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Saturday, 6 June 2009
Wet and cold (updated)
Just look at those youngsters...bedraggled or what! Thanks to Roger Sharp for the photo capture. At 10.30am one of the adults sat, soaked through, in a stony alcove high above the nest site. It was so wet that it was impossible to see its features, let alone determine its gender!
To try and make up for no Watchpoint, here's a video clip from early yesterday morning before all the rain started. Many of us have seen how both parents and juveniles can turn their backs to eject a stream of waste matter away from the nest site, but this clip shows an interesting variation on the same theme! Note, too, the flurry of white feather from the nest as wings are flapped.
Here are some recent screen-captures of our four, sometimes rather bedraggled, young peregrines taken this weekend 6th/7th June 2009:
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Welcome to your first British "summer" little peregrines! Poor things, they don't look like happy chappies, and neither would I. Sadly, I don't think the weather forecast offers much prospect of a quick improvement - so we all have to sit it out a bit longer. BBC weatger for Derby is a mix of "heavy rain" and "light rain" over the next 4 days ..... Where did the sun go??
- 6 June 2009 at 09:54
- Joy said...
Can only see 3 has one fledged?
- 6 June 2009 at 10:02
Saturday Watchpoint
Still raining in Derby so we don't think it's worthwhile starting the watchpoint at the usual time.
If (and only if) the weather clears up this afternoon (Met Office forecast suggests showers!), we'll pop down with the telescope but it probably won't be a fully equipped session
- 6 June 2009 at 10:05
@ Joy
I think the smallest juvenile is tucked in behind the two in the RH side where it is being protected by the bigger ones.
@ Any and Chris
If the weather does clear up I may well come to the WP later.
- 6 June 2009 at 10:12
Has anyone seen a feed today? I saw a Sparrowhawk in my garden this morning, soaking wet but with prey in its talons!
- 6 June 2009 at 11:16
- Phoebe said...
Sorry that was me posting the above.
- 6 June 2009 at 11:17
I was hoping to come down to the watchpoint today, I may still come down even if it's not going ahead. Must remember my binos!
- 6 June 2009 at 11:43
@Phil in Notts - and don't forget your brolly either!
If anyone turns up for the WP, look out for my brother John and tell him I said "sorry about the weather"
- 6 June 2009 at 11:49
Our birds keep practising their wings. I've got one or two images uploaded to Flickr. Jennie, HK.
- 6 June 2009 at 12:18
- Phoebe said...
Lunchtime for the family...
- 6 June 2009 at 12:30
- Phoebe said...
That was a good long feed with mum having her share at the scrape. The youngsters are looking up toward the pudding cam so maybe mum is up there.
- 6 June 2009 at 13:07
- Phoebe said...
Mum's back with more food!
- 6 June 2009 at 13:29
- Phoebe said...
Look at that youngster sleeping with its head tucked under its wing - now how grown up is that?
- 6 June 2009 at 14:45
- Phoebe said...
I have been watching the scrape and there is one, looks like the least developed seems not to be moving about very much at all for quite a while, I hope s/he has not got too cold and wet with the rain - it does concern me somewhat!
Anyone else noticed this?
- 6 June 2009 at 15:34
- Terry, Herts UK said...
Nothing to worry about Phoebe. Underneath their waterproof, juvenile feathers, they are are warm and dry :)
- 6 June 2009 at 16:09
Pax Canada
mum and dad on the pudding cam, the chicks huddled together looking a bit bedraggled.
- 6 June 2009 at 17:35
- Phoebe said...
Just watched the new video what clever birds they are, that one must be a female ;-D (wink)
- 6 June 2009 at 18:35
Great video clip team. Thanks for posting it. Hope your weather improves. I think the first flight will be very soon. Hope we can catch it. I also have noticed one bird that tends to laze around a lot. I was quite concerned one day as it did not move for ages and it looked like one of the others was poking at it I feared maybe eating it. However my fears were calmed after a while. Hopefully we can see more video as we miss the live feed this year.Miss the sound of those bells too.
- 6 June 2009 at 19:26
Seeing the video clip made me realise how much you miss with the webcam (great though it is!). But seeing the chicks moving about, exercising their wings, preening, interacting with each other and not to mention their toilet habits is wonderful. They are proper little Peregrines now aren't they?
Thanks for that ....
- 6 June 2009 at 19:45
- Phoebe said...
@ Ann,
I too was concerned about one juvenile though I did see it move about after half an hour. Looking at the cam now the same one still seems very lethargic, I can't remember seeing it having much food today - also I wonder if it has eaten something like bone and finding it hard to digest, I am still concerned about it.
- 6 June 2009 at 19:53
- Roger (AT) said...
Great video clip:
I especially liked the bit near the end when one youngster found something edible and smuggled it away into a corner.
They do lots of flapping, but not much in the way of vertical lift flights. I saw a film of albatross chicks fledging, and they did lots of "hover" flights before the actually flew any distance.
- 6 June 2009 at 20:00
- Roger (AT) said...
It seems that the parents both had a successful hunt. The falcon is feeding the youngsters (only 1 is showing much interest at the moment). Correction - they seem to be taking it in very orderly turns. "Fluffy" is being fed now.
The Tiercel appeared to have something smaller, up by the pudding cam - unless he was feeding on scraps from the dressing.
- 6 June 2009 at 21:03
- Joy said...
Brilliant video clip. Keep up the good work
- 6 June 2009 at 23:50
- Roger (AT) said...
Lots of wing flapping and jumping about this morning. Could today be THE day for a maiden flight?
It is dry now, but the rainclouds are moving in again.
- 7 June 2009 at 05:20
- Roger (AT) said...
So .. Mum introduced a new step in the training ladder just now.
The falcon arrived at the scrape with yesterdays carcass, dumped it in the middle of them, and cluttered off.
DIY feeding now!
- 7 June 2009 at 06:11
- Karen Anne said...
Four still there, I was almost expecting to see one fledged when I started watching today.
Is it a rainy, foggy day? Kind of looks like it. Have past years' chicks fledged in that kind of weather?
- 7 June 2009 at 08:05
I've just logged on glad to see all four still there, I doubt they would fledge in the rain.
@ Karen
It is not foggy just raining.
- 7 June 2009 at 09:08
In Derby itself we have just had a tremendous thunderstorm with hailstones so I doubt if the birds will think of anything better to do today other than huddle in the corners of the platform.
- 7 June 2009 at 09:18
Two pix on flickr of last night catch and this mornings breakfast arriving.
- 7 June 2009 at 09:27
- wayne1984 said...
i still stand by my prediction of the 10th for the maiden flights and is looking like i may well be rightthe way things are going.
- 7 June 2009 at 11:00
They are not ready to fly just yet and the weather isn't helping too much but looking at the Worcester juveniles they are older than ours and they haven't fledged yet. I am hoping to see some attempts on Wednesday when I hope to be at the Green. I think Colin also said on a previous post that the 10th at the earliest for #11 when he photgraghed it. They will not go until the time is right, let us hope all goes well for them. |I will be there to help if needed.
- 7 June 2009 at 11:08
@Wayne - thank you for the photos you gave me at the Watchpoint. We looked at them in school the other day. The children partiularly liked the ones taken of the adults in flight as they could see what a fantastic wingspan they have.
- 7 June 2009 at 11:08
- wayne1984 said...
from what i have been told in previous years they have taken their first flight before they were ready and had to be rescued. infact last year all four had to be put back up on the tower i believe.
sometimes i think they just can not wait another minute. on recent visits to the green myself and colin have both witnessed number 11 almost come off the ledge due to his wingflapping, and alsmost over balancing.
@Helen, thats ok about the pictures, i now have more pictures but of far better quality taken since then, if anyone wants any of these please let me know
- 7 June 2009 at 11:18
- Phoebe said...
@ Wayne
They do look like they are wanting to leap of into the sky! It must be so exciting for them, I can't wait...
just hope they all fledge safely!
- 7 June 2009 at 11:23
I have great respect for the opinions of Wayne and Colin so hear what Wayne says about maiden flight date pedictions. Surely the weather will play a part too though - it still looks vile weather out on the horizon beyond Jury's Hotel? If a great weather window comes, maybe that'll be the time? Don't forget either that the 4 are unlikely to all go at the same time due to the age differences. There has also been speculation about what has caused previous years problems with maiden flights - urban environments might be trickier than out in the "wilds"? As I said previously, if the "old hands" at watching thought it was excruciating waiting for the eggs to hatch, just wait and see how anxious we'll all get about flight!
How I miss Froona and her input at this time - wouldn't she have been so thrilled.
- 7 June 2009 at 11:44
- Phoebe said...
There is one youngster who seems to prefer to 'be alone' I wonder if this will be the first to take a flight?
- 7 June 2009 at 12:11
- Phoebe said...
Mum landed up top and caused the youngsters to stir, flapping and drying their wings. I bet they can't wait to take a flight! They get so excited when they see Mum on the wing.
- 7 June 2009 at 13:07
There's one that looks like he's about to jump!!! He's been siting there on his own for quite a while now!!!
- 7 June 2009 at 13:20
There's one that looks like he's about to jump!!! He's been siting there on his own for quite a while now!!!
- 7 June 2009 at 13:20
- Karen Anne said...
Some of Froona's friends are translating into English the part of her website that she didn't get to finish translating.
Since there is such interest just this moment in the details of fledging, I have temporarily put on my own ISP's user area a copy of part 1 of her writeup on fledging. We have tried to keep it in Froona's voice, so it hopefully sounds like her. Part 2 is still in progress:
Click here for Word version of part one, Fledging
- 7 June 2009 at 13:32
- Phoebe said...
@ Karen Anne
Thank you so much for giving the details of Froona's writings I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, she was a talented and knowledgable lady. I would have liked to have known her in life. She gives such inspiration to us all.
Once again thank you.
- 7 June 2009 at 14:06
its been a great year this year every site as done well ive visited Manchester,Bolton,Darwin and Preston.Also learned that we have 2 more sites nearby in Southport.So fingers crossed these will do well hope to check them out this week.hope one of these nest will install a webcam!!!
- 7 June 2009 at 14:27
- Phoebe said...
Looks like dinner is on its way...
- 7 June 2009 at 15:29
- Karen Anne said...
A whole lot of flapping going on. I would now not be surprised if one fledged today, either on purpose or accidentally.
- 7 June 2009 at 15:29
Well we came up to Belper to see the house we are buying and were all set to come to the Cathedral. Weather on Saturday was atrocious and this morning although it started fairly dry soon turned into a torrent. Here we are back in South Wales and will just have to watch the webcams. Never mind, there's always next year when we have a brand new brood....
Mary T - Caerphilly - S.Wales
- 7 June 2009 at 15:44
pax Canada
The adult just left with the left over prey, the young ones followed her flight craning upwards as she landed on the pudding cam
- 7 June 2009 at 16:35
Looks like the perching rail is being a success. The largest is gripping it tight and running-up to full power quite a lot at the moment.
- 7 June 2009 at 16:57
Much flapping and movement. Daren't move too far from computer just incase first fledge happens when my back is turned. Rivoting stuff!
- 7 June 2009 at 19:08


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Dr. Maria Burnatowska-Hledin of the Hope College biology and chemistry faculty has been appointed to the college's Frederich Garrett and Helen Floor Dekker Endowed Professorship.
Dr. Maria Burnatowska-Hledin of the Hope College biology and chemistry faculty has been appointed to the college's Frederich Garrett and Helen Floor Dekker Endowed Professorship.
Her 10-year appointment to the chair will begin July 1.
The professorship was established through the estate of Dr. Fred H. Decker and Marie V. Buranek Decker to provide financial support for a faculty member who has an established record of excellence in biophysics, biomedicine or biology. Dr. Decker was a 1921 Hope graduate.
The chair was established in the 1980s. Its first recipients were biologist Dr. Harvey Blankespoor, who held the chair from 1988 until retiring in 2002; and chemist Dr. Michael Silver, who held it from 2002 until retiring at the end of the 2008-09 school year.
Burnatowska-Hledin has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1992. Her research concerns the protein VACM-1/cul 5, seeking to understand the role that it may play in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells as well as cancer-induced angiogenesis (growth of blood capillaries).
She has received a variety of grants in support of her work, including a multi-year, $503,303 award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1994, and awards from the American Heart Association, and most recently she received a grant from the National Cancer Institute, titled "VACM-1, a cul 5 gene regulates cell growth and angionesis." In 1999, she received one of only six "Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards" presented nationwide to professors in the chemical sciences by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation in recognition of her teaching, mentorship, and accomplishments in research and teaching. She has authored more than 40 publications, in scientific journals including the "American Journal of Physiology," "Microvascular Research," "Toxicology" and the "Journal of Clinical Investigation."
Burnatowska-Hledin has mentored more than 80 students in research during her time at Hope. A number of the students who have worked with her have earned co-author credits on published articles related to their research, and the students in her research group regularly make presentations at national and regional professional society meetings.
In March she received the "Dean's Science Division Faculty Research Award" from the college.

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In Memory Of Aaron Swartz, A Day Of Action Against The NSA
from the speak-up,-speak-out deptA bunch of websites and organizations are teaming up today to announce a day of action against mass surveillance in honor of the passing of Aaron Swartz. It calls out to those who fought back against SOPA to now join in this effort as well -- as Aaron was deeply involved in both issues.
DEAR USERS OF THE INTERNET,The idea is to use the 11th of February as a day similar to the big SOPA blackout day from two years ago. Except, rather than fighting to stop just a specific bill, this is designed to be a day to get the internet to speak out against mass surveillance. Check out the website at TheDayWeFightBack.com, and please consider supporting this and taking part.
In January 2012 we defeated the SOPA and PIPA censorship legislation with the largest Internet protest in history. A year ago this month one of that movement's leaders, Aaron Swartz, tragically passed away.
Today we face a different threat, one that undermines the Internet, and the notion that any of us live in a genuinely free society: mass surveillance.
If Aaron were alive, he'd be on the front lines, fighting against a world in which governments observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action.
Now, on the eve of the anniversary of Aaron's passing, and in celebration of the win against SOPA and PIPA that he helped make possible, we are announcing a day of protest against mass surveillance, to take place this February 11th.
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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moved closer Thursday to dramatically altering Senate rules to block the chamber's Republican minority from filibustering President Obama's executive nominees.
Senate business ground to a halt Thursday as Reid, D-Nev., ending weeks of silence on the filibuster, set the stage for a confrontation between Democrats and Republicans when he accused Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., of breaking an agreement the two forged last January aimed at easing complaints about Republican obstruction of nominees.
"He has failed to do what he said he would do, move nominations by regular order except in extraordinary circumstances," Reid said in a sometimes-tense exchange with McConnell on the Senate floor. "I refuse to unilaterally surrender my right to respond to this breach of faith. I wait, I wait, but I'm not going to wait another month, another few weeks, another year for Congress to take action on the things that we have been doing for 200 and almost 40 years."
He upped the ante by moving for votes on seven nominees, including Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Gina McCarthy to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Thomas Perez for secretary of labor and the nominations of three National Labor Relations Board members whose recess appointments were ruled unconstitutional by the federal courts.
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Reid's actions laid the groundwork for him to invoke the "nuclear option," which, by Senate vote, essentially would end filibusters by preventing Republicans from requiring a 60-vote supermajority for confirmation of Cabinet-level and executive-branch nominees. Instead, the Senate would confirm nominees by a simple majority vote.
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"So let me sum up what's going on here," McConnell said. "Senate Democrats are getting ready to do permanent damage to this body, to confirm three unconstitutionally appointed nominees by a simple majority vote … Every other nomination we're talking about here has either been confirmed or is on the way to being confirmed."
Reid countered that his flirtation with the nuclear option was born of frustration over what he considers McConnell's backtracking on the January agreement and the filibuster of the eventually successful nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., to be defense secretary. Hagel was the first defense nominee to be filibustered.
The Reid-McConnell showdown on the Senate floor sent lawmakers scurrying into separate lunch meetings, with Democrats weighing whether they had the votes to employ the nuclear option and Republicans caucusing about what to do if Reid pushes the button.
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Another episode ended with something terrifying happening to Will. I figured there would be consequences to him if the lab guys started burning the tunnel. At least the lab guy seems to be on the same side as Hopper?
Dustin and Steve teamup is going to be great. Dustin risked a lot by letting the monster outside to trap him in the cellar.
Of course Max didn't believe Lucas's story of season 1, but I loved how meta her review of it was. Since Dustin is busy with Steve I am guessing Lucas and Max have a romantic moment.
I feel silly for thinking Bob was going to turn into a bad guy. Bob is great. I loved his excitement for the map and even when he was in the tunnel, he didn't question anything. He just thought it was cool to be in Will's map.
Eleven visits her mom and sees she is reliving a nightmare over and over. Is her keeper working for the lap? I thought it was suspicious what she said, but maybe she is just repeating stuff that was told her to before.
We saw baby Eleven and baby Eight playing together. Well, toddlers?
Sexual tension between Jonathon and Nancy!! I think they make a good team and are doing the right thing with Barbara's story, but I like Nancy with Steve. She waited a month for him, but Jonathon had a lot going on that month...you know, because is brother came back from the dead.
Dustin talking shit to Mike's dad was great.
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The National Milk Producers Federation's Board of Directors voted today in favor of a revised approach to reforming federal dairy policy, with the key change of allowing farmers an individual choice between receiving the financial protection of a government safety net, or opting out of such protection.
As originally proposed back in 2010, NMPF's Foundation for the Future (FFTF) program contained a government-subsidized safety net, the Dairy Producer Margin Protection Program, to protect against periods of low milk prices, high feed costs, or a combination of the two. This program offered a Basic level of subsidized insurance coverage, plus the option of Supplemental fixed-cost coverage partially paid by farmers. The FFTF program also contained the Dairy Market Stabilization Program, which was a mandatory means to reduce market volatility by discouraging new milk production during periods of compressed margins.
Under the revised approach backed today by NMPF, the Dairy Producer Margin Protection Program (DPMPP) would continue to be voluntary, but if a producer opts to participate in the DPMPP, his/her participation in the Dairy Market Stabilization Program would then be mandatory. If a producer chooses not to participate in the insurance program, then participation in the DMSP would not be required. As with NMPF's original reform package, the Milk Income Loss Contract program would be eliminated, as would the Dairy Product Price Support Program.
The NMPF Board believes that the new approach will result in beneficial changes to the legislative version of Foundation for the Future, which is expected to soon be formally introduced in the House of Representatives by Reps. Collin Peterson,(D-Minn., and Mike Simpson,(R-Idaho.
"Based on the feedback we received this summer from our cooperative membership, and during our grassroots tour, when 1,300 farmers came to 12 cities to talk with us about Foundation for the Future, we decided that a slightly different approach to reforming dairy policy was the best way to go," said Randy Mooney, NMPF Chairman, and a dairy farmer from Rogersville, MO. "Clearly, a number of farmers are uncomfortable about having a mandatory government program to manage milk production. So we are endorsing a new approach which gives farmers a clear choice."
"This new approach of making the Market Stabilization program optional will appeal to those who philosophically do not want government telling them what to produce. At the same time, those who want the benefits of a government safety net must accept some government-led market stabilization as the price of that protection," Mooney said.
The other changes endorsed today by NMPF include:
• Increasing the Basic Plan's coverage to 80% of a producer's production history on margins between $0.00 and $ 4.00 per cwt. In the legislative draft of FFTF released earlier this summer, the Basic coverage was limited to 75% of a farm's production history.
• Giving farmers the option of acquiring coverage for their production growth under the Supplemental Plan. Under such an option, the production history would be revised annually as the producer's production grows. The percentage of the producer's production history to be covered, and the premium rate per cwt., would remain fixed over the life of the Farm Bill.
• Accepting an administrative fee to be charged to all producers signing up for margin protection coverage under the DPMPP, with modest fees on a sliding scale. This will help keep the cost of the program to a minimum.
• Eliminating the distribution of 50% of producer-generated funds to the U.S. Treasury under the Dairy Market Stabilization program, ensuring that all of the monies generated by producer withholdings would be available to purchase dairy products for donation to non-commercial food assistance programs as originally proposed.
Lastly, the revised FFTF package endorsed by NMPF alters how reforms to the Federal Milk Marketing Order system would be pursued. Under NMPF's original approach, the legislation would have specifically prescribed how competitive prices and a streamlining of the classified pricing system were to be implemented by the USDA, without a hearing process. The new version directs the USDA to eliminate the cumbersome end product price formulas and make allowances for Class III, and use a competitive pay price instead to determine the Class III price. It also specifies that after USDA makes its decision, a majority vote by producers will put the changes into effect. If the changes are not approved, the current Federal Order provisions remain in place.
"The underlying objectives we have been pursuing for the past two years – offering a better dairy program featuring protection, stability, and growth – remain intact in what our Board has endorsed today," according to NMPF President and CEO Jerry Kozak. "But by making some adjustments, we strongly believe that many of the concerns raised in the past year to our first approach now have been addressed and eliminated."
Kozak went on to point out that NMPF's Foundation for the Future proposal, along with the initial legislative discussion draft released this summer by Rep. Peterson and cosponsored by Rep. Simpson, allowed the dairy industry and Congress "to kick the tires and really scrutinize the best way to reform dairy policy. We've listened, we've analyzed and considered options, and now we're endorsing a course correction that will still take us to the same place, only with greater unanimity and support from dairy farmers, and hopefully from others across the industry and on Capitol Hill."
Mooney added that "it's time everyone in the dairy industry recognizes that the Peterson-Simpson bill offers the best – and perhaps only – opportunity to create an effective safety net that allows us to take advantage of the challenges and opportunities of a global marketp


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It's almost over. The 2008 Primary Election runoffs will be decided today to determine Jackson County's new chairman of the board of commissioners and the District Attorney for the Piedmont Judicial Circuit. Both races are on the Republican ballot.
The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. across Jackson County. Last week, some 827 people early voted in Jackson County while only 94 early voted in Banks County.
Today's voting to decide BOC chairman, DA races
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About sagescape
I took the liberty of posting the audio in easier-to-digest YouTube format, complete with annotations so that you can tell who is speaking when.
Mike, I think you missed SSRC's point on the licensing. As I write over on Legally Sociable, this is "licensing theater".
If you doubt this read the SSRC's own characterization of the license:
The Consumer's Dilemma license is a way of reversing that equation and, in the most minor ways, requiring an explicit engagement with it. Among the surreal aspects, that simple choice can subject you to crushing civil and criminal penalties, but you can rest easy knowing that only very rare, arbitrary examples will be made (and none in our case) [emphasis added].
In other words, SSRC has no intention of suing anyone over this -- they say so themselves. Indeed, the entire report is over on Scribd, posted by a user named "urprobablyapirate". Wink wink. Nudge nudge.
SSRC is just having fun with the copyright maximalists, but they are doing so in order to make a point:
Our license has a theatrical side, to be sure, but it also stays true to the experiences documented in the report. Those experiences–the personal choices and the market and price structure that informs them–are the report's primary subject.
As I noted last Friday over on Legally Sociable, HarperCollins' move is utterly ridiculous. One of the major advantages of e-books is that they don't wear out. Whatever happened to products that become "new and improved" with innovation rather than "same because crippled"? Oh, that's right -- copyrights create a legal monopoly that allow for monopolistic behavior of the sort we regularly see from utility companies and the DMV. Now I remember. Even so, HarperCollins' move here seems incredibly short-sighted. They may well be killing off a lucrative new market (e-books for libraries) before it has a chance to develop fully. After all, most people still don't have e-book readers and find it inconvenient to read books from a computer screen. As for libraries,
further license restrictions seem to come at a particularly bad time, given strained budgets nationwide. It may also disproportionately affect libraries that set shorter loan periods for ebook circulation.Between the growing number of contemporary authors who distribute their books with a Creative Commons license and the growing repository of easily accessible public domain works in electronic text ("book") and spoken ("audiobook") form, there may be a great swath of written culture from the 20th century that becomes effectively inaccessible.
"I don't know if I would call it a threat, but I do believe it hurts sales," said Ed Matthew, a senior promotion manager at G. Schirmer in New York. "It is that profit that helps us to continue to bring out more composers' work."
As I noted yesterday over on my blog Legally Sociable, this makes no sense. It is the profit from selling/renting sheet music composed by long-dead composers like Beethoven at above-market prices that allows the G. Schirmer company "to bring out more composers' work"? Insofar as this even makes sense, they can only mean one of two things:
1. Traditional music publishers can only continue to publish public domain scores if they can continue to sell it at monopoly prices (e.g., $30-50 for "[a] set of parts for a mainstream string quartet", according to the NYTimes article).
Analysis: Good riddance. IMSLP will publish it for free. Deadweight loss triange: gone.
2. Traditional music publishers can only afford to take a bath on contemporary composers if it can subsidize them with profits from public domain scores of dead composers.
Analysis: Whatever this is, it's not a business argument. There are plenty of reasons to support new composers (and musicians generally) that have nothing to do with business, of course. One may think that the arts are intrinsically valuable, or may want to give back/pay it forward, or may simply want the prestige of having one's name connected rising talent as a "patron". All fair enough. But there's no business reason for a traditional music publisher to subsidize new talent with monopoly money. Why should it do that? It would make much more money if it simply sold the old public domain stuff and told new composers to take a hike. (Unless, of course, it does make money off the new composers....)
Just because a music publisher may have used some of its profits to support the arts doesn't mean that they should be able to assert legal rights they don't have to public domain musical scores just because the Internet is threatening their traditional business model. The arts can be supported much more directly and efficiently. There's no need to expand copyright law to allow a revenue stream to continue flowing into the publisher's pockets that a trickle may eventually find its way into the tip jar of the up-and-coming composer.
As I discuss over on my blog Legally Sociable, Google isn't limiting its strategy to filing amicus briefs and hoping for the best. The search giant has also recently taken proactive steps to reduce its liability, including turning off autocomplete results for torrent-related searches. I guess this is what the Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC) meant by "dialogue", as detailed in her recent report:
the IPEC has facilitated and encouraged dialogue among the different private sector Internet intermediaries that contribute to the dynamic nature and functioning of the Internet, including payment processors, search engines and domain name registrars and registries. These entities are uniquely positioned to enhance efforts of rightholders and law enforcement to combat infringing activity and help reduce the distribution of infringing content in a manner consistent with our commitment to the principles of fair process, freedom of expression and other important public policy concerns. We believe that most companies share the view that providing services to infringing sites is inconsistent with good corporate business practice and we are beginning to see several companies take the lead in pursuing voluntary cooperative action.I'm not sure how "voluntary" this really is -- or whether "fair process" and "freedom of expression" accurately describes a "dialogue" written under a Damoclesian sword of statutory copyright damages and domain name seizures. But I will agree that ruinous lawsuits and seizures are "inconsistent with good corporate business practice".


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Neuroscience writer Laura Sanders had little idea what she was walking into when she wrote a short news story about marijuana earlier this year. The finding was interesting if not Earth-shattering: A hormone blocks some of the intoxicating effects of marijuana in rats and mice (SN: 2/8/14, p. 12). The work, she wrote, "may lead to drugs that help people curb cannabis dependence."
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(at http://freealfrednow.org/) For Alfred Trenkler by
Advocates for Wrongly Convicted (at http://www.a4wc.org/) AND PAGE FOR ALFRED AT THE NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT, at
Introduction to case:
On 28 October 1991, Boston Police officer, Jeremiah Hurley, Jr. was killed, and his partner, Francis X. Foley, was maimed, by a dynamite bomb which they were attempting to disarm at the home of Thomas L. Shay of Roslindale, Boston. Their losses were terrible and intolerable, and those responsible must be apprehended and punished.
In the subsequent investigation, Alfred Trenkler was targeted because he had met Shay's son, Thomas A. Shay, (referenced in many government and court papers as "Tom" and "Shay, Jr.") within five months of the October bombing, and because five years earlier he had assembled a harmless noisemaking prank device in Quincy in 1986 for a friend. Alfred was convicted in Boston Federal Court in 1993 and sentenced to two life terms.
Alfred W. Trenkler had nothing to do with the Roslindale Bomb. He had no motive to
harm anyone. At the time of the bombing, he was successfully operating a high
tech communications business consulting, designing, installing and servicing
terrestrial and satellite microwave studio transmitter links for television, public
service two way radio trunking and paging systems, had no debts, and had no need
for additional money, and knew nothing about Tom Shay's father who was in the
middle of a $400,000 lawsuit.
Alfred was convicted because.of a "perfect storm" of mistakes by investigators, prosecutors, Alfred's defense counsel and a few lies in court. Alfred currently has
a motion for a new trial before the United States Appeals Court as a result of the
recent discovery of evidence withheld by the government and is simultaneously
seeking a re-investigation of the case by the Boston Police Department, the
Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and explosives (BATFE) and/or the U.S.
Attorney's office.
The Alfred Trenkler Innocent Committee
The Alfred Trenkler
Innocent Committee is dedicated to justice for Alfred Trenkler,
who was wrongfully convicted by
the U.S. government and to securing freedom for Alfred
We seek for Alfred Trenkler, a
- Retrial,
- Re-opening of the Search for the builder of the "Roslindale bomb".
Like many others affected by this case, we seek the end of the protracted controversy as everyone wants it to finally come to an end. However, such closure cannot be obtained at the price of the imprisonment of a totally innocent man, Alfred Trenkler.
Currently, the effort to release him is focusing on finding the truth about the case, and we hope that everyone affected by this tragedy, including everyone in law enforcement and the criminal justice system will contribute to this effort.
We seek a full, complete, independent investigation on the entire case, with the subsequent goal of persuading the Boston U.S. Attorney, Carmen Ortiz, and the U.S. Attorney General to seek a new trial, or an outright dismissal of the case against Alfred Trenkler.
The Alfred Trenkler Innocent Commitee was formed by a group of people who are convinced of Alfred's' innocence and that the original investigation and prosecution were flawed.
The Committee is working to get the facts of the case into the hands and minds of as many people as possible, especially people in the media and the Federal Government. It is seeking to get the story of Alfred Trenkler told throughout the country by creating this web site and distributing the information through other national and local media.
Any informaton that may assist with the proper solving of this case may be sent, confidentially or otherwise, to Morrison Bonpasse, P.O. Box 390, Newcastle, ME 04555. (Also, see the "Submit a Tip!" section in this website.
Errors, mistakes? Please let us know.
As we are committed to the truth and to justice, we do our best to present the truth. If there are any errors on the website, please let us know, by email to Alfred Trenkler Innocent Committee. This is especially true if you believe there are any errors or mistakes in any statements or representations by Alfred Trenkler. To our knowledge, there are none - as he is a totally innocent man.
Funds and Contributions
In addition for funds to do that work, funds are always welcome, for the operation of this website and efforts to privately investigate this case.
Please send contributions to help the campaign for justice for Alfred Trenkler to the following address:
Trenkler Innocent Committee
Newcastle, ME 04553
Petition for Investigation
Help us with the campaign for re-investigation of this case. Please write to your Senator, Congressman, and to the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to request that the Department of Justice to conduct a re-investigation of the Roslindale Bombing.
Key documents in the case.
Several key documents for understanding the case are presented and linked below are recommended, and for a quick introduction to Alfred and this case. For the full story about the case read Version 9 of the manuscript of the book, Perfectly Innocent, go to LATEST NEWS for 9 October 2007. FOR THE NEWLY AVAILABLE DOCUMENTS, DISCLOSED THROUGH A FOIA REQUEST TO THE BOSTON POLICE DEPT. SEE #17 BELOW.
1. The Wrongful Conviction of Alfred Trenkler - a short summary.
2. FACTS showing the non-involvement of Alfred Trenkler with the "1991
3. Pre-sentencing statement to the court, by Alfred Trenkler on 8 March 1994.
See also, Alfred's 21 May 2008 LETTER by Alfred Trenkler to an informed citizen
about the case. It begins, "First and foremost, from the bottom of my heart, I
had absolutely nothing to do with the Roslindale bombing in any way, shape,
or form."
4. Dissenting opinion of First Circuit Chief Judge Juan Torruella in the 2-1
denial of Alfred's appeal on 18 July 1995. Note that he was the only First
Circuit judge to participate in the appeal of Thomas A. Shay, where the Court
effectively reversed his conviction, and in the appeal of Alfred Trenkler. In both
instances he opposed the verdicts.
5. Dr. Robert Phillips' diagnosis, "Neuropsychiatric Evaluation, Thomas A. Shay,"
contained in a 19 July 1993 letter to Thomas A. Shay's attorney, Nancy Gertner.
6. RESUME of Alfred W. Trenkler
7. William David Lindholm documents:
a. January 1993. 7-page report of ATF and U.S. Attorneys 13 January
interview of William David Lindholm.
b. His testimony on 10 November 1993. (Near the end, at page 13-124 of the
transcript, he said, "I'll go on the record to say that I'm not going to ask for
any benefit, rewards, inducements any time in the future.")
c. Excerpts of Prosecution and Defense 22 November 1993 Closing
Statements at trial which pertained to Lindholm's testimony, including
statement by Asst. U.S. Attorney Paul Kelly "He's received no promises, no
rewards, no inducements for coming forward, and he will not ask for any in the
d. 1 April 1994 Letter from Lindholm Attorney, Roger Cox to Asst. U.S.
Attorney Paul Kelly asking for reduction in sentence.
e. 12 April 1994 Letter from AUSA Paul Kelly to Lindholm Atty, Roger Cox,
where Kelly noted the contradiction between Lindholm's statements at trial and
Cox's request.
f. 19 July 1994 Motion by Asst. U.S. Attorney Paul Kelly in U.S. v.
Lindholm for reduction of Lindholm's sentence.
g. 19 July 1994 Affidavit of Asst. U.S Attorney Paul V. Kelly in support of
above Motion.
h. 28 July 1994 Lindholm Memorandum in support of Government's Motion
i. 6 Aug 1994 Affidavit of William David Lindholm, in support of the
Government's Motion for a Reduction of Sentence for him.
j. Excerpts of the 18 July 1995 opinions of the Court of Appeals judges
which relate to Lindholm's credibility.
k. 14 January 1998 Memorandum by Jack Wallace to U.S. District
Court regarding William David Lindblom.
l. Affidavit of John Bowden on 22 April 1998 revealing William David Lindholm's
admission that his testimony regarding Alfred Trenkler was false. Subsequent to
letter by John Bowden on 13 July 2000 to Alfred's attorney, Morris Goldings.
m. Timeline of William David Lindholm and the U.S. Judicial system 1990
8. Comparisons of the 1986 artillery simulator and the 1991 bomb. Notes and
reports assembled by Jack Wallace and Dennis Kline report to Alfred's
9. June 2006 handwritten one page Summary by Alfred Trenkler of his
acquaintance with Thomas A. Shay in Summer of 1991. Adobe/.pdf file As
rekeyed MS-Word file
10. June 2006 handwritten 17-page detailed report by Alfred Trenkler of his
acquaintance with Thomas A. Shay in Summer of 1991. As Adobe/.pdf file, and
as MS-Word Rekeyed File. See also a 9 page contemporary report written by
Alfred during the pre-trial period in 1992 or 1993. The only post-1991 contact
Alfred Trenkler had with Thomas A. Shay was on 25 June 1993 when they were
in separate cells, separated by another cell, in the Federal Building lockup. Alfred
Trenkler captured the discussion and his observations in a
11. May 2006 comments by Alfred on the ATF report of the 31 January 1992
search of Alfred's apt, office and his parents' home. As Adobe/.pdf file, and as
MS-Word Rekeyed File. For more info, see original 1 February 1992 ATF
12. 28 June 2006 Motion to Examine Evidence, filed by Jack Wallace on behalf of
Alfred Trenkler. Included in the Motion, on page 9, were photographs of the
contacts from the Roslindale Bomb and contacts from a Philmore #30-219 switch
and from a Radio Shack #275-602 switch. (After disassembly of other switches on
7 October 2007, it appears that the contacts in the page 9 photo may be aligned
with the wrong label. That is, the contacts below the Philmore label appear to
belong to the Radio Shack switch, and the contacts below the Radio Shack label
appear to belong to the Philmore switch. However, because of possible changes in
the engineering and manufacturing of the switches since the 1991 explosion, the
results of the several disassemblies may still be valid, at the time of disassembly.
The search for the truth continues, and this note will be updated as needed.)
13. 10 November 1992 MEMO TO FILE by Asst. U.S. Attorney Paul Kelly about ten
"aspects of his [TA Shay] 'story' which he admitted were untrue." Then Kelly
listed 17 aspects of a "new 'story'" and Alfred Trenkler denies every single one of
them by his annotated "NO's". Also, Paul Kelly's 11 May 1993 letter to Shay
atty. Nancy Gertner summarizing Shay's contacts with Alfred Trenkler, with
Alfred's handwritten annotations. See also copy with Alfred's comments
14. On 17 November 1992, Karen Marinella of Channel 56, interviewed Thomas A
Shay. Portions of the interview would later be shown at the trial of Alfred
Trenkler. See Transcript of Interview [The highlighted sections were seen by
the jury.] Every statement made by Thomas A. Shay in that interview that
indicated that Alfred Trenkler had a role in the "1991 Roslindale bomb" was
false. Every statement about Shay's relationship to Alfred Trenkler, beyond
Trenkler's own precise description of the acquaintance is false.
See Alfred Trenkler's responses to the Marinella interview of Thomas A.
Shay, written in December 2006, to Thomas A. Shay's claims.
15. Pre-sentencing letter in support of Alfred Trenkler, sent on 17 April 2007 to
Judge Zobel by Morrison Bonpasse. The letter summarizes the reasons that
the 1993 conviction of Alfred Trenkler was a wrongful conviction.
16. Version 9 of the manuscript of the book about the Roslindale Bomb case,
Perfectly Innocent. Send email to Morrison for .pdf copy.
17. On Tuesday, 28 July 2009, the Boston Police Dept made two cartons of documents available to Alfred Trenkler through a FOIA (Freedom of Invormation Access) request. The most important of these documents are listed below:
A. BPD fingerprint report of Thomas L. Shay's car, 25 May 1992
B. Proposed Investigative Plan by ATF re Roslindale Bombing, 16 January
C. Updated Investigative Plan by ATF re Roslidnale Bombing, 9 March
D. BPD Firearms identification card for Thomas L Shay, 1971
E. BPD Detective Journal 920122 to 920219, 19 February 1992
F. Thomas Shay v HW Marshall Company for 850 thousand dollars, 25
G. BPD report of recreation of TL Shay drive of Sunday 27 October 1991,
H. BPD report of TL Shay seeking return of his car, 5 December 1991.
For the remainder of the FOIA documents disclosed on 28 July 2009, see
"Latest News" for that date.
18. The Radio Shack "Receipt" of 18 October 1991, purporting to show the
purchase of six items by "JYT SAHY," one of which was a Radio Shack package
#275-602 containing a Single Pole Single Throw switch with contacts similar
to those contained in the 28 October 1991 Roslindale Bomb. Listed below are
several relevant documents followed by an ANALYSIS document by Morrison
Bonpasse, and excerpts of comments from Alfred Trenkler in October 2010.
A. 28 September 1998 Letter from Tandy Corporation Atty. Robert Blair to
Alfred Trenkler's stepfather, Jack Wallace, stating that the the corporate
records of Tandy (Radio Shack) contained no record of invoice #098973.
B. 9 September 1999 Affidavit by Tandy Atty. Robert Blair with same
statement as #A, above.
C. Collection of 97 Radio Shack Receipts , on 39 pages, kept by Alfred
Trenkler from 1980 through 1992, including two receipts (on page 11) from
the 197 Mass. Ave store, the source of the 18 October receipt.
D. WORD Document with list of the six items in 18 October 1991 receipt.
E. Listing of "SAHY's" found in U.S. with listed phone numbers in
F. Listing at www.intellius.com when searching for "SAHY" in
Massachusetts, only. There are many, many possibilities.
G. Version 9 of the Manuscript "Perfectly Innocent" has 138 References
to Radio Shack. See List of 138 pages . Of those 138, There is a two page
analysis at page 536, "What about the 18 October 1991 Radio Shack
H. 6 May 2010 Affidavit of Thomas A Shay, including paragraphs about the
18 October 1991 Radio Shack Receipt.
I. Alfred Trenkler's comments in emails from 23-25 October 2010 on the
1991 Radio Shack receipt and apparent link to Radio Shack purchase for
the 1986 device.
J. Analysis by Morrison Bonpasse of the 18 October 1991 Radio Shack
Receipt showing that it does not provide any credible information about
the source of any part of the Roslindale Bomb.
19. "29 QUESTIONS" These are Yes/No questions about the case which can be answered with minimal re-investigation. If the answers point toward Alfred's innocence, a more complete re-investigation should be begun.
New material on site:
8/4/14. Alfred's case is mentioned in a utopian novel, 2121 , by Morrison Bonpasse. In fact, the book says that he "has been" exonerated in 2014. The book is a companion novel to "Jesus and Jesusa" and both are available at Amazon.com. See "Latest News."
8/26/13 Article to be published in Stanford University Law Review with much emphasis on Alfred Trenkler's case: "Missing the Forest for the Trees: Federal Habeas Corpus and the Piecemeal Problem in Actual Innocence Cases," by Professor Stephanie Roberts Hartung of Suffolk University Law School. See "Links to Articles."
12/19/11. Gitgo Productions of South Portland, Maine, has produced a trailer for a potential documentary about the Roslindale Bomb case. The planned title is, "Incident at Roslindale." See "Latest News."
10/31/11 The First Circuit Court of Appeals denied Alfred's Petition for reconsideration of his Habeas Corpus Motion. See "Latest News."
7/30/11 "Wrongly convicted sees rapist sentenced" by Brian Ballou
in the Boston Globe. See "Links to Articles."
6/21/11. New Link to second Website for Alfred: "FREE ALFRED NOW"
(at http://freealfrednow.org/) For Alfred Trenkler by
Advocates for Wrongly Convicted (at http://www.a4wc.org/)
5/27/11 Alfred Trenkler submits a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus to Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. See "Latest News."
4/26/11 Morrison Bonpasse sent a LETTER to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting a re-investigation of the Roslindale Bomb case. Included with the letter were the "29 QUESTIONS" (#19, above) and copies of 15 previous letters to Attorney General Holder. See "Latest News."
3/31/11 Alfred files a Motion for Reconsideration and En Banc hearing on his Habeas Corpus motion. See "Latest News."
2/7/11 First Circuit denies Alfred's Motion for leave to file Motion for Habeas Corpus See "Latest News."
11/23/10 James G. Hebshie, convicted in Federal District Court in Boston in 2006 of arson is released after Judge Nancy Gertner vacated his conviction. See "Latest News," and see "Links to Articles."
11/8/10. MCLE (Mass. Continuing Education) conducts Seminar: "Litigating Wrongful Convictions in Massachusetts. See "Latest News."
10/24/10 Information about the 18 October 1991 Radio Shack "Receipt" are collected as "Key Document #18, above, on this page.
10/7/10 Morrison Bonpasse wrote a letter to Senator John Kerry, with a copy of Senators Scott Brown and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, and Senate Chair of the Judiciary Committee, to ask that Senator Kerry again request the Department of Justice to re-investigate the Alfred Trenkler case. See "Latest News."
8/30/2010 Alfred Trenkler filed a Reply to the Government's response, in which Alfred restates his actual innocence. See "Latest News."
8/2/2010. Asst. U.S. Attorney Randall Kromm filed a Response in the First Circuit
opposing Alfred Trenkler's Application to file a Motion for Habeas Corpus. See
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