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In an effort to combat the illegal downloading of music and movies, the US's top internet providers have agreed to a new policy. Rather than descending on the teenager next door with a million-dollar lawsuit — which turned out to be "something of a public relations disaster" for music companies for going after, among others, a 12-year-old girl who downloaded songs using Kazaa) — media companies have made a deal with the likes of AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner Cable to give the illegal download-offender a different kind of penalty in a series of six warnings: Those accused of digital copyright infringement will first receive emails. If they continue to download content illegally, they will face "mitigation measures" including slower connection speeds or even being blocked from browsing the internet. They will not, though, be terminated indefinitely from accessing the Web.
Users will also have the option of obtaining an independent review for a fee of $35, notes Reuters.
The Motion Picture Association of America is among the media companies involved in the new policy, along with representatives for independent record companies and filmmakers. It's an alliance that, says the New York Times, "demonstrates how the once-clear line separating those two businesses has been blurred."
Eight years ago, the Recording Industry Association of America had to sue Verizon to try to uncover the identity of a customer who was sharing music online. This year, Comcast completed its merger with NBC, bringing an owner of digital content and a conduit for it under the same roof.
Now the Internet providers are hoping to profit as they pipe music and video of the nonpirated variety to their customers.
"The I.S.P.'s want to cooperate with Hollywood because the carriers recognize that their own growth depends in part on bundled content strategies," said Eric Garland of BigChampagne, which tracks online media traffic. "They don't want to be just utilities providing Internet access, but premium content distributors as well."
Content providers — the media companies — will indeed be working with internet providers in a coalition to stop piracy. :
Under the agreement, the content owners will deliver evidence of illegal file-sharing to the Internet providers, which are then responsible for sending alerts and meting out penalties. The Internet providers will not disclose the identity of the offending customer to the media companies.
One further way they'll profit is that, if your internet access is reduced due to illegal downloading, you still have to pay for the service, or pay the fees if you try to break your contract for service.
According to the coalition of media companies and internet providers, the new policy is not like the "three strikes" one adopted in some European countries, in which a repeated copyright offenders are barred from Internet access, notes Reuters:
"This is not a three-strikes plan. It creates no new laws or legal procedures," Tom Dailey, Deputy General Counsel for Verizon, said on a conference call.
The primary distinction seems to be that this is not being put forward as law, but rather a series of "best practices" that Internet providers will implement voluntarily. Coalition members said on the call that they will not be pushing for new legislation stemming from this initiative.
While music and arts groups are applauding the new policy, internet rights advocates like Public Knowledge and the Center for Democracy and Technology are concerned that consumers could now be penalized "based on allegations that have not been tested in court." Others, including internet music experts, are doubtful that the new policy, which is mostly aimed at those using tools like BitTorrent to share files, will really end internet piracy.
Indeed, I'm imagining that someone out there is figuring out some new way to upload files and make them accessible and (as yet) undetectable even as the new policy is put into place: It's a wild, wild Web out there.
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oh, copyright, a headache, a nessessary. it'll help me bash someone's face in with a lawsuit if they took my drawings and sold 50,000 shirts with it on them, acting like they did it. they make it so you aren't allowed to upload to youtube what you do not own.
why oh why do I not 200% understand fair use?
licances for software are expensive. you buy the disk software and premission to use it. people tell me not to thorw a fit if someone takes my art. it was my fault for showing the world.
but where would be my affordable lawyers if my stuff is stolen? could I get more than reembersed? they sue a little girl for downloading money. money and public flogging for copyright infrigment "art theft' seems fair?
if I download a song I am not selling it and saying I wrote it. why do people act like it is nothing when people's photos and drawings are taken? it is still a big deal. both lost out. but to have someone go "I made this". you'd want their teeth.
Susan twenty-eight must be right--it is publishers rather than artists that want intellectual property rights.
The right thing to do would have been charging the people ripping off the media and putting it online in the first place.
not the downloaders.
You can be damn sure that I'm not going to watch/play any media that's involved with this.
Boycott them all.
Our protections are more important than your bottom line.
I do not see that bootlegger, ever. And the companies are FAR FARRRRR from losing money. They are making record profits.
So there goes your argument.
Every time I go to the laundromat, there's a guy there selling bootleg movies. I used to work with a guy who was friends with a semi-professional movie bootlegger. People don't think anything of saving a few bucks to buy a bootlegged movie, and that mentality could really hurt Hollywood. It didn't thrill the music industry, but bands that build a big enough audience can make money touring and merchandising. The thing that amazes me is that no one who buys these bootlegs seems to realize that if movie making stops being profitable, movies will cease to be made.
In Slovenia we have piracy tax since 2006 called "compensation amounts for private and other
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We are paying this tax, even if we don't use media for piracy.
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Just another excuse to rake our privacy rights over the coal and criminalize our youth and charge us more and more until there is nothing left.
Lesleah, in order for music to be played on the radio, a radio station has to pay for permission to air a song. I don't know if that's a fixed amount for a specific length of time or a pay-per-play kind of thing (where the station would pay to play a particular song, say, 300 times over the course of a month). It's my understanding that, in order to play "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga, your local station has to have permission to play that song specifically; on the flip side of that, the station CAN'T play any other song on that album, unless Gaga's label grants them permission to do so - for which they'd have to pay more money.
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Early in Wednesday's broadcast of the Nationals' latest loss to the Braves, color man F.P. Santangelo made a point. It wasn't about the division or the playoffs anymore. It was about showing a little heart, about not letting a team come in and sweep you at home.
Which, as we now know, is exactly what happened. The Nats lost again, allowing the Braves to complete their second sweep this season in D.C. Another game in which the Nats had chances, another game lost anyway.
Welcome to the 2013 version of the Nationals, where heart and now hope have vacated the building. Get off the talk of a playoff push, for the division and the wild card. It isn't going to happen. The Braves now lead the Nats by a staggering 15 games. The best guess is the deficit will get bigger, not smaller, by season's end.
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Just getting back to the .500 mark is a big enough task. Playoffs? Playoffs? Not a chance.
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Some of the numbers involved here are stunning, starting with that 15 1/2 game deficit. The Nats need a pretty high-powered telescope to even see the Braves now. Swept twice at home this season. Atlanta is 10-3 against Washington this season and 14-3 in the past 17 going back to last season. To suggest Washington is anywhere close to Atlanta is ridiculous. The teams aren't even in the same stratosphere.
Go look at the other five divisions — if you add up the leads of the first-place teams, it comes to 16 1/2 games. To be down 15 1/2 in your own division is absurd beyond description.
Before looking at what the Nats might do the rest of the way, let's look at what they better not do: whine. Yes, they've had their share of injuries and of players not performing to the levels they should. Who had Danny Espinosa, Tyler Moore and Drew Storen in the minors at this point, and deservedly so?
That happens to every team, good and bad. The good teams find ways to work around it.
For a good example, the Nats need to get out their high-powered scopes and zoom in on the Braves. Atlanta has two regulars (Dan Uggla, B.J. Upton) hitting below .200. It lost key relievers Jonny Venters and Eric O'Flaherty to Tommy John surgery. Brian McCann, Freddie Freeman, Evan Gattis and Jason Heyward have all done time on the disabled list.
The Braves also lost starting pitcher Tim Hudson, a revered and respected veteran leader, to an ankle injury. His career may be over.
All the Braves have done is become one of three teams to hit the 70-victory mark. They're 38-15 at home. They've won 13 straight. They seem to have adjusted pretty well to all the adversity.
What can the Nats do at this point? They have to keep playing. Unlike NASCAR, baseball doesn't allow you to just park and quit when things aren't going well.
For starters, manager Davey Johnson should resign now instead of at the end of the season as planned. He's 70 and after this season, he's starting to look like he's 170 and sound like he's 270.
Let's be brutally honest. If you think Johnson hasn't checked out already, you haven't been paying attention. Odd decisions. Nonsensical explanations. Where in the name of quality managing was relief pitcher Tyler Clippard on Wednesday night?
Johnson needs to head off to Bora Bora early and let Randy Knorr have a crack at a strong finish. Knorr earned major points a couple of weeks ago when he took over after Johnson got tossed, then pulled closer Rafael Soriano. A small thing but a big thing, too. Let's see if he's ready to run this club.
The team and Ryan Zimmerman also need to stop the masquerade of pretending all is well with his shoulder. It clearly is not. Watching him throw hurts. He still has range and a great glove. He's also missing some of his power — Zimmerman should have more than 12 home runs. Get him right and, if he's as right as he's ever going to be, think about a move to the other side of the infield. He can afford a first baseman's mitt.
Maybe go back to Jayson Werth-Bryce Harper at the top of the lineup? It's non-traditional, but it worked quite well last season when Werth returned from a wrist injury. For all the team's woes, Werth has had a strong season and is a versatile enough bat that he can hit anywhere.
Werth was the NL player of the month for July and the Nats still had a losing record. They've been miserable since the All-Star break. There's no reason to believe they have a Dodgers-like run in them. Los Angeles has gone from 30-42 and 9 1/2 back to 63-50 and five up in the NL West.
Even if the Nats do go 33-8 in their next 41, it might not be enough. Atlanta would have to go 17-24 in the same stretch, and that isn't going to happen. It probably won't be enough to make up the nine-game deficit in the wild card chase.
It's over, it's done. The World Series or Bust season is a bust and only one question remains — can the bust actually get worse?


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03/2015 - The Dissed Demographic
It became obvious in 1996, when CBS dropped an enormously popular show,
"Murder, She Wrote"
, because it attracted the wrong audience, i.e. mature people, who, presumably, know their own minds and are not susceptible to advertisers' inflated claims. One might even conclude that CBS and the other networks are trying to kill off their mature audiences by converting their evening newscasts into messaging platforms for pharmaceutical companies. Ad after ad for prescription drugs that showcase smiling, happy elders, encouraging them to "ask your doctor" about one questionable concoction or other as an anonymous voice drones on and on about the litany of medical horrors a drug might induce, including death, if taken.
Network TV was designed to be sponsor-driven but the same cannot be said of the fine arts. Yet these days the quest for the holy grail, the 18-49 age group, is manifest in theater, symphony orchestras, and, most tellingly, in opera.
Plays, instead of having three acts, two intermissions and filling an evening, are frequently 90-minute affairs, geared to the attention-deficit afflicted. The over-amplification at many Broadway musicals brings into question the stereotype of the "old geezer with an ear trumpet." Rather, it's the boom-box babies who are hearing impaired, and their needs are being met to the exclusion of the hearing-intact older generation.
Symphony orchestras have beaconed the young with slashed-price tickets, largely to little avail, because the young can't/won't sit still for a concert, preferring to download the music on their iPhones, never mind the loss of sonorities and the richness of the ensembles.
Peter Gelb
, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, must have heeded the general in Vietnam who explained that we had to destroy a town in order to save it. In his much publicized quest for the golden fleece, Gelb has been destroying opera in New York, allegedly in order to save it. Why those new to opera would be more attracted to a stark, minimalist
"La Traviata"
, re-set in the 20th century when the opera's two themes ceased to be relevant - TB is no longer a death sentence, it can be cured - and when the heir to the throne of Norway could marry a woman with an illegitimate child and a police record for drug use with nobody raising an eyebrow, who would call off a wedding because the bride-to-be's brother was involved with an "immoral" woman? For this new production, as stupid as it is ugly, the lavish, period-correct Zeffirelli production was trashed. (Zeffirelli's beautiful work was dropped for the current abomination even as was his elegant
all the while Peter Gelb was crying poverty.)
Intermissions have been limited.
"Orfeo ed Eurydice"
had none, and arguably the most beautiful music in it, The Dance of the Blessed Spirits, was cut. The merging of acts and elimination of intermissions is especially hard on the Met's core supporters, people in their golden years, who cannot go for hours without using a rest room. But their needs are disregarded.
Trying to find a restaurant in which the decibel level is sufficiently low as to allow normal conversation is daunting. As restaurateurs cater to the desires of the hearing-impaired generation, those whose hearing is intact, largely the mature, suffer assaults on their ear drums.
The obituary of
John Burr Fairchild
, former head of what had been a publishing empire, brought it all together. Each of his elegant ladies as well as
Truman Capote's
"swans" - Babe Paley, Slim Keith, CZ Guest, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli - was une femme d'un certain âge, but not to be dismissed, rather to be respected and admired.
How has it come to be that the pandering to the disco-deafened has caused the dissing of the Silent Generation?
12/2014 - A Slip of the Finger and Forever on the Internet
How is that that my inbox is bursting with e-mail from right-wing blogs?
On just one morning last week I was greeted by Conservatives United, RedState Spotlight, Tea Party Politics, the Right to Bear, Preserve Freedom, Survival Joe, Tea Party Update, Personal Liberty, Erick Erickson, Tea Party Bulletin, Raise the Flag, Patriots and Politics, and Liberty 247. And what's in these missives ranges from laughable to frightening. I was offered free knives, instructions on how to make a gun and how to buy one without a serial number or registration.
One, "the Right to Bear," is a gun-fanatic's venue with an NRA ad across the top and a hysterical tone reiterating that government agents—here in New York—are coming to remove everybody's gun. I replied, "I can only hope so!" but that didn't deter the sender.
In material from other sites there have been warnings about "Obama's private army" and the government confiscating citizens' bank accounts. There has been condemnation of the concept of separation of church and state and a litany of assertions that the government is attacking religion and is responsible for what will be the end of Western civilization.
I'm an admirer of Russ Feingold and on his last run for Senate I wanted to support him. However, while I was receiving e-mail from him explaining his various policy positions there was no "donate" button. So I Googled him. The first entry that popped up showed his name in large letters and a donate button. I'm not sure that I even had to open it to contribute—and so I did, making the largest donation I'd ever given to an individual, $100.
However, in the confirmation process I suddenly saw, in tiny letters about Russ Feingold's name, "retire." Retire Russ Feingold. This was an anti-Russ Feingold site.
Immediately I tried to stop the contribution from going through. It took several days. But that didn't erase my name from the various sites to which my "contribution" info had been distributed. Thus, I started get e-mail from Karl Rove, Dick Armey and the like.
My rapscallion grandfather was a Machiavellian whose fiefdom was Philadelphia's "bloody Fifth Ward" in the days when the City of Brotherly Love was virtually all Republican and the bloodletting was during the primaries: us, the Penrose family faction versus them, the Vare brothers faction. He used to say "always register with the majority party" so you can have a say in the choice of nominees. And always have a relative register in the opposition party so you can find out what the adversaries are doing and planning.
But that's not what I was doing. It was an accident. A slip of the finger on a duplicitous site. But it will live on forever in the Internet. So please know, dear Dennis (Kucinich), Bernie (Sanders) and blessed Gene McCarthy wherever you are, that I have not defected, no matter what the NSA surveillance devices may detect in my computer...
11/2014 - The Ghettoization of Journalism (opinion)
Bernard Baruch noted that everyone has a right to one's own opinion, but not to one's own set of facts.
Teddy Roosevelt deplored the concept of "hyphenated Americans" believing that while each of us had a history stemming from elsewhere, we were primarily citizens of the United States and those favoring their group's special interests over those of the nation would be instrumental in tearing the country's social fabric.
This could have been seen as the subtext of the New York Press Club's October state-of-journalism conference. There were unasked questions that need to be addressed.
The balkanization of entertainment sources is a cultural phenomenon. Few are the network shows that "everybody" watches, fewer still, the movies. This could lead to greater freedom, more choices and intellectual exploration. But ghettoization of the news makes it difficult for the nation to coalesce and confront major issues.
The trend seems to be of ever smaller niches—whether "genres" in book publishing or bloggers purporting to be news purveyors. Accuracy has become a casualty; individual bloggers can hardly afford copy editors and fact checkers and these guardians at the gates are now rare species.
Reporters write in the third person, present the news as objectively as possible, and don't inject themselves into the story. Columnists may write subjectively, in the first person, and expound—their own opinions front and center. But with "personal branding" engulfing the field, the concept of news and editorials as separate entities has eroded. In tandem with this, technology has moved to the fore at the expense of content. The means have become the message. Reporters are now one-man-bands, using the new apps to blog—photograph, record, write, and most of all, tout themselves.
CBS TV anchor Walter Cronkite was "the most trusted man in America," not because he injected himself or his opinions into his broadcasts, but rather because he didn't. Thus, when after having concluded that the reports he was receiving from Vietnam were skewed he went to see for himself and upon returning denounced the war, the effect was resounding. LBJ is reported to have said that having "lost Cronkite" he'd "lost the war."
As myriad individuals claim to be presenting the news—any platform will do—authoritative, knowledgeable voices, if indeed there are any left, are drowned out. Newspapers across the country are cutting back or folding, as are local stations, which could have a huge impact on the coming election as regional issues are not addressed on mainstream media. Celebrity culture has taken over the front pages of the tabloids where hard news used to be.
In order to function, a democratic society needs an informed electorate, which means facts first, opinions and fluff later. This isn't happening. We don't share the same set of facts. There are fewer touchstones that we have in common. We scarcely speak the same language. There is ever less common currency. So when one queries "Whither journalism?" what's also being asked is "Whither the nation?"
10/2014 - The Consequences of Historical Amnesia (opinion)
When candidate Obama was running for president in 2008 he promised transparency in government. When he took office, however, among his first policies was refusing to investigate possible crimes by the Bush administration thereby encouraging a cover-up culture. Those who told the truth were penalized—the worst ever war against whistleblowers and the journalists who brought public attention to their disclosures—while those who lied were rewarded, namely the heads of our so-called "intelligence" agencies.
The admitted surprise of our security community at the sudden rise of ISIS indicates a massive intelligence failure. ISIS didn't spring up overnight like toadstools after rain; it was years in the making. But our intelligence agencies were, in the words of pre-Snowden whistleblower Thomas Drake, focused "in" instead of "out." (I'm sure the NSA knows of every letter I've ever written to
The New York Times
, but was unaware of the development of ISIS.)
Now, as Kobani is about to fall, Turkey, rather than defending the city, is bombing the Kurds. Didn't anybody know that the Turks have been fighting the Kurds for decades, if not centuries? Did anyone really believe that the Turks would do anything that would help the Kurds? The Harvard motto is "Veritas" and Joe Biden again spoke the truth in his Harvard speech—as he did when he pointed out that Iraq is three nations, cobbled together by a European map-maker. Vice President Biden noted the dubious records vis-à-vis ISIS of our so-called allies, for which he's having to apologize. Apologize to the Turks, who haven't yet apologized to the Armenians for the genocide of 1915? Apologize to other "allies" in the region who'd been funding ISIS?
We have allied ourselves with the worst tyrants, the most repressive regimes in the Middle East. When the populations of these nations rebel, and rebel they will at some point, where will that leave the U.S.?
ISIS cannot defeat us, but it can lead us to defeat ourselves by continuing to pour our national treasure into endless wars even as our infrastructure deteriorates, our social safety net frays and our once-cherished rights, the rights that used to define who we are, erode and we become a surveillance state.
By showing videos of the public beheadings of U.S. citizens public outrage results. And the U.S. takes the bait. Never mind that much of what ISIS does is also done by our allies in the region: public beheadings every Friday in Saudi Arabia, for example.
Only when danger entered the White House was the Secret Service called to account. James Clapper, who lied to Congress, continues to head the NSA while the man who cast light into the dark shadows of the agency, Edward J. Snowden, is a fugitive. John Brennan, who lied to Congress, continues as head of the CIA even as John Kiriakou, who told the truth about the U.S. use of torture and that it was not an aberration, but policy, languishes in prison. And Bradley/Chelsea Manning, who released videos of what we were actually doing in Iraq—gunning down civilians as well as killing the two Reuters journalists, has been sentenced to 35 years, as the perpetrators go free. And for the agencies, it's business as usual.
Historical amnesia is playing a major role in Ukraine as well. Has anybody sought to learn why the separatists feel as they do? Doesn't anybody in the State Department know that Ukrainian General Vlasov and his 100,000 troops sided with the Nazis in WWII, so that disestablishing the Russian language in Eastern Ukraine brought back horrific memories. The separatists didn't need Moscow to egg them on. They had historical grievances in abundance.
Since the end of WWII virtually any place where the U.S. intervened militarily the consequences have been disastrous. We (and the British) took out Mossadegh, reinstalled the Shah, and reaped the Ayatollahs. Vietnam is still suffering birth injuries in the third generation thanks to Agent Orange and land mines are still exploding. Many veterans of that conflict are also suffering the effects of Agent Orange. In the "secret war" in Cambodia, we got rid of Sihanouk which ushered in the bloody Kmer Rouge. We took out democratically elected Allende and left Chile with 17 years of torture under Pinochet. Somalia? Yemen?
And then there was Iraq: lied into an invasion that has resulted in havoc for the region. Do we never learn?
So whether it's a case of "there are none so blind as those who will not see," or of ignorance about anything that happened before today's headlines, Santayana's admonition obtains: Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
02/2014 - Land of the Free and Home of the Brave? (opinion)
We used pride ourselves on being "the land of the free and the home of the brave," who had "nothing to fear but fear itself."
However, since 9/11 we've become the land of the fearful whose population, in large measure, can be manipulated by the "t" word: terrorist. There can be no freedom without bravery because the fear-dominated willingly surrender their freedom for the illusion of security. Thus all manner of illegal activities by public officials - from simple venality, to perjury, to acquiescencent authorization of torture - is stamped "classified" and hidden under the "national security" rubric.
Erich Fromm
examined a similar phenomenon in his towering 1941 work, "
Escape From Freedom
," which deals with the psychological factors that make freedom a burden. What Fromm was analyzing was the mindset that allowed the rise of Nazism.
With freedom comes responsibility, which starts with learning the facts and leads to questioning authority, whether state, church or media. It may be more comfortable - temporarily - to accept government assertions, but there is a price to be paid later. How much easier it is to call for the heads of those who expose truths we'd rather not know. There are some for whom thinking is so painful they adopt a "Kill 'em all" philosophy — the "all" being the designated enemy of the day. Thus they avoid having to weigh facts, make difficult judgments and risk angering those in power. So, like "the good Germans" during the Nazi period, they see nothing, hear nothing, know nothing, and as a consequence, have the excuse to do nothing.
Only two US senators,
Wayne Morse
of Oregon and
Ernest Gruening
of Alaska, questioned the "Tonkin Gulf incident" which led to "
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution
" which further mired us in the Vietnam morass. An insufficient number of senators questioned President George W. Bush's rush to attack Iraq. That war of choice was based on erroneous intelligence.
Our bravest are in prison or exile for having exposed unpalatable truths.
For exposing, among other things, a video of U.S. military personnel in a helicopter, shooting Iraqi civilians and killing two Reuters journalists, which the government had previously denied,
Bradley Manning
is serving a 35-year sentence, while those who authorized the despicable acts are free. For revealing that the U.S. uses torture and that the policy is not an aberration, but actual government policy,
John Kiriakou
languishes in a federal prison, although it's the government that needs correcting. The proponents and practitioners of torture have not been prosecuted, despite the use of torture being contrary to U.S. as well as international law.
For showing that the US has become a surveillance state, with all the machinery at the ready to become a police state,
Edward Snowden
has been forced into exile. Earlier,
Thomas Drake
, considered "the smartest man in the room" by some colleagues at the NSA, did something similar and was charged with espionage - not proven - but his life was upended and his career ruined.
Our justice system has been corrupted as whistleblowers are denied the means of mounting a defense; the material they require is "classified" as embarrassed intelligence officials cover their malfeasances with the flag. We have secret FISA courts making secret rulings and issuing secret subpoenas. Secret from whom, one might ask. Not from those being served.
Our government has embarked on a policy of silencing the witnesses to protect the criminals. The conversation has been changed from the message - the frequently horrific revelations - to the messenger. All in the name of "national security."
"Those who would sacrifice liberty for [the illusion] of security will, in the end, have neither liberty nor security and will deserve neither." This truism has been voiced by many—from Benjamin Franklin to Winston Churchill.
Freedom and bravery are linked. You can't have one without the other. If we lack the courage to live with the demands and dangers inherent in freedom, we will be opting for authoritarianism.
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The study, a collaborative effort among researchers from Moffitt, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Hackensack University Medical Center, Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium, and Celgene Corporation, appeared in the Dec. 14 issue of Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology.
According to the authors, almost all multiple myeloma patients treated with bortezomib, lenalidomide or thalidomide relapse, and survival times shorten progressively with each subsequent relapse. Effective new treatments that re-establish tumor response are urgently required to improve outcomes for these patients.
"This open-label, phase I, dose-escalation study was primarily conducted to evaluate the maximum tolerated dose of pomalidomide," said study co-author Daniel Sullivan, M.D., associate center director for clinical investigations at Moffitt. "The secondary objective was to assess safety of pomalidomide when given with or without dexamethasone."
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Since the contest's inception in 2007, more than 700 nurses have been nominated for the Extraordinary Healer Award. Essays have come from all 50 states, and CURE has even received international essays from Canada and Kenya, where nurse David Makumi Kinyanjui was nominated for setting up the very first support group in the country.
"The award showcases the unwavering commitment of oncology nurses and the lasting, life-changing impact they have made on their patients," says Kathy LaTour, cancer survivor and editor-at-large of CURE. "In so many of these essays, the writers talk of their nurse's presence, their willingness to 'be' with the patient in the midst of pain and fear so powerful it defies definition. But maybe therein lies the meaning of being present."
2011 marks the first year that Amgen Oncology and the Breakaway from Cancer initiative have sponsored the Extraordinary Healer Award, but the countless synergies between the two organizations' missions and the goal of the Extraordinary Healer Award are obvious. Founded in 2005 by Amgen, Breakaway from Cancer is a national initiative to increase awareness of important resources available to people affected by cancer – from prevention through survivorship.
"Amgen is passionate about helping people who are battling cancer – through our pioneering science and programs like Breakaway from Cancer, " said Stuart Arbuckle, vice president and general manager, Amgen Oncology. "Breakaway from Cancer was created out of the belief that one person alone can't beat cancer, it takes a team. Oncology nurses are a critical part of that team, and w
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Study finds vast majority of chat sticks to everyday concerns, not risky behaviors
FRIDAY, April 16 (HealthDay News) -- Parents have little to fear when their teens turn to blogging, new research suggests.
In fact, most adolescents blog to maintain friendships and engage in positive discussions of everyday teenage life.
The finding, based on a month-long review of teen content on a popular blogging Web site, may help relieve parental concerns that teens are hopping online to participate in violent, drug-laced or sexual discourse.
"There's a lot of hype about the use of online technology and the abuse of it, but here we found that it seems that it's just another example of typical adolescent behavior," said study author Dawn Anderson-Butcher, an independent social worker and associate professor in the college of social work at Ohio State University in Columbus.
Anderson-Butcher and her colleagues reported their findings recently in the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal.
To explore the world of teen blogging, in 2007 the authors analyzed an entire month's worth of quotable content posted by 100 American teens from across the country (aged 13 to 18) on the Xanga.com social networking Web site (pronounced "Zanga").
The goal: to count up how many times teens remarked on so-called "good" or "bad" behaviors.
About three-quarters of the teens were female, and teen usage was uneven, with some teens adding posts daily while others threw in their two cents just once or twice a month.
Teens did engage in some degree of complaining and expression of negative feelings. Sixty-five percent blogged about being bored, while others discussed feeling blue (30 percent), feeling angry (28 percent), and/or feeling like they didn't fit in (22 percent). The age-old reluctance to do homework was a subject raised by 16 percent of the teens, while concern about bad grades was men
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Financial Condition
As of June 30, 2010, BCT had $16.5 million in cash and cash equivalents and $42.7 million in working capital and a current ratio of 1.9:1. Long-term bank debt was $3.6 million. Shareholders' equity was $65.2 million on June 30, 2010, up from $53.4 million at the end of 2009.
The Company generated $6.0 million in cash from operating activities for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, compared to cash from operating activities of $6.1 million in the same period in 2009. Cash used in investing activities was $3.7 million, compared to cash used in investing activities of $0.2 million for the same period last year. For the six months ended June 30, 2010, the Company recorded cash payments of approximately $4.3 million for retail store acquisitions. Inventory levels increased quarter-over-quarter as the Company anticipated and prepared for accelerating revenue growth in future quarters.
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"In the first half of 2010, China BCT successfully added 59 pharmaceutical
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outlets this year to achieve our goal. In the second half of 2010, we will
step up our efforts to establish new exclusive distribution contracts with
hospitals in Guangxi. We believe this strategy will help us achieve
sustainable growth in profitability over the long term," said Mr. Tang "We
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Candidates talk issues at Democratic party forum
Albert Barker pleaded with local Democratic candidates on Saturday to be courteous to each other this summer as they run for various local offices. Barker, the interim chairman of the Clayton County Democratic Party, spoke to dozens of people seeking elected offices in the county at the beginning of a candidates forum his party was hosting at the old Riverdale City Hall.
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Tension arose from several Clayton County Public School teachers in a public hearing on Monday, as the board of education informed the boisterous crowd they are keeping teacher salaries the same for the 2012-13 budget fiscal year.
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You can't run government like a business anymore than you can run business like a government. GOP presumptive nominee Mitt Romney burned corporations to the ground and made millions selling off the charcoal. This private sector experience is being touted as his qualification to be president. This expertise of bankaneering — corporate raiding — is so sexy to Republicans they now parrot the line, "President Obama doesn't understand the economy," implying Romney does because he's been in the trenches breathing the fumes of leveraged buyouts.
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Quinn Bradlee talked about the difficulties of being both mentally and physically disabled while growing up among the Washington elite. Mr. Bradlee is the son of former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and author Sally Quinn. Mr. Bradlee was born with a hole in his heart, experiencing heart failure that culminated in open heart surgery at the age of 3 months. He had numerous physical and learning disabilities growing up as a result of having Velocardiofacial Syndrome. He talked about the difficulties of being disabled as a child and of adjusting to life. He talked about his website and about writing his book, A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled and Other Adventures, published by PublicAffairs. Sally Quinn provided her own perspective and interviewed her son. They both responded to questions from the audience at the 7 p.m. event at the Cascades Branch Library in Potomac Falls, Virginia. close
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Kiwi Camping, camping for kiwis, was set up in a small garage in Hamilton, New Zealand in 1989 by a couple of no-nonsense Kiwis.
Lovers of the great Kiwi outdoors, they figured there was a demand for a range of tents and accessories designed for New Zealand's unique landscape and often challenging conditions.
THEY WERE RIGHT! And in the subsequent years, with a firm focus on family camping, Kiwi Camping became recognised as one of the most trusted outdoor brands in New Zealand.
A keen understanding of the challenges and a willingness to listen to their customers, saw them produce a range of family tents that have dominated the New Zealand camping landscape for over 25 years.
In 2012, Gregg Brown from Aber bought Kiwi Camping. Sure it made good business sense for Gregg, but the decision to purchase Kiwi Camping was motivated by much more than business.
An enthusiastic camper himself, Gregg and his wife Suzanne had enjoyed a long and happy association with Kiwi Camping. For starters, they'd had many memorable family holidays in Kiwi Camping tents themselves, using a range of their products. The businesses also worked closely together, jointly promoting gas camping appliances for over 15 years.
When the opportunity to purchase Kiwi Camping came about, it proved a no brainer. With a healthy network of alliances in the industry and personal track-records as seasoned campers (a few rock festivals in their teens, an impoverished O.E. in the 80s and more recently, 12 years of hauling their young family around the campsites of the north island), Gregg and Suzanne saw it as an exciting challenge and an opportunity to turn Kiwi Camping into the foremost camping brand in New Zealand.
It's early days in its new incarnation, but the grand plan will see Kiwi Camping move to another level. We've already cranked our commitment to the outdoors up a notch, pledging our financial, physical and emotional support to Forest & Bird, and by sponsoring community environmental initiatives. And in the not too distant future, we'll be offering a lot more than just the hardware to make your camping experience as good as it can be.
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Caring.com and the National Alliance for Caregiving Call on the New Congress to Provide Relief to the Nation's 50 Million Family Caregivers
SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- There are more than 50 million Americans today providing unpaid care for family members and loved ones: an aging or ailing parent, a friend with a chronic health condition, a spouse with Alzheimer's, a sibling with a traumatic war injury, a child with physical or mental challenges. Family caregivers represent a huge but invisible "silent workforce" over 150 times larger than Wall Street's workforce and over 176 times larger than the automobile industry workforce.
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While the deteriorating economy has hit all Americans hard, it has hit these Americans even harder. Family caregivers are struggling to pay their own bills and, increasingly, those of their loved ones as well; expenses continue to rise and the hours of care they provide each day continue to go uncompensated. The average caregiver spends $5,534 per year out-of-pocket for caregiving expenses. Like Wall Street, the auto industry, and homeowners, family caregivers need help from Congress to make it through 2009.
Caring.com and the National Alliance for Caregiving, are calling on President Obama and the 111th Congress to target up to 1% of the upcoming economic stimulus package toward supporting family caregivers. They have jointly developed five priority initiatives to help family caregivers that are posted on the Caring.com website, and are asking caregivers to add their voices and vote on which
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Death Toll Reaches 15 as Flood Waters Begin to Recede
Indonesian soldiers repair a collapsed canal dike in Central Jakarta... Fotografia de notíciasAcidentes e Desastres,Arruinado,Canal,Dique,Distrito,Energia hidroelétrica,Horizontal,Indonésia,Jacarta,Reparar,SoldadoPhotographer Ulet IfansastiCollection: Getty Images News 2013 Getty ImagesJAKARTA, INDONESIA - JANUARY 18: Indonesian soldiers repair a collapsed canal dike in Central Jakarta district on January 18, 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia. According to the National Disaster Management Agency, about 50 percent of the capital is under water following the floods which have so far claimed eleven lives and displaced thousands of Indonesians. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)


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About Mr. Ben DavisAfter several years of representing large Fortune 500 companies, making the switch to representing everyday people was a significant leap into the unknown that Ben was unsure he could make. A higher power, however, forced Ben to make a decision in late October, 2009:
In early October, 2009, Ben learned that he and his wife were pregnant with their first child. Two weeks later, Ben was driving from Albuquerque to Farmington for a hearing. As he past Cuba, New Mexico on 550, the sunny skies turned to dark clouds. The dark clouds traded their grey lining for white flurries. The highway quickly turned into an ice rink. Within the blink of any eye, Ben lost control of his car. He slid into oncoming traffic. The next thing Ben can recall is waking up in the wreckage. He was hit by a large oil service truck. Fortunately, Ben survived without any injuries, but with a new sense of purpose.
With a baby on the way and a brush with death, Ben made his mind up to leave the large Fortune 500 companies behind and start representing everyday folks. The Davis Law Frm was born. To date, Ben has helped numerous people and small businesses fight insurance companies, large corporations, and others who chose not to follow the rules for their own gain.
If you are interested in hiring a hard-working attorney with an acute desire to serve your best interests, pursue fair compensation for yourself before taking a paycheck, as well as punishing the wrongdoer who is responsible for putting you in your situation, then you have found him.
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List of United Kingdom by-elections (1979–present)
This is a list of parliamentary by-elections in the United Kingdom since 1979, with the names of the incumbent and victor and their respective parties. Where seats changed political party at the election, the result is highlighted: blue for a Conservative gain, red for a Labour gain, yellow for an SNP gain, orange for a Liberal, SDP or Liberal Democrat gain, purple for a UK Independence Party gain and grey for any other gain.
- 1 Resignations
- 2 By-elections
- 3 UK by-election records
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 Sources
Where the cause of by-election is given as "resignation" or "seeks re-election", this indicates that the incumbent was appointed on his or her own request to an "office of profit under the Crown", either the Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds or the Steward of the Manor of Northstead. Accepting an office of profit under the Crown vacates the member's seat. This process is used because members of the House of Commons are not technically permitted to resign. A member who resigns in this manner may stand for re-election.
UK by-election records[edit]
For a list of exceptional results and records in the history of by-elections in the United Kingdom see: United Kingdom by-election records
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- ^ "Mark Reckless defects to UKIP from Tories". BBC News. 27 September 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
- ^ "Second by-election set to be held on 9 October". BBC News. 10 September 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ^ Thacker, Simon (21 January 2015). "Middleton and Heywood MP Jim Dobbin died after consuming fatal amount of Polish spirits, inquest rules". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ^ "Clacton by-election to take place on 9 October". BBC News. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
- ^ "Tory MP Douglas Carswell defects to Ukip and forces byelection". The Guardian. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ^ "Patrick Mercer 'deliberately evaded' MPs' rules, watchdog finds". BBC News. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
- ^ "Former Tory MP Mercer resigns after Commons suspension". BBC News. 29 April 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
- ^ "Wythenshawe and Sale East by-election date announced". BBC News. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
- ^ Linton, Deborah (8 January 2014). "Labour MP Paul Goggins, 60, dies in hospital". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
- ^ Watt, Nicholas (27 March 2013). "David Miliband to step down as MP". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
- ^ "Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness resigns as Mid-Ulster MP". BBC News. 30 December 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
- ^ "Croydon North by-election: Labour's Steve Reed secures win". BBC News. 30 November 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ^ "By-elections: Labour takes Corby from Conservatives". BBC News. 16 November 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
- United Kingdom Election Results (David Boothroyd)
- United Kingdom Elections (Keele University)
- British Parliamentary By-Elections since 1945
- List of MPs since 1660
- F. W. S. Craig (1984). British parliamentary election results, 1974–1983. Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-23-X.
- F. W. S. Craig, British Parliamentary Election Statistics 1832–1987
- F. W. S. Craig (1987). Chronology of British by-elections, 1832–1987. Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-31-0.


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WASHINGTON, DCThe Institute for Health Technology Studies (InHealth) has awarded a grant of $240,000 to an international consortium of researchers, for a study that will assess the effects of hip replacement therapy on the employment and retirement decisions of older adults. Led by researchers at the Universit Bocconi (Milan), the consortium also includes investigators at the University of York (York, UK), and the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health (Baltimore).
Hip replacement has been shown to improve quality of life by restoring physical mobility and reducing pain. However, there is evidence that a substantial number of patients who might benefit from the procedure do not receive it. Currently, between 200,000 and 300,000 hip replacement procedures are performed in the United States each year. But in the 2002 U.S. Health and Retirement Study, nearly 50% of retired respondents ages 55 to 64 reported arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions as the most significant reasons they could no longer work.
Early retirement triggered by such conditions is a contributing factor to the current financial crises of Europe's pension systems and of the U.S. Social Security trust fund, which is projected to be exhausted by 2037. Under their grant from InHealth, the consortium's researchers aim to generate evidence on whether hip replacement can enable people with debilitating musculoskeletal conditionsincluding severe pain, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritisto continue working, consequently easing the financial pressure on these critical retirement systems.
"Industrialized nations around the world are trying to accommodate the mounting cost pressure that their aging populations place on limited public and healthcare resources," says Martyn Howgill, InHealth's executive director. "InHealth's grant will help assess the impact of reduced disabilities made possible by hip replacements on public and private retirement funds."<
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