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Google Books
Google Books has gone under many names, from Google Print (including Print for Libraries and Print for Publishers) to Google Book Search. Many university and scholarly presses participated in the Print for Publishers program, allowing their print publications to be indexed and displayed to an appropriate extent through Google Books while protecting their own, their authors' and third parties' rights. The Library program proved controversial, as Google undertook agreements to scan, digitize, and copy not only public domain works from research libraries, but also the in-copyright collections of at least some of those libraries. Participating libraries included the Bodleian, Harvard University Library, the University of Michigan Library, the New York Public Library, and Stanford University Library.
While plans for a Google ebook program, through which publishers can sell digital editions of books to consumers for access on PCs and mobile devices, developed, the library scanning program led to suits being filed against Google by both authors and publishers in 2005. Below you'll find a timeline of news updates on that suit, as well as links to relevant articles, commentary, and documentation.
The Suit Against Google
October 4, 2012— Google and the AAP announce a private settlement. The Authors Guild suit against Google continues.
March 22, 2011—Judge Denny Chin rejected the revised settlement agreement. Download the text of the court's decision here.
Reactions to the Settlement Rejection
Reports on the decision from Publishers Weekly, the New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed.
Statements from parties: AAP, Authors Guild
"After Rejection, a Rocky Road for Google Settlement" (Publishers Weekly, 3/22/11)
"Google Book Settlement Rejected" (Library Journal, 3/22/11)
"Inside Judge Chin's Opinion" (James Grimmelmann, 3/22/11)
"Research Libraries See Google Decision as Just a Bump on the Road to Widespread Digital Access" (CHE, 3/24/11)
Interview with Pamela Samuelson on GBS ruling, (CHE, 3/24/11)
"The GBS: Where Things Stand and Some Sugeestions for What's Next" (David Crotty, The Scholarly Kitchen, 3/24/11)
"Thank You, Judge Chin" (Siva Vaidhyanathan, Chronicle Review, 3/24/11)
"Six Reasons Google Books Failed" (Robert Darnton, NYRBlog, 3/28/11)
Access a series of recorded conversations about the Google Book Settlement (including the latest development) with copyright legal expert Lois Wasoff hosted by the Copyright Clearance Center.
February 18, 2011—The Court extended the deadline for filing claims to one year after the issuing of any order approving the amended settlement. If the settlement is approved, the filing deadline will be no earlier than February 22, 2012. More information at the Google Book Settlement site.
November 13, 2009—Parties filed a modified settlement with the court. Google has posted a PDF outlining the changed terms.
November 9, 2009—An amended settlement will be filed with the court on 11/9/09, to address concerns from the Justice Department and other responses to the original settlement. Readers can browse the many settlement responses here: http://thepublicindex.org/documents/responses
October 28, 2008—Google, the Authors Guild, and the publisher plaintiffs announced that they had reached a settlement agreement. The settlement must now be approved by the court. An excellent documentation round-up for the settlement is posted via the Authors Guild.
October 19, 2005—Five publishing companies (McGraw-Hill, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group USA, Pearson Education, and Wiley) filed a lawsuit against Google. The suit seeks an injunction to prevent the infringement of copyright through the Google Library scanning project. The lawsuit is supported by the Association of American Publishers. Download the publishers' complaint
September 20, 2005—The Authors Guild and three authors filed suit against Google, alleging massive copyright infringement in Google's unpermissioned library scanning project. AAUP agrees with the Authors Guild that the Google Library program infringes authors' copyrights, and we hope that the suit will spur Google to reopen discussions with publishers and authors about the appropriate treatment of works under copyright.
Read the complaint filed by the Authors Guild
August 12, 2005—Google issued a new "opt-out" policy for its Google Print for Library program. The AAUP Board of Directors has issued a statement in response to Google's announcement.
May 20, 2005—AAUP Executive Director Peter Givler sent a letter to Google outlining 16 questions or areas of concern that the association has about Google's recently announced Library project, and requesting substantive answers.
Articles and Other Information on Google Books and the Settlement
The Googlization of Everything
A blog and book-in-progress by Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar at the University of Virginia, hosted by the Institute for the Future of the Book.
Library Copyright Alliance Chart of Possible Paths for Lawsuit Settlement or Resolution
"Fair Use in Theory and Practice: Reflections on Its History and the Google Case," by Sanford G. Thatcher, Director, Penn State University Press
"Google and the Book Publishers: Testing the Limits of Fair Use in the Digital Environment," by Peter Givler
Reprinted with permission from: Bright Ideas, Fall 2005, Vol. 14, No. 2, published by the New York State Bar Association, One Elk Street, Albany, New York 12207
"Google Library: Beyond Fair Use?" by Elisabeth Hanratty, Duke Law & Technology Review, 2005, No. 10.
"Google This: The Bottom Line" by Georgia K. Harper, Manager, Intellectual property Section, Office of the General Counsel of the University of Texas System.
Google books partner program info and Google Books Library Project info
The Google contract with the University of Michigan was made available through that state's freedom of information laws. The contract and other materials on the Michigan scanning program are available through the university's web site.
Other Digitization Projects
The Open Content Alliance: This project plans on working solely with public domain and permissioned works, and its index will be open to any search engine. MSN and the British Library also joined in a scanning project to be included in the OCA.
The Open Library: A new wiki-like online library that seeks to feature every book in an open, free, and non-proprietary online catalog, including links to full- or searchable full-text, information on library holdings, and purchase options. The Open Library is partnering with the OCA and Internet Archive.


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When we launched Creative Cloud, we shared our vision to build a platform for creativity that removes friction from the creative process and makes it more productive and connected, allowing you to do your best work.
Today we announced an important milestone – over one million premium members worldwide have joined Creative Cloud. To all of you – as well as the millions of other creatives who are part of our extended network through Behance, Typekit, Kuler or through a free Creative Cloud membership – we would like to say thank you! You inspire us every day through your creations, and we're thrilled to be part of such a vibrant creative community.
A Broader Canvas for Innovation
Embracing the cloud has given us the ability to think differently about our role in the creative world, and gives us a much broader canvas for innovation. New technologies such as cloud, social, and mobile have changed the creative landscape dramatically, and we are fully embracing the opportunity this gives us all.
Our product teams have been very busy since we launched Creative Cloud. We've added hundreds of new features across all our major products, added sophisticated cross-device collaboration and publishing capabilities; and integrated Behance, the world's leading online creative community where members can showcase work, get feedback on projects and gain global exposure. And today, I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of the Lightroom 5.2 update and the new Photoshop Photography Program, a special offer for our loyal photography customers.
But we're just getting started. Creative cloud is still in its infancy and we have a lot more to do. And thanks in part to your feedback, the year ahead should be fun and exciting as we continue to execute on the vision we laid out at MAX – to build a creative platform with fully integrated software, services and hardware. And as a great example of that, Adobe is moving our cloud pen, Project Mighty, and our digital ruler, Project Napoleon, from a technology exploration to planned products. If you saw our exploration demo at MAX, you already know that this is part of our commitment to making the art of creation easier, wherever and whenever you feel inspired.
So again – thank you all for making the last year truly remarkable. Together we've taken Creative Cloud from an idea to more than a million premium members in just over a year. We are honored that you've joined us on this journey and are working very hard to get innovative ideas in your hands faster than ever before. To those of you who have not yet joined Creative Cloud and are still considering if it is right for you, I hope you will join us at one of our upcoming Create Now World Tour events. We have a lot to share and hope to see you there.
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What Is an Envirocycle?
Envirocycle is a unique system developed specifically to recycle domestic and commercial wastewater from the bathroom, kitchen and laundry and treat it in an underground tank constructed of concrete to a purity approved by relevant health authorities throughout Australia.
Natural ProcessThe Envirocycle method for treating sewage and sullage from domestic and commercial developments is based on the age old principal of separating solids from liquids allowing anaerobic bacteria (which does not require oxygen) and aerobic bacteria (which requires oxygen) to digest the waste.
This natural process of treatment has been further enhanced by utilizing an Ultra Violet Disinfection process in either domestic or commercial applications. This process is available in the Model 10NR. All other wastewater treatment systems utilize chlorine.
Monitoring SystemA monitoring system is located within the dwelling that alerts the owner in the unlikely event of a malfunction of any mechanical component.
IrrigationBy means of a spray system to selected areas of your garden or paddock as appropriate. The treated water is dispersed through irrigation lines and spray points. In this way nutrients are returned to nature in a controlled manner. This ensures that designated areas of your garden receive the benefit of regular watering.
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The Certificate Program is structured to encourage both discipline-specific and cross-disciplinary learning about interpretive and qualitative research. In addition, the Program is structured to afford participants as much flexibility as possible both to pursue their individual learning objectives and to integrate Certificate course-work into their academic schedule.
The Certificate Program consists of a course of study organized into a total of 12 credits. The credits are distributed as follows:
- Introduction to Interpretive and/or Qualitative Research-- 3 credits. This course is taken in the participant's home or related discipline either at Duquesne or another university.
- Elective(s) in Interpretive and/or Qualitative Research-- 6 credits. These credits may be earned either in the participant's home discipline or in another discipline; either at Duquesne or other accredited institution. Both courses must be at the intermediate or advanced level. We strongly recommend that students take one of their electives outside of their own program or discipline.
Certificate participants who want to fulfill the elective credit requirement by registering for a course not included on this list or by completing experience(s) in an alternative format should consult with the CIQR Certificate Coordinator for approval.
A more detailed description of the elective option is provided in Appendix C. A list of research-oriented courses offered at Duquesne is provided in Appendix D.
- Pro-seminar-- 3 credits. These credits are meant to provide participants with an interdisciplinary structure for pursuing a substantive, culminating project. Completion of the first 9 credits of the Certificate Program is prerequisite to registering for these final three credits. In addition, a prerequisite is participation in all CIQR events for at least one term prior to registration in the pro-seminar.
Throughout their course work in the certificate program and during their participation in CIQR events, students prepare a portfolio where they engage in an assessment of their current understanding of interpretive and qualitative methods and a clarification of learning goals and objectives. Students discuss and complete their portfolios during the pro-seminar (see appendix B for more details).
Options for earning final credit include, but are not limited to one of the following:
- a presentation for CIQR and/or other professional conference;
- preparation of a manuscript for publication;
- preparation of a research proposal (e.g., draft of a dissertation proposal);
- completion of a mini-study.
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May 14, 2002 | ISBN 9780375713422
May 14, 2002 | 515 Minutes
Introduction: by John Brockman
Part I: The Future, in Theory
Lee Smolin: The Future of the Nature of the Universe
"We will probably know more about the detailed history and
properties of the universe than we know now about the history of
the surface of our planet."
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Martin Rees: Cosmological Challenges: Are We Alone, and Where?
"We can't predict what role life will eventually carve out for itself: It could become extinct, or it could achieve such dominance that it would influence the entire cosmos."
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Ian Stewart: The Mathematics of 2050
"There will be `virtual unreality' systems, allowing mathematicians to `visit' abstract conceptual structures such as non-euclidean geometries or ranges of giant primes and manipulate them at will."
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Brian Goodwin: In the Shadow of Culture
"Why is animism so threatening to the Western scientific worldview? Is there any sign that the dialectic of science is beginning to bring this view into the light again?"
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Marc D. Hauser: Swappable Minds
"Imagine that we could download the neuronal signals from any animal, creating a kind of hard-drive library of their thoughts while they were interacting with the world."
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Alison Gopnik: What Children Will Teach Scientists
"The greatest achievement of a unified theory of learning may be to demonstrate that the most brilliant scientists and the most ordinary kids are engaged in the same enterprise."
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Paul Bloom: Toward a Theory of Moral Development
"It may be that the nature of moral thought or consciousness is simply beyond our understanding, not because they have a special, mystical status but because we aren't smart enough to understand such things. We might be like dogs trying to understand calculus."
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Geoffrey Miller: The Science of Subtlety
"Our more recently evolved, distinctively human capacities–for creativity, kindness, humor, imagination–remain understudied in brain-imaging labs."
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: The Future of Happiness
"In the past, we were like passengers on the slow coach of evolution. Now evolution is more like a rocket hurtling through space, and we are no longer passengers but its pilots."
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Robert M. Sapolsky: Will We Still Be Sad Fifty Years from Now?
"Our technology isn't likely to help reduce our stress, despite (or maybe even because of) our expectation that it will."
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Steven Strogatz: Fermi's "Little Discovery" and the Future of Chaos and Complexity Theory
"Nonlinearity giveth chaos, and nonlinearity taketh it away."
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Stuart Kauffman: What Is Life?
"The biosphere may actually be doing something that cannot be stated at all beforehand. If so, the way Newton, Einstein, Bohr, and Boltzmann taught us to do science is limited."
Part II: The Future, in Practice
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Richard Dawkins: Son of Moore's Law
"Genetics today is pure information technology. This, precisely, is why an antifreeze gene can be copied from an arctic fish and pasted into a tomato."
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Paul Davies: Was There a Second Genesis?
"The existence of complex life on Earth probably depends on certain rather special features of our solar system."
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John H. Holland: What Is to Come and How to Predict It
"When complex adaptive systems are involved, prediction is fraught with hazard."
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Rodney Brooks: The Merger of Flesh and Machines
"The generalization we are facing is that we humans are machines–and as such, subject to the same technological manipulations we routinely apply to machines."
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Peter Atkins: The Future of Matter
"By mid-century the bits and pieces of fully synthetic life will be in position….In the longer term there will be no need to stick with carbon, and the speculative dream of at least partial incorporation of silicon and germanium into living things and the generation of an entirely new kind of life will come true."
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Roger C. Schank: Are We Going to Get Smarter?
"We will begin to understand in the next fifty years that experience and one's ability to extend its range is the ultimate measure of intelligence and the ultimate expression of freedom."
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Jaron Lanier: The Complexity Ceiling
"Accompanying the parade of quixotic overstatements of theoretical computer power has been a humiliating and unending sequence of disappointments in the performance of real information systems."
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David Gelernter: Tapping into the Beam
"The continuous, ubiquitous Cybersphere will replace today's chaotic, stuttering Internet."
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Joseph LeDoux: Mind, Brain, and Self
"New technologies are enabling us to study normal human brain function, and they promise a new level of understanding of the relation of the human brain to the human mind."
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Judith Rich Harris: What Makes Us the Way We Are: The View from 2050
"Developmentalists of the twentieth century…thought they understood the sources of individual differences in behavior and personality, but…they were mostly wrong."
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Samuel Barondes: Drugs, DNA, and the Analyst's Couch
"Fifty years from now, everyone who visits a psychiatrist will bring with them a new source of information–a password providing access to their personal DNA file on the National Health Service computer."
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Nancy Etcoff: Brains, Wearables, and Brief Encounters
"At a time of giddy optimism in the neurosciences, it is a time of discontent in psychiatry and wary optimism in clinical psychology. If current trends continue, there will be few psychiatrists in practice fifty years from now."
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Paul W. Ewald: Mastering Disease
"Chronic diseases may be a consequence of infectious agents that cryptically cause tissue damage, which eventually manifests itself in such serious diseases as heart attack, cancer, or Alzheimer's."


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text: CMT's new series Hillbillies for Hire will premiere July 14 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The show depicts the adventures of Jeremiah and his best friend, Big Ox, as they use their backwoods ingenuity to concoct the most outrageous pranks imaginable. The two, well known for pulling pranks on their family and friends, also run a for-hire prank business in Polk County, Fla., making themselves available to anyone who feels the need to enact a little "redneck revenge" on someone they know. Whether it's pranking a person who's afraid of the water by pretending that their boat is sinking in an alligator-infested swamp or creating an actual pigsty in a friend's apartment because he never cleans up, all of their jokes are done with the intention of having some good-hearted fun. The premiere of Hillbillies for Hire will air immediately following a new episode of Dog and Beth: On the Hunt and will move to its regular timeslot with new back-to-back episodes at 8 p.m. ET/PT beginning July 21.


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Evidently you can't be a player in the security market without some kind of security "intelligence," which is a fancy term for research. Two or three threat reports hit my inbox every week, many coming from vendors I've never heard of. If I wanted to read all of the reports issued each week, I wouldn't have time for anything else. Clearly the hype around intelligence is reaching a fever pitch, but isn't this more repackaged marketing hyperbole? Hasn't every security vendor had a research capability forever? Why is this any different?
To be clear, at surface level, it's not any different. Security research has been a mainstay since the AV vendors fielded teams of interns sitting in closets somewhere building signatures for the samples they got from the Wild List. A different but similar set of security researchers emerged when IDS devices needed to be fed with current signatures. But ultimately these first generation of researchers were all about keeping the signature databases up to date.
Obviously signatures aren't the way to detect much of anything nowadays. But that aspect of research (analyzing bad crap) hasn't changed that much, though the scale clearly has. Now a research team needs fancy big data engines, racks and racks of spindles, and hundreds of millions of sensors out there to stay on top of the bad stuff. That's a bit tongue in cheek, since the data analysis tools used by today's researchers are necessarily bigger because they have to deal with A LOT more data. This data needs to be normalized and correlated to see the patterns. So from that perspective security research continues to evolve.
The real difference between security research and security intelligence is the intel aspect. This was a concept I first learned over a decade ago when the research team at TruSecure had folks that actually penetrated hacker networks. They even trained a dude to speak Russian, so he could figure out what they were going to attack next. Guys like Brian Krebs now do this every day, but amazingly enough that was pretty novel back then. Of course, spy craft is maybe the third oldest profession, so the concept isn't new, but this practice hasn't always been commonplace in computer security.
Now every vendor has folks that troll around carder forums. They try to buy malware and subscribe to the DDoSaaS (yes, you can buy a denial of service attack as a service) offerings to track the tactics. They crowd-source attacks and try to shorten the window between when interesting malware shows up and when it's detected. They write up long reports to prove how smart they are. And they don't share anything interesting: That stuff they keep for themselves (and presumably their customers). Don't get me started on the "value" of intelligence as a reason to hoard it.
This is all good and well for the vendors, and it's even better for PR flacks and beat reporters who have an endless stream of uninteresting findings to drive page views. But targeted organizations out there need to take it one step further. The leading edge (dare I say "lean forward") practitioners are building their own security intel functions. Sure, they buy data from the vendors. But they take that data and apply it to their environment. These folks study their adversaries. They profile them and they learn their tactics. These folks realize they are in a battle. Maybe it's against a nation state, organized crime, or maybe even their competitors. And they are taking proactive steps to try to figure out what's coming. They no longer rely on the age old security tactic of reacting to what's already happened.
In fact, I believe we'll see a much bigger demand for security intelligence data moving forward which ultimately will change the perceived value of security products/services. Right now, the intelligence makes the product/service better. It's not something organizations buy as a stand-alone. Over time, as we see the increasing commoditization of inspection and policy enforcement, the value of vendors bring will be more about the knowledge they provide and less about their hardware or software agents.
A possibly unfortunate side effect will be furthering the gap between the security haves and have-nots. Putting more organizations below Wendy's security poverty line. But that's life. The rich get richer and the rest have their IP sold to the highest bidder.
So you have a choice. Do you continue to invest in stuff that doesn't work, or do you think a bit about the inflection Rich Mogull describes?
As always, the choice is not yours, it remains with your executives. Now is the time to start helping them understand why an internal security intelligence capability is table stakes in today's environment.
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Central Connecticut football junior Rob Hollomon was named to The Sports Network FCS All-America Team on Wednesday afternoon. Hollomon earned a place on the second team offense at the all-purpose position after finishing the season with 2,270 all-purpose yards and 19 total touchdowns.
The Sports Network FCS All-America Team
Prior to the season, Hollomon was named to The Sports Network FCS Preseason All-America Team as the all-purpose player on the third team.
The Philadelphia native spent his second year at CCSU as the team's starting running back and kick returner. He logged 284 carries and 1,452 yards on the ground, while punching in 18 rushing touchdowns. Hollomon also caught 26 passes for 223 yards and a touchdown.
On special teams, Hollomon returned 20 kickoffs for a total of 591 yards, while averaging an incredible 29.5 yards per kickoff return.
Hollomon's 1,452 rushing yards this season rank as the third highest single-season total in program history and his 19 touchdowns are just one behind the program record of 20 in a season. The record of 20 is held by former CCSU running backs Justise Hairston (2006) and Stan House (1996).
After two seasons at CCSU, Hollomon ranks third on CCSU's career rushing list with 2,556 yards. He also ranks fifth on the career scoring list with 150 points.
Hollomon has totaled 3,980 all-purpose yards in two seasons with CCSU. He averaged 189.2 all-purpose yards per game as a junior.
Hollomon was one of eight Northeast Conference players named to The Sports Network FCS All-America Team. Joining Hollomon on the second team were Saint Francis U running back Kyle Harbridge, Robert Morris offensive lineman A.J. Dalton and Sacred Heart defensive tackle Troy Moore. Representing the NEC on the third team were Sacred Heart running back Keshaudas Spence, Duquesne linebacker Christian Kuntz, Robert Morris punt returner Antwan Eddie and Wagner long snapper Phil Faccone. The NEC was not represented on the first team.


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Having woke up early this morning (and I mean real early), I basically had too much time on my hands. Having read the famous six-word short story (supposedly by Ernest Hemingway) I made a point to come up with something even shorter. With near-sighted vision (20-25), and without wearing my glasses, I still managed to take a close read at the five important elements of a short story (characters, setting, plot, conflict, theme), and I'm pretty sure I covered them all. In just five words. Here it is:
In bed, struggling, he succumbs.
If this is not the shortest short story that would qualify as a short story I honestly don't know what is. Personally, I've read links to "stories" with a word count of three or four words. But all of them seem to make no sense. So if that ain't the world's shortest short story, tell me what is.
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This is a ruby gem that lets you implement categorization systems with ease. Associative memory neural networks make it easy to identify probable patterns between sets of named data points. It can be cumbersome to interface with the neural network directly, however, as a typical implementation has a fixed size and training period, which limits how useful they can be to an integrated system. associative_memory simplifies these kind of machine learning models by offering dynamic input and output sets. This allows your code to concentrate on extrapolating meaningful patterns rather than juggling bitmasks and transposition matrices.


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The SEC and FINRA are warning investors about the risks involved in selling or buying rights to pension or settlement income streams via products like pension loans, structured settlements or secondary-market annuities.
In a joint alert issued Thursday, Pension or Settlement Income Streams—What You Need to Know Before Buying or Selling Them, the SEC and FINRA urge investors to proceed with caution if engaging in such transactions.
As the alert explains, after acquiring the rights to a future income stream (such as a retiree's pension payments), pension purchasing or structured settlement companies, sometimes called factoring companies, may turn around and sell these income streams to retail investors, often through a financial advisor, broker or insurance agent.
See also: Witnesses to Congress: Be Careful with Retirement Accounts
The products go by various names — pension loans, pension income programs, mirrored pensions, factored structured settlements or secondary-market annuities — and may be pitched to investors with words like "guaranteed" and "safe," the alert explains. The sales pitch may also tout robust returns that outpace more traditionally conservative investments such as CDs or money-market accounts.
"The advertised returns may sound enticing, but investors should be aware that these investments can be risky and complex," the alert says.
Gerri Walsh, FINRA's senior vice president for investor education, said in a statement announcing the alert that "consumers should know that a series of potential pitfalls may greet anyone who is considering selling their rights to an income stream." Any investor "who is tempted by the high yield offered by buying the rights to another person's income stream should know that yield comes with high fees and considerable risks."
For instance, when recipients of a pension or structured settlement sign over the rights to some or all of their monthly payments to a factoring company in return for a lump-sum amount, the lump sum will "almost always be significantly lower than the present value of that future income stream," the alert says.
See also: The 'Hidden Cost' Of Selling Your Life Insurance Policy
The alert goes on to note that most states require factoring companies that purchase structured settlements to disclose the difference between the lump sum payout versus the future income stream's value. "In California, for example, the disclosure must identify the dollar amount of the payments being sold, the present value of those payments based on a federally established interest rate, the amount being paid to the seller, and the interest rate calculated as if the transfer were a loan and not a sale of the payment rights," the alert says.
Fred Reish, partner and chairman of the financial services ERISA team at Drinker Biddle & Reath in Los Angeles, told AdvisorOne that a "fair amount" of litigation involving such deals has occurred on behalf of those in the military, where the transactions are "common practice." Reish says he and others in the retirement planning arena expect such lawsuits to become more prevalent on behalf of private-sector pension holders.
The investor alert contains a checklist of questions investors should ask themselves before selling away an income stream:
- Is the transaction legal? Federal law may restrict or prohibit retirees from "assigning" their pension to someone else.
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- What is the reputation of the company offering the lump sum? Check the factoring company's record with the Better Business Bureau, and research the firm on the Internet and with a financial professional.
- Will the factoring company require life insurance? The factoring company may require you to purchase a life insurance policy, which will add to your transaction expenses and reduce your payout.
- What are the tax consequences? The lump-sum payment you collect may be taxable.
The investor alert also warns investors who might be attracted to the yield offered by buying the rights to someone else's pension or structured settlement to be aware that:
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- Your "rights" to the income stream you purchased could face legal challenges.
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LAB Performs Best Nutcracker To Date
The Los Angeles Ballet opened it's sixth season last weekend with their annual production of "The Nutcracker. " A favorite Christmas tradition of many since its popularity exploded in the mid-twentieth century, the ballet draws people of all ages to share in the Christmas spirit.
LA Ballet prides itself on having an original production of "The Nutcracker." The story-line is the same and if you don't look closely at the program, you might not even realize the Sugarplum Fairy is now referred to as "Marie" (which was the name of the Clara character in the original E.T.A. Hoffmann story) and her Cavalier is her "Prince." The dancers in Act II are originally named for presents under the tree (Spanish Hot Chocolate, Arabian Coffee, Russian Candy Cane, and Danish Marzipan), but LAB has shortened them to Spanish, Arabian, Russian, and then a reappearance of Harlequin and Columbine from Act I. And finally, the most visual change is "The Rose" amongst the daisies in what is traditionally called "The Waltz of the Flowers."
Act I opens with party goers on their way to the Staulbaum house for Christmas Eve. The setting is Victorian and beautiful, and the costumes are exquisite. The lack of dance shoes and dance attire considerably limits the amount of balletic movement in Act I. Clara (Mia Katz) and her youthful friends perform adolescent pointe routines and the young boys entertain with their serious faces and synchronized marches. Peculiar Uncle Drosselmeyer (Nicolas de la Vega) enters, bearing special gifts for the children, enabling the only true dancing in the party scene, when the toys come to life. The Harlequin, Columbine, and Cossack Dolls, danced by Isabel Vondermuhll, Angel Lopez, and Chehon Wespi-Tschopp, all sparkle perfectly in their dances before freezing up and becoming still toys again.
This year's party scene was the most comedically infused to date, and very enjoyable for the audience. Casting questions arise as we meet Uncle Drosselmeyer, the role that becomes consistently younger and younger over the company's 6 productions. We wonder perhaps if LA Ballet intends him to be an older brother returning for the holidays in extravagant clothing, rather than an enigmatic Godfather to whom Clara bears a special bond. Considering the history of the character it is a distracting element to the theatricality of the story.
After the party, Clara goes to bed with her favorite of Drosselmeyer's bestowments, her Nutcracker doll. Clara is awakened into a magical world where her Nutcracker (Nathaniel Solis) is fending off rats and slays the Rat King. The rats are less than beautiful to watch (although children love them), yet it cannot go without saying how incredibly hard it must be to do chaine turns in a huge rat suit.
The Nutcracker's victory has not only turned him into a handsome prince, it also has bore entrance to the "Land of Snow" and dancing snowflakes. The Waltz of the Snowflakes is heralded as one of the most beautiful pieces of music in the entirety of the ballet; with snow falling on the dancers for the length of the dance, and flawless unity of the dancers. In the past, LAB has been guilty of the Corps de Ballet of not perfecting synchronization: either the extensions were not the same height, dancers were one beat ahead of the rest, or lines were not straight. But it is breathtaking to see the body of dancers move as a unit and LAB did just that. The only lacking element is the absence of a live orchestra, which means for this piece, an absence of a choral group. It does seem excessive to hire singers for one song of a whole ballet, but there is nothing quite like hearing angelic voices singing to live music while watching perfect dancing. Wishful thinking for future seasons.
As the curtain opens on Act II, we find ourselves in a Moroccan-esque setting known as the Palace by the Sea (traditionally known as The Land of Sweets). The presents have come to life to dance for Clara, the Prince, and Drosselmeyer. Marie and her Prince perform solos, and due to an injury of principle dancer Christopher Revels, the part of Marie's Prince was danced by Kenta Shimizu. Shimizu is a powerful dancer from Japan, who flies to LA once a year to perform in select performances for LAB. Although Revels is an excellent dancer, it was a wonderful surprise to find out Shimizu was understudying. His stunning and powerful jumps seem effortless as he soars right through the first piece. The well known "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" makes audience members sit up straighter in their seat, as soon as they recognize the music, and LAB Sugarplum veteran Allyssa Bross is well equipped for the famous dance. The ballet picks up speed as we move through the dances from around the world. "Russian" (Chehon Wespi-Tschopp, Christopher McDaniel, & Tian Tan) is momentous, but because this is usually the crowd jaw dropper, it did seem to want more acrobatics and dance stunts to wow the audience.
"Arabian" (Julia Cinquemani & Alexander Castillo) was wonderful and impressive; there was nothing lacking here but the marriage of choreography to music. The music rightly suggests that each movement be languid until it hits its full extension. One should feel as if the dancers are moving through molasses while dancing, which makes the dance even more impressive because the muscles cannot rely on momentum to reach the height of their flexibility. Instead the choreography found all the final spots without the liquidity of getting there. The Pas de Deux was beautiful, a little shaky on some of the shoulder jumps but the foite turns by Bross were clean and impressive.
And we revisited Harlequin and Columbine from Act I which was short and sweet, but jarring to see Lopez's toes not pointed. The standout of the evening was Allynne Noelle, "The Rose" in the Waltz of the Flowers number. Noelle, backed by the Corps de Ballet dressed as daisies, was the most engaging and in control dancer on the stage. As soon as she entered, eyes were glued to her and as soon as she exited, you wanted her back on the stage. Noelle is in her second season with LAB, and they will be lucky to hold on to her.
The Corps was also flawless and in synch once again. And when the final dances have been danced and Clara bids adieu and returns home, her parents find her asleep on the floor and carry her to bed. The curtain closes after Clara sits up realizing it may not have been a dream, as The Nutcracker and Uncle Drosselmeyer are lit upstage.
LA Ballet performs their best Nutcracker to date, proving they continue to grow and improve into what is sure to be a most promising resident dance company. Later this season they will dance Swan Lake and NextWaveLA, new dances with famed choreographers such as "So You Think You Can Dance" Sonya Tayeh.
The Nutcracker runs December 17th and 18th at UCLA's Royce Hall and December 22nd-24th at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center. For tickets, visit www.losangelesballet.org
- By Deidre Moore
Tags: Alexander Castillo, Allyssa Bross, chaine turns, Chehon Wespi-Tschopp, Christopher McDaniel, Corps de Ballet, Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Isabel Vondermuhll, Julia Cinquemani, Kenta Shimizu, Los Angeles Ballet, Nicolas de la Vega, pas de deux, Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, Royce Hall, Sonya Tayeh, Swan Lake, The Land of Sweets, The Nutcracker, The Waltz of the Flowers, The Waltz of the Snowflakes, Tian Tan
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Bostic Brumfield, Sr., who lives a mile South of Wayne, will celebrate his 75th birthday next Monday, the 13th. Mr. Brumfield is one of the county's pioneers and recalls the days when Wayne county was the home of deer, bear and other wild animals now extinct.
Mr. Brumfield recalls shooting a deer in 1869 near what is now the Millard Johnson farm near Iverson Shoals; in the year'74 he shot another deer at the mouth of Wolfe Creek. In those days the woodland of the country was infested with wild hogs which afforded real sport for hunters. He recalls one hunting experience as follows:
"In the year 1869 while I was going to school to Ligan Bowen at lower Newcomb, at the noon hour one day we heard a pack of hounds coming and we looked and saw a deer leap through the school yard. Saul Harmon and myself got permission from the teacher to follow the deer. The ice was partly frozen on Twelve Pole, but the deer crossed anyway. The creek full of ice bluffed all the dogs except one named "Pot Licker" owned by Fletcher Garrett. That dog never stopped and neither did Harmon and myself.
"As we went along we borrowed an old flint lock rifle from R. M. Luther, who used to be county surveyor. We kept in the chase till we got just opposite "Buger Hollow," near Millard Johnson's. At this point I shot the deer, while "Pot Licker" was close on his heels. Harmon and I skinned the deer, tied it on a pole and carried it home."
Mr. Brumfield recalled going to school to America Showater at Buffalo Shoals in 1858. Of the forty pupils in school then only three are living: Mr. Brumfield, M. F. Drown and Luke Drown. At that time one of the duties of the teacher was to make goose quill pens while the pupils would write their lessons. Brumfield and B. G. Chapman, of Wayne, were school mates 66 years ago. Mr. Brumfield still has in his possession a little book given to him by Mrs. Showater on his birthday in 1858. Mrs. Showater was the daughter of the late Benj. Drown, Sr., and was the mother of M. F. Drown and G. B. Booth, both well known Wayne citizens.
The new department of Vocational Agriculture which will be added to the Wayne County High School when it opens next month will prove an important asset to the school in the opinion of Superintendent C. T. Hatcher. The local high school starts its second year on September 4th. Additional teachers have been added this year and prospects are promising for a highly successful term. In making public the news of the new department, Superintendent Hatcher gave out the following announcement Wednesday of this week:
Ever mindful of the fact that the people of Wayne county wish to be in the front rank educationally, the County High School Board of Education has added to our system the department of Vocational Agriculture. This work is very practical as the students learn to do by actually doing things. They learn to work with the hands as well as to think with the head. . . .
It is entirely likely that the department of Home Economics of the County High School will be enlarged at an early date.
We only hope that every boy and girl in the county, not in school, that is eligible to enter high school will be with us the beginning of the term.
Send for Sherlock Holmes.
The three-legged chicken, the nine-days wonder of Dock's Creek, has mysteriously disappeared and left behind not a clue, not even a track.
Wayne county once again strutted its stuff by producing a chicken in a million--a three-legged one. This chick which disappeared last week belonged to Wiley Irons of Dock's Creek. It was a Plymouth Rock and was about six or eight weeks old. . . .
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Organizations need new strategies and capabilities to build digital trust and responsibility effectively, preserving their ability to deliver sustainable growth. According to the Accenture Technology Vision 2016, 83 percent of respondents agree that trust is the cornerstone of the digital economy.
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Transform Your Images with Color Grading
Transform Your Images with Color Grading
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Often you'd be quite surprised what a magazine or editorial portrait looks like before Adobe® Photoshop®. No, it's not about changing the skin or body-- it's about the tones and colors. In this class, we will begin by creating some timeless imagery using simple sets and lighting setups. Then, we will crank our creativity up a few notches by exploring color grading in Adobe Photoshop. You'll learn several approaches and tools to create drastically different emotional responses to your portraits using selective color, split toning, plug-ins and more! There are many ways you can transform the look of your images for a drastically different feel. Join Lindsay Adler as she shoots a series of standard but beautiful portraits and then transforms them using Adobe Photoshop.
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
- Introduction to Color Grading: Preparing for the Shoot
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Prosecutor Worthy settles budget lawsuit with Wayne County
Wayne County prosecutor settles lawsuit with county over budget, but hasn't released details of settlement
DETROIT – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy has settled a budget lawsuit with the county.
Worthy was suing the county commissioners and county Executive Robert Ficano for allegedly underfunding her Prosecutor's Office. She said Ficano signed a letter promising her $35 million in funding this year. The budget gave Worthy only $24 million.
She has laid off dozens of prosecutors.
"We have just settled our lawsuit with Wayne County," Worthy said in a statement released Monday. "I do not want to discuss the details at this time because it will not be official until we have the approval of the Wayne County Commission. A date of May 16, 2013, has been tentatively set for the settlement to be presented to the Commission."
Ficano has said Worthy is over budget. He said she was using a "scare tactic" when calling the cuts a danger to public safety.
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Actor Jesse Metcalfe has sold his house in the Beverly Crest area for $2 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service.
The Mediterranean main house and guesthouse have 2,500 square feet of living space, including four bedrooms and 31/2 bathrooms. Built in 1999, the house features stone fireplaces, plank wood floors and wood-beam ceilings. A stone hot tub sits on a hill above the home, which is surrounded by lawn and steppingstone pathways. A starburst pattern adorns the stone driveway.
Metcalfe, 33, will be Christopher Ewing on the remake of TV series "Dallas" next year. He played teen gardener John Rowland on "Desperate Housewives" from 2004 to 2009 and starred in the films "John Tucker Must Die" (2006) and "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" (2009). More recently, Metcalfe starred in the crime thriller "Chase" (2010-11).
The actor bought the property in 2008 for $2.2 million.
Michael Dronge of Keller Williams in Beverly Hills was the listing agent. Aaron Pfeffer of Four Corner Realty represented the buyer.


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Liberty News
Member of Liberty's broadcast team wins Engineer of the Year honors
|Richard "Al" Stephens (right), Liberty University's senior video maintenance engineer, receives a certificate from chapter chairman Paxton Durham recognizing him as "Engineer of the Year" for Chapter 78 of the Society of Broadcast Engineers during Thursday's meeting in Lexington, Va.
Since his early days at Thomas Road Baptist Church, when he was the sole engineer on staff installing and servicing video equipment for the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Sr.'s "Old Time Gospel Hour," Richard "Al" Stephens knew he was doing exactly what God had called and equipped him to do.
On Thursday, Stephens, now Liberty University's senior video maintenance engineer, was recognized as the inaugural Engineer of the Year for Chapter 78 of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, which includes Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Harrisonburg. He is one of 12 nominees for the national Robert W. Flanders SBE Engineer of the Year award to be named later this month.
"We are so proud of Al," said Dr. Norm Mintle, dean of Liberty's School of Communication & Creative Arts (SCCA). "Receiving this award demonstrates the ongoing excellence of our professional team — qualities we are embedding in our SCCA students in all areas of media and production."
Bruce Braun, SCCA's executive director of technical operations, believes there is no one more deserving of the distinction.
"For the past 40 years, Al has demonstrated his professional expertise and love for Liberty University ministries," Braun said.
Stephens is responsible for video control operation during many university productions, including sports, news feeds, and special events. He handles routine maintenance of equipment, troubleshooting and testing of video systems, documentation of new systems, and assists in the planning, construction, and deployment of mission critical systems.
Eddie Durham, a former SBE Chapter 78 chair, nominated Stephens for the honor. The award was presented at a chapter meeting in Lexington.
"He is one of the original members of our chapter, which has been in existence since the early '70s," Durham said, noting Stephens has served as its treasurer and chief financial officer for the past 15 years. "It was kind of a no-brainer to nominate him. He just deserves it. He's held just about every position and has been one of the most secure, reliable people in the chapter."
At Liberty, Stephens has studied to stay ahead of the learning curve in a rapidly changing industry that requires advanced technical training.
"TV as a whole in the analog days was one thing; in the digital age, everything was transitioning. It's all IT-based, so you're constantly trying to keep up," he said. "That is what SBE is about. You try to stay current with the new technologies."
Liberty has placed its technical operations under the umbrella of the SCCA, creating a diversity of new working relationships with staff as well as students.
"Students are given the unique opportunity to leave the classroom and work side-by-side with professionals like Al in every area of media arts," Braun said.
Though he specializes in the technical aspects of video equipment installation and repair, Stephens enjoys the interaction he has with students in training them to use it, particularly during thrice-weekly Convocation services at the Vines Center.
He said Dr. Falwell, Sr.'s vision of having Liberty students immersed in the field of broadcasting and going into the world to use those skills is being fulfilled.
"We trained the students hands-on, even back in the '70s, to do radio, television, maybe a little film, but primarily television," Stephens said. "Well, we're back to the original vision of doing that exact same thing under Dr. Mintle now, and I think that's going to work out really well. You have academics as well as the practical hands-on stuff so when the students leave here, they've got a good balance of both."
The SCCA's broadcast division now includes two radio stations, Victory FM (WRVL, 88.3-FM), and The Light (WWMC, 90.9-FM, a student-run station), as well as two television stations: WTLU-LP (The Liberty Channel) and a newly acquired full-power station WEFC-TV, formerly WDRL-TV, serving the Danville, Roanoke, and Lynchburg area.
Currently, Stephens is involved in facilitating Liberty's transition to High Definition broadcasts starting this fall, including the installation of equipment in a control room at the Vines Center that will be used for sports broadcasting.


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Kelly solid in St. Louis return, backed by Bogaerts
ST. LOUIS -- Right-hander Joe Kelly was greeted with warmth in his return to St. Louis, receiving ovations on his way to and from the bullpen, and also when he took the Busch Stadium mound to start the first and went to the plate for his first at-bat in the third.
But his mission on Wednesday night was to help the Red Sox, and that's exactly what he did, leading his new team to a 2-1 victory.
Though Kelly got a no-decision, he made his presence felt by firing seven strong innings, allowing three hits and the one run.
"The only thing I want to do is just win," said Kelly. "That's what I do every single game. There's no hard feelings, and I don't think revenge is the right word there. I just wanted to go out there and pitch the best I can."
There were some good developments all around for the Red Sox in this tightly fought game.
Yoenis Cespedes made a terrific catch against the wall in left to help snuff out a rally in the sixth. Xander Bogaerts saved a run in the second, making a fine diving stop up the middle to take a hit from Matt Carpenter.
And in the ninth, it was Bogaerts who put the Red Sox ahead for the first time all night, lining a sacrifice fly to center against Cardinals closer Trevor Rosenthal on a 95-mph, first-pitch heater.
"I thought he wanted to get ahead of me with a fastball and go 0-1 so he could use his offspeed pitches," said Bogaerts. "I just went up there and geared up for the fastball."
Cespedes had started the winning rally with a single to left off Rosenthal. Mike Napoli then stepped up and delivered a big double into the corner in right, putting runners at second and third with no outs.
David Ortiz pinch-hit for Daniel Nava, but the Cards walked him intentionally.
Bogaerts did his job, then Koji Uehara did the rest, working around two singles in the ninth to notch save No. 23.
Boston's pitching staff had a stellar effort, finishing with eight straight scoreless innings.
Carpenter led off the first against Kelly with a double to right. With two outs, Matt Adams came through with an RBI single.
"There were some emotions there," said Kelly. "After the first inning, basically after the first pitch, I realized it was just pitching again. It's like pitching in the playoffs; you get really excited and anxious to pitch in the playoffs. Once you let go of that ball, it's just pitching again from there. It was definitely fun."
St. Louis starter Shelby Miller, Kelly's best friend, kept the one-run lead until the fourth, when Nava started a rally with a two-out single to right.
Up stepped Bogaerts, who lofted a fly ball to deep left. Matt Holliday got a glove on the ball against the wall but couldn't hang on. It was ruled an RBI double, and the score was tied at 1.
"I thought it was an out," said Bogaerts. "But it's a big ballpark here, man. You've got to hit it pretty good."
There was some concern for Kelly in the fourth when he hobbled a little after taking a liner by Oscar Taveras off his thigh, but he stayed in the game.
"It definitely hurt," said Kelly. "Definitely left some seams there and a little swelling. Just had to go out there. I wanted to pitch and didn't want to come out of that game at all. They just kept an eye on me to see if it was affecting my stuff. It was there every single time I let go of the ball. I just wanted to be in there. It's my first start for the Red Sox. I wanted to go out there and gut it out and do what I can to pitch."
The Cardinals threatened to take the lead in the sixth. After a walk to Holliday, Jhonny Peralta crushed one to deep left, but Cespedes ranged back and made a nice catch as he ran into the wall.
"I did actually get a pretty good read on that," said Cespedes. "I usually like to take a peek back at the fence to see where it is when I see the ball. But I wasn't able to do that this time, and that's why the fence kind of snuck up on me."
When Mookie Betts singled to open the eighth, manager John Farrell sent Will Middlebrooks to hit for Kelly. And in a somewhat surprising development, Middlebrooks was given the bunt sign. On the second pitch, he popped into a forceout.
"In a tie game, in a one-run situation, [we're] looking to advance 90 feet," said Farrell.
The Red Sox would finally get the run they needed in the ninth, and wound up snapping their three-game losing streak.
It was a strong first impression by Kelly for the Red Sox on a night he was swirling with emotions.
"Joe threw a great game," said Cards manager Mike Matheny. "We've seen him throw like that in the past, and we know he has that potential. That was a big outing for him, and even after he takes the ball off the knee, he was fighting and grinding. That's the competitor that he is. He didn't give us a lot. We had a couple balls hit hard, but we couldn't string a lot together. He did a lot of damage control."


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LOS ANGELES — Tourists and Southland natives alike were treated to a show starring Catwoman in the leading role Thursday afternoon. But this time the performance was outside of the Kodak Theatre when a fight broke out between the characters on Hollywood Boulevard sidewalks.
Fire officials responded to a battery call around 5:30 p.m. to learn that a fight between Catwoman and an Ozzy Osbourne impersonator had ended with him getting pepper sprayed.
Initial reports identified a man dressed as Jack Sparrow of "Pirates of the Caribbean" as having been the victim.
Catwoman, who requested to be referred to as such, said two characters had been causing problems all day and seemed to be intoxicated. After warning them several times to stop interfering with her taking pictures, she told the men that she had mace and wasn't afraid to use it.
"He was antagonizing me to do so, so I did," she said. "I said, 'I'm giving you fair warning. If you do not get away from me I will spray you in the face.'"
While they are not allowed to require payment, movie characters on Hollywood Boulevard can earn tips by taking photographs with visitors.
Catwoman said she was harassed all day long, as the pirate and alien pushed and bumped her while she was taking photos for or with people.
Another character wearing an alien mask was also involved in the incident, Catwoman said.
Willy Wonka, known as Jason off the Boulevard, corroborated Catwoman's story.
"She told him and told him and told him, and he continued to push her -- so there it was," he said.
The victim was not on the scene when police arrived, authorities said. No one was taken into custody, and none of the parties was transported to the hospital, the LAPD reported.
Almost immediately after the incident occurred, the Twitter-sphere was flooded with reports of the incident, many of which noted the quintessentially-L.A. nature of the story.
The tweets overwhelmingly referred to the characters as Catwoman, a pirate and an alien, which was also the description Catwoman gave NBC 4.
"Only on LA News.. 'LAPD respond to fight on Hollywood Blvd between Catwoman, a Pirate and an Alien,'" @tattedgirl Tweeted.
Others seemed to question the character brotherhood.
"Catwoman, a pirate, and an alien just got in a huge fight in hollywood in front of chinese theatre," according to a Tweet from @kirkfox. "Spiderman and batman just watched."
Catwoman said the altercation reflects poorly on the Boulevard characters, who are no strangers to brawls breaking out on their outdoor stage.
"We're just trying to entertain the public, take pictures with the tourists, make them happy, you know," Catwoman said. "That's what we come out here for."
Last year, Spongebob Squarepants was arrested after harassing two women on Hollywood Boulevard.
In 2009, Spider Man struck a man in the face and arms. The victim refused to press charges, but police arrested the character on outstanding misdemeanor warrants for Metro fare evasion.
And just two years earlier, a Chewbacca impersonator was accused of head-butting a Hollywood tour guide who warned him to stop harassing Japanese tourists.


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An aspiring executive lets his bosses use his apartment for assignations, only to fall for the big chief's mistress.
In New York in November 1959, C. C. "Buddy" Baxter toils in anonymity in the vast, impersonal offices of Consolidated Life Insurance. At his small apartment, however, Buddy has attracted the attention of several Consolidated executives who "borrow" the space for their extramarital trysts. Buddy, continually assured that he will gain a speedy promotion in thanks for his extra apartment key, endures repeated indignities and spends many of his nights walking the streets, looking up longingly at his own window. In addition, the constant flow of women to the apartment earns Buddy the antipathy of his neighbors, including kindly Dr. Dreyfuss and his wife Mildred, who assume that he is a callous playboy. In reality, Buddy lives a quiet, lonely life, and one night when Consolidated manager Joe Dobisch insists on using the apartment, Buddy contracts a cold while sitting outside in the rain waiting to be allowed back in. In the morning, Buddy works up the nerve to talk to elevator girl Fran Kubelik, who has a reputation among the executives as being hard to get. After spending the afternoon juggling apartment "appointments" so he can rest alone that evening, Buddy is called to the office of personnel manager J. D. "Jeff" Sheldrake, who confronts him about his popularity with the various executives. Although Buddy is worried he will be fired, in reality the married Sheldrake is attempting to intimidate him into lending him the apartment key, and despite his cold, Buddy is buoyed by Sheldrake's promise of an executive position. Unaware that Sheldrake's current girl friend is Fran, Buddy asks her to a play that evening. Because Fran is planning to break up with Sheldrake, she tells Buddy she will join him after meeting her "date" briefly. Fran later meets Sheldrake at a bar and tells him it is too painful for her to date a married man, but he convinces her that he is just about to ask his wife for a divorce. While Buddy waits at the theater, Sheldrake takes Fran back to Buddy's apartment. Soon after, Buddy receives his promised promotion and proudly marches away from the 17th floor's endless rows of underlings into a private office on the 19th floor. Dobisch and the other executives, frustrated that they have not been allowed to use the apartment lately, threaten Buddy's new job but he remains securely in Sheldrake's good graces, still unaware that Sheldrake's constant dates at the apartment are with Fran. At Christmas, the 19th floor hosts a party at which most of the company's employees carouse and imbibe. Buddy is thrilled to see Fran but does not realize that Sheldrake's secretary, Miss Olsen, has just informed Fran that Sheldrake routinely seduces all the women in the office, using the same speech to make each conquest. Dazed, Fran barely listens to Buddy's conversation, and when she pulls out her compact, he recognizes it as the one Sheldrake's "girl friend" once left at the apartment. Upon learning that Sheldrake plans another tryst that evening, a distraught Buddy retreats to a nearby bar, becoming ill-humoredly drunk with melancholy stranger Margie MacDougall. Meanwhile, Fran meets Sheldrake at the apartment and, receiving his Christmas gift of a $100 bill, becomes despondent. After Sheldrake leaves, Fran swallows Buddy's bottle of sleeping pills and passes out on his bed. When Buddy returns with Margie, he finds Fran and, throwing Margie out, rushes to Dr. Dreyfuss to ask for help. Dreyfuss, assuming that Buddy has mistreated Fran and driven her to suicide, excoriates Buddy while ministering to Fran. Under his care, she survives, and they return her to bed. Although Dreyfuss wants to report the situation, Buddy talks him out of it, after which Dreyfuss urges him to be "a mensch ," the Yiddish word for a good human being. The next morning, as Sheldrake is celebrating Christmas with his family, Buddy calls to inform him of Fran's condition, and Fran awakens in time to hear Sheldrake refuse to talk to her. When she tries to leave, Buddy detains her, both for her safety and to keep her near him as long as possible. Mildred agrees to prepare breakfast for Fran, and delivers soup along with a lecture to Fran to forget Buddy and marry a nice boy. Buddy plays cards with Fran until she falls asleep, assuring her that this Christmas is vastly preferable to his typical lonely holidays. Soon, Consolidated executive Al Kirkeby arrives with his girl friend, Sylvia, but upon spotting Fran in the bed, congratulates Buddy and leaves. When Fran wakes and wonders who would mind if she died, Buddy confesses that he would mind very much, and Fran questions why she never falls in love with "nice guys like you." The next morning, Sheldrake fires Miss Olsen, who after eavesdropping on his brief phone conversation with Fran, arranges to meet Sheldrake's wife to inform her about her husband's infidelities. Back at the apartment, Buddy attempts to prepare a nice meal for Fran using a tennis racket as a spaghetti strainer. During a discussion of their romantic misfortunes, Buddy admits that he once bought a revolver and accidentally shot himself in the knee while contemplating suicide. Just as they are ready to eat, Fran's brother-in-law, Karl Matuschka, comes over, tipped off by the disgruntled Dobisch and Kirkeby. At the same time, Dreyfuss visits, and when he inadvertently reveals to Karl that Fran overdosed, Buddy takes the blame to save Fran's reputation, earning himself a black eye from Karl and a grateful kiss on the forehead from Fran. In the morning, he prepares to inform Sheldrake that he will "take Fran off his hands," but Sheldrake announces that his wife has kicked him out so he plans, after an interlude to enjoy his bachelorhood, to reunite with Fran. Buddy's depression is only slightly mollified by the news that he has been promoted to Sheldrake's assistant, with a 24th floor office and key to the executive washroom. On New Year's Eve, however, when Sheldrake asks for the apartment key to rendezvous with Fran, Buddy refuses and quits, informing Sheldrake that he has decided to become a mensch . That night at Buddy's apartment, while he packs his belongings, including the revolver, Fran attends a party with Sheldrake and learns that Buddy quit rather than allow him to take Fran to his apartment. Finally realizing that Buddy loves her more than Sheldrake does, she slips out of the party and races to Buddy's apartment. On the stairs, she hears a loud crack, and fearing that Buddy has shot himself, pounds on his door, only to discover that he has merely popped open a bottle of champagne. As Fran settles down to deal a game of cards, Buddy proclaims his love to her, and cheerfully, she tells him to "shut up and deal."
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Eastside Road, February 27, 2013—THREE GOOD FRIENDS were by for lunch today: Lindsey made macaroni and cheese. It's a staple, of course; it was almost a weekly occurance in my childhood — though never like this: ours came in kit form, in a box, sometimes with Kraft's name on it, sometimes with Chef Boy-ar-dee's.
Lindsey used a recipe she's had for years, in an old pamphlet called Casserole Cookery, published in the mid-1950s, to judge by the copyright notice, by Culinary Arts Institute, which was directed by Melanie De Proft. Lindsey has a number of these pamphlets, on various subjects, all gathered into a binder with WEST BEND stamped on the cover; perhaps they were originally sold with cooking equipment marketed by the West Bend Company, which made cookware, electrical appliances, and two-stroke engines; I see on their website that "For 100 years, West Bend® has connected home chefs and matriarchs across generations." I'm glad to be helping them out in this worthy endeavor.
The recipe is simple enough: macaroni, previously cooked and drained; white sauce flavored with a bit of dry mustard; grated Cheddar cheese; minced onion; a bit of Worcestershire sauce. Lindsey wisely omits the pound of tomatoes called for.
After the main course, accompanied by olives and pickled green beans, we had a green salad; then warm applesauce with vanilla ice cream. Good old comfort food, perfect for a lazy afternoon of conversation.
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