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Spring seems like a great time to recharge and refocus on goals. Got any season-specific advice?
— Spring-lover in Vancouver
Dear Spring-lover
So, your New Year resolve is thawing? Spring is a great time to renew resolutions and make some essential changes — changes that are good for your wallet and Mother Nature. The warm weather, and the inspiring nature of spring, makes simple, positive green steps simpler and enjoyable. Take advantage, while it lasts.
• Improve your health, save money on gas, and keep CO2 and pollutants out of the air! You may be sick of hearing it by now, but walk or bike instead of driving. Half of the time we use a car it's to make trips that are less than three miles – a distance that can be easily covered in a 20-minute bike ride. And, really, by the time you get in the car, negotiate traffic, find a place to park ... walking is often just as quick (or at least close.) The average car releases about 1 pound of CO2 for every mile driven so, by cutting back 20 miles per week, you can eliminate 1,000 pounds of CO2 emissions per year.
• If you feel you have to drive, increase your gas mileage by as much as 23 percent by slowing down and driving smoothly (no peeling out — quick stops and starts, etc.). My mom drives ... let's just say, not so smoothly. She has a habit of pumping the gas pedal: a minor, but constant, lurching. Her Prius tracks how many miles per gallon (mpg) it is getting at any given time, so I did a little experiment. That slight, unconscious tapping on the gas pedal gets her an average 30 mpg. Driving the same distance on the same roads, but driving smoothly, I was able to get 70 mpg. OK, so I may be showing off a bit, but you get the point. Speeding just doesn't pay. By sticking to 65 mpg you can keep 1,500 pounds of CO2 out of the atmosphere, and save a good $200 at the pump every year. Keeping your tires correctly inflated is safer, extends the life of the tires and increases your fuel efficiency. And keep your car tuned — a poorly tuned car can lose up to 20 percent of its fuel efficiency!
• Hanging your laundry to dry sound a bit too 20th century? Clothes dryers are among the most energy-hungry appliances in the home. A standard clothes dryer will use about 900 kilowatt hours of electricity, resulting in as much as 1 ton of greenhouse gas emissions, every year. By hanging your laundry to dry, you'll be cutting utility bills, probably extending the life of your clothes, and even helping improve indoor air quality by limiting the moisture and mold that dryers can produce.
• About 90 percent of the energy used to wash clothes is spent on heating water. By using the cool water setting for your laundry, you can avoid putting 350 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. If we all switched to cold, or at least warm instead of hot, settings we would save enough CO2 to equal 3,316,442 cars taken off the road per year. Your clothes will get just as clean, plus you'll be saving money and reducing your impact on the environment.
• The next seven months will bring an abundance of fresh produce, so lay off the beef. Meat production accounts for a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, and the Environmental Protection Agency says animal waste pollutes our waterways more than all other industrial sources combined. Mind-boggling amounts of water — more than it takes to grow our entire fruit and vegetable crop — is used in raising meat. The almost 5 pounds of grain that go into producing one pound of beef led Food First's Frances Moore Lappé to ask people to imagine sitting down to an eight-ounce steak, and then, "imagine the room filled with 45 to 50 people with empty bowls. ... For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a full cup of cooked cereal grains." Meat is usually more expensive than produce, so you'll save money, and — if you're like most Americans — cutting back on beef will improve your health.
• Eat local. Food travels an estimated 4,000 to 5,000 miles (ScienceDaily, 2008) to get from the farm to your table. Less distance travelled means less fossil fuels and other resources have to be used to transport, refrigerate and package the food. Eating food grown close to home not only saves resources, it helps build stronger local economies, supports family farms, and provides you with fresh — usually more nutritious and tasty — foods. Enjoy farmer's markets, and consider joining a CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture, and is basically a way of buying shares of a local farmer's harvest. You receive a weekly bounty of everything growing. Localfoods.org and LocalHarvest.org both offer wonderful ways to find markets, farmers and CSAs. Just enter your ZIP code! And a quick internet search is bound to provide other local food resources — like Rhode Island's FarmFresh.org. Don't stop there — start growing some of your own food. There are lots of great resources online and at the library to get you started. Check out Mother Nature Network's farms & gardening channel for tips and information.
• Install water-efficient low-flow showerheads and faucet aerators to save on water and energy bills. This is a real bang-for-your-buck move. They are easy to install, can save up to 750 gallons of water a month, and are the least expensive methods of saving water in the home. Except, of course, the entirely cost-free method of simply using less water.
Stay Green (and save some green),


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TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- The United States has agreed to help Israel develop a new defense system known as David's Sling to protect the Jewish state against large-scale missile attack.
Few details of the arrangement have been disclosed, although the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency, said it emphasized "the continued commitment of the United States to the defense of Israel."
Over the last decade, the Pentagon has provided large amounts of funding for the high-altitude Arrow anti-ballistic missile system and the recently deployed Iron Dome system designed to shoot down short-range rockets used by Hezbollah and Hamas.
However, the agreement regarding David's Sling, which is being developed by Israel Aerospace Industries and the U.S. Raytheon Corp., follows a string of major deals with the Pentagon that provide Israel with advanced fighters, massive amounts of fuel and defense funding.
Washington provides Israeli with some $3 billion in military aid annually and there's always some project in the pipeline.
But the deals unveiled in recent weeks indicate they could be linked either to rewarding Israeli for its acquiescence in not opposing an unprecedented $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, ostensibly to counter Iran, or to prod the Jewish state into making concessions to the Palestinians under President Barack Obama's new Middle East peace initiative.
To get the planned sale of advanced combat aircraft and helicopter gunships for Riyadh through the U.S. Congress, where the Israeli lobby has thwarted such ground-breaking arms sales to Arab states in the past, Obama's administration had to pledge not to provide the Saudis with long-range precision weapons that Israel complains could threaten it.
The United States has never committed to such an expensive arms buildup for an Arab ally before.
But the huge arms deal reflects a significant change in U.S. strategy in the region by confronting Iran through allies and proxies rather than deploying American forces already stretched thin in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The fear is, of course, that far from persuading Iran to back off its alleged quest for nuclear weapons, these deals will only make it feel less secure and reinforce its effort to become a nuclear power.
Whatever, Israel has benefited considerably. These deals will ensure that it retains its traditional technological military edge over its adversaries, despite the festering rift between Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu over settlements expansion.
In recent weeks the U.S. administration has approved the sale of 20 F-35 stealth fighters, the world's most advanced combat jet, to Israel with the $2.75 billion bill being covered by the Pentagon in the form of military aid.
That means the Israelis essentially get the fifth-generation fighters for nothing, plus contracts worth up to $1.5 billion going to Israel's high-tech defense industry to provide components for the F-35.
It also means the Israelis get to maintain their air superiority over their adversaries since the F-35, even in such limited numbers, is a generation ahead of anything the Americans sell the Persian Gulf states.
The Israelis eventually want 75 of these radar-evading jets.
In July, the Pentagon forked out $422.7 million to fund a dozen batteries of the Iron Dome system, built by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, as well as to expand production of ISI's long-range Arrow-3 system, designed to shield Israel from Iran's ballistic missiles.
The development of the Arrow has cost around $3 billion over the last decade, the bulk of the funding came from the United States.
On Aug. 6, the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency informed Congress it planned to sell Israel a vast amount of fuel for an estimated $2 billion.
The sale comprises 60 million gallons of unleaded gasoline and 100 million gallons of diesel fuel for Israel's ground forces and 284 million gallons of JP-8 aviation jet fuel "to enable Israel to maintain the operational capability of its aircraft inventory."
The threat of a nuclear-armed Iran has changed many of the realities in the Middle East and its volatile environs. Saudi Arabia and Israel have found themselves linked by their deep fears of a nuclear-armed Iran.
This hardly makes allies out of these longtime foes. But, in a changing world, the Israelis appreciate the more able Saudi Arabia and its gulf partners are to stand up to Iran and support U.S. forces in the region, the better they will all be.


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Of all the people who loved Arnold Schwarzenegger during his 1980s prime, none loved him more than the artists responsible for the covers of video games.
They just could not stop paying indirect (or even blatantly direct) homage to the action superstar by having him inspire the poses, outfits and faces to games as famous as Contra and as infamous as Mechanized Attack, in which he shared the cover with Highlander star Christopher Lambert.
HG101 has done a fantastic job of tracking all of these covers down, as part of a larger feature you should definitely check out called "Tracing the Influence - Stolen Images in Games", which tracks the inspiration behind all kinds of iconic retro gaming imagery.
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Erik Murphy never took his eyes off the floor in the locker room, his droopy shoulders weighed down by three straight losses just one step shy of the Final Four.
This one might have been the worst.
Florida's senior scoring leader missed 11 shots in his first scoreless game since his sophomore year, and Michigan - led by Big Ten player of the year Trey Burke and sharp-shooting freshman guard Nik Stauskas - scored the game's first 13 points in a 79-59 rout in the South Regional final Sunday.
"Just missed shots," Murphy said, barely loud enough to be heard, and answering in short spurts. "Our defense was bad."
The third-seeded Gators (29-8) overcame a slow start in a 62-50 regional semifinal victory against Florida Gulf Coast.
No such luck against Big Blue.
Michigan ran out to a 23-5 lead 9 minutes in and led 41-17 after one of six 3-pointers from Stauskas, who was perfect from long range and led the Wolverines with 22 points.
Despite being the only team to make it to a regional final in each of the last three seasons, the Gators haven't been to the Final Four since winning consecutive national championships in 2006 and 2007.
Murphy and Kenny Boynton, the four-year seniors who came in not long after those titles, will leave without one of their own. They were part of the only Gators class to win consecutive outright regular-season Southeastern Conference championships, but they weren't able to win the biggest games.
Boynton and Will Yeguete had 13 points apiece for Florida, which shot 41 percent and let Michigan (30-7) go 10 of 19 from 3-point range.
"We've almost become numb to it now," junior center Patric Young said. "Been here before. I just really wish we were out there cutting the nets down."
The only fight from the Gators came at the start of the second half, when they scored six straight points to get within 11. Florida had two chances to get the deficit to single digits, but Mike Rosario had a turnover and Murphy missed from point-blank range. He grabbed the rebound, but then Rosario missed a jumper.
The Gators were down 12 moments later when Michigan's Mitch McGary drove for a tough layup and Spike Albrecht stole the inbounds pass for another layup and a 54-38 lead.
"That is Spike," said Burke, a sophomore and the South Region's most outstanding player. "He sees certain things out on the court that a lot of players usually don't see."
Even with the brief rally, the story for the Gators was the early deficit.
After McGary started the scoring with a layup, Stauskas made a behind-the-back pass to McGary for a slam before making his first 3-pointer less than a half-minute after that.
Burke passed to McGary for a layup before driving for one of his own. McGary's jumper made it 13-0 only 3:05 into the game.
Stauskas, who was 2 of 12 from 3-point range the first three games of this NCAA tourney, was on target against the Gators.
The 6-foot-6 guard from Canada put the Wolverines up by 24 points with 4:08 left in the first half after two consecutive 3s from the left corner in a span of 27 seconds.
Like he did on all of his makes, Stauskas came back down the court with a smile on his face, sharing the moment with the Wolverines fans who made the trip to North Texas.
Florida missed its first seven shots before Yeguete made a layup more than 3 1/2 minutes into the game.
"You can't stay in games like that when you're making dumb plays on offense in some instances and not making shots and they're playing unbelievable and knocking down shots and getting open shots," said Florida guard Scottie Wilbekin, who was just 1 of 6 with team highs of seven assists, four turnovers and four steals. "It was just a bad setup."
Michigan reached the Final Four for the first time since consecutive national championship game appearances in 1992 and 1993, the freshman and sophomore seasons of the Fab Five - Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Ray Jackson and Jimmy King.
"A lot of guys said we were really young and that we couldn't get here," said Burke, who had 15 points, seven assists and three steals. "We're here now and we still have unfinished business."
So does Murphy, but he doesn't get another chance to do anything about it. Twice he thought he had easy baskets in front of him only to have the shots blocked. He did lead the Gators with eight rebounds.
"Obviously Erik had a very, very difficult game," Florida coach Billy Donovan said. "We felt like there was a size advantage and we could get some stuff there. And he just never really could get it going."
Even with an 11-2 run late in the first half punctuated by Boynton's 3-pointer, the Gators were still down by 15 with a minute to go in the first half.
And the Wolverines were able to score even after it appeared that the half had ended; Burke was already heading off the court pumping his right arm toward the Michigan fans.
Stauskas was fouled on a 3-point attempt with .4 seconds left and, after officials reviewed the play, hit two free throws to give the Wolverines a 47-30 lead.
It was that kind of day for Michigan, and for Florida.


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The U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional because states imposed it in an arbitrary -- and sometimes racially biased -- manner. The Court also ruled that the death penalty could not be imposed for rape. After this decision, states rewrote their laws to address the Court's concerns, and the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 in the case of Gregg v. Georgia.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A request by the Bulgarian Embassy to name a Washington intersection after a favorite native son — a man credited with helping save the country's Jewish population from deportation — has gotten tangled up in a broader debate about whether the nation is accurately accounting for the actions of its leaders during the Holocaust.
The debate involving the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has played out behind the scenes as the D.C. Council prepares this month to consider honoring Dimitar Peshev. The discussion underscores not only the complexities of Holocaust history but also the difficulty countries face reconciling the heroic deeds of an individual during World War II with the record of a nation as a whole. It also comes as historians and Jewish organizations encourage nations to take unvarnished stock of their actions in Nazi-era Europe.
"You have to tell both sides and people have to understand, try to understand, what the complexity is. That's why it's critical," said Frederick Chary, a retired professor at Indiana University Northwest who specializes in Bulgarian history.
The issue arose in December when the embassy voiced support for naming an intersection for Peshev in a letter that put a favorable spin on Bulgarian treatment of Jews during World War II. The Holocaust museum, invited by the D.C. Council to review the accuracy of the letter, said the request — along with a recent declaration by Bulgaria's Parliament — glossed over a more checkered history.
As vice president of the Parliament, Peshev publicized a secret deportation order that would have sent tens of thousands of Jews of Bulgarian origin to German death camps in Poland. He circulated a protest petition among fellow legislators in 1943 as clergymen, students and others united in support of the Jewish population. The deportations were suspended and King Boris III sent Jews to labor camps in the country but refused to turn them over to the Nazis, saying he needed them as construction workers.
The rescue story has won Bulgaria praise as the rare European country to buck Nazi demands, and Peshev is recognized by Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, as "Righteous Among the Nations."
The D.C. museum says it doesn't quarrel with recognizing Peshev or question his historical significance, but says any honor must be placed in larger context.
It has objected in particular to the letter's characterization of Bulgaria as a "Nazi-occupied country" and to the assertion that no Bulgarian Jews were deported to death camps. The museum and other historians say the letter obscures the reality that Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany and that 11,343 Jews were deported from Macedonia and northern Greece — territories then under Bulgarian control.
"The callous and devious attempts to distort the history of Bulgarian Jewry is insulting to the victims of the Holocaust and is damaging to the image of Bulgaria, which, until recently, was perceived as a country which approached correctly the dark shadows of its past," Radu Ioanid, director of the museum's international archival programs division, wrote in April to the chairwoman of Bulgaria's National Assembly and to Bulgaria's U.S. ambassador, Elena Poptodorova.
The museum sent separate correspondence to the D.C. Council stressing the complexities of Bulgaria's history.
Poptodorova says she was insulted by the museum's "very rude" response to the embassy's letter, which she says she signed but did not herself write. She said she had simply agreed to support a request that was presented to her. She said she's always acknowledged the painful side of Bulgaria's history and is tremendously moved by the Holocaust. During an interview at the embassy, she wiped away tears as she spoke of Jewish children being herded onto boxcars to face certain death.
"I feel Jewish," she explained, "every time I talk on this subject."
She said that although her country had a Holocaust-era record of which it could be proud, her goal was to honor the deeds of one man — not the entire government.
"It all has to do with Dimitar Peshev — full stop," she said. "No apologies made, no attempts to resolve bigger matters."
The tone of the museum's letter to the embassy was triggered by a March ceremony in which the Bulgarian Parliament, commemorating the 70th anniversary of protests that ultimately stopped the deportations, expressed regret but not responsibility while acknowledging for the first time that more than 11,000 Jews from areas under Bulgarian control were deported to Nazi death camps.
The Parliament also said the government was powerless to stop those deportations, a statement that fell short of the full acceptance the museum and other organizations had hoped for. Museum officials said they were concerned because the embassy's letter included some of the same incomplete or misleading assertions.
"If part of the effort being made was to factually tell the truth about what happened in Bulgaria, the museum would absolutely endorse that," said Paul Shapiro, director of the museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. He said the concern arose from the possibility that naming a street for a deserving man might be used to distort history.
Neil Glick, a Washington real estate agent who approached the embassy about honoring Peshev after traveling to the country in the 1990s and researching his story, said he had a major role in drafting the request and accepted responsibility for any misstatements in it. But he said the museum was wrong to let the letter's content overshadow Peshev's actions.
"Don't blame Peshev for the bad deeds of others," he said. "Let's honor Peshev for the great deeds that he accomplished — and that's all I want to do because he was the catalyst."
There's no question Bulgaria's history is complicated.
Peshev's own party enacted discriminatory legislation that imposed a special tax on Jews, who were also required to wear yellow stars on their clothing. The Claims Conference, which seeks restitution for Jewish Holocaust victims, issued a 2004 report saying many Bulgarian Jews were sent to labor camps, where they performed railroad and construction work under grueling physical conditions. The Bulgarians were "heroic rescuers, cruel persecutors and brutal killers" all at once, said Michael Berenbaum, professor of Jewish studies at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles.
Besides Bulgaria, other countries have grappled in the last decade with their Holocaust histories.
After years of denial, for instance, Romania's government in 2004 acknowledged that its pro-Nazi authorities were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Gypsies in World War II. Norway's prime minister made a similar apology last year. In Hungary, though, Holocaust museum officials have raised concerns that the country is reviving interest in fascism.
The D.C. Council plans to consider the request for "Dimitar Peshev Plaza," which would be located outside the embassy, at a May 28 hearing.
"To me, the focus here is whether Dimitar Peshev should be honored with a ceremonial street naming, not about the rhetoric that the Bulgarian Embassy may have used or the rhetoric of the Holocaust museum," said D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson.
Poptodorova, the ambassador, said she was surprised at the emotional response to what she had considered a simple request.
"Maybe when we move a little bit forward, we will be less personal, less passionate — like something that happened not 70 years ago but 170 years."
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Why would you consider something hinging on First Amendment rights to be the weakest argument? Anonymity and freedom of association are necessary to the political process in a representative democracy. See Supreme Court McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission,1995 and NAACP v. Alabama, 1958. Without these First Amendment rights you have no way to effectively seek redress for violations of the Fourth, Fifth and Ninth amendments.
Arrgh, House Report No. 94-1476, The legislative history for the Copyright Act of 1976.
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Correspondingly, the definition of "pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works" carries with it no implied criterion of artistic taste, aesthetic value, or intrinsic quality. The term is intended to comprise not only "works of art" in the traditional sense but also works of graphic art and illustration, art reproductions, plans and drawings, photographs and reproductions of them, maps, charts, globes, and other cartographic works, works of these kinds intended for use in advertising and commerce, and works of "applied art." There is no intention whatever to narrow the scope of the subject matter now characterized in section 5(k) as "prints or labels used for articles of merchandise." However, since this terminology suggests the material object in which a work is embodied rather than the work itself, the bill does not mention this category separately.
In accordance with the Supreme Court's decision in Mazer v. Stein, 347 U.S. 201 (1954), works of "applied art" encompass all original pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works that are intended to be or have been embodied in useful articles, regardless of factors such as mass production, commercial exploitation, and the potential availability of design patent protection. The scope of exclusive rights in these works is given special treatment in section 113, to be discussed below.
The Committee has added language to the definition of "pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works" in an effort to make clearer the distinction between works of applied art protectable under the bill and industrial designs not subject to copyright protection. The declaration that "pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works" include "works of artistic craftsmanship insofar as their form but not their mechanical or utilitarian aspects are concerned" is classic language: it is drawn from Copyright Office regulations promulgated in the 1940's and expressly endorsed by the Supreme Court in the Mazer case.
The second part of the amendment states that "the design of a useful article … shall be considered a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work only if, and only to the extent that, such design incorporates pictorial, graphic, or sculptural features that can be identified separately from, and are capable of existing independently of, the utilitarian aspects of the article." A "useful article" is defined as "an article having an intrinsic utilitarian function that is not merely to portray the appearance of the article or to convey information." This part of the amendment is an adaptation of language added to the Copyright Office Regulations in the mid-1950's in an effort to implement the Supreme Court's decision in the Mazer case.
In adopting this amendatory language, the Committee is seeking to draw as clear a line as possible between copyrightable works of applied art and uncopyrighted works of industrial design. A two-dimensional painting, drawing, or graphic work is still capable of being identified as such when it is printed on or applied to utilitarian articles such as textile fabrics, wallpaper, containers, and the like. The same is true when a statue or carving is used to embellish an industrial product or, in the Mazer case, is incorporated into a product without losing its ability to exist independently as a work of art. On the other hand, although the shape of an industrial product may be aesthetically satisfying and valuable, the Committee's intention is not to offer it copyright protection under the bill. Unless the shape of an automobile, airplane, ladies' dress, food processor, television set, or any other industrial product contains some element that, physically or conceptually, can be identified as separable from the utilitarian aspects of that article, the design would not be copyrighted under the bill. The test of separability and independence from "the utilitarian aspects of the article" does not depend upon the nature of the design—that is, even if the appearance of an article is determined by esthetic (as opposed to functional) considerations, only elements, if any, which can be identified separately from the useful article as such are copyrightable. And, even if the three-dimensional design contains some such element (for example, a carving on the back of a chair or a floral relief design on silver flatware), copyright protection would extend only to that element, and would not cover the over-all configuration of the utilitarian article as such.
"Pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works" include two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of fine, graphic, and applied art, photographs, prints and art reproductions, maps, globes, charts, diagrams, models, and technical drawings, including architectural plans. Such works shall include works of artistic craftsmanship insofar as their form but not their mechanical or utilitarian aspects are concerned; the design of a useful article, as defined in this section, shall be considered a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work only if, and only to the extent that, such design incorporates pictorial, graphic, or sculptural features that can be identified separately from, and are capable of existing independently of, the utilitarian aspects of the article.
a) Subject to the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the exclusive right to reproduce a copyrighted pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work in copies under section 106 includes the right to reproduce the work in or on any kind of article, whether useful or otherwise.
(b) This title does not afford, to the owner of copyright in a work that portrays a useful article as such, any greater or lesser rights with respect to the making, distribution, or display of the useful article so portrayed than those afforded to such works under the law, whether title 17 or the common law or statutes of a State, in effect on December 31, 1977, as held applicable and construed by a court in an action brought under this title.
The broad language of section 106(1) and ofsubsection (a) ofsection 113 raises questions as to the extent of copyright protection for a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work that portrays, depicts, or represents an image of a useful article in such a way that the utilitarian nature of the article can be seen. To take the example usually cited, would copyright in a drawing or model of an automobile give the artist the exclusive right to make automobiles of the same design?
The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights stated, on the basis of judicial precedent, that "copyright in a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, portraying a useful article as such, does not extend to the manufacture of the useful article itself," and recommended specifically that "the distinctions drawn in this area by existing court decisions" not be altered by the statute. The Register's Supplementary Report, at page 48, cited a number of these decisions, and explained the insuperable difficulty of finding "any statutory formulation that would express the distinction satisfactorily." Section 113 (b) reflects the Register's conclusion that "the real need is to make clear that there is no intention to change the present law with respect to the scope of protection in a work portraying a useful article as such."
Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106 (3), the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of the possession of that copy or phonorecord.
To come within the scope of section 109 (a), a copy or phonorecord must have been "lawfully made under this title," though not necessarily with the copyright owner's authorization. For example, any resale of an illegally "pirated" phonorecord would be an infringement, but the disposition of a phonorecord legally made under the compulsory licensing provisions of section 115 would not.
(c) Other Rights, Etc., Not Affected.—
(1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title.
Title 17 includes § 107 - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use. It would appear fair use is not affected by the DMCA. Now the question for your lawyer would be is what you are doing fair use?
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Beijing: Nathan's Famous
Today's reader recommendation comes from Raya Yampolsky (aka chichaofan on SE), who brings AHT it's first review of a burger in Beijing. Thanks, Raya! If anyone else wants to share some burger intel, here's how to do it. —The Mgmt.
Nathan's Famous
Raffles City B1-07, No.1 Dongzhimen South Street, Dong Cheng District, Beijing, China (map); nathanschina.com.cn
Cooking Method: Griddled
Short Order: A true American classic in Beijing; consistently juicy burgers with fresh toppings in a kitschy setting
Want Fries with That? Crinkle fries come straight out of the freezer and into the fryer, but they're hard to come by here so they're worth getting. Opt for the prawn poppers and you've got surf-and-turf
Price:25-40 RMB ($4-6) for a meal (with fries and drink)
A good burger can be hard to come by in China's capital. Most of the hype goes to undeserving, pseudo-gourmet constructions that feature lots of fancy (read: pricy) imported ingredients but fall short on execution.
Cue the opening of Nathan's Famous, a Coney Island classic with hundreds of locations worldwide. In the US they're known for hotdogs, but in Beijing they offer a much-needed addition to the lacking burger scene. Here's the lowdown for anyone who finds themselves in the PRC, craving a burger, but unable to bear the price of high-end bars or the debasement of dining at McDonald's abroad.
Nathan's Famous has many an American classic on the menu to tempt the weary traveler but make no mistake: items like the Philly cheese steak, the chili cheese dog, and—god forbid—the lobster roll should be avoided. The chicken sandwich was cold, and while some of the seafood looked appetizing (basket of prawn poppers, anyone?), the cheeseburgers were the star here.
The basic cheeseburger is a 5-ounce, griddled patty topped with a slice of American cheese, chopped fresh onions, and tangy, thick-cut pickles. Ketchup and mustard serve as the condiments, tasting slightly more authentic than the usual sugary simulations found in China. The super cheeseburger is loaded with fresh romaine lettuce, tomato slices, and mayo. The bacon cheeseburger features plenty of bacon and processed cheese. All are served on fluffy, untoasted sesame seed buns.
The burgers are humble, probably frozen and pre-shaped in a factory, but what sets Nathan's Famous apart is their consistency in offering a stellar burger experience overseas. Their patties, despite the lack of hand-shaped love, are nonetheless crusty around the edges and juicy throughout. The toppings are always fresh and don't overwhelm.
A "meal" comes with fries of the frozen, crinkle cut variety. They are definitely a departure from those commonly encountered here, managing to be well seasoned, crispy on the outside, and creamy soft in the middle. For the more adventurous, other sides include cheese and chili cheese fries, onion rings, and we're still eyeing those prawn poppers.
They have a full range of beverages, including a surprisingly decent hot chocolate. Despite the promise of Tsingdao on tap, we were promptly disappointed to see our brews served in paper cups and don't advise paying extra for them.
Nathan's Famous tries to give off a fun and retro vibe; it's reminiscent of Johnny Rocket's with its fire engine red interior and gimmicky attitude. Among the bizarre perks are individual MP3 sound booths, multiple happy hour specials throughout the day, and a Wheel-of-Fortune-style coupon game at the door. All in all, Nathan's is a seriously satisfying reprieve from the sub-par burgers found in this city at a fraction of the imitation gastro-pub prices. —Raya Yampolsky
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Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life Walkthrough :
This walkthrough for Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life [Game Cube] has been posted at 07 Aug 2010 by gary120 and is called "Tartan FAQ". If walkthrough is usable don't forgot thumbs up gary120 and share this with your freinds. And most important we have 22 other walkthroughs for Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, read them all!
Walkthrough - Tartan FAQ
Harvest Moon: It's A Wonderful Life Tartan FAQ DetroitDJ, with help from the GameFAQs message boards July 13, 2004 Version 1.8 _/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ Anyone want to make a Tartan ASCII picture to put right here? ----------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents: 0. Version History 1. FAQ Intro 2. Searchable Index of Questions 3. Answer Listing 4. The Three C's: Copyright, Contact and Credits ----------------------------------------------------- 0. Version History ------------------ 1.0: First version, with the basic questions. 1.2: Added two new Tartan questions along with new information to the older questions. 1.4: Gave the Hybrid questions section a major overhaul. The section is now more than three times longer than in the original, now with charts and tips. Oh, and put that nifty title up there. 1.6: Added two new Hybrid questions based on information contributed by Jumalacca and Zebramage. 1.7: No additions, just corrections. One from Jumalacca regarding obtaining Tartan, one from linkman95 regarding Upseeds, and one from a plethora of others regarding hybrids. 1.8: New information in H07 from Nakochan17. 1.9: Expanded upon several old questions; added various new information. 1. FAQ Intro ------------ On the surface, this FAQ will look brief, and it may seem rather pointless to have an FAQ solely covering these questions. But, one look at the GameFAQs message boards on the dates of its creation and it will become apparent that this FAQ was a necessity. Tartan questions plague the A Wonderful Life message board, so here is the place for all those questions we've been assaulted with to be answered. Please understand this one concept. The answer listed in this FAQ is the exact same answer you would receive if you asked your question on the GameFAQs boards. Asking there will not get you a more detailed answer or a different answer or an answer more to your liking. I can be sure of this because all answers in this FAQ are from a combination of personal experience and the knowledge of those AWL masters that would answer your question were you to ask your question there. This guide started out as simply a Tartan guide, but since Tartan and Hybrids are inextricably intertwined, it's become more of a Tartan/Hybrid Guide. However, so that people aren't tempted to visit this instead of FeosMiao's amazing hybrid guide (which is much more specialized towards hybrids, which is not this guide's intention), the title of the guide remains the Tartan FAQ. Part 2 is the Searchable Index of Questions. Enter the keycode with the brackets [] into the Find box (under the Edit menu in Internet Explorer, click 'Find (on this page)...') and hit find to jump straight to the question in part 3. ----------------------------------------------------- 2. Searchable Index of Questions -------------------------------- Introduction to Tartan Questions [I01] What is this Tartan character I hear so much about? [I02] When can I get Tartan? [I03] How do I get Tartan? [I04] Why can't I get Tartan? [I05] I've done plenty of farm work. Why can't I get Tartan? [I06] Urgent! I still don't have Tartan! Please, please, please help me! How do I get him? [I07] I get a glitch when I trigger the Tartan event. What should I do? Tartan Functionality Questions [F01] What exactly can Tartan do? [F02] Do I need to take care of Tartan at all? He says he wants food, should I feed him? [F03] How can I get the hybrid option? [F04] How do I use the hybrid option? [F05] Is it possible to lose the hybrid option? Hybrid Questions [H01] How do I hybrid? [H02] Why use hybriding? [H03] What crops and flowers are good for hybridng? [H04] Where do I find those flowers and crops? [H05] What effect do the classes of ingredients have on hybrids? [H06] What are some good ways to make money using hybriding? [H07] Does hybriding always succeed? How can I raise the success rate? [H08] Is there any other way besides fertilizer and Upseeds to raise quality? [H09] What can I hybrid, using what, and what crop will result? ----------------------------------------------------- 3. Answer Listing -------------------------------- Introduction to Tartan Questions [I01] What is this Tartan character I hear so much about? Tartan is a big, green, two-headed talking plant that lives in Takakura's house. Sound strange? Well let's just saw AWL's realism aspect didn't prohibit the presence of a two-headed talking Venus flytrapper-look-alike. Tartan is, in my opinion, one of the most fun and intriguing characters in the game. He has one of the most well defined personalities of any character in AWL, and to me he bares a striking resemblance to C-3PO. I may be wrong in that though. [I02] When can I get Tartan? Tartan is first available in chapter 2, but you can get him during any chapter except chapter 1. Some people have trouble getting Tartan, but others get him relatively easily. [I03] How do I get Tartan? Enter Takakura's house sometime during Chapter 2 or beyond when Takakura is there. I'd like to say there are more requirements than that, but sadly there are not. I, personally, received Tartan at around 6PM game time, which is the most common time I've heard from fellow AWL players. I also received him the second time I went in Takakura's house around that time (exited and reentered), so if you don't get him the first time try a couple more times. A tip for finding Takakura inside his house: order something (bird feed's easiest) that he must deliver to your workshop. After he does, follow him until he enters his house. Otherwise, just wait until he goes in later at night. There is one way to improve your odds of getting Tartan. The details are not entirely known yet, but it appears that hard work on the farm is an aspect in getting Tartan. Do not expect to get Tartan if you've never done any crop work. I, personally, received Tartan after growing around 15 crops per season for the first year. But while farm work does appear to improve the odds, it does not guarantee Tartan's appearance; the cutscene is still random, with the odds apparently based on how hard you work on the farm. [I04] Why can't I get Tartan? HM:AWL is far more advanced than previous Harvest Moons (excluding Save the Homeland) in that it utilizes randomness a bit more often. This means that triggering the Tartan event occurs randomly. If you've done enough farm work, just keep trying and hoping for the odds to bless you. If you feel you must do something that might improve your odds, do more farm work. That is the only way. No there are no other ways. Yes, I mean it. [I05] I've done plenty of farm work. Why can't I get Tartan? Perhaps the video game gods are mad at you? Is there a black cat under your chair? Perhaps you walked under a ladder recently? There really isn't anything to it beyond luck. Keep trying. The thing about the odds is that, even if odds are good that you'll get Tartan, there is always a chance that you won't. And with thousands of people playing the game, there's bound to be some people who have an incredibly hard time getting him. So keep trying. More farm work never hurts. [above three questions revised by Jumalacca] [I06] Urgent! I still don't have Tartan! Please, please, please help me! How do I get him? Well, since you said 'Urgent' and had three pleases and three exclamation points, I'll tell you the REAL way to get Tartan. Farm work and luck. Farm work and luck. Farm work and luck. Luck, luck, luck. Steps to getting Tartan: 1. Do farm work. 2. Be lucky. That is all. [I07] I get a glitch when I trigger the Tartan event. What should I do? There's a rare glitch in which, AFTER the Tartan event has been triggered, the event randomly stops half way through; it happens after Takaura tells how he received Tartan. When the glitch happens, the scene stops there, and while Tartan does twitch and move every once in a while. [above information contributed by oracleofdarkness and lady beth] Tartan Functionality Questions ------------------------------ [F01] What exactly can Tartan do? Tartan has two options initially when you talk to him. 'Analyze' will tell you the quality of the seed or crop you offer him, along with what seasons it grows in and how fast it grows. This option is not terribly useful, but it's good for finding out when certain hybrids grow. What's a hybrid? We'll get into that later. The 'Talk' option is how you befriend Tartan. Use it often to get the hybrid option. Tartan will ask you questions sometimes, in which case you'll have two or three answers to choose from. The one he wants to hear is usually obvious; compliment him a lot and tell him he doesn't talk about himself a lot and you'll do fine. Eventually you'll get the 'hybrid' option (see question F03 for more details). This option is how you hybrid crops and seeds together to make new crop seeds. For more information, see question F04 and the 'Hybrid Questions' section. [F02] Do I need to take care of Tartan at all? He says he wants food, should I feed him? When Tartan says he wants food, he's really only talking about analyzing. You don't have to take care of Tartan in anyway beyond simply befriending him (which you don't actually have to do, but it has its benefits if you choose to). [F03] How can I get the hybrid option? To get the hybrid option, simply befriend Tartan. To befriend Tartan, talk to him a lot. You can do this different ways. Some people choose to simply talk to Tartan once or twice a day, and after a couple seasons he gives them the option of hybriding. Some, like myself, take an alternate approach. Instead of talking to him a couple times a day, we talk to him dozens and dozens of times at once until we see the hybrid option. I, personally, got the hybrid option the first day I had Tartan by talking to him for about 15 minutes real-time on end. No matter which way you choose, the only way to get the 'hybrid' option is to talk to Tartan and be nice to him until you see it. Talk to him frequently, compliment him when he asks, tell him he doesn't talk about himself much and you'll get the hybrid option pretty quickly. Luckily, unlike getting Tartan himself, getting 'hybrid' isn't random. Just keep going until you see it. [F04] How do I use the hybrid option? To use the hybrid option, select 'hybrid' from Tartan's menu. He'll give you a screen to choose which two crops you want to hybrid. Then, after a little ditty and a dance you'll get a seed of some sort. If you're lucky, it'll be a hybrid. Read on for more hybriding information. [F05] Is it possible to lose the hybrid option? Yes, if you go a long time without talking to Tartan you will lose the hybrid option. Never fear, however, retrieving it easy. All you have to do is befriend Tartan again the same way you did the first time. It won't take nearly as long this time, either. Hybrid Questions ---------------- [H01] How do I hybrid? There's not much to it beyond the answer in F04. Here are some basics to hybriding: :You can give Tartan either seeds or the crops themselves to form hybrid crops. :Not all combinations form hybrids, and sometimes combinations that form hybrids don't--again, it's randomized, but usually you have good odds of getting your hybrid if your combination is correct. :You cannot breed crops with trees or vice-versa, but you can breed both with the three flowers (Upseed, Happy Lamp and Gemsoil; see H02 and H03 for more information). [H02] Why use hybriding? Hybriding can yield two things. First of all, it can yield more valuable, more versatile, or simply more unique crops. For example, very few crops grow in winter, but through hybriding 5 new crops whose earliest planting time is winter can be found. Also, no buyable trees produce fruit in Winter or Spring, but by hybriding tree seeds one can create two trees that produce Winter fruit and one that produces Spring. Also, there are three floral hybrids. Hybriding with a Happy Lamp allows the seed to grow in any season (note this does not work for trees; the times when trees produce their fruits cannot be altered). Hybriding with a Gemsoil allows a seed to grow in any of the three fields, useful if you've filled your stronger fields with trees and crops but have a new hybrid you're dying to plant. Hybriding with an Upseed is possibly the strongest of all. It raises the rank of any seed without the use of fertilizer. It works on tree seeds to, saving you tons and tons of money. [H03] What crops and flowers are good for hybridng? As stated above, Upseeds, Gemsoils and Happy Lamps are the flowers you want for floral hybrids. None of the other flowers have an affect on hybrids, unfortunately. For crops, every crop combines with every other crop to form a hybrid of some sort. Some hybrids are harder to form than others; keep trying, switch their orders, and as with getting Tartan in the first place, hope to be lucky. [corrected by Kirby Master Eoje, astrofan1121 and many others] Also, you have a greater chance of getting a hybrid when using an S-class crop/seed than an A or B-class. [contributed by ] [H04] Where do I find those flowers and crops? All crops can be grown on your farm, in the seasons listed by Vesta. For flowers, here are the listings of where each flower can be found: Upseed: The rarest flower. It is small with red petals, and there are only two places it shows up. One is on the side of the river towards the dig sight, the other is next to Cody's house (where Mugworts and Royal Ferns are found in other seasons). They take 2 days to grow back, but if you're lucky and you always pick flowers the first moment they're available, you can get 10 Upseeds in a season. They grow in winter. [corrected by linkman95] Happy Lamp: The little red flowers next to Gustafa's tent, near the bridge over the stream. There are about 8 or 9 in the area (and there's also one right next to Cody's house), and it grows back every 3-4 days, so you can gather around 25 or 30 in a season. They grow in Summer. Gemsoil: Small yellow flowers around the dig site. There are about 10 of them and they grow back every 4-5 days so again you can collect around 25 a season. They grow in Fall. [H05] What effect do the classes of ingredients have on hybrids? Sadly, the effect of classes is either unknown or randomized. I, personallity, think it's randomized. Fairly extensive testing has been done, but the information found is almost completely inconclusive. For example, while two B quality crops hybrided almost always produce B class seeds, two S quality crops hybrided sometimes results in an S, an A or even a B class seed. Breeding a B crop with an S crop also sometimes results in B, A or S class seeds. The only rule that all tests follow is that the resulting seed is never higher than the highest class of the ingredients (for example, a B crop and an A crop cannot produce higher than an A crop). Beyond this, the effect appears to be random. [H06] What are some good ways to make money using hybriding? Hybriding is not the best way to make money in Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. General hybriding and selling the crops themselves is not significantly more profitable than the original crops themselves, and none of the hybrid's seeds, even the tree seeds, touch the 750G selling point that bananas set. However, there is one extremely profitable tactic that involves hybrids. Crossing a Strawberry with a Turnip (in that order) results in a Dhibe fruit. While not valuable on its own, you can cook the Dhibe with a Milk and an Egg (in that order). The result is a Dhibe Cake. Worthless, right? Wrong. The Dhibe Cake can be sold to Van, like any other recipe. But unlike every other recipe, the Dhibe Cake is worth a whopping 1675G, one of the highest prices for anything in the game. [H07] Does hybriding always succeed? How can I raise the success rate? As stated above, hybriding does not always succeed. However, there is a way to raise the rate of success. The better friends you are with Tartan, the more likely the hybrid attempt will be a success. So if you're about to try a bunch of rare (3rd generation) hybrids, it's a good idea to boost Tartan's affection by talking to him for a decently long time before hand. [above information contributed by Jumalacca] Additionally, it has been noticed that you can predict whether a hybrid will be successful by Tartan's face. Just before the hybrid screen comes up, check to see if Tartan's smiling. If he is, continue with the hybrid. If not, cancel and try again. This does not lower number of trials it takes to get a successful hybrid, but does make the process faster, as well as save seeds or crops. [above information contributed by Nakochan17] The reason for this is that the success of the hybrid is actually determinded before the hybrid screen ever comes up. Tartan's facial expression changes based on the success of the hybrid, but because the success is predetermined, his face reflects it before the hybrid screen actually comes up. It has also been suggested that hybrids are more commonly successful earlier in the day, though this may be a result of other factors instead of time of day [above information contributed by Nakochan17] [H08] Is there any other way besides fertilizer and Upseeds to raise quality? For crops, the only way to raise quality is through Upseeds and fertilizer. However, there is a trick for trees that lets you easily upgrade a tree seed to S quality. Approach Tartan to hybrid, and put a tree seed in the left box with an S quality crop seed in the right slot. The result should be the original tree seed, only S quality. [above information contributed by Zebramage] Now, there is one thing to remember about this trick. In order to get an S rank crop seed, you have to have an S rank crop, which requires an Upseed or fertilizer in the first place. The benefit is that raising the rank of the crop gives you one S rank crop, which, through the seed maker, gives you 2 S rank seeds, therefore allowing you to use the trick twice, while if you simply used Upseeds and fertilizer from the start you'd you twice as many Upseeds or twice as much fertilizer. If you're doing a large hybridng project, this is helpful. But, if you're only hybriding one or two trees, this may be more trouble than it's worth. It's your decision. [H09] What can I hybrid, using what, and what crop will result? Well, for this, I direct you to FeosMiao's awesome hybrid FAQ. He has all the information you need for creating a hybrid empire, and putting it here would just be a waste of space. It can be found on the GameFAQ's A Wonderful Life FAQs page. ----------------------------------------------------- 4. The Three C's: Copyright, Contact and Credits ------------------------------------------------ Copyright: This FAQ is copyright 2004 DetroitDJ. All rights reserved. Feel free to distribute this FAQ freely as long as this section remains fully intact. Contact: E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.com AIM/Yahoo!/MSN/GoogleTalk: DDJGameFAQs GameFAQs ID: DetroitDJ If you have any questions to add to this FAQ, corrections to make, comments, suggestions, flames, etc., feel free to contact me using any of the above. Credits: To FeosMiao, for his awesome hybrid guide, and for copyright information about the game. To MasterYoda73, for bringing Tartan questions to everyone's attention. To Killkernal, romani999, Lady Morgana, Kiosk Wocky, rainparade, and the many others who patiently answered question after question about Tartan. To astrofan1121, for bringing the need for a Tartan FAQ to my and everyone's attention. To Nakochan17, for information in question H07. To Zebramage, for the information in question H08. To Jumalacca, for the information in question H07, and for tirelessly helping on the AWL boards. To drkpendragon, for asking intelligent questions that led to intelligent answers that led to the existence of this FAQ. To schmkb27, for being patient beyond the call of duty and always being one of the most helpful board users around. The A Wonderful Life board of about 2 years ago, back when they were actually helpful, as opposed to today's arrogant and cocky members. Mantastorm, LongLiveJoe, Zephy_Leone, and everyone in the modern generation of the AWL board for doing everything in their power to make the board nothing but another stupid social board. Sucks that something like this could happen to what was once such a great and helpful board. 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It was 10 weeks ago that a sole Berisha strike proved decisive in Brisbane Roar's 1-0 win over the Victory in the A-League semi-finals.
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At AAMI Park, Victory are letting bygones be bygones.
After all, they have secured the A-League's most-prominent striker of recent seasons.
The unveiling of Berisha on Thursday at the top of Eureka Tower felt like a neat metaphor for the club's ambitions, with Berisha in no doubt of the club's place in the pecking order.
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