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Following in the footsteps of John Freshwater, a science teacher in Cheektowaga, NY has filed a lawsuit against the school for making her take down a bunch of posters and other items in her classroom that were solely designed to proselytize her students.
Joelle Silver, a teacher at the school for seven years, says she received a "counseling letter" to remove the items from her classroom. The suit was filed against the district, President of the Board of Education Brian J. Gould, and Superintendent of Schools Dennis Kane.
According to the complaint, filed by the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC), a group that fights for religious issues, Silver had four small posters in her room with psalm verses on them, a poster with a religious quotation from Ronald Reagan, a drawing that the district said is reference to the crucifixion, a poster that had a Bible verse superimposed on the American flag and school books, among other items. The letter Silver received instructed her to take the items down and warned that failing to do so could lead to serious disciplinary consequences.
Superintendent Kane, who says he respects Silver's teaching abilities, says the materials were found to be inappropriate and the district determined they needed to be removed.
Good. The school is doing the right thing. What possible purpose could posters with Bible verses on them have in a science classroom other than to send a message to students that they should believe in the Bible? None, of course. The American Freedom Law Center, by the way, is an offshoot of the Thomas More Law Center, founded by Robert Muise, who worked for the TMLC (and was one of the attorneys that got crushed so badly in the Dover trial).
Silver said, "I believe that my First Amendment rights were violated last June when I was asked to do some things regarding taking some posters down and to censor my speech in the classroom. As a Christian and as an American I feel it's incredibly important to fight to protect the rights that people have died to give them."
The complaint filed against the district also says Silver was told not to participate in the Bible Study Club's meetings or activities, so it could not be interpreted as being promoted by her or the district. The letter states Silver had a 'prayer box' in the classroom that was being used by the club throughout the school day and instructed her to remove it. The complaint alleges that, by contrast, the school's Gay Straight Alliance is allowed to have students participate in club activities during the school day.
Robert Muise of the AFLC said, "She was even prevented from having any communication with students during the school day that might have any religious contents."
No, your First Amendment rights were not violated. You don't have a First Amendment right to proselytize your students in your capacity as a teacher. As always, the test here is quite simple. Would they be taking the same position if a Muslim teacher put posters in their room with verses from the Quran on them? Of course not. They'd be screaming bloody murder about it. All that talk about religious liberty and free speech would vanish.


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Caesar, Shakespeare, Machiavelli and 1500 LCM splits...
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I forgot to mention that our state LCM meet results and splits were posted Friday; I now "officially" own my age group in the backstroke (50, 100, and 200); plus I've won my age group in 400 IM in two straight state meets--SCY and LCM. Times are slow, I'm painfully aware of this, but I showed up and swam: "veni, natavi, vici" as Julius Caesar would have put it. Although Shakespeare's version has Caesar as a much less proficient swimmer than Cassius, well at least as Cassius tells it... check out Cassius to Brutus in Act I, scene ii:
I was born free as Caesar; so were you:
We both have fed as well, and we can both
Endure the winter's cold as well as he:
For once, upon a raw and gusty day,
The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,
Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now
Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in
And bade him follow; so indeed he did.
The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it
With lusty sinews, throwing it aside
And stemming it with hearts of controversy;
But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'
I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,
Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder
The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber
Did I the tired Caesar. And this man
Is now become a god, and Cassius is
A wretched creature and must bend his body,
If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.
Read the full play here http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org...D=juliuscaesar
And watch the classic movie version with a young Marlon Brando as Marc Antony; I showed it to my HUMA 102 students last summer hard on the heels of reading Machiavelli's Prince. Ah, the unbridled ambition and attendant scheming of the renaissance politicos... so well portrayed in Shakespeare's characters. "So, Brutus, if Caesar be in thy age group, swim lustily with thy sinews, knowing thou shalt conquer him in open water... but beware the Ides of March in short course, for he swimmeth a wicked medley at middle distances."
We all take what we can get!
Since my bud Scotty DQ'd the 400 IM (in a mental lapse he one handed the breast turn), I am technically the champion of our age group, LCM. And, in the spirit of the technicality-minded schemers of Shakespeare's plays I accept this triumph... and will try to avoid a re-match like the plague!
Scotty did crush me in the 1500. And he was all to happy to remind me of this, emphasizing the slick look of my SILVER, when we picked up our 1500 medals. Machiavelli emphasized that a basic knowledge of human behavior and a nice dollop of foresight are essential for any prince to succeed; but how to attain such knowledge and foresight? Machiavelli's answer was in the study of history, since human behavior hasn't changed in thousands of years and history tends to repeat itself.
So, here's to dredging up some ancient history in hopes of learning from it and, perhaps, looking ahead to what may be expected in futures near and far. Future will have to wait; past starts with analysis of the 1500 splits...
Leg Cumulative Subtractive 1 44.73 44.73 2 1:38.00 53.27 3 2:33.90 55.90 4 3:27.72 53.82 5 4:06.50 38.78 6 5:14.96 1:08.46 7 6:08.80 53.84 8 7:02.92 54.12 9 7:44.64 41.72 10 8:50.45 1:05.81 11 9:44.59 54.14 12 10:37.64 53.05 13 11:31.26 53.62 14 12:25.52 54.26 15 13:19.64 54.12 16 14:14.21 54.57 17 15:08.41 54.20 18 16:02.51 54.10 19 16:57.72 55.21 20 17:50.30 52.58 21 18:44.20 53.90 22 19:37.49 53.29 23 20:31.84 54.35 24 21:25.59 53.75 25 22:19.65 54.06 26 23:13.13 53.48 27 24:07.13 54.00 28 24:59.62 52.49 29 25:52.92 53.30 30 26:43.66 50.74
I was a little baffled by the strange splits at legs 5-6, 9 and 10. It then dawned on me that with touch pads at both ends of the pool for long course, my lap counter (the ever energetic Aaron, my 14-year old!) might have gone a little crazy with the lap-counter and bumped the timing pad on the way in. At the last meet we instructed him to give the lap-counter a wiggle if I was slowing from the pace a little too much, so he's an old pro now, except that I don't think he realized there was a timing pad down there this time. In any event, I feel like with those anomalies explained away it was a remarkably consistent effort... mostly in the :53-:54/50 pace range... the 100s holding pretty steadily around 1:47-49, closer to 1:45-47 in the last few hundred meters.
So I have pacing down, but need to work on making that pace faster (as usual). I'll have to go back over my workouts for the last six months or so and see what I was doing to drop my freestyle pace so much between January and March (when I had my biggest drop in time) and compare with workouts from last summer... see what I can tweak; learning from the past!

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Living in Stamford Hill you wouldn't think that little more than a couple of miles away the biggest show on earth is about kick off in under 24 hours. The top end of the Amish Kapoor sculpture may be just about visible from our unlawful lofts but believing prevents you from seeing. Zaha Hadid could have designed the foundations rather than the roof of the Aquatics Centre and we would have been equally unimpressed. And as for a minute's silence, you first must know about the dead before you can commemorate them.
True we've had some new pavements on Clapton Common which may, or may not, be part of an Olympic street improvement scheme, buses with an orange streak and Games 2012 sign ply the roads while low-flying helicopters ply the skies but that, I'm afraid, is as far as it goes. The games might as well be taking place on the Comoros Islands and we would not have been much the poorer.
For a start the Opening Ceremony is on Friday evening at 9pm which means that even if you take in Shabbos with the stragglers, schleppers, holies and dishevelled you still won't get even 5 minutes' worth of Danny Boyle's reputed masterpiece. Those chachomim had to programme it pinkt late on a Friday afternoon and this after the torch passed our area on a Shabbos. I mean just how insensitive can you get. And will Boyle include rear extensions and ceramic floor tiles to represent our contribution to this green and pleasant land? Slumdog, schmumdog, geb nor aher a millionaire.
This may all be good for a laugh but truth said it's just how we want it. I may, and do, find it all very sad and upsetting that we must keep ourselves so absolutely apart but I cannot pretend to represent my brethren on this point. It also ain't gonna change any time soon either. We want to keep to ourselves and there's as yet no law to stop us. There will be many who will share the glorious and uplifting moments of the games with their children on the web (TV is not for sharing) regardless of what the bumpkins will ban but as far as official or even semi-semi-official participation in any part, forget it.
A single, unofficial torch bearer in far-flung Lewisham who has been decried from at least one pulpit will be the sum total of our involvement. Even the one school we have that is maintained at public expense didn't deign to mention the O word even once lest it fail instantly the Chareidi doping test (in which the more doped and duped the tested the higher the score). In fact the Olympic legacy (which we'll come to in a moment) they have bequeathed to their pupils is a ban on ice skating at the local rink. Mamesh lekoved the Olympics and how very thoughtful of them.
We may of course mention the Jubilee celebrations because in our minds we are still living under the protection and grace and favour of a benign monarch. Our sycophantic leaders like anything royal because it allows them and their schools to write letters to the Queen and then lie back and dream of the honours. Frolicking with bobbies, inviting them to our events and bestowing honours on them is also kosher because power round here is hard and soft power is for wimps and schlemiels. In the tiny brains of those who run our affairs power is at the end of a baton and in the clink of a handcuff and fraternising with the bill allows some of the steely shine to rub off. But to take part in any other celebration of this county is simply something to avoid like, well, the Olympics.
But there is one noble exception. No one can accuse the rest of the world of forgetting about us completely while the London Jewish Forum has a beat to its heart. In 2010 it secured £50,000 from the Mayor's Olympic Sports Legacy programme. It was to raise a similar amount itself making it a total of £100,000. The projects the money was to be spent on included 3 "integrated sports events" of which one was to be directed at the "strictly Orthodox community." A spokesman at the time said: "City Hall is interested in those who don't do much physical activity. There is a lack of facilities in religious communities." It just makes your heart melt at the chesed directed towards us.
So what happened to this 'integrated' event whatever it is to mean? Have you heard of it? Has it taken place? Will it take place? Or is this yet another case of some terribly nice people expressing their concern for us at the very highest level and then walking off with the accolades or, in this case, the cash? I make no accusations though I did ask the London Jewish Forum for details of the event but they have as yet not replied. After all I'm not a bobby or politician so why bother?
It's not as if we don't have a representative on the Forum. Click on their website and there on the masthead with his trademark goofy smile is our representative at the top table of society. It would be nice if he could make some enquiries on our behalf when this integrated event will be kicking off especially as integration and cohesion are his hallmarks. He should act fast though or 'his' schools might ban participation before the event even gets off the ground.
But let's not be mean on the very day this fest of goodwill amongst nations takes off. Surely some bright spark will come up with a legacy for the nearby park once the games are over. It could be ideal for a wedding hall. It's closer than the Decorium, larger than YHS, cheaper than the Mayfair Intercontinental, higher than the Prince and Princess, your badchen can drone on till 4 am without disturbing anyone's sleep and last but not least it's legal. It even has large grounds so there's potential for extending. What more can you ask for? It's just the kind of legacy chasunos are meant to create.


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Microsoft has said it will not sue Linux users with regards to the company's patent claims. "We're not litigating. If we wanted to we would have done so years ago," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's VP for intellectual property and licensing, in an interview. When asked for a reply regarding the claim of Microsoft that the Linux kernel infringes 42 of its patents, Linus Torvalds replied: "Can you get a list of which ones? Before that, it's just FUD, and there's not a whole lot I can say or do. Is there prior art? Are they trivial and obvious to one skilled in the art? Would we need to work around them? We don't know, because all I've heard so far is just FUD. If MS actually wanted us to not infringe their patents, they'd tell us. Since they don't, that must mean that they actually prefer the FUD."
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu will return to Stanford University after he steps down this year.
Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will rejoin Stanford's faculty, where he taught physics and applied physics from 1987 to 2008. Upon his return, Chu will work jointly for the physics department and the medical school's Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology.
The exact date of Chu's departure from Energy has not been set. No successor has been nominated, although Ernest Moniz, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former top Energy Department official, is considered the leading candidate.
Chu told the Stanford Daily he was excited about his return.?
He said, "The highest point in my career was when I became a professor in (such) a great institution."
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"We have a long road ahead of us," Cameron told MLSsoccer.com. "When there's an opportunity, we have to be able to punish other teams. That's one thing we did toward the end of last season. We had the opportunities and made teams pay."
Cameron and fellow defender Andre Hainault had clear set-piece headers which missed the mark and Brad Davis struck the bar in the second half. Houston forward Calen Carr seemed a sure bet to head home the rebound on the Davis effort, only for Dallas defender Ugo Ihemelu to clear at the last moment.
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Chrno Crusade (General discussion)
So what do you guys think of the new series ??
I think it will be another good series for this season
I am glad to see back Athrun Zara (senyu) !!!
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|2003-11-26, 06:46
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I think it seems interesting enough, although at least this first episode was nothing special. Hopefully there will be enough character development to keep it interesting. Also, for some reason, it looked really blurry - I wonder if it was the encode (anime-keep), my TV/software/whatever or just me poor, tired eyes.
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It was a fairly interesting serie's, That im definitly going to follow.
I will look forward to some competition and hopefully a better version.
ZeroX20 hope akraze or some other good group's version is nice.
Cause this serie's deserves quality.
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Personally, it felt like the translations were a bit off - it could be because I'm used to the scanlations for the manga, and I've been thinking in those terms for such a long time that seeing other interpretations of how things are pronounced / how people talk is a bit strange. That may well be from unfamiliararity with the source material though. And we'll have enough people translating Crusade that we'll be able to pick and choose, similar to all of the groups subbing Tsukihime.
I do agree though about this series deserving quality - I'm hoping it doesn't turn into another 'lets see who can sub it first' fest like some of the older series in the past. But I'm looking forward to seeing what the next episode brings.
Rosette trying to be demure though... it seems like a great contradiction in terms. ^_^
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I just watched both versions of this show and there were big differences between them.
Encoding: Inf&AF-F was the better encode by far. The colors are sharper and the image clearer while A-Keep always seemed to be in mist.
Editing: A-Keep was better by far. They chose better phrases with clearer meanings. The Inf&AF-F version sometimes sounded very stilted.
Typesetting: I hated the Inf&AF-F typefont. It was practically DVD quality, while the A-Keep typefont was awesome, except for the inverted apostrophes which looked extremely weird. In other words, both groups had to work on this a bit.
Conclusion: I'm really looking forward to the WPP version since each of these sucked in some way. Hopefully WPP or someone else will actually sub this show right. In the meantime I'm going with the Inf&AF-F version because A-Keep's encode is so blurry that it hurts to watch it.
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I'm pretty glad Athrun is back as well.
Hey, he's with another blonde tomboyXD
Rosette is alright. I like that she's spunky and all but she can be whiny sometimes.
Chrno I find a bit more interesting, because I'm curious on how Rosette managed to hook up with him.
I didn't notice the blurryness though with A-Keep's version. I thought it look fine. Only part that was blurry was when Rosette is attacked by the second mosnter.
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sorry about the encode guys.... the raw i had to use was pretty evil and dead on all point on views, and i kinda was like concentrated much more on the kara/fx/typeset
i'll make sure eps2 gets much much better(since i'll have much less work to do)
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Location: GTO = Best anime. Ever. Thanks.
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Holy quite possibly the coolest OP I've ever heard in my life BATMAN! I haven't even watched the episode yet. I'm still reeling from the OP (and to a lesser extent the ED). I need these singles STAT!
I have AKeep's version, and I'm grabbing Inf's so I can watch them back to back later on, maybe along with Kraze's and whoever else pops up. I'm pretty content with just rewatching the OP sequence over and over and over and over again for now...
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Location: The Fields of High Attus
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It seems fairly boring in the first episode, nothing that would interest me, but I give Gonzo a chance.
Personally I think this is quite disrespectful to nuns. Who cares if these are special nuns, nuns are nuns - I doubt they believe in violence, even if it's against evil. These seem, to me, to be just your ordinary evil-fighting group with the "interesting" facade of nuns.
It's only the first ep of course...
edit: I forgot to comment on the opening sequence - that was nice, I mean what would you expect from a company that started out doing FMVs for games and has produced nice animation almost all the way along. They have the know-how.
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Anyway, seriously though, if you watch anime you shouldn't take the religious context too seriously. The Japanese use Christianity as a form of exoticism and story, not because they believe in its ideas or even care about Christians. After all, Christian, Greek, Norse, Chinese, Japanese, etc. gods are all hold at about the same light.
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Fields of High Attus
Age: 29
That's true... for them I suppose it doesn't matter, and it shouldn't really matter to me (I'm not Christian) but I guess I expect some things to stay, being used to a different kind of thing...
I guess I'd have enjoyed it more if they made up their own exotic thing rather than putting in something not very appropriate (That of course is just my own opinion, so please don't make this a topic about that)... One's man meat is another mans poison I guess.
I'll keep watching for a while though, see if there are other redeeming points.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Quality or speed...
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Join Date: Nov 2003
okay lemme put things clear
we didnt rush that much, we still have great quality APART this encode which isnt great
i think our release has a pretty good quality(even though i shouldnt tell that since i worked on it) so please, refrain stupid comments like "speed over quality"
about raws, i admit i didnt search much, but it will definetly go better in next eps, since i wont have anything but encode and typeset to do
and the encode isnt THAT bad, i mean look at <censored> shows that aired on fuji. Fuji's raws are often bad since there is no hdtv of it, and they have pretty bad stream encoding
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Mech Engineer
As someone who happens to be a practicing Catholic who has a priest for a uncle and went to catholic school half his life. i can say that i like this show, gonzo animes thend to rate rather highly with me even if this is one i wouldn't let my uncle see. (my uncle went to a con with me once).
Is it just me or could Rosette pass for Seras' twin sister?
This show's goinga be a top download for me and i plan on doing some seeding for it since i won't be home for till friday night after i leave today.
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May 2005
Welcome to the
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Family and Polymer Clay discussion group!
May 2005
Hi Syndee and thanks,
This looks like great fun.
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What is your favorite way to use
Pearl Ex
on clay?
July 2005
I am still kinda new to polymer clay. I like to use the pearl ex on everything and any thing I can get away with. I love the shine.
July 2005
Maybe someone can help answer this for me. I finally splurged and bought the pearl ex to use on polymer clay! I put some on before I baked it. But when it was done baking, the pearl ex would rub off when I touched it. Not good for the beads I was making. This is my first time using the pearl ex. Am I doing something wrong?
July 2005
You need to put a finish on the exposed pearl ex.
* future floor wax (cheapest way)
* an acrylic based polyurathane (min wax has one)
* before baking or after make a THIN sheet of premo bleached transluscent
* use KATO liquid medium to make a nice matte sheen that is ready to wear right from the oven!
* mix with kato liquid medium first and use as a "paint" - my personal fav.
As a side note - don't be impatient and start touching your pearlex until the piece is cooled.
Good luck -
February 2006
morning. I'm doing the same thing with pearl x and clay beads. One thing i've discovered is to let the piece cool completely. Some of the colors you can buff a little bit. I worked with the interference violet the other day and was surprised by how much i could buff the piece. Then I applied Fimo Decorating Gel and rebaked them. This worked ok, but the gel is really much to thick. It tends to move the pigment around alot, and is a real pain to put on.
im going to try the Pearl-ex varnish, if i can find it. what i would really like is a nice bright gloss finish.
April 2006
Hi, I noted that you put Varathane on the pieces. I have a couple of questions. I am very new to using mica powders on unbaked clay. I have mixed them into small amounts of varnish in the past with success.
I made some beautiful molded earrings and used mica powder like Pearl Ex on the unbaked parts to bring out the details. When I went to varnish them, using a small soft brush, some of the powder came off of the higher areas as I put on the clear varnish. The black clay showed through, leaving them dull. It was very disappointing.
I did not have the Pearl Ex varnish, just a regular poly clay varnish.
Maybe the clay was not soft enough when I molded it? Maybe I did not use a heavy enough coating of the powder before baking?
Here are my questions.
1. Did you use a brush to apply the varathane to the baked pieces?
2. Did any of the pearl ex powder come off when you brushed on the varnish?
Any suggestions for future use of pearl ex and varnish?
Thanks so much for any directions and or tips you can offer.
Penni Jo
May 2007
Hi Penni_Jo
You can mix the
Pearl Ex
directly into the
(or any other clear medium), creating your own transparent paint for use on baked clay.
May 2007
Yes, you can mix Pearl Ex into varnish. For heavy coverage, I put a drop or two of varnish on a tile and add a bit of powder to it. I have discovered that it is best to make only what you need for a project. I've not had much luck storing small amounts of premixed pearl colors.
I hope this helps. We are having a ball making pretty, irridescent projects.
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May 2007
So sorry, My dyslexia kicked in, I thought you were asking if the powders could be mixed into the varnish!!
My reply should have been, Thank you very much.
My humblest apologies.
Penni Jo.
May 2007
No worries!:)
Glad to hear you're having fun with the product! How about posting some of your pretty irridescent goodies in the 'Show off' section?
May 2007
Thanks, I appreciate your patience.
'Had not thought about posting some pics of my pearl ex pretties. Will try to do that. We just finished both the CHA Show in Anaheim and the NAMTA (National Art Materials Trade Association) Show in Chicago.
As soon as everything settles down, I will post some more things.
A year ago last January, a salesman in the Pearl Ex Booth at the CHA show in Vegas gave me the first little samples of the powders. Boy, did he light up my world!! The Garden Goddess tuna can was just the beginning.
I saw the Pearl Ex booth at the NAMTA Show and stopped by to thank them again for the samples.
Having fun in Oklahoma,
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May 2007
Hi Noelle,
It has been quite awhile since I posted the pictures of the Garden Goddess tuna box. I have a .jpg of a pair of earrings that I would love to post but I can't seem to remember how I did it the last time.
Can you please tell me how to post the earring picture in the Show Off section?
Thanks so much.
Penni Jo
Linda Jo
January 2008
Boy did I find this forum late, huh? I came here today to see if the two materials could be mixed prior to baking. Not. What happens is the color of the Pearlex remains, but the irridescence disappears.
I have also been looking for Pearl foil, mentioned in a polymer clay book, and that Stampendous was recommended. They must have stopped making it. I was going to try the 'recipe' to make rose opals. It sure is pretty in the book!
I am baking some beads right now that I layered with clay, liquid sculpey, then the Pearlex, about ten layers, then sliced. Mokume gane. We shall see.
March 2009
I was wondering if you can use the KATO liquid medium AFTER the polymer clay and pearl ex have been baked together? Sort of as a sealer?
March 2009
Has anyone figured out how to seal pearl ex and sculpey? I baked my sculpey with the pearl ex dusted on it and it's rubbing off on my hands. I figure it needs to be sealed but am not sure which is the best sealer for polymer clay?
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GearNuke: "When the DualShock 4 was originally unveiled, complaints were thrown around on how its Light bar can reflect in the TV screen and how it glows in the dark. The Light bar was also blamed to result in a rather short DualShock 4 battery life. This annoyed some of the people and a set of complaints started. Sony outright slammed the possibility of disabling Light bar but seems like dimming it might be a better alternative solution."
Turn off if not used is the best solution unless you give us a really trustworthy and logical reason why it has to be turned on all the time.
I wouldn't care because I do not have that problem but a friend of mine is really pissed and things start to sum up. Her PS4 is very very loud, game crashes, etc... and now she is gone to X1 camp and will stay there because she thinks its the better system overall despite of the non user friendly UI. One friend less to play with...
Maybe your "friend" should have returned the ps4 for a working one, because i now know in my local area 42 ppl with a ps4 and none of those have been loud or crashing in games a lot , it could probably be all because of a faulty console, like the fans are loud because the systems not cooling enough and that would also probably make games crash.
"know in my local area 42 ppl with a ps4 and none of those have been loud or crashing in games a lot , it could probably be all because of a faulty console,"
Do they actually USE the console? I only ask, because simpler games like Don't Starve and Resogun don't make a sound, but if I load Killzone, then the fans go off and it is quite loud.
Says a lot about the quality of your consol when the highest problem it has is an annoying little light bar.
personally the light bar has never really effected me because I sit pretty far from the TV, but I do hate how it glows when charging while I'm trying to sleep.
Walter exactly. I was about to ask if this game happened to be BF4.
Well, to be honest, I would LOVE to turn off that light bar. It'd be nice to have that option. I want to save the battery as much as possible even though, it's only LED. I have turned off that little speaker on the DS4 and have also turned off Vibration (never really cared about Rumble that much) yet the battery still sucks compared to the rock solid, long lasting DS3 battery.
Lastly, the one that that I am VERY annoyed is the bluetooth headset support.
Seriously, this is messed up. I really REALLY want to use my PS3 wireless headset (not the Pulse but the first one). I want my virtual 7.1 surround sound man. It makes one hell of a difference when you are playing games like Battlefield. Plus, the comfort level is sky high compared to my Galaxy S4 stereo headphones.
@NighmareLuffy I get the feeling you are trolling, your friend could have got a replacement but instead she moved to X1 which has a wider range of reported potential technical problems
I agree. I told her to send the console back because Amazon is offering a great service but she is the type that gets frustrated very fast. And because she always buy all consoles she got the choice which one her primary console will be.
"Says a lot about the quality of your consol when the highest problem it has is an annoying little light bar. "
I think it is more a case of it being so annoying it overshadows everything else.
I really don't understand the point of this lightbar thing. Just turn it off, or is it not possible?
Maybe Sony didn't plan on it every being turned off, because they originallyl envisioned the PS Eye included with every PS4.
I'd like to turn it off. For now I have it covered with duct tape.
My PS4 is whisper quite even after several hours playing KZ:SF and a room with a temp of around 70 degrees.
Perhaps those that complain about a loud PS4 fan are either exaggerating, got an unlucky console, have their PS4 sealed up in an entertainment system with no airflow and/or they live in very hot areas.
the only problem i have with my ps4 is when i flip to a different hdmi setting to watch cable or use my ps3 while something is downloading on my ps4 or something and then try to go back to the hdmi setting that is connected to the ps4. i get a black screen with no sound i have to turn off the ps4 and turn it back on and then it will be fine but i can't turn on the ps4 while watching cable then turn to that hdmi setting. Only a minor annoyance. I mean it could also be my tv because the ps4 is such powerful machine or something i have no idea why it does that. i was just wondering if someone else has this problem? or knows how i can fix it! :)
Cool story bro, hopefully her imaginary PS4 has a guaranty
You mean his imaginary friend's imaginary PS4
i dont know, if i bought a ps4 and it made all these problems, i would of move to xbox 1 aswell
after thinking about it while typing this.. NO I WOULDNT. its not enough to change to a difference console.
At the gamestop I worked at, I had a lady return 2 xboxes in ONE day. I was like, when do you give up? I mean they were readily available without shipping, I guess.
I've only seen one ps4 come back.
Your friend must have had a super defective PS+ if she was having constant game crashes and it was loud enough to make her complain about it. Your friend should have used this thing we call a "warranty".
We'll I hope your friend enjoys your xbox. She won't be missed
She's trippin, me and everyone else i know have no issues with the ps4, the only time i experience crashes is when i played BF4, and she said the PS4 is too loud? She must have had that system next to her head.
Well that sounds completely made up. Nice try though.
My PS4 is perfect. Haven't had a single game crash and it has been as quiet as my PS3 Slim.
I'm not sure if it's just my os4 but by the sounds of it, it just is, but sometimes when there's quite a demanding game on screen you can here the fans, thoughts people?
At first when I heard it I got a bit worried but after a while I've got used to it. At least I've got a warranty if anything f*!ks up
I'm with you.
I actually have had a game crash (BF4 obviously) but that hasn't happened since the first week I got my PS4. 100% smooth sailing for the last few months.
I am still pleasantly surprised at how quiet the console is. I never hear the fan no matter what game I'm playing.
@nightmare - ah yes the fully returnable ps4 under warranty is a huge issue but when people's 36o crashed 2-5 times they were loyal xbox camp huh? By that logic 50 percent of 360 owners would have switched within 2 years
she switched from X360 to PS3 because her X360 died several times. She always buy all consoles. She is truly a console freak XD
but now it turned around. Nothing I can do. She is like that.
@Bennibop My friend is like that. She always buy all consoles and was too frustrated because the Killzone bundle send by amazon was delayed and then she got a faulty machine over christmas. She always enjoys the console she feel most comfortable with.
For me it is the PS4 despite missing features. I was always a playstation child (not Sony even if its a sony brand) but I respect other opinions, too. She was just unlucky and now she plays X1. There are people like that who get frustrated very quickly. Nothing to do about that.
she had the killzone bundle with CoD and BF4.
All crashed at some point.
I assume it was because of a faulty machine (known fan problem). I don't know if she is going to return it for another one. She does not care about PS4 anymore. In our company three ppl including me preordered a PS4. Two got problems with the fan / cooling system. I'm the only one who got lucky XD
It's sad to read that ppl always assume bashing of a console and madeup storys. If you like you can visit us here in Germany and convince yourself of the problem. She got no problem with that at all.
I just tell how it is. Sadly truth can hurt sometimes.
Lol, I usually don't respond but when it comes to expert trolling... you're doing it right! Congrats, now beat it. Says me, the internet bully.
Guys guys guys guys, why do you feel so threatened by what luffy is saying. I can not believe the time wasted on this comment whether what he is saying is true or not. He is being very polite and even somewhat believable. If you think he is lying then ignore him and move on.
Cause this is a article about the led on the controller. He felt the reason to tell us his story that has no bearing on the article. His own fault for getting flogged.
My PS4 is completely silent and hasn't crashed once since I bought it (admittedly I don't own battlefield though).
Depending on how its circuit is designed, it could well be impossible to turn off the LED. It doesn't cause a problem for me personally however.
Also it's possible dimming it won't do much to extend the battery life if it is dimmed via PWM.
And the light itself doesn't bother me either, but I would like to know how much current it's drawing. If it's less than 50mA then turning it off completely would only give a few extra minuets of battery power. However if its sucking 100-150mA of juice, then it is a significant draw on the battery.
@NightmareLuffy, Do you realize how much power the LED light actually uses? Not to mention how small the module actually is? There's a reason why LED lights are now so much popular.. They BARELY take up ANY power, but broadcast a bright light. I do soldering all the time, and I took a look at the PS4s... Turning it off won't make a difference...
but why can't we have the simple option to turn it off if we want? I can turn the LED notifications on my phone on or off, I can even change the colors to signify different events. I don't have the PS4 camera, I don't have two controllers, so why in the hell do I need to have a light on the top of my controller on?
When I play Killzone it changes color to indicate my health, thanks. I can see how close I am to dying by looking at the TV, not my controller..
The light requires power, whether it's a little or a lot shouldn't matter. It IS affecting the battery, regardless if it isn't as much as some people like to believe. Having the option to turn it off would do nothing but improve the battery life, even if it was only mere minutes..
Of course putting in a larger battery is a better solution.. but that's a different story.
If things are so bad that you need a couple of extra minutes from a controller, you have issues.
Maybe they have the light on, so they it shows you that the controller is on... I feel your battery argument is invalid because it uses BARELY any power... If anything, it shortens the battery life by 20 seconds... It's not worth the time or money to hire programmers, for hours, to create an option on the PS4 to turn it off the light. Because then, they have to spend a butt load of money to press it as an update.
Wow. What a dim view she has of the PS4. She will get diminishing returns from an Xbox1. I bet you think she's a dim whit now. Really sorry for the bad puns
i have played 4 disk based games so far. madden, battlefield, ac4 and killzone. killzone is the only one that is really loud for me not sure why. my ps4 is in an open entertainment center. well ventilated and its level not wobbling.
kz sounds like the disk is shaking inside the drive though. but i put movies and other games in and it dont do that. and the killzone disk looks fine. no distortions, warps or scratches.
Dim is a good option.. NOT completely turned off. I would assume you need it for in-game health, battery indicator, Player location and assignment? It's not all that bad really. I say dim instead of completely off. If they turn it off some of the options I mentioned might no lover be supported by devs…. E.g health, notification etc…
My thoughts….
Am I the only one that doesn't have a problem with the light bar?
Its not so much the light bar bothering you while you play. Its draining the battery when honestly it should be able to be turned off.
I don't know but u could've sworn the battery lasted me 4 hours without the cable I too think they should address this issue ;)
Is the battery time really an issue though?
Who has the time/patience to play for 8-10 hours straight?
agreed. I don't think its the light bar that bothers ppl. even the 360 controller has a green light coming straight at ur eyes, and the x1 has white light coming straight at ur eyes while holding it.
its the battery I think should be the main concern here.
When I have plenty of weed and free time, I've been known to put in up to 18hrs a day for a couple of weeks. Red Dead Redemption, Fallout, Gran Turismo and Skyrim (amongst others) have all received this degree of attention in the past.
There's one thing that no one can deny; which is having the choice is always better.
I dont have a problem either. I think the complaint is dumb. You cant see the lightbar when your playing a game off the screen its not that bright. In the dark its actually quite useful as it helps me see my controllers lol... I do admit it is kinda useless in terms of gameplay is concerned with the light flashing etc or changing colors but it also doesn't impede my experience in anyway whatsoever. Its LED so it doesnt drain the battery if anything the audio and rumble does.
I am sure they will add a feature to change colors to whatever you want later and a turn off, but its definitely at the bottom of the list in functions/features they should be focusing on.
Thats where people get confused my tv stand is small so the bottom of the tv is right at my knees usually where I hold the controller & it is bright enough to shine off my plasma
I don't have a problem with it either
People will just always have something to complain about
If you give them the option to turn it off someone will cry about not been able to change the color when they want
Give them that and they'll cry over something else
stop crying about people wanting to cry.. :P
I have no problems with the light bar but then again, i dont play in the dark ever, i also dont have any problem with the controllers battery life, i charge it around the same amount as i charged my ps3 controller which was about once every 3 days or so.
I forget it's there until an article reminds me it is. I suppose it's the same as when some people complain they can hear a dog barking all night while other just don't hear it because they're not listening for it.
No problem here either.
for me it also helps finding it and it also looks cool when someone is holding it
I actually live it, when I'm playing Killzone I'd put something bright infront of the controller so I can see the colours better of what my health is in the corner of my eye and I don't rally need to take my eyes of a game
@minimur12 - so you rely on the color on your controller to tell you about your health? Not the fact that the red colors start creeping into the corners of the screen and start filling it up as you get closer to death?
I don't have a problem with it. I doubt its the light. LEDs really don't use much power, and the battery in the DS4 is more than double that of the DS3s. More likely the speaker, chat or maybe even touchpad are reason for battery life.
That said. Controllers do charge up faster to make up for it.
What I'd like sony to do is allow for DS4 sounds to be output to main speakers in firmware, so that I can game in complete silence with my headset late at night.
Why don't you just make it so the sound all comes through ur head set that you plug in to the controller when you play at night that works really well.
No sir you are not...
Dont understand what the fuss is about(apart from the batery drain)it dosen´t bother me one bit.just place your hands in a donwward position.
People complain to much and don´t even try to find solutions for their "problems"
I don't have a problem with it. Actually in my opinion the DS4 is the best controller ever.
Actually I personally love the light.
I am currently using my PS4 for netflix now.... and one thing that is bothering me is there is no BD remote for the dam thing!
I have to wait till my DS shuts off by itself without pulling up the submenu.
Yeah, same. I tried to turn off the controller manually but that didn't work. I don't really have a problem with it when I'm playing games though.
Here's a trick!
Hold the PS button.
Hit circle to exit back out the menu.
Hit X to continue whatever you were watching.
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The expression dates back to at least the early part of the 17th century. Two different playwrights of that period used it. Thomas Dekkar included it in his play: "Patient Grissel," in 1603 as follows: "FAR: Asking for some Greek poet, to him he fails. I'll be sworn he knows not so much as one character of the tongue." RIC: "Why, then its Greek to him."
IT WAS LATER used by Shakespeare in "Julius Caesar in 16:16. He has CASSIUS saying: "Did Cicero say anything?" To which CASCA responded: "Ay, he spoke Greek." CASSIUS then ask: "To what effect?" CASCA answered: "Nay, an I tell you that, I'll ne'er look you in the face again: but those that understood him smiled at one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me."
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The Valley Library at OSU - Wikimedia CommonsOregon State University (OSU) is helping faculty produce their own open access textbooks for courses. The university press, an arm of the OSU libraries, is starting work on a series of open access e-textbooks that officials hope will ease the rising textbook costs that are a consistent cause of student complaints. To make the etextbook program work, the library and press are partnering with OSU's Ecampus program, which administers distance and online learning programs for the college. OSU library director Faye Chadwell, whose background is in collections management, said the collaboration gives libraries a new way to help students with the cost of textbooks, and one that is meaningful compared to offering books on reserve, a "drop in the bucket" solution that she said doesn't scale effectively to meet demand. "I'm used to student groups coming in and asking if we can help with the cost of books," Chadwell told Library Journal. "Now that we're in a position where libraries have begun to look at the possibility of publishing services, and especially when you have a press present in the library, we can do more." Depending on the subject, students could save anywhere from $50 to $250 by using an open access etextbook instead of a traditional print one. Chadwell also pointed out that the new texts are designed with modularity in mind, noting that students are regularly required to purchase textbooks for a course only to learn they will only read a chapter or two during the class. To bring the project to fruition, Chadwell and the OSU library took advantage of the tech savvy of their partners in the Ecampus program to take advantage of the electronic format to make these new textbooks more than just traditional tomes. The ebook format not only gave OSU a chance to make ebooks that were well suited for students in the university's distance learning programs, but also let them go beyond simply text and words, bringing to bear interactive elements. As a proof of concept, the collaboration started with an existing textbook, OSU geology professor Robert S. Yeats' Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest. Yeats, who was already working on an update to the book, allowed OSU press and Ecampus to use the book as a prototype for the program, expanding on the content and making it more interactive. "This gives us opportunity to add animation and new media, and earthquakes make for good visual possibilities, said OSU Ecampus director of emerging technologies Dianna Fisher. "It gave us the opportunity to replace some stills and charts with interactive multimedia." The etextbook edition of Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest will be available later this spring, with further offerings on topics like biochemistry and animal husbandry to follow in the fall. The new etextbooks will be authored by OSU faculty, and Chadwell points out that many are already using the content that will become new textbooks in their classes. Faculty won't receive royalties on the books, aside from the possibility of some small fees for print-on-demand copies of the works, meaning Yeats has relinquished his royalties on the newest edition of Living with Earthquakes, which is used in courses not only at OSU, but in universities across the region. Of course, even without printing costs, creating new textbooks isn't free. Taken together with the fact that the etextbooks won't generate any money for the university that means the program will have to be picky about how many options it offers. "We can't do hundreds of new textbooks, but we can contribute in areas that make sense to OSU," said Chadwell, who hopes to eventually see the OSU published etextbooks follow the Living with Earthquakes models and be used in other universities, as well. "The press can come in and say 'This would be a good textbook because we can market it as something unique.'" Only time will tell if even that model is sustainable, but Chadwell said she would be open to looking at consortium models of publishing these etextbooks, especially considering neighboring Washington and California are already providing state money to colleges and universities in the interest of producing more open access texts. She's also hopeful that the program could reach outside of the realms of higher education. "You don't have to be studying geology," Chadwell said of Living with Earthquakes. "It will be interesting to people living in the northwest, and that supports our land grant mission of pushing information out to the general public."
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The Three Amigos said their goodbyes and left Leinster with not one but two crowns to remember them by at the RDS on Saturday night.
The 24-18 win over Ulster in the Rabo 12 final came just over a week after their Amlin Cup success, a fitting farewell for coach Joe Schmidt, out-half Jonathon Sexton and winger Isa Nacewa.
All three are off on very differing paths in the coming weeks. All three will grace the Leinster set-up only as visitors in the weeks and months ahead.
Sexton will spend the next six weeks on tour with the Lions in Australia before reporting for duty as Racing Metro's star signing in Paris.
Schmidt will enjoy a watching brief when Ireland tour North America and Canada next month before assuming the role of Declan Kidney's successor as national coach at the start of July.
Nacewa is heading home to New Zealand after a lucrative spell with the Blues on and off the field, a spell that finally saw them lift the Celtic League title at the third time of asking with their derby day win over Ulster.
The men from the North may have topped the table when the league came to a conclusion, but Leinster won the final thanks to tries from Shane Jennings and Jamie Heaslip either side of halftime and 14 points from the boot of the departing Sexton.
Ulster offered parity at times but failed to cross the Leinster line, their points all coming from kicker Ruan Pienaar from six penalties.
For Sexton, the win was sweet as he prepares to leave the only club environment he has ever known. And he knows he leaves the club in good hands.
Sexton said, "It's a two way process. The good thing about Leinster over the last few years is we have replaced everyone that's left.
"You know Rocky Elsom left, Kevin McLaughlin and Sean O'Brien came in. Brad Thorn left, Devin Toner has come in and filled his boots.
"I'm sure guys will come in and fill the spot I've had for the last few years. It's a two-way thing. They'll have to want me back. Obviously, this is a very special place. I love this place.
"I'm sure if I was dealing with them alone, I think they rate me. Listen, like I said, it's a big adventure for me for however many years I'm there.
"Maybe I'll be back some day, maybe not, maybe Leinster will go on ahead and win another couple of Heineken Cup trophies and a couple of Rabos, you just don't know."
His farewell match was a special win for Sexton, better even than the three Heineken Cups he has won with the province.
He added, "I am just so happy we won. I think it felt even better than winning a Heineken Cup because to lose four in a row would have been unthinkable. I don't know what we would have done.
"Thankfully, we dogged it out and to get the win covers up a bit of the emotion. Joe spoke about not making this emotional for the week. You know we have to play well.
"Then he turned up and gave a pre-match speech. I think he had a bit of a lump in his throat so I think we got a little bit emotional all of us but we started the game pretty well and that told because they had a lot of emotion for obvious reasons.
"We were aware of that. Maybe they'll learn a lesson. They struggled in the first 10 minutes and that was the game really. In a final that is massive."
Nacewa also leaves on a high.
"It's the best way to go out. I've been here for five years now and for my last game to be a winning one like this in the RDS with Leo and the lads is pretty special," he said.
"The PRO 12 is a tough competition and there's been a bitter taste in our mouths for the last two summers but we'll cherish this one. That team will never play together again but at least we finished on a high."
Schmidt leaves Leinster with two Heineken Cups, one Amlin Cup and now one Rabo Pro 12 League in the trophy cabinet, but his over-riding feeling on Thursday was one of tiredness.
"I'm just fatigued! I'm just washed out! It would be great to look back over the summer and enjoy a moment of reflection, but I'm already looking ahead," he said.
"I've been here three years and I'm six years older! It was a pretty nerve-wracking way to go out. It's phenomenal now to have these trophies in the changing room at the moment. It was a great achievement to win the Amlin Cup and now the Rabo Pro 12 which I think is a great competition."


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Models abound that analyze changes in credit quality. These models are designed to determine the reserves and capital needed to support the risks of individual credits as well as portfolios of credit instruments. Historical information on the transition of credit exposures from one quality level, or rating, to another is often used to estimate models that describe the probabilistic evolution of credit quality. A popular specification is the simple, time-homogeneous Markov model. While the Markov specification cannot describe credit processes in the long run, it may be useful for describing short-run changes in portfolio risk. In this convenient specification, the entire stochastic process can be characterized in terms of estimated transition probabilities. However, the simple homogeneous Markovian transition framework is restrictive. We propose a simple test of the null hypotheses of time-homogeneity that can be performed on the sorts of data often reported. The test is applied to data sets on municipal bonds, commercial paper, and sovereign debt. We find that municipal bond ratings transitions are adequately described by the Markov model for up to five years, that commercial paper on a 30-day transition scale seems Markovian up to six months (the extent of the available data), and that the transitions of sovereign debt ratings are adequately described by the Markov model (a result that may derive from the limited data of small sample sizes).
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Today I get an email from the op that the website is up, and thanks for the photos. I go to the website and they have 12 of my photos displayed. Turns out the son has taken the liberty of using photos he found on my website in addition to the photos I provided. Now, I'm flattered that they liked my photos. However, the extra photos they chose are not good photos (nothwithstanding that they were used without my permission). My website was created originally to share my diving adventures with my friends & family, so it contains my progression (read crappy pics) along with the more recent better photos.
I've already emailed the op politely asking him to remove the extra photos because they're not my best work. I don't want to be rude because I need the exposure, but I have issues with the fact that they took extra photos without my permission. I even told the son when I provided the original 6 pics that if he wanted more, I would provide him with more photos! I am pissed off that someone would do this.
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"Advanced Osteoarthritis of the knee is now being treated with regenerative medicine at The Center for Regenerative Medicine," according to A.J. Farshchian MD an orthopedic regenerative practitioner at the center for regenerative medicine.
The signs and symptoms of osteoarthritis vary from individual to individual. But the main symptoms associated with osteoarthritis are stiffness and pain. Typically, stiffness is worse in the morning mostly lasting less than 15 to 30 minutes, and subsiding after resting: moving the joint for a few minutes can help shake off the stiffness often associated with osteoarthritis. Joint pain also may be severe after exercising and at the end of the day.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Mar 2012 22:06 UTC
"If you download potentially copyrighted software, videos or music, your Internet service provider has been watching, and they're coming for you. Specifically, they're coming for you on Thursday, July 12. That's the date when the nation's largest ISPs will all voluntarily implement a new anti-piracy plan that will engage network operators in the largest digital spying scheme in history, and see some users' bandwidth completely cut off until they sign an agreement saying they will not download copyrighted materials." One day, years from now, historians are going to debate whether this was the point of no return.
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RE: Kill piracy, kill copyright revenues.As simple as that.
by DOSguy on Fri 16th Mar 2012 12:40 UTC in reply to "Kill piracy, kill copyright revenues.As simple as that."
This will be fun. Companies that sell copyrighted material will see their revenues drop.
That could very well be the case, but I think you know that if that where to happen, it would be blamed on piracy again. This will open the doors to further internet regulations, and maybe eventually some kind of nation/world-wide piracy tax.
Unfortunately, this kind of changes are inevitable as long as big content reigns supreme. They haven't learned from their mistakes before, and they will not learn now. They have to die, or we will have to succumb. It is as simple as that.
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By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News
Gene Sperling, the director of President Barack Obama's National Economic Council, said Sunday that Obama is offering congressional Republicans "a grand bargain on jobs. He has said he would be willing to do corporate tax reform that lowers rates to 28 percent, simplifies taxes for small businesses, but do it together with a major infrastructure investment."
In his budget proposal last year, Obama called for $50 billion in additional short-term federal spending on infrastructure projects such as bridges, highways, and mass transit systems, as well as creation of a National Infrastructure Bank to make loans to such projects.
"The economy is improving" and "we've had a lot of momentum," Sperling said on NBC's Meet the Press, but there are still "people who are desperately looking for work." He said, "We have to admit – and we do admit -- that the worst legacy of this great recession is the crisis of long-term unemployment."
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of long-term unemployed, those who are jobless for 27 weeks or more, stood at 4.1 million in November. They accounted for nearly 40 percent of all the unemployed.
Sperling argued that there's still a need for the emergency unemployment benefits program which President George W. Bush signed into law in the summer of 2008.
The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on a proposed three-month extension of the Bush Era emergency unemployment benefits program. The Emergency Unemployment Compensation program covers jobless people who have exhausted their benefits under their state's regular unemployment benefits program.
Sperling rebuffed Republican calls for spending cuts to offset the cost of extending the benefits program. "All five times that President Bush extended unemployment benefits there were no 'pay-fors,'" he told NBC's David Gregory.
He said a three-month extension of the emergency program would open the way for extending it for the remainder of 2014. "If you don't extend it for the rest of the year, it's going to affect really 14 million Americans," Sperling said.
Appearing alongside Sperling, Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money, said Congress must extend the unemployment benefits program, but added, "My problem is: How does it create highly trained workers? How does it create jobs that are highly skilled, that pay a lot?"
For the long-term unemployed, Cramer said, "the question is: how do we get these people to where the jobs are? Why are we not being more focused on not just upward mobility, but on mobility to where the booms are in this country – and there are booms."
Cramer said an increase in the federal minimum wage, which Obama supports, and an extension of emergency unemployment benefits "do not do anything" to get unemployed people to relocate to states which have labor shortages.
"What's being done to get people to Louisiana, to Texas, to Ohio, to North Dakota, to Pennsylvania, to New Mexico, to Montana? These are states that need workers but no one is helping them (the unemployed) get there."
Cramer also noted that "the dogma is now, post-Clinton, pro-immigration, at a time when we have a much larger supply of labor than we need." He asked, "Why don't we care more about our people?"
Appearing on ABC's This Week, Sen. Rand Paul, R - Ky., said Sunday, "What is really cruel is to have an economy that doesn't have jobs in it, so we have to talk about what policy creates jobs. With regard to unemployment insurance, I have always said that I'm not opposed to unemployment insurance; I am opposed to having it without paying for it. I think it's wrong to borrow money from China or simply to print up money for it, but I'm not against having unemployment insurance."
But he argued that long-term unemployment benefits create a disincentive to work. "We have to figure out how to create jobs and keep people from becoming long-term unemployed. That's why I've promoted the economy freedom zones, which would dramatically lower taxes in areas where there is long-term unemployment."


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UNITAR Enhances Delegates' Skills in Negotiating, Drafting and Adopting United Nations Resolutions [1]
18 and 19 November 2013, Geneva, Switzerland - Twenty participants gathered in the International Environment House in Chatelaine with the purpose of gaining insight into the decision-making processes that take place across different bodies of the United Nations.
Delegates from Member States of the United Nations have the responsibility to suggest, discuss, draft, negotiate and adopt resolutions at the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Resolutions are considered to be "formal expressions of the opinion or will of United Nations organs", and address substantial matters, with the ultimate aim of contributing to the achievement of the United Nations' objectives as a whole.
To enable the participants to achieve their goal of contributing to these negotiations in a more impactful way, the Multilateral Diplomacy Programme of UNITAR organized a two-day workshop aimed at familiarizing participants with the structure and the process leading to the adoption of United Nations resolutions. This workshop allowed participants to detect many issues that can come into play in the drafting and negotiation phases.
The Core Diplomatic Training organized by UNITAR was divided into two segments. The first day covered the structure and numbering of United Nations documents, with an emphasis on resolutions, while the second day shed light on the negotiation and adoption processes in the three relevant United Nations organs. Participants were provided with two full afternoons to put what they learned to the test, and complete practical exercises on drafting and negotiating resolutions.
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