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GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — On a night at the end of November 2011, Beth Morey, 31 weeks pregnant, realized the baby she was carrying had stopped kicking. Worried, she went to Community Medical Center in Missoula to have a doctor check the baby, and there she found out it had died.
The next day, Morey was induced and gave birth to a stillborn daughter she named Eve.
"(Hospital staff) asked if we wanted to have photos or casts of her hands and feet, and they also gave us stuff we didn't ask for, like memory items," Morey recalled.
But Morey left the hospital without knowledge of a certificate that, according to Montana law, she could have received. Called a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth, the document is meant to provide a level of comfort to bereaved parents.
"I talk to a lot of parents who say, 'We want to leave with something, a piece of paper that says, 'Our child mattered,'" said Morey, of Missoula, who helps facilitate a support group for bereaved parents. "Something tangible means so much when you don't have the baby."
The CBRSB has been in existence for more than six years, but some potential parents and hospitals don't know about it.
Women in Montana tell a similar story — that of unspeakable grief at losing a baby, learning of the CBRSB sometime afterward, then the labyrinth of phone calls, websites and false leads in their attempt to obtain the certificate.
Passed by the Montana state Legislature in 2007, Senate Bill 518, sponsored by former state Sen. Gary Perry, R-Manhattan, allowed for a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth to be issued within 10 days of a stillbirth should the parents request it. The bill was passed and signed by Gov. Brian Schweitzer in May 2007 and went into effect Jan. 1, 2008.
Prior to the passage of Perry's bill, the only document filed with a stillbirth was a fetal death certificate, which is required to be filed upon the death of a fetus before birth and if the fetus had reached 20 weeks of gestation, or, if gestation period is unknown, if the fetus weighs at least 350 grams. With the passage of SB 518, fetuses that reach the qualifications for a fetal death certificate also can have a CBRSB.
Larisa Barth delivered a son, Asher, in October 2011 at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish. Asher was stillborn after Barth carried him to term. Barth said she and her husband, Jim, were not offered a CBRSB and were told a fetal death certificate was the only document the hospital could issue.
The Barths, of Browning, later learned about Missing Angels bills, which have been passed in several states and allow for a CBRSB, and found out Montana passed such a law in 2007. They attempted to obtain a certificate for Asher from her doctor, from state and local recorders' offices. They received no answers.
"It made us very much aware that if a child isn't born alive, it's like they try to shove it under the rug," Barth said.
Barth eventually got into contact with Perry, but still the Barths struggled to obtain Asher's CBRSB.
After six months, the Barths obtained a request form from the Office of Vital Statistics. There was no option to request the CBRSB, so Jim crossed out the fetal death certificate option and wrote out "Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth."
That attempt was successful, and finally the Barths received Asher's certificate.
"I couldn't believe how ignorant people were about it and making us feel like we're the bad guy. The point of this bill is to help the family," Barth said.
Karin Ferlicka, the registrar of the state of Montana at the Office of Vital Statistics, said she is unsure where the confusion about the CBRSB has come from. She said in 2008 when the CBRSB became available, that form was added to the certificate of fetal death so that both could be filled out by hospitals.
Perry echoed Ferlicka's confusion, saying he isn't sure where the breakdown has occurred, "But we're at a point now where we can pull this together."
The CBRSB can be produced by either the hospital or funeral home or by the state registrar's office, she said.
"Normally, it is filled out by hospital staff or funeral home. A lot of the information has to come from the hospital," Ferlicka said.
However, the CBRSB is not available from county clerk and recorder's offices, Ferlicka said.
"It's only filed with the state, and we're the only ones who can issue it," she added.
Morey found out about the CBRSB and asked about it several months later after she became pregnant with her son. Eventually, she found a request for the form online.
"I downloaded the form and just never did anything because I thought it would be too gut-wrenching to go and (the staff) not know what I was talking about," Morey said.
Rachael Heilig of Turner tells a similar story. Heilig delivered a daughter, Kenley Faith, at 20 weeks at Benefis Health System in Great Falls in February 2012. She said a CBRSB was never mentioned to her.
"We left with a piece of paper that said, 'Go to the morgue and get your daughter's ashes,'" Heilig said.
Later, Heilig learned of a CBRSB when speaking with Barth, founder of a nonprofit called Held Your Whole Life that provides memorial jewelry to parents of stillborn children, and who herself faced a struggle with obtaining the certificate.
"I didn't even know they existed," she said.
Heilig said she has not attempted to obtain a CBRSB because she does not know how, nor does she know where to begin.
"It would be nice to have one at this point, being two years into it. I'd like to get one but I'd more like to raise awareness for other women so they can walk away with something," she said.
Like Barth and Morey, Heilig too has directed her grief into outward projects. Heilig started Kenley's Empty Arms Project, which distributes teddy bears to parents who have lost a baby.
Even with a state law and instructions sent by the Office of Vital Statistics, many hospitals in Montana cities, including hospitals with neonatal intensive care units where high-risk deliveries occur, either had no knowledge of the CBRSB or reported filing procedures that are not consistent with the state regulations Ferlicka described, according to a Tribune survey.
Ferlicka, who has been with the Office of Vital Statistics for more than 20 years, said information about the CBRSB was sent out to hospitals throughout the state when the law was passed in 2008.
Eleven hospitals in Montana's largest cities, in Great Falls, Bozeman, Kalispell, Whitefish, Billings, Helena, Butte, Havre, Missoula and Miles City, were polled. Of those 11, three (Billings Clinic, St. James Healthcare in Butte and Northern Montana Hospital in Havre) report filling out the form when required.
Bozeman Deaconess Family Birth Center manager Susan Connell said the fetal death certificate is completed there, but "the parent has to request (the CBRSB) from the state."
St. Peter's Hospital in Helena does not prepare the CBRSB, but Lewis and Clark County coroner Mickey Nelson does prepare the document when he receives the fetal death certificate from the hospital.
Kalispell Regional Medical Center, which operates a Level III NICU, reports never having had a request for a CBRSB.
"I don't know that parents know that's an option," NICU manager Rachelle Mertz said.
Four hospitals — St. Vincent Healthcare in Billings, Benefis, Community Health Center in Missoula and Holy Rosary Healthcare in Miles City — reported no knowledge of the CBRSB. Benefis, Community Health Center and St. Vincent Healthcare operate Level III NICUs, where many high-risk deliveries are performed.
"The only form the state is sending is a fetal death certificate," said Karen Ogden, chief communications officer for Benefis Health System.
Both Benefis and St. Vincent report issuing remembrance certificates to parents of stillborn children that are not legal, but hospital-generated, certificates. Community Medical Center reported to the Tribune that after inquiring with the state registrar's office about the CBRSB it would begin issuing it should parents request it.
North Valley Hospital, where Barth's son was born, did not provide information to the Tribune for this story.
While Morey and Heilig express distress that they were not offered the CBRSB at the hospitals where they delivered, both say they received excellent care and experienced compassion from the staffs.
Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services oversees the Montana Office of Vital Statistics, where the CBRSB would be filed. Richard Opper, director of DPHHS, declined to be interviewed for this story.
Jon Ebelt, DPHHS public information officer, said their office recently made contact with all the major hospitals in the state and were told all are aware of the CBRSB and are telling parents it is available.
"We realize that when this unfortunate situation arises, the information may still not be getting to the people who need it most," Ebelt said.
Ebelt said only a few requests for the CBRSB are made each year. In 2012, the last year for which data is available, there were 57 stillbirths in the state. The counties with the highest frequency of stillbirths are Yellowstone, with 12, and Missoula, Hill and Cascade, with six each.
Perry, who no longer serves in the state senate, said he is confident that even six years after the law's implementation, a solution can be found for issuance of the CBRSB, even for people whose children were born years ago.
"I can't see any problem for those who have had a stillbirth child since the law was enacted, and if there is, we can fix it," Perry said.
Ebelt said DPHHS plans to send out about 200 informational packets about the CBRSB, similar to those sent out in 2008, to hospitals, county clerks and recorders, and funeral homes. Employees from Vital Records will also include information on how parents can acquire a CBRSB when they give training to county clerks and recorders on birth and death certificates as well, he said.
The document, a piece of paper, differs only slightly from the fetal death certificate, but the differences are significant. For parents, the fact that legally their child is considered to have been born means a great deal.
Heilig calls the certificate "tangible" proof of their child's existence.
"Recognition of the most brief life of my child is important to me because it validates that I am mourning a real person," she said.


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Next Thursday Jan. 31st, at 11:00am MST, we're throwing a Location Tools For Small Business Twitter Party. Follow @Room_214 on Twitter and watch the #locationchat hashtag to get in on the action.
Last week, Facebook announce an expansion of it's search offering called Graph Search, as well as an update to their location-based tool Nearby. While both of these announcements have a lot of implications for community managers for big brands, I couldn't help but think that small businesses need to be all over this.
In the near future, your customers will be using Facebook graph search to find restaurants or stores their "friends have been to." This is a vastly different search than a Google query for "stores in "Denver." It's different because in order to optimize your Facebook location pages to show up on Facebook Graph searches you need your customers to do things like check-in, Like your page and write Facebook reviews.
If the little guys want to compete, you better start pushing your customers to interact with your location pages. Do you have errant location pages on Facebook existing without branding, or management? You do, and you haven't even claimed them!? If that sounds familiar let me highly recommend that you read into Facebook Parent-Child linking so you can claim your location pages on Facebook and associate them with your main brand page.
Of course, Facebook is only the tip of the iceberg in the local search game. At a bare minimum you should claim and optimize your listings on Yelp, Foursquare, Google Places (Google+ Local) and Facebook. Make sure all of the information is correct. Then start testing deals and offers. Need more info? Check out these mobile marketing tips for small businesses.
- Claim Yelp Listings
- Claim Foursquare Listings
- Claim Facebook Location Pages
- Claim Google Place Listings
If you have five or more locations, this can be a pretty arduous task. You can reach out to a digital marketing company for help.


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With kids in tow, residents of Givatayim, Carmiel and Pardes Hanna march in protest of high cost of raising children
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Published: 08.07.11, 21:41 / Israel News
Ahiya Raved
The protest continues: A day after some 300,000 people staged mass rallies to
protest the high cost of living, some 1,300 parents held a "strollers' march" in the cities of Givatayim, Carmiel, and Pardes Hanna.
Meanwhile, 300 Carmiel residents held a similar procession, attended by Mayor Adi Eldar. At the end of the procession, participants set up a protest tent for the families – the second tent erected in the city thus far.


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6 inexpensive ways to burglar-proof your home
Summer time means vacation time, as many of us escape the heat for cooler locales.
It can also create the perfect opportunity for crooks to help themselves to your stuff.
We asked Valley locksmith Robert Vallelunga, of Acme locksmith in Mesa, to give us some simple and inexpensive fixes to make your house more secure.
Let's start in the garage. Most of us have a cord which hangs from our opener track. That cord is supposed to let you open your garage door, even if the opener breaks down or the power goes out. The problem? Vallelunga says, when the door is closed, the cord sits right next to the top of the door.
"You can get in by fishing a coat hanger right in there, grabbing that cord and giving it a tug. And you've just released that garage door so it opens all by itself," he said. Vallelunga advises cutting the cord off. You can use a dowel with a basic hook to release the door if you have to, but he said the convenience of the cord isn't worth the security risk, and cutting it costs nothing.
While you're in your garage, look for a perforated punch-out hole, usually about midway up your garage door track. That hole is there to let you put a padlock through the track. Vallelunga says it offers an extra layer of security. When you're off on vacation, there's no way to open your garage door.
If you're like most homeowners, you have a deadbolt lock on your front door, but Vallelunga says that lock is only as good as the door jam to secure it. Most of the metal plates holding the deadbolt are secured with half-inch screws, he said. The solution – replace them with longer, three and a half inch screws.
"It goes all the way through the door jam, into the two by four framing. It makes it very hard to kick the door in," Vallelunga said. It's also an inexpensive fix. You can do it yourself, and it will only cost you a few cents for the new hardware.
Of course, many Arizona homes have a patio door in the back of the house. Vallelunga said, consider a secondary lock. For about 40 dollars, you can install a lock which latches from the top and bottom. Vallelunga says, that's important, because burglars often try to lift the patio door off its track in order to get inside.
It's also a good idea for families with a pool. "You get a level of child security because you can mount it high up and it also requires two hands to lock," Vallelunga said. The lock itself can also be "locked" with a special key, so it can't be opened by hand, even from the inside.
Vallelunga says, if anyone else has ever lived in your home, it's a good idea to re-key your locks. For outside doors with deadbolts, ask the locksmith about spool pins. It's an alternative to the regular pins in most locks, making them more difficult to pick or bump. A typical locksmith will charge less than 50 dollars.
And don't forget the lock which guards your identity. "A lot of people don't realize you own your mailbox lock. Get that re-keyed for the same reason you re-key your house," Vallelunga said. It will cost you about 40 dollars.
Total cost to do all these security fixes? A little less than 200 dollars, but Vallelunga says it can be worth the investment to make your home more secure.


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Inspired by Jean Beetham Smith's suggestion to wear modified socks on your ears to keep them warm, I decided to try to flip-flop the idea by wearing headwear 'down-under'.
I took my best balaklava (like a ski mask) and cut two holes in the sides. By slipping my legs through the cut-holes, I then had an enormous vent to "facilitate in the facilities".
You fellers know what I'm talking about; when you gotta go to the toilet really bad and you are struggling like mad with all the layers of clothing when you try to access your plumbing through the elusive vents in your long underwear AND briefs.
Well, my brilliant invention "Balaklava Briefs" solves that problem. The vent is as big as your head! You can't miss.
Worn backwards, the Balaklava Briefs are great for uhm, for you know... other end stuff.
Better yet, you can still wear your balaklava on your head even after using it as underwear. The cuts you made for leg holes allow for better access of your stereophones when you wear the balaklava on your head and want to listen to music during your ride or ski.
How do YOU spell Genius? Say it with me "M-I-K-E!!
Thanks go to Jean Beetham Smith for the insiration.


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Apr 15 2010 / Thursday
Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), 19, current ASP Women's World No. 5, went on another rampage today in New Zealand (Round 3), collecting the highest heat total of the event, an 18.07 out of a possible 20. Her amazing score included the highest single-wave score of the day, a 9.40 out of a possible 10 for a series of powerful forehand maneuvers punctuated a progressive grab-rail reverse on the end section.
"It's more of a level playing field today," Fitzgibbons said. "It's shifty, thumpy beachbreaks and I love these as they remind me of home. I started my heat off really well and I knew that if I wanted to get the big scores I would have to really push the progressive side of my surfing and that's what I did."
Fitzgibbons will take on former ASP Women's World Champion Sofia Mulanovich (PERU), 26, in Quarterfinal 3 tomorrow.


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The Twitter service is becoming a popular tool used by businesses to match companies with prospective employees. The Twitter network, which allows individuals and organizations alike to offer "real time" updates, postings and announcements that are available to all other users, helps companies attract the best employees and job seekers, who then gain an edge on the competition. (If you want to switch careers, you may not have to go back to school to do it. Find out how in Sell Your Skills, Not Your Degree.)
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There are a number of ways that companies can benefit from Twitter, including enhancing their customer service, brand image and advertising plans. Also, Twitter can be used to advertise job openings or Twinternships, but (perhaps more importantly), Twitter can help companies attract the "right" employees when an opening becomes available.
This is important because, even though unemployment remains high, competition for the most qualified employees can be fierce, and certain skill sets are in heavy demand. For example, an exceptional software engineer may virtually have his pick of jobs. Twitter allows companies to advertise themselves and (hopefully) entice the best employees. Finally, Twitter retains a hip image (at least, for now), and using the service can help both companies and employees seem "cool," particularly in cutting-edge industries such as media, entertainment or technology. (Running your own business has both personal and financial perks. Find out more in 10 Tax Benefits For The Self-Employed.)
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February 19, 2008 09:04 AM by Jennifer_Brown
Early morning news show Good Morning America helped ABC deliver their one-two Dancing with the Stars punch this morning by announcing the pros who will be dancing with this season's stars.
Last night was the first hit — a live announcement on the season finale of Dance War revealing the 12 celebrities who will be competing in Dancing with the Stars 6. This morning brought in another live announcement, revealing the following pros who will be dancing right along with them:
*Mark Ballas, who will be paired with Kristi Yamaguchi.
*Kim Johnson will be dancing with Penn Jillette.
*Edyta Sliwinska has been paired with Jason Taylor.
*Louis van Amstel will be dancing with Priscilla Presley.
*Anna Trebunskaya, who will be paired with Steve Guttenberg.
*Cheryl Burke, who will be dancing with Cristian de la Fuente.
*Karina Smirnoff will be dancing with Mario.
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Don't get me wrong, I don't necessarily like what you parrot lovers do, but I feel that there's certain stuff that gets forgotten in all this piracy discussion. I'm taking economical point-of-view, and showing you in a pretty concrete way how we'd be screwed if there wasn't pirates. (And, we'd might be in bad situation too if everybody would be pirating)
And no, pirating doesn't make you as cool as LeChuck. Image googled and used without permission. I hope I don't get into deep shit thanks to this.
I read one chap claiming that "pirates cost us (movie industry) 1 billion dollars revenues yearly" (figure that I just invented since I cannot remember the exact sum, but let's say it's 1 billion).
Now, pirates come and say "that's not true!".
But, I feel that's pretty bad response. It's somewhat irrelevant too. Let's see what happens if we agree with the entertainment industry chap. That's not necessarily a shinier future for the whole industry, or for technological progress for that matter. Let's say that piracy costs for example 1 billion of lost revenue yearly to software makers.
1 billion is lost… but who have it?
Here's the thing that these chaps fail to see:
the lost revenue from software manufacturers goes somewhere else, like to perhaps to hardware manufacturers
This is important, and this is also how software makers benefit. I explain.
The more revenue harware manufacturers make, the better computers they can make. More memory, more speed, and everything costs less.
That's hugely important. I repeat the sentence bit differently, it's that important:
if makers of hardware get more revenue, they can use that money to boost the development of computers
If CPU manufacturer gets more money, they can spend that money on research, and get faster computers at cheaper price which benefits software makers since cost of computers is getting lower, which means software makers don't need to spend that much money to computers.
Let's do an another example.
Let's think of example world, called NormalWorld. In normal world, there's pirates, non-pirates and something between. Here's the population:
- 50% of population are Parrot Lovers, they spend 1 billion dollars to hardware and illegally pirate all the software, and spend 1 billion to Ship industry.
- 50% of population are Good Citizens, who spend 1 billion dollars on hardware and 1 billion dollars to software. But no money to Ship industry.
- In NormalWorld, software industry makers are spending 0.5 billion to buy better computers from hardware industry.
In NormalWorld, hardware industry is doing fine (2.5 billion total = 1 billion from parrot folks, 1 billion from Good and 0.5 from software), ship industry too is going strong (1 billion from Parrot Lovers), and so is software (0.5 billion total = they get 1 billion from Good but lose 0.5 to hardware).
Everybody praises how Good Citizens are moral and respectable people, and everybody loves them (expect the parrots, who like more the other chaps).
But there are people who say that we should see what our neighbour, SopaWorld does. In SopaWorld, there's no piracy.
This leads to the following situation:
- 50% of population are Parrot Lovers there as well, forced to spend 1 billion to software industry, spending 0 billion to hardware, and ship industry gets 1 billion.
- 50% of population are Good Citizens, who spend 1 billion dollars on hardware and 1 billion dollars to software. But no money to Ship industry.
- In SopaWorld, software industry makers are spending 1.5 billion to buy expensive computers from hardware industry.
The hardware makers have less money on research, so they sell computers at 3 times higher price since they have got no technological progress which makes components cheaper. It follows that:
In SopaWorld, hardware industry is still doing fine thanks to higher prices (2.5 billion, 0 billion from parrot folks, 1 billion from Good and 1.5 from software), ship industry too is going strong (1 billion), and so is software (only 0.5 billion total = they need to buy 3x more expensive computers).
As you can see, the overall result is exactly the same as in NormalWorld. In NormalWorld, pirates bought so much hardware that software makers didn't need to spend that much money, but in SopaWorld, pirates aren't supporting hardware industry, so software industry needs to spend more money, as prices of hardware are higher.
NOTICE: these are imaginary numbers of course, and I'm not saying this would happen if governments introduce laws or if piracy stops. Just trying to explain that we cannot just look at one factor and forget everything else. I will be slowly be reaching towards the conclusions of this article. Read further.
Stopping piracy, might mean loss to other industries…
Then there's also the DamnItWorld.
In DamnItWorld, things are bit different. DamnItWorld was exactly like NormalWorld, but then a new way to punish piracy caused the following change in the population:
- Since Angry Parrot Lovers (they were like Parrot Lovers except they really had no intention of buying never any software) were no longer getting software free, and had no intention to get faster hardware (since they could no longer brag about how they saw in their goddamn expensive home cinema all the newest ripped full hd quality movies). These people had no absolutely any reason to continue purchasing better computers. They weren't going to buy software anyway, so they stopped buying hardware too. Instead, they took their fishing gear and started buying ships. In DamnItWorld, the ship industry gets 2 billion
- Good Citizens still spend 1 billion to hardware and 1 billion to software, but they are using worse computers than their neighbours (since computer technology is not profitable here, so no much improvements are being made) and since computers are shitty, their games also have worse looking graphics than in the neighbour countries (that might be a good thing though).
- Software industry here uses 0.5 billion to buy from hardware, but gets crappy quality computers. Software industry is blaming hardware industry for high costs, hardware industry is blaming software industry for crappy quality products – and they both are whining that ship industry should be taxed so that some money would go into technological research which would help technological progress.
DamnItWorld has 1.5 billion hardware, 0.5 billion software and 2 billion ship industry. Tons of ex-software people nowadays manufacture ships.
Then there's the LetsSavePaperWorld where people store 2 billion worth of paper under their pillows, hoping that after 30 years, somebody will be willing to buy that paper with some good price. Like, when for example all trees have been cut and there's shortage of toilet paper. Then those might come handy.
The point
What I'm trying to show you here, that stating something like "movie industry is losing 1 billion or 10 000 jobs thanks to software piracy" also means that some other industries have those 10 000 jobs. (Since movie industry is losing, it means there's buying power).
If movie industry arguments that stopping online piracy creates jobs, that indeed is true. It sure creates jobs to the software industry. What they fail to point out, that jobs are lost from some other industry.
It works globally too: sure, if random Finnish person (not that we honest citizens pirate, but for the argument, let's say we do) pirates your US movies and shares it freely here, the US movie industry suffers (compared to situation where Finn would have spent 500 eur to buy stuff). But what the movie industry fails to notice is that the nasty imaginary Finnish pirate is buying your TV electronics that helps your TV industry. If our imaginary Finnish parrot lover is forced to "spend money to US movie industry" or "spend money to US tv industry" (as you see, we like your industries), then to US as a nation, it's quite irrelevant. Finn is willing to spend 500 eur to your country, and you can choose which industry (tv or movies) gets that money. That Finn is too lazy to work more, so he won't have more than the 500 eur to spend anyway. That's all there is for you. And if you cut the piracy option, our imaginary pirate just might start go build ships instead – and then the US movie and tv industry is actually getting 0 eur.
And it works locally too, here's an example:
If our Regular Joe american is spending 500 dollars yearly on hardware, 0 dollars yearly on software and 500 dollars yearly on shoes – and now is forced to buy software (since movie industry is losing), it means that Joe will spend 500 dollars yearly on hardware, 500 on software and 0 dollars on shoes. So yes, software industry wins, but shoe industry loses.
(Unless of course Joe takes another job, gets +500 dollars to spend on shoes too yearly, and then receives burnout at the age of 29 – then all other industries win, and Joe's health suffers.)
So, shouldn't we all become pirates! That way everybody wins, right?!
As said, this is a matter of balance. If everybody would be pirates and nobody would spend a dime in software industry, that industry would die.
If nobody would spend a dime in software industry, then it would mean that other industries win and software industry loses. If software industry dies totally, then it might lead to a scenario where hardware industry gets taxed to support software industry. Or, it might mean that after everybody stopped making software, nobody is buying any more hardware and we are all making ships.
The key point here is that, piracy is not just about "what is wrong and what is right". This is a matter of allocation of resources.
What do we want to support?
- Hardware makers?
- Software makers?
- Ship industry?
… or health care, or parrot food, or wood leg industry or what. And of course we must remember that nowadays the different industries are so connected that it's quite damn tough to say how things really affect. For example, if you like this article so much that you go and order my $1 ludum dare mini game thing from year 2010, the following happens:
- Transaction handler industry receives their share of that dollar
- I get my share of that dollar
- Indirectly, Finnish government benefits from that dollar too, as I pay taxes
- And as my taxes support public health care, there's some finnish hospital worker who gets his share of this transaction (or the tax money can be used to support roads building or library, or whatever they might do with it)
- Website server bandwidth thingy receives their share indirectly (as I need to pay that too)
And that's at the expense of your dollar, which you could use to buy for example sweet cold drink.
It's your call.
The final point
Please notice that all these numbers are fictional. I think there's no person living in this planet who can accurately draw the flow of money in gaming/movie industry – and all connected industries. This doesn't mean it would be irrelevant either. This simply means that "cutting piracy" has effects that affect various industries and arguments about "lost jobs" are shaky at most. I find this sort of legislation quite dangerous to be honest.
If there's pirates, then there's more support for example to hardware industry (or any other non-software industry for that matter, since pirates have more money left to spend on hardware, rest of us spent it on software you know). If we stop pirates, then they might take their money to some other industry. Or, if they are forced to buy software, then it means all those *other* industries suffer (like the drink industry which didn't get your dollar when you chose to buy my game).
I wouldn't be suprised to see more taxing of "industries that do well" to "support those industries that do poorer", which practically would mean that we got rid of pirates yes, but thanks to taxation, things are (in industry scale) exactly the way they were before.
And after all, we are talking about entertainment industry here. There are much more important jobs in the world than making games or movies. Firemen, police, mental care, teachers, doctors, nurses, child care… all these are important industries.
I'm not saying that it's somehow acceptable that certain individuals (or groups) have taken the right to share some one else's invention without owners permission. Telling "it's good for all" is simply not true, since it forgets the creator.
I don't have no more so strong opinion on piracy, whether it's right or wrong. I do not like the idea of government introducing laws and regulations into this industry. I do think that old copyright ideas might not be suitable anymore, but I do also think inventors should not be forgotten when we praise how good sharing of culture is.
I'm not fan of piracy, but stopping piracy is bit like fighting against windmills – and there's some indirect benefits from piracy.
I think in the end, it's an individual choice on how we respect each others effort, and how we balance everything. If we all support software industry, other industries suffer… which also makes software industry suffer (since there's no good hardware). If we all support hardware industry, then software industry suffers (and then there's no good software). If too many people join the pirate bandwagon, if too many think "I have the right to do this, as I support hardware industry – I let others support software", then software industry will be facing bad times. It can mean poorer quality, or bigger lawsuits or other bad things.
I feel that as a person who supports both hardware and software industry – it would be equally nice if those pirates who do not support software industry, would re-consider if they too would like to have some direct support to software industry.
How do you vote?
Every citizen who spends their money to hardware and not on software is directly hoping of voting the following:
- Hardware quality must get better, therefore I support your industry!
- Software quality (and all other industries) can suffer!
And every citizen who spends their money on software and not hardware, is directly hoping of voting:
- Software quality must get better, therefore I support you!
- Hardware quality (and all other industries) can suffer!
By "hardware quality" I here mean "faster CPU, better gfx card, more memory, faster memory, better screens, etc". By "software quality" I mean for example "better graphics, better gameplay, better innovations".
To put other way around: those nasty pirates who don't indirectly support software industry, gladly support hardware industry – which helps us makers of software industry too, indirectly (they help get cheaper computers, which means you and me pay less for CPUs).
I'm not saying this makes piracy legal or good in absolute sense. As noted earlier, if nobody supports software industry, software industry suffers.
Note to pirates who argue that "they pirate just because want better service". There's better way to get better service than boycott. It happens this way. (1) Buy stuff and (2) tell what you want. Sure, boycott might work too, but as a creator I know It's easier to do better services when you have some money to fund the development of better service.
Naturally, this is only the direct support. As pointed out earlier, direct support to software industry might mean indirect support to various other industries. And of course directly hoping of voting here might not mean better quality products. For example, the maker of hardware might keep the profits and buy ships instead. That's why you can only hope your money goes to making of better products. Long-term, I think it's pretty safe to say that "industries that receive support tends to grow", so your hopes might come true)
We need balance, and perhaps bit more respect towards each others work.
What is certain, that we hell sure should have much more respect for people who do some actual work (and not just watch movies or code magic numbers).


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As we begin the New Year, the fight against the underground economy is gaining momentum in the Legislature and various state agencies.
On January 1st of this year, the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced the launch of the newly created Labor Enforcement Task Force (LETF). LETF is a collaborative effort between state agencies to combat the underground economy and to improve California's business environment where legitimate employers can thrive.
The primary partners of the LETF include DIR, the Employment Development Department, Contractors State License Board, Board of Equalization, and the Bureau of Automotive Repair. LETF will also collaborate with the Department of Insurance, the Attorney General and Local District Attorneys, and others in affected communities. LETF will help ensure that workers' rights are protected and that hard-working, compliant business owners have an opportunity for healthy competition in California.
LETF's focus on collaboration, wider information-sharing and use of new technology for enforcement will ensure more effective targeting of businesses in the underground economy. This will help eliminate the worst violations of workers' rights and help to protect the legitimate contractors and businesses. The task force will also conduct outreach and education efforts to help businesses meet their responsibilities under the law.
The goals of the workforce will be to:
In addition to the new task force, two bills from the 2011 legislative session went into effect on January 1st. AB 397 (Chapter 546, Statutes of 2011) requires a licensed contractor with an exemption for workers compensation insurance to recertify the exemption upon license renewal or provide proof of workers' compensation insurance coverage. AB 878 (Chapter 686, Statutes of 2011) requires a workers' compensation insurer to report to the Contractors' State License Board (CSLB) a licensed contractor whose insurance policy it cancels.
As the 2012 Legislative Session begins, we will be seeing a number of new legislative proposals by way of introduction or what is known as a "gut and amend." A "gut and amend" is when an author takes a bill on one subject, completely deletes that version and inserts a new proposal on a new subject. The deadline for new bill introductions is February 24th but "gut and amends" can happen all year. They are most prevalent, however, at the beginning of a two-year session or the end of any session.
We are only in the first two weeks of the session and already two "gut and amend" measures were amended to be proposals relative to the underground economy. Both bills are authored by Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee Chairman Ted Lieu (D-Torrance).
SB 691 would assist the CSLB in preventing workers' compensation fraud by adding CSLB to the list of authorized governmental entities that EDD may share information with for the purposes of aiding any specific workers' compensation fraud investigation. This bill is supported by the CSLB. SB 777 would specifically authorize the EDD to share employment data and information with the CSLB for purposes of investigating specific workers' compensation fraud investigations. This authorization will allow the CSLB to compare data on wages on employment taxes with information the bond has relative to workers' compensation.
SB 777 would provide that, for the purposes of workers' compensation insurance fraud investigations, the reasonableness of any request information to investigate fraud must be determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations in consultation with the state department, agency, or organization in possession of the information or data. One argument of proponents is that state agencies should be using more technology, more than boots on the ground, to identify and prosecute non-compliant contractors. SB 777 will serve as a vehicle for discussion to encourage and codify ongoing and new requirements and practices to encourage data sharing and collaboration among governmental agencies.
Both bills were heard and passed by the Senate Labor & Industrial Relations Committee this past Wednesday. The two measures will now go to the Senate Appropriations Committee for hearing before heading to the Senate Floor.


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Before coming to M. Lee Smith Publishers, she was a reporter for The Daily Herald in Columbia, Tennessee, where she focused on business and community features. Celeste earned her bachelor's degree from David Lipscomb University and a master's from Middle Tennessee State University.


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I'm creating an iPhone app that will pull data down from a Web API, including email addresses. I'd like to display an image associated with each email address in table cells, so I'm searching the Address Book for images and falling back on a default if the email address isn't in the book. This works great, but I have a few concerns:
Performance: The recipes I've found for looking for an address book record by Email address (or phone number) are reportedly rather slow. The reason for this is that one must iterate over every address book record, and for each one that has an image, iterate over all email addresses to find a match. This can be time-consuming for a large address book, of course.
Table Cells: So I thought I'd gather up all the email addresses for which I need to find images and find them all at once. This way I iterate through the book only once for all addresses. But this doesn't work well for table cells, where each cell corresponds to a single email address. I'd either have to gather all the images before displaying any cells (potentially slow), or have each cell look up each image as it loads (even slower, as I'd need to iterate through the book to find a match for each email address).
Asynchronous Lookup: So then I thought I'd look them up in bulk, but asynchronously, using
NSInvocationOperation. For each image found in AddressBook, I'd save a thumbnail in the app sandbox. Then each cell could just reference this file and show the default if it doesn't exist (because it's not in the book or hasn't yet been found). If the image is later found in the asynchronous lookup, the next time the image needs to be displayed it would suddenly appear. This might work well for periodic regeneration of images (for when images have been changed in the address book, for example). But then for any given instance of my app, an image may not actually show up for a while.
Asynchronous Table Cell Lookup: Ideally, I'd use something like markjnet's asynchronous table cell updating to update table cells with an image once it has been downloaded. But for this to work, I'd have to spin off an
NSInvocationOperationjob for each cell as it's displayed and if the cached icon is missing from the sandbox. But then we're back to inefficiently iterating through the entire address book for each one—and that can be a lot of them if you've just downloaded a whole bunch of new email addresses.
So my question is: How do others do this? I was fiddling with Tweetie2, and it looks like it updates displayed table cells asynchronously. I assume it's sending a separate HTTP request for every image it needs. If so, I imagine that searching the local address book by email address isn't any less efficient, so maybe that's the best approach? Just not worry about the performance issues associated with searching the address book?
If so, is saving a thumbnail image in the sandbox the best approach to caching? And if I wanted to create a new job to update all the thumbnails with any changes in the address book say once a day, what's the best approach to doing so?
How do the rest of you solve this sort of problem? Suggestions would be much appreciated!


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When the heat is on, water is crucial to a plant's survival. Yellowing leaves on hardwoods and ornamentals and yellowing or browning of evergreens can indicate a need for supplemental watering. Monitoring the amount of rainfall during the summer months and providing the trees with a cool drink can help a tree to stay healthy and help fight off any other afflictions it may have.
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Tree care professionals, especially certified arborists, can help you identify these problems and provide a great starting point to learn more about your own trees. To find a reputable professional, visit the International Society of Arboriculture at www.treesaregood.org or the Tree Care Industry Association at www.treecaretips.org.
One way to gauge how vigorous your trees are is to visually assess their leaf size and color in peak season. A very light-green leaf or extremely large leaf could tell a tale of a serious stress. Leaf drop ahead of similar trees in the same general area could mean trouble as well. Comparing your trees with the same species in your neighborhood is a great way to stay on top of their preservation.
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye! �Abideth my way, or hiteth the highway.�
Thus declareth His Royal Majesty, Barack Hussein Obracket, basketball fan extraordinare and first King of America. The crown sits heavy upon the monarch�s head as he has inherited a sorry state of affairs from his scoundrel predecessor upon whom much blame must reside.
But alas, King Barack has done naught to better the lot of his lowly subjects. He leadeth them down a yet darker path. He bids us all �to our own selves be true;� yet he belies all oaths and vows he spake on his ascension to the throne. He endeavors to rule us with an iron rod in the shape of a nine-iron, his pompous pen or his same-name phone.
His excellency neither needeth nor seeketh the counsel of his Congress, but summons lords, earls, barons and czars of like ilk to sit in conference as Blights of the Oval Table. There they plot to further their agenda to destroy and reduce the kingdom to a feudal state while declaring all who dare to say nay as demons.
He has sent swarms of his taxmen to harass his people and eat out their substance. He robs them of not only the fruits of their labor, but their dignity as well. A seasoned veteran of many community organizing campaigns, our Caliph-King naively dismisses legions from his army, scuttles mighty sailing ships from his armada and limits the number of our strategic arrows in their silos, while our enemies, foreign and domestic, abound.
He taketh from the poor and giveth to the rich assured that the poor knaves can be deceived.
Be not fretful, forsooth, says he, all is not lost. By his providence, we shall have our daily bread, like manna from heaven � if harsh times prevail, he shall let us eat cake. His �cradle-to-grave� plans for the health and welfare of the new world spreadeth across the globe to all peoples. His scribes have penned thus.
Again, be not troubled, for there is not a �smidgen� of ill-will in his grandiose plan to rule all. There will be many nay-sayers, but contingency plans exist for any rebellious acts. All weapons of �mass insurrection� (hoes, swords, mallets, scythes bows/arrows, slingshots, catapults, sturdy brooms, etc.) will be confiscated under a global �small implements treaty.�
So as he has written, so shall it be. Absorbed in his own eminence, none greater hath there ever been than he. Future historians may note, �Alas, poor Barack, I knew the tyrant well. But pathetic mortal fool that he is, his reign will fall before that of the true King of Kings, whose kingdom will last forever.�
God bless America.
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No, you will not have any personal responsibility for your spouse's medical costs. Florida used to have a rule that said the husband was responsible for the wife' s debts. Since there was not an equivalent rule holding the wife responsible for the husband's debts, the statute was declared unconstitutional. Today, the answer depends upon who signed the paperwork agreeing to pay for the medical services. If one spouse did not agree to pay the other's spouse's debt, the creditor can't collect against the first spouse.
Now that being said, the creditor CAN collect against the assets of your spouse, so it's entirely possible that he might not actually "leave" you anything, but the creditors cannot come after you for his medical costs and payment for those bills.
There's absolutely no law or legal requirement that you buy insurance for a spouse.
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But can they come after our assets that are in both of our names?
If I understand your answer correctly, they cannot as long as I haven't signed taking responsibility for his bills?
Yes, but it's very difficult for them to "perfect" any judgment against joint owned property.
Basically what they would have to do is to sue, get a judgment against him, and IF they were to foreclose any interest that he had, all they would do would be to get half of what he owned.
(they couldn't take your half, and what that means is that they almost certainly would never try to get his half)
They can't take that property away from you, so the most that they would get would be 1/2 ownership in something that they could not turn around and sell, etc...
ok...thanks so much. You have been very helpful and I will leave very positive feedback! have a great day.
one more!! should I put everything solely in my name for added protection?
You could, certainly. That might result in some marital issues, but as a form of asset protection, that makes it less likely that they would ever even discover these assets, much less pursue them.
Great. The marital issues will be greater if he doesn't get his butt to work!! Thanks again. I really appreciate your assistance.
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Ames, Ia. - Iowa State forward Amanda Nisleit spent the second half of Saturday's 59-54 women's basketball loss to Baylor on the sidelines, her right foot dangling in the air when she had to stand.
That symbolized a painful game for the Cyclones (16-10, 5-8 Big 12 Conference), who were hobbled with another injury and another close loss to the ninth-ranked Lady Bears (23-3, 11-2) at Hilton Coliseum.
Nisleit, who made a career-high four 3-pointers in the first half, left the game with 18:01 left in the second half after landing on the side of her right ankle. Her injury, following season-ending knee injuries to Nicky Wieben and Toccara Ross, left the Cyclones with a five-person rotation and eight healthy scholarship players.
Despite that, Iowa State led for much of the second half and was up 54-52 after Alison Lacey's pull-up jumper from the left wing with 2:40 to play.
But Iowa State didn't score after that. Following four 3-point losses in the Big 12, Saturday's five-point setback stung.
While the extent of Nisleit's injury was unknown after the game, Fennelly said he would be surprised if she can play Wednesday at Missouri.
"She's as tough a player as we have and for her not to be able to go back in, it has to be pretty bad," he said.
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If Amanda is unable to play Wed, then our post season glimmer will come down to a good run in the Big12 tourney. As short handed as we have been, losing another player was the last thing we needed this season.
Bill wasn't very optimistic in the post game on the radio. Here's hoping she heals fast. I think we may win that game if she doesn't get hurt.
Too bad Rachel Pierson thought she needed to leave. She could've gotten a lot of playing time this year.
I don't think you can call it "a five-person rotation".
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I received a lovely email from a loyal reader of my blog. She gently reminded me that I haven't blogged in awhile. This is true. But I'm back! I have every intention of adding a Gluten free Holiday blogging post for New Year's recipes. But first, I need to get back on the horse…….
Lots to tell you about.
This morning I made Scrambled Tofu for breakfast. I started with a recipe from one of my new cookbooks, Vegan Vittles by Jo Stepaniak. And then I tweaked it and added my own twist to it. My added ingredients included red pepper, ground cumin, and five very thin slices of pre-cooked tempeh bacon. It was so filling and so delicious. By crumbling the tofu and then adding turmeric to it, it looks EXACTLY like scrambled eggs.
Scrambled Tofu
recipe by Ellen Allard
(Printable Recipe)
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
¼ cup grated carrots
¼ cup minced red pepper
¼ cup minced green onions
1/8 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 teaspoon ground cumin
½ pound firm tofu, crumbled (I pressed it to release some of the liquid – see note below)
5 thin slices tempeh bacon, crumbled (optional)
1 teaspoon nutritional yeast flakes (I LOVE THESE!)
salt and pepper to taste
1 – 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley (optional but would highly recommend)
Pour the oil into a medium skillet, and place over medium-high heat. When hot, add the carrots, red pepper, green onions, turmeric, and cumin and cook and stir for two minutes. Add the tofu, tempeh bacon, nutritional yeast flakes, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix well, and continue to cook and stir over medium heat for five minutes, or until hot. Stir in the parsley, if using, and mix well. Serve hot.
NOTE ABOUT TOFU: see below
Last night for dinner we made Vietnamese Summer Rolls with Peanut Sauce for dipping and Curried Vegetarian Noodles. Heavenly. Now, I'll bet many of my readers have had these Summer Rolls at restaurants or at parties – and I'll bet you never thought you could make these at home. Think again! They're easy. You just need the right ingredients, most if not all are available at your plain old regular supermarket. Although it's WAY fun to go to an Asian market if you have access to one.
Regarding the peanut sauce, Peter has been known to say that he would bathe in the stuff if he could. It wasn't potato chips and French onion dip – he requested this for a snack during the Patriots football game. I was going to make it, but by the time we finished the dinner we made, there was no room for snacking! Warning: the curried vegetarian noodles are spicy – I like them that way, but buyer beware!
Vietnamese Summer Rolls with Peanut Sauce
Recipe by Ellen Allard
(Printable Recipe)
Carrots, slivered
Red pepper, slivered
Bean sprouts
Sprigs of fresh mint, fresh basil, fresh cilantro
Uncooked Tofu (see note below)
Rice paper wrappers (round or square – the little round ones will not work as well)
Very hot water
For the tofu:
Drain by placing on large dinner-sized plate, cover with same size dinner-sized plate. Put something heavy on the top plate to weigh down the plate. After about an hour, some of the water in the tofu will have drained out onto the plate on which it is sitting. Spill the water out. Cut the tofu into preferred shape. For the summer roll, long logs work well. You don't need to cook it.
To assemble roll:
Place rice paper wrapper in a pie plate (for round paper wrappers) or oblong baking dish (for square paper wrappers) that you've already filled with very hot water (it really needs to be very hot – we boil it and then pour that into the pie plate or oblong baker). After about 30 seconds, remove rice paper wrapper and place on a clean surface or plate. It actually works really well to put it on a dampened tea or cotton towel. Into the middle of the wrapper, place a few pieces of tofu (no more than 2), a few pieces of carrot and red pepper, a few bean sprouts, a few pieces of mint, basil, cilantro. If you put too much into the wrapper, you won't be able to wrap it. Pour a little peanut sauce (see below) over everything. Take the bottom side of the wrapper and wrap it over the fillings, fold the sides in, roll the rest of the wrapper up towards the top to close it. Place the finished rolls on a damp paper towel or cotton dish towel, and cover with another damp paper towel or cotton dish towel until you're ready to serve them. This will keep them from sticking to the surface of the plate and to the other rolls.
Dip in additional peanut sauce.
Peanut Sauce(thanks to my sister over at Gluten Free For Me)
½ cup smooth peanut butter
¼ cup wheat-free tamari
1/3 cup warm water
2 tablespoons red wine vinegar (I used white balsamic vinegar)
1 ½ tablespoons toasted sesame oil
2 teaspoons honey (I used agave syrup)
2 tablespoons grated fresh ginger
1 garlic clove, minced
1 teaspoon dried red chili flakes (you can eliminate this if it's too spicy)
Combine all ingredients and mix well. I added extra agave syrup, as I like the sauce a bit sweeter than the original recipe.
Curried Vegetarian Noodles
adapted from Asian Noodles by Nina Simonds
6 servings
(Printable Recipe)
1 ½ tablespoons safflower or corn oil
Curry Seasonings:
1 ½ tablespoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
1 ½ tablespoon curry powder, preferably Madras
2 ½ cups very thinly sliced red onions
2 cups thinly sliced red bell peppers
4 cups thinly sliced bok choy
Basic Chinese Sauce:
¼ cup vegetable broth
3 tablespoons wheat-free tamari sauce
½ teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
½ pound thin rice stick noodles (vermicelli), softened in hot water and drained (or prepared according to package directions)
Mix the curry seasonings together. Mix the basic Chinese sauce together. Prepare the noodles.
Heat a wok or a heavy skillet over high heat. Add the oil and heat until very hot, about 30 seconds. Add the curry seasonings and stir-fry until fragrant, about 10 seconds. Add the red onions and stir-fry for about 1 minute, then add the bokchoy and cook for 2 to 3 minutes, until all are crisp-tender.
Add the basic Chinese sauce and the noodles, and carefully toss to mix. Cook, stirring, for 30 seconds. Transfer to a serving dish and serve hot or at room temperature.
Yum. So, there you have it. I'm back! Happy New Year to all!


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@ Codger "I believe that you should have factored in the winners time at each race compared to last year. If each winner was faster or slower it will skew your results."
We know stats never tell the whole story. However, I didn't do as you suggest cos
a) I really couldn't be bothered to go that far, and
b) the other variables in the races such as conditions and the relative competitiveness cannot be controlled
I still think as an overall guideline though it is a better tool to measure relative performance than finishing position - as one week there might be 5 guys going v well, and only 2 the next, plus mistakes / crashes etc.
Best to compare the performance in overall time lost against the rider who did the job best I think - the winner and regardless of overall race time (as the conditions that made the winner faster or slower will be the same for the rider being looked at every time).
What do you think? Is this a 'fair' comparison test?