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Josh Homme's Onstage F-Bombs Hit Imagine Dragons, the Grammys and the Man
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A week after he berated an overeager fan who stupidly strolled onstage during a concert, Josh Homme unleashed a torrent of F-bombs against . . . well, a whole bunch of things, at a Queens of the Stone Age show.
It all went down in Houston on Feb. 9, right before QOTSA played 'I Appear Missing,' a highlight of their latest album, last year's '. . . Like Clockwork.' The album should have snagged Homme and his band a Grammy a couple weeks ago, but their song 'My God Is the Sun' was beaten by Imagine Dragons' not-so-rockin' (and not very good) 'Radioactive' for Best Rock Performance.
Not that Grammys or Imagine Dragons should even matter much to Homme. But apparently he was in a feisty mood over the weekend. "This next song is by Imagine Dragons," he says before starting 'I Appear Missing.' After the audience fires back with a series of boos, Homme continues: "F— everything. F— the man. F— Imagine Dragons. And f— the Grammys."
There's a little more to it than that. You can watch the video above for the full carpet-bombing plus song.
It's not as epic as last week's rant from Homme, who booted a fan offstage before laying into the "d—–bag" by telling him, "You're lucky I didn't f— you up." But it's still kinda great. Here's the video if you want to compare Homme's onstage awesomeness:
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Japanese parents get cash support for kids
Last month, Japan's government passed a stunning new initiative in this year's budget that gives parents cash for having kids. It's a drastic move for a huge problem as the country has the world's fastest aging population, and one of the lowest birth rates. By 2050, experts estimate a whopping 40 percent of the country's population will be over age 65.
The measure calls for the government to pay families $150 per child each month, so a couple with two children would receive $300 a month.
Leading Japanese economists like Yuri Okina say the money doesn't get to the root of the problem as many Japanese women don't want to have children because of the inequity of domestic duties and the country's lack of day care, which often means women must give up their jobs when they have kids.
Officials estimate an estimated 46,000 children are on waiting lists to get into day care in Japan.
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Street parties are something of an English tradition, with ingredients like bunting, Pimm's and lemonade and all manner of cakes helping to create a wonderfully British festive atmosphere.
While these sorts of events are typically reserved for special occasions, such as a royal wedding or other nationally celebrated occurrences, there are also a number of annual events which bring what seems like the entire population of the capital out onto the streets for a party.
Perhaps the most famous of these is the Notting Hill Carnival, which takes place in the West London neighbourhood of the same name – which non-Londoners may well be familiar with thanks to the hugely popular 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill, starring High Grant and Julia Roberts.
The carnival itself takes place over the August Bank Holiday weekend, and is a celebration of Afro-Caribbean cultures and London's links to these regions of the world. Every year the streets become awash with revellers of all creeds and colours, while food stalls and sound systems playing an array of different musical genres can be found throughout Notting Hill.
Elsewhere, the Camden Crawl takes place each spring in the ever-popular Camden Town area. A huge number of bars, pubs and clubs take part in the festival by hosting live music performances, and while tickets are needed to gain access to most of these, it's still worth heading to the area even without one, as there's no charge for hanging out on the streets.
Tens of thousands of people flock to Chalk Farm Road and the Stables Market each year, creating a fantastic atmosphere, while a number of impromptu gigs are also in the middle of the road itself.
Finally, the Lord Mayor's Show has been taking place in the capital for nearly 800 years, and sees the Lord Mayor travel in a lavish coach form the City of London to Westminster to pledge his allegiance to the monarchy.
Held every November, the event brings thousands of Londoners out onto the streets to watch the coach go past, while fireworks light up the sky and a festive spirit fills the air.


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Circuit Split Brewing Over Government Access to Cell Phone Location Data
A split among the U.S. courts of appeals is taking shape over the threshold requirements for the government's ability to obtain historical cell phone location data, in the wake of a July 30, 2013, ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
That court held that a U.S. district court must order a cell phone service provider to produce a subscriber's cell site data when the government presents specific and articulable facts showing reasonable grounds to believe that the records are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation.
The case began in 2010, when federal authorities in the Southern District of Texas filed applications for cell phone data in connection with three criminal investigations. The applications, submitted under § 2703(d) of the Stored Communications Act, requested 60 days of subscriber information and cell site data for specific cell phone numbers.
Section 2703 states that the government may require third-party service providers to turn over their subscribers' cell phone data as long as the requisite burden is met. Generally speaking, authorities may obtain substantive communications, i.e., "content" records, without notice to the subscriber, but only based on probable cause as required by the Fourth Amendment. "Non-content" records, on the other hand, may be obtained on a lesser showing.
Thus, service providers may be compelled to turn over details of a subscriber's call history, including numbers called, session times, and the duration of calls. To obtain non-content data, the government must offer "specific and articulable facts showing that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the . . . information sought [ is] relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation." The statute provides that an order may be issued by any court of competent jurisdiction and shall be issued only if the government makes the required showing.
The magistrate reviewing the applications granted the government's requests for subscriber information but denied the requests for cell site data. Although the government had met its burden under the statute, the magistrate held that compelled production of location data would constitute a warrantless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment. The district judge affirmed.
On appeal, the Fifth Circuit considered two issues. First, the court considered whether the Act requires the issuance of an order for non-content records when the government meets the "specific and articulable facts" standard or, alternatively, whether district courts may impose a higher burden. Second, the court considered whether the compelled production of cell site data constitutes a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.
On the first issue, the court held that an order must issue when the government meets the "specific and articulable facts" standard: the test is both a necessary and sufficient condition for an order under § 2703. The court resolved the tension between the statute's permissive and mandatory terms by explaining that any court of competent jurisdiction may order the production of historical location data; but, if the government meets its burden under the statute, the court must issue an order compelling production of non-content data. Under such circumstances, district courts may not deny the government's request or impose a warrant requirement.
The Fifth Circuit answered the second question by holding that compelled production of cell site data is not a "search" under the Fourth Amendment. The court's decision rested on its conclusion that location data are simply the service provider's business records, not data from a tracking device. As the court explained, the service provider stores and collects cell site data voluntarily for its own business purposes, not on behalf of the government. Additionally, the records concern commercial transactions to which the service provider is a party. Unlike content data, the subscriber's location information is intended solely for the provider, who needs it to complete the subscriber's calls.
The court explained further that subscribers do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in cell site data. Subscribers know full well that phone service depends on transmission of the caller's location data. And even if that were not common knowledge, subscribers would still have no reasonable expectation of privacy in location data because the provider's terms of service and privacy policies explain how the data are used, collected and stored. Armed with that knowledge, subscribers make informed choices about whether and how they use their cell phones.
The Fifth Circuit opinion is fascinating, especially because of the tension it creates with a Third Circuit case decided just weeks before the government filed its applications in Texas. Like the Fifth Circuit, the Third Circuit considered whether a court may deny an order for historical non-content records when the government makes the requisite showing under § 2703(d).
First, that court held that orders based on "specific and articulable facts" are not per se unconstitutional. But unlike the Fifth Circuit, the Third Circuit held that § 2703(d) establishes the conditions necessary, but not the conditions sufficient, for an order. In other words, courts can still require probable cause in limited circumstances. The court's holding followed logically from its conclusion that, at least in some cases, cell phones are like tracking devices. And when historical cell site data is used to track a suspect's physical movement in places where the suspect has a reasonable expectation of privacy – the home, for example – the Fourth Amendment may require a showing of probable cause. The Third Circuit held that, in such cases, district courts may require a warrant.
Disputes over government access to historical cell site data are far from over. If these cases are any indication, these rulings will hinge on whether courts deem cell phone location data to be more like third-party business records or more like data from a tracking device. Since a clear split among the circuit courts seems to be developing, it appears fairly likely that the U.S. Supreme Court will take up the issue soon.
Federal Criminal Procedure
Judge Strikes Down FBI's Use of 'National Security Letters'
In a recent decision, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California struck down the FBI's use of National Security Letters (NSLs) as unconstitutional. Unbeknownst to most Americans, the FBI has been issuing thousands of NSLs every year. The letters demand that recipients, such as banks and telephone companies, provide customers' information such as their transactional records, phone numbers dialed, and email addresses mailed to and from. This doesn't involve the content of the phone calls or emails but does involve the names of addressees or participants. One reason most Americans didn't know about these letters is because more than 95 percent of them contain gag orders, barring the recipient from disclosing their content or even their existence.
This case began nearly two years ago, in May 2011, when a nonprofit advocacy group, the Electric Frontier Foundation (EFF), filed suit on behalf of an unnamed telecom company that had received an NSL. In defense of the NSLs, the government argued that this level of secrecy is necessary to protect the nation against potential security threats. NSLs were designed in the 1970s as a means to gather information on suspected foreign spies during terrorism and espionage investigations. However, the Patriot Act greatly expanded their reach to allow the FBI to secretly compel companies to provide data on American citizens.
The constitutionality of NSLs is dubious for two distinct reasons. Not only does the nondisclosure clause infringe on their recipients' free speech, but, unlike a standard subpoena or search warrant, the NSLs do not have to be authorized by a judge. Accordingly, Illston concluded that NSLs and their nondisclosure provisions violate the First Amendment and separation of powers principles, and she ordered the FBI to stop issuing NSLs and cease enforcing all gag provisions. That said, we are uncertain whether Illston's order will ever go into effect. Due to the gravity of the First Amendment and national security issues at stake, Illston issued a 90-day stay, giving the government time to appeal her decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
Although the lawsuit was filed anonymously, various media sources have suggested that the unnamed defendant may be Credo Mobile, a phone provider that supports progressive causes. The day after the ruling was released, Credo's CEO Michael Kieschnick released the following statement:
"This decision is notable for its clarity and depth. From this day forward, the US government's unconstitutional practice of using national security letters to obtain private information without court oversight and its denial of the first amendment rights of national security letter recipients have finally been stopped by our courts."
According to Matt Zimmerman, an EFF attorney, the NSL gags "have truncated the public debate on these controversial surveillance tools," and his unnamed client "looks forward to the day when it can publicly discuss the issue."
As we await the higher court's ruling, which we hope leaves Illston's decision in place, one thing has already been accomplished of a positive nature. A federal district judge has shined some light on a little-known and highly dubious federal law enforcement technique.
Federal Criminal (Other)
Court: Data on Unsecured Network May Qualify for 4th Amendment Protection
The vast increase in the use of wireless data networks has led to new legal issues regarding network users' right to privacy. A recent opinion issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon indicates that, under some circumstances, individuals on an unsecured wireless network have a reasonable expectation of privacy entitling them to Fourth Amendment protection. As a result, police officers must obtain a warrant prior to accessing files on that network.
In United States v. Ahrndt, defendant John Henry Ahrndt moved to suppress evidence that a police officer obtained by accessing Ahrndt's wireless home network and opening files without a search warrant.
In February 2007, one of Ahrndt's neighbors connected to Ahrndt's unsecured wireless internet network. When she opened her iTunes program, she was able to see "shared" files from Ahrndt's iTunes and LimeWire accounts, and saw a number of titles indicative of child pornography.
The neighbor did not open any of the files, but called the police to report what she saw. A deputy came to her house and she showed him the file names as she had seen them. The deputy asked her to open one of the files. When she did, it opened an image of child pornography.
The deputy questioned the neighbor about whom the unsecured wireless network might belong to. She indicated that the network had been available since she moved into the building, and at the time Ahrndt's home was the only other one that was occupied. The police ran the license plate of a car parked outside of the home and identified it as belonging to Ahrndt, a convicted sex offender.
Using a general description of what the neighbor and deputy recalled seeing in the list of file names, the police applied for and received a search warrant to access the wireless network again in order to get an IP address. The police then served a summons on the Internet provider. The provider disclosed that Ahrndt was the subscriber in question.
Using that information, the police obtained a search warrant for Ahrndt's home. They ran a forensic search of his computer and identified images of child pornography in various folders. The forensic report did not mention either iTunes or LimeWire.
In considering the motion to suppress the evidence obtained through the initial warrantless search, the court concluded that it would have been appropriate for the deputy to view the titles of the files without a warrant, since a private party (the neighbor) had already viewed those files and told the police about them. However, the court concluded that it was a violation of Ahrndt's Fourth Amendment rights for the police to instruct the neighbor to open the file, which she had not previously done. The opened image was no longer within the purview of private search, but a government search.
The court also found that Ahrndt's privacy expectations were not eliminated by accessing an unsecured wireless network. There was no evidence that Ahrndt had intentionally enabled sharing for those files; rather, the default setting of the LimeWire program enabled sharing. It was Ahrndt's reasonable belief that those files were contained only on his hard drive, and not shared on a public network. The court said that "[i]n short, the government does not dispute a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the files on his home personal computer."
The court concluded that, lacking specific file names and a description of images, a magistrate would not have found probable cause to issue a search warrant. The only evidence that the police viewed lawfully was the file names, which the neighbor and deputy could not remember with specificity. Since the "partial recollections and characterizations" were too general to support a warrant, all related evidence from the unlawful search must be suppressed.
The court came to the right conclusion on this one. Our reliance on the Internet has become such that what is on our computers is as personal and private as the inside of our homes. The government is no more entitled to search our computer without probable cause than to search our homes. This case does not represent a free pass to intentionally share information on wireless networks and then assert Fourth Amendment rights when the government comes knocking. Rather, it is only that information to which an user has a reasonable expectation of privacy—such as files that he is not aware are accessible to others—that is protected against the government's unlawful search and seizure.
It's easy to see how this has implications for potential white-collar cases: the government might try to use financial information unintentionally made available to a neighbor through an unsecured network as a basis to initiate a financial fraud investigation. We hope that the courts will rely on this case and suppress any evidence obtained as a result of this type of unlawful search.
Federal Criminal Procedure
New Zealand Court Hands U.S. a Victory in Kim Dotcom Piracy Case
A year ago, we wrote about the indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia of the executives and founders of Megaupload, one of the leading file-hosting sites on the Web. The charges were copyright infringement through the facilitation of piracy of copyrighted materials, money-laundering, and conspiracy. The site was shuttered after the indictment.
The case quickly got tied up in the U.S. Justice Department's effort to extradite Kim Dotcom, Megaupload's chief founder, from New Zealand, where he lives. After a series of setbacks, the DOJ just won a victory before a New Zealand appeals court. The extradition hearing is set for August 2013.
The issue before the appeals court was how much information the DOJ was required to turn over to Dotcom before the hearing. One of Megaupload's defenses is that its activities were protected by the "safe harbor" provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which protects Internet service providers from copyright liability for the activities of people who merely use their Web sites.
Dotcom wanted the DOJ to turn over, in advance of the hearing, information that it had about possible copyright infringement on the site – in other words, a good deal of the government's evidence. Reversing a lower court, the New Zealand appeals court held that the DOJ need not turn over much of this material at this point.
"If a suspect was entitled to demand disclosure of all relevant documents on the basis that he or she wished to challenge not the reliability of the summarised evidence but rather the inferences that the requesting state seeks to draw from it," the court wrote, then the extradition hearing process would not work properly. Rather, the suspect is entitled to a summary of the evidence but not to the government's entire case at this juncture.
It thus appears that Dotcom will be able to get access to the DOJ's entire case and to mount a full defense only if he is extradited to the United States and faces a criminal trial. But in order to hold such a trial, the DOJ will need to make a prima facie case at the extradition hearing, which Dotcom will be allowed to rebut, that Dotcom is guilty of the charged offenses. The appeals court said that this hearing will only involve a "limited weighing of evidence" and that the DOJ is entitled to some deference as to its reliability.
We have said before that this is a highly dubious prosecution. We are confident that despite this setback, Dotcom will get a full chance to present his case before an impartial tribunal.
Foreign Proceedings
Domain Name Seizure – It's Not Just a U.S. Law Enforcement Tactic
We have previously reported in this space about the use of domain name seizures by American law enforcement – for example, here and here. Recent media reports show that domain name seizure has become the go-to tactic for law enforcement for other countries as well.
Canadian police made a series of arrests during an invitation-only Super Bowl party attended by 2300 people as part of Project Amethyst. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police spokesperson says this was connected with the arrest of 21 individuals related to a separate online credit betting operation in November. The more recent arrests were connected with an online sports betting operation that used the website located at www.platinumsb.com. In addition to arresting six individuals, officers also seized $2.5 million in cash as a result of the execution of nine search warrants in and around Toronto.
Police also seized the domain name associated with a Costa Rica-based website, which is registered with Washington State-based Enom, Inc. Police obtained a Canadian court order for that purpose, and then submitted a request under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) between Canada and the United States. The domain name was then transferred to the control of Canadian law enforcement authorities who, in turn, redirected it to a new landing page. Visitors to the platinumsb.com website are now greeted by a notice stating that the web site has been "restrained by court order granted to the Attorney General of Ontario."
Media reports indicate that the website was back online as www.platinumsb.tk within hours of the shutdown. The .tk top level domain belongs to Tokelau, a non-self-governing territory off the coast of New Zealand. The .tk version of the domain name was reportedly registered in 2004, suggesting that the group operating the sports book had set up contingency plans for a seizure of its .com website.
Whatever the merits of the Canadian prosecution against individuals affiliated with PlatinumSB, the seizure of the platinumsb.com domain name certainly shows that domain name seizure is by no means a tactic used only by U.S. law enforcement. As more and more businesses move largely or exclusively to the Internet, the global use of this law enforcement tactic is sure to grow.
Foreign Proceedings, Internet Law
Facebook Takes Steps to Expand Presence in Real Money Gaming
Facebook is quickly expanding its real money gaming platform. Net Entertainments has signed a license agreement with Bonza Gaming, which is a joint venture between gaming publisher Plumbee and online gaming operator Sportingbet. Under the agreement Net Entertainment will offer a range of casino games to Bonza Gaming, which will create an app, Bonza Slots, that will be available on Facebook to users that want to participate in real money gaming.
Facebook is now the world's largest social media outlet, with over a billion active users. Last summer, Facebook announced that it would expand its social gaming to real money gaming, beginning initially with users in the United Kingdom. Bonza Slots becomes the third real money gaming app on Facebook, joining Gamesys and 888 Holdings; all three companies have recently reached deals with Facebook to launch their real money gaming apps. With Facebook's massive user base, it can accomplish what other online gaming sites could likely only achieve on a much smaller scale — the ability to reach a large and constantly growing base of players.
Facebook is no stranger to online gaming. For some time now, it has offered its users the option of playing online games for Facebook credits as an alternative to real money. In 2011, Facebook changed its advertising policies, allowing online gambling companies to advertise in jurisdictions where such services are permitted. In the past, Facebook has been extremely strict when it comes to advertising online gambling business on its website. Now, Facebook's Advertising Guidelines web page has a specific online gambling clause under the Gambling and Lotteries subsection of the Ad Content section, which reads: "Ads that promote or facilitate online gambling, games of skill or lotteries, including online casino, sports books, bingo, or poker, are only allowed in specific countries with prior authorization from Facebook."
It is not clear how much Facebook will charge real money gaming companies to operate on its platform. In general, Facebook charges other apps 30 percent of their revenue, and there is no indication that gaming will work any differently. After reviewing Facebook's public filings, we still have some questions about this and we will report back as we find answers.
In any case, Facebook's new online real gaming platform will immediately give it a strong position in the real money market in the United Kingdom and a great opportunity to monetize its very large user base. With legislative efforts for real money online gaming gaining momentum across the United States, Facebook could be well positioned to be a power in the U.S. market in the future if it chooses to do so.
Internet Law
Bill Could Put Reins on Prosecutors' Efforts to Seize Domain Names
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, has indicated that she is drafting legislation that would seek to increase judicial oversight over prosecutors' efforts to act against Internet domain names accused of copyright infringement. While the value of such legislation will depend on the details of the bill, the notion of creating greater control over prosecutorial seizure of domain names is laudable.
Lofgren is one of a small number of legislators who voted against the PRO-IP Act of 2008, which authorized the government to shut down websites accused of online piracy or copyright violations by seizing their domain names. Under the enforcement operation that followed passage of that Act – dubbed "Operation In Our Sites" – the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has seized 1,630 domain names, of which 684 have been forfeited to the government. The increasing use of domain name seizures in this area tracks similar use of this tool in other areas of law enforcement such as internet gaming and online pharmaceutical sales.
Specifics about the contemplated legislation have not been disclosed, though Lofgren has been quoted as noting that there are "reasonable arguments" that the way in which the government has seized domain names under the PRO-IP Act violates the Constitution. Lofgren's bill will apparently propose that the government must provide notice and an opportunity to be heard before domain names are seized or redirected.
The addition of a procedural requirement for notice and hearing prior to domain name seizure would clearly be a favorable development. There have been cases in which the government has seized a domain name and later permitted it to resume operations, under agreed-upon restrictions, pursuant to an arrangement with the affected business. To the extent that businesses may negotiate such arrangements with the government, those arrangements could be reached without the potentially devastating interruption of a seizure. By giving counsel for the affected business the opportunity to be heard, such a requirement may also chill the overuse of domain name seizure by government as a means of gaining unfair leverage in cases involving Internet-based businesses.
The devil, of course, is in the details. Lofgren has reportedly sought input from the online social media community on this bill – particularly from Reddit. Hopefully, she will also seek input from those members of the legal community who have been involved in litigation over domain name seizures as well in order to ensure that the bill presented for consideration is as effective as possible in balancing the interests of all affected parties.
Civil Remedies
In Effort to Extradite UK Man in Piracy Case, DOJ Is Overreaching
A current anti-piracy case demonstrates the U.S. government's intent to enforce its copyright laws not just beyond national borders, but beyond the extent of logic. The U.S. Department of Justice has issued an arrest warrant and extradition order for a 24-year-old college student in England who ran a website that contained links to independent websites that hosted pirated television shows and movies. By holding a mere intermediary accountable for allegedly pirated content offered on other websites, the department has set an alarming precedent with major free speech implications.
Richard O'Dwyer, who has never left the United Kingdom, is at the center of a heated debate regarding U.S. laws related to copyright, free speech, and jurisdiction. O'Dwyer 's website, TvShack.net, is registered in the United States, thereby giving the U.S. government a claim to exert jurisdiction over it and its owner even though the servers hosting the website are not U.S.-based. The website allowed users to search for and link to other websites; the government alleges that some of those links led to pirated movies and television shows. The government seized the domain on June 30, 2010, for "violations of federal criminal copyright infringement laws." O'Dwyer has been charged with conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and criminal infringement of copyright.
The government's case against O'Dwyer raises a number of important issues. First, O'Dwyer himself did not host the allegedly infringing material. His website allowed users to run searches that returned links to both legal and allegedly illegal content on external websites. If O'Dwyer can be criminally prosecuted for the dissemination of copyrighted content that he did not host, where would the chain of liability for such content end? Would search engines linking to such websites bear responsibility for their content? Would anyone sending a link to that website face criminal prosecution, even someone who actually download or view the content? There is no telling how far the DOJ intends to push this issue, but O'Dwyer's case is a good indication that the DOJ seeks to extend the limits as far as the courts will allow.
O'Dwyer's status as a British subject raises less novel but no less compelling questions about the United States' jurisdiction to extradite and prosecute individuals on copyright infringement charges. O'Dwyer's extradition has been approved by the British courts as well as the British home secretary, but many still believe that any trial should take place in Britain since O'Dwyer has never set foot in the United States and the servers hosting the website were also not on our shores.
O'Dwyer is currently appealing the extradition. Last month, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, in a rare political intervention, called upon British Home Secretary Theresa May to stop the extradition efforts.
The circumstances of this case are reminiscent of the high-profile Megaupload case, in which the U.S. government issued an extradition order for Kim Dotcom in New Zealand. Dotcom ran an internet "lockbox," in which users could upload content, including video and music, to a website and then share access with other users. Factually, these cases differ in that Megaupload hosted the content that was uploaded by users, whereas O'Dwyer only provided links to other websites. New Zealand also appears less willing to approve extradition, having pushed a hearing on the matter to March 2013, while Dotcom remains free on bail.
In instances of intermediary liability, the need to protect copyrighted works is outweighed by an individual's interest in remaining free from criminal prosecution for the acts of another. The remedy, if one is justified, is better addressed through civil penalties rather than criminal prosecution.
Federal Criminal (Other)
U.N. Should Keep Its Hands Off the Internet
In March 2012, a resolution was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would urge the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations to oppose any resolution that would regulate the Internet. It is unfortunate that it turns out to be necessary to forestall Internet regulation at the U.N. level, but that appears to be the case. We support this resolution.
The resolution, House Concurrent Resolution 114, was introduced by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) and Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.), co-chairs of the House Cybersecurity Caucus, in response to growing fears that some nations will seek to regulate and censor the Internet. The sponsors cited a September letter from China, Tajikistan, Russia, and Uzbekistan outlining their plan to introduce a United Nations resolution on Internet governance.
Rep. Langevin said in a statement, "The proposals by some nations to gain international approval of policies that could result in Internet censorship would be a significant setback for anyone who believes free expression is a universal right. It must be made clear that efforts to secure the Internet against malicious hacking do not need to interfere with this freedom and the United States will oppose any attempt to blur the line between the two."
The resolution was referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 26, 2012, and no action has occurred on it since then.
Internet freedom has been a hotly debated issue on Capitol Hill in recent months with the Senate's Protection of Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and the House's Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) becoming the focus of protests that eventually helped defeat the bills.
The Issue of Internet privacy will soon be dealt with at the international level. The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) is scheduled for December 2012, and countries such as China and Russia are expected to try to expand the authority of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The ITU is the United Nations agency that is responsible for worldwide standards in telecommunications, including regulation of the Internet.
The proposals that are expected to be considered could dramatically affect the Internet. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last June that his goal is to establish "international control over the Internet" through the ITU. Accordingly, it's understandable that many Americans fear that other nations could employ a new regulatory scheme to censor the Internet and control access to information. One reason that some of the protesters were so strongly opposed to SOPA and PIPA was the fear that once tools exist for regulating Internet content, they can be prone to abuse.
Internet access improves the quality of life for people across the world and represents a triumph of freedom of expression. Any agreement like the ones expected to be sought at the WCIT could have dramatic chilling effects on the freedom of the Internet. We will keep you up to date on any movement in Congress or in the United Nations regarding Internet freedom.
Second Circuit YouTube Ruling Will Have Major Impact for Online-Piracy Debate
What had been touted as a great victory for Google in particular and for "Internet freedom" in general was just dealt a major blow when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court decision in Viacom's lawsuit against Google and Google-owned YouTube.
Viacom, along with the English Premier League and various film studios and television networks, sued YouTube in 2007 alleging copyright infringement based on YouTube's broadcast of some 79,000 copyrighted videos. The lower court had thrown out the case, granting summary judgment to YouTube and holding that YouTube was not responsible for the infringing activities at issue. The plaintiffs appealed. The Second Circuit brought new life back to the suit — and new life to the complaints some have made against online piracy, which recently hit the headlines with the introduction of the SOPA and PIPA bills in Congress.
At the heart of the lawsuit is the application of a 1998 federal law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and one of its "safe harbor" provisions. The DMCA was enacted to carry out an international copyright treaty and to protect intellectual property online through anti-circumvention rules. Essential to Internet innovation (and to the growth and success of YouTube) are the DMCA's safe harbor provisions, which limit liability of Internet service providers (ISPs) for copyright infringement by their users.
It's been generally understood that, provided the ISP has a notice-and-takedown system in place for receiving complaints of infringing behavior and promptly responds to those complaints by removing the infringing material, the ISP would be good to go. That general understanding gave online services a major boost. A Wired article celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the DMCA attributed the success of blogs, search engines, e-commerce sites and social networking portals to the safe harbor provisions. And the lower court's earlier decision in the Viacom-YouTube suit appeared to be an affirmation for "Internet freedom."
But the recent Second Circuit reversal could mean a major change in philosophy and practice. The court effectively held that a notice-and-takedown regime is not enough to shield an ISP from copyright liability for users' infringing activities. If it appears that an ISP had knowledge or awareness of specific infringements, it may need to take action before a copyright owner provides notice of the infringing behavior. The Second Circuit asked the lower court to determine whether any specific infringements of which YouTube had knowledge or awareness (as evidenced by internal emails at YouTube) correspond to the clips at issue in these actions. It further asked the lower court to determine whether YouTube made a "deliberate effort to avoid guilty knowledge."
This latter question of whether an ISP could be held liable for "willful blindness" has not been fleshed out before in the context of the DMCA safe harbor provisions. If the lower court ends up determining that YouTube is on the hook for willful blindness, ISPs' current M.O. of relying on notice-and-takedown procedures will need to change. Some might argue such a move could stifle innovation and curb "Internet freedom." But adoption of a willful blindness doctrine may end up benefitting service providers and hosting companies: It could strengthen the argument that new legislation à la SOPA or PIPA is unnecessary as the DMCA already provides sufficient protection against copyright infringement, otherwise known as online piracy.
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Imbc Black Scrolls
This was my first IMBC Wedding Cake and probably my last, what work!!! Also the first time fro this much scroll work ( I need lots more practice) Anyway, I warned the Bride about IMBC not smoothing as well as buttercream , but she insisted and LOVED the cake. She added live red roses on it that I will post when she sends me the picture. TFL


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This year's Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) conference was held in the city of Boston, US, home to stars such as Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, and famous for the Boston Tea Party. Aptly named 'the Athens of America', the conference was taking place against the backdrop of the Greek debt crisis.
The opening session of the conference was given by the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton. To a full auditorium, Clinton addressed the treasury and finance community of America in a cautious tone. He spoke about the lack of good infrastructural systems in the developed world, his concerns about the knowledge gap in the US and gave lip service to the European sovereign debt crisis.
He proposed that the current administration should open the borders further to allow even more immigrants in to fill the knowledge/labour gap. He also proposed that another liquidity repatriation programme should be initiated. This time, however, instead of using the funds to buy-back shares, corporations would only benefit from the tax holiday if new jobs were created.
The attendance level of 6,500 was the second highest in the conference's history. This was the fifth time that Zanders attended the conference and the first time that we gave three presentations for the break-out sessions.
Zanders' Judith van Paassen along with Eduardo Boe, treasurer for the Americas at Akzo Nobel, presented the Akzo Nobel SAP Treasury, Payment Factory & IHC Implementation Project. With over 200 in the audience, interest was high and the Q&A session highlighted that these large-scale treasury transformation projects are ever-increasing.
Laurens Tijdhof co-presented the Celanese Bank Relationship Project with Chuck Kyrish, group treasurer of Celanese Corp. The presentation was well received as many of the audience spoke of finding themselves in exactly the same position as Celanese and now realise that major re-shaping of their banking portfolio is very possible.
Lane Silverman, group treasurer of JT International and I presented the FX Risk Management Project undertaken at JT International over the last year. Although there is always much discussion in the market around FX, the session's high attendance and the follow-up questions we received showed that it is still a major challenge for corporates.
One session I attended about corporate investment policies given by a global American bank questioned the current reliability of the European banking world with a slight air of caution. Notwithstanding this, the overall tone and feeling of the conference was one of positivity. In the closing session the AFP chairman, Michael Connolly, paraphrased the famous lyrics of soul singer James Brown, saying treasuries and finance departments must 'get-up, get into it and get involved'. Maybe we Europeans should also dance to the James Brown rhythm.
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Mailbag: What are Phils' catching plans?
Mailbag: What are Phils' plans behind the dish?
Beyond this season, the Phillies are waiting for Jason Jaramillo. Since that could be two years away, Philadelphia will likely look for a place-holder through free agency, with Fasano and even Lieberthal as options.
-- Kevin S., San Gabriel, Calif.
Franklin is just as frustrated as you are, Kevin. He accepted the switch during Spring Training because he believed the rotation was set, and that he'd be used in crucial seventh-inning situations. The loss of his role has been due to his not pitching effectively, something he blames on not being able to work hitters the same way he would as a starter. The Phillies, meanwhile, appear to have lost confidence in him in any situation.
His window to start may have closed with the expected return of Lieber and Randy Wolf. He'd likely welcome a trade if it means a return to working once every five days.
If the Phillies trade either Bobby Abreu or Pat Burrell, would Shane Victorino or Dave Dellucci take over the position? Also I know Doug Glanville isn't signed with a team. Why wouldn't the Phils sign him to the Minor Leagues for a speedy callup in September?
-- Ricky H., Forked River, N.J.
-- Greg H., Havertown, Pa. Tejeda was dealt because the Phillies felt that Dellucci would be a perfect fit for the bench. While pitching has been the glaring weaknesses this season, they were right in their assessment of Dellucci. For what it's worth, Tejeda has an ERA over seven for the Rangers, and the Phillies didn't believe the young starter was going to lick his control problems. What is Manuel's fixation with keeping David Bell at third base? His offensive power numbers are paltry for a corner infielder, and his usually solid defense has been shaky recently. Why not give Abraham Nunez -- or even Burrell -- a shot there?
-- Sean A., Nashville, Tenn.
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First of all, forget Burrell playing third. That will never happen. While it's true that Burrell manned the hot corner in college, he won't be moving back.
As for Nunez, he needs to significantly improve on his .163 batting average before the Phillies think about making any changes. Simply put, Bell is Manuel's best option, for better or worse.Should the Phillies trade Bell and Eude Brito or someone for David Wright and call up Floyd?
-- Josh F. The Phillies should absolutely trade Bell and Brito for Wright, but good luck getting Mets GM Omar Minaya to agree. Wright is going to be in New York for a long, long, long time.
As for Floyd, the Phillies won't call up the right-hander until he proves he can be successful for an extended period of time. A handful of starts in Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre isn't enough, especially after his struggles in the Majors this season.When will Julio Santana return?
-- Alex C., Charlotte, N.C. He won't. Santana had surgery on his right elbow and is done for the season. Do you think the Phillies will fire Manuel at the end of the year?
-- Frank L., Philadelphia
If that's Manuel's fate, it will likely come at the end of this season, not during. General manager Pat Gillick backed Manuel earlier this month, and he will use the next few months to determine whether the problems lie with the manager or with the collection of players.
The Phillies haven't been to the playoffs since 1993, and a good portion of this particular group has been together under three different managers. Gillick must look through that when he makes his decision.
Ken Mandel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Illustration: Serenity, by Katy Gromball
Valentine's Day approaches once again, and where is the love? Is the love in Clinton Cards? Is the love in all those 'must have' Valentine's gifts the glossy magazines are trying to suggest we need? Is the love in flowers that have been flown thousands of miles, produced by underpaid workers with health problems because of all the chemicals used in their production? Hmmm, perhaps not…
Illustration: In a Dream, by Katy Gromball
There's no denying cut flowers are beautiful. I've never been a flowers girl myself, but I do see the appeal. Flowers should be beautiful, natural, simple gifts that allow us to enjoy a beautiful bit of the outdoors indoors. Yet most of the flowers that we buy in this country have a past that is neither innocent nor desirable. It's ironic that the pretty things we use to express our affection for loved ones can in fact be severely detrimental to the health and well-being of the people and environments that produce them. It is therefore high time ethical flowers became the norm and not the slightly more expensive niche option.
Illustration: Lovely Place, by Katy Gromball
Flowers can either be grown in greenhouses, where maintaining the right temperature and conditions needs a lot of energy, or produced in countries with a naturally hotter climate. The vast majority of flowers we buy in this country are imported from Colombia, Kenya or Holland.
I remember studying the colonial history of France in Algeria at university. The French colons made Algeria, where the Muslim population originally didn't drink alcohol, into an important exporter of wine. So while the natives didn't have enough wheat because their land had been taken over by the French, the French were happily drinking wine with their cheese. Perhaps the flowers situation can't be compared. But flowers take up enormous swathes of land that could otherwise be used for food production. The fact that they are grown as a monoculture crop means they severely deplete soils and biodiversity.
Illustration: Lovers, by Katy Gromball
Moreover, flower production requires huge amounts of water. Clean drinking water is an increasingly scarce global commodity. Coupled with the extremely high use of pesticides, fungicides and herbicides in flower production, and the toxicity released into rivers because of this, there is clearly a huge problem. Pesticides directly affect the health of the workers who are in contact with them, whether in greenhouses or outdoors. Are cheap flowers worth all this?
So what are the alternatives? Where possible, it really is best to buy UK grown flowers. The UK floriculture season lasts from about March to October, but most florists will provide for Valentine's Day as well by using fairtrade flowers. Below are a few ideas for online suppliers, but it's probably best to research your own local area and find out which florists supply UK grown or fairtrade flowers. If you know any good florists or suppliers in your area, please post links to them or give details in the comments section they'll be useful all year round.
Illustration: Hurrah, by Katy Gromball
Bella and Fifi, Bristol-based ethical florist.
Park Flowers, Soil Association Organic certified flowers.
Eco Flowers Delivered- "I love you and the Earth too". Delivered same or next day.
Bath Organic Blooms, Seasonal, organically-produced flowers from Somerset, delivered UK-wide. Not for Valentine's though as the season starts in March.
Visit illustrator Katy Gromball's online shop, for a truly beautiful and unique print to go with (or instead of) flowers.
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Maybe history's most star-packed movie, this rom-com weaves together 10 stories in L.A. on February 14. It's a mixed bag of sweet and kind of silly: A florist (Ashton Kutcher) proposes to his gal pal (Jessica Alba); a mailroom clerk (Topher Grace) romances a coworker (Anne Hathaway) who does phone sex on the side; and a businessman (Bradley Cooper) gets to know a soldier (Julia Roberts) on a flight.
While He's Just Not That Into You segued breezily between its arcs, Valentine's Day feels too darn crammed. Director Garry Marshall could have done without the plot about a teen (Emma Roberts) hellbent on losing her virginity or the story of a bickering older duo (Shirley MacLaine and Hector Elizondo). The good news? Some performances do stand out: Taylor Swift charms as a ditz (too bad she has no chemistry with her jock beau, Taylor Lautner, a real-life ex). And Jessica Biel, usually so sour-faced, earns chuckles as a publicist who hates the holiday. She should do another comedy -- one with fewer costars.


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No sound in Debian Etch 4 with Realtek Ac97
Hi all,
I have a problem with sound in Debian Etch. Some time ago I installed Debian, and the sound hasn't been working since that time. I have a built-in soundcard Realtek AC97.
I tried to run "alsaconf", but nothing changed after this. At the end it only displays "Thanks, now you'll hear a sound", but still no sound.
I have been reading posts about this problem, however I have found any helpful tips.
Here can be found more information about the causes sound not to being heard.
# lsmod|grep snd
# lspci -vv
AC97 may (or may not) need options. Read kernel document (Documentation/sound/ALSA-Configuration-txt)
Happy Penguins!
Any other suggestions?
Is the volume unmuted or turned up? Use 'alsamixer' to adjust the volume.
After the volume level is set use 'alsactl store' to save the settings.
Yes, sound in alsamixer have been always turned to 100%
Follow the suggestion made by kaz2100. In the ALSA home page you find detailed instruction for installing ALSA latest source
This is likely to fix your issue.
If compiling the source is too difficult for you, you can find a .deb version of alsa source to install, for example
Hope this helps
What type of computer do you use? I have a gateway mx3228 laptop and am having the exact same problem with the same sound card. Just to let you know others are having the same problem. As for the things I've tried: various and sundry combinations of mute and unmute in alsa mixer, alsaconf, and various options under KDE control center. If anything has worked for you please help. As far as alsaconf goes it recognizes two separate sound cards, neither of which are mine. I'm heading over to the alsa home page to read their stuff now. Thanks for the expedient reply.
While I was installing official Realtek sound drivers based on ALSA, a message was shown. It writes me to select my soundcard (snd_mpu_401 and legacy Probe legacy ISA).
If I select snd_mpu_401, then it's written
Loading driver...
To be honest I just installed etch myself having not used Linux in about a year and everything is still real foggy. I'm looking for help just like you. Where did you get the driver for AC 97?
I have downloaded driver from this site
Which link did you use, I see that the drivers available are for the 2.2 and the 2.4 kernal, it is unlikely, yet possible, that they are not supported in the 2.6 kernal that Etch uses. Was the driver you downloaded was binary, source or a .deb package?
funalien, did you try to compile the alsa source? Follow the instruction you find in this page and if you have problems report them here
I know I'm not Funalien, but I'm having a problem too.... I am trying to compile the alsa module but I get stuck, on the how to after you type " modinfo soundcore " and it gives you the output it says to type ./configure. I was in my /home directory when I did this, so as I'm sure you can guess it did nothing. What directory should I be under? Here's the output from mondinfo:
debian-Killa:/home/jamison# modinfo soundcore
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686/kernel/sound/soundcore.ko
description: Core sound module
author: Alan Cox
license: GPL
alias: char-major-14-*
vermagic: 2.6.18-5-686 SMP mod_unload 686 REGPARM gcc-4.1
debian-Killa:/home/jamison# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
Now I'll try to compile alsa driver manually from source.
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Vista book club's top 10 books
"The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
"The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
"The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
"Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett
"Infidel"by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
"The Secret Lives of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
"Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson
"The Buffalo Soldier" by Chris Bohjalian
"Desert Queen" by Janet Wallach
There were no big-box stores or sprawling shopping centers. Restaurants were few. It was common for youngsters to ride horses into town to grab a root beer. The rural community of Vista in 1971 was vastly different from the city it has become today.
That was when a group of stay-at-home mothers who belonged to a baby-sitting co-op came together to form a book club.
"We all loved to read and we wanted something social," said Susan Stokes, one of the original members of the club.
The first book they read was Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock." The book was memorable, so was the dessert served at the end of the discussion. "It was chocolate-covered strawberries," Stokes recalled. Since then, the club has met once a month and discussed more than 400 books of fiction, nonfiction, historical novels and classics. Out of the 14 members, seven have been with the club since the beginning. The group will mark its 40th anniversary next year.
"We rarely miss a meeting, almost never," Stokes said.
Many life events have transpired between then and now. Several women returned to work and retired. Some have passed on. A few have moved away. But two things remain constant for the women of the Vista book club — their love of reading and the bonds of friendship that keep getting stronger, they say, with the passing of time.
The secret of the book club's longevity?
"We are extremely casual, there are no rules," Lois Harris said. "We have differences of opinion, but we also respect what the other person has to say. And we learn from each other."
Added Jean Vought, "You can come to the meeting even if you have not read the book and you can express your opinions."
The laid-back attitude spills over to book selection.
"If you recommend a book and nobody likes it, there are no hurt feelings," Merry Nickerson said.
The book club has helped the women get out of their comfort zone in reading. They have loved books they would never have considered reading on their own. Some discussions have lasted up to two hours, as in the case of "Devil in the White City," a book about the building of Chicago World's Fair of 1893 that is intertwined with the tale of a serial killer who found his victims at the fair. Others, like "The Glass Castle," got members thinking about perspectives different from their own.
"We learned a lot," said Nancy Montgomery about the account of growing up in a nomadic family. "They had unusual ways of living, but the children all turned out well. We began to understand and recognize that our way was not the only way. There were things and opportunities that happened in the children's lives that gave them some benefits."
The women take turns hosting meetings, but no one keeps a schedule. They bring photos to share and exchange news of grandchildren, travels and community projects. There is always dessert to look forward to after the discussion.
"We usually have a bowl of fruit and then something very decadent," Sue Humphrey said. "
As she looked back at her 39 years with the book club, Stokes echoed the feelings of fellow members.
"I have read books that I would have never read. I have found companionship and laughter," she said. "If I didn't have my friends, life would not be nearly as good. There's something about being with these people for so many years that makes a difference. We know each other so well."Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Report NEP-IAS-2013-08-31This is the archive for NEP-IAS, a report on new working papers in the area of Insurance Economics. Soumitra K Mallick issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.
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I sent the UK Guardian this note about their latest Venezuela news report by Virgina Lopez
Dear Guardian Editors
The headline to this article is outrageous:
"Venezuela's opposition make noise against Nicolás Maduro's victory"
Near the end of the article it is briefly mentioned that
"The post-election crisis has left seven dead and more than 50 people
wounded across the nation as pro and anti-government protestors clashed
outside CNE headquarters in different states"
This vague passage evades that the dead were supporters of Maduro most
likely killed by Capriles supporters. [1]
Segments of the opposition are clearly intent on doing a hell of a lot
more than "making noise" and have done so. It is impossible to believe
that the Guardian would evade this if the recent murders so strongly
implicated Maduro supporters.
The Guardian also completely evades serious divisions within the
opposition over Capriles' tactics – in particular the demand for a full
recount. Franciso Toro, a prominent opposition blogger often cited by
the international press, recently wrote
What worries me is that Capriles isn't really alleging numerical
fraud. Just the opposite, Capriles is being quite careful not to say "I
am the rightful winner because I can prove, through my actas, that I
got more votes."
He's calling for a recount of all paper ballots, but if there was
reason to believe that a 100% recount would show he had won more votes
on the day, he would have the evidence for that. So far that evidence
has been forthcoming only in tiny fragments, fragments that seem
tangential to his central case. I cannot believe that if the comando
had systematic evidence of audit tallies that failed to match the
machine tallies they would have "forgotten" to show it by now.[2]
This article follows a long standing pattern with Guardian news
reports that was established while Rory Carroll dominated its Venezuela
output. No matter how damning the evidence of opposition violence, or
no matter how the serious divisions within the opposition, avoid
reporting them. Avoid reporting anything that tarnishes the
opposition's victim status with international audiences. If criticism
of the opposition is published it must come from Chavista officials,
not within opposition ranks.
Joe Emersberger
[1] Reuters reports
"The authorities said the seven deaths included two people shot by
opposition sympathizers while celebrating Maduro's win in a
middle-class area of the capital, and one person killed in an attack on
a government-run clinic…
The opposition has not responded to specific allegations relating to
the deaths, but Capriles has repeatedly called for only peaceful
demonstrations and said that the government was responsible for
violence by denying the call for an recount."
See also


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- C$22 for one 500 mL bottle of organic extra-virgin olive oil (up to a C$60 value)
- C$39 for two 500 mL bottles of organic extra-virgin olive oil (up to a C$120 value)
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Plucked from the koroneiki trees that grow in southern Peloponnesus and Crete, Grecian Harvest's organic olives are pressed while not yet ripe. The process yields less, but more flavourful, oil. Like mineral water or a child's first teardrop, the extra-virgin extraction is bottled at the source to retain freshness. Grecian Harvest produces just one variety of the golden-green fluid, ensuring quality throughout every step of the process.


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eas myoplex
whats up everybody. i was in bjs and seen those eas myoplex for a good price. 42 grams of protein each shake. well all in all i had to dish out a lot of money for some stuff and was unable to go get the usually protein drink i would have so i have been using those as my main shake since i got them, they taste pretty ok and they are convieniant because they are already mixed. they have seven grams of fat which i dont think is to high.
my questions is............................. is it a good source for a protein shake. im gonna try to drink one in the morning post workout and before i go to bed since i need around 300 grams of protein a day.
would i be able to stick to this or should i change it up?
If it's cheaper for you to do it that way I don't see anything wrong with them. High in protein. What's the carb count ?
I think they normally have around 19g of carbs. But! It's got a lot of vitamins and minerals. Actually makes a decent low calorie meal replacement. If you don't mind paying, then go for it. I think they're great minus the price...
That stuff gave me a case of Montezuma's revenge like none other.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. hasnt got to me 0311.
it has 19 grams of carbs. what it is i read the posts and i see you guys talking about the difference of different proteins and which drinks are better than others. and with these being already made i can faithfully drink about 2 or 3 a day.
since i see you guys give the go on it ill keep using it. thanks!
I forgot to mention that they're more casein than whey. So...not the best post workout shake IMO. Great before bed or any other time of day though.
oh ok. well i will try to see what i can get that would be good for post workout then. i knew that commercial with brady quinn in it was bullshit lol
Haha yeah. If there are 42 grams of protein and more than half of it is casein, then you're probably not getting enough fast digesting protein. A good option might be to take that and then add a scoop (or 2) of whey to it. And maybe add in some malto or something. Just an idea.
what is malto if you dont mind me asking. dont know to much about the whole supplement side of things
They didn't have the EAS whey there as well?
The myoplex are really meant to be meal replacements. But they are better than nothing post workout for sure. But no matter how cheap they were on sale for it still isn't a cost-effective way just to get a "protein drink".
Malto is maltodextrin.
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After getting the Park Cities Peel and not getting the results I was promised at the Dermatology office I used, I decided to go to a more invasive procedure. I can definitely tell the difference already. The procedure was quite a bit more painful, though I am quite sensitive to pain the older I get.
I am 42 y/o and I wanted this for fine lines around my eyes, evening out my texture and the crepey skin under my eyes.This is only night one so I will update. If you are sensitive like I am, I would suggest taking some kind of analgesic (I wish I had taken some sort of prescription pain med prior to the procedure). The worst part so far was during and directly after the procedure. As each hour passes I have waves of increased burning and stinging but is gradually decreasing in totality of discomfort. I did have the numbing cream applied, but it just was not quite effective. I am excited to see the results and transformation.


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Garrett County Man Cited for Hunting Violations
Natural Resources Police charged a Garrett County man Sunday with five violations after an investigation into a recent hunting trip.
Acting on a tip, officers located Travis Lee Wilcox, 31, of Bloomington, and questioned him about his hunting activity on Sept. 19. Officers found venison in a freezer.
Wilcox was cited for hunting without a license, failing to field tag a deer before moving, possession of untagged deer parts, failing to file a harvest report and hunting without written permission.


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NEW YORK (Apr. 16)
"Germany must not only reject any new anti-Semitism, but must fight it as an evil which was not invented by Hitler and did not disappear with him." Joachim Lipschitz, member of the Senate in Berlin, declared here today in a statement issued upon his return to Germany. "In order to be sure that anti-Semitism will not arise again we must do the following:
"1. Germany must develop more perseverance in exercising the democratic use of power and of punishment against every enemy of humanity–those who persist in barbaric attitudes can no longer be reached through education.
"2. Germany should strive for more widespread public interest in politics, not in party politics but in the active support of liberty, democracy and human dignity. These ideals should not be worshipped as the Holy Grail, far removed from the people, but should be understood as the common possession of everyone. A frank discussion of the problems of the recent past is essential.
"3. The task involves both for Germans themselves and for those in other countries, a faith in Germany and her capacity for democracy. If democracy should again fail in Germany, it means not only the downfall of Germany but the defeat of humanity itself."


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Piketty's Perfectly Plausible Proposal
Pundits of every stripe say the same thing: the proposal is utopian. It can't happen. It will never happen. And since it can't happen, it isn't worth discussing any further, and let's try my favorite proposal, which I have been pushing for years and is a staple of liberal or conservative politics, strengthening unions, improving education, increasing technology-driven growth, whatever. Their ideas have been around for decades and nothing has happened. Nothing happened for a very good reason: rich people don't like those ideas any more than they like higher taxes, and Congress does what the rich want them to do. That's the basis for the pundits' claim that Piketty's idea is utopian. Apparently the irony of their criticism is lost on them.
Piketty's proposal is different: it strikes directly at the problem, the very problem that the pundits refuse to identify. The problem is that the filthy rich control too much money and too many people's lives, and they are wrecking society with their ever increasing demands for higher returns on their staggering piles of money, and their control over the supposedly democratic societies to enforce their demands. Piketty's proposal allows people to stack up the money, but then the societies that nurtured them bite into the stacks of money and make it impossible for them to strangle the people who made that accumulation possible.
Two of the big suggestions from the pundits are education and strengthening unions. How does a person from the lower class (using Piketty's definition: lower class, the 50% of us who have only a tiny net worth, middle class, the 40% of us who have small net worth, and the upper class, the 10% who have all the money) get an education? The rich refuse to pay taxes to support public education, even at the grade school level, and somehow that stupidity trickles down to the very people who get hammered by it. No one votes for taxes to support schools. Instead, we get privatization to benefit the already rich, or just plain crappy schools. Lower class people have exactly one way out: debt. They get to pay for an education. The debt isn't dischargeable in bankruptcy, so they carry that burden forever, and probably share it with their parents who can't discharge it either. The same thing is true of most middle class people. Their schools are marginally better, but when the kids get to college, here comes the debt. Only the upper class has a shot at getting an education for their kids without burdening them with debt.
The fact is that even a good education doesn't mean you get a job, especially a job that will pay the debt. The best jobs go to the upper class kids who have the social cachet and the friendship circles to get them into the corporate slots that are the ticket to success. If you come from the lower class, you can just bag the idea that you are getting into that management training program at Goldman Sachs or GE.
For those without college educations, union jobs offer a decent life. But look at what happened in Chattanooga when the workers at VW were given a chance to join a union with little formal resistance from the company. The union lost. The resistance to self-protection of the lower class is so strong that there is absolutely no reason to think strengthening union laws will make any significant difference in the next 20 years.
Piketty's tax proposals cut through the garbage. They directly reduce the power of the filthy rich. They provide governments with the wealth they need to improve the lives of every one of us. They insure that the benefits of capitalism flow to all citizens, not just the members of the lucky sperm and egg club. They make room for new ideas, new forms of living and new and better ways to live with the changes that are coming. That isn't true of any of the other proposals.
The people who call Piketty's ideas utopian and impossible are making real change impossible.
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Seth Rollins recently spoke to Xfinity Comcast, here are the highlights…
On wrestling with ROH alumni in WWE: "It's just cool to be where we're at together – myself and Daniel and Cesaro and Sami Zayn down in NXT. It's just cool to be a part of this company knowing where we came from. Things move by so quickly up here, sometimes it's hard to stop and smell the roses, but there are specific moments in time when you are able to look at things and reflect and be proud of where you came from. "WrestleMania 30″ was a great night for Daniel Bryan, and I was real proud to be a part of that and be there with him when he came back through the curtain and share a little bit in that moment with him."
On the end of the Shield: "Yeah, it was certainly a nerve-wracking experience, just because change is always difficult, no matter what the scenario is. Watching the replays of it over the past couple of months – and the internet memes, as well – it's a surreal type of moment where you've got one chance to capitalize on everything you've worked for for two years. If it doesn't go as well as you had envisioned it, you don't get another shot, so you've got knock it out of the park. Swing for the fences, if you will. Pun intended."
On Dean Ambrose: "Dean Ambrose is a strange case. He's definitely a guy that marches to the beat of his own drum. He does that in the ring and outside of the ring. I traveled with him for two years – he's very aloof, he's prone to getting lost or being forgetful. But when it comes to what we do in the ring, he is some sort of savant, because he's ultra-talented in the ring. A talent like that doesn't come along very often, someone who can really captivate a crowd with their voice and their movement, and he's pretty incredible. I'm looking forward to getting in the ring with him. I don't really know how to combat his chaotic style, but I think we'll figure something out."
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THIS week, the two leading world economies; the United States of America and the Peoples Republic of China would begin the process of leadership transitions.
In the case of United States, the incumbent President Obama might win a second term in office, but inspite of his pledge for policy continuity especially on domestic affairs, there would be a considerable shake up of foreign policy and Africa would count less, as Washington focuses on its stated priority of the Asia pacific and the Middle East.
In the case of China, President Hu Jintao would be stepping aside after completing a two term tenure paving way for the emergence of the 5th generation leadership with Mr. Xi Jinping at the core.
The first generation leadership since the founding of Modern China in 1949 has Chairman Mao Zedong at the core, second generation has Deng Xiaoping at the core, third generation with Jiang Zemin at the core and the fourth generation has President Hu Jintao.
While the U.S elections, arguably the world's best known political event would hold on the 6th of November, the 18th congress of the communist party of China, the main vehicle for political transition in china will open on the 8th of November, in Beijing.
While the winner of the U.S November 6th poll will take office on the 20th January, the new leadership emerging from the congress of the 90 million member Chinese communist party would take office in March during the convocation of the country supreme legislative organ, the National Peoples Congress.
While the two major parties in contention in the United States were created by a consensus of the ruling elite, the Chinese communist party created the modern China through a bloody struggle that ended foreign domination and local feudalist oppression.
Through revolution, reconstruction and reform, the Chinese communist party built a previously backward nation though, with outstanding civilisation of more than three thousand years, into a formidable and fairly prosperous economy.
The 18th congress of the party and the transition to a new leadership is as important and significant to the Chinese as it is to the rest of the world. The U. S. election in November has such equal significance for the Americans especially and even to the wider world.
President Obama characterised his first term as a work progress that would require another fresh term of four years to complete and consolidate its key features. He argues that he inherited a nearly bankrupt country, de-spirited at home, and exhausted with long and unpopular wars abroad.
His challenger Mr. Mitt Romney plans to deconstruct the big government, he claims the Obama administration is building.
His platform is essentially to cut taxes across the board, roll back state Medicare and other social safety nets for than more 47percent Americans he notoriously jabbed as existing on the margins as social parasites.
His outlandish plan to create 12 million job in four years is drawing a considerable sneer from Americans but his message 're-inventing the country' is striking sufficient resonance from the across the country as his improving polls indicates.
His foreign policy platform remains unclear even as his reference to Mali as terrorist haven only reinforces dominant Washington's view of Africa as a mere security concern.
China has been traditionally engaged in Africa from the earlier time of the founding of Modern China especially solidarity of the continent for its anti-colonial aspirations.
HOWEVER, in contemporary times and especially since 2000, when the Forum for China-Africa co-operation, FOCAC, was founded, Sino-Africa relation has reached new heights.
FOCAC founded under the watch of President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji became a major architecture of contemporary global life under the leadership of President Ju Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.
Providing the institutional basis for the steady development of China-Africa co-operation, the FOCAC process has within the past 10 years under the leadership of President Hu-Jintao and his African counterparts nudged up the co-operation between the two sides.
China has become Africa's largest trading partner and Chinese presence in Africa and African Presence in China, especially in the coastal city of Guangzhou has become a key feature of dynamic co-operation existing along the formal inter-state relations.
The new leadership of China that would emerge from the 18th congress of the party would almost certainly accelerate the pace of comprehensive Sino-Africa co-operations. Africa's China policy is a major component of Beijing foreign policy and its diplomatic global outlook.
The five yearly congress of the communist party of China is the most important political event in China with world-wide significance.
This year's 18th congress with 2270 deputies elected from local party branches all over the country would deliberate on key issues that would sustain the momentum of growth and development leading to 2020 when the country is expected to attain the status of a fairly prosperous nation.
In the past 10 years under the watch of President Hu-Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, almost all Chinese are now covered by medical insurance, the most comprehensive ever health insurance scheme.
On the contrary, the ambitious President Obama healthcare insurance barely covering half of all Americans are under intense attack from his Republican challenger.
President Hu- Jintao's most enduring legacy may well be his socialist country-side programme, under which the bulk of rural China was opened up and transformed to shining cities with enabling infrastructures and facilities.
The 18th congress of the party and the Chinese people in general would pay an unending tribute to Mr. Hu as a great innovator who has ensured that the fruits of economic growth from the reforms are well spread out to all Chinese.
At his inauguration at the 16th congress of the party in 2002 as the General Secretary of the party and leader of the country, he was dismissed by Western media as a wooly technocrat and party apparatick.
Inspite of the Western media tag of Vice President, Xi Jinping as 'a princeling' for his father, Xi Zhongxun, having fought along Chairman Mao Zedong in the war to found the Modern China, is most likely to continue in the tradition of innovation and creativity.
In the single week of November, two most important countries in the world will launch into a breathtaking political event that would determine the trajectories of their policies, both for their nations and the rest of the world.
Africa, holding the world largest reserve of precious natural minerals or wealth, is already a world legendry phenomenon both for its famed poverty and predatory political elite and for its numerous opportunities and immense possibilities.
For ill or for good, Africa savours an unusual attention from the world and the events in the two world's most leading and important nations must not escape scrutiny in Africa.
Africa leadership transitions are notorious for banging heads, if they occur at all, except in some few places in the continent and the import of the ace-political gatherings in Beijing and Washington must not be lost as every lesson the world can offer, can enrich our experience to re-set Africa on the path of participatory democracy and development.
Mr. O CHARLES ONUNAIJU, a journalist, wrote from Abuja.


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Do you have an excess of tomatoes and aren't sure what to do with them? Sure you can make countless cans of marinara sauce to store for later. Or you can have salad, every night for the next several months. Or you can make this fantastic side dish. Since the ingredients are fresh, this is oozing with great flavor! A big thanks to the garden where my kids take classes, for this recipe!
You will need:
1 cup Arborio rice (or other short-grain white rice)
6 ripe but firm large tomatoes
4 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
1 garlic clove, minced
3 tablespoons chopped fresh basil leaves
2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley leaves
1/4 cup grated Parmesan
Cook the rice in a medium saucepan of boiling salted water, stirring periodically, until just cooked through, about 10 minutes. Drain. Rinse the rice under cold running water. Set the rice aside.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Cut a 1/2-inch thick slice off the top of each tomato; reserve the tomato tops. Cut and scoop the seeds, pulp, and juice from each tomato into a small bowl. Reserve 1/4 cup of the tomato juice and pulp.
Oil the bottom of an 8 by 8-inch baking dish with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Place the hollowed tomatoes in the prepared dish.
Toss the rice with the reserved tomato juice and pulp. Add garlic, basil, parsley, Parmesan, the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil, and salt and pepper, to taste. Combine well.
Spoon the rice mixture into the hollowed tomatoes, mounding slightly. Sprinkle leftover stuffing on the bottom of the pan. Drizzle entire dish with olive oil. Place the reserved tomato slices atop the tomatoes. Bake until the rice is heated through, about 20 minutes. Serve hot or at room temperature.
Note: My husband likes this with Mozzarella cheese on top. When you serve the tomatoes, take off the top, place a small slice of mozzarella on top and replace the top. By the time you're ready to eat, the cheese is super melty and super yummy!
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The hotel offers a restaurant. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. 2 meeting rooms are available. This Guangzhou hotel also offers multilingual staff, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities.
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- Number of floors - 19
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Blizzard Entertainment No Fans of Windows 8 Either
Blizzard Entertainment's executive vice president of game design has echoed Gabe Newell's sentiments that "Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space."
Rob Pardo, tweeted Newell's quote, then added: "not awesome for Blizzard either".
Despite full details of Windows 8 are yet to be confirmed, Newell has accused Microsoft of attempting to close the PC platform in a similar fashion to iTunes.
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I had gotten Botox twice before. The first time, I felt my Dermatologist used a bit too much as I had droopy eyelids, but was amazed at how my wrinkles on my forehead virtually disappeared. The second time, my Dermatologist used less Botox. It didn't last as long, but I had no drooping at all, with noticeable results.
My third time, I'd gone to a different Doctor who, like the first time, used too much, way too much. My side effects were much more intense as a result. My sinuses swelled up, my forehead felt very heavy, my eyelids drooped, my right eye had slightly blurred vision, I also had flu-like symptoms (queasy, fatigue, achy), bruising, and worst of all panic attacks!
This lasted for weeks. I was in the Emergency Department twice. The first time was Day three after my injections, which is about when Botox takes full effect. I had a feeling of doom come over me that I couldn't shake. It's strange to not be able to move your forehead at all after going throughout your life taking it for granted (The blurry vision was bad too). Palpitations started, shortness of breath, & increased blood pressure. I felt a tightness around my diaphragm/upper abdomen.
My Family Practice Doctor diagnosed me with a sinus infection and anxiety. Antibiotics seemed to help, but side effects from them caused more problems, including Irritable Bowel Syndrome. My second ER trip was from work as I suddenly had an increase in heartrate and blood pressure and shortness of breath, as well as tingling in the arms and hands.
I had one more episode outside the ER visits where I was able to calm myself down. I keep my Xanax handy just in case. It has been about 7 weeks now and I'm finally starting to feel more normal. My wrinkles are also starting to show again.
Botox is simply not worth the price. The only pro about it is that people don't believe me when I tell them how old I am. I only hope that my eyesight is not permanently damaged.


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She topped off the feminine look with a pink headpiece from Irish milliner Mark T Burke.
The judging panel for the Irish Derby was led by TV star Milile Mackintosh and included Image magazine's editor Melanie Morris and Stacey O'Donnell, Head of Personal Shopping at Brown Thomas.
Catriona's prize, worth almost €20,000, includes a luxury trip to Dubai, a personal shopping experience at Brown Thomas and a gorgeous diamond pendant from Boodles.
She commented on her win: "I'm completely over the moon to win such an amazing prize. I can't wait to book my trip to Dubai and to pick up all my holiday goodies at Brown Thomas! My husband Jason is an Engineer in Saudi Arabia so I can't wait to spend time with him in Dubai."
Milile Mackintosh looked chic in a dress and bag by Victoria Beckham, shoes by Kurt Geiger and a head piece from Irish milliner Mark T. Burke.
She said on picking a winner: "The competition was really strong at the Curragh today and the standard was in a league of its own, the judges and I were really looking for something unique and I think we found it in Catriona's look."
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Iran's Ambassador to Pakistan Mashallah Shakeri told an Iranian news agency that his nation has already prepared the necessary infrastructure to begin natural gas exports to Pakistan, adding that Tehran is currently waiting for Pakistan side to complete the necessary similar infrastructure for importing 110 million cubic meters of per day of Iranian natural gas.
During the interview Shakeri commented that "Pakistan, too, has done good work. Iran should start supplying gas to Pakistan by 2014 and the Pakistani side is committed to receive it on time. We only need 125 miles of pipeline to reach the Pakistani border and we will be ready for export whenever Pakistan states its preparedness," Iran's Fars news agency reported.
The throughput for the Iran-Pakistan natural gas pipeline, expected to cost $7.4 billion, will be supplied from Iran's offshore Persian Gulf South Pars field with an initial capacity of 22 billion cubic meters of natural gas per annum, which is expected to be later raised to 55 billion cubic meters.
Iran achieved a major breakthrough on 20 March 2009 on the proposed pipeline when Pakistan's government approved Iran's proposed pricing formula for natural gas exports to the South Asian nation.
By. Charles Kennedy, Deputy Editor OilPrice.com
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