text: Vert Couture Eco-Fashion Show & Benefit at Fashion Focus Chicago October 18, 2011 As one of the headlining shows during Fashion Focus Chicago, Conscious Living TV presents Vert Couture. This runway show is ready to wow the crowd and make fashionistas fall in love with the fashions of 2012. This Thursday, October 20th, prepare to get your green on with this 3rd annual event. Vert Couture is unlike any other fashion show out there- it focuses on Chicago's sustainable fair trade fashion movement and the runway takes place on one of the largest green roofs in the Unites States! It was created by Michael and Bianca Alexander, founders of Conscious Planet Media, an Emmy award-winning green television, video and film productions company. Billy is on the host committee and thrilled to be a part of this earth-friendly evening of fashion.


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Microsoft has told TechRadar that it is aiming to offer more games with Windows Phone 7 at launch than it did on the Xbox 360.
Kevin Unangst, senior global director for Games for Windows, told us that the kinds of games that have been wildly successful will make up the core of the Xbox experience on Windows Phone 7 handsets:
"We're going to have a launch portfolio of games that's bigger than the one we had with the Xbox 360.
"We're fully thinking of [this platform] as a games console. Games like Fruit Ninja will be important, harnessing a number of features like access to friends and connecting to other Xbox Live users"
Unangst also pointed out that this is just the first stage in the development of Xbox on Windows Phone handsets, with cool new functionality being discussed:
"We've talked about the possibility in the future to use DLNA to use your Windows Phone as a companion screen [where additional content would be displayed alongside the main game].
"And it could be that one day you pay a simple price and get the same game in various forms on multiple devices - although that won't be coming at launch."

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It's so ironic. Nice shot.ReplyDelete
Haha...I love this. Great photo.ReplyDelete
At first, I thought I read, "It pays to look like hell!"
Oxymoronic, indeed.ReplyDelete
where is that Ward?ReplyDelete
it screams rural Georiga, but what town.
Amazingly enough, I took this shot in Kirkwood, a neighborhood in Atlanta, close to Oakhurst. If you click on the image, you'll go its Flickr page, where you can see more shots I took from there. Some great run-down signs and stuff.ReplyDelete
Maybe I'll post more of 'em here soon.
By the way, is Kirkwood also a ghost town? That's the impression I get from these photos. I can easily imagine it feeling like a B-movie horror flick (something with Paris Hilton in it) walking down it's deserted streets.ReplyDelete
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Brandon Saad scored in the fifth round of the shootout after Jonathan Toews tied the game late in regulation, and the Chicago Blackhawks clinched the Central Division title with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday night.
With St. Louis losing to Columbus earlier Friday, the Blackhawks wrapped up the Central race for the first time since 2010 when they won the Stanley Cup.
Chicago also increased its lead over Anaheim for the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs to six points.
The shootout was tied 1-1 when Saad beat Jimmy Howard with a backhand shot. Corey Crawford then stopped Johan Franzen, sealing the win and giving the Blackhawks a four-game season sweep over Detroit.
The Blackhawks were trailing 2-1 when Howard made a big pad save on Michael Frolik in the closing minutes. The puck ended up at the left point, and Johnny Oduya's shot hit traffic in front. Toews then fired in the loose puck for his 20th goal, tying it with 2:57 left in regulation.
Chicago then had a 2-on-1 rush, but Bryan Bickell's shot with about 50 seconds left hit the left post.
The Blackhawks had a chance late in overtime when Viktor Stalberg sprinted down the right wing and tried to center the puck to Patrick Kane. The puck appeared to hit a Detroit defender, and Howard swept it aside.
Stalberg beat Howard with a wraparound shot early in the second period. Two quick goals by Franzen and Cory Emmerton late in the period gave Detroit a 2-1 lead, but the Blackhawks answered down the stretch, winning their final game against the Red Wings as division foes.
The teams have played 725 times, more than any other two NHL teams, but the rivalry between the Original Six franchises will have a different look next season because Detroit is headed to the Eastern Conference. The teams will go from playing six times per season to just twice.


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The oldiesI could watch their old videos for hours!!!
14 November, 2011
LarrsonThis is my favourite song! I love U2! U2 is my life! Larry♥♥♥
20 May, 2011
Larry..."Larry was fourteen... he still is..."
30 January, 2010
Blast from the pastAs someone lucky enough to have seen the lads at McGonagle's in 1978 and then at the Paradise in Boston during the "Boy" tour, this sure takes me back! Got to love Bono's pants in this video, as well as his dancing - thank God that changed - but in many, many other ways they have changed very little over the years. Adam into his look already, Larry seeming a bit in pain (or is it just deep concentration?) playing his kit, Edge getting a well deserved close up of his technique even back then, and Bono the extroverted showman forever. Thanks for sticking together and remaining true to who you are through thick and thin...


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Great job guys!
Any chance for an android release?
First of all thanks for your continued work on Demul as a solid platform for Sega DC/Naomi era of golden gaming. Secondly, I am having black screen on AMD hardware with latest stable driver, despite toggling all available DX11new options. Any hints?
answer always the same - delete scache folder, or even better - never install new version over some old one, unless you want to get any kinds of funny bugs
make sure you use latest emulator version http://demul.emulation64.com/
Thanks MetalliC!
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Author:Nathan Wilson, Marine Biological Laboratory
The term 'mold' gets applied to a very diverse group of organisms. While most of them are Fungi, the unifying feature is essentially that they make some sort of multi-cellular, relatively unstructured blob of glup [1].
Fungal mold
Within fungi, "mold" applies to a wide variety of species including members of the Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota phyla. Fungal molds include the familiar bread mold Penicillium, which led to the discovery of antibiotics, and Stachybotrys chartarum, one of the species linked to "sick building syndrome" [7]. The different groups of fungal molds are related to various other groups of fungi better known for producing mushrooms and which typically aren't thought of as mold. However, even in these species, many people are unaware that the mushroom is only the flower-like, spore-producing "fruiting body" of a larger organism that is often invisibly growing either in the soil or inside wood or other material. The larger organism is made up of small threads, or mycelium, that in mass has that moldy look. You can often see this sort of mold inside rotted logs or in composting leaves. However, if you turn over a log and see something that appears to be moldy, it may also be what specialists call a "crust." Crusts, such as Botryobasidium cancans, are fruiting bodies like mushrooms that essentially attach to a log (or other surface) rather than create a free-standing mushroom. It is easy to assume that crusts must be helping to decompose the log, and in many cases they are. However, in some cases—e.g., Byssocorticium atrovirens—they are simply covering the surface and the larger fungal organism is actually in the soil, often helping trees gather water and nutrients more efficiently.
Slime molds
The term mold also gets applied to some non-fungal species, particularly slime molds such as Lycogala epidendrum or Fuligo septica. Most slime molds are more closely related to the well-known, single-celled Amoeba than to the various fungal molds. In many cases, these fascinating organisms live most of their life as single cells that wander through soil eating bacteria until a chemical signal causes them to converge on a single spot, in what has been described as a microbiotic orgy [4]. These groupings are so large that they become visible to the naked eye and result in spore-producing structures specialized for propagation.
Water molds
Water molds don't quite fit the common idea of a mold since the multicellular groups they create aren't typically visible to the naked eye; under the microscope they were originally mistaken for some sort of fungal mold. In this case, these organisms are Oomycetes, which are more closely related to kelp than the other groups previously discussed. This group includes the organisms that cause potato blight( Phytophthora infestans) and sudden oak death (Phytophthora ramorum).
1. Thurber J. (1950) The 13 clocks. USA: Simon & Schuster.
2. Sykes R. (2001) Penicillin: From discovery to product. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 79(8): 778-779.
3. CDC. (2012) Centers for disease control and prevention: Facts about stachybotrys chartarum and other molds. 2012(9/24).
4. Margulis L, Schwartz K, Dolan M. (1999) Diversity of life: The illustrated guide to five kingdoms. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
5. Judelson HS, Ah-Fong A. (2010) The kinome of Phytophthora infestans reveals oomycete-specific innovations and links to other taxonomic groups. BMC Genomics 11:700.
6. Krings M, Taylor TN, Dotzler N. (2011) The fossil record of the peronosporomycetes (oomycota). Mycologia 103(3): 445- 457.
7. Environmental Protection Agency. (2009) Sick Building Syndrome Fact Sheet.
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A self-diagnostic was a diagnostic that a machine, system, or android performed on itself to check for errors, usually on a regular basis.
Soong-type androids like Data would initiate self-diagnostics at regular intervals to verify that all functions were within established parameters.
Data ran a self-diagnostic in 2369 after it seemed that he had lost over 90 minutes of memories as his internal chronometer was not in sync with the ship's chronometer leading him to believe that he was experiencing a malfunction. It later turned out that he had been abducted by solanogen-based lifeforms and that his systems were functioning properly. (TNG: "Schisms")
That same year, after the USS Enterprise-D computer began experiencing a series of malfunctions due to an interface experiment conducted by Data and Geordi La Forge, he stated that he would perform a self-diagnostic. (TNG: "A Fistful of Datas")
In 2372, after B'Elanna Torres had repaired Automated Personnel Unit 3947 for the most part, he reported that his self-diagnostic showed that he was operating at 68% of peak operating capabilities. (VOY: "Prototype")
Later that year, The Doctor ran a level-two self diagnostic on his program when he claimed to have suffered lapses in concentration. Kes believed that it was not a technical problem, but that he had feelings for Danara Pel. (VOY: "Lifesigns")
In 2373, after the effects of long-term use had begun affecting The Doctor, he claimed that his self-diagnostic routines have always indicated that in the event of cascade failure he should be completely re-initialized. But the crew of USS Voyager were worried that if he did that, all his memories and individualism would be erased. (VOY: "The Swarm")
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In 2371, shortly after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Tom Paris wanted to double date with the Delaney sisters and Harry Kim. When Kim said he didn't have time, and that had to run a communications diagnostic, Paris told him he needed to run a self-diagnostic, because he shouldn't pass up an opportunity like going out with the Delaney sisters. (VOY: "Time and Again")


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A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility for the suicide attack in a hospital in Quetta city of Balochistan province on Monday, in which 69 people, mostly lawyers, were killed and several other injured, NBC News reported.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaatul Ahrar ( TTP-JA) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said they first killed provincial president of Balochistan Bar Association, Bilal Kasi, and then carried out a suicide attack on lawyers when they gathered to protest his killing at the civil hospital of Quetta city.
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A letter in the Guardian from Sunday, arguing the main reasons why any British progressive, regardless of party politics, must support AV – summary offered here by the Letters From Europe blog.
If you are a centre-lefty like myself, just remember this – the Tories have regularly dominated politics in Britain, despite only being elected with 50% of the popular vote in 1900 and 1931. Every other time, left-wing infighting between Labourites, Liberal Democrats, Greens, and the Left Nationalists of the Celtic nations, have led to the Conservatives benefiting. We can't let that continue any longer….
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Daniel Coleman
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2014 Track and Field: Finished 12th at the Rhodes Open in the 800 meters with a season-best time of 2:00.86… Placed 10th at the Shamrock Invitational with a time of 8:11.94 in the 4x800-meter relay… Finished the 800 meters at the Vanderbilt Black and Gold in 2:02.90.
2013 Track and Field: Competed in the distance medley relay, 400m, and 800m during the indoor season... Took home first place at the TSU Invite in the distance medley relay finishing in 10:42.91s... Also at the TSU Invite, finished third in the 800m crossing the line in 1:59.49s... During the outdoor season, participated in the 800m, 1500m, 4x4, and 3000m steeplechase... Won first place in the 4x4 with a final time of 3:33.45s at the Margaret Simmons Invitational... Also at the Margaret Simmons Invitational, left with a second-place finish in the 3000m steeplechase after posting a time of 10:17.87s...
2012 Cross Country: Competed in five meets… Finished 54th at the A-Sun Championships in 27:33.20… Placed 69th in the Belmont Opener in 17:28.00… Crossed the finish line in 15th place at the Tennessee Tech Invite in 28:21.96…
2012 Track and Field: Placed second at the Tennessee State Invitational in the distance medley relay (10:52.55) and fifth in the mile (4:40.01)… Finished sixth at the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships in the DMR (15:54.56)… Finished sixth in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the BSC 'Southern Invitational with a time of 10:10.06… Placed eighth in the 3000-meter steeplechase at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships with a personal-best time of 9:59.78… Ran a personal best in the mile (4:29.01).
2011 Cross Country: Competed in five meets… Began his Lipscomb career with a 17:19.67s mark at the Belmont Opener, where he finished 73rd… Broke 17 minutes in the 5K the following meet, finishing 30th at the Powerade Invitational with a 16:53s run… On his return trip to Chattanooga, finished eighth with a 29:59.61s run at the Chattanooga Cross Country Festival… Set a personal-best in the 8K in the silver race at the Louisville Cross Country Classic with a 27:28.10s run, finishing 58th.
Prep: Ran for Angie Johnson at Champaign Central High School... Natural athlete competed four years in cross country, three in track, two in wrestling and one in soccer... In addition to the longer distances and cross country, is also an accomplished pole vaulter with a personal-best of 11' 6".
Personal: Son of Bob and Dale Coleman... Has one sister, Ali... Plans to major in kineseology... Chose Lipscomb because he felt God calling him here.


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Passport Junkie is a small startup looking to stand out and create a strong brand in the budget travel market. We hope to get started by providing our young, active, and connected audience with hard-to-find content that has real value for them as they plan and take adventurous trips abroad.
Passport Junkie provides transportation planning information for budget backpackers and independent travelers. We are currently doing a total site overhaul, an important part of which is improving our user interface design. To that end, we need the two main pages of our website re-designed in a more modern and engaging style (with perhaps more page designs to come). We look forward to seeing your creativity and ideas and we promise to provide frequent and useful feedback during the contest.
Budget backpackers and independent travelers (taking long, multi-city trips abroad), ages 18-35, worldwide (but majority are English-speaking – reside in US/Canada, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand)
Design 2 pages – 1 Home Page and 1 Results Page. Format = layered PSD files.
The Home Page allows users to search our transportation directory by specifying the two cities between which they are travelling.
The Results Page gives an overview of expected duration & cost for each transportation mode and allows the user to see all the different companies (for each transportation mode) that serve the desired route.
Please take into account the user feedback we've received on the current design of our site:
Likes = simple, clean look (the #1 like by far); use of graphics to display information "at a glance"
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Go Steelers!
This game calls for my very best steelers luv. My unbelievably great steelers jacket and hat(usually reserved for superbowl and local bar appearances only). It's a fan thing.
Audio stream at 11:00 am: http://player.cumulusstreaming.com/S...r.aspx?WTPA-FM
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Video stream at kickoff.
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And their fans.
from Woodleys facebook this morning:
Gameday breakfast is steak with eggs and cheese
Guess what/who's for lunch? lol
I don't just want a win. I want this to be a statement game.
I want this team to make statement about las year's game (payback is a b****).
I want them to make a statement about this year's team (we want to be known as the best defensive team ever and the road to Dallas goes through Pittsburgh and we plan to be there).
Spammer banned for being a douchebag spammer!!
Now on to the business at hand.... Here we go Steelers!!
Just saw a report on espn saying Ben is nervous about the fans acceptance of him...I wish he would quit pandering to the haters and the fools who are supposed to be protesting outside and say I have done everything asked of me...support me if you want...and if you don't want to support me then kiss my ***...Ben doesn't owe me,you or anyone except the rooneys anything except 100% effort on the field...but we know he won't do this because he has too much class and too much respect for the rooneys
Unfortunately here in South Cackalakie we have to watch Baltimore vs New England.
Looking for a live feed!
Go Steelers!
I have a youth football game to coach @ 2pm... anyone wanna send me text updates, lol
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The Beacon House football program in Northeast, D.C. needs your help to raise $70,000 before Friday.
The cash will cover the cost of a trip to the American Youth Football League's National Championship in Orlando for four separate Beacon House teams that won regional titles.
The program is halfway to its fundraising goal.
Athletic director and coach Rodney Cephas said the trip to Florida would be a dream come true for the young players. He described them as good kids who deserve support from their D.C. community.
"These young guys and girls they do their best in school," Cephas said. "As a community and a city we need to support our youth and everything they do positive. They're not in trouble. They do their homework; they take out the trash; they do the dishes. We need to support our youth."
There are 104 players on the teams ranging from 6 to 14 years old, including two girls.
"I want to be a girl that plays football," said Hope. At 9 years old, she's one of the D tackles on the team. She told WUSA9's Bruce Johnson she has dreams of playing in the NFL.
"I want to let all the girls out in the world know they can be anything they want to be," Hope said.
Parents said the Beacon House program has played an important role in raising their children.
"They're extremely committed students," one mother said. "I'm a single mother, and Beacon House has been a village to help me raise my son. They offer mentoring; they build character, leadership skills. He's an honor roll student, and he's an athlete."
Beacon House needs to raise $45,000 by Friday morning. The costs cover buses, hotels, and fees for all 104 players.
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How about lightning-caused damage to your electronics, like a TV or computer? Also typically covered.
And what about your car? If that gets hit by lightning, is the damage covered? Again, in most cases yes -- IF you have comprehensive coverage. (A man riding his motorcycle near Chehalis yesterday was struck by lightning, but is apparently doing well, other than a partly melted helmet. Really.)


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L'abbé C
M. Boyars, 1983 - Literature - 158 pages
Told in a series of first-person accounts, L"'Abbe C" is a startling narrative about the intense and terrifying relationship between twin brothers. Charles is a modern libertine, dedicated to vice and depravity, while Robert is a priest so devout that he is nicknamed L'Abbe'. When the sexually wild Eponine intrudes upon their suffocating relationship, anguish, delirium, and death ensue. Other works by Georges Bataille published by Marion Boyars include "Blue of Noon" and "My Mother Madame Edwarda and the Dead Man.
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Racing karts use small 2-stroke or 4-stroke engines.
The kart engines are developed and built by dedicated manufacturers. These can develop from about 4 hp to 7 hp for a single-cylinder 60 cc unit to 90 hp for a twin 250 cc. The most popular categories worldwide are those using the deep groove ball bearing as crankshaft support. SKF recently has developed a new roller bearing which is maximasing the engine performances. These 2-stroke kart engines can run in excess of 19,000 rpm. They can be both water and air cooled.


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DES MOINES, Iowa — In researching wrestling for the upcoming film "Foxcatcher," director Bennett Miller kept coming back to a simple question.
Miller wondered what drove wrestlers to suffer through tremendous hardship, dedicate themselves so completely and compete so intensely despite little promise of tangible rewards. Miller, an Oscar-nominated director perhaps best known for directing "Moneyball," found the answers "deeply moving and highly personal."
The experience quickly turned him into a supporter of a sport now fighting for its Olympic existence.
"The reason why people wrestle felt more pure to me," Miller told The Associated Press in a phone interview on Wednesday. "If you're in that sport, you're not doing it for money and you're not doing it to become famous. I found that an impressively high concentration of people were in it the intrinsic values of it."
Those efforts could lead to one of the most influential movies ever connected to wrestling.
"Foxcatcher," which is set to be released in late 2013, tells the story of John du Pont, the chemical fortune heir who killed Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler Dave Schultz at his estate near Philadelphia in 1996. Schultz, a 1984 gold medal winner, had come to live and train at the state-of-the-art Foxcatcher National Training Center that du Pont had built on his 800-acre property.
After the shooting, du Pont barricaded himself inside his home for two days, but was taken into custody when he left his mansion to fix a boiler police had shut off. Found guilty but mentally ill in the slaying, he died in prison in 2010 at the age of 72.
The movie features Steve Carell as du Pont, Mark Ruffalo as Dave Schultz and Channing Tatum as his brother, Mark Schultz. Miller, the cast and the crew spent years working on the movie, and the experience persuaded Ruffalo to assist the U.S.-based Committee to Preserve Olympic Wrestling.
The IOC recommended in February that wrestling be left out of the Olympics in 2020. But last month it was one of three sports selected to compete for the last provisional spot in the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games, along with squash and a combined bid from baseball/softball. A final vote is expected by the IOC general assembly during its meeting in Buenos Aires in September.
Ruffalo attended the exhibition between the U.S., Russia and Iran in New York in May and he also shot a public service announcement for CPOW that was released Tuesday.
"It shows that the sport has motivated people to move to keep it in the Olympics and motivated enough people to push the IOC to reconsider," Ruffalo said of the push to save Olympic wrestling.
Ruffalo, who was nominated an Academy Award for his work in "The Kids Are All Right," has long held a personal connection to wrestling. Ruffalo's father, Frank, was a standout wrestler in his youth, and he encouraged his son to compete as well. Ruffalo wrestled from seventh through 11th grade in Wisconsin and Virginia Beach, Va.
"It was profound for me," Ruffalo said. "It was probably the most — as far as training for the world, my career and success — wrestling played a big part in that. The amount of discipline and determination and will and just moxie that you have to have to be a wrestler."
Ruffalo said he put on 30 pounds to play Schultz, who won gold at the Los Angeles Games at 74 kilograms. Ruffalo, Tatum and others worked with several members of USA Wrestling in an effort to accurately portray the sport.
"They really opened up their arms to me once they saw I could really wrestle," Ruffalo said. "They're a very tight-knit group of people that are protective of their sport ... it's just a classy, classy, classy group of people."
Filming also opened the eyes of Miller, who acknowledged that he was neither familiar with nor particularly interested in wrestling until he started work on "Foxcatcher."
One of the first people Miller met through USA Wrestling was Dave Bennett, an eye doctor who gave up his practice to pursue his passion for coaching and working with wrestlers.
"What drew into this movie is a story that, to be honest had nothing to do with wrestling ... I was interested in the characters, the whole story," Miller said. "During the research, I went to various tournaments and got to know wrestlers and about the sport, and it really drew me in. It altered my perceptions, and learning about the sport was like a portal into a new understanding and appreciation for the value system."


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Watch One Direction Covering Kings of Leon's 'Sex on Fire' [VIDEO]by Thomas Chau | PopCrush
One Direction aren't shy about putting their own spin on some of music's biggest songs, and while performing in Arlington, Texas, the boys took on Kings of Leon's 'Sex on Fire.'
Directioners who attended the Aug. 24 stop of the Where We Are Tour at the AT&T Stadium were treated to One Direction doing a cover of the 2008 Kings of Leon hit. In addition to belting out the vocals, we also see Niall Horan doing the song's famous guitar riff for the audience.
This wouldn't be the first time One Direction has played homage to Kings of Leon. The boys performed 'Use Somebody' as part of the Up All Night Tour in 2012.
One Direction will continue hitting other U.S. cities until Oct. 5 before their international tour in 2015, titled the On the Road Again Tour.
Click on the video above (via Sugarscape) to check out a clip of 1D performing 'Sex on Fire.'
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Fans of Scotty McCreery will get a chance to see the country music star in person next month.
Tommy Garrett, program director for WRNS, said McCreery is coming to Kinston on Dec 5. as part of WRNS�s fifth annual Holiday Ho Hodown. The concert will be at the Woodman Community Center at 8 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30 p.m.
Garret said tickets are free, and can be won through WRNS in a variety of ways.
�There (are) going to be ticket drops, win-it-weekends with WRNS and we are going to have some on our WRNS Country Club,� he said.
Garrett said tickets will be available on-air through Wednesday, with WRNS giving out a pair of tickets at 8:10 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 4:10 p.m. and 8:10 p.m. Garrett said tickets for a meet and greet with McCreery will be given out along with other tickets over the next few weeks.
Tony Denton, director of sales at WRNS, said the radio station will be at Handy Mart locations in Jacksonville on Wednesday from 3 to 5 p.m. WRNS will also be giving out tickets at Bojangles locations in Greenville and Kinston on Monday and Dec. 2, respectively, from 4 to 6 p.m.
Two pairs of tickets will be given out every 10 minutes.
Denton said in previous years, the event has featured country artists such as Craig Morgan and Joe Nichols.
�It�s kind of our Christmas party for listeners we do each year,� he said.
Garrett said he worked with McCreery�s camp to bring the country star to Kinston.
�With him being a N.C. product, I figured it was perfect and he thought it as well. So he was ready to do it.�
Denton said there were stipulations to McCreery�s appearance.
�It had to be a free show in a family-oriented atmosphere, like the Woodman Center, not in a bar or anything like that,� he said.
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Kelly Cannon, executive director at the Woodman Center, said she is looking forward to McCreery�s show.
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Family. History. Dance. These three elements combine in the Tony Award Winning "Billy Elliot The Musical," which is based on the 2000 Universal Pictures/Studio Canal Film "Billy Elliot." Many movies are currently being made into musicals. For Billy Elliot, it is a transition that not only makes sense, but which opens up additional possibilities. Because the story line is about dance, Billy Elliot not only fits the stage – it belongs on stage. There is an energy elicited with live dance performances that can never be captured quite the same way on screen.
The story takes place during the 1984 - 1985 United Kingdom's miners strike in County Durham, in North Eastern England. The motherless 11-year-old son of a miner wants to trade his boxing gloves for ballet shoes. Needless to say, his macho father isn't happy about it. His dance teacher, realizing the boy has extraordinary talent, tries to convince his dad to let him go to London to audition for the Royal Ballet School. Despite their strike-induced impoverishment, all the miners, recognizing his desire and talent, pitch in to help with the expenses so Billy can go.
In the musical, audiences get to see the young Billy Elliot dance with exuberance, skill and flair. Unlike the film version, there are no "second takes" if he makes a mistake – each pirouette, pas de bourrée, and grand jeté is in the moment, and the excitement is palpable. This is a tough show for all the actors, especially an eleven-year-old. Four different young actors rotate in the part of Billy. We saw Peter Mazurowski, who gave an excellent performance.
Billy Elliot The Musical is terrific as family fare. It is particularly notable that in the ballet classes all kinds of kids are represented. It's not just all petite and pretty little girls. Instead, it features students who are short, tall, gawky, chubby, even "nerdettes" wearing glasses. Marilyn, co-author of this article, was a ballet and tap dancer as a child, so it was especially fun for her to relate to the classes, the tutus, and the emotional turmoil of these young ingénues. There's also a young gay boy, Michael, played by Cameron Clifford. The show promotes acceptance and tolerance of everyone, which is so important in these current times when bullying has become a hot topic.
The adult roles are filled with a stellar cast, including Emily Skinner, Daniel Jenkins, Katerine McGrath and Patrick Mulvey. The show was directed by Stephen Daldry with choreography by Peter Darling. Book and lyrics by Lee Hall; and music by Elton John.
If you've seen the movie, "Billy Elliot," you simply have to see the live show for comparison. If you haven't seen the movie, you should head out for the musical that includes an interesting period in history, along with exciting dancing, soulful singing, and a meaningful and poignant story.
After three splendid years and 10 Tony Awards, Billy Elliot will remove its ballet shoes from Broadway on January 8th, 2012. The North America Tour will take the musical to cities throughout the United States, starting on November 1, 2011.
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There are 65 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Divisibility, you may find related items under Numbers and the Number System.Broad Topics > Numbers and the Number System > Divisibility
This challenge encourages you to explore dividing a three-digit number by a single-digit number.
Can you order the digits from 1-3 to make a number which is divisible by 3 so when the last digit is removed it becomes a 2-figure number divisible by 2, and so on?
Mathematicians are always looking for efficient methods for solving problems. How efficient can you be?
Play this game and see if you can figure out the computer's chosen number.
Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.
How many pairs of numbers can you find that add up to a multiple of 11? Do you notice anything interesting about your results?
On a "move" a stone is removed from two of the circles and placed in the third circle. Here are five of the ways that 27 stones could be distributed.
Ben, Jack and Emma passed counters to each other and ended with the same number of counters. How many did they start with?
Yasmin and Zach have some bears to share. Which numbers of bears can they share so that there are none left over?
A monkey with peaches, keeps a fraction of them each day, gives the rest away, and then eats one. How long can his peaches last?
Can you show that 1^99 + 2^99 + 3^99 + 4^99 + 5^99 is divisible by 5?
Caroline and James pick sets of five numbers. Charlie chooses three of them that add together to make a multiple of three. Can they stop him?
Lyndon chose this as one of his favourite problems. It is accessible but needs some careful analysis of what is included and what is not. A systematic approach is really helpful.
I'm thinking of a number. My number is both a multiple of 5 and a multiple of 6. What could my number be?
This article takes the reader through divisibility tests and how they work. An article to read with pencil and paper to hand.
Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...
Take any prime number greater than 3 , square it and subtract one. Working on the building blocks will help you to explain what is special about your results.
In a square in which the houses are evenly spaced, numbers 3 and 10 are opposite each other. What is the smallest and what is the largest possible number of houses in the square?
Can you guarantee that, for any three numbers you choose, the product of their differences will always be an even number?
What is the largest number which, when divided into 1905, 2587, 3951, 7020 and 8725 in turn, leaves the same remainder each time?
Take any four digit number. Move the first digit to the end and move the rest along. Now add your two numbers. Did you get a multiple of 11?
Do you know a quick way to check if a number is a multiple of two? How about three, four or six?
Three people chose this as a favourite problem. It is the sort of problem that needs thinking time - but once the connection is made it gives access to many similar ideas.
Is there an efficient way to work out how many factors a large number has?
What can you say about the common difference of an AP where every term is prime?
Imagine we have four bags containing numbers from a sequence. What numbers can we make now?
Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?
When Charlie asked his grandmother how old she is, he didn't get a straightforward reply! Can you work out how old she is?
Here is a Sudoku with a difference! Use information about lowest common multiples to help you solve it.
The flow chart requires two numbers, M and N. Select several values for M and try to establish what the flow chart does.
In this article for teachers, Bernard Bagnall describes how to find digital roots and suggests that they can be worth exploring when confronted by a sequence of numbers.
Add powers of 3 and powers of 7 and get multiples of 11.
In this article we shall consider how to solve problems such as "Find all integers that leave a remainder of 1 when divided by 2, 3, and 5."
Take any pair of numbers, say 9 and 14. Take the larger number, fourteen, and count up in 14s. Then divide each of those values by the 9, and look at the remainders.
An introduction to the ideas of public key cryptography using small numbers to explain the process. In practice the numbers used are too large to factorise in a reasonable time.
An example of a simple Public Key code, called the Knapsack Code is described in this article, alongside some information on its origins. A knowledge of modular arithmetic is useful.
You have worked out a secret code with a friend. Every letter in the alphabet can be represented by a binary value.
Given any 3 digit number you can use the given digits and name another number which is divisible by 37 (e.g. given 628 you say 628371 is divisible by 37 because you know that 6+3 = 2+7 = 8+1 = 9). . . .
Suppose an operator types a US Bank check code into a machine and transposes two adjacent digits will the machine pick up every error of this type? Does the same apply to ISBN numbers; will a machine. . . .
Details are given of how check codes are constructed (using modulus arithmetic for passports, bank accounts, credit cards, ISBN book numbers, and so on. A list of codes is given and you have to check. . . .
Find the values of n for which 1^n + 8^n - 3^n - 6^n is divisible by 6.
Find and explain a short and neat proof that 5^(2n+1) + 11^(2n+1) + 17^(2n+1) is divisible by 33 for every non negative integer n.
A three digit number abc is always divisible by 7 when 2a+3b+c is divisible by 7. Why?
Think of any three-digit number. Repeat the digits. The 6-digit number that you end up with is divisible by 91. Is this a coincidence?
The four digits 5, 6, 7 and 8 are put at random in the spaces of the number : 3 _ 1 _ 4 _ 0 _ 9 2 Calculate the probability that the answer will be a multiple of 396.
Peter Zimmerman from Mill Hill County High School in Barnet, London gives a neat proof that: 5^(2n+1) + 11^(2n+1) + 17^(2n+1) is divisible by 33 for every non negative integer n.
What is the remainder when 2^2002 is divided by 7? What happens with different powers of 2?
How many numbers less than 1000 are NOT divisible by either: a) 2 or 5; or b) 2, 5 or 7?
6! = 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1. The highest power of 2 that divides exactly into 6! is 4 since (6!) / (2^4 ) = 45. What is the highest power of two that divides exactly into 100!?
The number 8888...88M9999...99 is divisible by 7 and it starts with the digit 8 repeated 50 times and ends with the digit 9 repeated 50 times. What is the value of the digit M?


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Campaign Launched to Restore Lost Pines Forest Destroyed in Bastrop Fire
Aug. 28, 2012
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Coalition Seeks Donations To Plant More Than 4 Million Trees
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BASTROP – Nearing the one-year anniversary of the most destructive wildfire in Texas history, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Arbor Day Foundation and Texas A&M Forest Service today appealed for help by launching the Lost Pines Forest Recovery Campaign, a multi-year public-private partnership to raise money to plant more than 4 million trees on public and private land.
The September 2011 fire destroyed more homes than any other in state history, and it raged through 95 percent of 6,600-acre Bastrop State Park, as well surrounding private forest lands. The forest recovery campaign, expected to cost more than $4 million, aims to plant native loblolly pine seedlings on about 16,000 burned acres. That includes about 2 million trees in the state park, and more than 2 million on surrounding private land.
The Lost Pines ecosystem includes more than 75,000 acres of loblolly pines scattered across sections of five Texas counties, an ecological island separated from larger pine forests in East Texas. About 80 percent of the forest lies in Bastrop County, and 32,400 acres of it burned in the fires. Of that total burned acreage, about 20 percent is in the state park. Another 5 percent is on county land, mostly road right-of-way. The remaining 75 percent is controlled by some 3,600 landowners.
The Arbor Day Foundation will lead forest recovery fundraising, while the state parks and forest agencies will serve as on-the-ground partners in the five-year forest recovery effort. The foundation has already secured financial commitments from several corporate sponsors, including Mary Kay, Inc., FedEx, Chili's Grill and Bar, Nokia and Apache Corporation.
However, campaign partners emphasized more help is needed to restore the Lost Pines forest to its pre-disaster condition. Anyone can donate online at www.arborday.org/Texas, as well as find links to volunteer opportunities.
"The Lost Pines Forest Recovery Campaign is about bringing life back to Central Texas," said Dan Lambe, Arbor Day Foundation vice president of programs. "These trees are part of the long and important history of the people and land of this state. For just $1 per tree, or about $500 per acre, supporters can make a big difference at any level."
Lambe said the Foundation has experience working with partners on several post-disaster replanting efforts, delivering more than 200,000 trees to families affected by Hurricane Katrina and last year's tornadoes in northern Alabama and Joplin, Missouri.
"In today's climate, no one entity has the resources to do it all alone, but we're fortunate that people care deeply about natural treasures like the Lost Pines and Bastrop State Park," said Carter Smith, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department executive director. "There are many ways to help the Bastrop area rise from the proverbial ashes, but bringing back the trees is an essential step to restore the region's ecological lifeblood. If we each donate a little, together we can do a great deal."
"It means a great deal to my agency to have been part of the wildfire response in Bastrop," said Tom Boggus, Texas A&M Forest Service director. "It means even more to be part of the recovery. TFS is providing 100 percent of the genetically-unique seed to be able to restore the Lost Pines. And although the agency has the seed source, it is the support of the Arbor Day Foundation that helps make this all possible."
The forest recovery campaign will support the work of the broader Lost Pines Recovery Team, a consortium of local, state and federal agencies led by Bastrop County.
About the Arbor Day Foundation: The Arbor Day Foundation is a nonprofit conservation and education organization of one million members, with the mission to inspire people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees. More information on the Foundation and its programs can be found at arboday.org, or by visiting us on Facebook, Twitter or our blog.
About Texas Parks and Wildlife: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department mission balances outdoor recreation and sustainable use of resources with conservation and management of natural and cultural resources. The department operates 95 Texas state parks and historic sites, 51 wildlife management areas, three saltwater fish hatcheries and five freshwater hatcheries. TPWD game wardens and wildlife and fisheries biologists work in every Texas county, enforcing laws and encouraging management to conserve fish and wildlife. For more information, see the TPWD website (http://tpwd.texas.gov).
About Texas A&M Forest Service: Texas A&M Forest Service, a proud member of The Texas A&M University System, focuses on conserving and protecting the state's trees, forests and related natural resources. Learn more at http://texasforestservice.tamu.edu.
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Cobre Valley Casserole
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Bake: 30 min.
Makes8 servings
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 celery rib, chopped
- 1 envelope taco seasoning
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 cans (16 ounces each) refried beans
- 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies, optional
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 2 green onions, sliced
- 1 large tomato, peeled, seeded and chopped
- 1/3 cup sliced ripe olives
- 1-1/2 cups crushed tortilla chips
- In a large skillet, cook the beef, onion and celery over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Stir in the taco seasoning, water, beans and, if desired, green chilies.
- Transfer to a greased 11x7-in. baking dish. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 30 minutes or until heated through. Top with cheese, green onions, tomato, olives and chips.
Freeze option: Cool unbaked casserole; cover and freeze. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Remove from refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Preheat oven to 350°. Bake casserole as directed, increasing time as necessary to heat through and for a thermometer inserted in center to read 165°. Top as directed.
Nutrition Facts1 cup: 298 calories, 15g fat (7g saturated fat), 57mg cholesterol, 790mg sodium, 23g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 4g fiber), 19g protein.
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Hi , I' m your neighbor to the west! Made this a million time my family loves it! Only difference I use black beans and green chili's
Jul 24, 2014
Very good! Quick and easy dinner with minimal clean up. I used only one can of beans since I'm not a huge fan of them. I still liked the recipe a lot.
Jun 9, 2014
Recipe saved! THANKYOU. J.
May 3, 2014
Loved this recipe. It makes a wonderful hot nacho dip too! The only thing I would try when making this dish again would be to us half the amount of re-fried beans.
Apr 3, 2014
This dish reminds me of the quintessential layered refried bean party dip--it didn't feel like a casserole per se. Used chicken instead of beef because that's what I had on hand. Next time I will substitute Mexican or Spanish rice for one can of the refried beans. It could use some extra spice--agree with many of the other comments about ramping up the heat. There are so many extra things you can use for garnish--sour cream, cilantro, salsa, lettuce. I also agree it would be excellent for tacos or burritos. Overall a good recipe and a fun one to play with.
Mar 26, 2013
We loved this. Add sour cream and lettuce on top, it was a hit. Next time would use medium instead of mild can of green chilies and maybe medium instead of mild taco seasoning.
Feb 26, 2013
Good. Kids and husband all liked this.
Feb 5, 2013
I made some changes to appeal to my family's taste. Instead of using 2 cans of refried beans, I swapped one can out and replaced it with black beans; I used hormel green chili instead of green chilies and instead of using a large tomato I used pace medium picante sauce.
Jan 29, 2013
Made this last night - so easy. Husband and two teenage boys loved it - no leftovers. Would be good as filling for burritos.
Jan 27, 2013
This was good. Hubby and kids liked it. I think the mixture would be good in tacos and used some of the leftovers over cream cheese for an appetizer.


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The London leg of the 3D Print show is almost upon us again. The show will be running from September 4th to 6th at Old Billingsgate, London.
This time Adobe are taking the centre stage and sponsoring the show with Stratasys. If you are interested in learning more about how Adobe is able to improve the 3D Printing pipeline then this is defiantly a show to come to. We will be there with a stand and will have some speakers talking about Adobe 3D Print capabilities, as well as how our customers are using 3D Printing from Photoshop to radically enhance their workflow and making 3D printing much easier than it has been in the past.
Adobe people will be there for your to talk to and answer any questions that you may have, also Adobe's Winston Hendrickson (VP for Adobe Digital Imaging), will be talking about creativity and Pete Faclo (lead 3D Printing engineer), will be talking about preparing models for print with Photoshop. The UK will be there and i'll be talking about customer case studies, as well as some other Photoshop 3D printing talks in the booth.
Why not come down and see what's going on with 3D printing in general and see what these makers and manufacturers are up to.


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Pre-orders for Apple's new brightly-colored iPhone 5C and more expensive iPhone 5S have been underwhelming and supply is dismal, according to reports.
The "disappointing" pre-orders were reported by a U.S. wireless carrier Tuesday, according to Reuters. The iPhone 5C was a more inexpensive model at $99 with a contract that comes in a plastic carrying case in blue, green, pink, yellow and white. The 5S begins at $199 with a contract and comes in gray, silver and gold. Both models go on sale in several countries, including the United States, on Sept. 20.
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However, even if there were numerous pre-orders, Apple's inventory is dismally limited to carriers in the week following the launch. "We will have grotesquely unavailable inventory," an unnamed U.S. carrier told AllThingsD.
It's likely that the lower inventory could be a way for Apple to ensure that the iPhones don't sit on the shelves and instead appear to be flying off of them.


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When and why did you start training for fighting? I trained in martial arts from eight years old, karate initially and then moving to kickboxing. From age 15 I have been competing in a variety of full-contact competitions to test my training. Since then I have competed in over 80 amateur & professional fights in MMA, Thai/Kickboxing and Japanese Shootboxing.
What ranks and titles have you held? Shootboxing Japan "S-of the world vol 5" Winner (2003), European Cage Combat Middleweight Champion (2003), Knock Down Sport Budo International Champion (2001), European Brazilian Jiu Jitsu & Grappling Championship (Fr) silver medalist (2001), UK Open Sambo Tournament Silver medalist (2001), South East USA Kickboxing Champion (1993)
What is your favorite technique? Whatever my opponent least expects: leg locks, heel hooks & spinning back fists all felt good to me in 2006.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? Achieving a lifelong dream...I first put my application in to fight in the UFC in 1994...must be a huge pile of application forms on Dana's desk, because it took the guys 13 years to work through it and eventually call me up...now that I'm here though, I intend to stick around and do some damage.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I left school at 14 years old.
What was your job before you started fighting? I worked as a Chef at 16 years old, but I have been a full-time fighter for many years now.
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When you see Joe and Cecilia "Rue" Monesmith, you would not think of them being as old as they are.
They take walks, dine out regularly and enjoy the autumn of their years as much as anyone.
So it would come as a shock that Joe, 90, and Rue, 86, who live in Pioneer Village, celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary last Wednesday.
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John and Cecilia "Rue" Monesmith when they were wed in 1943.
But while those long walks and active lifestyle has had something to do with it, it also takes a great commitment and love to make it that long.
"I think we were born married, we've been together so long," Joe laughed.
Joe met Rue in Texas, where he and a friend joined the Army Air Corps during World War II.
"We met in Odessa. A friend of mine introduced me to her at church," Joe said."It didn't take us long, we fell in love and wanted to be together all the time, and we said the word to each other and we're still doing it."
About six months later, on July 31, 1943, they were married at that Methodist church.
From there, Joe went overseas to become a flight engineer on B-29s and flew over Japan 35 times to drop bombs.
"I had my oldest baby during the time he was at war. It was kind of tough but he was always active," Rue said. "He got the Distinguished Flying Cross."
After the war, Joe got his private pilot license to fly before moving his family to New Jersey to go into air conditioning and refrigeration. He became a steamfitter before retiring in 1978.
Meanwhile, Rue stayed home to care for her two sons, Joe, 67, and Fred, 65, who have both been married more than 30 years themselves. They have produced eight grandkids and eight great-grandkids.
After her kids were grown, she went to college and earned a degree in art and later her real estate license.
After bringing their motor home down to the area for five years, they moved to Southwest Florida permanently in November 1999.
Joe said one of the secrets is realizing that one plus one equals one when it comes to a marriage. Rue said it's about showing your love and communicating.
"We've always been happy and very much in love. We walk holding hands and really care for each other," Rue said. "We've always been able to talk to each other and discuss things when we're upset."
But another big key, besides the boxing gloves Rue claims to use in her living room, is the active lifestyle they live.
"We walk every day. We eat out three or four times a week. We make the most of every day. Every day is a premium when you get to be our age," Rue said. "The days go by quickly when you're happy."
Joe won a silver medal in the weight throw for his age class at the World Master Athletics Championship in Sacremento, Calif. in 2011, and was an All-American in the shot put, discus and javelin.
The sons remain a key part of their lives. Last year, the sons chipped in to send their parents and families on a cruise.
Every day is a sacred one for the Monesmiths, who feel blessed with each day they get to spend with family and friends.
"We have a lot of friends here in the park. When you reach our age you don't have too much trouble," Rue said. "We've led a simple life, but we've had a good one. We've had a great 90 years, believe me."


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What Kind Of Progress Are We Promoting?
from the the-big-question deptContinuing my series of posts exploring some of the basics of "intellectual property," I wanted to discuss that key clause in the Constitution that I brought up in the first post in the series:
"The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"Unfortunately, many have interpreted this clause to mean that any such monopoly granted must "promote the progress of Science and useful Arts." However, a much more reasonable reading of this clause -- especially given Jefferson and Madison's clearly stated concerns about it as they argued over whether or not to include it -- is that these monopoly grants (whether copyright or patent) should only be considered Constitutional if they actually "promote the progress." What Madison and Jefferson saw (which is all too often ignored these days) is that granting a monopoly has both negative impacts and positive impacts. If the positive impacts outweigh the negative, then you can say that the granted monopolies promote the progress. If it's the other way around, however....
Now there are some who insist that there are no negative impacts of such monopolies, but that's easily shown to be false. Clearly, by limiting the ability of everyone else to make use of the ideas or content, that's a loss. The argument in favor of these monopolies is straightforward: that without the monopoly, there is little (or perhaps no) incentive for the creator to create the content or bring a product to market in the first place. Even for those who recognize the downsides to patents and copyright, many will argue that this particular benefit vastly outweighs the negatives. However, it would appear to be a more open question than many believe.
There are different parts to break out in examining the question of whether or not a patent or copyright actually "promotes the progress." First, it's weighing the negative impacts. To do that, you start out by determining the deadweight loss from the monopoly pricing that is enforced via the patent or copyright. This would be the higher price that can be charged for the good, thanks to the exclusivity granted by the government. The second, much more difficult to calculate, concept to figure out is whether (and to what degree) that exclusivity also slows down additional later improvements, which would, clearly, go against the concept of promoting the progress. This point is often ignored in discussions about patents, due to the fact that many look at an invention in a "static" world -- where the invention (or new content) is the end of production. However, in a dynamic world, innovation is actually an ongoing process of experimenting and changing and tinkering. If each stage of that process is limited and blocked, then clearly it can slow down "the progress" by quite a bit. Third is to look at other costs, such as diverted resources to legal fees.
Of course, it's important to look at the benefits side of the equation as well, and weigh them against the negatives. On that side, the question should be whether or not the content or invention would be created at all in the absence of the protection. To answer that question, what you really need to look at is whether or not there are alternative business models that would create an acceptable likelihood of return to still have the product created. If such models exist, then it would suggest that the "benefit" of the monopoly is somewhat limited. However, if such models do not exist, then you need to account for the loss associated with the invention or content never being created, including the further impacts down the line (if there were no steam engine, would there be no steamboats etc...). You can also look at whether or not such inventions or content would take longer to produce in the absence of protection, and account for how that might slow down the pace of innovation. When it comes to patents, there are also some who claim that another important benefit is "disclosure." That is, a part of the bargain for getting the patent is that you need to disclose the details of the concept so that others can learn from it, and that disclosure should, in theory, create further innovations.
So what does the evidence show? I had been working out a list of all the research to include in this post when I saw that James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer had written up part of a summary of their new book, Patent Failures, which we had mentioned recently. The summary goes through much of the peer reviewed research that I had been planning to mention on the impact (good and bad) of patents, and reveals a rather consistent finding: there is almost no evidence that patents help promote the progress. Specifically:
"it is hard to find evidence suggesting patents are a major factor spurring R&D investment, that patents contribute to economic growth, or even that the patent system is a source of great wealth to important inventors and innovators."What they find, instead, is that whenever there's a correlation between increased research and development and patents, it's a reverse causality. That is, greater patent protection trails greater research and development. Greater patent protection, however, does not increase research and development. What that clearly suggests is that stronger patent systems are put in place after the research and development is done, in order to protect those who did the work against competition, not to spur further innovation. That may make the earlier inventors happy (it lets them rest on their laurels rather than continue to innovate), but it goes against the very purpose of the patent system, and results in an overall societal loss. This certainly isn't a new finding, and much of the research discussed by Bessen and Meurer can also be found in David Levine and Michele Boldrin's book Against Intellectual Monopoly.
This isn't just the result of one study, either, but a number of different studies comparing a number of different things, both over different time periods, across different countries, different types of products and many other factors. And almost all of the research points in the same direction. There is little evidence that patents actually do what the Constitution says they must to remain Constitutional. There is, potentially, one exception. Bessen and Meurer do note that there is some evidence that patents do have an impact on R&D in the pharmaceutical business (on this Levine and Boldrin disagree with Bessen and Meurer). Indeed, there are some people who claim that a situation like pharmaceuticals is the one case of market failure where patents could make sense, since there's a high capital expenditure requirement on the front end, and the barrier to copying is exceptionally low on the output. This post is long enough already, but there are reasons to even doubt that patents are necessary in pharmaceuticals as well (and actually many reasons to believe that they actively harm the market for health care). However, we'll have to cover that another time.
In the meantime, the next post in the series will pick up on exactly why the negatives associated with patents seem to almost always outweigh the positives.
Links to other posts in the series:
- On The Constitutional Reasons Behind Copyright And Patents
- Patents, Copyrights And Trademarks, Oh My!
- If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?
- What Kind Of Progress Are We Promoting?
- Why Do Patents Tend To Cause More Harm Than Good?
- The Case For And Against Software And Business Model Patents
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To know the Moomins was to know Tove [Jansson]. She poured her wit, dreams and fears into the characters.The Economist
All the Moomins want to do is sleep through the long, harsh winter, but nothing goes according to plan when several unexpected and unwanted guests show up!
As the Moomins prepare to hibernate through what is going to be the worst winter yet, several unwelcomed guests take advantage of the Moomins' generosity and keep the family awake throughout the long winter. Their quirky but needy guests prevent the Moomins from hibernating and the chaos only increases with the arrival of a little nibling determined to find out everyone's secrets. One by one, the nibling sees what the Moomins and each of their houseguests do when no one else is looking. But everyone is ashamed of what the nibling has seen and is determined to keep their secret activities, well, a secret!
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[Tove Jansson's Moomins feature) scratchy, pen-and-ink sketches and [an] atmosphere of beneficence ... [a] mix of disaster and gentle naïveté.New York Review of Books


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Kellie Pickler is a fully committed cancer buddy.
The 26-year-old country music singer recently shaved her head in support of her best friend, Summer Holt Miller, 35, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in June.
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Pickler sat down on Ellen DeGeneres' show Friday and opened up about her decision to go bald with her friend.
"It's just hair!" she said. "I will be honest with you, I was a little nervous and she was too. [We thought], 'I hope we don't have some crazy birthmark or wart or mole or something . . . but we had fun."
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The singer revealed that her grandmother passed away from cancer the "very next morning after being diagnosed." Pickler wanted to be there through chemotherapy with Miller.
"When Summer was diagnosed with breast cancer back in June we made a pact that we'd shave our heads together," she said. "I think it's important to have a cancer buddy."
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Miller started chemo last week and Pickler said she's "doing good."
"Of course, it's hard," she added. "It's hard on your body, it's hard on your mind. It's not an easy thing to go through. But she's a strong woman and she's handled it with such grace."
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