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I was looking at free agent running backs, and I saw Shaun Alexander listed.
Thinking someone made a major mistake, I picked him up and let William Green go.
Then I went hunting to see who originally drafted Alexander.
Stric did... and he still has him! He never released him!
I don't know what shows up for you guys, but I can look at Stric's team and see Alexander there, AND I can go to my team and see Alexander there (on the bench players) too!
I would cut him and pick up a "true" free agent back, but now I have no idea who's a real free agent and who's a duplicate player. (But then again, I like my little clone - Mini-Shaun, would you like a Hot Pocket?)
After I made the pickup, I saw Priest Holmes now showed up as a free agent - and *I* have him.
Just a terrible management of Fox's FF service. Like you mentioned, it's a shame, because I like the layout in general.
Well jesus, if a guy is obviously not supposed to be there, don't take him! Fox must be staffed by clowns.
Please tell me no one has Battle, I just scooped him early today.
Would it be possible to start a league somewhere like Yahoo, input the draft we had at FOX, retroactively "play" week 1, and then go from there?
Strongly considering it, I'll take a look.
I thought that was pretty funny when I picked up Earl Campbell *and* Ken Stabler off the waver wire today. Huh.
I vote to move if at all possible. I don't like Fox's interface at all. I've been trying to take my kicker off the bench for 4 days with no success.
Ok, looks like I can sign us up for Yahoo as an offline draft and manually enter all the team players. I can even make it start from Week One so everything (like my hot, hot top score) should remain intact. It's going to take some time though and we may lose live stats since we'd be using the free one.
Ok, I made a new league in Yahoo. Some stats (like defense yards allowed) aren't available in Yahoo and unless I'm missing it, they don't allow me to break down ranges for reception bonuses like Fox does. So it's either going to be 1 point per catch or no points. I went with no points for now, I can change stuff after the fact.
League Name: GWJCFFL Reborn
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Draft Type: Offline Draft
Max Teams: 12
Scoring Type: Head-to-Head
Start Scoring on: Week 1
Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo! Sports
Max Moves: No maximum
Max Trades: No maximum
Trade Reject Time: 2
Trade End Date: November 18, 2005
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Waiver Time: 2 days
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Playoffs: Week 15 and 16 (4 teams)
Roster Positions: QB, WR, WR, WR, RB, RB, TE, K, DEF, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN
Stat Categories: Passing Yards (50 yards per point)
Passing Touchdowns (4)
Interceptions (-1)
Rushing Yards (20 yards per point)
Rushing Touchdowns (6)
Receptions (0)
Reception Yards (20 yards per point)
Reception Touchdowns (6)
Return Touchdowns (6)
2-Point Conversions (2)
Fumbles Lost (-1)
Offensive Fumble Return TD (6)
Field Goals 0-19 Yards (3)
Field Goals 20-29 Yards (3)
Field Goals 30-39 Yards (3)
Field Goals 40-49 Yards (4)
Field Goals 50+ Yards (5)
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Sack (1)
Interception (2)
Fumble Recovery (2)
Touchdown (6)
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Points Allowed 0 points (7)
Points Allowed 1-6 points (6)
Points Allowed 7-13 points (3)
Points Allowed 14-20 points (1)
Points Allowed 21-27 points (0)
Points Allowed 28-34 points (0)
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It's only Tuesday. I suspect it'll all be sorted out very soon. No need to jump the gun... IMHO, of course.
Edit: The wrong account was logged in. Sorry. - Grumpicus.
It's only Tuesday. I suspect it'll all be sorted out very soon. No need to jump the gun... IMHO, of course.
Edit: The wrong account was logged in. Sorry. - Grumpicus.
What the heck? You've got a sockpuppet account?
And I better get to keep Earl Campbell in this new league.
Wife's computer. Wife's account.
Guilty as charged. It didn't hurt that it was already picked for me when I got to that screen.
I'm just glad to see that Legion has such high regard for my fantasy football analysis skills that he actually thought I got rid of Shaun Alexander.
Same thinh happend with Alexander in the #2 league.
I have alexander too...go figure
can we put a 100% moratorium on all free agents since week 1 - until we get everything fixed...?


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Three uncapped backs, including young flyhalves Patrick Lambie and Elton Jantjies, and eight new forwards are in the group as the world champion looks to shrug off a dismal Tri-Nations campaign in its five-match tour of Britain and Ireland next month.
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Richmond Police Chief Terri McWilliams and Fire Chief Lonnie Quick want a central dispatch. Just not the way it's currently set up.
The Richmond Finance Committee met last night to discuss a proposal from Ray County 911 Dispatch (RCD) to provide 911 and dispatch service for the city.
On the table is a $182,000 proposal from RCD.
McWilliams said that her department would still require an administrative person to man the police station window 24 hours a day. She said her budget would require about $144,000 for personnel that would include three full time workers and 4,000 hours of part time workers.
Police Communications Director Tim Ray said a switch over to RCD would also increase report filing times significantly, because the city's report information is not compatible with the RCD.
"Dispatch needs to be combined," McWilliams said. "It absolutely needs to be combined; but it needs to be done in a manner that is beneficial financially and services wise for the county and the city. It needs to be a separate entity alltogether and it needs to be managed separately. I don't want any part of it."
McWilliams suggested that the city pay off its 911 obligations over the next two years while every interested party in the county is brought to the table. She said once everyone decided what he or she wants from dispatch, the issue can be taken to the voters.
Councilman Mike Wright said that RCD is a separate entity; however, Ray said they are not and that they are under the umbrella of the county.
Quick said many years ago voters turned down a county-wide central dispatch. He said they only voted for 911.
"That's not even supposed to be a dispatching [board]," Quick said. "It was a board to begin with, to only oversee 911 funds for equipment. Dispatch and 911 are two totally separate things."
Councilman Bob Bond said he and Councilman Tom Williams went back to the 911 boards to discuss what the costs would be. He said they were told that employees alone would cost an additional $109,000 a year if the city joined. In addition the RCD's Mid America Regional Council (MARC) dues would increase. MARC supplies and maintains all of RCD's 911 equipment. RCD pays MARC about $70,000 a year.
Ray said the city approached MARC about 911 service after the city and county split, and were told it would cost more than $280,000 to hook on. He said the city's current provider hooked the city up for $93,000.
"That's not an uncommon practice with MARC," Ray said. "You over pay on a lot frequently."
Ray added that he doubts RCD gets $70,000 in grant money each year.
"I don't understand what we're missing out on," Quick stated.
Councilwoman Terrie Stanley said that RCD came up with the proposal based on figures provided by the city. She said not all of the numbers were presented to RCD. Ray said that he didn't think the city's budget numbers, along with some other figures, mattered to RCD.
"They didn't have these figures because they were not presented to them," Stanley said.
"It didn't matter to them because they didn't get them," she said.
McWilliams responded by saying, "We've never got a phone call. We've never got a visit. We've never been asked a question by a councilperson, the 911 board or anyone else.
"I feel like I'm under attack from you," she added. "I feel like you're yelling at us. I feel like you're accusing us of doing something under [false pretenses]."
Bond and Williams said that RCD expressed some concern about the numbers the city did provide. The city's calls for service have decreased by more than 1,400 calls a year from 2006 to 2008, while calls for the Ray County Sheriff's Department has increased.
"You obviously don't trust me and you obviously don't trust the numbers I'm giving you," McWilliams said.
City Administrator Rick Childers said he didn't recall anyone from RCD asking for certain figures either. He said even if the city brought its expenses down to $100,000 and the RCD brought their fee down to $100,000, the city would still be spending $40,000 more than what they currently are.
The city will conduct a public hearing next Tuesday, June 30.
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I would like a CMS user to be able to mark one certain page type "featured". I'm assuming in the model you would add a field to the $db array called something like 'IsFeatured' => 'Boolean' and make the default value 'false'. Then you would add a new checkboxfield somewhere within the Root.Content.Main tab. But I only want at most one item in the entire site to be marked as a featured item. So how would I make sure that when I save that any previously marked item is deselected? And I need to differentiate between saving Live and for Draft as well, correct?
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It is barely a year since with great fanfare the NSW government launched a rebranded version of its three power transmission companies. After it sold the retailing parts to private bidders, the O'Farrell government rechristened the remaining firms that housed the poles and wires with upbeat new names. Integral Energy became Endeavour Energy, Country Energy became Essential Energy and Energy Australia became Ausgrid.
Yet now, once again, the state government is rebranding, merging the three companies into one with a name yet to be determined. It will be great for the marketing industry, requiring yet another round of expensive corporate branding: Ausgrid, for instance, sponsors the seal show at Taronga Zoo.
Is the fuss worth it? Not everyone is convinced. It could be a way of avoiding the really tough decisions on privatising the industry and changing the fundamental disincentives for reform.
Michael Lambert, former NSW Treasury secretary, who undertook a financial audit of the NSW government last year, found that a merger would be "unnecessary and potentially counterproductive if the decision was made to proceed with a sale or long-term lease".
He explained to The Australian Financial Review yesterday that a merger would be "complicated and time-consuming and would limit the government's options in future".
The key problem many highlight is that NSW, like Queensland but unlike South Australia and Victoria, remains the owner of its state-owned distribution network. That politicises basic management decisions and creates a massive conflict of interest. Dividends from the NSW power distribution companies accounted for about $220 million in 2010 and that figure doubles if you throw in taxes and the spread that NSW makes borrowing at AAA rates and lending to the power firms at a private sector rate.
The NSW government claims the merger will save $100 million a year in administration costs and allow it to pay a small rebate of up to $150 to low- and middle-income customers.
Yet in one sign that consumers are not the only priority, NSW will use about half the savings for politically motivated spending. Announcing the reform Energy Minister
NSW independent regulator IPART in a submission coincidentally lodged yesterday to the federal government's white paper on energy argued that much greater reform was needed and the unionised state-owned power network is a problem.
"The regulatory framework alongside governance arrangements for the state-owned electricity distributors provides strong incentives for network business to invest capital in the network, but imposes little discipline on the businesses to ensure that this expenditure is efficient or prudent and valued by the customers."
IPART says the cost of maintaining the poles and wires in NSW has jumped 72 per cent in real terms in the past five years. That has been a bigger cause of power price rises than renewable energy or fuel price rises. A study by IPART last year found that from 2001 to 2009 staff in the network businesses increased by between 45 per cent and 72 per cent while total factor productivity, a measure of outputs per input of capital and labour, fell by 24 to 27 per cent.
The government has put off until next term a decision on whether to sell the transmission firms, claiming it needs a fresh mandate. But some worry that by creating a company with a value of about $25 billion, the mega-merger will make privatisation harder.
Ian Myles, an electricity sector analyst for Macquarie Group, says the merger is perhaps logical in saving costs. But he says the merged firm will be just too big to sell in a trade sale, the method used by NSW to sell its power generation and retailing businesses. He says the company might have to be split up again before sale or perhaps the government could try for an initial public offering for only part of the company. "It's a large chunk to sell in one go," Myles says. His remarks echo Lambert's concerns about limiting the government's future options. Roman Domanski of the Energy Users Association of Australia is sceptical about the claimed savings of $100 million a year and warns of a downside: it will be harder for regulators who set prices in the industry because they cannot benchmark the three companies against each other. While he is not opposed to the merger, he says it is much more worrying that the NSW government is showing little enthusiasm for a series of other major reforms designed to raise productivity in the sector and make a major difference to prices.
The three firms are regulated monopolies so prices are set by government. The Australian Energy Markets Commission, the industry rules setter, is holding a once in five-year inquiry into the rules. There is also a parliamentary inquiry into the legislation for the national energy market.
The states with private networks, SA and Victoria, have backed a radical overhaul of the rules to give the regulators more power to keep prices rises down and force efficiency savings, but NSW is lukewarm to cold.
The Australian Energy Regulator, which actually sets prices, has regularly been rolled in the courts when it tries to curb spending. Most notably, NSW network firms managed to increase their revenue by an incredible $1.9 billion or about 10 per cent in a court challenge in 2009 to an AER decision. That resulted in a sharp rise in prices.
The AER wants more power to reduce the allowance for the cost of borrowed capital, which is the single biggest determinant of transmission sector prices. IPART in its submission yesterday backed other changes to make it harder for the power network companies to cherry-pick the bits of pricing decisions they don't like. And it questioned NSW technical rules which set needlessly prescriptive standards on reliability rather than allowing the companies themselves to work out how to keep the lights on.
Yet the NSW government has allowed Ausgrid, Endeavour and Essential to lobby heavily against the AER's proposals and NSW Treasury has lobbied directly against a proposal from major energy users, including Wesfarmers and Woolworths, which would reduce the allowance for the cost of borrowing.
Mr Domanski says there is a clear contradiction: "They say one thing and do another."
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Don Burke hates parsnips. And he hates people who like them. So he hates Donna Hay.
If you're not Australian, none of this means anything to you. Of course, if you are Australian, this still may not mean anything to you.
Don Burke is a well-known radio gardener in Australia. Donna Hay is a well-known TV chef in Australia.
Burke has caused something of an uproar in Australia — mostly because nothing ever seems to happen there — by slamming Hay and the Sydney Daily Telegraph after she published some parsnip recipes in the Sunday Magazine.
"Don Burke lashes out at Donna Hay over parsnips" screamed the headlines.
Burke even described Hay as "wretched" for serving parsnips, saying they weren't fit for pigs.
"I'm outraged, I'm angry, I'm upset, I'm crushed. I'm all of those things and a lot more," Burke said on his program. "If you get that appalling newspaper today, The Sunday Telegraph, and get out Sunday Magazine ... that wretched Donna Hay has got two pages of parsnip recipes. I respect pigs, I like pigs, but I wouldn't give my pet pig parsnips."
Good God, Burke, it's a freaking vegetable. It's a parsnip. It's like a potato and a carrot had sex, found out they couldn't have children, so they adopted a parsnip, and never told it where it came from.
Hay said Burke was out of touch, so she sent him a box of parsnips and recipes, and challenged him to get over himself.
"I was surprised he was having a go. It's just a parsnip," Hay told the Daily Telegraph. "If Don cared to step into a modern restaurant he would find everyone's using parsnips - they're in vogue."
Hay should be careful, since this is tantamount to placing a burning bag of dog poo on Burke's porch
Angeloa Lamattina, an Australian parsnip grower, said Burke was un-Australian for his comments.
"Where does he get off?" he said. "Here's some bloke who had some TV show and reckons he can come out and bag our work."
Yeah! It's like if some bloke had a parsnip farm and reckoned he could bag the work of some TV gardener.
Burke stood by his comments however, and said that the "root cause" (get it? "root cause?" It's funny, because a parsnip is a root vegetable!) — ahem — the root cause of his hatred of all things parsnippy was his mother's cooking, calling her baked parsnips hideous.
Ah, it's all beginning to make sense now. If my psychology classes have taught me anything, it's that Don Burke is in love with Donna Hay.
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Titleist's 913 D2 "Dot" driver was added to the USGA's list of conforming driver heads this week, creating a lot of buzz in our in the forums.
Who is it for? What's different about it? Will it come to retail?
According to Chris McGinley, the prototype driver was made for Titleist Staff Member Jason Dufner, who has continued to use the company's three-year-old 910 D2 driver because of its higher launch and spin characteristics, which suit him better than Titleist's lower spinning 913 drivers.
Dufner's 910 D2 driver has 9.5 degrees of loft. Click here to see the specs of the other 13 clubs in his bag.
McGinley said that Dufner was interested in switching to a 913 driver because of the faster ball speeds the new models can provide. That's why prior to creating the 913 D2 Dot driver, Dufner tested a 913 D3 driver with 10.5 degrees of loft and modified internal weighting that moved the center of gravity lower and more forward in the head. He also tested a 913 D2 with 9.5 degrees of loft with a CG that was higher and deeper in the head.
According to McGinley, neither driver was a fit for Dufner, which is why the company decided to create the Dot driver. McGinley said that the Dot head is exactly the same as the retail 913 D2 driver, except that it has 0.5-degrees more loft and a slightly higher, deeper CG to give Dufner a higher launch and more spin. Because of the extra 0.5 degrees of loft (10 degrees instead of 9.5), Titleist had to resubmit the driver to the USGA to be approved for tournament play.
At this time, McGinley said that there are no are no plans for the Dot driver to be tested by anyone besides Dufner.
Dufner is currently ranked No. 13 on the FedExCup points list, and is scheduled to play in next week's BMW Championship, the third round of the PGA Tour Playoffs. We'll keep an eye on what driver he brings to the tee.
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Poddars statement comes two days after UB Group chairman Vijay Mallya had said that he was ready to buy stakes from Zuari and Deepak Fertilisers in MCF. In UB Groups MCF, Zuari currently has 16.43% stake while Pune-based Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals has about 24.46%.
Mallya has said that he is keen to buy shares in MCF held by Zuari Fertilisers. If Mallya is keen to buy shares, I am more than willing to sell my shares, Poddar said when asked about his comment on Mallyas offer.
As a business professional, Mallya has every right to take a decision. I will respect his decision. If he is willing to go for joint venture, I am ready. If he does not, I am okay with it. And if the JV does not happen, I will sell MCF shares to the highest bidder as I will have to protect my shareholders interest. I hope this will happen soon, Poddar told reporters on the sidelines of an event at Mumbai on Thursday.
Poddar said that Zuari had bought shares of MCF in consultation with Mallya with an idea of floating joint venture between the two companies.
I have bought shares of MCF in consultation with Mallya. And this was based on an idea of floating joint venture with Zuari. It was very clear. I also have first right of refusal of MCF shares with UB Group, Poddar said. Shares of MCF on Thursday closed at R52.30, up 1.65%. At current price, Zuaris stake in MCFL is worth R102 crore.


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ANAHEIM — Maybe it's not a bad thing that the Sharks rarely play both their California rivals on the same trip south.
Monday night, an ill-advised line change and multiple misplays kept San Jose on the skids as the Sharks dropped a 5-3 decision to the Anaheim Ducks in what the visitors hoped would be a bounce-back game after a troubling loss to the Los Angeles Kings 48 hours earlier.
The Sharks' scoring came from Jason Demers, Patrick Marleau and Matt Irwin, and Anaheim got two goals from Francois Beauchemin and one each from Peter Holland, Emerson Etem and Ryan Getzlaf. The defeat was San Jose's fifth in a row on the road, as the Sharks fell below the postseason cutoff line in the Western Conference.
The Ducks took a 1-0 lead in the first period when Joe Thornton's line picked the wrong time to head to the bench and Beauchemin fired the puck past Sharks goalie Antti Niemi on a 3-on-1 rush. Demers knotted the score at 19:02 of the first period when his shot from the right point eluded Anaheim goalie Viktor Fasth.
Three Anaheim goals less than three minutes apart in the second period put San Jose in a 4-1 hole, however. Holland started the run by capping off tic-tac-toe passing to make it 2-1 at 11:09, then Etem scored his first NHL goal 34 seconds after that on a perfect feed from Daniel Winnik. But the back-breaker came at 13:55 when Getzlaf scored short-handed.
San Jose edged back into the game when Marleau used Joe Pavelski as a decoy and beat Fasth with only six seconds left in the second period, and made it a one-goal game at 6:48 of the third when Irwin's shot glanced into the net off Getzlaf's skate. Beauchemin got his second goal of the game into an empty net at 19:14.
This was only the third time in franchise history the Sharks faced the two teams in succession on the same road trip.
Sharks owner Hasso Plattner is not ready to share his thoughts on the team's current struggles.
When Plattner announced Jan. 30 that he was increasing his majority interest in Sharks Sports and Entertainment by purchasing shares held by Kevin Compton and Stratton Sclavos, the German high-tech entrepreneur said he would continue their past practice of not commenting publicly about the team. All hockey questions were to be directed to general manager Doug Wilson.
At the time, the Sharks were 6-0-0; since then, San Jose has a 6-10-6 record after Monday night's loss.
In an email exchange, Plattner acknowledged that "the facts are the facts" as far as the team's wins and losses but declined to comment beyond that. Asked about accountability for players, coaches and the general manager, he again said all questions should be directed to Wilson.
Ryane Clowe sat out Monday night's game with a shoulder injury he aggravated Saturday in San Jose's 5-2 loss to the Kings. His spot in the lineup was taken by Marty Havlat, who missed the last seven games with a lower body injury suffered March 2.
Forward Tim Kennedy went on injured reserve hours before the game, clearing a roster spot so Havlat could be activated.
Unhappy with what he saw against Los Angeles, coach Todd McLellan made two other lineup changes, inserting Demers and TJ Galiardi into the lineup while benching Justin Braun and James Sheppard.
The Ducks announced Monday night that they had signed Corey Perry to an eight-year deal for a reported $69 million, locking up both him and captain Ryan Getzlaf for the maximum length allowed under the new collective bargaining agreement. Perry was the league's MVP in the 2010-11 season. Ducks 5, Sharks 3 ·Wednesday: at Edmonton, 6:30 p.m. ·TV/Radio: CSNCA/KIDD (630)
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The quotes keep coming. Earlier this week, the BBC posted the first two parts of Kanye West's engrossing interview with radio personality Zane Lowe, and now the third part of the interview has surfaced online. The interview finds an energetic Kanye speaking on a number of topics from the Internet, which he describes as "the future sky," to his music to his forays into the fashion world.
He spends the beginning of the clip describing how his music is inspirational. "Go listen to my all my music," he says. "It's the codes to self-esteem. It's the codes to who you are. If you're a Kanye West fan you're not a fan of me, you're a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I'm just the espresso."
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Woodland Joint Unified Superintendent Debra LaVoi responded to Friday morning's Connecticut tragedy, along with other officials across the nation.
All parents received a recorded telephone message from LaVoi, acknowledging the tragic shooting at a Newtown elementary school that killed 28 people, 20 of whom were children. Newtown is about 60 miles northeast of New York City.
The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Adam Lanza, allegedly opened fire in a kindergarten classroom and the massacre is one of the worst in the nation's history.
Similar calls and emails were also sent by school superintendents elsewhere in California and across the nation.
"Our hearts go out to the victims, their families and the community," LaVoi's message said. "This is a time when we all need to stay strong and stay connected so our children feel support and safety."
Counselors and psychologists will be available to speak with students Monday and beyond, LaVoi said. Students may request time with a counselor and parents may also refer their child to counseling by contacting the school principal.
"I believe a helpful response to a tragedy is to show the collective goodness that exists and to demonstrate this collective goodness is much stronger and cannot be broken," said LaVoi.
Thankfully there has been no mass shooting in Woodland or nearby. Nonetheless, local schools are prepared to respond to emergencies.
Since September, Dingle Elementary School has practiced its emergency response system twice, resulting in brief school lockdowns each time.
Most recent was Thursday when police arrested a suspect in a stolen vehicle on Oak Avenue, directly north of the school, around lunch time.
School officials were immediately notified and the school was placed on a brief lockdown until the suspect, Eduardo Chavez of Woodland, was arrested.
Dingle was re-opened after Chavez was removed from the area. At no time did anyone appear to be at risk, police said.
The school was also on brief lockdown in September following a gang-related stabbing outside the campus. No students were involved or in danger, police said.
"In our own reflection, what kept the school safe was our response," said Dingle Principal Lonny Villalobos regarding the stabbing incident. "We had a plan, a well-practiced plan, and we executed it awesomely. I encourage that for your own families."
Following the stabbing, Friends of Dingle Neighborhood Watch program held two safety meetings at the school's cafeteria. One focused on general safety, while the other discussed gangs specifically.
"Our hearts go out to the families who have suffered a loss that no one should ever have to endure," Friends of Dingle Neighborhood Watch posted on its Facebook page Friday afternoon. "Let's continue to invest in our children here in Woodland and raise them right so that they may advocate for a more peaceful future, both here in Woodland and in the world."
Friday's massacre in Connecticut may be the second deadliest shooting in American history, second only to the Virginia Tech slaughter in 2007 in which 32 people died.
Other shooting tragedies have made their mark in American history.
The Lifetime Movie Network made a movie, "Amish Grace," about the Lancaster, Penn., shooting at an Amish one-room school house that killed five girls in 2006.
The massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., in which students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, killed 12 classmates and a teacher before killing themselves in the school's library in 1999, was also made into films. "Elephant," directed by Gus Van Sant and "Zero Day," both out in 2003, are based on the high school shooting.
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SEATTLE - If you saw Neal Stephenson on the street, you might think he's just another geeky Seattle guy with a particularly impressive goatee.
He blends right into this town of musicians, computer scientists and creative types - so well that you might never guess he's a best-selling science-fiction author whose prescience, technical acumen and storytelling have made him into a guru to the techno-intellectual caste.
Writing with a fountain pen in the basement of his home, Stephenson produces mind-blowing, thousand-page novels, usually centered on humble, good-hearted intellectuals caught in storms of technological, social and historical change.
Academics have compared Stephenson with Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson, although his new book that came out Sept. 9, "Anathem," adds JK Rowling and Isaac Asimov to the mix.
"In a way, it's like Harry Potter for grown-ups," said Stephenson's friend George Dyson, a Bellingham, Wash., scientific historian, author and kayak builder.
Yet, Stephenson is more than an author. He's a jack of all trades contributing to some of the Seattle area's most secretive and intriguing high-tech ventures, where he works part time, after his morning writing sessions.
That is, when he's not practicing sword fighting or making armor in his underground machine shop, like Iron Man with fewer gadgets.
"He's mild-mannered, as long as he doesn't have a sword in his hand," said another friend, composer and ex-Microsoft engineer David Stutz.
Lately, Stephenson's been part of the team of inventors at Intellectual Ventures, a Bellevue, Wash., idea factory started by ex-Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold, with backing from Bill Gates and others.
Before that, Stephenson spent seven years helping Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos start Blue Origin, a commercial spaceflight company in Kent, Wash.
"He's always thinking about lots of things - he's a pollinator, he brings ideas to the table," Stutz explained.
Tech companies still refer to Stephenson's 1991 novel "Snow Crash," a thriller that popularized the concepts of virtual worlds and avatars.
Retired Microsoft executive Linda Stone said the book was required reading for her team when she started Microsoft Research's virtual worlds group in 1994. Stone invited Stephenson to speak on campus and introduced him to computer scientists, mathematicians and physicists.
"There have been many inspiring science-fiction writers, but each has a unique thing to offer," Stone said. "Neal is absolutely, profoundly inspiring."
Stephenson's recent books went back in time. He traced the genesis of computing and cryptography in the 1999 hit "Cryptonomicon." Then he tackled the dawn of economics and globalization in the epic, three-volume "Baroque Cycle" that was finished in 2004.
"Anathem" looks into the future, while exploring philosophy, religion and social change. It's set on a planet called Arbre and reflects Stephenson's concerns about anti-intellectualism.
"It's meant to be a good yarn and a story that you can dive into on its own merits. But if you want to go all interpret-y on me, there are clearly some connections between that world and the world we're living in now," Stephenson said, sporting a Leatherman tool in a belt holster and a formidable-looking knife handle sticking out of his jeans pocket.
"I don't want to just sit here and rattle them all off, and beat people over the head with them, because that makes for a bad relationship between author and reader, but I think anyone who looks at it can see the points of similarity."
A few physical similarities are obvious. It begins in a monastery that maintains a fantastic clock providing continuity through the ages. This machine was inspired by a clock that the Long Now Foundation, made up of San Francisco philosophical techies, is building to run for 10,000 years - a monument to "long-term thinking."
When he started writing "Anathem," Stephenson would attend concerts of renaissance and medieval chorus music by Stutz at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral on Seattle's Capitol Hill.
"There's something about St. Mark's - it fits perfectly with the story of 'Anathem' because it's ancient and modern at the same time," Stephenson said.
"It has the general shape and style of a medieval church, but you get inside and you can see that the walls are poured concrete and the altarpiece is kind of a high-tech thing.
"I don't know the right way to describe it, but it's exactly the right mix - that, combined with the music, just got me in the right frame of mind to work on the book."
Stutz created music appropriate to its setting, exploring "whether there would be liturgies that treated scientific truths and mathematics and philosophy as things to be revered or things to be celebrated," he said.
The CD goes on sale this month, and Stutz will donate profits to the Long Now Foundation.
Stutz thinks "Anathem" is one of Stephenson's best books. "It's a great combination of big, big ideas and rollicking plot - how can you go wrong with that?"
Stephenson describes his special blend a little differently.
"There's veg-out novels, and there's geek-out novels," he said. "I'm tending to write geek-out novels, although I try to put some fun stuff into them, too, so you can enjoy a little bit of vegging out between the geeky parts."
So, what will be the lasting effect of Stephenson's work?
"It's hard to tell," said Jon Lewis, an English professor at University of North Carolina, at Pembroke, who teaches Stephenson's work in classes and published a collection of academic essays, "Tomorrow Through the Past: Neal Stephenson and the Project of Global Modernization."
"The quality of the work is there that he'll last and appeal to a variety of different disciplines - certainly people who are interested in artificial intelligence, computer science, cryptography - they're interested in what Neal has to say about different subjects."
It seems natural that Stephenson's books would emerge from Seattle, a place where people build operating systems and airplanes, then relax by going to Wagner's "Ring" cycle. Those projects require commitment and focus, with a big payoff for those who persevere.
Stephenson, 48, was born in Maryland and raised in Iowa, where his mother was a biochemistry researcher and his father taught electrical engineering. The family had roots in the Northwest - his grandfather taught physics at Washington State University - and every summer they'd drive west for a month-long vacation in the area.
He studied physics and geography at Boston University and moved to Seattle for a few years in 1984, while his wife did her medical residency, then moved here permanently in 1991.
Tinkering came naturally to a guy raised in farm country, in a house with a workshop and with a father who built the family's TV and electronic equipment from Heathkits. He started programming in college and still dabbles, using Mathematica software on a Mac.
"Farmers, of course, can build or fix anything," he said.
Stephenson is not sure he has the same level of skill, but he's sure it stirred his interest.
Friends, like Stone, were less understated.
"He's a builder, he's a creator, he's part engineer, part scientist and he has this splendid imagination," she said, adding that "there are a lot of wonderful people in the world, and even among them Neal is rare and special."
And she hasn't read "Anathem" yet.
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PARENTS will be able to bag a bargain at Barnardo's new children's store when it opens in Stourbridge on Saturday (July 19).
The Crown Centre charity shop will sell second-hand clothing, nursery furniture, prams, buggies, toys and games.
A selection of new clothing from the charity's own range of babywear will also be on sale.
The charity's existing Stourbridge store in High Street will remain open.
Barnardo's retail area business manager, Glen Hall, said: "We are delighted to be able to expand our offer to local shoppers in Stourbridge and surrounding areas and look forward to giving local families a great service.
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We've seen a number of musicians get their own line of audio equipment recently, from Dr. Dre and Beats Audio to Ludacris's new "Soul by Ludacris" line of headphones. This week at ces, Monster Audio announced that they would unveil the Miles Davis Trumpet Headphones, an in-ear model designed and inspired by Miles Davis and his music, and developed in collaboration with Sony and Miles Davis Properties, LLC, which owns the rights to his work.
The earbuds even look a bit like trumpets, with a flared design that expands out to the actual earbud itself and is narrow in the center, with gold-colored trim and silver body design. The headphones are also etched with Miles Davis' signature on the sides, and feature a stylized image of Davis playing the trumped on the flat audio cable leading down from the earbuds.
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Renal or kidney injuries in children are usually minor. A child's kidney is more likely to be injured than an adult's kidney because there is less protection from the bones and muscle around it.
The most likely cause of renal injuries is motor vehicle crashes. A hard blow to the upper abdomen or back such as from a fall, sports injury or violent act can cause injury to the kidney or bladder as well.
A kidney injury may also result from a gunshot wound or knife wound that tears and cuts the organ. These types of injuries are known as penetrating injuries.
Each person has two kidneys, which are located on either side of the spine, behind the intestines and just above the waist.
The kidney cleans the blood by filtering out waste materials and getting rid of any water the body doesn't need. The liquid waste made by the kidneys is called urine. The kidneys are part of the renal system. The renal system also includes the ureters, bladder and urethra.
Urine is made in the kidneys and it passes through the ureters. The ureters are small tubes that connect the kidneys to the bladder. The bladder stores the urine. The urine then goes from the bladder through a tube called the urethra to the outside of the body.
Children with kidney injuries may have bruising, pain in their back, or there may be no marks at all.
If renal injury is suspected, your child will be given a physical examination. A urinalysis (urine test) will test if there is blood in the urine. X-rays, CT scan (a picture with more detail than an X-ray), and ultrasound (special test that shows pictures of the kidney) or blood tests may be done to determine how badly your child's kidney is damaged.
Kidney injuries are graded based upon the information received from testing. Grade 1 kidney injuries are the smallest, while Grade 5 injuries are the biggest.
Most kidney injuries do not require surgery. The child with a small injury to the kidney will go to the general care unit for a few days of bed rest. Children with major kidney injuries may go to the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) for a day or two on strict bed rest and then to the general care unit. The urologist (kidney doctor) may also be caring for your child when the injury to the kidney is bad.
Decreasing the amount of bed rest and increasing the child's activity level will happen gradually as the child's injury heals. Each child is different in the time it takes to heal.
If the child's kidney is badly damaged, surgery may be needed to fix the damage and to stop the bleeding. The surgical incision may be closed with small metal staples or stitches. The child may need some extra blood before or after surgery. He / she will also not be allowed to eat right away. However, he /she will receive fluids through an IV (a small tube in their vein). The child will be closely cared for in the ICU after surgery for a few days for any bleeding, pain, or infection. The child is then transferred to the general care unit as healing continues.
After you leave the hospital, your child will need to be watched for any problems. Complications do not happen very often but as a precaution, you should be able to recognize warning signs and symptoms.
You will need to call your doctor right away if you see any blood in the urine, fever greater than 100.5 degrees, or belly pain and tenderness.
Speak to your healthcare provider about medications your child has previously taken. Your child may have some pain or soreness at home.
Give acetaminophen (also known as Tylenol) for pain. Your child's doctor may write a prescription for stronger pain medication. Give the prescription if the pain does not go away one hour after giving acetaminophen. Follow the directions on the bottle.
However, do not give your child ibuprofen (also known as Motrin, Advil, Aleve, etc.) until the doctor says that it is OK.
Your child may shower or take a bath, but he / she may need help for several days after going home. Check with your doctor about taking baths if your child has had surgery.
If your child has cuts or scrapes on the skin from other injuries, wash the areas with warm, soapy water and pat dry. If your child has stitches or staples, follow the specific instructions for caring for them.
After the injury, your child may be tired and irritable. It takes time to heal. Use this time for rest and quiet activities. Tell your child that he / she will feel better soon. Have your child play board games, read, or do small craft projects for short periods of time.
Infants and toddlers are harder to distract and will be more difficult to confine. Try putting your infant or toddler in a large crib or playpen. Ask family and friends to visit, but for short periods of time and not at the same time to minimize activity.
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I'm having a lot of trouble locating pictures of the scars that come from a lower blepharoplasty surgery - both post-op and long-term. Where can I find these? What is the location of the scars, and how noticeable are they?
What is the Location of the Scars for a Lower Blepharoplasty and How Noticeable are They?
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Lower blepharoplasty is a tricky operation, but the scars should not be visible.
1) So now you know not to worry about the scars, but there are things to worry about. If lower blepharoplasty is not very skilfully done, the shape of the eyes can be affected. Common poor results include outer corners of the eyes pulled down, lower lids rounded and pulled down, and lower lids hollowed out from too much fat removal.
2) Ask to see a lot of before and after pictures when you go for a consultation.
Incisions for a lower Blepharoplasty...
The placement of incisions is a common concern with most patients, but fortunately the lower eyelid is an area that usually heals wonderfully so that a scar cannot be seen. For many lower lid procedures, the incision lies inside the lower lid, and is usually held together by one suture that dissolves. When the incision is outside the eyelid, it is placed just below the lash line, and if it is performed correctly, that incision virtually disappears over time. If you have any other questions or concerns be sure to see a board certified facial plastic or plastic surgeon
Location and visibility of lower blepharoplasty scars
A transconjunctival approach for lower blepharoplasty does not involve external incisions and is performed for all fat removal from the lower lids. When needed, as is common for patients over age 50, a small pinch of skin is removed below the lash line through a subciliary incision. This incision is closed with tissue glue, not sutures, which allow it to heal imperceptibly. The eyelashes themselves camouflage the incision.
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Bleph scars fade fast!
One of the reason you might be having difficulty locating the scars from the lower blepharoplasty is because they tend to heal inconspicuously! The incision for a lower lid blepharoplasty is made just below the lash line.
Lower Eyelid Blepharoplasty
There is no simple answer. There are various techniques for lower eyelid blepharoplasty and a good plastic surgeon whould be trained in all techniques since there is a correct surgery for each person. If you have a large amount of excess skin in the lower lid, a subciliary (below the lash) should be performed to remove excessive skin. If there is minimal excessive skin, a transconjuctival blepharoplasty will help with bulging fat. If there is ectropion, other incisions will be necessary.
Lower Eyelid Incisions For Cosmetic Surgery
Blepharoplasty incisions are usually placed right below the lash line. They typically heal very well and seldom are perceptable long term. Sometimes, the incision can be placed in them pink portion of the lower eyelid to remove excess fat when excess skin is not the issue. These incisions heal very well also.
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Blepharoplasty, eyelid surgery uses hidden internal and/or a barely visible external incision
There are a number of ways to make incisions for the lower eyelids. It really depends on what is being treated. If you have good skin and only bags, I prefer a completely hidden incision inside the eyelid called transconjunctival. An alternative that adresses extra skin can be added or substituted that is made right below the lower eyelashes. This incision heals quite well and should be barely visible once it heals, and then only to the trained eye.
Learn more: http://www.mdface.com/proc_eyelids.html
Lower Blepharoplasty Scars
The scars can be inside the eyelid, in which case they cannot be seen, or just below the eyelashes, in which case they are very hard to see after a few weeks.
Incision placement for lower eyelid surgery
The incision for lower eyelid surgery is placed either along the lower lid lashes and/or inside the lid (tran-conjunctival). Generally, the scar heals very nicely and it is hardly noticeable after the healing process. Sometimes, there may be a small incisional scar placed along the lateral upper lid region. This is due to whether or not the eye muscle is involved in the tightening/resuspension as part of your lower eyelid surgery.
Lower Blepharoplasty Scars?
Thank you for the question.
The scars associated with lower blepharoplasty surgery tend to heal very well ( whether just below the eyelashes or within the conjunctiva).
Best wishes.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_eyelid.htm
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The laser should not give you more wrinkles. It is possible that the healing from the procedure is making the wrinkles more prominent, but this should completely resolve with time and the wrinkles should improve! Sometimes people scritinize their skin too much after a procedure and notice wrinkles fro the first time, even though they were there previously. If your doctor took before and after pictures, you can compare the two and see. Also, make sure you are not too dry, as this can wrinkle the skin as well.
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After amendment to Canada's Copyright Act in 2012, fair dealing was expanded. In Section 29, the categories of parody, satire and education were added to the original set of research and private study. The inclusion of "education" was seen as both new-found treasure and a disaster of immeasurable proportions. It was neither. Fair dealing as specified through the previous Canadian law, and practiced with the guidance of the Supreme Court as given in CCH Canadian, was capable of facilitating legitimate uses of copyrighted material and curbing wholesale appropriation. Nothing about the prior law excluded application of fair dealing in an educational institution. Thus, my text of two years ago stands (see below). Although I have corrected one character.
For those interested, this page was announced in my post fair dealing for students (and their teachers) and then followed with and this one is for teachers which addressed using copyrighted material in preparing educational materials.
Including "education" in statutory language of fair dealing served only to repudiate any misconceptions that fair dealing does not apply in schools, colleges and universities. But it did not confer automatic legitimacy upon any act of copying; the case by case analysis must always decide that aspect.
Original text as written September 2011
Copyright concerns should not intrude on student work; fair dealing supports the process of learning as it naturally unfolds in higher education. Unfortunately, the heightened atmosphere of copyright compliance may lead institutions to unnecessarily curb students' creative inclinations. Looking ahead to post-postsecondary life, people choosing to function in a creative industry will be better off if they have a fuller understanding of how the system of copyright supports intellectual development.
The point of entry into any question of copyright infringement begins with the definition of copyright itself. Section 3.1 of the Copyright Act states that copyright is "…the sole right to produce or reproduce the work or any substantial part thereof in any material form whatever…." If the amount of the work copied (for whatever purpose) is insubstantial, copyright does not arise and thus infringement is not an issue. Of course, neither substantial nor insubstantial are defined in the Act. If one feels that a substantial aspect of a copyrighted work was copied, then consider if fair dealing applies.
Evaluation of fair dealing is a two-step process. First, does the use fall within one of the accepted categories of fair dealing as defined in the Act? Paraphrasing from Sections 29, 29.1, and 29.2 – research, private study, criticism, review and news reporting are eligible. Some conditions of attribution are required. The first four categories are endemic to learning. And, as students today are well versed in the practice of citation, the attribution requirements are generally met without second thought. Therefore, it is quite likely that a student pursuing individual activity to meet an assigned project is safely within the scope of fair dealing.
The second part of the process is more challenging: was the use fair? For that we have the guidance of the Supreme Court of Canada, as indicated in their 2004 decision CCH Canadian. It may seem lengthy and dry; however, the Supreme Court indicated it is only a framework. Not every factor will apply to every situation. Or, depending on the context, added consideration may be warranted. Nevertheless, here is my interpretation of how individual student work melds with the six factors denoted in CCH Canadian.
1) The Purpose of the Dealing. Establishing the validity of purpose is quite straightforward. As noted above, most educational activities fit within research, private study, criticism, and review. (Indeed, all four uses could be present in the same assignment.)
2) The Character of the Dealing. This means, how is the copyrighted work dealt with? In general terms, in CCH Canadian the justices agreed that: "If a single copy of a work is used for a specific legitimate purpose, then it may be easier to conclude that it was a fair dealing (para.55)"
In the context of student work, two types of copying are likely to take place – copying for reference and copying for inclusion. The need for reference material sits comfortably in the CCH Canadian context. The dispute centred upon the copying of legal materials for legal research – in that situation the court stated: "Copying a work for the purpose of research on a specific legal topic is generally a fair dealing (para.67)." But copying for inclusion is more complex. Here is where the character of the dealing must meld with the use. It is likely that the copying is to serve the purpose of criticism or review, as part of the larger expression of the student's own ideas. Whether it be a grade ten homework assignment or a doctoral dissertation, when the student has chosen an input element appropriate to his or her message and integrated that element in a new creation, such copying is likely to be fair.
Moreover, inclusion of copyrighted material is supported through the Berne Convention in the right of exception for quotation. Renowned copyright scholars Sam Ricketson and Jane Ginsburg write:
Quotation is an integral part of many kinds of intellectual activity, ranging from the writing of historical treatise and critical commentaries to the composition of polemical tracts. Accordingly, provision for it is made under most national laws, as well as under the [Berne] Convention… this is a mandatory requirement under the Convention.
In our increasingly visual world, quotation may well encompass visual elements. That does not change the legitimacy of fair dealing provided, again, that reproducing the element is necessary for the larger purpose of the student's expression.
3) The Amount of the Dealing. This is perhaps the most unnerving aspect. Regrettably though, this anxiety is often resolved by stipulating a quantified measure. The New York Times featured an article by David Orr, titled "When Quoting Verse, One Must Be Terse" Mr. Orr describes the challenges wrought by copyright to American poetry criticism and makes specific mention of the problem of limiting copying by measure:
[It doesn't] help to say that the standard should be, say, 5 percent of a given poem. Here's the entirety of Monica Youn's poem Ending: "Freshwater stunned the beaches. I could sleep."
What's 5 percent of that? "Fr"?
This same dilemma arises when dealing with a visual work. How can you make a meaningful comment if you can only display a partial image?
Fortunately, the aspect of choosing an appropriate amount is precisely what students will learn. The integration of other works must be towards the expression of each student's own ideas, and they have teachers to help them make these decisions. No third-party should try to artificially set rules on this instructional process. An interesting point of discussion at Artists in Conversation was a concern by artists themselves – did they transform an input work enough? Their thinking was not prompted by any question of copyright infringement, but reflected their own creative intentions.
Mr. Orr presciently suggests that one should rely on the custom and practice of the discipline. While the United States has not made that directive explicit, nothing precludes consideration of custom there. Whereas in Canada that directive was explicitly included by the Supreme Court in CCH Canadian (para. 55). Institutions need not worry about choosing what their students can incorporate into projects – that is a decision shaped by both teacher and student according to the long-standing custom called teaching.
4) Alternatives to the Dealing. In CCH Canadian, the justices commented that "If there is a non-copyrighted equivalent of the work that could have been used instead of the copyrighted work, this should be considered (para.57)." Since the time of CCH Canadian, the volume of Creative Commons work has grown considerably. Students can be encouraged to look for such material. But this does not rule out using copyrighted material. (This is why we have fair dealing.)
An obvious place where reproducing an entire copyrighted work may be imperative is in the arena of popular culture. Rosemary Coombe writes, "the imagery of commerce is a rich source for expressive activity. In consumer cultures, most pictures, texts, motifs [etc.] are governed, if not controlled by regimes of intellectual property." If the purpose of the new creation is to comment upon or criticize a popular culture phenomenon, it may well be necessary to reproduce the visual representation.
5) The Nature of the Work. This raises the question of whether greater dissemination of the copyrighted work is of benefit to the public. Bear in mind that this factor was enunciated in the context of CCH Canadian and centred upon the distribution of entire research articles. In the realm of completing a school assignment, this factor has less relevance. Again, we are speaking of a situation where a copyrighted work (in part or in whole) is reproduced in aid of a new expression serving a different idea. Wider distribution of the copyrighted work seems a moot point. (Whereas one could argue that the newly created work serves a public benefit.)
6) The Effect of the Dealing on the Work. This speaks to the likelihood of affecting the market of the original. Will utilization of the copyrighted material result in unfair competition?
When a student incorporates copyrighted work for the purpose of a school assignment, it is unlikely that the student's work could substitute for the original. Even if the student has incorporated the entire work, assuming they did so in a creative manner that changes the context and conveys a new interpretation, the resulting work would not serve the same purpose as the original. A Canadian court has already given support to transformative use.
And for those who might worry that existing systems of licensing imply that permission (or payment) is necessary for any use of a copyright work, in part or in whole, in CCH Canadian the Supreme Court gave us this memorable instruction: "The availability of a license is not relevant to deciding whether a dealing has been fair (para. 70)." In effect, our Justices have positioned Canada to avoid the disarray that happened in the late 90's in the United States, where market-concerns took precedence over fair use. (Fortunately, the United States has progressed beyond this interpretation.)
Good luck.
p.s. As some might remember, CCH Canadian brought forward a helpful reminder; that a library can stand in the fair-dealing-shoes of its patrons. So if students turn to their librarians for help in retrieving copyrighted work, the librarian has not implicated the institution in any unseemly behaviour.
CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada [CCH Canadian] 2004 SCC 13.
My synopsis of CCH Canadian.
Sam Ricketson and Jane Ginsburgy, International Copyright and Neighboring Rights: The Berne Convention and Beyond 2nd Edition (Oxford:OxfordUniversity Press, 2005).
Rosemary Coombe, The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998).