for the secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, insurance commissioner and agriculture commissioner would be $120,000, up from $90,000.
n The pay for transportation commissioners and public service commissioners would be $108,000, up from $78,000.
Stringer said in some cases, state law says the elected official's pay must be higher than the salaries of those working for the official. He said this has created problems for recruiting and retaining employees in the state auditor's and treasurer's offices, because people can easily make more working for private companies than they can working for state government.


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