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Category Archives: Upcoming Movies
News of #PacificRim & #Godzilla and possibly #Scrapbooking
By K. L. Zolnoski | October 17, 2014 - 7:34 pm | Gardening, Godzilla, Upcoming Movies
Pacific Rim II from the official Facebook page
It has indeed been a few weeks since I last posted, gentle reader, and for that you have my apologies. I took what was supposed to be a brief 1 week break after the last con and then flu season caught up with me.
This week I'd like to talk about some exciting news regarding Pacific Rim. Namely that not only is a sequel in the works but apparently Pacific Rim III is also in the works. Also my sources (Collider) say that Pacific Rim II is due to start filming in the fall of 2015. (It does pay to keep one's ear to the nerd ground).
(Read the next line in Emperor Cusco's voice from The Emperor's New Groove) I'm so happy.
This is good and hopefully what will happen is that they will not release the next Godzilla movie the same year. There are three of those also planned. So far both the Pacific Rim sequel and the Godzilla sequel are slated for 2017. What would make this Kaiju loving fan very happy (not that anyone cares mind you) would be if the studio were to alternate years. This would keep movie audiences from getting Kaiju fatigue and spread out the treats so we get one each year instead of a bunch (read 2) in the same year.
Now about that scrapbooking. I used to do it way back in the day, when I had time, regular sleep, disposable income–you know, the good old days. I was recently looking back through one of my albums and asked myself an obvious question: Why am I not creating scrap book pages of my comic con adventures?
Also a quick and dirty update on my garden. This year I let it lay fallow. Fallow is code for, "I was too busy to put in my garden." I missed it too. The hummingbirds were back and nested in the same tree. My flowers, since I cleverly planted perennials, bloomed and were gorgeous. Sadly my Gunnera did not survive a very late and very surprising snow storm. My goals for next year are to get the garden space ready for spring and replant the Gunnera as well as some more flowers.
Thank you for your interest and patience. K.
Tagged Cosplay, Gardening, Godzilla, Pacific Rim, Pacific Rim 2, Scrapbooking
Exciting Pacific Rim 2 and Godzilla News–Well Rumors mostly.
By K. L. Zolnoski | July 4, 2014 - 12:38 pm | Upcoming Movies
April 2017 is when Pacific Rim 2 is currently slated to be released.
Now I heard a vague and unsupported rumor that the second Pacific Rim movie is going to pay homage to Voltron and have several Jaegers assemble to form a giant Jaeger. That would be so cool. I hope that it happens.
Also I've heard, in various corners of the web, that there are going to be 2 more Godzilla movies directed by Gareth Edwards. That would be awesome!
Tagged Godzilla, Pacific Rim 2
Ben Affleck is the New Batman
By K. L. Zolnoski | August 23, 2013 - 2:22 am | Upcoming Movies
Ben Affleck courtesy of NPR
Yes the news is that Ben Affleck has been tapped to be the next Batman. I kind of like Ben Affleck and I don't blame him for Daredevil. Just sayin'. I think he'll make a good Batman.
Tagged Batman, Ben Affleck, Daredevil
Godzilla 2014, Sharknado Sequel and Other Nerdish Movies Coming Up
By K. L. Zolnoski | July 19, 2013 - 3:26 pm | Upcoming Movies
Official Godzilla 2014 Trailer Screen Capture from godzilla-movie.com
News about Godzilla coming out of the SDCC is that the new Godzilla has a cobra head. I do wish I could be there this year. Long time Godzilla fans know that the suit gets redesigned for just about every movie and many have their favorites. Personally I think the Final Wars suit is the best with the Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla suit running a close second. That being said this Godzilla, while not a suit, is at least a clear Godzilla; not like the Not Godzilla from the 1998 movie fiasco. Feel free to chime in with your favorite suit in the comments.
With the breathtaking effects on display in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, produced by Legendary films; I have high hopes for Gareth Edwards' Godzilla, which is using the same production company. It should be, given what we've seen so far, gorgeous, stunning and everything Godzilla should be as far as visuals.
Things are happening so quickly I simply cannot blog about them fast enough! So far this week in nerd movie news:
Sharknado 2 has been given the green light. This is no surprise since Sharknado, which I reviewed here and had posted also at The Geek Girl Project, was a surprise phenomenon for the SyFy channel. Sharknado was in the top three twitter trends for several days last week. According to the Guardian UK during the peak of the most exciting moments of Sharknado the viewers were clocking over 5000 tweets per minute. Also it seems that SyFy wants your tag suggestions for the sequel, as you can see in the above link. Audience participation like this is sheer genius on the part of their marketing team.
Asylum Films, who is the production company behind most of the SyFy original movies has announced that New York City will be the setting for the sequel. Because what's more fun than sharks in subways? Plus NYC is where the giant-alligators-in-the-sewers urban legends are centered and it's the home of C.H.U.D.. It's smart of SyFy to ride that wave for as long as they can.
Elysium Movie Poster
I've seen a few trailers for Elysium (in theaters August 9th) and I have to say that I'm not really taken by what I've seen so far. The really strange thing about that is that I should love this movie. It's a great premise, the visuals look stunning and I adore Jodie Foster and Matt Damon. So what's my deal? I have no idea. Something about it is pushing me away though and I cannot pinpoint just what. I hope you, gentle reader, have a more positive reaction to it because it looks like it should be fantastic.
Gravity Movie Poster
Gravity is another science fiction movie I've seen a teaser trailer for and that looks like it's an old school science fiction thriller. To be lost in the endless void, alone, waiting for your oxygen to run out or the heating system to fail? How horrible is that? I love the premise of this movie. I love old school science fiction that doesn't feel the need to apologize for what it is or throw in idiotic and unnecessary psychopath scenes because the writers understand the strength of the material and trust the audience to get it. This one is dicey though because any movie like this runs the risk of getting bogged down in intrigue, which drives me crazy. Of course I have no idea what this movie is really about since all I've seen is the teaser trailer but it looks interesting enough that I'd like to know a bit more. Also, and I know I shouldn't but, I like Sandra Bullock. K.
Tagged Asylum, Elysium, Final Wars, Gareth Edwards, Godzilla 2014, Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, Gravity, Jodie Foster, Matt Damon, Sandra Bullock, Science Fiction, Sharknado 2, Sharknado Sequel, Syfy


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He must be under-crackers: half naked man makes bizarre protest walking along roofs in nothing but his underpants
A half-naked man made a bizarre rooftop protest while dressed in nothing but his UNDERPANTS.
The 20-year-old – who has not been named – scaled the houses in Grimsby, Lincs, before stripping down to his black boxers.
The man is believed to have smashed the windows of at least three vehicles.
While stood on the roof he then started throwing tiles, believed to have smashed the windows of at least three vehicles.
Police cordoned off the estate as hundreds of onlookers watched the drama unfold.
At one point 10 police cars, a fire engine and ambulance were on the scene along with a police negotiator.
Once he had been talked off the roof, he was arrested in connection with a public order incident at the address and a stabbing earlier in the day.
At one point 10 police cars, a fire engine and ambulance were on the scene along with a police negotiator
A statement from Humberside Police said: "At just before 6.40pm today (Thursday July 2) a 20-year-old man was arrested at an address on Burwell Drive, Grimsby.
"The man had previously taken to the roof of the property at around 2pm and there was concern for his safety.
"His arrest is in connection with a public order incident at the address and a stabbing earlier in the day at around midday in Grimsby, which resulted in a 28-year-old man requiring hospital treatment for non-life threatening injuries.
"Numerous officers attended to assist with enquiries into the stabbing and the subsequent incident involving the man on the roof.
"A 13-year-old boy was also arrested in connection with the stabbing and he remains in police custody assisting with enquiries."
The 20-year-old – who has not been named – scaled the houses in Grimsby, Lincs, before stripping down to his black boxers
As police cordoned off the scene, they were faced with abuse.
At one time shouting was heard from the roof – telling police to move their patrol cars out of the street.
One unnamed eye witness said that the presence of so many police would only antagonise the situation.
He said: "He's playing to the audience."
A large police presence surrounds Burwell Drive on the Nunsthorpe Estate as a man sits on the roof of homes
Police officers at the scene during the afternoon had included an Operational Support Section and dog teams.
Councillor Jane Bramley, member for the South Ward, had been leaving her home for a meeting with police about incidents on the Nunsthorpe estate when she saw the police attending the initial stabbing incident.
She said: "I cannot fault the police. They have been really good.
"Since we have had problems down here they have been down daily."
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Drown Summary and Study Guide
Drown
Features 10 story summaries and 5 sections of expert analysis
Written by an English instructor with an MFA in Creative Writing
Ysrael
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No Face
SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 104-page guide for "Drown" by Junot Diaz includes detailed story summaries and analysis covering 10 stories, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like The Power, Influence and Construction of Hypermasculinity and The Complexity and Hypocrisy of the American Dream.
In this collection of short stories, Junot Díaz provides highly-detailed, slice-of-life portraits of various characters who occupy the cultural, economic, and social milieu of Dominican immigrants in America during the 1970s and 1980s, with the exception of the character Ysrael, who is a Dominican adolescent who never comes to America.
Through these stories, often told in vignettes or fragmented timelines, Díaz depicts the everyday lives and struggles of Dominican-American immigrants, as they grapple with familial dysfunction, substance abuse, struggles with gender and sexuality, poverty, romantic love, classism, and the unspoken but deeply-felt white supremacist strains of the American Dream. They also find moments of joy, intimacy, beauty, and connection, rounding out their plotlines and characterizations into full depictions of their humanity.
A pronounced area of concern is the dissection of masculine identity. Every narrator in this collection of short stories is male, and they range from children to adults. Every narrator is, in his own distinct way, struggling to claim and articulate a masculine identity while being caught between two worlds—his native culture and that of Anglo-centric America. Some of the younger characters, however, occupy only a hybrid Dominican-American world, full of its own cultural signifiers and distinct material and psychological realities.
The young man named Yunior (who is a stand-in for Díaz himself), his older brother Rafa, his father Ramón, his mother Virta, and, tangentially, his baby sister Madai, are recurring characters in the collection. Their family is the nexus of the collection, although there are other unnamed male protagonists scattered throughout it. It is also important to note that though these characters recur, their biographical details do not necessarily remain consistent from story to story, meaning that each story articulates one particular iteration of the characters. This disrupted continuity, in tandem with the often-fragmented timelines inherent to Díaz's method of storytelling, effectively produces an effect of disruption and confusion that bespeaks the internal dynamics of an overarching struggle with identity that is a hallmark of the immigrant experience.
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Duchess of Cornwall decorates tree via videolink with hospice children
December 21, 2020, 4:30 a.m.
Camilla invited children from a hospice to decorate the Clarence House tree via video call as they could not come in person this year because of coronavirus.
The duchess said people would have to 'make the best of it' this year, with Christmas plans changing for everyone. She added that people would have to talk to families and would find the safest way to do it.
Credit: The Royal Family via Youtube
Argentina receives second batch of Russia's Sputnik vaccine
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Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Information
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Progress Of Florida Schools
By: Patricia Hawke
The Koret Task Force is a group of Hoover Institution scholars and conservative think tank. The group released a nine-month review report in September that commends Governor Jeb Bush on his efforts to reform the Florida schools.
The results were formally announced at an Orlando Hotel with the members of the Task Force and Bush present, as well as Representative Ralph Arza, a Republican from Hialeah and chairman of the House Pre K-12 Committee.
Paul E. Peterson, the editor for the report, commended Bush's implementation of voucher programs, especially the McKay Scholarship and Corporate Tax Credit programs, both of which pay for students to attend private schools (McKay covers disabled children and the Corporate program covers impoverished children). He called the programs "trendsetters" for the rest of the nation. Peterson also praised the newly implemented merit-based pay system for Florida schools teachers, the first statewide program of its type in the United States.
The report encouraged the state legislature to restore the Opportunity Scholarship Program for the Florida schools, which the Florida Supreme Court ruled as unconstitutional in January. The program enabled students who had attended Florida schools graded as "F" twice within four years to use state money to attend private schools.
The report stated that Florida schools students had made "impressive" gains in reading and math on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (F-CAT) since 1998. The Florida schools also are better than the national average in closing the achievement gap between minority students and whites.
The Task Force recommends that the Florida schools accountability system should place more emphasis on student growth, rather than overall performance. Another recommendation is for a less centralized control of Florida schools with more room for individual schools to decide how to spend classroom funding.
The report supports Bush's efforts to repeal the class size reduction amendment, passed by voters in 2002. Besides being too costly for the Florida schools, Peterson stated that very little evidence supported its benefits and recruiting enough experienced teachers is difficult.
Though the study was intentionally conducted by academics in order to distance it from political views that frame the current educational debate, many question the validity of the report. Mark Pudlow, spokesman for the Florida Education Association, the state's teacher union, particularly took issue with the report's recommendation to make the probation period for Florida schools teachers five years versus three, noting that it takes away more teacher involvement. As to the other results found by the report, he said they were exactly what the Union expected, with Bush supporters funding it.
The $250,000 report was privately funded with the aid of two Republican donors — Outback Steakhouse founder Chris Sullivan and Ft. Lauderdale cardiologist Dr. Zachariah P. Zachariah. Both men have donated extensively to GOP causes, including Bush's campaigns.
Representative Arza said he would fight to protect the governor's reforms, as well as to implement the recommendations of the task force to the legislature, including the repeal of the class size reduction amendment for the Florida schools.
"We have made progress in this state over the last eight years," noted Bush at the ceremonies. "We know, because we measure. It's one of the guiding principles of what we do."
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Meliora Testlab has had a steady flow of updates. Hence once in every quarter, it includes plenty of new features that make the life of a Quality professional much easier. One interesting area of Meliora Testlab is it's powerful integration to Jenkins – lets learn more about this later in this article.
Projects that either does not have a test management tool or have a tool that does not meet it's users' expectations often end up working inefficiently.
There are many things that affect efficiency: What people should be testing, how to find the right test cases or specifications, what should be tested after the issue is fixed and how to show what has been tested and where the problems are etc. For these things, a test management tool helps by giving an interface that is designed to help in doing the daily work successfully.
As they say, Meliora Testlab tool that we are going to review today is either a test management tool or an application lifecycle management tool that is designed to combat those problems. The core in Meliora's product is managing the testing. In order to support testing it also has requirements management module, issue management module and team collaboration features.
The testing is based on executing test cases.
Tracking the issues found during the testing.
Then again the implementation is fresh here: For example, the tool supports tags, drag & drop for files and has a responsive user interface that is easy to use.
The tool also shows relevant information to the user in a simple manner and the user does not need to "travel" in the tool to see for example requirements that are linked to a test case. What takes many clicks in many other tools can be done here just by hovering the mouse cursor over the requirement/user story ID.
If a project wants to get straight to the testing, Meliora Testlab allows a user to get into the business using "simple" workflow. Which means that the projects requirements and the test cases do not need to be reviewed. Just enter test cases, maybe requirements to the tool and start testing right away.
You can edit the test cases during the testing if needed. This seems to be a sensible approach for projects using more agile approach, but that still want to track the testing. If the company already has a more defined process for development and the QA, the workflow, user role access and module visibility can be configured to match the ways of working. Both the ways can be used at different projects and at the same time if required.
Testlab uses different modules to allow the users to perform certain tasks. This seems to be an easy approach, as the user has a visibility to those functions he or she needs.
A dashboard is configurable, but the main idea here is that the users can see what is going on in the project. The pearl of the dashboard is the assignments list of what QA related tasks the user should be doing. The list can contain example tasks for designing or running tests, updating requirements or fixing the issues.
Milestones module is used to wrap up development and testing into manageable chunks. Project's sprints or releases are natural milestones. Using milestones it is possible to compare different milestones and to easily see what should still be done for a given milestone. What is actually nice about this implementation is that using it is very easy. No complex setup or definition is needed.
Requirements management module is a pretty standard implementation of the requirements management tool. Business requirements, user stories or such can be maintained easily here and they are used as a basis for development and test design.
Integrations to tools such as Jira and Pivotal tracker seems to be an interesting option. If the user stories are maintained in another tool, they can be set up to be seen by the testers so that the testers will always have an access to the latest agreed version and thus know what they should be testing.
Test case design is again a quite straight forward implementation. Test cases can be stored in a tree structure using filters and tags so that the relevant test cases can be found even if there are a lot of test cases. A test case can be written in a rich text description using test steps.
Meliora Testlab creates revisions of test cases automatically if the ready test case is re-designed again, so no extra effort is required to maintain versions.
Test coverage view is very powerful in seeing how the testing is going on– what has been tested since the last update, and what are the test results. Coverage can be viewed from requirements/user stories as well as from the test case point of view.
Test coverage is probably required more for bigger projects. Anyway, as it is interactive, it is one easy place to look how certain areas of a program have been tested.
For making reusable test sets this module makes sense. It is also used for assigning test cases to be run by the testers. Testlab has a great feature to show failed or non-run test cases to be picked up that are to be executed. From a big list of test cases, it is good to find the test cases that will most probably find the bugs.
Test execution module focuses on what is relevant. It shows the test case and other informations which the user is interested in without required to stop the testing and navigating to other areas of the application. One can see the connected requirement information just by hovering the mouse over the requirement, see connected issues completely and just concentrate on testing.
One interesting thing in the tool is integration with Monosnap, a free screen recording software. While the idea is old, the implementation is for once done in a usable way. The tester can record a video and send it to the issue in one click.
That creates a standard mp4 video which a developer can open without installing anything extra – so they will actually see the video!
This is the most standard one of the modules. List of issues simply works fine. Enables easy filtering and one button solution to re-run a fixed defect.
Reporting module allows storing reports with certain filters to be used later on. It is a quite straight forward one to use: Pick a basis for the report, add filters if you want and save it to be used by only you or a group of people. After that making, an updated report is always only one click away.
Expert mode of the report offers possibility to make complex rules for those who need them.
Test automation is definitely the way where the world is going, but it is not efficient to automate 100% of testing. This leads to having combination of test results from automated and manual testing technique. Taking both the results into account and showing the big picture is the strong point of this tool. It allows basically any test results to be imported from Jenkins and showing those along with manual results.
The user interface is thought well. Only fewer clicks are required to accomplish things.
Quite easy to use straight away with default options.
Customizations and integrations allow for managing even complex projects.
For a tool with this set of features, it is very affordable. And features to import automated results.
Searching for anything in the tool is very simple and effective.
Assignments and real-time notifications of what is happening on the tool help in team collaboration.
Easy to pick what should be tested next to failed runs or fixed issues.
Some setups, like dashboard configuration, are not based on roles. Every user has to set up them manually on their own.
Reports can be saved only as pdf, excel or open office documents and not in .doc format.
Some field values are fixed. If a user wants to, for example, use own values for issue severity, he needs to create a new custom severity field.
Assignments, like who is responsible for the issue, is always not personal – so the issue can not be assigned to a group of people.
While for some organizations this might be a merit, for some this is a demerit: The tool has so many features under its hood that mastering them all takes much time.
To wrap up, the tool is modern, rich in features but easy enough to start using it with reading the online material. It is suitable for small agile projects to big enterprise projects.With Jenkins integration, the tool can be leveraged to manage automated testing also.
Meliora Testlab is offered both as SaaS and as an installed version. They offer a trial in the cloud and it can be tried by registering on this page.
Let us know if you have any questions, tips or suggestions about Meliora Testlab Test Management Tool.
at least I see the UI enterprise level. I will comment more after hands on trial.
how is it compared to QC?
The essence of the tool seems to be a lot like QC. Requirements, running test cases and managing issues, all connected together and reportable. I like Testlab UI more. It shows connected requirements better and works on all browsers. QC connects to QTP which Meliora does not.


I am extremely excited to be exhibiting new works at 'The Luxury of Landscape' multi-disciplinary group exhibition at the Pilazzo Pandolfini in Florence, Italy this October.
A private palazzo in the heart of Florence will host an exclusive exhibition of especially commissioned works by Australian artists, including Doctor Cooper, Claudio and Aneka Manners, across fashion, fine jewellery, light, sound, sculpture and the visual arts, curated together with rare Florentine wine and food experiences.
The only palace in Florence designed by Raphael, 15th century Palazzo Pandolfini is a historically significant palace hidden in the centre of Florence and incorporating luxurious reception rooms overlooking a stunning secret garden. Owned by the same family over 500 years later, the Palazzo has retained ts original form together with a garden that cultivated several botanical rarities and been awarded prizes by the Società Botanica dell'orticultura [Botanical Society of Horticulture].
The exhibition opens on the 4th of October and runs until the 18th.


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Wendy Bennett was appointed the executive director of AgSafe, British Columbia's agriculture health and safety association, four years ago. Initially, she was unsure she had the skills and abilities needed to do the job.
Despite soliciting the help of a formal mentor, Wendy still felt she could improve – this is when she decided she wanted to pursue further education. She saw UFred's Executive MBA program with a specialty stream in Health and Safety Leadership during a promotion run by the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE), of which she is a member.
When I read the description of each of the courses, it defined my job description.
Wendy said that along with the coursework, learning from her peers and classmates and using their examples helped make her organization stronger and better. With her EMBA from UFred, Wendy believes she can now perform her job with confidence, and that it's also benefitted the people she works with.
"I really, really believe that I have an opportunity to help my organization to grow and to be really successful in the future," she said.
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While Wendy admits the EMBA program is a lot of work, it's satisfying at the end of the day.
Nothing worth having comes easily… I think anybody who wants to take their career to the next level, they need to have the broad spectrum of the education that this EMBA provides.


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What is the G Mark?
The Gulf Conformity Mark (G Mark) is a conformity mark for product categories subjected to the Gulf Coordinating Council (GCC) technical regulations. The priority for applying G Mark is for children toys and low voltage devices exported for sale in the markets of the Gulf Standardization Organization (GSO) states, as defined within the Low Voltage technical regulation, BD142004-01.
Affixing the G Mark on a product is proof that it conforms to the Gulf standards and the relevant technical regulation, and meets the quality and safety requirements.
The countries included in the scheme are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
G Mark Procedures for Each List of Products
Procedures of List 1 regulated products
A Self-declaration conformity assessment is required.
Manufacturers must have a system in place—typically a factory quality control system—to ensure products are being manufactured and assembled in a controlled manner.
Manufacturers should obtain test reports for the production line to confirm the product's safety and quality.
The manufacturers should select a Notified Body (NB), to confirm that the technical design of the product meets the Gulf technical regulations requirements. Then issue the evaluation report with a Gulf Type Examination certificate.
The Notified Body ensures that the manufacturer has a quality system that ensures the product is manufactured in accordance with the technical standards.
The G Mark Obtaining Process
Submit technical documents; including instruction manuals, safety electromagnetic compatibility tests, etc.
The technical file gets reviewed, to decide on granting G Mark.
Once the G Mark is obtained, the mark logo can be labeled on the products.
The Most Important Requirements of the G Mark
Product safety report according to the Gulf and International standards.
Electromagnetic compatibility test report.
Product risk assessment report.
The explanatory data.
The Importance of the G Mark
Low Voltage equipment and devices can freely move across the GCC member countries, which maintain establishing a single market
The G Mark is proof that products comply with the standards and relevant technical regulations.
Unifies the assessment and certification process within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states.
Avoiding any technical barriers and ensuring free competition with unified requirements.
Clarifies the obligations and responsibilities of manufacturers and importers regarding commercial exchange.
Reduces costs related to customs clearance, and market supervision.
Opens the door to huge markets, as it is a passport to the GCC states.
Conditions of the G Mark Affixing
Labeling conditions
The Gulf Conformity Mark should be affixed by unerasable labeling or printing on products.
It should be affixed at the last stage of product control.
It is prohibited to affix any other marks for the purpose of fraud or emulate the G Mark.
It is allowed to affix other marks on the products that ensure national or international standards, as long as there is no confusion with the G Mark.
The identification number of the notified body should be attached.
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The manufacturer, his agent, or legal representative in the GCC markets is in charge of affixing the G Mark.
If it is mentioned in the GCC Technical Regulations, the G Mark may be affixed by the person in charge of placing products in the GCC markets.
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The manufacturer, his agent in the states of the Gulf Council should declare that the Gulf Conformity Mark has been affixed after fulfilling the technical requirements.
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The Declaration should be kept for no less than 10 years starting from the manufacturing date unless the GCC technical regulations state otherwise.
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Fake Stock-Picking Robot Threatens To Ruin Things For All The Legit Stock-Picking Robots Out There
Imagine, if you will, that you are a stock-picking robot. You've put in the time, come up through the trenches, and have finally started to garner the respect you deserve. Investors are flocking to your fund, begging to put in as much money as you'll let them. People were wary at first, not sure what to make of your style, but you've finally proved to them you're the real deal. Life is good. Then some two-bit hacks come along and threaten to destroy everything you've worked for, sullying the reputation of legitimate stock-picking robots with the one they used as a front for their scam. Starting at the age of sixteen, the defendants, twin brothers Alexander John Hunter and Thomas Edward Hunter, developed an elaborate scheme to manipulate the prices of penny stocks at the expense of unwitting investors. The Hunters concocted and hyped the tale of a "stock picking robot" named "Marl" that they claimed could identify penny stocks that were poised to appreciate sharply in value. In their email newsletters and websites (doublingstocks.com and daytradingrobot.com), the defendants represented that the "robot" was a highly sophisticated computer trading program and the product of extensive research and development. The defendants' story was persuasive. Approximately 75,000 investors, the vast majority of whom lived in the United States, paid at least $1,200,000 for annual subscriptions to the Doubling Stocks newsletter and copies of the robot software. In reality, the "stock picking robot" was a work of fiction. Did "Marl" come up with brilliant investment ideas based on painstaking research, meetings with management, and complex analysis? No, in fact he did not. Defendant Alexander John Hunter, in seeking bids to create the software in 2007, described the requirements for the software to freelance software coders as follows: Need a small software program which will appear to the user that once running it is analyzing thousands of penny stocks. Every so often, the software will find a stock, and a message will appear from the system tray, and on the program showing the ticker symbol. IMPORTANT: This software does not actually find stocks at all. It should connect to my database and simply request any new stocks I have put in. Basically this is almost a "fake" piece of software and needs to simply appear advanced to the user... To say nothing of the fact that his purported credentials were bold-faced lies. On their doublingstocks.com website, the defendants referred to the stock-picking robot as "Marl", combining the first names of its purported inventors, Michael Cohen ("Cohen") and Carl Williamson. On doublingstocks.com, the defendants claimed that Michael Cohen "developed the famous 'Global Alpha' computer stock trading model" as a contractor for the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ("Goldman Sachs"). The Global Alpha program, the defendants claimed, in "most years is responsible for $4,000,000,000+ Annual Trading Profit." The defendants' representations about "Michael Cohen" were false. No such employee or contractor worked in that capacity at Goldman Sachs. SEC Charges British Twin Brothers Touting "Stock Picking Robot" in Internet Pump-and-Dump Scheme [SEC] SEC v. Hunter Brothers [SEC]
Imagine, if you will, that you are a stock-picking robot. You've put in the time, come up through the trenches, and have finally started to garner the respect you deserve. Investors are flocking to your fund, begging to put in as much money as you'll let them. People were wary at first, not sure what to make of your style, but you've finally proved to them you're the real deal. Life is good. Then some two-bit hacks come along and threaten to destroy everything you've worked for, sullying the reputation of legitimate stock-picking robots with the one they used as a front for their scam.
Starting at the age of sixteen, the defendants, twin brothers Alexander John Hunter and Thomas Edward Hunter, developed an elaborate scheme to manipulate the prices of penny stocks at the expense of unwitting investors. The Hunters concocted and hyped the tale of a "stock picking robot" named "Marl" that they claimed could identify penny stocks that were poised to appreciate sharply in value. In their email newsletters and websites (doublingstocks.com and daytradingrobot.com), the defendants represented that the "robot" was a highly sophisticated computer trading program and the product of extensive research and development. The defendants' story was persuasive. Approximately 75,000 investors, the vast majority of whom lived in the United States, paid at least $1,200,000 for annual subscriptions to the Doubling Stocks newsletter and copies of the robot software. In reality, the "stock picking robot" was a work of fiction.
Did "Marl" come up with brilliant investment ideas based on painstaking research, meetings with management, and complex analysis? No, in fact he did not.
Defendant Alexander John Hunter, in seeking bids to create the software in 2007, described the requirements for the software to freelance software coders as follows: Need a small software program which will appear to the user that once running it is analyzing thousands of penny stocks. Every so often, the software will find a stock, and a message will appear from the system tray, and on the program showing the ticker symbol. IMPORTANT: This software does not actually find stocks at all. It should connect to my database and simply request any new stocks I have put in. Basically this is almost a "fake" piece of software and needs to simply appear advanced to the user...
To say nothing of the fact that his purported credentials were bold-faced lies.
On their doublingstocks.com website, the defendants referred to the stock-picking robot as "Marl", combining the first names of its purported inventors, Michael Cohen ("Cohen") and Carl Williamson. On doublingstocks.com, the defendants claimed that Michael Cohen "developed the famous 'Global Alpha' computer stock trading model" as a contractor for the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ("Goldman Sachs"). The Global Alpha program, the defendants claimed, in "most years is responsible for $4,000,000,000+ Annual Trading Profit." The defendants' representations about "Michael Cohen" were false. No such employee or contractor worked in that capacity at Goldman Sachs.
Marl's twin bosses also inflated their own age (claiming to be 23 years-old when they are in fact twenty), while suggesting that Marl, supposedly 5, was some kind of trading wunderkind.
SEC v. Hunter Brothers [SEC]
SEC Charges British Twin Brothers Touting "Stock Picking Robot" in Internet Pump-and-Dump Scheme [SEC]
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Fake Astrology-Based Hedge Fund Threatens To Ruin Things For All The Legit Astrology-Based Hedge Funds Out There
Attention Connecticut Residents: Watch Out For Tire Irons To The Face
Among the many reasons typically cited by hedge fund managers who choose to run their business out of Connecticut instead of New York are: 1. The room to stretch their shit out 2. Proximity to the Long Island Sound 3. Convenience for those already living in the area. Some probably also believe that the Fairfield County is slightly safer than New York City. That you're not going to get jumped walking out of the office or beaten with a tire iron because you messed with someone's man or woman. OR WILL YOU?
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Became The Chiseled Adonis You See Before You Through A Strict Regimen Of Picking Up Rocks And Lying In Bed For Two Years
Have you ever gazed upon classical Greek philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb and thought to yourself, "That man has a body from the gods. I could never hope to match him in brains, but what about brawn? If only I could obtain the details of his diet and fitness regimen"? Well, friends, today is your lucky day. Despite still being on his second tour of self-imposed quiet time, Taleb granted several interviews to publications reviewing his new book, "Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder," and, naturally, the topic of his physique came up, specifically the various ways he keeps it in such enviable shape. (He also touches on the exercises that led to him having a brain three times the size of the typical astrophysicist, though please note that these should be appreciated but not be attempted by average humans, who could hurt themselves quite badly.)
Banker Who Faked His Own Death Thought Of Nearly Everything
Banker Who Faked His Own Death Fielding Hedge Fund Jobs Offers Left And Right, Says Banker Who Faked His Own Death
UBS Broker May Have Taken Stress Of The Job Out On 70 Windows In Beverly Hills, Encino Using "Slingshot Projectiles"
This is his story. The unlikely suspect in a string of window breakings in Beverly Hills -- a 58-year-old Encino investment adviser -- may be connected to 70 additional cases in the area, authorities said. Michael Steven Poret, a broker at UBS Financial Services, was arrested in Encino last week. Police say that Poret vandalized numerous businesses along Ventura Boulevard and several private homes in Beverly Hills. A witness account and private surveillance footage have depicted the vandal as a graying man in white gloves firing marbles at plate glass windows with a slingshot from the driver's seat of his car, then driving away in no apparent hurry. Authorities believe that Poret could be connected to more than 20 vandalism incidents in Beverly Hills and more than 50 in Encino, as well as several other vandalism reports authorities have received in Van Nuys and Topanga Canyon. The vandal appears to target businesses indiscriminately, hitting coffee shops, an autism treatment center and a salon. Luie Velasquez, a detective with the West Valley division of the Los Angeles Police Department, said the police's top theory is that the suspect sought excitement. "Your guess is as good as mine," Velasquez said. "For whatever reason, these individuals get some sort of thrill from smashing windows." Poret was first arrested July 3 after a Beverly Hills patrol officer spotted a slingshot in his vehicle during a traffic stop for a vehicle code violation. A search of his vehicle revealed brass knuckles, knives and slingshot projectiles. Poret was arrested again Thursday in an early morning raid on his Encino home, where police discovered firearms, bb guns, slingshots and marbles similar to those used in the window-breakings. A very understanding victim whose windows were hit three times and cost him $7,000 to repair had this to say: "I mean, I know that an investment bankers* are a little nuts. But you know, maybe the market is that bad. I don't get that. He must be a very frustrated guy." Alleged window-smashing broker may be suspect in 70 more cases [LATimes via TRB] *All together now: broker ≠ investment banker ≠ trader ≠ bank teller
Investor Relations Exec Reading Statement At Sentencing For Insider Trading Or Insane Person At A Bar Telling His Life's Story? You Make The Call
Blackrock Group
Robot Apocalypse Watch: BlackRock Embraces Stock-Picking Singularity
Embrace the Borg. Resistance is futile.


The Foundry has recognized Crater Studio as the leading post-production studio in the region and Crater VFX Training Center as the leading teaching center for their software. We hung out with Tom and Vitaly from London and we had a great time! Here they are with the compositors from Crater Studio.


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John: With your self not needing to hold together, not needing to be your life-feed and your source, it is able to live. Your self then no longer has your desperate grasp in it, enabling you to develop as a being in it. Movement in your self that doesn't come from your self changes your self. Your self slowly matches whatever it is that you are being in it. If that is a distorted beingness such as your heart being closed and hard, your self in time becomes the same.
Q: Is it a bit of exercise to listen to knowledge and not believe the self.
John: Not for your self. Not for you as a self, but for you as awareness in your heart. When you are in your heart opening and softening, the direction of your awareness isn't into your self; it is into something of your own being. Awareness within openness and softness of heart is already by way of beingness connecting to real knowledge. The openness and softness is beingness of knowledge. Awareness within such beingness is directed to the source of that beingness, the knowledge within it, awareness knowing within it.
With openness and softness of heart, despite whatever kind of self you have, realization opens, realization of direct knowledge unlearned. It is your knowing what you are even if you're not understanding it from within the perspective that you have in your self.
Q: This opening of the heart, is it a simple decision of awareness?
John: It is a response of awareness to knowing. When awareness responds to knowing, there is a softening in the heart. With every change of awareness there is instant change of form. That instant change of form is in your heart. Your entire relationship as awareness with knowledge is in constant effect in your heart. So in your heart you do always know. You may not know what you would like to know in your self and in your person, but you do always know what you need to know. Knowledge moves by what is most relevant at the present to you.
Your relationship with knowledge is an instant manifestation in your heart. It is an immediate effect. The effect within your self moves more slowly. There is much more form to your self, requiring more time for change. Your relationship as awareness with knowledge does show in your self. What also shows in your self is something of your history of your relationship with knowledge. In your person it also shows, requiring even more time for change, a change that is for better or for worse, depending on your beingness as awareness within your self. It also shows in your body, requiring even more time. You may have heard the expression before, that by the time that you are forty you will have earned the face you have. Everything that you are as awareness does in some way show everywhere.
What you are being as awareness is instantly manifested in your heart. It is that then that moves your self. What you are in your heart shows in your self. What you are in your self shows in your person and that shows in your body. What you are being as awareness registers and shows within each successive form, all to help you see.
When you awaken within to everything that is deeper than your self and you begin with awareness to be as that and move as that, all of the control, instead of being in your person and in your self, is returned to you what you first are, enabling what is unseen, you unseen, to govern and move everything that follows with awareness. You can be your own Innermost with awareness, having a self and a person and a life with which to express it.
The future of your self and the future of your person is determined by what you are at present being in your heart.


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Quotations from a crowded, steamy and champagne-soaked Rays' locker room early Monday morning after they had won the American League pennant:
EVAN LONGORIA
"I think this team enjoys being the underdog. We consistently put ourselves in situation where everybody thinks we're going to lose, and we win."
The rookie third baseman admitted being shaken by Thursday night's loss in Boston, in which the Rays blew a 7-0 lead.
"No one has ever blown that big a lead. I wanted to throw up," he said. "But it shows how resilient we are.
Longoria said Carlos Pena had delivered a pre-game talk to the players Sunday that may have helped settle them.
"Carlos said: 'Who really cares what happens now? We've exceeded all expectations. Just go out and have fun and do the best you can.' I think we were relaxed anyway. This team just enjoys coming to the ballpark and being together. I told everybody no matter what happens, I'm not cleaning out my locker tonight."
MATT GARZA
On manager Joe Maddon's visit to the mound in the seventh inning: "He looked at me and I said no, I'm not coming out. He just kind of smiled and said: `Go get 'em.'''
CLIFF FLOYD
On Thursday night's meltdown and Saturday's uncharacteristically tight 4-2 loss in Game 6: "We took a step back. Yesterday wasn't us, we were a little tight, sure. The way we lost that game was a shock. But we responded today. And the way we won, it's important for now, but it's even more important for this team's future."
CARL CRAWFORD
The 27-year-old Crawford is regarded as the Rays' elder statesman, having been on the Major League roster since 2002. That's a lot of bad times, and Crawford was asked if he could remember the lowest point.
"We were up in Boston and I think it was Nomar Garciaparra's birthday, and we lost like 20-1 or something (The Rays lost, 22-4, in Boston on July 23, 2002). I'm standing there thinking: We suck!"
JASON BARTLETT
Traded along with Garza by the Minnesota Twins, Bartlett had barely arrived at his first Rays training camp when Scott Kazmir made his memorable statement about the Rays playing in October and perhaps in the World Series.
"I laughed, just like everybody else," Bartlett said as the champagne and beer continued to flow freely in the Rays' clubhouse. "I said let's be realistic, let's get to .500 first."
[ Dick Scanlon can be reached at dick.scanlon@theledger.com or at 863-802-7554. ]


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Q: Subsampling very long time series in R with the goal to display it Background: I have a very long vector (think many millions of rows) that I cannot display easily, as the data is simply too large. The data is time-series - it exhibits temporal dependency.
My goal is to somehow visualize a part (or parts) of it that is representative enough (i.e. not just the first 10k rows or so)
Normally, if the data were iid and I wanted to display a part of it, I would just do resampling with replacement.
Question Since the data is time series, I was thinking of using "block resampling" (I don't know if this is a real term, I was thinking more of block bootstrap but without actually computing any statistics). Does anybody have a good idea (or even packages) of how I can achieve what I am looking for in a clever way?

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Earlier this month, Kobayashi attended his first U. S. game when the Bulldogs played host to the Louisiana State University Tigers before a sold-out Davis Wade Stadium crowd of more than 65,000.
While it may have been his first game in this country, Kobayashi is no stranger to the sport. In Japan, he plays linebacker for the Kyoto University Gangsters, a member of the Kansai Collegiate American Football Association.
To help the team gain in-depth appreciation for the sport as played on this side of the Pacific Ocean, Kobayashi's coaches selected various NCAA Division 1 programs and held a lottery among the players.
Through the process, each was assigned randomly a U.S. university to visit. While on campus, Kobayashi is observing football practices and games to learn more about the sport and take helpful knowledge back to his own team. Additionally, the trip is serving as a complete cultural exchange visit including English classes each morning.
While doing research about MSU and making preparations for his visit, Kobayashi discovered Chieko Iwata, MSU's Japan outreach coordinator.
The outreach program is a collaboration among MSU's School of Human Sciences and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the New York-based Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership and Laurasia Institution in Seattle, Washington.
"Kentaro is living as a typical MSU student," said Iwata, explaining that the experience is best described as "a team effort" for all involved.
She said human sciences administrators and faculty have been especially helpful. "As the hospitality state, they've rolled out the welcome mat, so to speak," she added.
Kobayashi has been housed this month with an MSU student who is studying Japanese. To get around, he borrowed a bicycle from a faculty member. He has taken an English class for two hours each day and, most importantly, has observed Bulldog football practice nearly every afternoon.
In high school, Kobayashi played rugby. As a freshman engineering major at Kyoto University, he's been involved with American-style football for about five months.
"Americans love football; it is big business here," he observed. The game isn't all he has taken in, adding: "Tailgating is a very big deal; it is like a big festival."
He said the strength and endurance of the MSU players have inspired him to continue developing his own strength and stamina regimen.
"When I return home, I will share what I learned here at MSU," Kobayashi said. "While individual strength is essential, I've also learned the importance of a strong team. That is something I would like to help continue to develop in our team back home."
When Kobayashi does join other team members to describe their American experiences, his presentation probably will be unlike any of his peers.
In addition to explaining football strategies at Mississippi State University, he'll be able to show his team his own autographed cowbell given to him by President Mark E. Keenum during a recent meeting in the chief executive's Lee Hall office.
For more information, visit www.humansci.msstate.edu/japan.asp.


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Giving new definition to being on tour
Tiger Woods first made his move in the Australian Masters in the middle of the opening round, getting his name on the leaderboard next to a player named "Jordan" that even some of the local fans did not recognize. Damien Jordan, the last player to get into the field, was worth getting to know. The 29-year-old rookie fulfilled one part of his dream by making it through Q-school last year on the Australasian Tour, a goal that had been put on hold when he enlisted in the Army and served two tours in Iraq. The first tour was for five months in 2002, and he returned in 2005 for a seven-month tour of more heavy combat. He left the Army a year later, and took two years to polish his game. If anything, it has given him a different perspective than most. "Regardless of what happens, I know I'll go home at the end of the day and have a hot shower, have a good feed," he said. "Half the time you're over there, you're thinking, 'This could be the time when an IED goes off and I'm not going home."' Jordan's parents introduced him to golf at a young age, and he was slowly developing into a decent golfer when he felt compelled to join the Army, serving in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment. "A lot of people before me have given their lives for the country, and I thought, 'Why should I be different and not put my end up?"' Jordan said. "That's what I did. I met a lot of good mates, a lot of friends for life, and it made me stronger out here." Even now, he faces a struggle far different from most. He said his time in the Army cost him his marriage, which Jordan said was one of the untold statistics of Army life. He spends as much time as he can with his two daughters, ages 2 and 3. Jordan said he will take medication for the rest of his life to cope with the dreams, and he continues to see a psychiatrist twice a month. "Even smells can bring it back," he said. "I walked into a fruit and vegetable shop, and there had been an Iraqi shop that had the same incense going," he said. "That made it tough. It was exactly the same. I'm trying to get away from stuff like that." Jordan mostly played the pro-am circuit this year in Australia, in which amateurs put up the purse while playing with the pros. It would be comparable to a mini-tour in the United States, and Jordan won eight tournaments. The Australian Masters was his first event that counted on the world ranking. He opened with a 69 before falling well back and finishing toward the bottom of the leaderboard. Asked for his greatest moment in golf, he smiled. "Playing here, mate," he said. "It's the biggest thing I've ever done in my golf career. To make the cut, and to be out here, is just brilliant. And I got to see Tiger. To play in the field with anyone of that stature is phenomenal." Jordan was not sure if he would get into the Australian Open or the Australian PGA Championship next month. Asked for his ultimate goal, he did not mention winning or even playing a particular tournament. "Just keep living the dream, doing what I'm doing," Jordan said. "Every day is a win for me." --- TIGER'S CHECK: Depending on the exchange rate when the check was written, Tiger Woods earned a little more than $250,000 for his victory in the Australian Masters, which was the sixth-lowest winning check of his career. Two of those checks came on the U.S. PGA Tour. Woods earned $216,000 for winning at Disney World in 1996 and the Mercedes Championship at La Costa to open the next season. The tour negotiated its new TV deal later that year, and prize money took off a few years later. The smallest check was $48,450 in 1997 for winning the Asian Honda Classic, followed by $190,798 for winning the Johnnie Walker Classic in 2000. Woods also received only $223,061 for winning the Johnnie Walker in 1998. Of course, he received appearance fees that dwarfed the total purse in those overseas events. --- DIVOTS: Tiger Woods earned 28 world ranking points with his victory in the Australian Masters, the fewest for any victory since he received 24 in the 2000 Johnnie Walker Classic. ... There were 91 players who earned over $1 million on the U.S. PGA Tour, the fewest since 78 players in 2005. ... The tour had 13 playoffs this year, three short of the record last set in 1991. --- STAT: Adam Scott tied for third in Singapore and tied for sixth in Australia. It was the first time he had top 10s in consecutive tournaments since May 2008.


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Artists and Labels Paid for Radio Airplay?
Composers know that they should sign up with a Performing Rights Organization (PRO) such as ASCAP, BMI and SESAC to make sure they receive royalties for when their works are publicly performed in live performance venues, when broadcast on radio or TV or streamed over the Internet. Most people don't realize, however, that when a work is played over the radio in the US, the writers and publishers of the composition receive payment for the performance through the PROs but the recording artists and record labels don't receive a dime. So, whenever a radio station played Frank Sinatra's recording of "New York, New York", Kander & Ebb and their publisher got paid, but Ol' Blue Eyes and Reprise Records did not.
In most other countries, there is a public performing right in a sound recording, but not in the US. There have been attempts over the years to fix this inequity. For example, since 1995, as amended in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), there has been a limited public performing right in a sound recording. But, it only applies to "digital transmissions" which basically constitutes streaming over the Internet. SoundExchange was formed to act as a licensing collective, like the PROs, for this growing revenue stream and they pay artists and labels.
Last month, however, something occurred that may be a step in the right direction. Clear Channel, which owns 850 radio stations, and Warner Music Group, one of the industry's major labels, announced a private deal where Clear Channel will pay public performance royalties to Warner and their recording artists. Clear Channel, apparently, will get a more favorable rate with respect to online streaming, which if you have been following what has been going on with Pandora's continuing lobbying of Congress to reduce the rates they pay, has been an ongoing battle between webcasters and publishers and labels. Warner, in return, will receive promotion from Clear Channel, which likely means increased airplay, for their artists.
Is this a good thing? Paying artists and labels for the public performance of their recordings is certainly a step in the right direction toward aligning the US with the rest of the world. But at what cost? In exchange for increased exposure on Clear Channel stations, royalty rates for streaming are being nearly cut in half. And unlike the situation with SoundExchange, artists are not directly paid, but will be paid by the label. What is perhaps of even greater concern, however, is that this is a private deal between two industry giants. It remains to be seen whether this will deal set a precedent that will eventually enable all recording artists and labels (including indie, and artist-produced recordings) to collect public performance royalties. It probably won't happen soon. A Congressional bill that would have given labels and artists a public performing right akin to what composers and publishers have long enjoyed died in committee in 2009. But one can hope – and lobby your local Congressman.
Update: On September 30, right before the government shut down, Rep. Melvin L. Watt (D-NC), introduced H.R. 3219, the Free Market Royalty Act, which would among other things create a public performance right in sound recordings when played on AM or FM radio.
This article was originally published in September 2013 on the ScoreStreet web site.
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It's finally come, I've been waiting so long for this opportunity to announce the lucky winner of my Quilt Giveaway, and hopefully make someone's day. I was so touched by the number of wonderful comments many of you had left for me!
When I stopped at midnight there was a total of 424 COMMENTS!! WOW! I won't ever touch Old Red Barn Co. comments :P but this was a great number for me! THANK YOU ALL! You all really have made my week.
Congratulations Jennifer ms. Knitting mom of 3, please contact me either by email so I can get your color-scheme and have an early Present out to you!
I'm sorry I couldn't pick everyone, but have no fear!---There is another quilt giveaway coming soon! If you scroll down and read my previous post you will see the picture of the quilt I will be giving away--- It was really hard for me to say only 1 person won, so that quilt-top will be split in half, quilted and batted for a generous size Crib or could easily be Lap Size--2 WINNERS this time! I can't wait for that. Please add me to your favorites or follow my blog to watch for that giveaway.
Remember, the pattern for Brenda's Quilt, I've titled "With All My Heart" is now available in my etsy shop. Visit http://www.thehandmadequilt.etsy.com/ or you can also click on the link in my sidebar. Thank you all again! I look forward to reading more of your comments and reading your blogs!!
Congratulations to Jennifer! She's a lucky lady.
Sure wish it had been me but congrats Jennifer! You are one lucky gal.
I love the pattern - thanks for sharing it on Etsy. I am thinking pale green, muted reds and yellows -....mmmmmm yep!
Hugs and thanks for the great giveaway.
I'm going to check out the pattern and see if I can make one. It was a beautiful quilt.
Congrats to Jennifer. Also, I love your playlist. An 80's retro mix.
congrats jennifer, abbie i know she will love and treasure this handmade quilt.
Congrats Jennifer. Happy you must be. Abbie that was fun and will be looking forward to the next time.
Will stay tuned though. Enjoy your blog. Thanks for the opportunity.
Oh my goodness I cannot believe I won. I am still is shock, happy, and crying. Thank You!!
Congratulations, Jennifer! I'm happy for you! Thanks, Abbie, for hosting the giveaway - you are awesome!
Abbie, that quilt was so beautiful. I kept seeing it pop up in posts and sidebars of the blogs I read! It was a great idea to sell the pattern.
Yay for her and that you spread the word about a great cause!!! In the end so many will be winners!!!
Well, if it couldn't be me, I am glad it was Jennifer! Congrats!
Congratulations Jennifer! I'm so happy for you.
Beautiful Quilt!! And also love the playlist. Love your blog!!!
Nothing to do with quilts whatsoever - but Hi there! I'm a new member of SBS 26 and am just popping by to say hello.
I'm amazed by your work - it's gorgeous, I tried quilting once and it's not for me LOL.
Congrats!!! Enjoy and stay warm!
Congratulations Jennifer! You are truly blessed :).
Abby, Thanks for asking me to be a part of your quest to make those who are in pain feel a little bit better with a quilt. That is what it is all about. I am glad that I can help by donating some fabric. Good luck to you!!