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Tenerife is an island of contrasts
A sunny mix of Spanish hospitality and a little North African spice, with a pulsating coast and rugged inland, this is a jewel in the Atlantic, with lazy beach days, long, leisurely evenings and a passion for fiestas.
The retail scene in Tenerife is split into two halves; one catering for visitors with souvenir shops and mega malls and the other offering a mishmash of colourful street markets and backstreet boutiques favoured by locals. The traditional stripe-roofed stalls of Costa Adeje's market and the atmospheric Los Abrigos Night Market combine both worlds. Find everything from handmade jewellery to cut-price CDs at Rastro (Calle Jos� Manuel Guimer�), the bustling Santa Cruz flea market – then head to the capital's main shopping street, Calle Castillo, which hosts an incongruous collection of electronic shops, chains and designer boutiques. La Isla Bookshop (Calle de Robayna 2) is good for holiday reads and guidebooks.
Food & Drink
An impressive range of Canarian tavernas, Brit-centric eateries and fine dining spots has given Tenerife a well-deserved reputation for culinary diversity. Gourmet restaurant Las Aguas in the Gran Hotel Bah�a del Duque Resort (Avenida de Bruselas) in Costa Adeje attracts the island's VIPs and serves delicious grub. El Faro (Avenida de las Americas, Parque Santiago V) in Playa de Las Americas combines a party atmosphere and killer cocktail menu with international gourmet fare. Meanwhile, La Cupala in the Hotel Jardines de Nivaria (Calle Par�s) in Playa de Fa�ab� offers classic French dishes. Brits will appreciate the scrumptious takeaways on offer at Scampis Tenerife Fish and Chips (Paseo Tarajal, Compostela Beach) in Los Cristianos.
Festival de M�sica de Canarias
This classical music festival is one of the biggest of its kind in Europe, attracting top orchestras and classical musicians from around the world. Concerts take place in the Auditorio de Tenerife concert hall in Santa Cruz, and tickets sell out fast.
Santa Cruz Carnival
February is carnival month in Tenerife, and most of the island's larger towns put on their own processions. Capital Santa Cruz has the biggest and the best, however, with 10 days of parades, events and street entertainment.
D�a de la Cruz
3 May
Tenerife's 'Day of the Cross' sees the island hark back to its traditional roots. Locals dressed in Canarian costumes flock to Santa Cruz's Plaza de Espa�a to decorate crosses with creative floral displays.
Heineken Jazz Festival
This epic event runs for around three weeks every year, taking over the north side of the island with a series of concerts, workshops and fringe events. The biggest bands play in the Plaza del Auditorio, with folk, world music and of course traditional jazz all strongly represented.
Tenerife Wine Festival
Centred around the towns of Puerto de la Cruz and La Orotava, this annual celebration is known locally as the 'Festival of San Andres'. Wine tastings, talks and live music combine to make this one of the biggest events of the autumn.
Tenerife's accommodation range has gone upmarket in recent years, with hotels now offering everything from infinity pools to butler service. Red Level at Gran Meli� Tenerife (Avenida Los Oc�anos) in Alcal� is a sophisticated, adults-only venue with a lagoon pool, hydromassage loungers and Balinese spa beds – the island's ultimate retreat. If you're after a buzzier atmosphere, then the urbane Hotel Taburiente (24A Calle Doctor Jose Naveiras) is right in the centre of Santa Cruz and specialises in elegant, mid-range accommodation. Hikers and nature lovers should book into the budget Parador de las Ca�adas del Teide (Las Ca�adas), an idyllic hideaway in Las Fuentes, part of the Teide National Park.


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Welcome to the Medical Blogs (Weblogs) section of New Media Medicine. Here you can read about Medical Students, Medical School Applicants and Doctors who have kept an online diary, or 'blog' of their medical experiences.
Anyone can start a blog. It's very simple and free. Just register for the site and start a 'new thread' here in the weblogs forum.

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Late Show host Conan O'Brien has apologized for a sketch where actor William Shatner did an interpretive reading of tweets from an account impersonating future Playgirl model Levi Johnston.
However Johnston, the father of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's grandson, is now threatening O'Brien -- and, surprisingly, San Francisco-based Twitter -- with lawsuits.
"You are now on notice and must take steps to put an end to what is clearly against the law and against your policy," said a spokesperson for Johnston in a statement.
The only problem is that it is not, in fact, illegal, as far as Twitter is concerned. The company is protected from lawsuits against the actions of its users, as former Oakland A's manager Tony La Russa learned when he went after a similar impostor.
Johnston might want to have his legal eagles focusing instead on his custody battle with Palin's daughter Bristol, especially since they'll have to explain his participation in a pin-up shoot with Playgirl to a judge in Wasilla, Alaska.
Jackson West doesn't normally like to rubberneck, but can't get enough of this snowbilly trainwreck.


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My second dosbox is receiving stuff by the virtual Com3 , but my app is still displaying:(waiting for data)
Ok , here is the log file I got
I've seen many thing talking about Fifo, is the last version 0.72 implementing a FIFO? You did a patch for this some time ago , didn't you ?
Thank you so much for this development , my desk will benefit a lot to have this old win95-pc kiked out !


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Geoff Westropp was named Manager of Information Systems for Soka University, Aliso Viejo in November 1999. Westropp is responsible for managing the Windows NT operating system at SUA's new four-year non-profit liberal arts college opening in August 2001 in Aliso Viejo, California.
Westropp came to SUA from Compaq Corporation in Littleton, MA, where he was an Information Systems Consultant for 12 years. Prior to that he was a Systems Analyst and Design Specialist with Digital Equipment Corporation in Maynard, MA and with IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Westropp received his MBA from Babson College in Wellesley, MA and holds a BA in Business Administration from Bryant College in Smithfield, RI.
He has served as a volunteer for Big Brothers of America and Soka Gakkai International and has received the Liberty and Hong Kong humanitarian awards.
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Recent News
February 19, 2014
Washington Firm Recalls Dried Egg Products Due to Possible Salmonella
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services received information regarding a recall of processed egg products that may be contaminated with Salmonella.
The dried egg products were produced between Feb. 28, 2013, and Feb. 8, 2014, and bear the establishment number "INSPECTED EGG PRODUCTS PLANT 21493G" inside the USDA Mark of Inspection. These products were shipped nationwide and to U.S. military installations in the United States and abroad, as well as to Canada.
Consumption of food contaminated with Salmonella can cause salmonellosis, one of the most common bacterial foodborne illnesses. The most common symptoms of salmonellosis are diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and fever within 12 to 72 hours after eating the contaminated product. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days. Most people recover without treatment. In some persons, however, the diarrhea may be so severe that the patient needs to be hospitalized. Older adults, infants, and persons with weakened immune systems are more likely to develop a severe illness. Individuals concerned about an illness should contact their health care provider.
The full product listing can be found at www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2014/recall-015-2014-release.


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How Resilient Are You?
Compare your score:
70 or higher = Leading the way to more resilient communities!
46–69 = Off to a good start...
45 or lower = You have many opportunities to become more resilient.
Cheat Sheet for Resilience
Now that you've taken the YES! resilience test, here are some ways you can improve your score.
1. Build a support network
Research shows that individualism rarely works for surviving change and calamity. According to author Rebecca Solnit and disaster scholars Lee Clarke and Karen Chess, people who thrive during times of upheaval do so with the help of community. And knowing your neighbors, volunteering, and sharing with others substantially improves your health and happiness. In a survey by United Healthcare, nearly three-fourths of Americans who volunteer report that their volunteer work lowers their stress level; 70 percent say it makes them feel physically healthier.
It's easy to build informal community networks by getting involved in neighborhood and community activities and organizations. Personal Safety Nets (Safety Nets Unlimited 2007) by John Gibson and Judy Piggott also provides strategies for deliberately building a support network that can help you through life changes and unexpected circumstances. The authors' website (personalsafetynets.com) provides resources and toolkits for organizing a team of people who can help one other both through crisis and during life's more minor bumps in the road.
2. Become locally reliant
A growing number of experts believe it's inevitable that our society needs to move away from businesses and institutions that are "too big to fail" and toward small, more diverse, local economies and organizations. And as we reach the end of cheap oil and try to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, we'll need to produce more goods locally, rather than shipping them across vast distances.
If oil becomes scarce and food prices spike, the cost of every imported good is likely to go up as well. That's why it's important to have means for procuring the basics (food, energy, heating, water) locally.
Chris Martenson, a former Fortune 500 company vice president and a leading expert on resilience, offers a series of steps and ideas for becoming self-reliant and resilient—they include everything from learning to store your food to investing in alternative energy and water filtration systems. You can find his report, "Personal Preparation," through the Post Carbon Institute.
Bay Localize, an Oakland, Calif.-based organization devoted to sustainability, also offers tips for strengthening your personal and community resilience and becoming less reliant on fossil fuels, such as:
- Get a home energy audit.
- Form a city peak oil task force.
- Ride your bike.
- Start a carpool.
- Plant a community garden.
For many more tips and a wealth of information, read their guidebook, available here.
Want to improve your water self-reliance? Try one of these six ways to "Bring the Water Revolution Home."
And explore these tips for joining the local food movement.
3. Develop sources of personal strength, and take care of yourself
Change is stressful for most people. Responding to change and crisis requires that we develop deeper wells of personal, emotional resilience, in order to cope, thrive, and support others around us.
Dennis Charney and Charles Nemeroff, leading experts on stress and trauma, note that "Recent studies have shown that resilience can be improved with intentional effort. People can learn to build their psychological reserves, toughen their physical response to stress, and become less vulnerable to anxiety or depression."
They identify key strategies for strengthening your personal resilience. The first is physical health—eat well, exercise, sleep well, take care of yourself.
A second is called positive "appraisal." Learn to view change as an opportunity. Develop a hopeful vision of what your community can look like, even without cheap oil, even in the face of an unimaginable climate future.
Lastly, invest in the activities and practices that bring meaning to your life. Staci Haines, an expert on healing after trauma, says these practices and activities include: "spirituality, a strong relationship with animals and or nature, creativity and art including music, movement and visual arts. Other more relationship-based resilience strategies include: being able to help others both during and after the trauma … and being positively connected to at least one other person."
- Get the facts from our Fall 2010 issue.


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When voters go to the polls on Tuesday they'll be asked to decide on an amendment to the state constitution. Supporters say the Missouri Right to Pray amendment will protect residents' right to practice their religion. Those against it say it's not only redundant, but sneaky.
St. Louis Public Radio's Julie Bierach reports.
"We need to make sure that people don't have to live in fear..."
Missouri House Speaker Pro Tem Shane Schoeller who is a vocal supporter of the amendment says in recent months, there have been a series of attacks on our religious freedom from liberals. He blames President Barack Obama for trying to force religious institutions to provide contraception. And he blames the ACLU for continually bringing lawsuits when someone's tried to practice their faith in public. He says it's time to fight back.
"We are clarifying this because lawsuits continue to come forward," Schoeller says. "And we need to make sure that people don't have to live in fear that if they choose to practice their faith in a public setting there's not going to be recourse against them."
"An ocean of legalese."
Missourians already have religious freedom under not only the state constitution, but the U.S. Constitution. So opponents call the measure redundant, broad and confusing.
Gregory Lipper is an attorney with Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
"It's really just an ocean of legalese," Lipper says. "I mean, I'm a lawyer whose been practicing for almost a decade and I have trouble understanding exactly what this thing really does."
Lipper says the amendment covers every aspect of life from schools, to the town square to public meetings. And in trying to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist, the effect will be to transfer lots of taxpayer dollars to lawyers.
Missouri Bishops are encouraging Catholics to vote for the amendment. Tyler McClay is an attorney and lobbyist for the Missouri Catholic Counsel, the public policy agency for the Catholic Church in Missouri. He acknowledges that the amendment will not create a new constitutional right. And he agrees it's broad, but he says that's not unusual.
"Constitutional provisions tend to be more broadly written," McClay says. "So, they'll need to be interpreted or they'll maybe need some clarification maybe down the road. But I don't think that's not uncommon for this kind of thing."
What isn't on the ballot
Critics have another problem with the amendment. Seventh grade Ladue science teacher Elizabeth Petersen takes issue with the ballot summary, or in particular, what the ballot summary leaves out.
The measure reads, in short, that Missouri citizens have the right to express their religious beliefs, school children have the right to pray in their schools and public schools will display the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution.
It makes no mention that the amendment would allow students to opt out of assignments or presentations that violate his or her religious beliefs.
"Yeah, it's absolutely sneaky," Petersen says. "And science isn't about being sneaky."
So, if the amendment passes, what constitutes a religious belief? Can a student decide they can't do their chemistry homework because covalent bonds go against their religion? And if they opt out of a biology assignment because they don't believe in evolution can they still pass the course?
"That's the big question," Petersen says. "I don't know."
Keeping decisions local
Representative Schoeller says that would be up to local school officials.
"I think most Boards of Education, local school boards, are very conscientious that when a law like this passes, they're going to set up some guidelines for their local teachers to follow," Schoeller says.
Petersen fears that students are the ones who will suffer if opting out of critical science coursework is widely permitted.
"I think it's important that kids understand if you opt out of this, here's what you're missing," Petersen says. "And in biology because evolution is such a major understanding, you don't take biology, maybe you don't graduate. So, why would the legislature intentionally handicap children? It's bad legislation."
The ballot summary was challenged in a lawsuit earlier this year, but in June a state appeals court ruled that the challenge was without merit. A recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll of 625 registered Missouri voters revealed that the amendment is likely to pass with 82 percent saying they would have voted in favor of it if the primary was held last week.
- For more on this year's campaigns and elections, go to Beyond November, a coordinated election project with St. Louis Public Radio, Nine Network of Public Media and The St. Louis Beacon.
Follow Julie Bierach on Twitter: @jbierach


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For example: If you think you might be eligible for Verizon discounts, check out this link. If you are with AT&T, this website is where you can check on your status. Hit up Consumerist to find out information on other providers like T-Mobile and US Cellular. [Consumerist]


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The idea of copying necessarily invokes problems of authorship. Before a quick-minded reader evokes Benjamin Franklin's calls to "Imitate Jesus and Socrates"[1] or Ralph Waldo Emerson's invective that the "imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity,"[2] or even before any heart-wrenching calls that decry the loss of the "aura" in the face of rampant "mechanical reproduction" or "technical reproducibility"[3] can be made, I only offer the idea that a copy presupposes an author. There are two ways in which this can happen. On the one hand, there is the unauthorized copy, a canvas, novel, or piece of music that is actionable because it was not sanctioned by the original's author. On the other hand, there is the authorized copy, the so-called "derivative work"[4] that merits its own recognition though it incorporates another author's work. An example of this would be a translation of a foreign-language novel, or a scholar's annotations to a previous work. Thus a copy also invokes a chronological lockstep: it summons or copies a piece of art that existed before. The actionable counterfeit, fake, or simulacra cannot exist without a previous source.
Copyright, patent, and trademark laws provide a series of useful cultural barometers that shed further light on authorship. These statutes contain some very important boilerplate language defining the deceptively simple question: what is copyrightable? The United States Copyright Acts of 1909 and 1976 maintain a tried and true formulation and affirm that a copyrightable work is an "original work of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression."[5] All the non-conjunction words in that definition have been the subject of countless litigations and exegeses in American and international jurisprudential circles. But for our purposes, the words "original" and "authorship" are of greatest importance. This is because though the author may be able to copyright an "original" work, he or she can also assign the right of that work to a third party. Should an author decide to copyright a derivative work, however, then he or she must recognize the copyrighted material that inspired the new material. This is done through attribution; quite literally, through quoting and giving cognizance to someone else's work.[6]
A specific instance from Czech-American architect Antonin Raymond's career in Japan may shed some important light on the architectural significance of attribution. Raymond's Summer House and Studio in Karuizawa, Japan (1933), is one of the architect's most well-known and critical successes. Built on a mountain retreat near the Karuizawa Golf Course, the house is nestled between a series of ponds and grassy berms. The house plan reveals a distinct emphasis on observing these landscapes. By ignoring the biaxial plan common to regional Japanese architecture, and by subsequently adopting a distinct asymmetrical scheme inherited from Weimar modernism, Raymond's plan allows the house to take in different views of the landscape. The house also is not perpendicular to the plot of land, a strategy that allows for a maximized view of the surroundings.
The desired effect, if not of a house that blends into its immediate surroundings, is then of a project that at least indexes the region via a carefully deployed articulation of material flourishes and tectonic strategies. Raymond used chestnut logs for the supporting structure as well as cedar for other structural elements as well as siding and other furnishings. The house's metal roof is covered with branches of Japanese larch, which not only protect the roof from heat, but also deaden the sound of frequent summer rains. The house's interior provides more evidence of what Fritz Neumeyer calls a "viewing machine," a "set of frames and sequential spaces" that emphasize the role of the observer.[7] The house circulation patterns center around a main living room and fireplace, an area opening up into double-height spaces and allowing an unobstructed view of the surrounding countryside.
Yet the elision between inside and outside is only one of a set of binary oppositions that characterize Raymond's project. Although the building's foundations are of poured concrete, they also feature the use of local woods and other strategies that "mask" an otherwise European building into the rolling, grassy berms of Nagano prefecture. At a glance, the regional vestments literally dressing the Karuizawa house exemplify Raymond's "initial idea of an architecture unified with its regional landscape and culture … an ideal that transcended the context of an individual country" yet was "deeply connected to these settings."[8] In the end, this combination of disparate elements and inspirations, combined in a single, small-scale domestic project, emphasized Raymond's "self-conscious understanding and appreciation of these materials to compose the poetics of 'country life' and ideals of the 'natural' and the 'country.'"[9]
Except for material flourishes, such concerns were not far from Le Corbusier's mind when he was busy conceptualizing the Mattias Errázuris house (1929-1930). He designed the project for a coastal resort in Zapallar, Chile, a small town on nestled between the tall escarpments of the Andes Mountains, and the ultramarine hues of the Pacific Ocean. Like Raymond, Le Corbusier sought to create circulation spaces that allowed the residents to partake in these stunning landscapes. Yet the similarities between these two projects do not end there. A comparison between one of Le Corbusier's renderings of the Errázuris House and the interior spaces of Raymond's Karuizawa House and Studio will reveal some uncanny similarities. In addition to a double-height ceiling, both featured circulation ramps (reminiscent of the promenade ramps from the Villa Savoye) and a distinct preference for local materials. The floors of the Errázuris House were also of local woods, and a series of sparse cross-hatching on the walls suggest the use of local stone.
And when Raymond published photographs of the Karuizawa House in a November 1935 issue of Architectural Forum, Le Corbusier noticed. A review of Raymond's 1935 monograph, Antonin Raymond: His Work in Japan, 1920-1935 in the same issue criticized the Karuizawa House for its less-than-subtle nod to the Errázuris House. The negative criticism both stung and bewildered Raymond. In a letter to the editor of Architectural Forum, he countered, "I feel … that you lay too much stress on the question of the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and Corbusier on my work at the expense of those vital qualities which make it valuable. Even to speak of the Japanese influence in my work is to see the truth only from a superficial angle. There is a strong Japanese influence in my work, but it is one of spirit and not of form … Should we be too afraid of precedent or influence we could do nothing at all. It does not matter from where we take anything but what we do with it."[10] Le Corbusier was equally astonished at the Karuizawa House, so much so that (in addition to accusing Raymond of plagiarism) he was inclined to feature a picture of Raymond's work along side his own in the third edition of the Oeuvre Complete (1935). Le Corbusier makes note of this in a May 1935 letter to Raymond, written shortly before the two architects resolved their differences:
Dear Sir:
I have received your letter of April 8th, which I found upon my return from a trip abroad.
I am pleased to hear from you. Please be assured that there is no bitterness between us, but — as you yourself say — you made a slight mistake, that is, you neglected to send me a note when you published the images of your Tokyo house, which is very pretty by the way. I do not have time to read the journals that I receive; I just laid eyes on the photographs, and since I have rather quick reactions – and since in addition, I was at that very moment in the process of dictating the captions for the book published by Boesiger – I seized that opportunity and introduced a little dig that would wake up the book's readers. Incidentally, my note was not mean; on the contrary, it praises Japan for its technical achievements and you for the taste of your intervention. I would even go further, that is, you give such a pretty interpretation of my idea that page 52 of the Boesiger book is perhaps the prettiest of the whole volume. I will even extend my compliment further: if I allow all journals to publish my works, it is not in order for my ideas to remain buried in people's drawers. On the contrary, it is for them to be of some use. Yet my designs are often copied very badly, very unskillfully, or very stupidly. This is where my compliment comes in: your interpretation of my drawings is quite witty, and this is a sincere compliment. I hope it will please you.
In any case, please be assured, dear Mr. Raymond, that I bear no grudges and am quite incapable of doing so. You may use as you like the note I am writing to you, for the end of your letter appears to call for some involvement on my part that I do not fully understand. It is now my turn to give you license to use the present letter in whatever manner will appear most pleasant to you.
Le Corbusier [11]One of the most remarkable things about this incident is Raymond's and Le Corbusier's casual attitude towards issues of authorship and plagiarism. Although Raymond's attitude is a distant echo of Ralph Waldo Emerson's claim that copying is unavoidable, he not only admits the Corbusian influence, but casts that issue aside in favor of the more pertinent issue of "spirit" and "form." Le Corbusier also recognizes potential plagiarism, but in a brilliant masterstroke, he still wins by dint of his larger-than-life personality. The ability to print a small version of the Karuiazawa house along the Maison Errázzuris is a powerful gesture indeed: in lieu of being slighted by an upstart follower or devotee, Le Corbusier is still able convey the power of his creative spark and the breadth of his influence. Attribution, therefore, could be conceived as a measure of power and influence.
Though the architects summarily disposed of the issue of authorship and plagiarism, at least the subject came up. Litigation surrounding the copyrighting and patenting of modernist design continues to this day. But in the early 20th century, such adversarial lawyering did deal with some pertinent issues of the time, such as original versus copy, or form versus process.[12] Architects and designers in the 20th century tended to be a savvy lot, especially in legal and business matters. As a matter of fact, both Antonin Raymond and Konrad Wachsmann made prolonged efforts to patent their designs.[13]
|Raymond, "Window Construction" U.S. Patent No. 2,282,885 (Filed June 23, 1939)
Antonin Raymond's patents provide additional guidance on issues of attribution. On June 23, 1939, Raymond submitted a patent application for a "Window Construction," a type of window that allowed for "horizontal-moveable" sashes.[14] The patent abstract, in addition to stating why the invention is significant, states that the horizontal sash is a new type of architectural element that improves on window-making techniques.[15] This patent application is significant because it is in stark contradiction to his cavalier handling of the Errázuris house. Whereas Raymond seemed naïve in his claims that too much significance was made of the Karuizawa House's overt Corbusian influences, here, he has not only found a specific architectural detail, but has also located one that is patentable and profitable.[16]
|Raymond, Architectural Details (Tokyo: Kokusai Kenchiku Kyôtai, 1938)
It is significant that Raymond's métier was to exacerbate a tension between the grand project of incorporating Japanese "spirit" and "form" into his designs and the didactic enumeration of building elements. The latter is especially poignant as it is the subject of Architectural Details, a book he co-authored with his wife Noémi in 1938. Consisting of 250 photographs and 530 measured drawings, Raymond considered the book as a vital contribution to modern architecture, consisting not of "abstract phrases, but also of actual work considered."[17] Architectural Details also operated on the level of polemic: the layout of the book emphasized how traditional Japanese architectural elements could be utilized in modern architecture. Whereas the right-hand page contained Raymond's measured drawings of roof, ceiling, and window details, the left-hand photographs showed such elements being used in contemporary buildings (some of which, like the Tokyo Golf Club House of 1931-1932, contained such details). It is worth noting, for instance, how pages 15 and 16 of Architectural Details not only show drawings of "horizontally-moveable" sashes, but also suggests that such sashes and window units are commonly used in the wood-sliding windows and shoji (sliding doors) in traditional Japanese construction.
|Revere Brass and Copper Advertisement featuring Raymond's Louis Stone House, The Saturday Evening Post (7 August 1943) (Source: Helfrich and Whitaker, eds., Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond, 54).
The enumeration of these architectural "details" and their subsequent economic potential and attribution potential becomes evident in an 1943 magazine advertisement for Revere Brass and Copper featuring Raymond's Louis Stone House (1939), also known as the "tri-level" house. Published in The Saturday Evening Post, the advertisement is typical of those from the era. Under a black-and-white watercolor wash of the Louis Stone House is a heading stating "A Hillside Built this House: Copper and Brass Keep it Snug and Trim." Beneath that is an extended quotation from Raymond that also suggests a binary opposition between larger design philosophies and the minutiae of everyday construction: in addition to abating "stiffness," "falseness," and "fussiness," the ad makes a special note of copper used in roof-flashing and window screens. The ad also features a small profile of Raymond, who implores the reader, "I urge you to send to Revere for a free booklet with complete plans, photographs, and information. It may inspire you to build a better house!"[18]
The idea that an architect would willingly send off plans and drawings to anyone seems ridiculous at first. And although it is not known whether anyone took up Raymond's claim or took the ad seriously, it was one of several ads promoting future (i.e. postwar) uses of copper products. The Revere Copper and Brass Company also enlisted the services of other architects and designers, including R. Buckminster Fuller, Norman Bel Geddes, Louis Kahn, Walter Dorwin Teague, and William Wurster.[19] It is worth noting how Raymond and others were willing to lend their name to a series of print commercials — less than a decade earlier, criticisms of Raymond's Karuizawa House's summarily invoked the names "Wright" and "Corbusier."[20] It is reasonable to believe that the two masters would never lend their plans and drawings to anyone requesting them.
|(Top) Konrad Wachsmann, "Building Construction" U.S. Patent No. 2,491,882 (Filed June 22, 1945); (Bottom) Raymond, "Airplane Hangar" U.S. Patent No. 2,590,464 (Filed March 2, 1946)
|Konrad Wachsmann and Walter Gropius, "Building Structure" U.S. Patent 2,421,305 (Filed August 10, 1945)
Attribution has a decidedly political function as well. The very instances where Raymond and Wachsmann assigned their interests and their name to particular interests were all in service of the war effort.[26] But a look at one last patent reveals the true nature of this type of attribution. On November 1, 1943, Harvard chemist Louis F. Fieser filed an application for "Incendiary Gels," his contribution to the war effort that would eventually be known as "napalm."[27] The patent abstract states that the novelty of Fieser's invention lies in "the production of new and improved gelled hydrocarbon fuels and gelling agents therefore, for use in incendiary munitions of both the burster and tail-ejector types, in flame throwers, in hand grenades, in fire starters and generally, in any incendiary munition which utilizes a combustible liquid or low-melting solid or gelled fuel."[28] The heading to the patent abstract not only states that Fieser is the "assignor to the United States of America as represented by the Secretary of War," but the opening paragraph indicates "The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the Government for governmental purposes without the payment to me of any royalty thereon."[29] The sentence is a boilerplate clause that requires inventors to assign their interests to the United States Government particularly for matters of national security of military intelligence.[30] Although Fieser never obtained any royalty for his patents, his application is often quoted for applications concerning similar military technologies. For him, as well as for Antonin Raymond and Konrad Wachsmann, intellectual property law provided a vehicle that recognized their status as authors or inventors.
The above documents reveal some tried and true assumptions about authors and their artistic products. First of all, the correspondence, patent abstracts, as well as magazine advertisements presuppose not only the existence of an artistic work or invention that merits legal protection, but highlight that such work can be attributable to an author or inventor. This means that there are also certain circumstances when a person can suspend legal protection for a work of authorship or invention. For example, an architect can assign rights in a design drawing or building process to a third party such as the United States Government.
But the parrying between Antonin Raymond and Le Corbusier over the Karuizawa House, as well as Raymond's subsequent involvement with Revere Brass and Copper provide a useful conundrum. In both of these circumstances, an architect is fast and loose with the idea of authorship. As Le Corbusier freely lets Raymond use his letters and drawings regarding the Maison Errázuris, Raymond seems all too willing to let people have drawings of his Louis Stone house. The idea here seems to be one of comfort and power: even if Raymond were to publish and republish drawings of the Karuizawa House as well as the Maison Errázuris, or if he were to send off thousands of copies of the Louis Stone house to a Saturday Evening Post audience, no one's reputation as an architect would ever be tarnished. Each would still be recognized as the designers of their individual houses, and this despite the fact the architects have evaded some typical legal issues.
[Author's note: This article is based on research completed at the Yale School of Architecture from 2005 to 2007, as well as on papers presented at the University of Virginia in September 2006 and Harvard University in February 2007. This article was also inspired by my MED thesis, completed in May 2007, titled Built to Destroy: Erich Mendelsohn's, Konrad Wachsmann's, and Antonin Raymond's "Typical German and Japanese Test Structures at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah. An earlier version of this article appeared in Pidgin 10 (2011)]
[1] Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Leonard W. Larabee, et al., ed., (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964), 149.
[2] Ralph Waldo Emerson and Stephen Emerson Whicher, Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson: an Organic Anthology (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960), 113. On the other hand, Emerson's "Quotation and Originality" provides a different point of view. There, Emerson writes, "We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. Our debt to tradition through reading and conversation is so massive, our protest or private addition so rare and insignificant, — and this commonly on the ground of other reading or hearing, — that, in a large sense, one would say there is no pure originality. All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by imitation." See "Quotation and Originality" in Letters and Social Aims (J.R. Osgood, 1876): 158.
[3] A further source of ambiguity is evident in the different translations for Walter Benjamin's seminal 1936 essay. The most oft-quoted is the Harry Zohn version, known to generations of architecture students as "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." A more correct translation of the title ("Das Kunstwerk im Zeitaler siener technischen Reproduzierbarkeit") is provided in Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings' volume of Benjamin's selected writings. There, the essay is titled "The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility."
[4] The United States Code defines a "derivative work" as "a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a 'derivative work'." 17 U.S.C. §101.
[5] The Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. §102(a) indicates that "Copyright protection subsists … in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device."
[6] See 17 U.S.C. §106(a)(1)(B), et seq.
[7] Fritz Neumeyer, "A World in Itself: Architecture and Technology" in Detlef Mertins, ed. The Presence of Mies (New York: Princeton, 1994), 78.
[8] Ken Tadashi Oshima, Constructed Natures of Modern Architecture in Japan 1920-1940: Yamada Mamoru, Horiguchi Sutemi, and Antonin Raymond, PhD dissertation, Columbia University (2003), 120.
[9] Ibid., p. 209.
[10] Antonin Raymond, "Letter to the Editor," Architectural Forum 63 (November 1935), 4, quoted in Kurt G.F. Helfrich and Mari Sakamoto Nakahara, "Rediscovering Antonin and Noémi Raymond," introduction to Kurt G.F. Helfrich and William Whitaker, eds. Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noémi Raymond (New York: Princeton, 2006), 26.
[11] Le Corbusier to Antonin Raymond (Paris, 7 May 1935) in Helfrich and Whitaker, eds. Crafting a Modern World, 332.
[12] A famous example of this are the famous "Chair" lawsuits: the first was a 1929 claim by Hungarian furniture impresario Anton Lorenz against the international furniture company Gebrüder Thonet Aktiengesellschaft (AG); the second, a 1936 claim by Mauser Kommaditgesellschaft (KG) against Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. In the first lawsuit, the form of a cantilevered chair was considered evidence of authorship. In the second action, Mies's attorneys won by claiming that the industrial processes used to manufacture a particular chair were copyrightable and patentable. For a good discussion of the significance of form in furniture design, see Marcel Breuer,, "Metal Furniture and Modern Spatiality" (1928), in Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg, eds. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook (Berkeley: University of California, 1994). For a more detailed discussion of these two lawsuits and their significance, see Otakar Macel, "Avant-Garde Design and the Law: Litigation over the Cantilever Chair," Journal of Design History Vol. 3, No. 2/3 (1990), 125-143.
[13] In the United States, patent law was established "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries," U.S. Constitution, Art. I, §8(8) (1796). As opposed to legal frameworks in other countries, patent law in the United States is based on a "first to invent" as opposed to "first to file" system. In other words, patent protection extends to first-in-time inventions. In the United States, a patent is a right to exclude others from making, selling, offering for sale an inventor's device. The right to obtain a patent belongs to "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof" 35 U.S.C. §101. The term "process" is defined as an "art or method, and includes a new use of a known process, machine, manufacture, composition of matter, or material" 35 U.S.C. §100(b).
[14] U.S. Patent No. 2,282,885 (June 23, 1939).
[15] Ibid. "It is well-known to architects and other skilled in the design and construction of buildings that window constructions in which the sashes are horizontally-moveable offer certain and considerable advantages over the usual vertically-moveable arrangements, and many constructions embodying horizontally-moveable sashes have been proposed. It is significant, however, that none of these proposed structures have been adopted, in spite of the known advantages of the horizontally-moveable sashes, the reason being that no practical construction, which may be simply installed and operated, has yet been proposed."
[16] Ibid.
[17] Antonin and Noémi Raymond, "Preface" in Architectural Details (Tokyo: Kokusai Kenchiku Kyôtai, 1938) quoted in Helfrich, "Antonin Raymond in America, 1938-1949" in Helfrich and Whitaker, eds. Crafting a Modern World, 47.
[18] Ibid., p. 54.
[19] Each completed a pamphlet to be distributed by Revere: in addition to Raymond writing "A Hillside Built This Home for Revere," other titles in the series (all from 1943) included "Better Homes for Lower Incomes" (Buckminster Fuller), "Tomorrow's Homes for the Many" (Bel Geddes), "You and Your Neighborhood" (Kahn), "New Homes for Better Living" (Teague), and "A Flexible House for Happier Living" (Wurster). Ibid.
[20] It is likely that if Raymond ever sent away any of his drawings, they would have a copyright notice.
[21] U.S. Patent No. 2,491,882 (June 22, 1945).
[22] Ibid. Albert Wohlstetter was a consultant and senior strategist for the RAND Corporation from 1951 to 1963 and is known today for his theories on nuclear proliferation and mutually-assured destruction. He is also known as a seminal figure in the neoconservative movement. For more about Wohlstetter and his affiliation with design circles as well as his dealings with Meyer Schapiro, see Pamela M. Lee, "Aesthetic Strategist: Albert Wohlstetter, the Cold War, and a Theory of Mid-Century Modernism" October No. 138 (Fall, 2011), 15-36
[23] U.S. Patent No. 2,590,464 (March 2, 1946).
[24] Ibid.
[25] U.S. Patent No. 2,355,192 (May 30, 1942). The principal reason for this was to shield both Wachsmann and Gropius from any personal legal or pecuniary liabilities incurred by the General Panel Corporation. The assigning of all interests to a corporation or business association is fairly commonplace for these reasons. For more about Wachsmann's and Gropius' Packaged House System, see Wachsmann, The Turning Point of Building: Structure and Design (New York: Reinhold, 1961 (translation of Wendepunkt in Bauen [Wiesbaden: Krausskopf Verlag, 1959) and Michael Tower, "The Packaged House System (1941-1952)" Perspecta 34 (2003), 20-27.
[26] In 1943, along with Erich Mendelsohn, Raymond and Wachsmann were both employed by the Standard Oil Development Company and the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service to design "Typical German and Japanese Structures" at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah to test the efficacy of the brand-new AN-M69-X napalm incendiary bomb. For more on this project, see Enrique Ramirez, "Fata Morgana" Thresholds No. 33 Form(alisms) (July 2008), and "Erich Mendelsohn at War" Perspecta 41: Grand Tour (Cambridge, MIT Press, 2008), 83-91. I have also written about this project, albeit in a more interpretative manner in "A Sphinx in Utah's Desert" <http://www.aggregat456.com/2009/12/sphinx-in-utah-desert.html> and "An Ithaca of Sorts" <http://www.aggregat456.com/2010/06/ithaca-of-sorts.html>.
[27] For a brief overview of Fieser's involvement, see Ramirez, "The Harvard Candle" <http://www.aggregat456.com/2011/03/harvard-candle.html>.
[28] U.S. Patent No. 2,606,107 (November 1, 1943).
[29] Ibid.
[30] The statutory language enabling this type of assignment is as follows: "Applications for patent, patents, or any interest therein, shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing. The applicant, patentee, or his assigns or legal representatives may in like manner grant and convey an exclusive right under his application for patent, or patents, to the whole or any specified part of the United States. A certificate of acknowledgment under the hand and official seal of a person authorized to administer oaths within the United States, or, in a foreign country, of a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States or an officer authorized to administer oaths whose authority is proved by a certificate of a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States, or apostille of an official designated by a foreign country which, by treaty or convention, accords like effect to apostilles of designated officials in the United States, shall be prima facie evidence of the execution of an assignment, grant or conveyance of a patent or application for patent" 35 U.S.C. § 261. Other patents that borrow from Fieser's application offer similar language. See John A. Southern, Lloyd J. Roth, Francis J. Licata, and Joseph Cunder, "Fuel Compositions and Their Preparation" U.S. Patent No. 2,570,990 (April 26, 1944) and Jerome Goldenson and Leonard Cohen, "Thickener for Hydrocarbon Fuels" U.S. Patent No. 2,769,697 (April 29. 1953).


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Game #3 postgame
On Wednesday, it could've just been a coincidence. Phils GM Pat Gillick showed up at the Bobby mattick Training Center and chatted for a little while with Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi (left).
Gillick still has ties to people within Toronto's organization from his time as the Jays GM, and he's made many trips over to Bobby Mattick over the years. The fact that he showed up wasn't a huge surprise.
Then there was Saturday. Us scribes were busy typing away and taking in the Toronto-Tampa Bay game and there was Gillick again, watching the action from the back corner of the pressbox. Now, it's starting to seem a little fishy.
It could mean nothing. It could mean something. Believe what you want about the two visits. What it seems like, though, is that there could be something behind it. Philadelphia is looking for bullpen help and Toronto has some arms that it could make available. The Jays and Phils have also scheduled a pair of B games — 10 a.m. each on March 5 and 8 in Clearwater and Dunedin, respectively — and Toronto will likely have some of its younger pitchers throwing in those games.
There's also the fact that the Phils seem willing to deal starter Jon Lieber, and various reports have them also interested in Jays right fielder Alex Rios. A Rios-for-Lieber seems like a stretch, though. It makes sense in this way: If Phils got Rios (or Reed Johnson for that matter), they could try to breathe life into the Aaron Roward-to-Padres-for-Scott Linebrink deal.
Dealing Rios in that situation seems unlikely, especially now that Toronto has added pitching depth with John Thomson, Tomo Ohka and Victor Zambrano. But the visits have been made, the games are scheduled, and the rumors and reports are there. So I guess we'll wait and see what happens.
POSTGAME: Toronto is no longer undefeated and you can blame the rain. The Jays and Rays ended their Saturday contest after six innings when it began pouring harder. Tampa Bay was ahead, 5-4, at the time and that's all she wrote.
A.J. Burnett looked solid, sticking to fastballs and changeups over two innings. He gave up a solo homer to Jonny Gomes in the first, but Gomes also went deep in the third. It happens.
Burnett's line: 2 IP, 1 ER, 1 H, 2 K.
Tomo Ohka didn't look so good. He was throwing strikes, but leaving the ball up. It's way too early to make a formal judgement on his performance, but it wasn't a good start.
Ohka's line: 2 IP, 4 ER, 5 H, 1 BB.
Troy Glaus nearly had two homers. He sent one pitch from lefty Scott Kazmir well over the wall in left center for a two-run shot in the first. Glaus then went off the wall in center in the third for a double. Don't forget about the ball that sailed just foul in the spring opener. Glaus is locked in right now.
Rios also continued his hot hitting, sending a double to the right-center gap in the second. Toronto manager John Gibbons said Rios (sore shoulder) has been throwing and could be back in right field by the beginning of next week. DH Frank Thomas should be in the lineup on March 9, and Reed Johnson (sore lower back) will be out "a little longer."
As for Brandon League and his strained lat? There's isn't a clearcut answer right now. He's been throwing off flat ground, but Gibbons isn't sure when he'll be back on a mound:
"He's got to get off the mound pretty soon in the bullpen, because sooner or later we have to find out what's going on. That way we can go to Plan B if we have to."
So, when does Plan B come into play? One week? Two?
"You tell me. I mean, it won't be long."
With that, stay tuned for more…
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Phillies need bullpen depth but so do Jays. Jays have enough starting depth to last a while but I bet Gillick said "if you run out of useful depth, Lieber is still available."
Or Gillick went loonie and offered Cole Hamels and JP to prove he was loonier refused. XD
First of all let me introduce myself. My name is Jorge and I'm from México. My wife and I are planning a trip to Florida, and since we're huge baseball fans, we'd like to watch some Grapefruit League games. I was trying to purchase 2 tickets for the March 19 game between the Blue Jays and the Yankees. But, a big surprise, seems I'm not allowed to purchase any ticket via Jays' official website just because I'm from México. It seems only Canadian and U.S. citizens can make it. Seems so strange to me, because I've done it before with other teams and I never had that problem. I'd like to ask you if I could buy my tickets at Knology Park Box Office the same day of the game. Do you think there would be some available tickets. Or it would be an unnecesary trip to Dunedin? I would appreciate if you can help me.
I wouldnt take too much out of the visit by Gillick. He is probalby just coming to visit some old friends. I would think its too early in spring right now that they would be talking about trades. I would imagine the teams would want to see what they have internally before they start looking externally. Although I guess it is possible that they could be having preliminary talks. The Phillies arnt the only ones who need bullpen help, I would say one of the weaker spots on Torontos roster is mid releif, and as we see with the injury to Brandon League the back end is very shallow. If BJ Ryan and Brandon League go down who do we have to close out games? It would be very tough for me to trust Jason Frasor going into the 9th with a one run lead. I also want to comment on our offence, its getting me pretty excited this year. Troy Glaus is naturally a streaky player, but if he could put together a full year of health and consistancy I don't think we have saw the best of him yet. Also with the further development and added power of Alex Rios and Aaron Hill (who I think is going to have a great year,.300+ BA and 10+ HR), plus the addition of Frank Thomas there is no reason that this lineup cannot be the best in baseball.


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About twenty-five years ago (as an example of long-term thinking), I had a whimsical investment idea: Buy some cheap land and plant hardwood trees. The trees wouldn't be ready to harvest for 100 years or so, but it would have been a cheap investment with (eventually) a fairly large payoff.
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Walt Whitman was a poet who first came to Washington during the Civil War looking for his injured brother. He stayed and continued to care for wounded soldiers at area hospitals. He lived in a house at the intersection of Vermont Avenue and L Street and often witnessed President Lincoln riding by on his way to or from the cottage. Below is an excerpt from his journal, written on August 12, 1863.
I see the President almost every day, as I happen to live where he passes to or from his lodgings out of town. He never sleeps at the White House during the hot season, but has quarters at a healthy location some three miles north of the city, the Soldier's Home, a United States military establishment. I saw him this morning about 8:30, coming in to business, riding on Vermont Avenue, near L Street. He always has a company of twenty-five or thirty cavalry, with sabers drawn and held upright over their shoulders. They say this guard was against his personal wish, but he lets his counselors have their way. The party makes no great show in uniform or horses. Mr. Lincoln on the saddle generally rides a good-sized, easy-going gray horse, is dressed in plain black, somewhat rusty and dusty, wears a black stiff hat, and looks about as ordinary in attire, etc., as the commonest man. A lieutenant, with yellow straps, rides at his left, and following behind, two by two, come the cavalry men, in their yellow-striped jackets. They are generally going at a slow trot, as that is the pace set them by the one they wait upon. The sabers and accoutrements clank, and the entirely unornamental cortège [the group following and attending to some important person] as it trots toward Lafayette Square arouses no sensation, only some curious stranger stops and gazes.
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Locate Whitman's home on Map 1b. Based on that and the reading, do you think Whitman would have been very close as Lincoln drove or rode past?
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First of all we would like to thank the National Rifle Association for their hard work over the years. Since we finance them, they have no choice but to act in our best interest, and they've been doing a great job. As the owners of big gun companies, we LOVE it when the NRA gets flack for its fight against gun control. It misdirects all potential backlash from us over to them. We get to stay out of the spotlight and keep making weapons. With only about 4.5 million members, the NRA is a relatively small group that has taken on the BIG job of shielding the gun makers from criticism.
For instance, background checks are supported by 90% of Americans but The NRA opposes them. Why? Simple, background checks would hurt gun sales; which, in turn, would hurt our profits. We're very proud of the way we've framed the issue. It's called "gun rights" or "the right to bear arms" but really, for us, it is the right to make loads of money. If these rights were so important to us we would probably address them at some point, but we don't. Instead, we have The NRA do our bidding so that we don't have to get our hands dirty. Thanks NRA!
We'd also like to thank every American in favor of gun control. Your response to mass shootings strikes fear in the hearts of gun supporters across the nation. When the phrase "gun control" is in the news cycle our sales goes up across the board! Many thanks!!! We certainly couldn't do this without you.
We'd also be remiss if we did not thank gun owners across the nation. You all have such strong views about the Second Amendment. You are our true heroes. This has become an emotional issue to you and when you act on emotion you ignore facts.
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Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies is the plain-English guide to relief for you if you've been recently diagnosed with heartburn or reflux, if you suspect you may suffer from it, or if you're concerned about your loved ones. This comprehensive book shows you how to recognize symptoms, get an accurate diagnosis, and work with a physician to receive the most effective treatment available. You'll see how to:
- Get your symptoms under control
- Find the right physician
- Reduce stress and fine-tune your diet
- Avoid medicines that trigger upset
- Decide if surgery is right for you
This friendly guide explains what the various forms of reflux are, as all too often reflux is either self-treated or mistreated and followed by serious complications. There's detailed information on building a comfortable lifestyle by reducing stress, improving your diet, controlling portions, and timing your meals to minimize heartburn and reflux. Plus, this sensitive guide even covers heartburn in infants, children, and the elderly. You'll also discover:
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Pick up any newspaper or log onto any news website, and it's there in black and white. Tough times are all around, and no amount of stimulus is making it go away any time soon. Everyone's watching pennies, and life on a budget is becoming the way of life for most folks.
Technology can help lots of people save money in their day-to-day life, but what happens to people who can't afford the technology in the first place? Keep reading, unless you couldn't afford to pay your electric bill or you sold your computer to buy dinner.
There are so many ways that being connected can help your bottom line. If you can't afford to get online, you're basically screwed out of these benefits. If you have the money to get online, you're in luck.
Trying to save money? You can comparison shop for everything from groceries to a new gas-sipping hybrid. You can see what gas station has the lowest prices in your area, or sign up to get coupons from local stores and restaurants.
Need to travel? That's where some serious money-savings are available. Most airlines charge you extra if you buy a ticket over the phone, and can you imagine the premium you would pay a travel agent if you couldn't buy your plane tickets online?
Numerous websites are waiting to save you money on hotels, rental cars and flights — Travelocity, Priceline, Expedia, Hotwire, Orbitz, and if you're too busy to try them all, Kayak will compare for you.
Even basic utilities offer savings online. In my area, if you pay your utility bill over the phone, there is a significant "convenience" fee. I don't know about you, but there's nothing convenient about having to pay extra. There is no such fee if you pay online. Sure, you can pay by check, but even then, there's the cost of the stamp.
Even how we have fun has changed. You can take out a second mortgage on your house if it hasn't been foreclosed to get the cash to take your family to the movies, or watch them online, many times for free. Instead of paying for cable or satellite TV, you can watch many of your favorite shows online. Syfy (like Dvice and NBCBayArea.com, an arm of NBC Universal) has online shows available right here. Can't afford a computer or the cost to get online? Guess you're heading to the theater, paying for rentals, and paying for cable.
Times are tough, but imagine what could happen if this economy sticks around. Technology is changing how we shop, how we're entertained, and even how we read. For a while Amazon's Kindle was the only game in town, but now more and more e-readers are for sale, and more and more book titles are available electronically.
Other media are also becoming more popular in the form of electronic files. Magazines on newsstands are becoming more and more elusive, and the newspaper biz is struggling as well. Folks on a budget could probably afford the change to buy the local paper, but what happens when they're only available electronically? How will low-income people look for jobs?
What happens when books, magazines and newspapers are only available online? What happens to libraries? What happens to children whose families can't afford computers and Internet connections when libraries no longer have books for them to borrow? Will libraries loan e-readers? It's a grim scenario — poor children don't learn to read outside of school, so the odds are stacked against them from an early age.
There are some things that, no matter what's going on in our lives, we won't give up. I'll get a second job before I give up my TiVo. And honestly, I can't afford to get rid of the Internet. There are ways around it: Use the computers at the library, get your free Wi-Fi at Starbucks or any of the growing list of locations with hotspots, use a computer where you work. Because let's face it, most of us can't afford to give up our computers.
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Inflight entertainment system on board of Boeing 777-200ER aircraft provides a widescreen video monitors from 9 (for Economy class) to 16 inches (for Business Class) embedded in each seat, allowing you to select entertainment video and audio content.
Inflight entertainment on Boeing 777-200ER
Video and audio content
Flight Information
In-seat power outlets
Video and audio content
The program contains more than 80 Hollywood, international and Ukrainian production movies, including the latest blockbusters, serials, TV shows, kids movies and cartoons. We also offer you a sports section, wide range of music albums and popular games. We offer entertainment content for viewing in Ukrainian, English, Russian, Chinese, French, Hindi and other languages.
You can connect to the inflight entertainment system your own headphones or those provided by UIA.
Flight Information
You can also get informed with real time flights information, as well as explore your favorite cities guide in the world. The three-dimensional Flight Path 3D map has the following characteristics:
- Full three-dimensional globe
- Touch control of gestures
- Flight data in real time
- Interactive display and content
- Different types of flight observation
- Guide to the world cities
- Kids Map interactive app - Animals
In-seat power outlets
To keep your gadgets going throughout your flight on Boeing 777-200ER, we offer in-seat power in our Business, Economy Premium and Economy cabins.
There are two types of power options: USB power and AC power outlets.
Please be aware that for safety reasons, you can use these options to power your devices, but not charge them.
AC Power in Business and Economy Premium class
If you're in a seat equipped with AC Power, you'll just need the standard plug power supply that came with your laptop or other electrical device.
The power on the aircraft is typically 110V AC. It has a universal receptacle that accepts the following types of plugs:
- US non-polarised two blade plug (both blades are the same size)
- US polarised two blade plug (one blade is bigger than the other)
- US non-polarised two blade plug with ground (aka three prong)
- European standard two cylindrical prong plug (two round prongs)
- UK three pin plug
- And other types of plug.
USB slow power in Business, Economy Premium and Economy class
Our aircraft also feature USB sockets to power your devices.


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The Fletcher Maynard Community School offers programs that fulfill the needs of our neighborhood by providing affordable activities for children, adults, seniors, and families, and the Neighborhood Council serves as an advisory group to the Community School Director.
We welcome all Area 4 residents, local business owners and families to join and give your support in determining neighborhood needs, suggesting future programs and recognizing community issues and concerns.
For programs, schedules and registration information, please view the current brochure.


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Perhaps the scientists' time could've been better spent inventing robots that can cure cancer or something, but did I mention these are JUGGLING ROBOTS? They don't even cheat by using sensors like other juggling machines.
Instead, each arm uses a linear motor, with a third used to toss the ball up. The balls are tracked by high-speed cameras, which results in a seamless juggling session. Honestly, clowns could learn a thing or two from watching the Czech Technical University's Department of Control Engineering's video, above. [Czech Technical University via Hack a Day via Ieee Spectrum]


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DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- In response to last week's alleged Israeli air strike northwest of Damascus, Syrian President Bashar Assad Sunday accused Israel of trying to destabilize Syria.
Syria'n state news agency SANA quoted Assad as saying his country is capable of confronting the current challenges and repelling any aggression against the Syrian people. He then accused Israel of trying to destabilize Syria.
Assad reportedly made the comments while meeting in Damascus with Saeed Jalili, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.
Syrian state television Saturday broadcast images of last week's alleged Israeli air strike on a weapons convoy and research center in Jamraya, northwest of Damascus.
Following Wednesday's strike, the Syrian government said a scientific research center was hit, which foreign intelligence agencies say was a facility that manufactured unconventional weapons, Haaretz said. Others said the target of the strike was a weapons convoy carrying advanced Russian made missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Unnamed U.S. officials said the convoy of trucks hit in the strike was carrying surface-to-air missiles from a military complex suspected of housing chemical weapons toward Lebanon, Ynetnews.com said.
The authenticity of the footage broadcast Saturday could not be verified. The images showed burned-out vehicles and a damaged building, Haaretz reported, noting the area has been the focus of attacks by Syrian rebels.
Israeli has not responded to suggestions it was responsible for the raid.
Turkey's foreign minister Saturday warned his country would not remain unresponsive to an Israeli attack on any Muslim country. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu chided Syria for failing to respond to the alleged Israeli raid, Hurriyet Daily News reported.
"Why didn't [Bashar] al-Assad even throw a pebble when Israeli jets were flying over his palace and playing with the dignity of his country? Why didn't the Syrian army, which has been attacking its own innocent people for 22 months now from the air with jets and by land with tanks and artillery fire, respond to Israel's operation," Davutoglu asked.
An Iranian army general warned Syria's response to "the recent aggression of the Zionist regime against this country will send the regime into a coma." Brig. Gen. Masoud Jazayeri hinted the Islamic anti-Israeli resistance movement was also considering "retaliatory measures" against Israel, Press TV said.


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This is only a reminder to all interested manufacturers that the deadline to register equipment for the 2013 season is approaching fast.
For clarification: both boards AND kites are subject to the new registration scheme, with the deadline for registration being the 31st of December,2012. By this date, all paperwork must have been completed AND 10 pieces of equipment built.
Plaque IDs are issued on request to the IKA secretariat, with the Plaque artwork to be printed on boards AND kites.
Remember: the deadline is 31st of December 2012 and by that date all paperwork must be completed AND 10 pieces built. The registration scheme requires a proof of that to be sent to the secretariat as well.
If you have any further questions on that please get in touch with us immediately.


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A neurostatic pulse (or neurostatic shock) was a type of energy used in medicine, with stimulatory effects on the nervous system.
When a cytoplasmic lifeform attached itself to B'Elanna Torres in 2375, a hologram of Crell Moset suggested that inducing a neurostatic shock in one of the neocortices along the lifeform's primary nerve might cause it to lose motor function, allowing them to remove it. However, The Doctor rejected the proposal as it most likely would have been fatal to the lifeform. The Doctor later adjusted the procedure to target the pulse at the secondary neocortex, causing the organism to loosen its grip without killing it. (VOY: "Nothing Human")
In 2376, The Doctor used a neurostatic pulse to stabilize Tuvok, after he entered neuroleptic shock due to a Ba'Neth directed energy weapon. (VOY: "Riddles")


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Sony has announced the release date for PlayStation Move title Sorcery, in addition to releasing screenshots and concept art from the game.
On the PS Blog, SCEA Product Marketing Manager Jefferson Dong announced that Sorcery will be made available at North American retailers on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Sorcery is the story of a young sorcerer's apprentice named Finn, who's trying to save his realm from the darkness of the Nightmare Queen.
Sorcery Creative Director Brian Upton gives a more thorough explanation of the story:
Finn is in trouble. First, he accidentally blew up his master's alchemy lab. Then he's let Erline, his master's magical cat, talk him into trespassing in the realm of the dead. Now he's unleashed an ancient universe-destroying evil that won't stop until everything he cares about is utterly annihilated. It has not been a good day.
Even though he's only an apprentice, Finn must find a way to defeat the Nightmare Queen before she destroys the human world. To do this he must plunge deep into the realm of faerie — the Endless Stair, the Faerie Forest, the Slumbering Palace. With Erline travelling at his side he must master powerful and arcane magical spells, and use them to overcome the strange and twisted servants of Nightmare. He must solve challenging puzzles, and decipher the mysteries of alchemy. He must discover the secrets of the Nightmare Queen's power and undo the damage that she has wrought.
And, above all, he must earn the right to be called … sorcerer.
To view the screenshots and concept art released from the game, click on the Media Gallery below:
Will you be picking up Sorcery? Let us know in the comments below.


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Main Contractors / Principal Contractors based in West Yorkshire working in the following sectors: education, teaching accommodation, lecture theatres, laboratories, multiply living accommodation, faith buildings, churches, health care, medical centres, hospices.
NRB Construction Management Ltd was formed in 1990 with the specific aim of providing a professional and efficient project management service.
Based in Bradford we are ideally situated to provide service to the rapidly expanding industry along the M62 corridor, and to both North & South via A1/M1 links.
In recent years the organisation has adapted with regards to the changing demands of clients including becoming affiliated with memberships such as Constructionline & Construction Health and Safety Assessment Scheme. The company prides itself on its flexible approach to work within the Project Team enabling completion to the clients satisfaction. This is reflected in the wide range of clients and organisations the company has worked with, which in many cases have resulted in continued long standing relationships.
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Sanchez quits race for Senate
Leading Democratic U.S. senatorial candidate Ricardo Sanchez announced Friday that he's ending his campaign to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
In a statement issued by his campaign to supporters, Sanchez said anemic fundraising and the loss of his house to a fire had led him to conclude that a statewide campaign was "impractical for me at this time."
"After extensive consultation with my family ... I have decided to put family first and I will therefore end my campaign for the 2012 U.S. Senate seat as of today," he said.
Sanchez was expected to easily win the Democratic primary, and Democratic operatives in Washington were hopeful that his military career — he commanded U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq and retired with the rank of lieutenant general — could help win over independent voters in conservative Texas.
However, his campaign never really got off the ground.
His withdrawal leaves the Democratic Party without a big-name candidate to compete against whoever emerges from the Republicans' heavyweight primary fight among Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, former state Solicitor General and tea party favorite Ted Cruz, and former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert.
"We are confident that we will have a strong challenger to the Republican candidate" by the filing deadline, said Rebecca Acuna, a spokeswoman for the Texas Democratic Party. "We'll put our platform next to theirs any day."
Only three days are left for potential candidates to file to run for the U.S. Senate race, leaving Texas Democrats in a bind to find someone who can match their Republican competition.
"Politics abhors a vacuum. Someone will step forward," said Jeff Crosby, a longtime Democratic consultant. "Someone will step in; who, I don't know."
Southern Methodist University political science Professor Cal Jillson said the situation Texas Democrats find themselves in is indicative of the party's decade of electoral futility in statewide races.
"It is another sign of what people have been talking about for a decade, a very thin bench," Jillson said. "You have some attractive young people in the Legislature and in city government ... but they don't have statewide name recognition."


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London Fashion Week is known for sending some of the edgier and more daring looks down the runway, which actually just means that it's the place to go if you wanna see some weird-ass shit. Here, we collected the entire week's worth of stuff that maybe only Björk would wear.
Above: Pam Hogg, Pam Hogg, Ryan Lo.
Ones To Watch, Ekaterina Kukhareva, Swedish School of Textiles
Little Shilpa, Pam Hogg, Pam Hogg.
Giles, Ryan Lo, Ryan Lo.
Ashish, Ashley Isham, Swedish School of Textiles.
Sophia Webster, Vivienne Westwood Red Label, Little Shilpa.
Yifang Wan, Meadham Kirchhoff, Lucas Nascimento.
Lastly, according to several shows during LFW, the cool new hairstyle for Spring 2014 will be Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos. (From left: Heohwan Simulation, Ones To Watch)


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Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec
(map) Riviere-du-Loup is the highway junction of the 20 and the 85, splitting between the Gaspe and New Brunswick.
April 25th, 2019
We followed the CN from Campbellton to Mont-Joli, finding only a hy-rail on the line, but found a local preparing to head West at Matane on the branch. At the end of the day my daughter helped me find and record a train leaving Riviere-du-Loup but we didn't catch the symbol.This image viewed 1 times, as of last night.