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There are 5 Shaky Leaves, but I will only deal with one of them here.
Going to the Web Search Workspace, I selected the hint that had the View Image link. In the Lower Left is the data from my file, and the Lower Right is the data that will be included IF I do the Web Merge. I compare the data, but I want to look at the Image first.
I click on the View Image which shows me the image. Since there were other names listed, I used the down arrow to the right of the first Child's name which shows all of the children
This IS my person. Although my data doesn't have a death date, it is within reason that he would still be alive in 1781, and there are least 3 Children listed.
I click on the Merge ICON, Lower Right Panel.
With any merge, this screen, and any that follow are MOST important. Look Carefully at the two columns and the suggested action.
The Left Column is data from my file. The Right Column is the Proposed Changes as a result of the Merge. The choices at the Far Right are Discard or Alternate. There is a bullet option that you select to make that entry the Preferred Fact.
IF Discard is chosen, you are given the option to Keep the Citation.
In this case, my file had Thomas Ridgway Jr, and Ancestry had Thomas Ridgway. I want to KEEP the name as presented by Ancestry. I just have another source that has documented that is is a Junior. I don't mind Alternate Names (Alt Names) and I will KNOW where I got the same from.
It fact, I have one source that has his surname spelled Ridgeway (with the "e")
This is a one screen web merge I have shared multiple choice web merge screens before.
The Summary screen shows that there is an Image (media file) included in the Merge. I can remove the check mark, but most, if not all of the time, I want that image.
There is an option to Rename the file here. I choose to bring in the media file as named by Ancestry. Part of my clean up will be to handle this new media file and put the Ancestry.com's free form source entry into the Template format.
There are a couple of steps that I will take with that Media file. Rename it, put a Caption on it, and a Reference Note into the description field for this media file. For me, it's easier to do all of that in FTM2014.
The process runs and at the End you have to Manually Close the window. I just switch to the People Workspace. Reason: I want to come back here shortly.
Switching to the People Workspace, Person View, I see the 1781 Residence Fact from the Web Merge and look at the Source Tab in the Right Panel. Note the Image for that Citation is there as a thumbnail. There is a 1 in the Source column (1st of the 3 numbers on the right) a 1 in the Media column.
This Citation has a Source that is NOT using the Template Feature. That is by default how it works from Ancestry.com. I need to fix that.
Double clicking on the Citation on the right will open the Free Form Citation screen.
To put the Source, for which this Citation is linked to, I click New on the right.
A new screen opens, where I enter a Key Word. This Source was listed as New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817. So, I enter "abs" and stop. The Key Word search only needs 3 characters.
But I don't know that yet. So I click back to the Web Search Workspace and that image is still in the Web Search screen. The information that I need is there, but, there is an easier way to get the required information rather than writing this information or printing this page. There is a GREEN Arrow to the left of the Address entry that looks much like a Browser's Address bar. That green arrow will take you back to the previous screen.
This is back to where we picked up the hint, but this time clicking on the link above the View Image. will bring up the transcribed view of this record.
I do two things here: I use the Printer Friendly open, to print the screen IF I want something to write on, like for my notes,but I do High Light the Sources Information text and hit CTRL+C (copy). I want to Copy that information and put it into the Citation Notes field.
This is what the printer friendly screen looks like. For more complicated records I might print this and write all over it. I don't need to in this case.
Switching back to the Sources Workspace, I select the NOTES tab and Paste those notes into that field.
The Reference Note doesn't look very clean YET, mostly because it's not using a Template and there is that URL that was brought in with the Web Merge. Will clean all of that up shortly.
In the upper right corner of the Right Hand Panel, is the Pencil ICON. That is to edit the Source. I will be taken to that earlier screen where I clicked on New, and entered the ABS Keyword.
This time, since there is already fields entered in the Free Form Source record, a new screen pops up, asking us what do we want to do with the data in that Free Form Source screen and what and were do we want it placed in the Template. Usually, these two screens are on top of each other. I move the top screen to the Right so I can SEE what I want and where, and what the field names are.
The Title is good on the Left, and there is an Article title field on the right screen (template window) and the pull down menu on the right end lets me select Title. So that will be moved into the Template.
Please NOTE; at the top of the Template window is Exiting Template or New Template. This is the first time using this type of Template, so I moved the default Exiting into the New, just by clicking that bullet.
Each of the Template fields are brought from the Free Form to the Template that are appropriate. This isn't a Compiler surname, forename, but I do want to capture that the Publisher of WHAT I AM LOOKING AT, is there. In this case, the Publisher is Ancestry.com. That is what I am looking at specifically.
Completing the Selections from the Free Form to the Template I clicked OK.
The source screen now has been updated.
To note: there were Comments in the Free Form screen that I selected to come over to the Template. The Last choice in the above screen.
But, I want to take it a step further.
I have blogged before about what information should be in the Citation Details field and the Citation Text field. I want to put hints, for me, as to what gets entered into those two fields.
I went to my Evidence Explained book, looked for Abstracts and found what I was looking for on page 438. The same information can be found on Evidence Explained website
What I need to enter is from EE: p 438
accessed: [ date ]; entry for [ focus person ] page [ # ]
The date I accessed the website and did the Merge, the name of the person in the document and the page number. I use the square bracked [ ] to remind me I need to enter information in the Citation Detail field. I copy that last line, and paste it into the Citation Detail screen.
I then will "fill in the blanks" (between the brackets), enter Record for (and his name) Remove the Check Mark on the "include in ref note" line and the Check Mark in the "include in ref note line.
It now looks like this. Upper right, Template Source, the updated text, two removed check marks, and
the best part for me, a Link to View the Online Source. That will take me directly to that source. In reality, I have that link twice. The globe to the Right End of the URL line. The Reference Note now looks like this;
Ancestry.com, compiler, "New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817", Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., accessed: 06 Oct 2013; entry for 1781, April 7. Ridgway, Thomas page 328.
But, we're not done yet. Where we are now, on the Sources Workspace, Citation screen is:
There are 3 Facts with links to this citation, the Source Information from Ancestry.com in the Notes Tab, and the Media file, that Image, in the Media tab.
But ....
When I looked at that document there was reference to more then those three facts. Other people were mentioned.
In the text I read:
1781, April 7. Ridgway, Thomas of Little Egg Harbor, Burlington Co.: will of. Daughter, Ann Willits £5. Son-in-law, Caleb Carr, £5, Son, Jeremiah, the part of plantation I bought of Ephraim Rose; and, Son, John, my oak swamp, and the meadow I bought of Samuel Belangee; also the land that I bought of Roger Osbourn, Son, Job, my homestead plantation. Executors - sons, John and Job. Witnesess - Peter Andrews, Hannah Andrews, Richard Burdsall. Proved Aug. 26, 1786.
1786, July 5. Inventroy, £180.5.4, made by John Gaunt, and Thomas Bellangee.
Lib. 28, p. 52.(1)
(1)Ancestry.com, compiler, "New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817", Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., accessed: 06 Oct 2013; entry for 1781, April 7. Ridgway, Thomas page 328.
There are far more facts that can be linked to this Citation.
There is Thomas at the top, and Anne is the first child. The record says Ann. There is John and Job, already in my file as children of Thomas. There should be links to their names to this citation.
Now, I don't want to do a bunch of mousing around to get Citation links to their name, so I go to Thomas' Tree View screen in the People Workspace, select that Citation, and click on the first ICON to the Right of the word New and the downward pointing arrow. That Copies that Citation, and I can Paste it to any other Fact in my file.
We saw Caleb Carr listed in that article, by name, so I went to his Person View screen, selected the Name fact, and that down arrow to the right of new, I selected the 4th / last entry on that list and Paste Link to Source Citation.
There were a couple of other names listed in that Abstract. I wonder if they are in my file.
Peter Andrews is in my file, with his wife Hannah Somers. (if you know New Jersey, you will know Somers Point)
As it turns out, every named person, except for those other property owners are already in my file. Every one named was "family"
The other Witness was Richard Burdsall, but I have Birdsall. Same person, different spelling. Not the first time I have seen that on this family. A little later on this line the Willits will join "the line"
Finally, the list of Facts, Linked to that citation, went from 3 to 11.
As it turns out, Caleb Carr is the husband of the 2nd daughter of Thomas, but she was not named, and why her name isn't listed above. The only member of his family not named is his wife. Why wasn't she listed in his will? That was listed in my Task list for her, and my ToDo list in the Plan Workspace.
I think Ancestry Anne was right, in each of her Ten Rules. I didn't need the Census Record "rule" because I wasn't looking at that record group.
I had entered what I knew, over a number of years of research, prepared my tree for hints. found a good solid hint,
It certainly made a lot of sense, based on my known family unit, and some other members of my tree, all fit into tis record (hint),
Go Slow, you bet, but the outcome was worth it for me. Viewed the image.
I only found the Abstract BUT in that abstract I know what to look for the next time I go to the New Jersey Archives.
New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Lib. 28, p. 52.
This one record certainly helped firm up the family structure even naming some of the relationships.
I'll repeat the Go Slow step. Yes, there are a number of steps to take a hint and bring it into what I find acceptable. For me, the time was worth it.
A link to my earlier blog post on how this got started.
My reply to Ancestry Anne's Top Ten Rules for Growing Your Family Tree
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There are several bugs reported on mixing transactional and non-transactional tables in statements and in transactions. For the two latest examples, see BUG#28976 and BUG#40116. To explain the situation, I will first start with some background...
The binary logFor this discussion, we call a statement that manipulates transactional tables only a transactional statement and call it a non-transactional statement otherwise.
The binary log is a serial history of the transactions executed on the master, that is, each transaction is written to the binary log at commit time. To handle this, the binary log has a thread-specific transaction cache as well as the actual binary log. Whenever a transactional statement arrives to the binary log, it is cached in the transaction cache, and once the transaction commits, the transaction cache is written to the binary log. Non-transactional statement, on the other hand, are written directly to the binary log since they take effect immediately. Note that this is an idealized picture of how it works, and it lacks a lot of critical details, which we will cover below.
Non-transactional statements in transactionsWhen using a non-transactional table in a transaction, the effects are actually written directly to the table and not managed by the transaction at all. Thanks to the locking scheduler, this can guarantee a serialization order of the statements, but there is no guarantees of atomicity. Note, however, that the locks are released at the end of the statement, not the transaction. This is a result of the MyISAM legacy, which does not have a notion of transactions. In other words, this is what you get in a sample execution:
T1> create table myisam_tbl (a int) engine=myisam; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec) T1> create table innodb_tbl (a int) engine=innodb; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) T1> begin; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) T1> insert into myisam_tbl values (1),(2); Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.04 sec) Records: 2 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 T1> insert into innodb_tbl values (1),(2); Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.00 sec) Records: 2 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0 T2> select * from myisam_tbl; +------+ | a | +------+ | 1 | | 2 | +------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) T2> select * from innodb_tbl; Empty set (0.00 sec)
Replicating non-transactional statements in transactions is easySo, how should one handle this case in replication? Note that we right now only consider statement-based replication (but we will consider row-based replication later).
So, let us say that we have the transaction above, that is:
BEGIN; INSERT INTO myisam_tbl VALUES (1),(2); INSERT INTO innodb_tbl VALUES (1),(2); COMMIT;As far as possible, we want to mimic the actual behavior, meaning that the non-transactional change should be replicated to the slave as soon as possible so that even if the transaction does not commit for a long time, the MyISAM change should be visible on the slave immediately.
OK, this is simple, if a non-transactional statement is inside a transaction, we just write it to the binary log. The effects have already taken place, so of course we are write it directly to the binary log (right?).
Fine, so what about this case then:
BEGIN; INSERT INTO innodb_tbl VALUES (1),(2); INSERT INTO myisam_tbl SELECT * FROM innodb_tbl; COMMIT;Ew, um, well... no, that does not work. If the
insert is written before the
innodb_tbl insert, it will
not have the 1 and 2.
Hum... OK, so let's say that we only write the non-transactional statement that is first in the transaction directly to the binary log. Then we will have it replicated directly to the slave, but for the other case, when the non-transactional statement is not first in the transaction, we will have the non-transactional statement stored in the transaction cache so that it can read from the transactional table.
This is how it worked in MySQL at least since 4.1 (I didn't look earlier), and it serves well...
... unless you consider all the caveatsThat was a very rosy picture, but the reality is not that easy to handle.
Rolling back a transaction.If the transaction is rolled back, and a non-transactional statement was in the transaction cache, it is still necessary to write the transaction to the binary log (with a
ROLLBACK last).
This is wasting resources (disk space) since if the transaction
contained only transactional statements, it could just be
Also, it will be incorrect in the case that the non-transactional engine is replaced with a transactional engine on the slave, or if there is a crash after the non-transactional statement. It only works if the statement is first in the transaction, because then it will be committed as a separate transaction ahead of the transaction that is rolled back.
For this reason...
Non-transactional statement need to be at the beginning of a transaction.Since only the statements that are at the beginning is "written ahead", it means that the user have to remember to put the non-transactional statements first in the transaction. This lulls an inexperienced user, or one that just didn't consider replication when writing the transactions, into the idea that replication can handle the transaction even when the statement is not first in the transaction.
Incidentally, since we're talking about non-transactional statements...
What statements are non-transactional?So, this is the scenario mentioned in BUG#40116. Let us introduce two tables, one MyISAM log table and two InnoDB tables holding the business data. We then add a trigger to log any changes to one of the InnoDB tables like this:
CREATE TABLE tbl (f INT) ENGINE=INNODB; CREATE TABLE extra (f INT) ENGINE=INNODB; CREATE TABLE log (r INT) ENGINE=MYISAM; CREATE TRIGGER tbl_tr AFTER INSERT ON tbl FOR EACH ROW INSERT INTO log VALUES ( NEW.f );Now, let's have a look at this transaction (deliberately without a
COMMIT or
INSERT INTO tbl VALUES (1); INSERT INTO extra VALUES (2);What about the first statement in the transaction? Is it non-transactional or transactional? What do we do once we have seen only that statement?
If we treat the statement as non-transactional statement and write it ahead of the transaction, we have to make a decision there and then on whether to commit it or to roll it back, which is just not possible (it will be wrong whatever we decide).
Another alternative is to look at the "top level" table and treat it
as transactional (because
tbl is transactional). This
appears what 5.0 is doing. This means that the statement would be put
in the transaction cache, but if it is later decided that the
statement should roll back, we have to write the transaction to the
binary log with a
ROLLBACK last. This would work in an
acceptable manner, but what happens if the engines are switched so
that the non-transactional table is the "top level" table? Does this
mean that the statement suddenly becomes non-transactional and is
written ahead of the transaction? If we do that, we will have all the
problems described the previous paragraph about being forced to make a
good decision there and then.
Ooooookey... so we have to cache the statement even if it contains non-transactional changes. Fine. The only case that we can actually write ahead is when we have non-transactional statement not containing any transactional changes and that statement is first in a transaction... and there is a lot of logic to check that case.
So, we decided to remove that logic and always write statements inside
a transaction to the transaction cache. The only remaining piece of
the logic is that a transaction containing a non-transactional change
is written to the binary log with a
ROLLBACK last. If
there are only transactional changes, the transaction cache is just
tossed and nothing written to the binary log.
The only thing remaining is to print a warning when a statement containing non-transactional changes is put in the transaction cache. This is not the case right now: the server prints a warning when a transaction holding a non-transactional change is rolled back, which in my view is a tad to late, since the problem actually occurs when the statement is written to the binary log.
What about row-based replication?Until now, we have discussed statement-based replication only, but for row-based replication we can actually do better. Any changes that are non-transactional can be written ahead of the transaction since there are no dependencies on statements inside the transaction. There are only two problems:
- For performance reasons, rows are cached and written to the binary log when the statement commits. This means that if there is a crash before finishing the statement, the rows written for the statement as far is it got is lost. For most transactional engines, this is not a problem, since the changes will be rolled back, but for MyISAM, the changes can stay, leading to inconsistencies between the tables on the master and the slave. Since it is not reasonable to handle this case, we assume that each statement for a non-transactional engines is atomic.
- There is only one transaction cache, and for the non-transactional changes to "overtake" the transactional changes, we need an additional cache that is flushed for each statement. This will be implemented as part of WL#2687.

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Cop Harasses Photographer, Steals His Cellphone Battery And Attempts To Get YouTube To Pull The Incriminating Video
from the The-War-on-Cameras-continues-unabated dept
Recording a police officer in public isn't a crime. Well, it isn't anything a cop can cite or arrest you for doing. Instead, a bunch of vague infractions are listed in hopes that something will stick and deter future citizen recordings.
Shawn Randall Thomas, a New York photographer, was approached by NYPD officer Efrain Rojas when he noticed Thomas filming another officer's interaction with a turnstile jumper in a subway station. "Approached" is putting it mildly. Rojas confronted Thomas and got physical when the photographer refused to stop filming. (via Techdirt reader Tony Loro)
A New York City cop beat up and arrested a man for video recording him inside a subway station from 30 feet away Saturday night, walking up to him and getting in his face all while claiming the man was invading his personal space…As if the impromptu "use of force" wasn't enough, Thomas was also charged with the following:
Thomas also obtained footage from another man who had recorded Rojas with his knees on Thomas' back as he lay face down on the sidewalk just outside the sub station, seconds after Rojas had bashed his face into the pavement, busting his lip.
The injury was so bad that they had to transport him to the hospital twice during his 24-hour incarceration where doctors described him as a victim of assault.
[Thomas] is still facing charges of resisting arrest, trespassing, disorderly conduct and obstructing government…Here's the video:
Note that Rojas had to come over to where Thomas was filming (nearly 30 feet away) in order to be "obstructed." Note also that Thomas was filming in a public location, where it's almost impossible to "trespass." And note that the de rigueur "resisting arrest" is included only because Thomas didn't apply his own handcuffs, hoof it to the nearest cruiser and slide into the back seat.
Here's the description of "resisting arrest" from the arrest report itself:
Deponent further states that, at the above time and place, defendant did resist a lawful arrest by crossing defendants' arm across defendant's chest while deponent attempted to place defendant in handcuffs.But it gets worse. Officer Rojas apparently grabbed Thomas' cellphone and either deleted the footage or removed the battery in order to prevent Thomas from filming any further. (PINAC's account of this event mentions "deletion" and Thomas using Recuva to recover the deleted footage, but the description of events only says Rojas took Thomas' phone and pocketed the battery.) Thomas then took out his backup phone (a Blackberry) and tried to continue filming, at which point Rojas "knocked the phone out of [Thomas'] hand" and slammed him to the ground.
Either way, Rojas made an effort to prevent any further filming. The incident report filed by Rojas makes no mention of the fact that he seized a cellphone and either deleted footage or seized the phone's battery. He also undermines the charge of trespassing by noting the area where Thomas was filming was public, which is contrary to Rojas' filmed assertion that Thomas was "violating" his "personal space."
Apparently, Rojas wasn't done with feeling "violated" by Thomas' filming. According to PINAC's Facebook page, Officer Rojas filed a privacy complaint asking YouTube to remove the video. YouTube, fortunately, turned his request down, which means that Rojas will now have to deal with a recording that contradicts (or severely weakens) many of the claims he made in his sworn statements (the arrest report).
As PINAC and Thomas point out, the obstruction charge is especially baseless, given Thomas' distance from the officers (approx. 30 feet compared to the report's "close proximity") and the fact that the entire situation appears to be completely under control by the time Officer Rojas arrives. Rojas seems to be the only cop there who viewed Thomas and his camera as somehow interfering with police business. Rojas then abandons his "partner" -- who is presumably dealing with an actual criminal -- solely to harass someone with a camera. If nothing else, Rojas has problems with prioritizing, giving the non-criminal (and protected) act of filming precedence over an actual law enforcement work.
Officer Rojas had multiple paths to take when he noticed a citizen filming him performing his public duties in a public place. Unfortunately, he decided to take the well-worn path and violate the rights of the photographer. And like many others, this decision has done nothing more than heap more negative publicity on the police department and the officer involved. The correct response -- ignore it and do your job -- still remains largely untested.
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Ana Casas Wilson, who has cerebral palsy, sits in the living room of her South Gate, Calif. in December 2011. Wells Fargo has completed foreclosure on the home and eviction could be imminent, but Wilson refuses to leave, and argues that the foreclosure was unecessary.
A woman engaged in a bitter battle with Wells Fargo over foreclosure of her southern California home was arrested late Thursday at the tony residence of the bank's CFO in San Marino, where she and dozens of supporters were protesting.
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Ana Casas Wilson, 49, who lives in the working-class neighborhood of South Gate, faces eviction from her childhood home. Like many people who have been through foreclosure, she says that the bank wrongly denied her a loan modification and moved to foreclose even when she was able to catch up.
In an action that is becoming increasingly common, Wilson has taken her complaint public and her protest directly to bank officials. In Thursday's protest, with at least 80 supporters, she attempted to deliver her mortgage payment directly to Tim Sloan, the top financial officer for Wells Fargo. In addition to protesting the foreclosure, the group was challenging an ordinance created last year making it harder to picket in this wealthy enclave.
"People are deciding to take this stand that was previously a little unthinkable," said Peter Kuhns, with the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, which helped organize this and other "home defense" actions. "They are risking arrest, refusing to leave, getting their families involved and putting themselves out there."
Many people are shedding the sense of shame of foreclosure, which kept most people silent in the past, even if they didn't think they had done anything wrong, he said.
"More and more people are standing up and willing to go public because there is no other remedy and putting public pressure on the bank," said Kuhns.
Wells Fargo did not respond directly to Wilson's situation, but provided a statement in response to queries about her.
"Wells Fargo works very hard to keep customers in their homes whenever possible," said the statement, sent by Jennifer Langan in corporate communications. "We review our customers for a variety of modification options, from HAMP, HARP, HAFA and through our own proprietary programs. Despite these efforts, if a customer is 16 or more months delinquent, it can be extremely difficult to recover."
Some homeowners who have taken this high-profile approach in their fight against foreclosure, enlisting the support of protesters from the Occupy movement and housing activists, are finding success at it.
Occupy movement targets Wells Fargo shareholder meeting
The case of Rose Gudiel, reported by msnbc.com last year, is one example. In October, Gudiel was hunkered down in her home, surrounded by supporters, awaiting eviction. But at the eleventh hour, lender Fanny Mae canceled the eviction notice and offered her a loan modification, enabling her to keep the home.
Peter Kuhns, ACCE
Ana Casas Wilson, sitting, and supporter Rose Gudiel demonstrating in front of the home of Wells Fargo CFO Tim Sloand on Thursday.
Many similar foreclosure battles are under way nationwide, with support from a movement called Occupy our Homes.
Wilson, who has cerebral palsy, lives with her husband, who works as a school janitor, her teen son and her mother, who helps care for her. She has worked as a court reporter, and as an advocate for the disabled.
The trouble covering the mortgage started when she was treated for breast cancer in 2009, and her husband's income declined as a result of cutting hours to help take care of her. They got behind, but their income stabilized several months later. By then, the bank had moved into foreclosure proceedings and would not accept her payments or discuss ways to catch up, Kuhns said.
The implication in Wells Fargo's statement that Wilson was 16 months behind is misleading, says Kuhns, because for most of that time, the bank refused to take her payments.
Thursday's protest was on Wilson's behalf, and it was more generally challenging a San Marino ordinance adopted last November – just a few weeks after a protest of predatory lending practices on Sloan's front lawn. That demonstration, involving about 100 protesters, was peaceful and ended without incident, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Under the statute, picketers must keep 150 feet from a target residence, or 75 feet from the curb adjacent to the home, whichever is farther.
"The purpose of the ordinance is not to reduce picketing, but to protect the people who are the victims of picketing," police Chief John Schaefer told the Times when it was passed. "We're a prime target. We have a lot of people who fit the profile to be the victim of this type of crime."
Video from the protest posted by the San Gabriel Valley Tribune shows protesters carrying signs and chanting "Wells Fargo, shame on you!" in the street in front of the home.
Wilson is shown crossing a police cordon in her wheelchair to deliver a check to Sloan. She knocks several times, but gets no answer.
"He's embarrassed," Wilson tells the Tribune. "That's why he won't come out. ... He knows that what they are doing is wrong."
Wilson was arrested under the anti-picketing statute, after protesters and police faced off for about two hours. She was released about an hour later and is expected to appear in court in early June.
"The leaders of Wells Fargo and the members of their family should be afforded the right to feel safe in their private residence and we encourage all organizations choosing to demonstrate at private residences to abide by the law for the safety of the general public," the Wells Fargo statement said.
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Please note that I cannot answer 'what should I buy' questions. There is no right answer to this question – every person's needs and shooting styles will be different. There are also pages and pages of reviews on this site, along with the recommended equipment list to help you decide for yourself.
Exhibitions/ In the media:
– The Idea of Man, Part II, the Ilford Galerie, Kuala Lumpur (20 Jan-20 Feb 2018)
– Un/Natural, with Stephen King, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong (5 Dec 2015-15 Jan 2016)
– 'The Idea of Man', The Rangefinder Gallery, Chicago (2-31 Oct 2015)
– 'Connection', Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, (11-17 June 2015)
– 'Engineering Art in Metal', The Centre for Asian Photographers, Kuala Lumpur (3-31 Jan 2014)
– Interviewed on the official Carl Zeiss blog on food photography (14 Oct 2013)
– DSLR Magazine, cover interview/ featured photographer (Feb 2013 edition)
– 'Diametric opposites: East and West', Leica Gallery Starhill, Kuala Lumpur (18 Jan-18 April 2013)
– New York Times/ International Herald Tribune – interviewed on watch photography (24 Nov 2012)
– The official Leica Camera Blog – interview/ featured photographer (8 Nov 2012)
– BFM 89.9 Tech Talk on Photokina 2012 (8 October 2012)
– BFM 89.9 Tech Talk on photography (29 June 2012)
– BFM 89.9 Careers unusual (4 May 2012)
– The Edge Malaysia, p Op18 (July 2-8 Edition)
– Horological photography exhibition sponsored by Jaeger Le-Coultre and Leica Camera, at Starhill Gallery (May 2012)
– The Malaysian Reserve – commentary on democratisation of the industry and local support in Malaysia (14 Sep 2012)
Robin Wong
I am a photography enthusiast who believes that photography is a lifestyle and a personal creative expression. I discovered photography at the start of my civil engineering career, as an artistic balance to an overwhelmingly technical world. Through photography, I have found so much joy in the process of shooting and sharing my photography journey through my blog, robinwong.blogspot.com. My blog has eventually grown from random photography musings to photography reviews, unexpectedly gaining audience along the way. I have reviewed primarily Micro Four Thirds system cameras and lenses. I was particularly known for adopting a less technical approach in my product review articles and focusing more on user experience and photography heavy approach instead.
Subsequently I left my engineering career when I found an opportunity to utilize my photography skills that can contribute positively to a camera company business. I officially joined Olympus Malaysia as a product specialist, providing consultation on consumer photography behaviour; organizing consumer related activities and events and supported the sales and marketing team. During my time with Olympus, I have the privilege to work with several leaders and experts in the local photography industry, and have gained much knowledge and experience on overall imaging business in Malaysia.
I have left Olympus Malaysia to explore the world of photography without being tied to a single camera brand. With this newfound freedom, I want to spend more time doing what I love doing, shooting more photographs and write passionately about my photography. I shoot street photography, portraiture, insect macro and urban landscape.
I personally believe that having fun is the most important thing to do in photography as a hobby. I have coined the phrase "shutter therapy" which simply means, having an enjoyable time doing a photo walk, either by yourself or with a small group of friends. The mission of my old blog was to spread the love and joy of photography, infect my readers with the passion to go out and shoot, and to motivate everyone to grow in photography. As I migrate to Ming Thein's site, that mission remains the same for me, and shutter therapy goes on.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
October 31, 2012 - Happy Halloween!!
Hope all is well. I've gotten behind on blogging again - how did that happen???
Brenna is loving Kindergarten. Every day she comes home all smiles. Brenna is learning a lot in the classes - I can't believe how much she has already learned in a few short weeks. They didn't have school due to the poor weather conditions and she was ready to go back today. Her class had their Halloween party today - she wore her ice cream shop costume for that party. The cat costume is great for the cooler days as she can wear her warm coat then. I will try to get those pictures up soon for the other costume.
Brenna has also lost her second baby tooth. Dustin helped her pull it out yesterday (I can't believe she let him use the pliers to pull it out!!). Of course, the tooth fairy came last night and left her 4 quarters :-) I really hope that the next baby tooth comes out easier than the first two - if you look in her cat pictures above you can see the adult tooth was behind her baby tooth.
Brenna is loving her dance, pom pom, and gymnastics classes as well. It has been a long week this week as she didn't have her pom pom class or the dance classes. We enjoyed a model magic project this evening with a jewelry kit - hopefully they will cure up as beautiful as they were today.
Well, that is all for today - enjoy the pictures and take care!!
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One of the controversies surrounding private equity is whether investors are getting a good return on their investment, particularly when compared with investing in the overall stock market. Private equity firms are not required to disclose their funds' returns and they invest only in companies that are not publicly traded, making it harder to get an accurate picture of their performance. Some pundits have even accused private equity managers of exaggerating their true performance numbers.
Part of the problem is the lack of quality information from the data companies that try to fill the gap. These companies do not collect data for all funds, nor do they always disclose information on fund cash flows or the cash paid to investors-key components in calculating various measures of performance. Their sources often are obscure and the data stale, which could lead to biases in the results.
But a new dataset of fund cash flows taken entirely from institutional investors of private equity may shed light on the industry's performance. Data provider The Burgiss Group sources its data from institutional investor records that track the exact cash amount made by the investors to private equity fund managers as well as the amount returned by the fund managers to the investors. Given the need for quarterly reporting by most investors, the data is more likely to be up-to-date and complete, a significant advantage over other commercial sources that rely in part on voluntary and Freedom of Information Act disclosures from private equity firms. It is possible, for instance, for a private equity firm to strategically stop reporting its returns.
Armed with this new data, Chicago Booth professor Steven N. Kaplan, with Robert S. Harris of the University of Virginia and Tim Jenkinson of the University of Oxford, reassesses the performance of private equity in a recent paper, "Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?" They find that buyout funds - those that buy mature companies, attempt to improve them, and then sell them later for a profit - have performed much better than previously thought. Unlike in venture capital, which is the private equity arm that focuses on start-ups, the merits of buyouts are more hotly debated. The result of the analysis of the new data is favorable for buyouts - the authors find that US buyout funds have outperformed public markets for a very long time.
Comparing Private Returns With Public Returns
Several papers have attempted to measure private equity returns to investors, including a frequently cited study by Kaplan and Antoinette Schoar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Though this study mostly was concerned with whether the performance of private equity managers persisted from one fund to the next, Kaplan and Schoar also measured whether buyout funds and venture capital funds outperformed the stock market. They did this by calculating a performance measure called the "public market equivalent," which is a ratio of how much a private equity investor earned after paying fees to what the investor would have earned on an equivalent investment in the public market. This can be thought of as a market-adjusted multiple of invested capital.
Kaplan and Schoar found that investors of buyout funds earned a slightly lower return than if they had invested in the S&P 500 instead. Another study by Ludovic Phalippou of the University of Amsterdam and Oliver Gottschalg of HEC Paris, using an updated version of Kaplan and Schoar's data, found a somewhat more negative result for buyouts. Both studies used data from Venture Economics.
But a recent paper by Ruediger Stucke of the University of Oxford identified a significant bias in the Venture Economics data: many of the funds had not been updated since 2001 and yet had been retained in the database, opening up the possibility that returns to private equity investing have been understated in previous studies all along.
A reassessment of private equity performance also allowed Harris, Jenkinson, and KaplaComn to include newer funds, particularly for 1995 to 2008. The earlier papers focused on funds with vintage years prior to 1997. (The "vintage year" marks the first year that a fund makes an investment in a project or company.) Subsequent years have seen a huge increase in the number and size of private equity funds. Almost $670 billion was raised in vintage years 1996 to 2004, compared with less than $150 billion from 1980 to 1995. The private equity boom period 2005–08 saw almost $800 billion raised.
The new Burgiss dataset gives researchers a chance to more accurately measure whether private equity investors are better off putting their money in a simple index of stocks. "We think it is a better dataset than anyone has ever used," Kaplan says.
Using cash flow data from 598 buyout funds and 775 venture capital funds from 1984 to 2008, the authors calculate the average public market equivalent ratio for each vintage year. They find that buyout funds did better than public markets in most vintage years since 1984. The average US buyout fund outperformed the S&P 500 by at least 20 percent over the life of the fund, or by at least 3 percent per year.
The average venture capital fund, on the other hand, did better than the S&P 500 in the 1990s but not in the following decade. Kaplan thinks this is not surprising. The tremendous success of venture capital funds in the 1990s attracted a huge amount of capital in the early 2000s that subsequently contributed to lower returns. This boom and bust cycle has been a recurring feature of private equity- returns tend to fall with more capital but go back up again when less money is invested in private equity.
A Firm Result
If the study's results could be compared with the same performance measure using other sources of data, the authors would be able to arrive at a stronger conclusion. One of the main drawbacks of data from other sources is the lack of information on cash flows or the cash paid out each period to investors. Without those cash flows, it is not possible to compare the returns of private equity investing with the alternative of investing in the stock market.
To solve this dilemma, Harris, Jenkinson, and Kaplan estimated the relationship between the public market equivalent ratios they calculated earlier and two other performance measures that also are available in the Burgiss dataset: the internal rate of return (IRR) and the investment multiple or multiple of invested capital (MIC). The IRR is the annualized rate of return of the fund, while the MIC is the ratio of the cash paid to investors and the estimated value of the remaining investments to the amount of capital invested in the fund.
The authors find a very strong statistical and economic relationship between the public market equivalent and the IRR and investment multiples within a given vintage year. The authors use this relationship to transform the data on IRRs and investment multiples from other data sources, particularly from Preqin and Cambridge Associates, into comparable public market equivalent ratios.
The estimates using the Preqin and Cambridge Associates data indicate that buyouts throughout the 1990s and 2000s outperformed the S&P 500 by at least 20 percent over the life of the fund, similar to the results using the Burgiss data. Applying the same exercise to Venture Economics data likewise implies that the average buyout fund outperformed the S&P 500, but by only 10 percent. This is consistent with, and expected from, the likely downward bias in the Venture Economics data. The consistency in results extends to venture capital activity - in all of the datasets, venture capital outperformed public markets in the 1990s, but not in the decade that followed.
That the results are consistent across datasets, despite being based on very different selection criteria and methods of gathering information, is compelling evidence that investments in buyout funds have outperformed the public markets (after fees) for a very long time. The returns are even higher before fees, suggesting that private equity firms have been adding substantial value to the companies they buy. "There is no guarantee about returns going forward, but looking backward the picture is certainly positive," Kaplan says.
"Private Equity Performance: What Do We Know?" Robert S. Harris, Tim Jenkinson, and Steven N. Kaplan. Working paper, February 2012.
Steven N. Kaplan is a Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance.


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I want to write all about the day in detail – our working group (aka, our library family) spent the day of action spread out all over the city working independently and also working together. We had our online and off-site folks in charge of keeping the blog and twitter updated and running info for those who were on the street. We were marching; setting up the library at Liberty, Union Square, Foley Square and on the Brooklyn Bridge; running mobile libraries from carts; coming up with awesome chants; meeting people and taking donations; telling our story and so much more. At the end of the day we stopped at an Irish bar across from the WTC site and had dinner, beer and a meeting. There's so much to write, and I'm exhausted and have to work/school tomorrow. So instead, here are some of my photos. <3 and solidarity.
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The First Priority: Rebranding America
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The new administration faces a daunting task. President-Elect Obama inherits a country in crisis on almost every front. While the economic crisis dominates, it is a piece of a much larger puzzle, all intertwined and all completely fucked up by the Bush administration.
As talk turns to priorities for the first 100 days, the true scope of the mess we have to clean up really comes into focus. The economy, health care, education, energy, climate, a growing debt and deficit and, oh yeah, two wars.
So what we all want to know is, what will they attempt to take on first? What should they take on first?
Some will say the economy, some will say energy, some will say defense.
But the real first priority for the new administration needs to be a catchy slogan. They need an overriding theme and message to encompass the full shift and shuffle of government that needs to occur.
Like FDR's New Deal. Or Kennedy's New Frontier. Or LBJ's Great Society. Even Bubba's New Covenant.
All of those were coherent packages ranging over multiple issues and linking them under a single, simple brand name. Each was a collection of legislative proposals encompassing a wide range of agencies and interconnected issues that when taken as a whole represent the full scope of change.


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Duke Nukem Forever has been in development since 1997. And the man who toiled away on that game for over a decade lost a bunch of cash. Tens of millions, apparently. Ouch.
Gearbox Software has taken the reigns of the game from its original developer 3D Realms. In May 2009, the world around Duke Nukem Forever crumbled as its developer imploded. "Duke was dead," says Gearbox's Randy Pitchford.
"I spoke to George Broussard and he said, 'Randy, this is the worst day of my life' but you could hear in his voice there was more," Pitchford says. "This was 12 years of his life... try and imagine what you've achieved in 12 years, Gearbox has made five games in that time."
According to Pitchford, "George Broussard is not a poor man but I would estimate that he lost 20 to 30 million dollars of his own money on Duke Nukem Forever - I don't care who you are that's a hell of a lot of money."
It is. It really, really is.
Broussard, Pitchford says, was "committed to Duke to the point of insanity". And in May 2009, Duke was dead.
"He decided he would rather have it burn than have a bad version of the game come out."
The game is finally penciled in for release. Gearbox is aiming to release it in 2011.


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I had these pretty pink tulips from Easter. I decided to do a pink tablescape! They are in a glass spooner I found at a thrift shop for 2.00
Just a simple table, I used the pink plaid cloth I got at the fabric outlet for a dollar…cotton from Portugal..
Pink polka dot plate … CTS
Pink and white check napkin, WSONOMA outlet
Pink cabbage soup bowl from HG…
Flatware Dansk
Little white b and b dish WSONOMA.
White porcelain nest with PINK M and M's Villeroy and Boch..
Embossed candleholders are V and B..
Since this is so PINK, I am linking, for the first time, to Beverly's ( How Sweet the Sound) Pink Saturday….Thank you Beverly!
The Easter Bunny brought me this platter from WSonoma Outlet…
The Easter Bunny is a good shopper..10 bucks! "Bill" had a price tag of $34.00 on it, but marked them down a few days before Easter…
I , The Easter Bunny got the last one!
Perfect for a Red Velvet Easter Egg shaped cake for my little grand bunnies…
It is iced in chocolate and piped with whipped cream. In between the layers is choc icing and whipped cream.. It disappeared, quick like a bunny..:)
Now hop over to Susan's Between Naps on the Porch for some more tables..please!
Hope all those who celebrated had a wonderful Easter!
So what's next? Earth Day??
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See also: Ordinary
Alternative formsEdit
- ordinarie (obsolete)
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman ordenaire, ordenarie etc., from Latin ōrdinārius ("regular, orderly"), from ōrdō ("order").
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɔːdɪnəɹi/, /ˈɔːdənɹi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹdɪnɛɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔɹdɪnɛ(ə)ɹi/
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- Hyphenation: or‧di‧na‧ry, or‧din‧ary
ordinary (comparative more ordinary, superlative most ordinary)
- (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
- Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
- On an ordinary day I wake up at nine o'clock, work for six hours, and then go to the gym.
- a. 1719, Joseph Addison, 1741, The Works of the Late Honourable Joseph Addison, Eſq., Volume 3, page 545,
- Method is not leſs requiſite in ordinary converſation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himſelf underſtood.
- Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
- I live a very ordinary life most of the time, but every year I spend a week in Antarctica.
- He looked so ordinary, I never thought he'd be capable of murder.
- a. 1859, Thomas Macaulay, "Samuel Johnson," in 1871, Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan, editor), The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 7, page 325,
- An ordinary lad would have acquired little or no useful knowledge in such a way: but much that was dull to ordinary lads was interesting to Samuel.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:
- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
- 2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better[1], Plum, →ISBN, page 192:
- You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.
- 1983 September 20, Bruce Stannard, Australia II Joins Our Greats, The Age, republished 2003, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 480,
- It was, in some ways a sad, almost pathetic sight to see this great American boat which had fought so hard throughout the cup summer, now looking very ordinary indeed.
- 1961, Joanna White, quoted in 2005, A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson, Ten Pound Poms: Australia′s Invisible Migrants, page 80,
- For myself, I loved adventure and travelling. I′d already done quite a bit of travelling in Europe and — couldn′t get enough of it and whilst my marriage, at that stage, was very happy, he was very entrenched as a Londoner, Cockney, absolutely Cockney Londoner, and I could see that our future was pretty ordinary and so my hidden agenda I suppose was to drag him out to Australia and hope that both our lifestyles would improve and there would be new opportunities.
- 2007, Chris Viner-Smith, Australia′s Forgotten Frontier: The Unsung Police Who Held Our PNG Front Line, page 28,
- Everyone started making suggestions as to what to do but they were all pretty ordinary ideas such as lighting a fire and hope someone would see the smoke and come to rescue us and so on.
- 2010, Mal Bryce, Australia's First Online Community Ipswich Queensland, page 125,
- Since the general public gained access to the Internet in 1993-4, firstly by narrowband dial-up access and since 1998 by very ordinary, so-called broadband speeds (generally less than 1 Mbps), a social and cultural revolution has been underway.
- 1983 September 20, Bruce Stannard, Australia II Joins Our Greats, The Age, republished 2003, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 480,
- (having no special characteristics): extraordinary, special
Derived termsEdit
- ordinarily, ordinariness
- ordinary differential equation, ordinary number, ordinary seaman
- in ordinary
- out of the ordinary
normal, routine
Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane
ordinary (plural ordinaries)
- (obsolete) A devotional manual.
- (Christianity) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of service, especially of Mass.
- A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
- (obsolete) A set portion of food, later as available for a fixed price at an inn or other eating establishment.
- (archaic or historical) A place where such meals are served; a public tavern, inn.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970:, II.2.4, 1847, page 315,
- We are most part too inquisitive and apt to hearken after news, which Cæsar, in his Commentaries, observes of the old Gauls, they would be inquiring of every carrier and passenger what they had heard or seen, what news abroad? […] as at an ordinary with us, bakehouse, or barber's shop.
- 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue, The Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, page 288,
- Thus furnished, they come up to town, reckon all their errors for accomplishments, borrow the newest set of phrases ; and if they take a pen into their hands, all the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary, are produced as flowers of style.
- (Can we date this quote?) Bancroft, 1899, Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (editors), The Universal Anthology, page 320,
- He enjoyed a perpetual port duty of fourteen pence a ton, on vessels not owned in the province, yielding not far from five thousand dollars a year; and he exacted a tribute for licenses to hawkers and peddlers and to ordinaries.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p.1,
- it hath been usual with the honest and well-meaning host to provide a bill of fare which all persons may peruse at their first entrance into the house; and having thence acquainted themselves with the entertainment which they may expect, may either stay and regale with what is provided for them, or may depart to some other ordinary better accommodated to their taste.
- (heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
- An ordinary thing or person; the mass; the common run.
- 1622, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 5, 1800, The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 8, page 287,
- I ſee no more in you than in the ordinary / Of nature's ſalework.
- a. 1626, Francis Bacon, quoted in 1773, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionnary of the English Language, unnumbered page,
- Spain had no other wars save those which were grown into an ordinary; now they have coupled therewith the extraordinary of the Valtoline and Palatinate.
- (Can we date this quote?) Walter Scott
- water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plough socks, and other ordinaries
- 1622, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 5, 1800, The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 8, page 287,
- (historical) A penny-farthing bicycle.
standard geometric design in heraldics
Further readingEdit
- "ordinary" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 225.


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The Forum provides an option to upload a new version of an attachment (button: "Upload New Version").
Be careful using this. In order to prevent overwriting stuff in the Directory where those attachments are stored, the Forum automatically changes the name of this attachment by adding a code to the original name.
This can cause trouble with links.
Generally one can say: it's safer just to delete such attachment and re-upload it as a new one.
Allowed Extension Groups and their Sizes:
Note that this are maxima. Common sense and courtesy dictates that one shrinks the bandwidth of files in as far as possible.
This controls the bandwidth of the overall forum itself, you will less fast reach the upload limit which is set for members, but more importantly, it can significantly speed up browsing for users with analogue or low speed internet connections.
It is a matter of courtesy to take people with lesser facilities into account. A 1MB picture or file is hell for people with an analogue internet connection. A jpg picture of max. 650 x 650 pixels of 1 MB will NOT or hardly look better on a standard screen than the same picture shrinked to a file size of 50 to 80 kB.
- Archives
Maximum Upload Size: 2 MB
File types: .ace .gtar .gz .rar .tar .zip
- Documents
Maximum Upload Size: 2 MB
File types: .doc .dwg .dxf .pdf .ppt .ps .xls
- Flash Files
Maximum Upload Size: 2 MB
File types: swf
- Images
Maximum Upload Size: 2 MB
File types: .gif .jpeg .jpg .png .tga .tif wmf
- Plain Text
Maximum Upload Size: 2 MB
File types: .txt
- Streams
Maximum Upload Size: 2 MB
File types: .mov .mpeg .wma
More about this topic:
- Uploading pictures via the attachment procedure
- You want the pictures to be visible in the message itself:
In order to prevent scrambling the Forum Layout please limit pictures to a maximum size:
Width: 660 pixels (Landscape view)
Height: 660 pixels (portrait view).
Using a width BETWEEN 660 and 800 pixels included is only allowed when the content of the picture (e.g. data tables, etc.) prevails over readability of the messages and layout of the forum.
Pictures exceeding 660 px and smaller then 800 px will still show as pictures in the thread, but will scramble the forum layout of the page they are integrated in, making readability of the thread difficult for anyone.
This data is based on the assumption of a user's screen resolution of 1024 x 780. While for people using higher screen resolution those picture sizes may seem small, the same basic rule applies: take people with lesser facilities into account.
- You need larger pictures (exceeding 660 x 660 px) in order to show finer details:
Make the pictures 810 px or more pixels wide. In this case the pictures will be shown as a download.
When pressing the related download link in the attachment frame, the picture will be shown in a newly opened window. (It is still useful/gentle to take users of a 1024 x 768 screen resolution, minus spare for edges, into account)
- Showing pictures via a link to a site.
- For pictures linked from a site a maximum of 680 x 680 is allowed (gives 20 pixels spare)
If such pictures are own by the member uploading them, no additional references are needed.
However when such pictures resort on another site, VERY strict Copyright respect rules will be practiced (SEE RULES).
When possible preference is given to link directly to the page containing this picture.
If not, CLEAR reference MUST be given to the source.
If you need software to resize your pictures here is a link to a free program:
It will do batch editing so you can re-size all you pics in a folder at once if need be.
- Please read the rules:
Studiotips is very sensitive in view of respect for Copyright and Science, is strict non-commercial and intents to keep it that way.
The music world rightfully complains about illegal copying/downloading of their work and mental/creative property.
However such a complaint only stands when the music world shows the same courtesy for the mental/intellectual and physical property of others. Otherwise such a complaint hardly relates to honorable principles and ethics but to cheap self-interest.
Additional to the related comments in the "Forum Rules".
Discleamer: this is not meant as an analysis of very complex Copyright laws, but some thoughts about the basic intent.
If you're not interested in details, but general rules of conduct at Studiotips scroll directly down to 6.
- Copyright
It's rather painful to notice that the notion "Copyright" is often misinterpreted as the "Right to Copy" or to use.
Using work, quotes, graphs, wathever, of others without proper reference in order to look clever or good, is not a strength but a weakness.
You (rightfully) like and/or expect people to respect your work, it's nothing more than simple common sense to show the same courtesy towards others.
One will often notice that respect for Copyright is more abused by people with less related background, while respected by people having thorough knowledge of the subject.
- Copyright notice, registered Copyright
Copyright is NOT exclusively valid for work "in the broadest sence" which is clearly noted by a Copyright notice or by registered Copyright.
Intelectual/creative property which is subject to Copyright is ALWAYS Copyright protected, with or without such Copyright notice or registration, unless clearly or implied brought in the Public Domain by the Copyright owner.
Such notices or registration are used "to point to, or emphasize the obvious" and to "simplify procedures" in function of proof, laws and regulations.
The assumption that the lack of such notice implies that the work or web data is in the public domain is PLAIN FALSE.
The argument: I can freely use it because I couldn't find a Copyright notice, is a WRONGFUL argument.
A right is and remains a right, whether it is emphasized by a notice (reminder) or even officially registered as such, or not.
Some extracts/quotes of "copyright": http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sD ... tml#areyou
- Some simple analogies:
- There are countries which register bycicles to easier identify them and proof ownership.
This really does not mean that people who don't let their bycicle register, brought it in the Public Domain, free to steal.
- A verbal agreement without any written document is in most western countries legally AS valid and binding for parties as a written contract.
The problem only is to proof the existance of such a binding agreement if one party chooses to ignore it.
- There are countries which register bycicles to easier identify them and proof ownership.
- Copyright is the ownership of an intellectual property within the limits prescribed by a particular nation's or international law. In the United States, for example, the copyright law provides that the owner of a property has the exclusive right to print, distribute, and copy the work, and permission must be obtained by anyone else to reuse the work in these ways. Copyright is provided automatically to the author of any original work covered by the law as soon as the work is created. The author does not have to formally register the work, although registration makes the copyright more visible. (See Circular 66, "Copyright Registration for Online Works," from the U.S Copyright Office.) Copyright extends to unpublished as well as published works. The U.S. law extends copyright for 50 years beyond the life of the author. For reviews and certain other purposes, the "fair use" of a work, typically a quotation or paragraph, is allowed without permission of the author.
Note from Eric:
Such a quote STILL requires a clear reference and/or to source and used within the context it's meant for. A reader should NOT have to search for the source, but be told and directed, allowing the reader to check the context of the quote or intellectual property in whatever form.
This is not only courtesy towards the reader him/herself, but respect to the Author or Copyright owner of the work, he is even legally entitled to.
- Are You Violating Copyright on the Internet?
The Internet, inarguably one of the most remarkable developments in international communication and information access, is fast becoming a lair of copyright abuse. The notion of freedom of information and the ease of posting, copying and distributing messages on the Internet may have created a false impression that text and graphic materials on World Wide Web sites, postings in "usenet" news groups, and messages distributed through e-mail lists and other electronic channels are exempt from copyright statutes.
Note from Eric:
This clearly means that ideas, original knowledge and intellectual property entered in public media as news groups, forums, email-lists etc. ARE STILL SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT EVEN WHEN THE POSTER DOESN'T STATE ANY COPYRIGHT NOTICE.
- Copyright protection encompasses Web page textual content, graphics, design elements, as well as postings on discussion groups.
Generally speaking, facts may not be copyrighted; but content related to presentation, organization and conclusions derived from facts certainly can be.
Never assume that anything is in the "public domain" without a statement to that effect.
Note from Eric:
When in doubt whether something is in the "Public Domain" or not, that's VERY simple to solve: Rather than starting discussions about it, just give a proper reference to the source as if it is subject to Copyright. It will cost you an additional 30 seconds.
The forum is not meant to discuss extremely complicated Copyright laws, regulations and practices, which can and will even differ per country, and even can vary in function of the court and the individual cases.
- Pictures, Graphs and other Graphical documents (not quoted, but entered by Eric)
Be careful with Pictures, Graphs and whatever other graphical documents.
The assumption that giving a proper reference to the source constitutes "Fair Use" is PLAIN FALSE.
Mostly it is not considered Fair Use.
Wherever and whenever reasonable possible, give priority to linking to the page and leave pictures, graphs, or whatever other graphics where they are.
A strict non-commercial educational group as Studiotips will easier be considered Fair Use, but graphical data is at the edge and should be limited to a minimum.
If the content of this graphical data is an essential part of the copyrighted work (and the latter is 99% the case whether stated or not) assume that a proper reference WILL NOT constitute "Fair Use".
In that case ONLY linking to the related page is allowed.
A very good read is the article:
10 Big Myths about copyright explained, by Brad Templeton
- Let's first emphasize and/or remind some points:
- Copyright is the right of the Copyright owner, not the right to Copy, which became almost a sickness on the net, from which the Audio and Studio world and related Web pages, Forums, email lists and the likes are certainly not free, putting there own claims and credibility towards others in function of illegal downloading of music between question marks. A very typical example can be found here: http://forum.studiotips.com/viewtopic.php?t=94
It's because of this very, almost painful fact that huge part of this page is assigned TO POINT TO THE OBVIOUS namely the simple concept of RESPECT FOR OTHER's WORK and respect for the readers having the right to know the original Author and check the intellectual property in the context it was created for.
- Copyright exists from the moment the work is created, EVEN when not published yet (it's only a difficult matter of proving the existence).
- A Copyright owner DOES NOT loose his Copyright by not defending it. Copyright is effectively never lost these days, unless explicitly given away.
- The absence of whatever Copyright notice DOES NOT constitute that the intellectual property is in the Public Domain. This is AS WELL valid for whatever text or graphics is entered in Newsgroups, Forums and the likes.
- Using the work of others without their permission, can be done within strict limitations, covered by the notion "Fair Use of Copyright".
- Even proper reference to the source does NOT necessarily constitutes "Fair Use", but should be seen as a strict MINIMUM, for whatever intellectual property from others is used, within the intent of the concept "Fair Use".
The fact that entering a picture as an image linked to the source, makes the source traceable (if knowing how) for a reader DOES NOT constitute PROPER REFERENCE. Nobody had to search for a possible, or not, external source. If somebody sees a picture it should be CRISTAL CLEAR, that a picture subject to Copyright is used, with PROPER reference to the source.
What constitutes "Fair use of Copyright"
The following is not an in-depth legal analysis as stated before:
Fair use isn't an exact described notion, but common and agreed practices can be seen as guide lines.
Fair use is a valid concept necessary to allow the criticism of copyrighted works and their creators through examples.
The concept of "Fair Use" can differ between Countries.
- US for instance allows for advertisements comparisons between identified competitive products. Therefore they use the published data of their competitors, or base this data on own investigations.
- Belgium for instance, product advertisements can NOT use the data of exact identified competitive brands.
However in function of consumer organizations, scientific research, educational purposes such data is covered by "Fair Use"
The Fair-Use Statute
The following is the full text of the fair-use statute from the U.S. Copyright Act.
Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:
- the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
- the nature of the copyrighted work;
- the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
- the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
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While fair use is intended to apply to teaching, research, and other such activities, a crucial point is that an educational purpose alone does not make a use fair.
The purpose of the use is, in fact, only one of four factors that users must analyze in order to conclude whether or not an activity is lawful.
Short notes Eric:
- The purpose:
Nonprofit educational uses score higher as "fair use" than commercial uses.
Transformative uses are favored over mere reproductions. This means that data integrated in something else in order to make it more educational, more clarifying or enhancing score higher as "fair use" than just copying data.
Pictures, photos, graphs often generate serious controversies, because they are is a complete entity (No transformation with added value but plain copying). Scanning pictures and CERTAINLY whole or big portions of pages from books and uploading them on the net is VERY questionable and mostly just infringement of Copyright..
- The nature:
Factual data will score higher as "fair use" than fiction.
Textual data will score higher as "fair use" than Audio Visual or Graphical (art-creative) didactic material.
Non-profit scientific use scores higher as "fair use" then direct or indirect commercially used data.
- The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work
The amount is to be weighed both quantitatively and qualitatively .
Quantity must be evaluated relative to the length of the entire original and the amount needed to serve a proper objective.
In other words: limit quotes to the portion needed to make a point. Copying an entire work or unreasonable portion is NO "fair use" anymore.
If one only reproduces only a small portion, but which goes to the core of the work (representing intellectual a big portion), this weighs AGAINST fair use. The "substantiality" concept is a qualitative measure.
- The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
This is the most complicated and broad factor of the four to be weighed factors.
"Effect" is closely linked to "purpose." If one's purpose is research, market effect may be difficult to prove.
If one's purpose is commercial, then the effect is presumed. Occasional quotations or photocopies may have little market effects, but reproductions of software and videotapes will.
- Breach of Copyright and lack of respect for sources seems more than once a chronical disease in newsgroups, forums and the likes.
It's that common that hardly anyone seems to care anymore. Such discussion media often have it somewhere in their rules (rarely read by people), more meant to protect themselves against possible claims.
But rarely a moderator will intervene when there is breach of Copyright (and some are sometimes guilty themselves).
This is the reverse world. One should be ashamed to respect other's rights. If this doesn't change, it will cause important data and thoughts NOT to be shared anymore (and one can be really sure it does already).
- Try to imagine you're the Copyright owner and you like your work and efforts to be respected.
Imagine you don't like others to play the clever guy with your intellectual and/or creative property (and messages in forums apply as well).
Now you become the user again wanting to use this data.
Does Fair Use, as described above, covers your needs, or do you better ask for permission to the Copyright owner?
If you should have got permission please add this fact and name permission giver to the reference.
If one can reasonably assume permission, THEN DON'T SELL IT AS YOUR KNOWLEDGE, BUT REFER TO THE AUTHOR YOU GOT THE KNOWLEDGE FROM. It's the only courtesy you have to return to those spending energy in helping others.
- Don't quote more than needed to support your point. If you need more link to the message.
- Try to limit the use of other's pictures, graphs, drawings etc. . The more valuable they become in function of technical/mathematical/graphical content or creative art, the more likely you infringe the Copyright. Link to pages containing pictures as much as possible. For graphs representing calculations and drawings and art pictures you can easily state that they almost NEVER are in the Public Domain. Even a proper reference does not necessarily constitute "Fair Use".
This also relates to the transformation rule. When a picture must be integrated in a text (within the context of an argument) and the picture is somewhere on a page where this picture must be searched between lots of other stuff, then the argument becomes unreadable and the transformation rule will easier constitute "Fair Use".
- Never just assume something is in the Public Domain because you can't find a Copyright notice. In most cases you're plain wrong.
From the moment anything subject to Copyright is made, it is Copyrighted, whether this is stated as such or not.
Only things clearly stated or undoubtful implied that they are given free in the Public Domain are. NOT THE REVERSE.
Even plain messages in newsgroups, usenet, email-lists, forums etc. are protected by Copyright
- ALWAYS give proper reference to whatever Copyrighted material you use.
This also, but not exlusive, includes quotes and/or the intellectual core of messages/sites/books.
If we still should infringe Copyright, we show good intent, and can correct unwittingly mistakes afterwards.
But not mainly the legal argument is important, the basic rules of Copyright refer to the rights of others and are just a matter of common respect to the authors and one's readers (but which they are also legally entitled to).
- You also don't have automatically to accept the existence of Copyright, or the fact that the one who CLAIMS Copyright is the rightfull owner of this Copyright he claims.
Some Commercial company's and/or other sites, just collect data from somewhere else, and then write Copyright notices covering their whole site or all pages, wrongly assuming that Copyright law is written for others and to protect their abuse. Strange enough it are such companies crying out the loudest if they assume their rights being infringed.
Clear should be:
One can't claim Copyright on intellectual property one does not own, nor on intellectual property brought in the Public Domain.
The other side:
If one wants to make objective reviews and comparisons in the interest of many, using published data and quotes within the context, without which the review, study, work or comparison is not or almost not possible, and one respects proper reference, then "Fair Use" most likely constitutes.
It can not be that commercial companies should allow their published data to be used at their commercial benifit, but can block any other kind of review, comparison and/or critical analysis.
This should make the work of reviewers, consumer organisations, scientific and educational related purposes plain impossible.
- As such the Author of this topic is confronted with a rather cynical situation.
A company called X (known by all regulars here) enhances their turnover by using scientific wrong and/or misleading comparisons on their site with (at least questionable selected) competing brands of their products.
However when their material data is integrated in other external comparisons, where their solutions don't beat other competing solutions they call out: STOP Copyright breach.
It's clear that this is nonsense. The fact that they collected themselves comparable data from other sites for exlusively commercial goals makes such a claim worthless. The rules for Fair Use favor non-commercial educational scientific purposes clearly over commercial goals (even when disguished as science).
The existance or non-existance of the notion Copyright on whichever site does not make one drop of difference in this case.
- Special Cases:
Sometimes one can extend Fair Use somewhat, when it relates to keeping an overview over a question/discussion/explenation calling for different sources, within an exchange of thoughts..
This relates to the scientific educational use of the transformation rule which prevails over mere copying data.
And this by definition also means that one can VERY reasonable assume agreement by the Copyright owner within the context of the transformation. Possible doubt calls for asking permission (not for unasked use) to the Copyright owner.
However don't interpret this as a free pass. In case of discussion the moderators decide.
The reason is simple: Copyright law, fair use, it's interpretation represents billions and billions of dollars.
Discleamer: This page does not pretend to have any legal value
For more and better in-depth information research available resources (some valuable links below).
- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
Easy to read very valuable article by Brad Templeton
- Copyright & Fair Use
Stanford University Libraries
A compilation of valuable links of Stanford University itself and other documents.
Includes the complete US Copyright law.
- Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Fair Use Resources
A compilation of valuable related links
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Just PM Eric for whatever suggestions or comments you have related to this page.