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Welcome back to fall television! Time to erase all those unwatched episodes of Big Brother and Low Winter Sun that have piled up on your DVR (you're never going to watch them, trust me) and make room for all the new television headed your way in the next couple of weeks.
This fall the networks are taking chances on some high-concept dramas, including a robot buddy cop show, a tense political thriller, and a spin-off of a popular film and comic book series. As for their comedy offerings, the networks appear to be throwing money at the problem, hiring big name movie stars to lure in audiences. Robin Williams, Anna Faris, Rebel Wilson and James Caan (and Andy Samberg, if you count him as a movie star; he'll always be a Saturday Night Live goofball to me) are all headlining new sitcoms this fall.
In stark contrast to last fall, this year's new offerings look … dare I say it … pretty good? At the very least, the new series don't feel as routine or tired as last year. In fact, there are no obvious early cancellations in the bunch. (Except, perhaps, for Seth MacFarlane's live-action comedy, Dads, which has been roundly derided by critics as being both racist and sexist. Still, MacFarlane has his fans, and I won't be surprised if they embrace the series for its outrageousness.)
Without further ado, your new fall television season. New series are in bold on the grid, and the link leads to a preview and more information about the show. Also included below: what to expect from your favorite returning series, and premiere dates of cable shows.
Dancing with the Stars
(Sept. 16)
(Sept. 23)
How I Met Your Mother
(Sept. 23)
|We Are Men
(Sept. 30)
2 Broke Girls
(Sept. 23)
(Sept. 23)
(Sept. 23)
Hart of Dixie
(Oct. 7)
Beauty and the Beast
(Oct. 7)
(Sept. 16)
Almost Human
(Nov. 4)
Sleepy Hollow
(Sept. 16)
The Voice
(Sept. 23)
|The Blacklist
(Sept. 23)
Well, look at you, Monday nights, all filled with high-concept series and dramas for grown-ups that are more than your average crime-of-the-week serials! I'm actually kinda excited about you — and it's been a while.
Granted, the schedule is filled with safe bets: Dancing with the Stars and The Voice will dominate the ratings; Castle is like putting on an old sweater; and How I Met Your Mother will attract those curious to finally learn, exactly, how Ted met The Mother.
But there are some risks here, too. We Are Men is a single camera comedy departure for CBS, with a formidable cast including Tony Shaloub, Kal Penn and Jerry O'Connell. If I didn't know better, I might mistake it for a FOX comedy (but the price tag on that cast is a solid reminder that this is, in fact, a CBS series). Speaking of FOX, they are going sci-fi high-concept with new series Sleepy Hollow and Almost Human. NBC's new offering, The Blacklist, looks like it might be great fun, thanks to star James Spader. And Hostages on CBS appears to be an intelligent and adult cat-and-mouse thriller with, dare I say it, shades of Homeland. All in all, this is one of the most interesting Monday night lineups we've seen at Tubular HQ in a long while.
We here at Tubular will be blogging Dancing with the Stars, and The Voice and continuing the loca that is The Real Housewives of Miami. I'm considering both Sleepy Hollow and Almost Human — they're both from the Fringe alumni, and they sound intriguing. However, I have some reservations about Almost Human's whole "robots: they're just like us!" premise. We will be also be watching The Blacklist, Hostages, and maybe, possibly, giving We Are Men a tiny chance.
I'm as shocked as anyone that CBS has broken their multi-camera, deafening laugh-track winning formula with this new sitcom about a guy who, after being dumped at the altar, moves into a short-term lease apartment complex. There he becomes part of a group of men who are just as successful at relationships as he is; hijinks ensue.
The cast is great, the chemistry between them seems strong, some of the jokes in this sneak peek aren't bad, and, most positive in its favor, it's not a Chuck Lorre production. However, the premise does leave open the possibility of some fairly juvenile and borderline misogynistic humor, so I am keeping a skeptical eye on it.
Speaking of Chuck Lorre, his newest sitcom is about a former addict who is making a new life for herself when her also formerly addicted mother throws her world into chaos. The cast is great: Anna Faris and Allison Janney are both wonderful. (Seriously, Allison Janney can do no wrong.) But I am going to be honest with you — because this is safe place where we can be honest with each other — I am not going to watch this series. I hate Chuck Lorre, I hate everything he has ever done (with the one exception of Roseanne, which wasn't his), I hate everything he stands for. I'm not even going to drag Two and a Half Men into this; I'll just say that if The Big Bang Theory is your thing, if you loved Cybil or Dharma and Greg — and lots of people with respectable opinions do and did — give it a shot. I'm sure you'll enjoy this, too. It's just not for me, thanks.
In this political thriller, award-winning tour de force Toni Collette plays Dr. Sanders, the President's surgeon, whose family is kidnapped by a rogue FBI agent, Duncan Carlisle (Dylan McDermott), in an attempt to make her kill the President during an operation. However! Dr. Sanders didn't become an acclaimed surgeon by being a dummy, and she manages to turn the tables on Carlisle. Both of these actors are fun to watch, and the back and forth between their characters promises to make for a tense and exciting thriller. There is a strong chance this might be the drama to watch this season.
So, J.H. Wyman, Bryan Burke and J.J. Abrams are back at FOX with another sci-fi cop series, and I am helpless to resist. I have to tell you, the whole, "odd couple, mismatched cop partners; he's emotionally distant — he's a robot" concept leaves me a little cold. It's been done a thousand times before, and, wait, let me guess, the A.I. teaches the human something about emotions along the way. Still, these same guys took what could have been a pale copy of The X-Files and turned it into something really special with Fringe, so I'm going to go into this series hopeful and expecting the best.
The Fringe guys who aren't working on Almost Human have come up with this concoction that is one part Once Upon a Time, one part X-Files and one part National Treasure. Ichabod Crane — that Ichabod Crane — wakes up in the present day, and gets to work on a mission from George Washington — that George Washington — to stop the headless horseman, who just so happens to be one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, and who is running around contemporary upstate New York chopping people's heads off. Crane teams up with a smart young cop who saw the horseman and his headlessness with her own eyes when he/it killed her partner. Together they investigate the secret stash of supernatural cases that her partner left behind. It's a high-concept idea, but I trust the team involved, and think that it could be one of the more fun new series this season — if it doesn't become another Grimm, that is.
Oh, Blacklist, you had me at James Spader. In this FBI drama, James Spader plays one of the country's most wanted criminals — the "Concierge of Crime," as he is known. One day he turns himself in to the FBI and offers to work with them to take down other dangerous terrorists and criminals, all of whom he has compiled information on. However, he has one condition: he will only work with a specific rookie FBI profiler, whom he says is "very special." The idea is not that novel — there are shades of Silence of the Lambs here, mixed with a dash of Person of Interest — but James Spader is a charming villain and always great fun to watch. (If I am completely honest, I'm guessing I watch a few early episodes before they start piling up on my DVR, leading me into a guilt spiral before I delete them sometime in March.)
Returning Series:
- 2 Broke Girls: Where we left off: The girls have an inspired idea to open a cupcake window in the basement of the diner. Where we go from here: More cupcakes, presumably.
- Beauty and the Beast: Where we left off: Vince was captured by some bad guys as Catherine looks on. Where we go from here: Three months have passed, Vince meets his "maker" while Catherine searches for him.
- Bones: Where we left off: Boothe broke off his engagement to Brennan under threat from a crazy killer. Where we go from here: FIX IT, BOOTHE. MAKE IT BETTER.
- Castle: Where we left off: Rick proposed to Kate! Where we go from here: We pick up right where we left off, and learn Kate's answer.
- Dancing with the Stars: This season the cast of has-beens and wait-who-is-thats include Valerie Harper, Snooki, Elizabeth Berkley, Corbin Bleu, Brant Daugherty, Bill Engvall, Keyshawn Johnson, Christina Milian, Jack Osbourne, Leah Remini, Amber Riley and Bill Nye, the Science Guy. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING, BILL?
- Hart of Dixie: Where we left off: After sleeping with Wade, Dr. Zoe returns to New York to sort out her life. Where we go from here: Zoe returns from New York City with some new cast members in an attempt to keep the series afloat for a third season.
- How I Met Your Mother: Where we left off: We finally glimpsed the mother. Where we go from here: It's technically the final season (although the showrunners keep making distressing noises to the contrary. NO. END IT. IT IS TIME.) and we finally FINALLY learn how the titular "I" meets the titular "Mother."
- The Voice: Welcome back, Christina and Cee Lo! You crazy kids were missed!
Other notable shows on Mondays this fall (new series in italics):
7:00 p.m.
- Tamra's OC Wedding: Bravo, Sept. 2
- Uncle Grandpa: Cartoon Network, Sept. 2
- Monday Night Football: ESPN, Sept. 9
8 p.m.
- Fast N' Loud: Discovery, Sept. 2
- Love it or List it: HGTV, Sept. 2
- Heavy Metal Monsters: Weather, Sept. 16
- Major Crimes: TNT, Nov. 25
8:30 p.m.
- Black Ink Crew: VH1, Sept. 23
9 p.m.
- Stalked by a Ghost: Bio, Sept. 2
- Turn and Burn: Discovery, Sept. 2
- Twisted: ID, Sept. 2
- Diners, Drive-ins & Dives: Food Network, Sept. 9
- Dream School: Sundance, Oct. 7
What will you be watching Mondays this fall?
See also: TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY – THURSDAY – FRIDAY – SATURDAY – SUNDAY


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If "The Conjuring" and "Insidious" director James Wan ever made a romantic comedy, one imagines he'd still set it in a creaky old two-story with dark corners and foreboding armoires. For his latest hauntfest "Insidious: Chapter 2," we're back with the possession-afflicted Lambert family — nervous mom Renai (Rose Byrne) and astral-projecting dad Josh (Patrick Wilson) — trying to regroup from the spirit realm trauma that almost took their son Dalton.
But there's still the unresolved matter of what happened to supernatural whisperer Elise (Lin Shaye) at the end of the first film, and that decamping to Josh's childhood Victorian home — filmed from the trademark Bates House low angle of maximum ominousness — might not be such a good idea. Also, why is Daddy suddenly acting so strange? Wan and co-writer Leigh Whannell (also back as one half of the comic-relief ghost-hunting duo) confidently line up their ducks in a row for more of the same half-shocks, fraught wanderings, horror-repurposed items (toys, piano, baby monitor, Patrick Wilson) and garish PG-13 apparitions.
But after the pleasurable free fall into old-fashioned nightmare artistry that was last summer's "The Conjuring," this busy-yet-dull sequel feels like Wan robotically flexing his manipulation of fright-film signposts, an exercise more silly than sinister.
"Insidious: Chapter 2"
MPAA rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of terror and violence, and thematic elements.
Running time: 1 hour, 46 minutes.
Playing: In general release.

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While the news regarding opportunistic infections in patients with advanced HIV disease has generally been more encouraging in recent years, the news regarding one OI -- mucosal candidiasis -- has been distinctly discouraging. As patients live longer, they develop resistance to the drugs used to treat candida, and the emergence of refractory candidiasis has become a significant issue in many patients. The increased use of fluconazole -- as therapy for candidiasis or as secondary prophylaxis against recurrent infection -- has been coupled with increased numbers of anecdotal reports of clinical failure of azole therapy in HIV-positive patients with mucosal candidiasis. A handful of reports have also noted decreased in vitro susceptibility to azoles in candida isolates taken from patients who have failed fluconazole therapy.
Despite these reports, a complete understanding of the epidemiology and management of this increasingly common complication of therapy has not yet been developed. There is little published data, for example, on the true incidence, prevalence, and risk factors for the development of fluconazole resistance. A recent case-control study from Johns Hopkins indicated that fluconazole resistance is most likely to develop in patients with advanced HIV disease (i.e. CD4 cell counts below 50 cells/mm3) who have had significant prior exposure to the drug and many prior episodes of candidiasis (1). (In this study the median duration of prior fluconazole therapy was > 200 days.) These findings are hardly a surprise, but they do give us a better sense of which patients are at greatest risk of developing resistance to azole therapy.
The current estimates are that 5% to 7% of patients with advanced HIV infection will develop candidiasis that is refractory to standard fluconazole therapy. Preliminary analysis of an ACTG study of this patient population suggests that clinicians should anticipate an annual incidence of azole-resistant candidiasis of about 4% in patients with CD4 counts below 50 cells/mm3. These data also indicate that prior episodes of candidiasis (especially esophageal disease) and other OIs (especially MAC) are risk factors for the development of resistance.
Most of the initial cases of candidiasis seen in HIV-positive patients are caused by Candida albicans, and in about 75% of the cases of azole-resistant candidiasis C. albicans can be cultured from the mouth. Patients who are taking fluconazole to suppress mucosal candidiasis are more likely to develop other species of candida such as C. (Torulopsis) glabrata, C. parapsilosis, and C. krusei. These organisms tend to be less susceptible to fluconazole or any of the other azoles.
Recently, a consensus methodology was developed that will henceforth be used to test in vitro susceptibility of various strains of candida to azole antifungals. This methodology has been successfully correlated with outcomes for patients with AIDS and oropharyngeal candidiasis. Isolates with a MIC < 8 µg/mL to fluconazole are regarded as susceptible; isolates whose MIC is > 64 µg/mL are regarded as resistant. Isolates with intermediate MICs are held to have reduced susceptibility, since infection caused by these isolates may respond to higher-than-standard doses of fluconazole or itraconazole. However, useful as these guidelines are in a research context, they are of limited use in the clinic, where treatment decisions are generally made on clinical grounds.
Management of fluconazole-resistant candidiasis
Although the clinical experience with patients who develop fluconazole-resistant candidiasis is largely anecdotal, it does tell us that these patients are difficult to manage and often suffer significant morbidity. In clinical terms the disease seen in these patients is identical to that seen in patients with sensitive infection, but it tends to be both progressive and more symptomatic, due to the lack of effective antifungal therapy. There is no information to suggest that fluconazole-resistant infection is more virulent, but esophagitis is much more common in patients with resistant disease.
Clinicians confronted with fluconazole-resistant thrush have a number of therapeutic options. Unfortunately, we do not yet have definitive data that identify the most appropriate and efficacious therapeutic choice for patients with resistant disease. Therefore, the clinician should begin by determining the obvious: Has the patient's candidiasis failed to respond to standard doses of fluconazole because the drug is not being taken as prescribed? Is the patient compliant? Are serum levels adequate? If not, the first step is to remind the patient of the paramount importance of compliance; the second step is to recheck the patient, after an interval of several weeks, to determine if enhanced compliance has led to enhanced efficacy.
If the patient's candidiasis has still not responded to therapy, higher doses of fluconazole -- up to 800 mg per day -- may be tried. Higher doses can be effective in patients whose infection is caused by organisms with intermediate susceptibility to azole antifungals. Elevated doses are not likely to be effective in patients with truly resistant strains of candida. The exceptions to this rule are the relatively rare cases of resistance that occur as the result of drug-drug interactions that lower serum levels of fluconazole. These interactions are most often seen in patients taking rifampin or rifabutin.
Other azoles may also be efficacious -- because some fluconazole-resistant isolates retain sensitivity to itraconazole and ketoconazole. In some cases fluconazole resistance may be mediated by an increase in active transport of fluconazole out of the cell wall of the fungus; in those cases either itraconazole or ketoconazole, which are more lipophilic than fluconazole, may still be able to remain within the cell (3).
Therapy with itraconazole or ketoconazole is usually ineffective in patients whose isolates are completely resistant in vitro. Unhappily, the opposite is not equally true, for in vitro susceptibility does not always imply therapeutic efficacy. In any case itraconazole capsules are rarely effective against resistant candidiasis. Recent data do suggest a role for the cyclodextrin oral-suspension formulation of itraconazole, however. In a retrospective evaluation of 19 patients with candidiasis that was resistant to azole therapy, 64% showed definite clinical improvement on 100 or 200 mg per day of this investigational agent (4). A prospective Canadian trial, which used a regimen of 100 mg twice daily for 14 days, reported a similar response rate (65% of 34 patients), and this study was able to show an association between response and microbiologic susceptibility (5).
Similar results have been seen in a larger study, reported last month at the 4th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Washington, D.C. (see "Oral suspension of itraconazole effective against refractory candidiasis," in this issue). Although still investigational, the oral suspension of itraconazole is available through a compassionate-release program. Interested clinicians should contact Janssen Phar-maceutica at 1-800-378-4779.
Other clinical options for management of resistant candidiasis
Improved antiretroviral therapy itself has been reported to lead to the clearance of refractory thrush (6), with the credit in this instance given to the addition of a protease inhibitor to the patient's prior regimen (see "Resolution of candidiasis in a patient receiving ddI plus saquinavir," Vol. 2, No. 5, page 112). This anecdotal report, and others like it, suggest that aggressive antiretroviral therapy which combines a protease inhibitor with nucleoside analogs may have a beneficial impact on resistant candidiasis.
Intravenous amphotericin B should be used initially in all patients with severe candidiasis, especially those with esophagitis, and it should be used in patients who fail azole therapy. A short course of therapy at low doses (0.3 mg/kg for 7 to 14 days) is usually effective, although relapses are common in the absence of some form of maintenance therapy. Some cases of amphotericin-B-resistant infection have been reported.
Lozenges containing amphotericin B, which are available in Europe but not in the United States, may be effective in controlling milder disease but are unlikely to have much impact on resistant infection. An oral suspension of amphotericin B is currently being evaluated in patients with fluconazole-resistant candidiasis. The preliminary data suggest that high doses (5 mL q.i.d.) will probably be needed to control infection.
Another alternative agent is flucytosine, which is active against Candida albicans but tends to be less effective against other species of candida. C. albicans rarely develops resistance to flucytosine, even with chronic therapy. One possible approach to the management of fluconazole-resistant C. albicans infection is treatment with amphotericin B followed by maintenance therapy with flucytosine (at a dose of 25 mg/kg q.i.d.). Clinicians who elect this course of therapy should be wary of the potential for considerable toxicity with flucytosine, which can produce myelotoxicity and gastrointestinal disturbances such as abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, and GI bleeding.
Finally, there have been anecdotal reports that GM-CSF is effective in cases of refractory candidiasis (7). Further trials of this agent are warranted, as are trials of investigational agents such as terbinafine and the echinocandidin derivatives.
- Maenza JR, Keruly JC, Moore RD, Chaisson RE, Merz WG, Gallant JE. Risk factors for fluconazole-resistant candidiasis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. J Infect Dis 1996; 173: 219-25.
- Fichtenbaum CJ, Koletar S, Yiannoutsos C, Chen D, Cohn S, Pottage J, Powderly W for the ACTG 816 Team. Fluconazole resistant candida in advanced HIV disease. Eleventh International Conference on AIDS, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1996. Abstract Mo.B.112.
- Sanglard D, Kuchler K, Ischer F, Pagani JL, Monod M, Bille J. Mechanisms of resistance to azole antifungal agents in Candida albicans isolates from AIDS patients involves specific multidrug transporters. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1995; 39: 2378-86.
- Cartledge JD, Midgley J, Youle M, Gazzard BG. Itraconazole cyclodextrin solution -- effective treatment for HIV-related candidiasis unresponsive to other azole therapy (letter). J Antimicrob Chemother 1994; 33: 1071-3.
- Philips P, Zemcov J, Mahmood W, Montaner JSG, Craib K, Clarke AM. Itraconazole cyclodextrin solution for fluconazole-refractory oropharyngeal candidiasis in AIDS: Correlation of clinical response with in vitro susceptibility. AIDS 1996; 10: 1369-76.
- Zingman BS. Resolution of refractory AIDS-related mucosal candidiasis after initiation of didanosine plus saquinavir (letter). N Engl J Med 1996; 334: 1674-5.
- Capelli A, Bonfanti P, Magni C, Milazzo F. Employment of recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor in oesophageal candidiasis in AIDS patients (letter). AIDS 1995; 9: 1378-9.
William G. Powderly, M.D., is with the Division of Infectious Diseases, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.


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In 1637, French mathematician Pierre de Fermat proposed, what was to become known as Fermat's Last Theorem: no whole number solutions are possible for Pythagoras' equation for power values greater than two. Unfortunately his notebook's margin wasn't big enough to detail the claimed proof for this. In 1955 Goro Shimura and Yutaka Taniyama met at a mathematics symposium in Tokyo, and proposed The Taniyama-Shimura Conjecture: All elliptical equations have a...


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The Christkindlmarkt
Since the year 1310 the Munich Christmas Market (Christkindlmarkt) has been held between the first Advent Sunday and Christmas Eve (24th December). In days gone by it was known as St. Nicolas' Day. Marienplatz (Mary's Square) in the shadow of the town hall is always well worth a visit for fans of the festive period.
At the christmas market behind the town hall, be amazed at the many hand-carved figures and entire nativity scenes, and buy some for yourself. The range of christmas tree decorations really is worth seeing.
The Munich christmas market is not quite as famous as the Nuremberg version, however.


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Plater/Metal Finisher Establishes a Presence in Mexico
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Incertec, Fridley, MN, a specialty plating and metal-finishing company, has acquired the assets of CRS Aerospace in Empalme, Sonora, Mexico. The facility will provide secondary processes such as NADCAP-certified anodizing, cleaning, painting and nondestructive testing, and within a year also will offer the same processes as the U.S. facility, including plating on plastics. Incertec will use the facility to serve customers in the aerospace, medical-device, electronics and connector industries operating in Mexico as well as in California.
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Surprisingly lot of you people asked for my refreshed ITIL 2011 edition mind map.
Since you have seen pictures of it in my previous posts, you know I have it ;) I've put it here for free download.
|ITIL 2011 Mind Map
Mind you, this is still my working version, so please let me know if you find any typos or errors.
Of course, if you decide to dig deeper, I recommend buying a full set of books from TSO or Amazon.
Download my ITIL 2011 Mind Map here.
If you don't have a MindJet MindManager, you can have a look in flash here (it will ask you for a viewer installation). Hope you enjoy it!


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My gauge is 5 sts per 1 inch with size 7 needles and my resulting cloth is exactly 8" x 12". Your mileage may vary!
Begin by casting on 39 stitches. With Color A, knit for 2 rows. (I started off using the natural as my first color.) Now, onto the stitch pattern:
**Always slip stitches as if to purl, with the yarn in back.
Garter Stitch Clovers (multiple of 4 sts + 3)
Row 1 (Color B) K 3, *Sl 1, K 3* until end.
Row 2 Knit across.
Row 3 (Color A) K 1, *Sl 1, K 3* until last 2 stitches, then Sl 1, K1.
Row 4 Knit across.
Just repeat these 4 rows until it's almost as long as you want it to be, ending with Color A. In my case, it was around 11.5 inches from the needles. Finish the cloth by knitting 3 rows with Color B and then bind off as usual.
EDIT:: Just to clarify things a bit here- The pattern as written will give you a different colored stripe at each end. I wanted a little bit of funk and asymmetry in the original dishcloth but this may not be to your taste. If this is the case, just knit your final pattern rep with color B (or, end with row 2 of the stitch pattern) and then knit the final border rows with color A. This will give you a more traditionally lovely cloth. :)
(I should stick to natural light for my pictures, heh.)
Voila! You now have an awesomely stylish new addition to your kitchen! I'm sure your dishes will enjoy it quite muchly. :D


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Completed in 2010, the 55-acre, nine-building Center of Arts and Academics in North Charleston, S.C., is home to two magnet schools — Charleston County School of the Arts and Academic Magnet High School — that function separately, but share the cafeteria, administrative buildings, media center, and gymnasium.
Buildings on the campus are cooled with two 400-ton chillers, 36 ice-storage tanks, 12 chilled-water pumps, 325 variable-air-volume boxes, and 11,500 linear feet of HVAC piping. Well over 4,000 linear feet of that piping is housed in canopied walkways. Beneath the piping is a perforated ceiling, which is open on the sides.
"I was very concerned about the canopy," Cole Owens of Owens and Associates Consulting Engineers Inc., who designed the chilled-water system, said. "I have never had my pipe above where people were walking and was concerned that pipe condensation might drip on people walking below."
Given Charleston's humid climate and the 36°F to 38°F water traveling through the outdoor pipes, Owens knew insulation would be critical. Fiberglass was ruled out because of its potential to become waterlogged.
"Fiberglass completely breaks down when it gets wet," Owens explained.
Owens chose AP Armaflex closed-cell elastomeric foam from Armacell LLC.
"Armaflex … doesn't absorb moisture, so its insulating properties remain the same, even in the presence of moisture," Owens said.
Dry and Intact
Two-inch sheets of Armaflex were used to insulate multiple runs of 12-in.-, 10-in.-, and 8-in.-diameter piping beneath 900 ft of canopy. Armaflex, which has a water-vapor transmission of 0.05 perm-in. and a thermal conductivity of 0.25 Btu in./sq ft/hour/°F, was hand-glued and taped to the piping.
It seemed like enough, but given the unusual application and this being his first time designing a piping system like this, Owens did not rest easy until the campus had gone through an entire cooling season with no reports of wet heads.
Nearly two academic years later, Owens has not been disappointed.
"With a high-profile job such as the Center of Arts and Academics, lack of performance was not an option," Owens said. "As a consulting engineer, I have asked many material and equipment manufacturers to show me a successful track record prior to my specifying their product. Each day, Arma-flex continues to perform in a very demanding exterior application in our extremely humid environment."
Information and photographs courtesy of Armacell LLC.
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The Gillen Brewer School
A Mission of Excellence
In 1992, Laura Bilicic and Laurie DuBos, two special education teachers, founded The Gillen Brewer School. The inspiration for this founding was the overwhelming need for a school in New York City where the children with the most challenging and severe disabilities and their families would be welcomed, educated and supported. The founders firmly believed that a knowledgeable and informed family is invaluable to each child's overall education. In the spirit of this commitment to family, the school is named after the co-founders' grandmothers Mattie Gillen and Virginia Brewer.
Gillen Brewer strives to maintain a diverse population of children from all socio-economic backgrounds.
Our Philosophy
Given an intimate, nurturing environment and a talented team of committed specialists, all children can learn.
Founded in 1992, The Gillen Brewer School (GBS) is one of the few schools in New York City dedicated to transforming the lives of young children with a wide variety of language, emotional, developmental, learning and health-related disabilities. The school specializes in educating children with challenging, and often multiple disabilities including language-based and non-verbal learning disabilities.
Gillen Brewer is one of the only schools that works with children beginning at the pre-school level who have multiple disabilities. Gillen Brewer embodies a comprehensive and thoughtful approach that sets the school apart and which includes a particular set of distinguishing factors.
Gillen Brewer prides itself on its mission to provide services for a diverse group of children from all socio-economic backgrounds.
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Wayne Rooney 'angry and confused' at Manchester United treatment
Sky sources understand Wayne Rooney is unhappy at Manchester United.
Last Updated: 17/07/13 9:59am
Sources close to Rooney claim the 27-year-old England international striker is "angry and confused" about his treatment by the club.
Reporter Kaveh Solhekol told Sky Sports News: "Rooney believes he is at the peak of his career and has no intention of becoming a squad rotation player or by playing second fiddle to anyone at Old Trafford.
"He believes he has nothing left to prove after nine successful seasons - yet that is what is being suggested by reports in the media which have interpreted the club's statement as meaning he's currently on trial for the coming season.
"Since he's returned from the pre-season tour due to injury, Rooney has been in touch with the club and spoken to David Moyes on the phone - he is angry and confused at the way he's been treated."
Rooney has been linked with a transfer to both Arsenal and Chelsea in recent weeks and it is understood he is open to the idea of moving to London from the North West.
He also expects to be fit for the start of the new season despite flying home from Bangkok last week due to a hamstring problem.
Rooney has two years left on his current contract at Old Trafford but new chief executive Ed Woodward revealed at the weekend that an extension is not on United's agenda.
Woodward said: "No contract renewals are being discussed. I am not sitting down with any player on an extension and there is no trigger date in the diary.
"Would we be afraid to run a contract down? Of course not."
United manager David Moyes still sees Rooney as a key member of his squad, but he said at the weekend: "Overall, my thought on Wayne is, if for any reasons we had an injury to Robin van Persie, we'll need him.
"Wayne can play up on his own, he can play dropped in. It's going to be a time to see how I work with Wayne.
"Manchester United isn't about Wayne Rooney. Manchester United is about the team - the club.
"I won't allow Wayne Rooney to become more important than the football club and the football team, because that's the heart of it."
Moyes has repeatedly stood firm on the striker's future, saying the 27-year-old is not for sale - although Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is a confirmed admirer.
Speaking at the start of Chelsea's Far East tour last Friday, Mourinho said of Rooney: "He is a player I like very much but I can say no more than that. Being fast and direct, I like that, but he's a Manchester United player."


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Fluid leakage is a problem that virtually every hydraulic system user will experience sooner or later. What causes the leakage, however, might come as a surprise. The short-term consequences and long-term costs of leakage can be significant. By using a comprehensive and effective process for determining the best hydraulic connections, the four common causes of leakage can be systematically evaluated to determine the best solution and thereby control costs.
Improper installation
Improper installation is the leading cause of hydraulic system leakage, contributing to fluid loss in approximately 60% of all instances. Proper installation is specific to one of three main fitting connections that you are putting together:
37° flare fittings — As the most common fitting in the world, improper installation of 37° flare fittings can be generally attributed to insufficient tightening or over tightening. Many times these fittings are over torqued, which collapses the cone on the 37° flare and causes premature failure, resulting in leakage. And because they are a metal-to-metal seal, these fittings are prone to scratches on the sealing surface. A single scratch on the male cone or female flare is a potential leak path. These scratches can occur from both rough handling and the use of poorly welded tubing opposed to seamless tubing.
Parker ships its fittings with protective plastic end caps. If your fittings come with caps, leave them on until you are absolutely ready to assemble the connection. And when making the tube assembly, proper clamping and connection tightening is critical as severe system vibration — particularly in mobile applications — can cause the metal-to-metal seal to loosen up during machine operation.
Parker's recommended assembly technique for 37° flare fittings is called Flats from Wrench Resistance (FFRW) or "Flats" method. A "flat" is referred to as one side of the hexagonal tube nut and equates to 1/6 of a turn. Table 1 shows how many flats to turn the nut past the point of initial wrench resistance.
Table 1. Flats from Wrench Resistance (FFRW) values for Parker Triple-Lok 37° flare fittings.
O-ring face seal fittings — The vast majority of O-ring face seal fitting problems are due to a problem with the O-ring itself. This can include a missing, pinched or partially extruded O-ring. Often times, the common misconception that O-ring face seal fittings can be finger tightened and will not leak can cause problems.
When making connections with O-ring face seal fittings, take a moment to double check to make sure the O-ring is present and properly seated in the groove. It is also important to lubricate the O-ring because friction created during installation — such as screwing down a hose — can cause the O-ring to pop out of the groove (hint: use two wrenches during assembly to prevent the hose from twisting). Proper assembly of O-ring face seal fittings also involves the use of a torque wrench and SAE recommended torque values (Table 2).
Table 2. Assembly torque values for Parker Seal-Lok O-ring face seal fittings.
Flareless bite type fittings — Improper installation of flareless bite type fittings, also known as 24° flareless fittings, typically involves improper presetting of the ferrule onto the tube. The initial mistake, however, is often an assumption that this type of fitting is a compression fitting, which it is not. Consequently, ferrule preset instructions are not always followed through to completion, and so the ferrule does not properly bite into the tube, which results in a poor quality seal.
Proper presetting can be accomplished manually using a hardened Ferulset tool or the fitting body, or hydraulically using a Hyferset tool or Hydra-Tool. Both methods are illustrated in detail in the "Ferulok Assembly" section of the Parker Tube Fittings Division catalog (Catalog 4300). Regardless of which method is used, it is important to complete each step in the assembly process leading up to installation: 1) cutting, deburring and cleaning of the tube; 2) ferrule preset; and 3) preset inspection.
System design
System design is equally critical to ensuring leak-free operation and can be cited 20% of the time when identifying the cause of fluid loss. Proper system design first involves selecting the right components to fit the application. The system designer must thoroughly examine all major considerations and how they will affect the choice of components. Once a designer looks at the application and determines which components can meet the requirements, other more subjective factors can be considered.
Correctly routing, bending and clamping tube lines is critical to system development. Failing to adhere to tube line fabrication best practices can result in a system that is inefficient and costly. By following recommended procedures, designers can help ensure a system that is leak-free.
Routing — Proper routing involves making a connection line from one point to another through the most efficient means. Routing, among all system design considerations, is perhaps the most significant and difficult.
Figure 1 shows several common routing configurations and their preferable alternative. In all instances, it is important to leave fittings as accessible as possible. Hard-to-reach joints are problematic to assemble and tighten properly as well as time consuming to service.
The ideal path should also avoid excessive strain on joints (a strained joint will eventually leak) and allow for expansion and contraction. Lines should be run straight and parallel when possible.
Figure 1. Proper routing of tube lines.
Bending — The two most important rules to follow when fabricating a tube line are measure exactly and bend accurately (Figure 2a). A single measuring or bending error will result in a tube line that does not fit (Figure 2b) — a waste of both time and money.
Figure 2a. Accurate measurements coupled with exact angles will result in a tube line that fits at all points (A-D).
Figure 2b. A measuring error on the second leg (B-C) resulted in a tube line that cannot fit at point D.
Using proper tools is the best way to achieve good results. There are a number of bender types to choose from (Figure 3) for smooth, wrinkle-free bending without excessive tube flattening:
Hand-held lever (individually sized for tube sizes ranging from 1/8 to 1 in. and 5 to 14 mm)
Manual crank, table mount or vise mount
Hydraulically powered
Figure 3. Common types of tube benders.
There are several steps to follow to ensure a good bend each time:
Measure and mark exactly
Always bend in the same direction
Clamp tubing securely in bender
Make certain the length mark is tangent to the desired angle on the radius block or in line with the desired degree on the link member
Bend accurately to the desired angle plus spring-back allowance
Remove tube and double-check bend angle
Check measurement length with tape or a rule
Clamping —
With correct routing and bending accomplished, proper clamping must be considered to avoid premature tube line failure. When a line is left unsupported, mechanical vibration can shake the tube, causing fittings to loosen and leak (or the line to fail, in some instances).
Tube can be clamped individually or in sets, and can also be stacked. The most critical factor to any clamping system is having the correct number of clamps to achieve the proper result — that being a well-supported, vibration- and noise-free system.
Table 3 shows recommended spacing between clamps; Figure 4 shows an example. Clamp as close to each bend of the tube as possible (on both sides) to eliminate thrust in all directions.
Table 3. Recommended tube clamp spacing.
Figure 4. Optimal clamping configuration for tube support and vibration dampening.
Quality of components
Approximately 15% of hydraulic system leakage can be traced back to poor component quality. It is essential to work with a reputable manufacturer that consistently provides high quality tube fittings that are made to SAE standards and that are dimensionally exact.
Taking time to identify quality components is the best way to avoid using inferior products. Generic "knock-off" fittings have become prevalent in recent years. If you suspect a manufacturer does not adhere to basic quality control measures, such as making fittings in only company owned and operated plants regardless of geographic location; or that parts are not machined to the highest standards; or that insufficient plating may lead to premature corrosion in the field; in these instances, do not risk the long-term reliability and overall safety of your hydraulic system to save a few dollars up front.
Furthermore, never use a fitting for which the type, size, working pressure and manufacturer is unknown. Many (though not all) fittings are stamped with identification marks. Establishing a supply of high quality fittings from a known reputable manufacturer is the best way to avoid this problem.
System abuse
System abuse, the final and most often overlooked factor (5% of the time) to hydraulic system leakage, can also be controlled. While this is typically assumed to be the responsibility of the end user, through proper system development the potential for abuse can be reduced. Besides adhering to the bending, routing and clamping best practices previously discussed, other considerations include:
1. Providing enough space (wrench clearance) to maintain equipment properly
2. Providing specialty tools to which the user normally would not have access (such as captive O-ring insertion tools)
3. Maintenance manuals outlining not only OEM and manufacturers' part numbers but proper assembly techniques for servicing as well and,
4. Carefully considered routing that reduces the probability of users standing or climbing on tube lines.
The high cost of leakage
While the causes of leakage are now identifiable, the results can vary widely. One sure consequence is that leakage will cost money. The obvious cost associated with leakage is the loss of system fluid. A small leak can seem inconsequential until the long-term impact is carefully considered. For example:
1 drop of oil = .002 cubic inches
3 drops of oil per minute = .006 cubic inches
180 drops of oil per hour = .36 cubic inches = .001558 gallons
8-hour shift x 3 = .037392 gallons of oil per working day
250 working days = 9.348 gallons of oil per year
$18 average cost of gallon of oil = $168 of oil per year
Remember this is for one leak point. Multiple leak points can drive the loss and cost of hydraulic oil up significantly over the course of one year. You can calculate the approximate cost of lost fluid using Table 4.
Table 4. Basic oil loss calculator.
In addition to system fluid loss, there are many costs associated with leakage that are often overlooked. These include energy loss, downtime, lost revenue, rising insurance premiums, maintenance costs, warranty issues, safety hazards, and environmental responsibilities. Escalating EPA and OSHA scrutiny in recent years makes avoiding the consequences (fines; litigation) of hydraulic system leakage ever more important. In the event of an oil leak or worse, it is important to do the following:
Stop the leak/release
Contain the leak/release
Clean up the leak/release (necessary training/certification of clean up personnel will vary depending on the type/amount of oil and the media impacted; i.e. soil, groundwater, wildlife habitat, etc.)
Dispose of or remediate impacted media
Dispose of contaminated devices
Replace contaminated devices
Report leak/release (if required) to applicable government agencies (i.e. EPA, Coast Guard); follow up with regulators
Implement a corrective action to prevent a future, similar leak/release
Modify leak/release control plans, if required
There is no substitute for proper knowledge when working to ensure a leak-free system. Consider enrolling your employees in a training course to learn/refresh hydraulic connection and safety best practices. Parker's Dry Technology Guide (Bulletin 4300-DT) is also a valuable resource for system designers, assemblers and technicians. The full-color, 100-page guide is a complete reference manual that allows the user to build a base of knowledge for creating and maintaining leak-free systems. To obtain a copy, call Parker Catalog Services at (800) C-Parker or contact your local Parker distributor.
Jeremy Haller, CFPS, is Product Sales Manager, at Parker Hannifin's Tube Fittings Division
And Gary Kleiner, is Value Capture Manager for Parker's Fluid Connectors and Hydraulics Groups. Contact them at [email protected], (614) 324-8209 or [email protected], (330) 298-4043 or visit www.parker.com/tfd.


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MOOSE, Wyo. — A 40-year-old Boulder man fell to his death at Grand Teton National Park while scouting for a campsite following a rain and hail storm, park officials said Saturday.
Edward Tom's body was recovered Saturday.
Tom and a climbing partner had planned to camp Friday night in a backcountry area called Petzoldt Caves before climbing the 13,770-foot Grand Teton the next morning.
Tom fell 100 feet over a cliff just before 6 p.m. Friday in Garnet Canyon, authorities said. Several people were nearby and called 911, and two doctors who were climbing in the area rappelled to him and tried to revive him. But Tom already was unconscious.
Three park rangers were flown into the canyon, arriving about one hour after the fall. Resuscitation efforts were halted soon after their arrival, officials said.
Fading light and lingering weather forced rangers to suspend recovery operations until Saturday, when four rangers returned to the canyon and recovered Tom's body. His body was flown by helicopter and given to the Teton County Coroner at 11:40 a.m. Saturday.
The strong storm that moved through the Teton Range from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday produced gusty winds, heavy rain and hail.


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Probably the most thorough in pursuing the continued study of Cubism was Piet Mondrian. Of Dutch descent, born in 1872, he was no novice painter by the time he picked up on the Cubist line of inquiry. His goal was to study, explore, simplify, and distil a given subject to its most basic forms. His earliest work centred upon landscapes and particularly trees, which, in their infinite variety he found endlessly fascinating. A study of his work shows a clear line of progression from what could almost be called "realism" through the Cubist involvement to his now trademark canvases filled with solid, thick, straight, vertical, and horizontal lines and juxtaposed squares or rectangles of pure, flat, whites or primary colours. Short of the white-on-white canvases of Russian-born Kasimir Malevich, Mondrian went further than any other artist in simplification to the point that even the term abstraction fails to contain the essence of his work.
His work became pure design, so far removed from the root of his original point of departure that it bore not the slightest trace of its subjective ancestry. Mondrian moved far beyond Picasso's Synthetic Cubism as represented by the collage-like Three Musicians, which still clung to a very obvious subject matter, into patterns and designs that could hardly even be called non-representational. It was in-depth experimentation (almost to the point of being scientific) of pure line, shape, space, and colour juxtaposition to such a cold, formal degree that his work could not even be called radical any more than stripes on the flag or a chequered tablecloth. Mondrian died in 1944, before he had a chance to see the influence he was to have upon the Pop movement of the 60's or Minimalism in the early 70's, but his legacy is still alive and well in much of what we take for granted in the commercial designs of our popular culture today.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Shares of J.C. Penney Co. fell Friday, retreating as third-quarter financial results showed sizable drops in total and comparable-store sales as well as a weaker gross margin.
J.C. Penney JCP, +3.21% reported a net loss of $123 million or 56 cents a share, for the quarter ended Oct. 27, as the company incurred $34 million, or 10 cents a share, in restructuring and management transition charges. On an adjusted basis, the results showed the retailer with a loss of $203 million, or 93 cents a share. The red ink was far more than analysts had expected. Quarterly sales totaled $2.93 billion, down from the prior year's $3.99 billion, as comp-store sales fell 26.1%. Read: J.C. Penney's Q3 loss narrows
Private-equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC APO, +3.39% swung to a third-quarter profit of $82.8 million, or 55 cents a share, from a year-earlier loss of $466.9 million, or $3.86 a share. Total economic net income after taxes came to 98 cents a share, improving from the prior year's loss of $2.89 a share, according to Apollo Global's results. Assets under management reached $110 billion at the end of the third quarter. Read: Apollo Global swings to profit.
Warner Chilcott PLC US:WCRX revised higher its full-year forecast as the company reported a higher net profit but lower revenue for the third quarter. The Dublin-based specialty pharmaceutical company now sees cash net income of $3.75 to $3.85 a share on an adjusted basis for 2012, up from $3.55 to $3.65 a share previously. Cash net income for the latest quarter came to 99 cents a share, the company said, with net income of $113 million, or 45 cents a share, up from $33 million, or 13 cents, earned in the year-earlier period. The consensus of analysts who follow Warner Chilcott had been for earnings of 78 cents a share. Quarterly revenue fell 7% to $606 million. Read: Warner Chilcott profit triples on fewer charges.
Ameren Corp. AEE, -0.40% reported third-quarter net income of $374 million, or $1.54 a share, up from $285 million, or $1.18 a share, earned in the year-earlier period. On an adjusted basis, earnings would have been $323 million, or $1.33 a share, down from $381 million, or $1.57 a share, in the 2011 quarter, as profit declined in all three of St. Louis-based Ameren's business segments. Analysts, on average, had been looking for the power-generation company to post quarterly earnings of $1.41 a share. Quarterly revenue fell to $2 billion from the prior year's $2.27 billion, reflecting a lower contribution from electricity operations. And Ameren's management forecast adjusted earnings for 2012 in a range of $2.35 to $2.45 a share, updating its prior estimated range of $2.25 to $2.55 a share.
Covidien PLC US:COV, Nutrisystem Inc. US:NTRI, Foster Wheeler AG US:FWLT and Strayer Education Inc. STRA, -0.74% rounded out the roster of companies reporting results early Friday, while Steinway Musical Instruments Inc. US:LVB will issue its results after the close.
Nutrisystem warns on fourth quarter; shares lower.
Foster Wheeler's quarterly profit up 58% on lower costs.
Strayer Education steers Street lower; third-quarter net down 71%.
Covidien affirms fiscal-2013 outlook as fourth-quarter results exceed consensus.
More stocks to watch
Also making headlines ahead of Friday's bell, Energizer Holdings Inc. ENR, -3.22% said it will undertake a broad-based restructuring — including closing facilities that manufacture batteries in Maryville, Mo., and St. Albans, Vt. — intended to realize gross annualized cost savings of about $200 million before taxes. The restructuring will cost some 1,500 workers their jobs globally as St. Louis-based Energizer moves to reduce its workforce by more than 10%. Word of the restructuring came as Energizer reported results for the fourth quarter ended Sept. 30 and released its financial forecast for fiscal 2013 late Thursday.
The board of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO, -1.19% authorized the repurchase of an additional $1 billion in common stock, effective in 2013. Stock may be bought back in the open market or via negotiated transactions, according to the Waltham, Mass.-based company, which as of Oct. 1 had $350 million remaining under a repurchase authorization scheduled to expire Dec. 31. In addition, Thermo Fisher Scientific said the board declared a 15% increase in the company's quarterly dividend, to 15 cents a share, payable Jan. 15 to stockholders of record as of Dec. 17.
And the board of Span-America Medical Systems Inc. US:SPAN declared a special dividend of $1 a share. The cash dividend will coincide with the company's regular quarterly dividend of 12.5 cents a share: Both are payable Dec. 4 to holders of record as of Nov. 21.


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Miu Miu Resort 2013 Ad Campaign Pictures
Miu Miu Taps Modeling Powerhouses For Resort 2013 Campaign
Miu Miu Taps Modeling Powerhouses For Resort 2013 Campaign
Miu Miu tapped some of the biggest names in the business to pose for its Resort 2013 ad campaign, which Steven Meisel shot earlier this month on the first day of New York Fashion Week.
Hilary Rhoda, Caroline Trentini, Jessica Stam, Karen Elson, Sung Hee Kim, Daphne Groeneveld, and Candice Swanepoel showed up for the shoot and donned colorful, floral-printed and slightly '60s Miu Miu Resort collection for the occasion. The setting for the shoot is just as colorful and decorative as the clothing and accessories themselves. A look at it all here in the gallery.
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I'm a fair-weather rider when it comes to riding on Mt. Hamilton, which means I don't ride up it too often in January. Today was an exception. I've been to the top on New Year's day before, but this ranks as the warmest I can remember.
Dozens and dozens of cyclists climbed to the top as part of their New Year's resolution, or just to enjoy the sun. More than 30 Porsches joined us.
I figured I'd see Mike Jacoubowsky on the ride up because he does it every year. Sure enough, with about two miles to the summit he passed me, along with his son and three other riders. Mike rides nearly daily from his shop and writes about the experience in his blog. You've got to read about the New Year's day 2006 ride where they were nearly blown off the mountain.


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Side Effects of Chemotherapy in Animals
What side effects could I expect my dog to have from chemotherapy? When do they start and how long will they last? Are there medications to treat these or make them not as bad?
Erika Krick, VMD, DACVIM Veterinary Medical Oncologist, University of Pennsylvania, responds:
The most common side effects of chemotherapy in dogs include decreased appetite, nausea/vomiting, diarrhea, and a low white blood cell count which an increase risk for infections. They usually start within a couple of days after a chemotherapy drug is given and last 1 to several days. There are available medications to decrease these side effects, such as anti-nausea medicine, anti-diarrhea medicine, and antibiotics.
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(From Rootsweb Review)
Copyrights may be the single most misunderstood topic on the planet, and unfortunately, genealogists are prone to asserting copyrights improperly.
Many assume copyrights are all about writing. They are applied to writing, but are more specifically about rights – e.g., the right of an author establishes copying guidelines for intellectual property.
We see copyrights applied to music, photography and elsewhere – but often, they are misapplied. You may be surprised to learn which items can't be copyrighted:
1. dates
2. facts
3. slogans
4. short phrases
5. conversations
6. modifications of another's work
7. domain names
8. public domain items
9. antique treasures, such as old books and diaries
Before you wonder if I am a copyright lawyer, I'm not. I learned this and more from the United States Copyright Office, which states,
"Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the U.S. Constitution and granted by law for original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression. Copyright covers both published and unpublished works."
I recommend the FAQs (frequently asked questions), some which are excerpted:
Can I register a diary I found in my grandmother's attic?
"You can register copyright in the diary only if you own the rights to the work, for example, by will or by inheritance. Copyright is the right of the author of the work or the author's heirs or assignees, not of the one who only owns or possesses the physical work itself. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "Who Can Claim Copyright."
How long does a copyright last?
"The term of copyright for a particular work depends on several factors, including whether it has been published, and, if so, the date of first publication. As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. For an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 95 years from the year of its first publication or a term of 120 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first. For works first published prior to 1978, the term will vary depending on several factors. To determine the length of copyright protection for a particular work, consult chapter 3 of the Copyright Act (title 17 of the United States Code)."
How much of someone else's work can I use without getting permission?
"Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports. There are no legal rules permitting the use of a specific number of words… or percentage of a work…"
How much do I have to change in order to claim copyright in someone else's work?
"Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or to authorize someone else to create, a new version of that work. Accordingly, you cannot claim copyright to another's work, no matter how much you change it, unless you have the owner's consent…"
The website discusses copyright registration, which is useful, but not mandatory. And since authors have varying ideas as to the conditions under which works can be reproduced, I recommend stating your intentions upfront.
RootsWeb Review does this at the end of each issue.
"Permission to reprint articles from RootsWeb Review is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, provided:
1. the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; and
2. the following notice appears at the end of the article: Previously published in RootsWeb Review: [date, volume, number]"
If you have questions or wish to tell us about reprints, we'd love to hear from you. Now, isn't that easy?
And if you'd like to establish your own "upfront" copyright guidelines, explore Creative Commons, a non-profit organization. It provides: "tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry."
Many RootsWeb users, such as Jon Anderson, use Creative Commons. At the bottom of his webpage, click the icon for permissions to share and adapt his research.
Jon's reasons for using Creative Commons are interesting.
"Personally, I put everything I do with family history under one of these [Creative Common] licenses because my purpose for doing genealogy is to connect people to their ancestors. I want the records I work on to become freely available, even when people can no longer contact me. Traditional copyright is very ownership-based and over time, records become locked up in copyright and not available. People move, eventually pass on, and unfortunately sometimes their records pass out of accessibility with them. By using the Creative Commons licenses, I can grant people the level of freedom to use my work, and to use it in new ways, without it being necessary for them to track me down and get special permission every time. Of course, most of the time people are grateful and contact me anyway."
Rootsweb Review Editor's Comments: We receive many emails monthly regarding copyright infringement based on other members copying information from their trees or sites. As Mary notes, information such as dates, names and places are not copyrightable. If you choose to publish your research publicly you are allowing others to utilize that information. On a related note, in WorldConnect there is an option to allow others to download a gedcom file of your tree – if you choose to allow others to copy your tree you are implying consent for them to utilize this information and to add it to their tree. On the other hand, there are a few items I want to mention that are protected under copyright law; notes that the tree owner makes about family members or research, or an authors evaluation about their research. A basic rule of thumb for what is protected is, if the content is the individual's personal thoughts, their intellectual property, it is protected by copyright law.
Previously published in RootsWeb Review: 14 October 2009, Vol. 12, No. 10
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HAVANA — Cuban state media say that Fernando Alonso, co-founder of Cuba's National Ballet, has died. He was 98.
Alonso was the ex-husband of world-renowned ballerina and fellow National Ballet co-founder Alicia Alonso.
State TV announced his passing Saturday without specifying a cause of death. It says he left an "indelible mark on Cuban culture."
Fernando Alonso began his career in 1935, and in 1937 traveled with his brother and Alicia Alonso to the United States. In 1940, he and Alicia joined the American Ballet Theatre, where they remained for eight years.
They returned to Havana in 1948 and were part of a group called the Ballet Alicia Alonso. It later became the National Ballet.
In 1975, after divorcing Alicia, Alonso took charge of the ballet of the city of Camaguey.
In 2000 he was awarded Cuba's National Dance Prize for lifetime achievement.


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Look at the difference between this and Boston. London wasn't closed down, you didn't have gangs of guys in paramilitary uniforms breaking into folks homes , unlawfully , and we still have two living suspects to interogate.
Afterward, the men appeared to want to be filmed, with one of the attackers going over to a bus and asking people to take photos of him as if he wanted to be on TV.
The first call about an assault came in at 2:20 p.m. (9:20 a.m. ET). At some point afterward, police responded, including armed members of a firearms unit, even though British police typically don't carry guns.
Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchworth noted that "early reports" indicated the attackers had "weapons." Metropolitan Police say they're aware of reports it took 30 minutes for police to arrive.
The suspects rushed at the arriving officers before being shot, James told the radio station.
jorvik wrote:No they won't there are far too many of them in England, and people are a little more suspicious of government and it's motives here...
jorvik wrote:No they won't there are far too many of them in England, and people are a little more suspicious of government and it's motives...
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It's everywhere. There's a run on the liquor stores, everybody's Facebook got their "omg p0wer'z out!!!" statuses and almost 28 percent of Pepco customers in the area are "affected":
(If you're curious, the Pepco interactive outage map is pretty cool looking. If only they were as efficient at fixing things as they were at compiling data.)
D.C and P.G. County public schools are closed tomorrow; no word from our school yet but someone on a sorority listserv writes that she's heard from someone "close to the university" that the university will be closed tomorrow. There you have it folks — it falls to you whether or not you believe both a sorority girl AND an anonymous source. The official word will allegedly come from the UMD emergency preparedness website.