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While on their honeymoon, 23-year-old Mike becomes verbally abusive to his wife, Mary, after she suggests that he has had enough to drink. Mary is surprised by Mike's behavior and his hostile reaction to her. Soon after, however, he apologizes, and because he has always been so kind and gentle, Mary believes him when he tells her that this will never happen again. Several months later, a similar episode occurs. This time, Mary takes the blame, telling herself that these types of incidents are normal in a new marital relationship. She resolves to do things that will make Mike happy and avert confrontations.
Three weeks later, Mike hits Mary during an argument. After several violent episodes during a 2-month period, Mary finally calls the police because she fears for her safety. Responding officers arrest Mike and charge him with assault under the state's domestic violence laws. Recognizing the trouble that awaits him, and in an effort to get her back on his side, Mike sends Mary flowers while he is in jail. With the flowers, he includes a long note, in which he expresses his deep sorrow for the pain he has caused her and promises that the behavior will never be repeated. Because his note is so compelling, Mary believes that he has learned his lesson and that their relationship will improve.
The following day, she informs the city attorney's office that she does not wish to cooperate with the prosecution. When the prosecutor concludes that the state's case is too weak without Mary as a witness, the state drops its charges against Mike, and he is released from jail. Scenarios such as this have long constituted a staple of American policing. In many communities, reports related to domestic abuse make up the largest category of calls to which police officers respond. Yet, until fairly recently, police officers rarely ventured into the private domain of the marital relationship. At most, officers responding to calls for help attempted to calm things down and arrange for one party to leave the home for the evening. While such an approach provided a short-term solution, it rarely helped bring about an end to the violence. During the 1980s, this response began to change as communities implemented more aggressive strategies to address domestic abuse. Many law enforcement agencies began to explore new ways for officers to respond to domestic violence calls. Gradually, the focus shifted from merely "maintaining the peace" to arresting offenders, protecting victims, and referring battered women to shelters and other community resources available to help victims of domestic violence. This move toward fostering a better understanding of domestic violence represents a clear departure from the approach law enforcement agencies once took toward the issue.
However, despite the progressive changes that have taken place during the past two decades, law enforcement still does not address domestic violence in the same way it addresses other violent crimes. While investigators attempt to understand the motivations and characteristics of such offenders as rapists or serial murderers, little attention has been given to profiling batterers. Law enforcement officers who must confront batterers on an almost-daily basis would be well served to develop a better understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse. A CLOSER LOOK AT DOMESTIC ABUSE Officers called upon to re-spond to and investigate domestic abuse calls need to have a full understanding of the complex social, economic, and psychological issues that surround acts of domestic violence. To assist in the investigation of these cases and to educate police officers about this type of abuse, New Jersey's domestic violence laws require that all police officers receive biannual training in this area. This training brings several pieces of the puzzle together to provide officers with a greater understanding of the dynamics of domestic violence. Not a Fair Fight During training, officers learn that domestic violence is not mu-tual combat. Domestic abuse is about one person dominating and controlling another by force, threats, or physical violence. The long-term affects of domestic violence on victims and children can be profound. A son who witnesses his father abuse his mother is more likely to become a delinquent or batterer himself.1 A daughter sees abuse as an integral part of a close relationship.2 Thus, an abusive relationship between father and mother can perpetuate future abusive relationships. Battering in a relationship will not improve on its own. Intervention is essential to stop the reign of terror. When intervention is lacking, the results can be dire: An average of 1,500 American women are killed each year by husbands, ex-husbands, or boyfriends.
3 Types of Abuse Officers investigating domestic violence should have an understanding of the types of abuse they may encounter. Because domestic violence is a pattern of coercive control founded on and supported by violence or the threat of violence, this abuse may take the forms of physical violence, sexual violence, emotional abuse, and/or psychological abuse. Physical violence includes punching, choking, biting, hitting, hair-pulling, stabbing, shooting, or threats of this type of violence. Sexual violence is characterized by physical attacks of the breast and/or genital area, unwanted touching, rape with objects, and forced sexual relations, including marital rape. Emotional abuse takes the form of a systematic degrading of the victim's self-worth. This may be accomplished by calling the victim names, making derogatory or demeaning comments, forcing the victim to perform degrading or humiliating acts, threatening to kill the victim or the victim's family, controlling access to money, and acting in other ways that imply that the victim is crazy. Psychological battering involves all of these features of emotional abuse, but also consists of at least one violent episode or attack on the victim to maintain the impending threat of additional assaults. Destruction of property is violence directed at the victim even though no physical contact is made between the batterer and the victim. This includes destroying personal belongings, family heirlooms, or even the family pet. This destruction is purposeful and the psychological impact on the victim may be as devastating as a physical attack. Characteristics of Batterers Most batterers are masters of deception. Few exhibit violent behavior to anyone other than their victims. Often, batterers possess winning personalities and are well liked in the community. However, they frequently exhibit vastly different public and personal behavior. In the wake of a violent domestic abuse incident, batterers often attempt to convince responding police officers that their victims are mentally off balance. Many times they fool officers into leaving without conducting a proper, thorough investigation.4 Developing a deeper understanding of the characteristics of batterers will help police officers realize when batterers are attempting to manipulate them.
To help identify potential batterers, officers should be aware of other common traits they generally possess. These include: Low self-esteem. This often results from physical or sexual abuse and/or disapproval or neglect by a parent or authoritarian figure from the batterer's childhood. Extreme insecurity and an inability to trust others. Batterers have difficulty establishing close friendships. They tend to be critical or jealous of their partners. Denial of responsibility for their behavior. Batterers often deny that abuse has occurred. They also minimize the impact of their assaultive behavior or blame their partners for causing an incident. Need to control. Batterers choose to abuse their partners. Their purpose is to control them. Batterers use violence or attempted or suggested violence to make their partners comply with their wishes. THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE Police generally become involved in a domestic abuse situation once it has reached a flash point. However, in most domestic abuse cases, physical abuse occurs during one of the three phases that make up the cycle of violence. By becoming familiar with the features of each phase in this cycle, responding officers can help victims understand that the cycle of abuse is likely to continue if nothing is done to address the underlying causes. In a battering relationship, the cycle of violence includes three distinct phases.5 Investigating officers who understand these phases can offer objective insight to victims of the violence. For example, if an officer can advise a victim that the batterer's next step likely will be to apologize and possibly send flowers in order to keep her in the relationship, she may be more inclined to understand that the cycle will repeat itself if no intervention occurs. Tension-Building Phase During the first-and usually the longest-phase of the overall cycle, tension escalates between the couple. Excessive drinking, illness, jealousy, and other factors may lead to name-calling, hostility, and friction. Unless some type of professional intervention occurs at this point, the second phase of the cycle-acute battering-becomes all but inevitable. During the tension-building phase, a woman may sense that her partner is reacting to her more negatively, that he is on edge and reacts heatedly to any trivial frustration. Many women recognize these signs of impending violence and become more nurturing or compliant or just stay out of the way. A woman often will accept her partner's building anger as legitimately directed at her. She internalizes what she perceives as her responsibility to keep the situation from exploding. In her mind, if she does her job well, he remains calm. If she fails, the resulting violence is her fault. Acute-Battering Phase The second phase of the cycle is the explosion of violence. The batterer loses control both physically and emotionally. Many batterers do not want to hurt their partners, only to teach them a lesson and control them. However, this is the stage where the victim, the batterer, or responding officers may be assaulted or killed. Unless the battering is interrupted, the violence during this phase will take at least as severe a form as is necessary for the abuser to accomplish his goal. Once he has the victim under his control, he may stop. In other cases, where the batterer completely loses emotional and physical control, the consequences can be deadly. The violence may be over in a moment or last for several minutes or hours. Although there may be visible injuries, an experienced batterer generally will not leave marks on the victim that would be readily noticeable to others. After a battering episode, most victims consider themselves lucky that the abuse was not worse, no matter how severe their injuries. They often deny the seriousness of their injuries and refuse to seek medical attention.6 Law enforcement officers who respond immediately after a violent episode may find an abusive perpetrator who appears extremely calm and rational. His calm demeanor is deceptive; he has just released his anger and vented his tensions at his victim. The batterer may point to the victim, who may be highly agitated or hysterical because of the abuse, and attempt to blame her for the violence. The victim may, in fact, respond aggressively against officers who attempt to intervene. Officers should be aware that this reaction may be due to the victim's fear that more severe retaliation awaits her if officers arrest the batterer. The victim also may feel desperate about the impending loss of financial support or even emotional support she receives from the abuser. Although officers should not make any false promises, they should reassure the victim that the mechanisms are in place for the criminal justice system to help. Officers have a responsibility to provide a complete, professional investigation so that the system will work. A haphazard investigation, or a lack of concern by responding officers, could result in a violent abuser's being released from jail to retaliate against a vulnerable victim. Honeymoon Phase The third phase of the cycle is a period of calm, loving, contrite behavior on the part of the batterer. The batterer may be genuinely sorry for the pain he has caused his partner. He acts out of his greatest fear-that his partner will leave him. He attempts to make up for his brutal behavior and believes that he can control himself and never again hurt the woman he loves. The victim wants to believe that her partner really can change. She feels responsible, at least in part, for causing the incident, and she feels responsible for her partner's well-being. It is at this stage that many victims request that complaints against batterers be dropped. If police conducted a thorough investigation, the prosecutor's office can reacquaint a reluctant victim with photographs of her injuries. When the victim sees the cuts and bruises that she received at the hands of her now-apologetic partner, she may reconsider the wisdom of dropping the charges. Likewise, if officers had the victim provide a statement of events at the time of the incident, this could prove an invaluable tool for prosecutors. Not only does such a statement establish probable cause, but prosecutors can have the reluctant victim review the details of her abuse to refresh her memory. Officers and prosecutors also can explain that the contrite behavior being exhibited by the batterer may, in all likelihood, give way to a new cycle of violence. For police officers, the possibility that a victim will forgive her abuser during the honeymoon phase underscores the importance of conducting a thorough investigation. The goal of officers responding to a domestic abuse call should be to develop a case that can be prosecuted even if the victim becomes reluctant.7 Understanding the Cycle of Violence While most domestic relationships involving violence include some type of cycle, not all violent relationships go through each phase as described above. Some batterers never express any type of remorse for their actions and, in fact, will continue to use threats and intimidation to discourage a victim from filing a complaint or testifying in court. For such abusers, the thought of resorting to flowers or apologies would never cross their minds. However, most domestic abuse cases follow a pattern corresponding, in some way or another, to the cycle of violence. CONCLUSION In recent years, law enforcement has enhanced its ability to resolve various types of cases by studying the motivations and profiling the characteristics of offenders who perpetrate certain types of crimes. The police can apply this same strategy to help address the issues surrounding domestic violence. Investigations of domestic violence cases should evolve with a full understanding of the characteristics of batterers and the cycle of violence. Law enforcement officers also should make clear to victims that the criminal justice system can help protect them and will work for their benefit. But the police must back up such guarantees with thorough, professional investigations. The abusive relationships of the past were allowed to persist, in part, because restrictive statutes and misplaced social mores concerning violence within the domestic setting tied the hands of police and prosecutors. Thanks to new laws and an evolving understanding of the dynamics of domestic abuse, these ties have been cut. Law enforcement should make the most of this new freedom to address an old problem. By Douglas R. Marvin – Published in FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, July 1997. At the time of publication Lieutenant Marvin served with the New Providence, New Jersey, Police Department Sidebar New Jersey's Domestic Violence Laws Domestic violence laws in New Jersey-as in other states-clearly express that the primary duty of a law enforcement officer when responding to a domestic violence call is to enforce the laws allegedly violated and to protect the victim. At the same time, the New Jersey statutes provide protection from liability for law enforcement officers who act to enforce domestic violence laws by: 1. Making an arrest based on probable cause 2. Enforcing a court order in good faith, or 3. Acting (or refraining from any action) in good faith under the domestic violence laws. The statutes clearly define what is expected of law enforcement officers and reflect the legislature's intent to ensure that officers take the necessary steps to protect the victims of domestic violence. Source: New Jersey Criminal Justice Code 2C:25-18 et. seq Endnotes 1 John Zorza, "The Criminal Law of Misdemeanor Domestic Violence, 1970-1990," The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, (Chicago, Ill: Northwestern University School of Law-Office of Legal Publications, 1992), 83. 2 Elena Salzman, The Quincy District Court Domestic Violence Prevention Program: A Model Framework for Domestic Violence Intervention, 74 B.C.L. REV. 329, (1994). 3 National Woman Abuse Prevention Project, "Understanding Domestic Violence: Fact Sheets,"1989, 21. 4 Ibid. 5 Leonore E. Walker, The Battered Woman (New York: Harper-Row, 1979), 43. 6 Domestic Violence Prosecution Protocol, Office of the Attorney General, San Diego, Calif., April 1990. 7 See George Wattendorf, "Prosecuting Cases Without Victim Cooperation," FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, April 1996, 18-20.
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Master in Advanced Automotive Electronic Engineering
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COVID-19 INFO AND UPDATES Covid 19 - Please read the measures adopted by the University of Bologna to allow activities to resume safely. About the programme The Master Degree in "Advanced Automotive Electronic Engineering" fits within a collaboration between the four major Universities in Emilia-Romagna and the main Companies involved in the design and manufacturing of automobiles and motorbikes in the premium and racing sector: Automobili Lamborghini Spa, Dallara Automobili SpA, Ducati Motor Holding Spa, FCA Group - Maserati e Alfa Romeo, Ferrari Spa, Haas F1 Team, Magneti Marelli Spa, Scuderia Toro Rosso Spa. The aim of the Master is to educate electronic engineers with a solid knowledge of the methods and tools that make electronics the foundations of all the systems that collect, process, transmit, and store information, with a particular emphasis on the electronic subsystems that are embedded in the nowadays and future vehicles. The graduate in "Advanced Automotive Electronic Engineering" is able to understand, propose and adapt what is being developed in the flourishing field of Information and Communication Technologies, playing a fundamental role in the innovation of the automotive sector whose future evolution will increasingly depend on such technologies. The aim of the Master is to educate electronic engineers with a solid knowledge of the methods and tools that make electronics the foundations of all the systems that collect, process, transmit, and store information, with a particular emphasis on the electronic subsystems that are embedded in the nowadays and future vehicles. The graduate in "Advanced Automotive Electronic Engineering" is able to understand, propose and adapt what is being developed in the flourishing field of Information and Communication Technologies, playing a fundamental role in the innovation of the automotive sector whose future evolution will increasingly depend on such technologies. 5 reasons to enrol in the degree program You will study innovative IT methods and tools that are revolutionizing motor vehicles You will attend a degree program that was designed with companies whose brands embody style and technical excellence all over the world You will participate in internships and work experiences in the best labs of Emilia-Romagna's "Motor Valley" You will communicate and collaborate with different fields, such as mechanics You will be trained to work in a field (information technology for the automotive industry) that is growing all over the world
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PIERRE, S.D. — A Fort Thompson man was sentenced this month after being convicted of assaulting another person with a knife and then beating him.
Rain Blaine, 19, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison, 2 years supervised release and a special assessment to the Federal Crime Victims Fund of $100.
The conviction stems from an incident on June 24 of 2018 when Blaine became upset during a conversation with another individual.
He stabbed the individual with a knife in the abdomen and then dropped the knife and began physically assaulting the victim with his hands and feet.
The victim had to be airlifted to Sioux Falls to be treated for his injuries.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Crow Creek Agency.
Blaine was immediately turned over to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service following his sentencing.


We are pleased to invite you to our Transforming Urban Governance conference in Melbourne in mid 2019. The Call for Papers is below, we are seeking abstracts by 20 February 2019.
Please feel free to circulate to your own networks.
In an increasingly fractured, unequal and warming world, we need to rethink and redesign how we collectively govern our relationships to place for social and ecological flourishing. Whose rights are at stake, what futures are possible, which natures matter, and who gets to say are critical questions that form the focus of the 2019 Transformative Urban Governance conference in Melbourne, Australia.
Hosted by the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT, this two day conference seeks to bring together scholars, activists, practitioners and policy-makers into lively debate to help reframe how we think and practice urban governance in an unequal, warming world. The conference will be held at RMIT University, which is on the unceded sovereign lands of the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung speaking peoples of the Kulin Nation, in the city now known as Melbourne. In hosting the conference we pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging of all Kulin peoples and invite conversations that honour our collective obligation to Kulin Country, peoples and cultures.
Confirmed keynote speakers include: Professor Margit Mayer, Freie Universitat Berlin; Professor Sue Parnell, University of Bristol; and Professor Michele Acuto, University of Melbourne.
We invite 250 word abstracts addressing the conference themes and questions. Please email to: wendy.steele at rmit.edu.au<mailto:wendy.steele at rmit.edu.au> by 20 February 2019.
I respectfully acknowledge the peoples of the Woiwurrung and Boonwurrung / Bunurong speaking peoples, their Elders past, present and future, on whose unceded sovereign lands I live and work.


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Strategic Metals Ltd. Announces Acquisition of Additional Shares of ATAC Resources Ltd. and Filing of Updated Early Warning Report
December 15, 2008 – Strategic Metals Ltd. (TSX-V: SMD) ("Strategic") announces that it has acquired through a series of ordinary market transactions an additional 925,000 common shares of ATAC Resources Ltd. ("ATAC"), a reporting issuer whose shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "ATC". Strategic has acquired these securities for investment purposes, and may increase its ownership of securities of ATAC in the future, depending upon market conditions.
As a result of Strategic's purchase of these additional shares of ATAC, it now holds a total of 6,639,286 common shares of ATAC, representing 2% of the 46,253,153 common shares of ATAC currently issued and outstanding.
Strategic also announces that it has filed the requisite updated Early Warning Report on SEDAR as a result of its acquisition of these additional common shares of ATAC.
For further information concerning Strategic Metals Ltd. or its various exploration projects please visit our website at www.strategicmetalsltd.com or contact:
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Per: W. Douglas Eaton, President and Chief Executive Officer
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As I was sitting in the barn the other night waiting for the show cattle to finish eating I had settled into my usual routine, endlessly scrolling on my phone. Just then my phone died, no big deal, I'll just sit and wait. As I stared at Emma and her friends mowing down I felt something I'm not sure I've allowed myself to feel for some time… I was completely content.
When we have our heads down pushing forward trying to make our dreams a reality we don't give ourselves nearly enough time to smell the roses. I know Rome wasn't built in a day but what I do not know is how many years it took. What I am sure of is it has taken us 11 years to build this place.
As I sat on that bucket tonight I felt at peace. These cattle have always helped maintain my sanity. In return for all they do for me it is our duty to breed them for longevity, soundness and efficiency. Breeding cattle that have those three keys gives them their best chance at the long productive life they deserve.
While living the past 11 years feels like it has been a long time the realization that it isn't brings comfort. The progress that we have made tells me we are good at this. We aren't at all where we want to end up but until the other night I'm not sure I'd grasped how close we are getting.
We hope to see you at the Iowa State Fair or at our place for the Iowa Hereford Tour August 26th. We can't wait to share our program that brings us so much joy with you.
We are very excited about this years Iowa Beef Expo Hereford Sale. Fantasy is the best heifer we have ever offered and Renegade will make a great addition to a commercial herd. If you have any questions about either please do not hesitate to contact us.
Better late than never… Here is our Newsletter from the Iowa State Fair if you weren't able to pick one up in person. State Fair recap post will be coming your way later in the week.
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OAKLAND, Calif.— Most marine mammals and sea turtles in the United States that are protected by the Endangered Species Act are recovering, according to a new study by scientists at the Center for Biological Diversity.
The best available population data for 23 marine mammals and nine sea turtles shows that 78 percent of them — including most large whales, Florida manatees, California sea otters, and green sea turtles — experienced substantial population increases after being protected by this landmark federal law.
The study, which is under review at the scientific journal PLOS ONE and appears as a preprint in the BioRXiv server today, looked at all marine mammal and sea turtle species protected by the Act. The good news is being released just before Endangered Species Day on May 18.
The study analyzed only those species with reliable and high-quality data, making the findings of this comprehensive survey of the scientific literature a powerful indicator of endangered species' recovery.
According to the study, most species are on the path to recovery. Three species of marine mammals and two species of sea turtles remained unchanged after listing, which may indicate population stability. Just two marine mammal species, the Hawaiian monk seal and Southern Resident killer whale, continued to decline after being listed. No listed sea turtle populations declined.
Conservation measures triggered by the Act include habitat protections, science-based management measures to safeguard the species, and recovery planning. The Endangered Species Act has required devices that allow sea turtles to escape from fishing nets, protected whales from deafening sonar, reduced disorienting lighting from sea turtle nesting beaches, among other protections.
The study found that species listed for more than 20 years were more likely to be recovering than recently listed species, another sign the Act is effective if federal officials follow its mandates.
The study, titled "Marine mammals and sea turtles listed under the Endangered Species Act are recovering," was primarily authored by Dr. Valdivia. Marine mammals and sea turtles make up 36 percent of the 161 marine species listed under the Act.


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With friends like the DMCA, who needs SOPA?
Derrick Harris Nov 27, 2011 - 6:00 AM CDT
The proposed Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, garners a lot of hatred from commentators and the Internet industry as whole, but it's only the next logical step after the already-flawed Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Many discussions reference the DMCA's "safe harbor" provision when talking about the removal of infringing content on sites like YouTube, but the provision doesn't really provide safety at all. It might more fairly be called the "plea bargain" provision: you do less time and save on attorney fees, but you're no less guilty.
The DMCA has been governing copyright on the web since 1998 but it has largely avoided the level of outrage the SOPA has raised, despite the DMCA's process — or lack thereof — for getting content removed. Essentially, someone writes a letter that complies with the law's requirements, and the service provider has to either remove that content (for a minimum of 10 to 14 days depending on whether the alleged infringer challenges the claim) or face a potential copyright lawsuit.
This doesn't mesh with traditional avenues for resolving legal issues. Just because we're talking about removing content and not putting people in jail, we shouldn't offload the legal process to parties with every incentive to take the prudent route lest risk facing legal action themselves.
Google isn't a court
Service providers aren't federal judges, the entities traditionally charged with deciding what's infringing and what's not. In a recent blog post explaining the security ramifications of SOPA (which I also covered), CloudFlare Founder and CEO (and law professor) Matthew Prince laid out the challenges of having service providers decide what's infringing and what's not, especially as bogus claims start getting better:
Imagine the challenge for someone on CloudFlare's support team. If someone writes to us alleging that they are a photographer who took a picture that appears on a website, or a designer who drew a logo, or an author who wrote some text, how can that claim be verified? I'm an attorney and member of the bar. I teach a course on intellectual property and technology law at the John Marshall Law School. I serve on the Board of the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law. I've reviewed many of these requests and, even with my training in the subject, I have no idea how to effectively and efficiently tell the difference between valid and invalid complaints. (emphasis added)
Talk about a Catch-22: If service providers don't comply, they risk lawsuits. If they comply willy-nilly, they look like rubber stamps, even for a growing number of wholly illegitimate claims. Consumers can either give in to takedown requests, or challenge them and perhaps find themselves embroiled in a costly legal proceeding over content the value of which probably doesn't justify the potential costs.
False claims are everywhere
This wouldn't be such a problem if it weren't the case that an increasing number of DMCA takedown requests are bogus. These come from hackers wanting to know host domain names, individuals or companies with vested interested in seeing content removed, or just serial DMCA flamers (as explained in the YouTube video below).
In 2006, two law professors published a report highlighting the scope of the problem at that time. Although they acknowledged the imperfection of their data set, the results are were pretty startling nonetheless: 41 percent of all studied claims involving content hosted on Google (s goog) targeted complainants' competitors, and "a substantial portion" of the claims contained serious legal flaws ranging from the veracity of the claim to non-compliance with DMCA requirements to not even making copyright-based claims.
In 2009, Google noted when challenging a proposed New Zealand copyright law that 57 percent of its takedown requests were from businesses targeting their competitors, while 37 percent weren't valid copyright claims at all.
Presumably, though, because service providers — even the mighty Google — aren't really in the position to examine every claim, and even if they spot potential defenses (e.g., fair use), there isn't much incentive to ignore requests. This creates even deeper problems for copyright law. Commenting in 2006 on whether it's legal to link to allegedly infringing material, EFF attorney Fred von Lohmann noted, "That's one of the problems with the DMCA safe harbors — because OSPs have such a strong incentive to simply comply with takedown notices, courts get fewer chances to decide the underlying copyright questions, like whether linking to stuff on YouTube is infringing. So things stay murky. "
The problems inherent in removing any legal entity from the notice-and-takedown process extend to the methods by which copyright holders go after the alleged infringers themselves. A 2008 study showed that industry organizations such as the RIAA and MPAA often incorrectly targeted individuals based on faulty methodology, and that methods exist for framing other individuals by altering the displayed IP address.
Why DMCA survives and how to fix it
It's difficult to ascertain why the DMCA doesn't get the same attention as the proposed SOPA legislation does, but perhaps it's because the DMCA has been in effect since 2008 1998 — before Google and other web-based companies were the behemoths they are today. They came into their own with the DMCA in place, and they learned to live with it.
Or, perhaps the DMCA is spared the lobbying efforts of large web properties because it doesn't threaten them like SOPA does. The DMCA lets sites remain operating if they remove infringing content, whereas SOPA could shut them down if pirated material is present. In fact, in their letter expressing concern over SOPA, a consortium of service providers including Google, Twitter and Yahoo (s yhoo) refer to the DMCA as an "effective mechanism," despite the burdens it puts upon them.
Whatever the reason, though, the underlying problems with both laws stem from their lack of due process. When Google challenged that New Zealand law in 2009, it made a particularly sane suggestion for how to handle takedown requests: refer them to an independent judge who would evaluate the merits of each case and acknowledge the presence of any possible defenses. In the United States, perhaps that could be a job of the Copyright Office, which would serve as the middle man between infringement claims and service providers.
While we're righteously outraged about SOPA, it seems a good time to rethink DMCA too, even if doing means sending copyright holders into an absolute frenzy. Criminal laws would never outsource arrests to third parties who face legal action if they didn't arrest an alleged criminal, but that's analogous to what the DMCA already does for copyright law. SOPA goes a step further, but it's hardly a leap.
Image courtesy of Flickr user H.L.I.T.
10 Responses to "With friends like the DMCA, who needs SOPA?"
gRegor ♥ Morrill November 27, 2011
With friends like the DMCA, who needs SOPA? http://t.co/GteXXavf
Viper Bradford November 27, 2011
Interesting comment on "With friends like the DMCA, who needs SOPA?" @gigaom: http://t.co/olQ6tOmh via @gigaom
Virtuous November 27, 2011
This is another end run around due process. It's anything goes when it comes to copyrights and patents. Every year we're becoming less free. Gradually we're becoming more like Egypt and Syria.
Sue Moore November 27, 2011
With friends like the DMCA, who needs SOPA?: This doesn't mesh with traditional avenues for resolving legal issu… http://t.co/CiHiUHYL
Jerome Gentolia November 27, 2011
With friends like the DMCA, who needs SOPA? http://t.co/nKj2CRaS
Cathy Gellis November 27, 2011
RT @glynmoody: With friends like the DMCA, who needs SOPA? – http://t.co/1vmORJn8 good point: just because #SOPA is awful doesn't make #DMCA good
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"White guilt is an indicator of virtue for the leftist. In most instances, it's manufactured to create the illusion of virtue and reflects the secret knowledge held by virtuous people. It is frequently a substitute for religion. I recognize all the symptoms, having suffered from it myself. Thankfully, that is no longer the case."
Never have so many atheists and agnostics been so deeply religious. Their religion is not rooted in a belief in god, unless that god is the god of the all-powerful state. Like all religions, it is faith-based. And, like all religions, its adherents tend to seek out only that information that reinforces their faith. It is this secret knowledge that draws them in. That, and the belief that they are virtuous as the result of those beliefs.
Their faith is so deeply rooted that nothing short of a nuclear explosion could separate them from the object of their adoration. That being the worship of their own virtue, as expressed in their preferred ideology.
Stalin and Hitler shared their faith, as did Margaret Sanger, the patron saint of all leftwing bigots. Abortion is a central part of their creed and works well as a substitute for Sanger's more open hatred of Black and Brown people. You can't just advocate for sterilization anymore, as Sanger did, so abortion is the next best thing.
Today, Black babies are aborted in about the same numbers as those born, while mass immigration and open borders are increasingly being advocated. This is happening even as abortion is offered as a method of family planning and population control. I guess nearly 40% unemployment rate for young Black men and 14% for young White men isn't high enough, so, by all means, keep them coming. If you say otherwise, you are a bigot, a hater. In fact, if you doubt any part of their creed you are an apostate and someone who should be driven from society.
How is it then, that Sanger's creed of hatred for non-Whites has been co-opted by those who see White people as devils and, everyone else, as their victims? Not surprisingly, most of these advocates are White.
By shifting the focus to Whites, and in particular, Western, European culture, the cycle is complete; Black, Brown, Gay, Straight, Male and Female are subdivided, yet again, into increasingly narrow categories and tribal affiliations, including the individual's perceived gender, which ultimately encompasses everyone. And, with that, the left's endgame of totalitarian control is complete. But, with one big difference. The psychological framework being used enables the leftist to see themselves as virtuous—and the inevitable casualties, as the broken eggs required to make the great multicultural omelet. That is certainly how Marx and his progeny have understood it. Should anyone be surprised that Capitalism is the most despised of the far left's enemies? I don't think so.
The way they deflect such claims is simple; they take the absolute dumbest statements made by anyone from the opposition and hold them high as the sole alternative, while studiously ignoring any genuinely meaningful argument for fear it will pollute their secular religion.
In the end, it is always easier to battle straw men. Simply light a match and watch them burn.


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Tynelle Gumbs – British Virgin Islands
Date of Birth: 27 September, 1996
Sport: Athletics – Field
Event: Discus, Hammer Throw
Tynelle is a student athlete at the University of Findlay, Ohio, USA.
Representing the BVI from a young age, Tynelle quickly staked her mark as a strong thrower and won the British Virgin Islands' first Gold medal in five years with a distance of 41.46 with the Javelin Throw at the 2012 CARIFTA Games in Bermuda. The mark would also make her the holder of the National Youth, National Junior, and National Scholastic Record.
With a number of medals won at regional events in the Caribbean and as a sophomore at Central Arizona College in the years that followed, Tynelle became the 2017 indoor USA national champion in the Weight Throw and was named Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) athlete of the year and of the meet during the Outdoor season.
Tynelle also won Midwest Region athlete of the year. She is the current BVI national record holder in the Hammer and Discus.
Hammer Throw- 59.30, (3rd place) GLIAC Outdoor ChampionshipDiscus Throw – 51.43 (1st place) Polar Bear Invitational, Ada, OhioShot Put – 15.23 (1st place) OECS Championships, Grenada
Coach: Omar Jones
Personal Bests:
Hammer Throw – 59.30 (National Record)
Discus Throw – 51.43 (National Record)


from National's Olivier Theatre, 2016-09-22, 19:00–22:25.
by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, in collaboration with Elisabeth Hauptmann in a new adaptation by Simon Stephens.
Director: Rufus Norris; Designer: Vicki Mortimer; Music Director: David Shrubsole; Choreographer: Imogen Knight; Lighting Designer: Paule Constable; Sound Designer: Paul Arditti; Fight Directors: Rachel Bown-Williams & Ruth Cooper-Brown of RC-ANNIE Ltd.
Cast: Rory Kinnear (Macheath), Rosalie Craig (Polly Peachum), Haydn Gwynne (Mrs. Peachum), Nick Holder (Mr. Peachum), Sharon Small (Jenny), Peter De Jersey (Tiger Brown), George Ikediashi (Street Singer), etc.
Musicians: David Shrubsole, Andy Findon, Christian Forshaw, Sarah Campbell, Richard Hart, Sarah Freestone, Martin Briggs, Ian Watson.
First Performance: 26 May 2016, National's Olivier Theatre.
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Huawei Marine Networks, the submarine network construction arm of the giant Chinese telecoms vendor Huawei Technologies, has announced that it has completed the installation project for subsea network consortium South Atlantic Inter Link (SAIL).
The cable runs close to 6,000 km between Kribi in Cameroon and Fortaleza in Brazil and, according to Huawei Marine Networks, is the first network to directly link Africa and Latin America.
The project, which began in 2016, was jointly funded by China Unicom subsidiary China Unicom do Brasil Telecomunicacoes and Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel). Huawei Marine Networks built the undersea connection using 100G DWDM transmission technology with a design capacity of 32 Tbit/s, using a 4-fiber pair configuration. The lifespan of the cables is planned to be 25 years.
"Today, Cameroon uses about 60 gigabits per second, making us to browse 400 times slower than when we will be at 32 terabits per second," said Pierre Paul Njonga, Coordinator of Cameroon's National Broadband Network II Programme.
Kribi is becoming a popular landing point for subsea networks: It already hosting one end of the Nigeria-Cameroon Submarine Cable System (NCSCS), with Lagos hosting the other end. It is also likely to be the starting point of a new cable network to link Cameroon with Europe.


If you're a landlord, you'll no doubt understand the multitude of risks involved. There are any number of things that could go wrong when you lease your property out to a third party, and it's only sensible to ensure that you're covered for every eventuality.
To date, there are very few companies in Ireland offering specific landlord coverage, with most instead simply suggesting that you take our their home insurance. While this will cover you for a lot of the day to day stuff, it may leave you open on a number of fronts.
You might find yourself without coverage for any malicious damage caused by a tenant for example, or liable for any injuries sustained by the tenant or tradesmen carrying out work while on your property.
There are many questions you need to ask to figure out if a home insurance policy is up to the task of providing you with everything you need as a landlord. The absolute minimum that you should be looking to have on any policy is third party liability cover, contents cover, loss of rent cover and building cover.
Without the above, you could find yourself in serious trouble should an accident occur, and the last thing you want is to find yourself facing huge legal bills in light of insufficient insurance coverage.
You should be able to reduce your insurance premiums by following a few easy steps. Safety is the name of the game when it comes to this type of insurance, so make sure that your property has working fire alarms, fire blankets and fire extinguishers, a burglar alarm and security locks. This will cost you quite a bit of money initially, but the insurance savings will pay for them over time.
Best of luck to you on your search to find landlord insurance in Ireland.
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Q: XML repete registro ao ser gerado em PHP tenho um script PHP que gera arquivo XML, porém algo muito estranho é que ele repete vários registros da minha tabela de imóveis e o pior ainda é que não existe imóveis repetidos. Repete o ID do imóvel sendo que há somente um imóvel para cada ID.
Segue meu código que gera o XML:
$arquivo = "nuroa.xml";
$ponteiro = fopen($arquivo, "w");
fwrite($ponteiro, "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>");
fwrite($ponteiro, '<nuroa>');

$sqlguiatexto = "SELECT id FROM imoveis";
$rsqlguiatexto = mysql_query($sqlguiatexto)
or die ("Não foi possível realizar a consulta ao banco de dados");

while($roweditusertexto = mysql_fetch_array($rsqlguiatexto))
   {

       $conteudo .= '<ad>';
       $conteudo .= '<id><![CDATA['.$roweditusertexto['id'].']]></id>';
       $conteudo .= '</ad>';
       fwrite($ponteiro, $conteudo);

   }

fwrite($ponteiro, '</nuroa>');
fclose($ponteiro);

Alguém sabe me dizer o que está acontecendo para isso? Estranho é que não existe registro repetido.
Aguardo ajuda, muito obrigado!

A: Você está somando o conteúdo repetidas vezes ao arquivo.
Veja a diferença dentro do WHILE:
$arquivo = "nuroa.xml";
$ponteiro = fopen($arquivo, "w");
fwrite($ponteiro, "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>");
fwrite($ponteiro, '<nuroa>');

$sqlguiatexto = "SELECT id FROM imoveis";
$rsqlguiatexto = mysql_query($sqlguiatexto)
or die ("Não foi possível realizar a consulta ao banco de dados");

while($roweditusertexto = mysql_fetch_array($rsqlguiatexto))
   {
       $conteudo  = '<ad>';
       //        ↑ aqui não vai o ponto, pois é um conteúdo novo.
       $conteudo .= '<id><![CDATA['.$roweditusertexto['id'].']]></id>';
       $conteudo .= '</ad>';
       fwrite($ponteiro, $conteudo);

   }

fwrite($ponteiro, '</nuroa>');
fclose($ponteiro);

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Las Vegas Aces Beat Sun for First WNBA Championship
19 September 2022 by admin
UNCASVILLE, Conn. — With a championship on the line for a team with some of the W.N.B.A.'s biggest stars, the Las Vegas Aces leaned on Riquna Williams, who had scored in double digits just twice this postseason.
Williams raised her index finger to her lips to silence the Connecticut Sun's white-knuckled fans in Game 4 of the finals as she hit one big shot after another in the fourth quarter. The last of her 17 points came on a step-back shot just inside the 3-point line over the outstretched arms of Natisha Hiedeman. Guard Kelsey Plum raised her hands, and Williams ran around the court with her arms spread wide as Sun fans began to leave.
The Aces defeated the Sun, 78-71, on Sunday to win their first W.N.B.A. championship, their postseason reflecting the regular-season dominance that led them to tie Chicago for the best record in the league.
The Aces led by as many as 10 but had to fight off several furious rallies by the Sun before clinching the title in the final minutes of Las Vegas's third win in the best-of-five series. Chelsea Gray led the Aces with 20 points and was named the most valuable player of the finals.
"I worked so hard for this," Gray said as she became emotional and her teammates cheered.
Gray and the Aces' loaded roster kept Las Vegas a step ahead of the league all season. Four Aces were named All-Stars — A'ja Wilson, Plum, Jackie Young and Dearica Hamby — and Plum was voted M.V.P. of the All-Star Game. Wilson won her second league M.V.P. Award and was named the defensive player of the year. Becky Hammon, in her first season with the team, was named the league's coach of the year.
But coming into Game 4, Williams, who scored 11 points in the fourth quarter, hadn't scored more than 14 points all season. The Sun held Wilson to just 11 points on Sunday, her third-lowest scoring performance of the playoffs.
"I got a group of really resilient players," Hammon said, adding: "You saw different people step up at different moments tonight and that's what makes us difficult to beat."
The Aces finished with the best regular-season record in two of the past three seasons and second in the year they didn't finish first. The Seattle Storm swept them in the 2020 finals. Las Vegas had shouldered the reputation of being a team good enough to win in the regular season but not able — or willing — to make the adjustments needed to succeed in the postseason. Its star-laden roster was seemingly too talented for its own good, with the best players often leaning on the isolation basketball they excel in but that has kept the Aces from closing out championships.
This year, a large group of fans in red, black and gold Aces gear made their way down to the lower levels of Mohegan Sun Arena as the Las Vegas players flooded the court after the game. It was an invaluable moment for Gray.
"I've been on two teams and that was loud," Gray said of the Aces fans. "They're going to celebrate us, and we're going to celebrate them."
Last season, the Aces lost the decisive Game 5 of the semifinals to the Phoenix Mercury, who celebrated on the Aces' home floor. Gray said that ending had stuck in her mind since.
"And now I'll just have a different replay in my head," Gray said with a smile.
As the buzzer sounded on Sunday, the Aces players — now champions — yelled and hugged each other, their cheers of excitement bouncing around an otherwise quiet stadium that had been rocked with the deafening roars of Sun fans just moments before.
As Connecticut players exited the court in tears, Sun center Jonquel Jones walked the length of the floor into the Aces' celebration to hug and congratulate Wilson. As Jones walked away, she paused to clap and thank the fans that remained before heading to the locker room. Jones dominated the Aces physically in the Sun's lone win of the series in Game 3, and she nearly led them to another victory in Game 4.
Wilson spoke highly of Jones after the game.
"I had to go and speak to her because she played her heart out," Wilson said of Jones, who was last season's M.V.P. "It's so hard to guard her, and I just have all the most respect for J.J."
The loss for the Sun, the No. 3 seed, is another disappointing finish for a franchise with the second most wins in W.N.B.A. history but no championships. For the second straight game, Sun forward Alyssa Thomas had a triple-double. She is the only player to have a triple-double in a W.N.B.A. finals game.
Hammon said it was a "battle" to beat the Sun. "We knew it wasn't going to be easy," she said.
Bill Laimbeer, who had been the Aces' coach for four years, stepped down before the season. The Aces hired Hammon, who had been an assistant with the N.B.A.'s San Antonio Spurs. She took over a team led by Wilson, who won her first M.V.P. Award in 2020.
As Hammon guided the Aces to the first seed, she said she saw glimpses of the style of play that had kept the Aces from winning a title. But that shifted in the Aces' semifinal win over the Storm, during which Hammon said the players were "choosing each other" and learned how to "take a punch."
That proved true as the Aces found ways to win playoff games while their stars struggled and they faced deficits — precisely what happened on Sunday — finally shaking the reputation of a team with unfulfilled potential.
Hammon thanked Laimbeer for putting the team together and praised her players.
"What I'm most proud of is we became a real team out here, and a team that cares about each other and trusts each other," she said.
Hammon said it was a "little surreal" to win her first W.N.B.A. championship. She played in the league for more than a decade, including several seasons with the Las Vegas franchise when it was in San Antonio.
She said the Aces had "tremendous leadership" among the players, and that they had persisted when they weren't playing well during the season. She applauded Williams for coming through on Sunday when the Aces had been struggling to score.
"She knows she's got the ultimate green light," Hammon said.
Wilson also spoke about growth — hers and the team's.
"I know who I am now more than ever," Wilson said. "I feel like I've established myself in this league. And the Aces aren't done yet."
Soruce : https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/18/sports/basketball/aces-sun-wnba-finals-championship.html
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Rapid Recap: Richmond 53 - VCU 71
Final Score: University of Richmond 53 - Virginia Commonwealth University 71
What Happened: "The Blue & Black Classic: Brooklyn Edition" was all about VCU tonight. Playing in front of a mainly VCU crowd, the Rams, led by guards Briante Weber and Treveon Graham's combined 32 points, controlled both ends of the court in their 71-53 victory. ShawnDre' Jones broke out of his shooting slump, going 5-10 for 18 points. Terry Allen chipped in 16 points and seven rebounds. In the first half, Weber scored 16 points and led VCU's suffocating defense. He scored the game's first six points and the Rams jumped out to an early 8-1 lead. Despite struggling on offense, Richmond kept the game close for the first 10 minutes. VCU, however, opened up the game with a 15-2 run over a five-minute span that pushed the Rams to a 33-15 lead. The Spiders, who shot 33 percent and committed 10 turnovers in the half, trailed 38-22 at the break. Richmond looked more aggressive early in the second half, scoring nine quick points and cutting VCU's lead to 13, which led to a VCU timeout. That was as close as Richmond would get for the rest of the game. VCU responded with a 7-0 run, extending its lead to 51-31. From there, the Rams cruised to their blowout victory, earning them a spot in tomorrow's semifinals against the winner of Massachusetts and George Washington.
Spider Positives: It's hard to find many positives for the Spiders tonight. ShawnDre' Jones looked much better against the Rams this time around. He broke out of his shooting slump, and did not turn the ball over in the first half when the Rams' pressure was at its best. Jones will have no reason to fear VCU's defense when he plays them again next season. For that matter, all of the Spiders that played tonight will have another shot at the Rams next season. They can take tonight as a learning experience for how to handle VCU's unique defense. Richmond was dealt a tough hand this season when it lost its two seniors, and yes, there were some times where the Spiders seriously struggled, but what team wouldn't struggle if it lost two senior starters midseason? There will be a lot of reasons for Richmond fans to be excited when next season comes.
Spider Negatives: Unlike the positives, there were several Spider negatives in what was one of their uglier games of the season. The Spiders could not handle VCU's heavy pressure, and even when they got open, did not shot well. Richmond's defense was not nearly as stingy as it has been all season, and the Rams absolutely owned the glass. With that being said, I credit tonight's game more to VCU playing great than Richmond playing poorly. If the Rams can play defense that well in the NCAA tournament, they are going to be a hard out.
Up Next: Richmond has to wait until selection committees determine its postseason fate. Richmond is a bubble NIT team that could find themselves in the CBI. The Spiders will have to wait until Sunday night to find out where and when they play next.
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Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet officially announced
By George Wong, on 11/07/2011 08:46 PST
After being leaked in a bunch of slides last week, the new Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet has finally been given its official unveiling. It looks like the most of the details were on the dot, as the official specs match up with what we learnt last week. The NOOK Tablet will feature: a 7″ VividView display, a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, a microSD card slot, and WiFi.
The NOOK Tablet is said to have 11.5 hours of reading time or 9 hours of video viewing, and comes preloaded with a whole bunch of entertainment apps – Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora, Rhapsody, Grooveshark, and MOG. The tablet will weigh 14.1 oz (one-third lighter than the NOOK Color). The NOOK Tablet is up for pre-order now with a price tag of $249 and will start shipping on November 17th.
In addition to the tablet's unveiling, the price cuts for the NOOK Color and NOOK Simple Touch have been confirmed with the tablet and reader priced at $199 and $99 respectively. Stay tuned to our hands-on first impression of the NOOK Tablet later today.
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We describe the unprecedented formation of six ansamitocin derivatives that are deoxygenated at C-7 of the ansamitocin core, obtained during fermentation experiments by employing a variety of Actinosynnema pretiosum mutants and mutasynthetic approaches. We suggest that the formation of these derivatives is based on elimination at C-7/C-8 followed by reduction(s) of the intermediate enone. In bioactivity tests, only ansamitocin derivatives bearing an ester side chain at C-3 showed strong antiproliferative activity.


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Council again tables rezoning for Stern and Boutz lot
LAS CRUCES - New housing could be coming to a 20-acre patch of land on the corner of Stern Drive and West Boutz Road, but exactly when that could happen is anyone's guess after the city again tabled a crucial zoning change Monday.
The 20-acre lot at the intersection of Stern and Boutz can't be developed since it's zoned with a now-defunct agricultural classification. Developers Scott Bannister and Rick Morales bought the derelict lot last year and plan to build homes and apartments.
They can't use the land without the zoning change, though. The lot's current zoning, A-2, was eliminated when the city updated its zoning code in 2001. The lot was once used for farming, but its water rights were sold several years ago and the parcel has been vacant since 2011, according to city staff.
At its first meeting of the year, the Las Cruces City Council took up the zoning issue again, which it'd tabled in November after public outcry from residents near the lot caused the council to delay the approval.
After several hours of debate and public input, the council voted 5-2 to table the matter until its Feb. 18 meeting. District 1 Councilor Kasandra Gandara and Mayor Ken Miyagishima voted against the tabling.
The planning and zoning commission unanimously approved a request in September by Bannister and Morales to rezone the lot from the A-2 rural agricultural designation to R-1a for single-family housing and R-4 for apartments.
The council has final authority over zoning.
Neighbors present at the Nov. 18 meeting expressed concern about the impact the influx of new residents and vehicles could have on traffic and pedestrian safety in the area, as well as increased crime stemming from the building of new housing.
The Jan. 6 meeting was an echo of the same concerns, save for any mention of increased crime.
Residents said the roads in question are unsafe for pedestrians right now, with both Stern and Boutz lacking sidewalks for safe walking and lacking proper drainage to prevent rainwater from pooling.
Some also shared concerns the increased density of the area could devalue their homes.
More:Lot at Stern and Boutz in zoning purgatory; will it be developed?
At the November meeting, councilors agreed to postpone the zoning hearing until two new councilors, District 2 Councilor Tessa Abeyta Stuve and District 4 Councilor Johana Bencomo, took office in January. Some also agreed the required traffic impact analysis could be done in the meantime.
A traffic impact analysis was completed by Martin Pillar of Pillar Engineering, hired by Bannister and Morales in accordance with the zoning code.
Pillar said the traffic study showed the roads surrounding the lot have far larger capacities than the number of vehicles it currently sees during peak hours.
The city received the traffic study in late December, staff said at the meeting, and staff said with the holidays the city hadn't had a chance to look at it thoroughly.
A major reason for tabling the approval was so city and councilors could get an in-depth look at the traffic study.
Miyagishima proposed a compromise at Monday's meeting — a buffer area zoned for lots sized one third an acre along Boutz and south along Crossley Lane, then one fourth an acre lots inside that, with the R-4 apartment zoning remaining at the northeast corner of the lot.
That compromise will have to wait until the February meeting as well.
One neighbor, Raymond Bernstein Jr., gave the council a presentation on behalf of many neighbors in attendance, saying they wanted development that preserved the "existing character of the neighborhood."
"We're asking them to reduce the amount of building they're going to do so they don't strain already overloaded road structure," Bernstein said after the vote.
If the zoning is approved in February, developers will still have to submit a master plan before subdivision of the land into lots for single-family and multi-family dwellings can take place. Future master plan submissions will require a traffic analysis and drainage report, according to the city.
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ARL Annual Salary Survey 2013–2014 Reports Data on 13,900 Staff in ARL Libraries
Shaneka Morris | 202-296-2296 | stats@arl.org | July 1, 2014
ARL Annual Salary Survey 2013–2014
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2013–2014, which analyzes salary data for all professional staff working in the 125 ARL member libraries during 2013–2014. Data are reported for 10,168 professional staff in the 115 university ARL libraries and for 3,791 professional staff in the 10 nonuniversity ARL libraries. In the Salary Survey, data for university library staff are usually reported in three distinct groups: general library systems, health sciences libraries, and law libraries.
The job categories and job codes for the university libraries in the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2013–2014 reflect the continued revision and modernization of the survey, a process that began with the 2012–2013 survey under the direction of the Task Force on Reviewing the ARL Statistics, the ARL Annual Salary Survey, and the ARL Supplementary Statistics. Five new job categories were added to the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2013–2014. These new codes highlight the subject-based and subject-specific work of professional librarians in ARL libraries, thereby providing a more nuanced description of the scope, work responsibilities, and emerging roles of librarians in research libraries.
The 2013–2014 data show that salaries for professionals in ARL libraries kept pace with inflation. The median salary for professionals in US ARL university libraries in 2013 was $68,773, an increase of 2.3% over the 2012–2013 median salary of $67,257. The US CPI rose 2% during the same period. The experience of professionals in Canadian ARL academic libraries was more favorable: while the Canadian CPI rose 1.3%, median salaries in Canadian university libraries increased from $87,120 (Canadian dollars) to $89,163 (Canadian dollars) a rise of 2.3%.
The ARL Annual Salary Survey 2013–2014 analyzes salary data from a number of different perspectives, including race, ethnicity, and gender. Minority librarians make up 14.6% of the professional staff in US ARL university libraries; the percentage of minorities in managerial or administrative positions is lower. Women comprise 69.4% of minority staff members. Gender-based salary differentials persist in ARL libraries in 2013–2014. The overall salary for women in the 115 ARL university libraries is 96.3% of that paid to men.
Other characteristics of ARL university libraries, such as size, public/private status, and location are also significant determinants of salary. The current state of these indicators is outlined in the Salary Survey's introduction and extensive tables.
Martha Kyrillidou and Shaneka Morris, comps. and eds.
2014 * 170 pages
ISBN 1-59407-934-X * EAN 978-1-59407-934-4
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The online version of the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2013–2014 includes access to a spreadsheet of the data tables that are presented in the publication.
The ARL Annual Salary Survey Collection provides online access to the annual editions that have been published since 2006. The cost of IP access to this collection is $500 for nonprofit organizations and $750 for all others.
ISBN 1-59407-933-1 * EAN 978-1-59407-933-7 * ISSN 0361-5669
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