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Drudge is an example of this.
As far as it concerns the original creator of the excerpted content, there is virtually zero market for excerpts, and as a result, no potential to harm the market.
Ultimately, and rightly, it is up to the rights holder, rather than to you, to determine when the content is no longer valuable and no longer worth preserving. Even if there is just a little trickle of traffic generated by the content, it is their traffic to capture.
On a side note, the shelf life of news is not as short, as it used to be in the days of paper news. After all, our searches return results weighted far more heavily toward content than timeliness. That's precisely how you found the outdated article in the first place. And how every person looking for the same information will find it.
At any rate, it's well accepted that reasonable excerpts do not constitute infringement.
Note the use of the word "reasonable." Yes, it requires judgement to determine how much copying is reasonable. Best to err on the side of caution, lest your reasonableness be tested in court.
At any rate, whether most people are like me, satisfied with a single reading, or interested in reading again from an alternate link, it does not matter.
Rights holders who see your side of things are quite entitled to release their content to be freely copied. However, you are not entitled to make that choice for them.
And, of course, both the site from the case in question and Slickdeals/The Podium do sell ad space to pay the bills. We come primarily for user-generated content. That is the primary source of value to ourselves as consumers.
However, I happen to have hard proof that you believe that including full articles adds value and makes The Podium a more compelling and desirable destination.
The problem is that the value added is derived from the original content being reproduced. The value belongs to someone else.
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Also, I asked this earlier but didn't get a response from any mods: If a person wants their ideas spread and doesn't care about (or believe in the moral justification of) copyright (just wishes to be sited to avoid the suspicion of plagerism), can or should we be able to post the entire article on the podium?
The Associated Press is a news wire and has thousands of subscribers in the media, this includes newspapers, along with radio and TV stations. These end users pay a fee to be able to reprint or reproduce AP content w/o penalty... and beyond that to make money off of it, either in their pages or on their websites.
The AP has sued one competitor, Metro Source for copyright infringement on a few occasions. The AP places linguistic booby traps in stories, small phrases like "sharp eyed sniper" that are peculiar and easily searched. Metro writers must be very careful in their presentation of facts as a result.
IMO, from the perspective of a content producer, full articles posted on the podium represent an unlicensed re-distribution of original content. From our perspective we know that many people will go to the site that otherwise wouldn't have, but I suspect many more will not, and simply view it on TP if they view it at all. Most content producers who are old media wont see additional traffic from TP as a benefit, as much as they will see the "stolen" content as a threat to their brand, and livelihood. They will see the people that view it on TP only as 'lost views' even though they probably wouldn't have gone to the site anyway. Old media thinks in old media ways. They have a lot to lose from new media in terms of jobs and dollars. Old media has been attacked on all sides by the internet and the digital content revolution. I suspect there will be others who follow in the footsteps of righthaven in attempting to help old media defend what they have left.
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The "vice of specialization" entails the denial of intellect. "It is a denial because it rests on the superstition that understanding is identical with professional skill. The universal formula is: 'You cannot understand or appreciate my art (science) (trade) unless you practice it.' " - Jacques Barzun
You're just being disingenuous if you continue to claim everyone who downloads would buy.
I'm not the one with the misunderstanding here...
Steve Gibson on password policies [grc.com]: I mean, I don't get this change it every eight weeks. ... It's not as if passwords are traveling by camel after they've been stolen, going to the bad guys, and so there's, like, some weird eight-week window, like, oh, we're going to change your password so that the stale password no longer works. ... And all this does is make IT people despised because users, who are not dumb, they think, why am I - why do I have to do this? What problem is this solving?
There is no bright-line for copyright. It's not a question of eligible or ineligible, but of more or less protected.
Respect the copyright.
Such studies are certainly questionable, but the important and relevant consideration which you still fail to understand that this is not comparable to music piracy.
Taking something without paying for it and paying an alternative but unauthorized seller are two very different ideas. Selling bootlegs another thing still.
Again, it can be reasonably assumed that if a person pays an unauthorized party X for content, he or she would be willing to pay the same to an authorized party.
It is a direct market replacement. One-to-one.
Just as in the other case we were recently discussing, this decision does not have the implications that you think it has. It was a smack at Righthaven, but should not be misconstrued as a license to republish material without obtaining the rights.
First, it is relevant to this plaintiff and this defendant only. The rightsholder may have sued this defendant or another with different results.
Second, the fair use question is preempted by the determination that Righthaven did not have standing. The rationale for fair use may have been different if the court were playing for keeps.
Third, the fair use rationale provided is, IMO, poorly reasoned. It fails to properly account for a number of factors, the biggest being the effect of widespread practice of the same behavior- i.e.- carte blanche for copiers under the banner of fair use. What does it mean for content providers and creators when they no longer have any rights to control use and re-us?
Fourth, it may well be that Righthaven simply botched the case. I have no way of knowing what arguments were or were not made, but the Judge came away with the impression that the case for harm was not made.
But that case is fairly easy to make, IMO.
X people visited MJS to read and discuss the article in question. X= viable consumers for the content.
Those are all page views that should have gone through the rightsholder.
Harm = Pageviews @ MJS * (the number of ads on rightsholder page) * (average revenue per page view/ad)
I'm sure this formula is incomplete, and could be refined by someone with better knowledge of traffic tracking. For example, by subtracting referrals to the rightsholder from MJS, to whatever degree that information is available.
And, of course, there's good old right and wrong. Don't copy other people's content without permission. For most, it's an asset that people create or acquire to make a living. If you and your online pals want to read the material, go read it from the people who own it and let them capture whatever revenue they may.
I have two quick comments on this.
First, we do get revenue from the 728x90 banner you see at the top of the screen. It's not a ton of money, but it's not zero either. Every time someone in here unsuccessfully tries to change someone else's mind, SD is getting some fraction of a cent.
Second, I agree w/ skiman and Dr. Wu. You can easily distinguish you guys cutting and pasting stories from the AP sending stuff out to local papers, because the local papers pay for access to those AP stories. Also, copyright law is fairly vague. There's a balancing that has to take place- an excerpt might be OK, might not. If it's for education use, that's a better, but not necessarily OK. If it's for profit- that's worse, but not necessarily fatal.
Righthaven's loss in this case doesn't suddenly open the door for widespread copyright abuse. The only thing we know from that case is that Righthaven didn't have standing versus that particular defendant. If newspaper A, acting on behalf of itself, suddenly decided to sue website B tomorrow under a similar set of facts, it's entirely possible that newspaper A would win.
I'm giggin' on these deals, treat them like dominoes. I flip them on they back, and tell them vamanos.
I still don't agree (the judge specifically said online discussion is "OK") but apparently that's the end of that.
I didn't mean to kill the conversation, you don't have to do your sad face.
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Starting 11/21/14, SharperIron will be offline for week or so. The plan is to resume normal(ish) acitvity on Monday, December 1.
Not to create a panic or anything but... we've been hacked. Though SharperIron was not consciously targeted, the server was infiltrated as part of an automated hacking spree known now as Drupalgeddon (theologians have not yet weighed in on the eschatological significance). The short version of that story is that engineers of the Drupal Content Managment System (which we use here at SI) discovered a major security vulnerability in the current version and posted and announcement along with an update to correct the problem. Unfortunately, for lots and lots of Drupal users around the 'net, hackers unleased automated exploitations of the vulnerability less than 8 hours from the time of the announcement.
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At first, it appeared we'd been missed, but last week evidence was discovered that the initial hack did indeed reach us.
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John King, Veolia Transportation's GM for Prince George's County, has been named Area VP for the company's Northeast Transit Region. The announcement was made by Veolia's Transit Division President/COO, Ken Westbrook.
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As cities in Ukraine remain in the grip of protest and political crisis, a rating agency has downgraded the country's sovereign debt. Russia, meanwhile, said it would delay further loan payments to Ukraine until a new government is formed. The crisis is exacerbating existing economic problems, as Henry Ridgwell reports for VOA from Kyiv.


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Robber ties up Southfield Verizon clerk, makes off with iPhones
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Before pointing a gun at a clerk and tying her up, the man looked through the glass of the Verizon store at 10 Mile and Evergreen roads in Southfield.
The robbery happened 5 minutes after the store opened at 9 a.m. Friday morning.
"He's dressed as a college student -- casual customer. He walks in very nonchalant," said Southfield Police Lt. Nick Loussia.
The surveillance video is unusually clear. When the clerk began to help the man, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a silver handgun.
"He then orders the clerk to the register to the register and orders her to give him all the money from the register. She complies. She is afraid she will be shot if she doesn't," said Loussia.
The man glanced down at the money as he forced the woman into a back room out of camera range.
"She opens the safe and gives him over a 1/2 dozen iPhones and then he tells her to turn around, put her hands behind her back. She does so. He takes out a zip tie and he zip-ties her wrists together," said Loussia.
He told the clerk not to move. A 1/2 hour later the woman escaped from the zip tie. She texted her boss who called police.
"She's OK. Fortunately she was not injured. She had minor scrapes on her wrists from wiggling out of the zip. She was obviously scared," said Loussia.
The man on surveillance is about 5 feet 7 inches tall with a medium build and dark complexion. When he entered the store he appeared to be smiling, police say.
A few days ago, police released an image of a man who stole an iPhone at a gas station. He took the woman's purse, too. When she tried to hold on he dragged her across the parking lot. Based on that photo, police identified the suspect.
Now, with this surveillance video police hope the public can help solve Friday's robbery.
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On a recent trip to Walt Disney World, I stopped at this "dig site" directly outside of the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular. I had not been to Disney's HOLLYWOOD Studios the past several trips out of general malaise, and I wanted to see if the rope still worked.
In case this sight isn't familiar to you, when you tug on this rope, an "explorer" answers you from the bottom of the hole with generally wacky sounds – and quite a few on continuous tugs. As I was doing this a group of three men who were walking towards Echo Lake took a swift detour and played with the rope for a few minutes, laughing at the attention to detail in an area that otherwise would have been a floral arrangement of some sort. In modern imaginationspeak this would be called "plussing" or "story," but I always think of these things as what Walt referred to in his storyboarding sessions as "gags" or "bits of business." These are little details here and there around Walt Disney World that aren't part of certain attractions (or if they are, not part of the ride itself) that add to the atmosphere, or (shudder) the story and setting.
Below I've divided some of my favorite bits of business in certain catergories – some extinct and some still there – but I welcome your additions – this is in no way a comprehensive list.
These few bits of business extend the ride after you're let out of the show. The two that quickly come to mind are the tikis outside of the Tropical Serenade in the Sunshine Terrace, mirroring the tikis you've just seen on the walls of the Tiki Room itself.
The second is perhaps one of my favorite bits of business of all time, and unfortunately is no longer with us. At the unload of Country Bear Jamboree/entrance to Mile Long Bar, matching heads of Buff, Max, and Melvin lined the walls, just as in the Jamboree. They would remain still for some time, and then come to life suddenly with schtick and a song that mirrored the unload song of the Jamboree. "Come Again" became "Come On In". I hope someday someone thinks of bringing these guys back. If you weren't lucky enough to see it before the demise of the Mile Long Bar, check out these two videos.
These couple of gags are able to be triggered by passersby, but always do a regular routine – even though these two instances have several different sounds that can be triggered. The first is the rope pictured above outside the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular. The second is the water fountains in Future World at Epcot Center. I am not sure if these still exist (do they?), but not long ago they were around the Innoventions area outdoors. When you would drink from the fountains, much like the Indy rope, a wacky persona would reply from the bottom of the fountain.
I suppose the Sword In The Stone in front of the carousel in Fantasyland could also go in this catergory.
There are too many of these to mention (though I welcome your contribution). A few of my favorites are on Main Street, USA in the Magic Kingdom. On the one half of Center Street that survives, there's a window offering Piano and Voice Lessons. Sit underneath that window and listen to the lessons go on. Not far from there at the Main Street Bakery, the smells are almost too good to be true – that's because they're artificially made in a contraption vaguely resembling a scuba suit in the utilidoors downstairs and pumped above onto the street to lure hungry passersby.
In Adventureland, the cannons on the fort above the Pirates of the Carribean shoot off periodically.
Over in Frontierland at the Train Station, as you pass by the office en route to the platform, you hear a telegraph ticking within. It just happens to be spelling out Walt Disney's speech on Opening Day at Disneyland.
These two don't completely count, because they're actually in queues for attractions, but I thought I'd include them anyway because they actually weren't on the ride itself. The first is Brer Frog's shadow in the queue for Splash Mountain. It's an artsy little detail that sets up the ride itself. Seeing Brer Frog on the shadow of the cave gently rocking in front of a fire, beginning to tell the story of Brer Rabbit, Brer Bear, and Brer Fox is matched as soon as you get on the ride by seeing Brer Fox himself. The second is the relatively recent addition of Madame Leota's grave directly outside the Haunted Mansion.
… Leota of course appears later in the crystal ball seance – hence "having a ball" and "regions beyond."
In this era of "story" in the Imagineering department, a lot are half baked. Gran Fiesta Tour comes to mind (replacing my beloved El Rio de Tiempo – hardly any story there). Regardless, sometimes you come across actual good story lying around – even if it's strange and perhaps doesn't make any sense.
This is what remains of one of my favorite and most random landmarks on Property – the Lawnmower Tree of Fort Wilderness. In what is most certainly a relic of previous ownership, Disney kept this tree that grew around an old hand powered blade lawnmower. Unfortunately, the tree died so they had to chop it…. but I suppose it was fortunate because it was getting harder and harder to see the lawnmower remnant at the base of the trunk. As you can see, there's a sign beside it – it reads " Too long did Billy Bowlegs park his slow mower – Alas, one warm and sunny day aside a real fast grower." Extra points here for the poetry involved. This is just a gag – and a nice attention to detail…. oh yes and totally random. If you haven't seen it, the Lawnmower Tree is on the path off the landing for the motor launch en route to Pioneer Hall (it's on the right).
The other story I particularly like is the legend of Pleasure Island, and how that relates to another area of WDW – Typhoon Lagoon. I can't even go into the tremendous amount of detail involved in Pleasure Island's backstory – suffice it to say there were plaques on every building – but Wade's Wayback Machine has a great retelling of it here. The part I really like about the legends of both areas is they're connected. The same hurricane that destroyed the Placid Palms Resort and placed Miss Tilly on Mount Mayday also lead Pleasure Island to ruin once and for all before the Disney Imagineers "rediscovered" it. Varying reports have that hurricane named Connie and Charlotte, so I can't be exactly sure how the legend goes.
A little more obvious, but I love these guys. There used to be two barker birds (called barkers as in barkers on a midway yelling for folks to come see certain attractions) in Adventureland – one for Pirates of the Carribean and one for Tropical Serenade. These were audio animatronics outside of the attractions who would talk up their attractions (the Tiki Room's was voiced by longtime Golden Horseshoe star Wally Boag). Often the birds would crack wise and be wacky, and obviously drew attention to their respective attractions. For some reason unknown to me, both disappeared with their respective updates – I don't even want to go into the Tiki Room redo at this point. At least the Pirates barker bird survives in the burning town (above the bridge), but I would love an explanation on why they went away.
A nod of the cap has been made to these two recently in the incredibly sophisticated Mr. Potato Head Barker at Toy Story Mania. Although it makes more sense at California Adventure, where he's on a Midway and actually outside the attraction, he's a very impressive and whimsical site even inside the queue at DHS.
These were bits of business that were some of my favorite, or if I wasn't around to see them – I truly wish I had been. Sometimes Imagineers created amazing effects that had to be left along the way. Among some of my favorites –
The wave machine at the Polynesian Village Resort – when the resort opened, it was intended to have surfable waves. Unfortunately, there quickly became a considerable erosion problem, along with problems in the machine. It was abandonned and became a reef for the fish in the Seven Seas Lagoon. I can't imagine being around the Polynesian at night with actual waves hitting the beach!
Asundry effects on Expedition Everest – The Yeti is broken, but also missing now is the bird and snow at the top of the mountain and the steam that once rose from the trains as they left the station.
The Sunshine Tree and Orange Bird – I know this is the third time this article I've mentioned the Sunshine Tree Terrace or the Tropical Serenade, but when the pavilion was sponsored by Florida Citrus, there was an actual faux tree growing in the Sunshine Tree Terrace – which had an effect from projectors to make it appear as if it were blowing gently in the breeze. In addition, their mascot the Orange Bird could be spotted in the tree – with his thoughts projected in a thought bubble behind his head. Amazing! Pictures and more vivid description can be seen on Widen Your World.
These are just some of the bits of business lying around – most without reason to be there save to enhance the experience and add depth. I had thought for a long time that this was a dying breed in the era of cookiecutter attractions and major marketing for major attractions, but the Kim Possible scavenger hunt in World Showcase has renewed my faith for more of this to come. A completely interactive experience, you can toggle seemingly inanimate objects…. and in the spirit of good fun I won't spoil much – but steins sing, parrots talk (again), viking flags are raised – and this little guy dances for you!
It was definitely one of the highlights of my last trip to WDW, and I hope more nuance and subtle detail is on the way from Walt Disney Imagineering.
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As the frontman of Gary B and the Notions, Barrett has been refining the expression of his personal quirks and neuroses with the accompaniment of jangly guitar riffs for the past five years. Like his heroes Jonathan Richman of the Modern Lovers and John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, Barrett may not have a voice like a songbird, but knows exactly how to project his own personality and unique way of looking at the world.
His nasal holler on record is essentially an amplified version of his speaking voice, affably amateurish in a way that makes him sound much younger than his 31 years. And no other voice would so perfectly suit his songs. In person, too, he comes off like a youthful and enthusiastic record-store clerk--which he was at one point, naturally--ready with a joke or perceptive observation about any band that comes up in conversation.
Barrett cut his teeth playing drums in "tens of bands" in high school and college throughout the '90s, including the Idea Men with future Cex star Rjyan Kidwell (an erstwhile City Paper contributor), before focusing on a solo project, Your Imaginary Friend, earlier this decade. Playing his songs acoustically, Barrett got plum gigs all over town, opening for Of Montreal, the Hold Steady, and Sufjan Stevens.
One of the local bands Your Imaginary Friend shared bills with that Barrett felt some kinship with was Callow, and he and that band's bassist Kris Heath struck up a friendship over a shared love of classic new wave and power pop. "I used to hang out with Kris at this bar called Shorty's in Canton," Barrett says. "And I'd just be like, 'Do you have this Joe Jackson album?' And he'd be like 'No, do you have this [Elvis] Costello live track?'" Soon enough, Barrett was feeling the inkling to expand from a solo act to a full band, and after Callow broke up, Gary B and the Notions were born.
The Notions have gone through several lineup changes over the past few years, but Heath has remained Barrett's one consistent sideman and, in some ways, an equal creative partner. Barrett writes and sings all the songs, but often alludes to Heath working out the band arrangements, or axing his weaker compositions. And when the band didn't have the money or the means to buy studio time for its first record, Heath produced 2007's Get Those Crazy Notions! EP himself in the band's practice space. It was originally recorded as a full-length album, but when some of the recordings didn't size up to Heath's standards, he cut it down to seven songs.
The band's current live lineup is filled out by Bryan Elliott of the Liars Academy on guitar and Rick Bowman on drums, although neither played on the Notions' latest album. Bowman, who has spent the past decade touring with various bands and currently fronts the Frauds, seems to relish his role as the newest member of Gary B and the Notions. "It's nice to play drums in a band that I really like, and all these dudes have great taste in music," Bowman says. "They work hard and they know what to do, and they don't cry about stupid stuff."
"We've kind of become painfully not cool," Heath says. And, indeed, while their earnest brand of power pop has never been particularly fashionable in Baltimore, they're beginning to feel almost like an endangered species. These days, the guitar bands are mostly skewing artier or punkier, while the indie-pop acts are twiddling nobs on drum machines and keyboards. The Notions have found a few kindred spirits in Baltimore--such as SquA¥A¥ks, the Oranges, and J-Roddy Walston and the Business--but, unsurprisingly, they have struck up more alliances with bands they've met touring out of town, such as Boston's Pretty and Nice and North Carolina's Hammer No More the Fingers.
Gary B and the Notions' first full-length album, A New Twist and Shout, was released in November by the Beechfields. And though the album, tracked at Lord Baltimore Recording, adds some welcome punch to the Notions' sound, it's remarkably similar to the self-recorded early material, suggesting that they honed in on what they wanted to sound like a long time ago, and haven't deviated from it since. Much of Twist was recorded more than a year ago, around the time the 2008 EP Let Yourself Out was released, but Barrett and Heath, unsatisfied with the initial results, kept retooling and rerecording, and brought in Jeremy Mendocino of Pretty and Nice to help produce and mix the final product.
One aspect of the Notions' music that Barrett and his bandmates have somewhat changed their minds about is song length. Only one track on A New Twist and Shout breaks the four-minute mark, whereas about half of the songs on previous releases did. In fact, one of the band's most popular early songs, the pretty, midtempo "Lori," was at one point banished from their set lists simply because it was too long.
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Web site: http://www.paintingandtravel.com/
Episode description: Roger and Sarah visit the Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven, Kentucky, where Roger uses his acrylics to paint an old steam engine. Sarah takes you on a tour of the museums repair and restoration facilities.
Rating: [TV-G] (General Audience)
Series Information: Painting and Travel with Roger and Sarah Bansemer
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Billy Lumby was born and raised in London where he studied Philosophy before entering the film world, working as a creative assistant to directors such as Harmony Korine, Terry Richardson, Mike Figgis and Jonas Akerlund. He now works as a writer and director.
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Ashim Ahluwalia (*1972, Bombay) studied Film at Bard College in New York State. In 1999, Ahluwalia set up Film Republic, dedicated to producing Indian independent cinema outside the traditional Bollywood system. A year later, Ahluwalia completed Thin Air, a documentary that followed the lives of three magicians against the backdrop of contemporary Bombay.
Melissa Mongiat's approach revolves around participation by the public. Her creations have included a series of interactive environments for the Royal Festival Hall in London, for which /Wallpaper*/ magazine selected her as one of the world's 10 most promising designers. She also stands out for her research projects in participative design.
Working primarily with the mediums of photography and video, Maha Maamoun often starts from generic visual representations of Cairo to explore how these intersect with, and are negotiated by, personal experiences.
Geoff Cox is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Aesthetics and Communication, Participatory IT Research Centre, Aarhus University (dk), adjunct faculty Transart Institute (de/us), and treasurer of the Museum of Ordure.
Florian Cramer, reader at Creating 010 & Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University of Applied Science, The Netherlands, last publication: Anti-Media, NAi Publishers, 2013
Born and raised in New Mexico Diana has lived in Europe since 1993 - Budapest in the 90's and Berlin in the 2000s.
Dr. Jussi Parikka is a media theorist and Reader at Winchester School of Art, UK. His books and articles have analysed accidents and dark sides of network culture as well as digital audiovisual culture.
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Bill Gunter on Tuesday lost a dream -- a dream born in the mind of a high school student nearly 40 years ago during a Washington summer.
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Are Adele and Prince Collaborating on New Material?
Rumors have started circulating that Adele and Prince are collaborating together on a song that could be on the 21 star's next album.
According to a source to The Sun, the "Someone Like You" singer was spotted at Prince's show at Ronnie Scott's in Soho – part of his U.K. trek of gigs. However, unlike the other A-listers in the audience, Adele wasn't around for long. Apparently, she was there to talk about music only.
The source said: "The reason Adele only stayed a short time at Prince's gig at Ronnie Scott's in London was because it was just a business meeting and she had to get home. They want to work together for a track on her next album."
Prince isn't the only collaborator expected. Phil Collins looks to be involved, as do producers James Ford and Kid Harpoon.
21 is, so far, the most successful album of the century, so listeners have been wondering when a follow-up comes out. Another source mentioned to The Sun that this could be sooner than expected: "Label bosses are getting very excited and word has spread around the industry like wildfire to expect Adele's new material imminently."
Not everyone says Adele's presence at Prince's show was to talk business. A rep of hers told Mail Online that she was simply in the audience to enjoy the performance.
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Tehran Times began in 1979 as a foreign-language newspaper to air the voice of the Islamic Revolution. The policy that the newspaper has been following has been based on the guideline set by Ayatollah Mohammad Hossein Beheshti who said: "Tehran Times is not state-owned newspaper (Tehran Times is not the newspaper of government), rather it must be the voice of the Islamic Revolution and the oppressed people in the world." (Tehran Times must be the voice of the Islamic Revolution and the oppressed people in the world.)[1] Since the beginning of Iranian calendar year 1390 (21 March 2011) all the newspaper's pages are printed in color. Some Americans are contributors supportive of Iran, such as conservative Paul Craig Roberts. The paper lauded American Leuren Moret's efforts on radiation as a "crusade"[2]
In 2002, Tehran Times established a news agency which later came to be known as the Mehr News Agency (MNA). Now, Tehran Times and the MNA are run by a single management system with MNA staff triple that of Tehran Times. MNA is one of the outlets for the Ministry of Intelligence and National Security (Iran) which dissident groups have been charged of planting false stories in the media[3]
The management system has decided to expand the activities of the newspaper by publishing it in some foreign countries. For example, efforts has been started to publish 2000 print versions of the newspaper in Malaysia in the second half of Iranian calendar year 1390 (which ended on 19 March 2012).
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- ^ "About Tehran Times". Tehran Times. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ Ali, Aishah (18 March 2008). "Aishah Ali's interview with geoscientist Leuren Moret". Tehran Times.
- ^ Raymond Tanter, "Tehran's Anti-MeK Propaganda Machine", October 27, 2011.


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Program & Grants Committee Minutes
June 12, 2002
In Attendance: Peggy Alt, Barbara Flach, Julie Knutsen, Maria Steinberg, Midge Quick; Visitors: Barbara Haymann-Diaz; MHLS Staff: Josh Cohen, Margaret Keefe, Rebekkah Smith; Excused: Lee Eaton
Approval of March 4th minutes
1st: M. Quick
2nd: B. Flach
EZ Programs database: 38 entries have been accepted. Available from the MHLS home page. M. Keefe has offered free books to the first 50 library staff who submit usable entries. M. Keefe has been entering programs from around the state supplied by YSS of NYLA. M. Keefe pointed out that some of the program type headings need to be broader. Soon to be advertised on the statewide library listservs, NYLINE and NYLINE-Y.
If You Liked…juvenile science fiction bookmark: B. Haymann-Diaz noted that the genre search on the new OPAC is a good resource to provide similar services to patrons in areas patron to supplement the bookmarks. Next bookmark will be Jerry Pinkney who won the NYLA Youth Services Section Empire State award.
2002-2003 LSTA grant applications: LSTA applications being sent out this week. Staff thanked the committee for their input. M. Keefe explained the Summer Reading Program application status, additional funds may be coming from the NYS Library to promote the SRP for 2003.
Poets House grant: The Poets House has requested $30,000 from the Dyson Foundation to bring the PITB model to MHLS. Part of the negotiations with PH involves a cash match from MHLS of $10,000. MHLS is submitting an LSTA
Other: none
Adult Programs: Discussion of how to help libraries use programming to increase community support and therefore financial support. Tips from the discussion: Asking patrons to present on topics they're interested in or have expertise in, offering the presenter the opportunity to sell items (books, artwork), for the system to promote what other libraries are doing for other libraries to get ideas from, musical programming is popular in some libraries, setting a calendar for the seasons with a listing of upcoming programs.
Generic PowerPoint library presentation: Committee suggested adding a slide for services. M. Quick Committee suggested a workshop introduce the presentation and to help library staff to customize it for their library.
Other: Homework Center Manual online. Summer Reading Programming discussion.
MHLS to provide support of "If You Liked…" bookmarks.
MHLS to provide information about successful programs being held in member libraries.
MHLS staff to continue to work on the PowerPoint presentation and to provide a workshop to launch it system-wide and help libraries customize it for their libraries.
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Generic Library Presentation PowerPoint Draft
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Next meeting: September 18, 2002
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No matter how many synthetic chemicals are added to your soil, without the proper moisture holding capacity and the proper pH, much will be wasted. When sufficient organic matter is present in soil, it will have the proper balance to manage drainage properly and soil pH will be neutral for efficient uptake of nutrients.
Think of soil rich in organic matter as a savings account for your plants. The nutrients are released back to your plants much like a steady income. The more you need, the more you get. The nutrients found in organic matter stay in the soil much longer than water-soluble synthetics which rapidly leach through the soil. Moreover, soils rich in organic matter will typically contain all the necessary nutrients, thus eliminating the need to add supplemental synthetic nutrients.
Now visualize someone who has just been given a lot of money all at once. Rather than putting it in the bank, they spend it all immediately. It feels good temporarily, but when it's gone, it's gone. There are no reserves to draw on over time. That's how I think of water soluble inorganic fertilizers. They work but what nutrients aren't absorbed by the roots quickly pass through the soil, leaving behind potentially damaging salts.
Organic matter is, was or comes from living things. Some of the most common natural amendments found in nature include decomposed plant residue, dead roots, excreted waste from soil dwelling organisms, composted bark, manure, leaves and sticks. When you think of a lush forest or woodland setting, all that makes up the soil there is a collection of natural amendments over time. The only fertilizer is what is derived naturally from the soil. And yet how lush a woodland setting is.
In our home landscapes and gardens, we can create the same affect. In addition to the amendments mentioned above, we can use grass clippings, mushroom compost, peat moss, peanut or coco shells and so much more. Collectively, it may be just good old compost; the biodegraded product of raw organic matter, albeit a collection of the above or a single ingredient such as rotted tree leaves. But whatever it's made of, it contains billions of living beneficial microorganisms and includes vital organically derived nutrients.
There's a second reason adding organic matter is so import to creating healthy soil as I alluded to in my opening paragraph. It improves drainage of compacted soils and increases water retention in loose, sandy soils. Amendments incorporated into the soil allow some particulates to bind together while preventing others from creating too large a mass. In total, the organic elements along with the native sand, silt or clay work in harmony to improve the structure, tilth and texture of any soil, while at the same time, building up nutrients and reducing the need for supplemental water and fertilizers.
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