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Jellyfish, by François Krige (1913-1994)
The experience of water
Since Ancient Egypt, water has been seen as part physical and part spiritual, or else as somehow energetic. Even today, there are many who believe that water's mysterious dimension allows it to carry information and medicinal potency. Homeopathy, for example, is based on the idea that water can 'remember' the pattern of a curative substance that was once dissolved in it.
Cranial osteopathy regards the body as being connected mechanically, biochemically and energetically through water bound to collagen in the connective tissues that permeate and structure the whole body. Osteopathic treatment is said to flip this water from a structured gel state to a fluid sol state, where curative adjustments can be made, using a mysterious potency which practitioners call the Breath of Life.
Classical acupuncture calls this same energy Qi, which is also used in many other ways through diverse disciplines, including Taiqi, Reiki and Qigong.
All these uses of water and its unknown energies seem to be real and effective at some level, but the nature of the energy involved and the precise mechanism of its action are poorly understood, and are often even unrecognised by scientists.
Our problem is a lack both of instruments, other than living organisms themselves, to detect and measure Qi, and a theory to relate it to everything else we know. Meanwhile, water flows on, laden with potentials and mysteries, if only we knew what it was and how it worked. We know that there is some kind of extra feature of water, since dowsing for it works, but no one understands dowsing either.
Whether this extra dimension is a function of the shifting balance of electrostatic charge amongst different combinations of water molecules under different conditions, or is pure Qi, it is clear that there is indeed something extraordinary about water, awaiting only genius to explain.
But what is this human species that has such strange ideas? Perhaps we can shed some light on our experience of water, and our relationship with it, by looking further at our evolutionary history. For one thing's certain, which is that our entire life as a species, and the lives of all our ancestors back to furthest reaches of evolutionary time, have been spent in intimate contact with water: needing it, seeking it, using it, reacting to it.
And this must have left its mark.
Read on: Ocean water.


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The dude is looking awfully dapper at the film festival
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If you've been too busy drooling over all the gorgeous gowns on the Cannes red carpet to pay attention to what the boys are wearing, allow us to redirect your attention to Justin Timberlake.
Like Ryan Gosling before him, Timberlake has taken this opportunity to spread his sartorial wings and try out a few new funky (though still classic — no full denim attire this time around!) suits.
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For the Inside Llewyn Davis photocall, he looked like a cross between a Great Gatsby extra and your really hip grandpa in a double breasted cardigan, checked button-up and khakis.
That night, for the movie's premiere, he transformed into his dapper "Suit and Tie" persona, wearing a tux and high-shine shoes (and hey, check out that wedding ring!)
Then later, he was spotted squiring wife Jessica Biel around in a classy Dior Homme outfit, worn with retro sunglasses and matching his-and-hers Christian Louboutins.
Tell us: what do you think of Timberlake's dapper looks? Which is your favorite?
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Throughout my reporting, a certain imaginary comic book duo kept presenting themselves to me: Plastic Woman and Cardboard Man. Plastic Woman has during the last century performed superhuman feats of flexibility. She has gone from barely working at all to working only until she got married to working while married and then working with children, even babies. If a space opens up for her to make more money than her husband, she grabs it. If she is no longer required by ladylike standards to restrain her temper, she starts a brawl at the bar. If she can get away with staying unmarried and living as she pleases deep into her thirties, she will do that too. And if the era calls for sexual adventurousness, she is game. [...]
Cardboard Man, meanwhile, hardly changes at all. A century can go by and his lifestyle and ambitions remain largely the same. There are many professions that have gone from all- male to female, and almost none that have gone the other way. For most of the century men derived their sense of manliness from their work, or their role as head of the family. A 'coalminer' or 'rigger' used to be a complete identity, connecting a man to a long lineage of men.Clearly the female gender is far superior with its "superhuman" flexibility and success while "centuries" can go by with men mired in the same muck. But wait! In the uncountable centuries prior to the last couple, where was that vaunted flexibility and success of the female gender? It seems like women were rather stuck in the mud with the same "ambitions" century after century as well, just like men.
Ah, but I'm sure it was the oppression of the evil patriarchy that kept "Plastic Woman" from launching into her meteoric rise all these millennia. After all, it's always the patriarchy's fault. Of course, then we have to wonder why the patriarchy suddenly became incompetent at oppression in the last couple of centuries.
To play a little with a famous saying, god created man and woman, but Sam Colt made them equal. When the armaments of an age are the broadsword and longbow, which require a lot of strength to use effectively, wielding weapons of war and defense is best left to the physically stronger sex. With the development of hand guns and rifles, a woman wielding a weapon became every bit as dangerous as most men. I don't think it's a coincidence that Plastic Woman seems to have emerged with the development of modern, light, and powerful weapons. The cost of oppression was suddenly much higher and the need for male defenders swinging broadswords was suddenly much lower.
Weapons technology was one technology behind the emergence of Plastic Woman, but virtually every technology has moved all aspects of life towards matching women's nature. I realize that only an evil patriarch like myself would even dare to suggest that women and men have different natures, but I'm the evil author of this post, so deal with it.
Natural attributes of men, such as physical strength and willingness to engage in physical and even mortal danger, have been rendered nearly useless by inventing machines and refining them to tame their potentially violent and dangerous or deadly force. Though there is debate on the issue, my opinion is that one would have to be deaf to not know that women are more verbal than men (I'm using up all of my words for at least three days just to write this post), and with the increasing importance of information and complex networks in all aspects of society, verbal competency has become ever more important, playing to women's strengths. Being naturally nurturing in nursing and other jobs in the growing service sector also moves the world towards women.
Therefore, it's not that Plastic Woman necessarily has superhuman flexibility, but rather the world was dumped in her lap and she could hardly help but flourish. On the other hand, Cardboard Man has pretty much had everything taken away from the sweet spot of his abilities. From this perspective, women haven't been flexible at all and while men may not have flexed enough to keep up with the stunningly rapid change of the last two centuries, they have flexed quite a bit. Other than a few things like female prostitution, there really aren't any jobs a woman can do that a man can't, and men have made at least some inroads into most existing careers.
Ms. Rosin can continue to gloat for her gender for a while longer. But what goes around comes back around eventually, and technology, which has so far destroyed mostly only men's livelihoods while creating new opportunities for women, is relentlessly marching towards eliminating women's work as well. Within decades, computers will learn to speak, and not just the rote responses you get on the phone or from Apple's Siri. They will learn to understand what they hear and respond with knowledgeable and seemingly empathetic responses. My estimate is that this strong AI will start to be well developed within two decades.
Along the way, computers, coupled with sensors and actuators, will become better doctors, nurses and therapists than humans; better administrators; better at customer service; and better at sales. They may eventually even be better at prostitution, though robot sex may not be considered prostitution, I suppose. At that point we'll get to see if Plastic Woman is really fantastically flexible or if women also are ejected unceremoniously from the workforce and end up sitting around watching soap operas all day.
Then Ms. Rosin can write a new book with the title "The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence." Oh wait! Somebody already wrote that book.


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Chapter 6: Copyright Protection Against
Derivative-Work Versons of Computer
Programs and Web Pages —
Fair Use — Reverse Engineering
C. Pop-Up Advertising
Introduction to Pop-Up Ads
The next topic in this chapter is pop-up advertising. Its paradigm is to superimpose additional material in a small window on top of, and thus obscuring, part of the content of the original, copyright-protected Web page. Doing that requires some cooperation (perhaps unintended) from the end user. Typically, the pop-up advertising company gives away free some kind of program that users install on their personal computers. In one case, the program was an ad-blocker. Gator is the most well known pop-up advertising company, and this has given rise to the term "Gatoring" to describe the practice. The installation program for the given-away program includes an additional program, which we may term the Gatoring program. Sometimes the installation program warns about the Gatoring program in small print and provides an opt-out box to check. Sometimes there is no warning. Sometimes the end user cannot install the given-away program without agreeing to accept the Gatoring program (opts in).
The business model for Gatoring is that of so-called contextual advertising. Contextual advertising attempts to get viewers to change the focus of their attention from one Web site to another when the first Web page contains a word or phrase (the keyword) indicating a particular subject (the context). That the viewer is viewing a Web page containing the phrase "mortgage loan," makes it likely that the viewer is interested in mortgage loans. Therefore, this viewer is much more likely a prospective customer than the average Internet user. Such a viewer is a better than average target, by at least an order of magnitude, for an advertiser-seller of mortgage loans. Gatoring is only one form of contextual advertising. Users of search engines, for example, typically find advertising material placed on their search results pages that relate to the word used in the search.
Once it is installed the Gatoring program operates as follows: When the user goes to (views) any Web page, the program looks for predetermined words or phrases (for example, "baby," "loan," or "car"). If the Web page currently being viewed has the predetermined word or phrase on it, the Gatoring program puts up a pop-up ad related in some way to the word. For example, suppose that Barnes & Noble is a client of Gator (or some other pop-up advertising company). Barnes & Noble might have contracted for the word "book." Then, if the end user views a Web page containing the word "book," a pop-up ad for Barnes & Noble appears, touting its much lower book prices. Of course, because a computer program is responsible for all of this, the results are undiscriminating and sometimes not what the client anticipates. Here is what happened when Folger rented the word "coffee." For more examples select this link. Despite these occasional setbacks, contextual advertising has been enormously successful because of its greater efficiency in delivering the advertiser's message to potential customers instead of a random selection of the population.
Let's return to the "book" example. You will appreciate that if the Gatored Web page proprietor is Amazon (as in the Gator advertisment at right) it may find this practice objectionable. But does it create copyright infringement liability? That's what the rest of this chapter is about. The way to start to resolve that question is to go to § 106 and go through the clauses one-by-one for possible candidates. As the chapter heading may suggest, § 106(2) may provide the most viable candidate, but no court decision has so held thus far, and one expressly rejects the proposition. No appellate decisions exist yet on copyright and pop-ups and the few disrtict court decisions follow. This is still a cutting-edge copyright law issue. The two questions you want to ask yourself are: (1) Is what Gator and its clients do the preparation of a derivative work (be sure to identify what the work or works in question are for purposes of this analysis)? (2) Is the conduct nonetheless excused by the doctrine of fair use, goven the nature of the underlying work and the derivative use (here, make sure you identify all of the comepting interests at stake)?
This Flash animation is an abbreviated version of a Gator demo for its prospective customers. Gator's explanation of its business model and operation is available at these links: old, shorter version, later version with mouseovers (business now operating as Gain Publishing), and still later version shortly before business apparently dried up (no more pages) . Further material explaining Gatoring and related practices is found at this link. A CNET story describes some of Gator's name changes to improve its image. A PC Pitstop story describes how Gator a/k/a GAIN gets users to install Gator on their systems – by means of a practice that PC Pitstop terms "drive-by downloading."
Gator has repeatedly been involved in litigation, but no final decisions on the merits have been reported. Every case appears to have been settled. The Washington Post and several other publishers secured an injunction against Gator, in the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria). The court (Hilton, J.) published no opinion; the case was appealed to the Fourth Circuit (see Gator's appeal brief); but the case was settled in 2003 and the details of the settlement were not published. Presumably, the defendant simply agreed not to Gator the plaintiffs' Web sites, while continuing to Gator any other third-party sites. Other suits against Gator are pending, and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred nine actions to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia for pretrial management. See In re Gator Corp. Software, Trademark and Copyright Litigation, 259 F. Supp. 2d 1378 (J.P.M.D.L., No. MDL-1517, Apr. 22, 2003). The plaintiffs in these cases include Hertz Rent-A-Car, L.L. Bean, Six Continents Hotels, Inter-Continental Hotels, and United Parcel Service. For a story on how Gator used litigation offensively to chill criticism, see Gator's Lawsuit. For a CNET story on this and related litigation, see See you later, anti-Gators?.
The first reported caselaw (Gator was not the defendant) on the practice of Gatoring follows.
U-Haul International, Inc. v. WhenU.com, Inc.
United States District Court
279 F. Supp. 2d 723 (E.D. Va. 2003)
Lee, District Judge
This matter is before the Court on the Plaintiff U-Haul International, Inc.'s, ("U-Haul") and the Defendants WhenU.com, Inc.'s, ("WhenU") and Avi Naider's motions for summary judgment on all remaining counts of the First Amended Complaint.
This case involves pop-up advertising and Plaintiff U-Haul's claim that Defendant WhenU's pop-up advertising infringes upon U-Haul's trademark, constitutes copyright infringement, and amounts to unfair competition. U-Haul complains that WhenU's pop-up advertisements, which crowd the computer user's screen and block out U-Haul's website display, in effect, infringe on U-Haul's registered trademark and alter U-Haul's copyrighted advertisements. The issue presented is whether WhenU's computer software, which presents pop-up advertising when the individual computer user searches for goods and services on the Internet, is a form of trademark or copyright infringement or unfair competition. Because the computer software at issue does not copy or use U-Haul's trademark or copyright material the Court concludes that WhenU's pop-up advertising does not constitute trademark or copyright infringement or unfair competition; therefore, the Court grants WhenU's motion for summary judgment.
For a 2005 demo of WhenU, select this link. When done, use the BACK button at the upper left of the screen to return to this page.
The Court acknowledges that this case is an attempt by a trademark owner and copyright holder to limit annoying pop-up advertising from blotting out its website on the individual computer user's screen. The average computer user who conducts a web search for the U-Haul website would expect the U-Haul website to appear on their computer screen; however, in this case, the computer screen fills with the advertisement of e U-Haul competitor. The user must then click and close the pop-up advertisement window in order to get to their destination, the U-Haul website. While at first blush this detour in the user's web search seems like a siphon-off of a business opportunity, the fact is that the computer user consented to this detour when the user downloaded WhenU's computer software from the Internet. In other words, the user deliberately or unwittingly downloaded the pop-up advertisement software. The foregoing explanation makes it clear that under the circumstances, while pop-up advertising may crowd out the U-Haul's advertisement screen through a separate window, this act is not trademark or copyright infringement, or unfair competition.
Computer users, like this trial judge, may wonder what we have done to warrant the punishment of seizure of our computer screens by pop-up advertisements for secret web cameras, insurance, travel values, and fad diets. Did we unwittingly sign up for incessant advertisements that require us to click, click, and click again in order to return to our Internet work? The Court, in this opinion, attempts to answer this question; we have invited these pop-up advertisements by downloading free screen savers and other free software from the internet.
Despite U-Haul's plea, the Court, upon review of the applicable law, concludes that, while pop-up advertisements seize the user's computer screen with a window of advertisement, blocking out the object of your search and your document, requiring you to click several times to clear your computer screen, these advertisements do not consist trademark or copyright infringement, or unfair competition. WhenU's pop-up advertisement software resides in individual computers as a result of the invitation and consent of the individual computer user, and, thus, the advertisements do not use, alter or interfere with U-Haul's trademarks and copyrights. Alas, we computer users must endure pop-up advertising along with her ugly brother unsolicited bulk email, "spam", as a burden of using the Internet.
I. Background
WhenU.com, Inc., and Avi Naider (collectively "WhenU") distribute a downloadable software program called "SaveNow" that is generally bundled for distribution with other software programs. For example, the pop-up advertisement software is found in many web-based "free" screensaver programs downloaded by individual computer users. Once a user accepts the license agreement, the SaveNow software is delivered and installed on the user's computer. Using a directory of commonly used search phrases, commonly visited web addresses, and various keyword algorithms, the SaveNow program scans the user's Internet activity to determine whether any of the terms, web addresses, or content match the information in the directory. If the program finds a match, it identifies an associated product or service category. The SaveNow program then determines whether the user's computer should receive a pop-up advertisement that is selected at random from WhenU's clients which match the category of the user's activity. The program will then display a pop-up advertisement on the user's computer screen; this pop-up ad will generally appear in front of all the windows the user may have open at the time. Once the pop-up ad is displayed, the user must either move the mouse and click the ad closed or use the keystrokes "Alt-F4" to close the ad.
To maintain its business, WhenU sells advertising space and opportunities to merchants that want to take advantage of the SaveNow software. However, WhenU does not sell individual web addresses to its advertising clients and does not guarantee to any advertiser that its ad will be shown when a consumer visits a particular website.
On October 2, 2002, U-Haul filed a nine-count complaint alleging various violations under the Lanham Trademark Act, copyright infringement, misappropriation, interference with a prospective business advantage, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Virginia Conspiracy Act. On March 28, 2003, U-Haul and Defendants WhenU and Avi Naider filed motions for summary judgment. Thereafter, on June 6, U-Haul filed a motion to vacate the trial date and to have the matter resolved through the parties' previously filed motions for summary judgment. On June 24, 2003, the Court entered an Order granting WhenU's and Avi Naider's motion for summary judgment on Counts IV and vacating the trial date. This Memorandum Order addresses the parties' cross motions for summary judgment, and the subsequent dismissal of all remaining counts.
II. Discussion
The Defendants are entitled to summary judgment as to the trademark-related claims because Plaintiff are unable to establish how the Defendants' pop-up advertisements "used" Plaintiff's trademarks as their own in violation of the Lanham Act. Defendants are further entitled to summary judgment on the Plaintiff's claims of copyright violations because Plaintiff fails to demonstrate how the Defendants' pop-up advertisements impeded the Plaintiff's exclusive rights under the copyright laws. Furthermore, the Court dismisses all remaining counts (VI-IX) without prejudice.
1. Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition, and Trademark Dilution
The Court grants Defendants' motion for sugary judgment on Plaintiff's trademark claims because Plaintiff fails to show how a pop-up advertisement appearing in a separate window on an individual's computer obstructing U-Haul's advertisement is a "use" of U-Haul's trademarks in commerce. A fundamental prerequisite for claims of trademark infringement pursuant to 15 U.S.C. � 1114 and of unfair competition pursuant to 15 U.S.C. � 1125(a) is proof that the defendant used one of the plaintiff's protected marks in commerce. As discussed below, WhenU's pop-up advertisements do not constitute "use in commerce" of U-Haul's trademarks for four reasons.
First, U-Haul relies on the premise that WhenU's pop-up ads are framed by the U-Haul website; in other words, the argument is that WhenU's ads appear as a single visual presentation as part of U-Haul's website. This position, however, is untenable. When a WhenU ad appears on a user's computer screen, it opens in a WhenU-branded window that is separate and distinct from the window in which the U-Haul website appears. It is important to note that in the Microsoft Windows environment, each program that the user launches generally appears on a separate window on the user's computer screen. In addition, the computer user may have multiple windows open at once; and in many instances, a separate window may pop-up on the user's screen notifying the user of an event: incoming e-mail, completion of a task by the computer, an appointment, etc.
Second, "use" is not established merely because trademarks are simultaneously visible to a consumer. Such comparative advertising does not violate trademark law, even when the advertising makes use of a competitor's trademark. Thus, the appearance of WhenU's ads on a user's computer screen at the same time as the U-Haul web page is a result of how applications operate in the Windows environment and does not consist "use" pursuant to the Lanham Act.
Third, WhenU's inclusion of the U-Haul uniform resource locator ("URL") and "U-Haul" in its directory incorporated into the SaveNow program does not constitute "use" under the Lanham Act. U-Haul fails to adduce any evidence that WhenU uses U-Haul's trademarks to identify the source of its goods or services. WhenU does not place the U-Haul trademarks in commerce; the SaveNow program merely uses the U-Haul URL and "U-Haul" Likewise in the instant case, WhenU's incorporation of U-Haul's URL and "U-Haul" in the SaveNow program is not a trademark use because WhenU merely uses the marks for the "pure machine-linking function" and in no way advertises or promotes U-Haul's web address or any other U-Haul trademark.
Fourth, WhenU's pop-up scheme does not interfere with the use of U-Haul's web site by its customers and dealers because the SaveNow program does not interact with U-Haul's computer servers or systems and the SaveNow program is a user-installed program where the user has made a conscious decision to install the program. The SaveNow program does not hinder or impede Internet users from accessing U-Haul's web site in such a manner that WhenU "uses" U-Haul's trademarks. The SaveNow program resides within the user's computer and does not interact or communicate with U-Haul's website, its computer servers, or its computer systems. Further, the SaveNow program does not change the underlying appearance of the U-Haul website. In addition, the SaveNow program is installed by the computer user who can decline to accept the licensing agreement or decline to download the program. Thus, the user controls the computer display the moment the WhenU ad pops up, and the user may also have other programs with pop-up windows notifying the user of an event within the computer system. The SaveNow program is, therefore, no different than an e-mail system that pops a window up when the registered user receives a new e-mail message.
In sum, U-haul fails to establish that WhenU uses U-Haul's trademarks in commerce in violation of the Lanham Act because (1) WhenU's pop-up window is separate and distinct from U-Haul's web site, (2) WhenU does not advertise or promote U-Haul's trademarks through the use of U-Haul's URL or "U-Haul" in its SaveNow directory, and (3) the SaveNow program does not hinder or impede Internet users from accessing U-Haul's web site in such a manner that WhenU "uses" U-Haul's trademarks. Therefore, WhenU is entitled to summary judgment on U-Haul's claims of trademark infringement and unfair competition.
To prevail on a claim for trademark dilution, U-Haul must prove, among other things, WhenU's use of the marks. For the reasons stated above, U-Haul is unable to show that WhenU was using U-Haul's marks as defined in the Lanham Act. Thus, WhenU is entitled to judgment as a matter of law on U-Haul's claim of trademark dilution.
2. Copyright Infringement and Contributory Copyright
Because WhenU's pop-up advertising software does not copy U-Haul's work and a pop-up advertisement is not a derivative of a copyrighted work, the Court grants Defendants' motion for summary judgment as to Plaintiff's copyright claims. To establish copyright infringement, a plaintiff must prove (1) ownership of a valid copyright, and (2) copying of constituent elements of the work that are original. Feist. The term "copying" is interpreted broadly and encompasses the infringing of any of the copyright owner's five exclusive rights. U-Haul contends that only two of the exclusive rights of a copyright owner are at issue in this case: the exclusive right to display and the exclusive right to prepare derivative works. Each claim is discussed in turn.
To "display" a work means "to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of film, slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially." 17 U.S.C. � 101. In order to infringe on U-Haul's right to "display", WhenU would have to show U-Haul's copyrighted works. U-Haul contends that the SaveNow program presents the user with an altered U-Haul Web page when an advertisement pops-up in front of the U-Haul Web page. However, U-Haul's argument is inapposite. First, the SaveNow does not alter U-Haul's Web page in any manner. As discussed previously, the SaveNow program displays the pop-up ad in a separate window from the U-Haul Web page. The SaveNow window has no physical relationship to the window in which the U-Haul Web page might appear. It is undisputed that the U-Haul window remains unaltered, even when it is behind the SaveNow window. This is no different that when a notice generated by the user's computer system pops-up in front of all of the windows the user may have open at the time; e.g., incoming e-mail. Ultimately, it is the computer user who controls how windows are displayed on the computer desktop.
Second, WhenU does not show users the U-Haul website through its SaveNow program. The user is the one who calls up the U-Haul website, not the SaveNow program. The SaveNow program merely interacts with the user's computer to assess whether an advertisement is appropriate. Further, WhenU shows the computer user its own advertisements, not U-Haul's copyrighted material.
U-Haul further contends that New York Times Co. v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 483, 499 (2001), supports its contention that its copyrighted work is displayed to the user in a manner different that intended by the copyright owner. However, U-Haul's reliance on Tasini is misplaced. In Tasini, the Supreme Court held that the reproduction of articles from newspapers in electronic databases, such as LEXIS/NEXIS, violated the rights of the authors. In Tasini, the owners of the electronic databases actually reproduced the authors' works; however, in this case, WhenU does not reproduce any of U-Haul's copyrighted material in its pop-up ads. Thus, Tasini is irrelevant to the facts at issue in this case, as the Court has concluded that WhenU has not displayed any of U-Haul's copyrighted material through its pop-up ads.
U-Haul also maintains that, by modifying the U-Haul web site, WhenU creates derivative works under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. � 101. A "derivative work" is a work "based upon one or more pre-existing works" which consists of "editorial revisions, annotation, elaborations, or other modifications." 17 U.S.C. � 101. U-Haul contends that WhenU has added promotional messages to its copyrighted Web pages, much like the defendant in National Bank of Commerce v. Shaklee Corp, 503 F. Supp. 533, 544 (W.D. Tex. 1980), added promotional messages to copyrighted pages of plaintiff's book. U-Haul's argument rests on the premise that the SaveNow software retrieves the U-Haul Web page, places its own advertisement on that Web page, and displays it to the user. Furthermore, once the user closes the pop-up advertisement, U-Maul implies, the SaveNow software then causes the U-Haul Web page to be displayed to the user without the pop-up ad. U-Haul's argument is both contrary to the law and the undisputed facts.
First, "[i]n order for a work to qualify as a derivative work it must be independently copyrightable." Woods v. Bourne, 60 F.3d 978, 990 (2d Cir. 1995). See Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., 964 F.2d 965, 967-69 (9th Cir. 1996) ("A derivative work must incorporate a protected work in some concrete or permanent form."). The WhenU window is a distinct occurrence from the U-Haul Web page. Also, the appearance of a WhenU advertisement on the user's computer screen at the same time as a U-Haul web page is a transitory occurrence that may not be exactly duplicated in that or another user's computer.
Second, the Windows environment permits a user to open multiple applications and windows at the same time, with the different windows overlapping one another. WhenU's ad is merely another window on the user's computer desktop. The pop-up ad may modify the user's computer display; however, this modification does not consist copyright infringement. To conclude otherwise is untenable in light of the fact that the user is the one who controls how items are displayed on the computer, and computer users would infringe copyrighted works any time they opened a window in front of a copyrighted Web page that is simultaneously open in a separate window on their computer screens. This conclusion is contrary to both law and fact. See Annie Lee v. A.R.T. Co., 125 F.3d 580, 582 (7th Cir. 1997) (stating that if mounting artwork constituted the unauthorized creation of a derivative work, the court would be making criminals out of art collectors). Thus, the Court concludes that WhenU does not create derivative works through its pop-up ad scheme. Therefore, WhenU is entitled to summary judgment on U-Haul's claim of copyright infringement. To make a prima facie case for contributory copyright infringement there must actually be direct infringement. Finding that U-Haul's claim of copyright infringement fails, the Court concludes that U-Haul's claim for contributory copyright infringement fails for the same reasons.
1. The court says that � 106(2) is not violated because "the appearance of a WhenU advertisement on the user's computer screen at the same time as a U-Haul web page is a transitory occurrence that may not be exactly duplicated in that or another user's computer." How does that square with the wording of � 106(2)? The legislative history indicates that Congress used the word "prepare" and omitted the word "copy" in � 106(2) because it wanted to protect ephemeral works such as choreographic routines and dumb shows.
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The pop-up ad may modify the user's computer display; however, this modification does not consist copyright infringement. To conclude otherwise is untenable in light of the fact that the user is the one who controls how items are displayed on the computer, and computer users would infringe copyrighted works any time they opened a window in front of a copyrighted Web page that is simultaneously open in a separate window on their computer screens.
a. Is there any way to distinguish between opening a pop-up as a result of gatoring and opening a pop-up that says, "You have e-mail waiting"?
b. Assume, arguendo, that accepting U-Haul's theory requires concluding, along the way, that users are infringers every time they choose to "open[ ] a window in front of a copyrighted Web page that is simultaneously open in a separate window on their computer screens." Does copyright law require a copyright owner to sue every infringer, or can it select its defendants as it likes? Is the court's argument against derivative-work liability sound?
3. Could some kind of restrictive licensing notice on U-Haul's Web page effectively authorize users (visitors to the Web page) to view the Web page and have some kinds of pop-up (such as "You have e-mail waiting") but not others (such as gatoring)? Would the notice necessarily be legally ineffective? What if the notice simply bans all preparation of derivative works, transient or permanent, and the copyright owner just fails to enforce the copyright against end users? Is that a waiver of rights against WhenU and Gator?
4. The court emphasized the element of user volition. That is, the user wittingly or unwittingly chose to set in motion the chain of events leading to the pop-up windows appearing on the user's screen. Why does the complicity of the user relieve WhenU of liability? Is it automatic? Is there any way for the owner of copyright in the Web page to prevent the conduct of the user from immunizing WhenU from infringement (or contributory infringement) liability for WhenU's acts?
5. Is what WhenU does to U-Haul's Web site transformative? Assume that Leonardo still lives and has a life plus many years copyright in his Mona Lisa, but he is so unwise as to put his work up on a Web site. WhenU decides to iframe it to the Web sites of various clients (such as McDonald's and Jim Beam), where layers are superimposed on it as shown in the accompanying image. Does Leonardo have a good case under � 106(2) against any of the guilty parties?
6. Let's consider the test for transformativeness and fair use suggested in the preceding section of this chapter in the notes to the Arriba Soft case. Let's apply the test to what WhenU did to U-Haul and Leonardo, respectively. (The parody of Duchamp's parody of the Mona Lisa was made by the late Prof . Ed Stephan of Western Washington Univ.) Is trade actually or potentially diverted from the copyright owner to WhenU's client? Probably yes, for U-Haul, since that is the point of comparative advertising. Does the use provide the public with a new and valuable function? Contextual advertising has as its target consumers already looking on the Web for the advertised goods, perhaps actively in search of them. Its claim of a much higher "hit" rate, perhaps ten times normal, suggests that targets of contextual advertising gain benefits; efficiency in bringing sellers and potential buyers together probably benefits both of them. Is the benefit of the kind that copyright law seeks to promote? Unclear, but should that be necessary as long as there is a significant benefit? For Leonardo, there is no diversion and there is uncertain public benefit (except of the kind parody provides, as in Two Live Crew). So, should it be Leonardo wins and U-Haul loses? Does applying the test, given the outcomes that you perceive, tend to support or undermine the test?
7. Remember not to make your fair use analysis on the basis of the wrong supposed derrivative work. You know that the image at the farthest left is that of the underlying work. Is the next one immediately to the right the image of the derivative work? Why or why not? See the definition of derivative work from § 101.
8. For more information about WhenU, visit its Web page. For the full decision (the trademark material is considerably edited here), select this link. For news stories about the decision, see the links shown below. To bring back to life dead (a/k/a broken) links, learn to use the Wayback Machine at Archive.Net. Put the URL of the dead link into the window and click on the Take Me Back button.
9. U-Haul appealed to the Fourth Circuit. But the parties agreed to dismiss the appeal on January 14, 2004, on undisclosed terms.
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Just when you think you don't need a new neutral palette in your life, Urban Decay comes up with the Naked Heat Collection!
While is it still neutral, this particular palette features 12 brand new warm hues. The palette has the same hard packaging as the Naked Smoky palette, the difference being in the copper shade. As usual, the palette comes with a large interior mirror & a double-ended brush. The actual packaging looks like a jumbo matchbox which adds to the whole Heat theme.
The shades are absolutely stunning! From warm browns to burnt reds the palette looks so flattering. If you know me then you already know that I love everything about warm shades so this palette has everything that I want. It has a nice variety of shimmer & matte textures which I always love to have in a palette. The balance of the colors is great! We have classic neutrals like the creamy beige and we also have deep shades like the burnt burgundy.
Here you have the shade descriptions:
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- CAYENNE: Deep Terracotta Matte
- EN FUEGO: Burgundy Matte
- ASHES: Deep Reddish-Brown Matte
- EMBER: Deep Metallic Copper-Burgundy
If you own a Naked palette, then you already know that every single shade has a buttery feel that Urban Decay is famous for, which delivers intense pigmentation & easy blendability. I want to mention that I had a little bit of trouble swatching 2 of the shades: En Fuego & Ashes. They feel a little bit dry so that made the swatching harder.
Alongside the new palette, are 3 new shades of Vice lipsticks and 2 new shades of 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil.
This limited-edition shades come in a similar metallic tube, like the rest of the Vice lipsticks, but feature a copper cap instead.
The new lipstick shades include:
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- SCORCHED – Metallized Copper
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The texture feels super creamy on the lips ( even the metallic ones ) & they glide on easily making them also very pigmented. I feel that this are the perfect shades for fall!
The new eyeliner shades include:
- TORCH – Deep Wine
- ALKALINE – Deep Sienna
This 2 shades will become part of the permanent 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil collection.
Do I like this collection?
I definitely do! Even if I said to myself that I will not be needing this palette, it seems that the Universe heard my heart's desire! I'm all about warm & earthy shades so for me this collection is HOT!
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I have a server with 8GB of memory, running CentOS 5.4, php 5.2.9, mysql 5.0.77.
I have a very large databse of about 20GB (InnoDB and MyIsam tables) and website using it. Website has about 20000 visitors per day and about 100 000 pageviews per day. My website is very slow. Sometimes takes about 15-20 sec to open up a page.
I am asking if you could help me improve my server performances.
I think problem is with MySql. And maybe aplication not closing connections properly. Also to mention I have about 2000 - 3000 TIME_WAIT processes.
Here is my.cnf for MySQl:
key_buffer = 1024M
table_cache = 1024
table_open_cache = 1024
sort_buffer_size = 10M
read_buffer_size = 10M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 10M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 128M
thread_cache_size = 16
query_cache_size= 64M
-# Try number of CPU's*2 for thread_concurrency
thread_concurrency = 8
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 1536M
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 128M
And here is mysqltuner log:
MySQLTuner 1.2.0 - Major Hayden
Bug reports, feature requests, and downloads at http://mysqltuner.com/
Run with '--help' for additional options and output filtering
Please enter your MySQL administrative login: root
Please enter your MySQL administrative password:
-------- General Statistics --------------------------------------------------
[--] Skipped version check for MySQLTuner script
[OK] Currently running supported MySQL version 5.0.77
[OK] Operating on 64-bit architecture
-------- Storage Engine Statistics -------------------------------------------
[--] Status: -Archive +BDB -Federated +InnoDB -ISAM -NDBCluster
[--] Data in MyISAM tables: 8G (Tables: 19)
[--] Data in InnoDB tables: 5G (Tables: 27)
[!!] BDB is enabled but isn't being used
[!!] Total fragmented tables: 3
-------- Security Recommendations -------------------------------------------
[!!] User '@cl-t061-430cl.privatedns.com' has no password set.
[!!] User '@localhost' has no password set.
[!!] User 'email@example.com' has no password set.
-------- Performance Metrics -------------------------------------------------
[--] Up for: 54d 21h 14m 44s (466M q [98.362 qps], 2M conn, TX: 1103B, RX: 112B)
[--] Reads / Writes: 78% / 22%
[--] Total buffers: 2.7G global + 80.4M per thread (1200 max threads)
[!!] Maximum possible memory usage: 96.9G (1240% of installed RAM)
[OK] Slow queries: 0% (46K/466M)
[OK] Highest usage of available connections: 66% (801/1200)
[OK] Key buffer size / total MyISAM indexes: 1.0G/10.8G
[OK] Key buffer hit rate: 100.0% (194B cached / 1M reads)
[OK] Query cache efficiency: 73.7% (316M cached / 429M selects)
[!!] Query cache prunes per day: 24969
[OK] Sorts requiring temporary tables: 0% (0 temp sorts / 77M sorts)
[!!] Joins performed without indexes: 188318
[!!] Temporary tables created on disk: 49% (69M on disk / 139M total)
[OK] Thread cache hit rate: 92% (205K created / 2M connections)
[OK] Table cache hit rate: 23% (1K open / 4K opened)
[OK] Open file limit used: 4% (269/6K)
[OK] Table locks acquired immediately: 99% (346M immediate / 346M locks)
[!!] InnoDB data size / buffer pool: 5.7G/1.5G
-------- Recommendations -----------------------------------------------------
General recommendations:
Add skip-bdb to MySQL configuration to disable BDB
Run OPTIMIZE TABLE to defragment tables for better performance
Reduce your overall MySQL memory footprint for system stability
Enable the slow query log to troubleshoot bad queries
Adjust your join queries to always utilize indexes
When making adjustments, make tmp_table_size/max_heap_table_size equal
Reduce your SELECT DISTINCT queries without LIMIT clauses
Variables to adjust:
* MySQL's maximum memory usage is dangerously high
Add RAM before increasing MySQL buffer variables *
query_cache_size (> 64M)
join_buffer_size (> 128.0K, or always use indexes with joins)
tmp_table_size (> 32M)
max_heap_table_size (> 16M)
innodb_buffer_pool_size (>= 5G)
I would appreciate any ideas, suggestions. Thanks very much.


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Have been doing a fair bit of sketching of late
Today however decided to try my hand at clay sculpting with quite interesting results...
The clay was far softer than I thought it was going to be (having not really worked with it before I thought it would be quite leathery and firm but it was like sculpting with soft butter to a certain extent.)
I've done 4 peices -
The first titled 'knowledge' talks about how as human beings we are always learning, somtimes that learning comes at pivotal points or steps in our lives, other times it seems interwoven in the very fabric of our existence. There are 'ah - ha' moments, like stepping stones in our path, but always we strive higher, to learn more, to understand more, to be more enligtened (hence the arrow pointing upwards at the pinnacle of the peice)
The other three are a series that started out to be about 'greif' but as I had the urge to drive nails through the sides of them (3 in each representing childhood, youth and adulthood) the work became about 'growing up' and the pain there is in that process but how if we walk on above that pain to the next stage at the final stage of our life we truely begin to blossom, I've done three in differing heights and widths and wondering why this was I asked myself about it when they were completed and i realised it was about that not everyones life spans are the same, some people have a short life span (though no less valid or of worth) whereas others live longer and therefore have more lifeline and perhaps differing points of pain in their lives.
Inspite of pain, inspite of wounding, all of us have the potential within us to stand uprightly and blossom. It is our time to bloom and no longer to be hidden within ourselves or advised on how to be by the pain we went through at differing times in our lives.


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WASHINGTON Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said on Friday his office would formally join a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's revised travel ban, saying the measure was still a ban on Muslims and would hurt the state, WTOP radio reported.
"Trump's second executive order is still a Muslim ban," Frosh said in a statement, according to WTOP online. "The administration persists in an effort to implement a policy that is inhumane and unconstitutional, but also makes us less safe, not more safe."
The statement said the ban, which is being challenged by Washington and other states, would make Maryland less competitive by deterring visits by academics, scientists and engineers from other countries and would hurt Maryland's universities and economy. (Reporting by David Alexander; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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In My Father's Bakery A Bronx Memoir
Marvin Korman
204 pages; Hardcover
No Photographs or Sketches
Red Rock Press, NY, NY
Reviewed by Ashima Dua for Good Cooking, Inc., Early Summer 2007
The review---
For many of us, each passing year reminds us of a simpler time we enjoyed during our childhood and adolescence. A time that was filled with innocence, first experiences and new life events. It is this chord that Marvin Korman strikes in his novel My Father's Bakery A Bronx Memoir. Korman magically transports the reader from present day back to the way life was in Bronx during the 1930s and 40s. Right at the beginning, we learn Korman's father, owned Grossfeld & Korman's Bakery in New York's northern most borough the Bronx. It is this bakery that forms the backdrop for the rest of the book and provides the glue that holds the subsequent chapters together.
As the reader thumbs through chapter after chapter, he/she begins to experience the different events that occurred in Korman's youth. Each chapter fixates on one life event and yet somehow always seems to relate back to the bakery where Korman spent the majority of his youth outside of school. We learn of Korman's Uncle Maxie, who finds a safe haven at the bread counter at Grossfeld & Korman via patrons who overlook the fact that he has the mental capacity of a ten year old. We cross paths with Aunt Sylvia, who while working at Grossfeld & Korman develops a life long affair with landlord Danny Schulman. And perhaps the most delightful information we gather through the course of the book are a few of the signature recipes prepared every day at the bakery.
Korman includes a couple of these recipes right in the novel text, but also provides the reader a separate easy access booklet which contains ten recipes from the bakery which have been adapted for use by the home baker. The booklet contains Uncle Menashe's Magic Challah, Albert's Devil's Food Cake, and even a variation of his father's Health Bread. The recipes are all easy to follow and are accompanied by suggested musical pieces to fill the void space that always forms while waiting for the oven to finish baking. I tried two of the recipes myself and found myself eagerly waiting to taste the finished product as its aroma permeated my home. I must say the wait was well worth it. Both items were classic old-fashioned scrumptious baked goods with real butter and real sugar. There were no commercially produced lower fat items which we sometimes substitute in our cooking today. And perhaps because of this the end result was an experience of pure bliss in my palate.
So the next time you're feeling nostalgic about your childhood years, pick up Marvin Korman's In my Father's Bakery and transport yourself back to a time when everything seemed possible. You may even discover a new favorite recipe to delight your friends and family. In the meantime, perhaps one of the two listed below will wet your appetite.
Recipes tested---
Albert's Devil Food Cake
2 cups sugar (1 cup + 1 cup)
1 cup cocoa
1 cup buttermilk
2 cups pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 ounces (one stick) plus 2 tablespoons softened butter
2 eggs beaten
Handful of cornflake or pound-cake crumbs
Baking Equipment
One 9" x 5" x 4" loaf pan
1) Preheat oven to 350.
2) In a medium-sized bowl combine 1 cup of sugar and the cocoa with the buttermilk and the vanilla.
3) In another bowl combine the pastry flour, the baking soda and the salt.
4) In a large bowl, cream the butter, adding the remaining sugar and the beaten eggs. Beat all the ingredients thoroughly.
5) Combine everything in the large bowl, mixing thoroughly with a rubber spatula until the batter is completely smooth.
6) Grease the loaf pan with the remaining butter and sprinkle the sides with the crumbs. The batter should fill about 2/3 of the pan.
7) Place the pan in the preheated oven and bake for about 50 to 60 minutes.
(While you are waiting, turn on the Patti LuPone recording of the cast album of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" (RCA Victor) 51 minutes of glorious Porter.)
8) After 50 minutes or so, insert a sharp knife into the center of the loaf. If it comes out clean, the cake is finished. If some batter adheres to the knife, the cake requires additional baking.
9) When the cake is done, let is sit outside the oven in its pan for about ten minutes. Slide a dull knife around the sides of the pan before attempting to remove it. Turn out on a rack and cook.
Note: This cake is sweet enough without any frosting. But if you must, any standard prepared chocolate frosting should satisfy your craving.
Amelia Billingsley's Chocolate Pudding
3 egg whites
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3 tablespoons cornstarch
3 cups milk
(1 plus 2 cups) cup sugar
Dash of salt
1 teaspoons vanilla extract
1) In a small bowl (7 to 8 inches across), beat 2 egg whites until foamy and set aside.
2) In another bowl, combine the cocoa and the cornstarch. Pour 1 cup of milk into the cocoa mixture and stir until smooth.
3) In a large saucepan, combine the remaining milk, sugar and salt. Mix well. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly.
4) With a rubber spatula, combine the cocoa mixture with the milk mixture in the large saucepan. Bring to a boil and cook for approximately two minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat.
5) Quickly pour about a cup of hot cocoa mixture into the reserved egg-whites and stir briskly, then pour this cocoa/egg-white mixture back into the saucepan.
6) Add the vanilla extract and cook over a medium to low heat, stirring occasionally until the mixture starts to bubble.
7) Quickly pour into six small serving dishes. Cool to room temperature, then place the dishes in the refrigerator for at least one hour, until the pudding sets.


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The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science offers a computer science major that develops students' ability to design and implement computer programs to solve many types of problems. Based on curricula developed by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the major prepares students for graduate study and for many interesting careers in the computer industry. The computer science minor complements any major for which computer applications are important. The minor also gives students excellent preparation for many computer-related occupations.
Thirteen (13) courses are required, all nine (9) core courses and four (4) electives, including at least one from each of group 1 and group 2. A first-year student majoring in computer science will typically take CMS 167/167L and one ofMAT 111, MAT 109, MAT 110, or MAT 108 in the fall, andCMS 170 andMAT 140 in the spring.
GROUP 1: At least one is required.
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CMS 167 Problem Solving I with Selected Topics: Introduction to fundamental aspects of programming using high-level language, focusing on problem solving, software design concepts, and their realization as computer programs. Topics include: variables, using existing classes, selection and iteration, and arrays. Classroom activities are used to gain mastery of these principles. Corequisite: CMS 167L.
CMS 167L Problem Solving I Lab: Develops proficiency in using the programming principles introduced in CMS 167 and experience in incorporating those principles into working computer programs. Corequisite: CMS 167
CMS 170 Problem Solving II with Selected Topics: Develops discipline in program design, problem solving, debugging, and testing, with an introduction to data structures. Topics include: abstract data types, complexity analysis, and recursion. Basic data structures (queues, stacks, trees, and graphs) and transformations (sorting and searching) are introduced as representative of the fundamental tools that are used to aid in software development. A high-level programming language is used to construct programs of a moderate size. Prerequisite: CMS 167/167L.
CMS 215 Business Applications of Computer Science: Overview of key computer science concepts in the context of business applications, including advanced spreadsheet programming, data management, information security, and data analytics. Includes use of common software packages such as Microsoft Excel, relational database systems, and an introduction to programming in a general-purpose language such as Python or R.
CMS 230 Introduction to Computer Systems: Introduction to the study of how software controls the critical hardware components of a computer's architecture, the CPU and RAM. Topics include development of C language programs, comparison of high-order procedural languages to machine language programs, CPU organization and functionality at the register/bus level, instruction formats, and development of machine language and assembly level programs using multiple addressing modes, flow-of-control branching and subroutine calls. Prerequisites: CMS 170.
CMS 270 Object-Oriented Design and Development: Object-oriented programming, event-driven programming, UML, unit testing, virtual machines, design patterns, exception handling, and user interfaces. Uses Java and assumes knowledge of a procedural or object-oriented language. Prerequisite: CMS 170.
CMS 330: System Software Principles: Short history of programming languages and their construction. Techniques of language translation including lexical analysis, grammars, and parsers. Analysis of the structure and functionality of modern operating system software, with emphasis on concurrent processes. Topics include: process scheduling, communication, and synchronization; API services; and, design and development of concurrent program using OS features. Prerequisite: CMS 230.
CMS 341 Mobile App Development: Covers the development of mobile apps using an emulation system. Topics covered include application architectures, user interface design, graphics, location services, data persistence, web and network services and sensors. Prerequisites: CMS 270.
CMS 352 Web Application Development: Programming techniques and frameworks for Web-based applications. Topics include Javascript and server-side development using the model-view-controller design pattern. Prerequisites: CMS 270.
CMS 375 Database Design and Development: Introduces design and implementation of database systems. Using a relational database as a backdrop, this course addresses design issues, structured query language (SQL), data integrity, normalization, transaction processing, writing triggers and stored procedures, and developing applications using a custom database language and with Java and JDBC. This course also explores NoSQL data models. Students will need access to a PC or Mac on which to load the database software that will be used in the course. Note: System requirements may vary from year to year. Prerequisite: CMS 270.
CMS 380 Simulation Analysis and Design: Explores the use of probability theory and statistical methods in the development of computer simulations used to study/model real-world phenomenon. Prerequisite: CMS 270.
CMS 395 Special Topics: An intensive introduction to a specialized area of computer science. Example topics are: user interface design, parallel and distributed processing, multimedia development, theory of computation, network programming, modeling and simulation, and software development tools. Prerequisites: CMS 270 and consent.
CMS 430 Artificial Intelligence: Selective survey of key concepts and applications of artificial intelligence and an in-depth experience with a language commonly used for building AI systems (e.g., LISP or Prolog). Subtopics include knowledge representation, state space/searching, heuristic search, expert systems, expert system shells, natural language processing, propositional logic, learning and cognitive models, and vision. Prerequisite: MAT 310.
CMS 441 Advanced Systems: Further topics in computer systems, including computer architecture, virtual memory, storage, and distributed systems. Substantial programming projects in the C language are required. Prerequisite: CMS 330.
CMS 450 Networks: Study of the technology, architecture, and software used by systems of network-connected computers. Topics include data transmission, local area network architectures, network protocols, inter-networking, distributed systems, security, and network applications such as email, WWW, and FTP. Students will develop programs that run concurrently on multiple computers. Prerequisite: CMS 330.
CMS 460 Algorithm Analysis: Detailed study of algorithm design and analysis, including greedy algorithms, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, backtracking, and brance and bound. Emphasis on verification and analysis of time space complexity. NP theory is introduced. Prerequisites: CMS 270 and MAT 140.
CMS 480 Programming Language Translation: An in-depth study of the principles and design aspects of programming language translation. The major components of a compiler are discussed: lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, type checking, code generation, and optimization. Alternate parsing strategies are presented and compared with respect to space and time tradeoffs. A course project consists of the design and construction of a small compiler. Prerequisites: CMS 270 andCMS 330.
CMS 484 Senior Computer Science Capstone: The Senior Capstone course provides a culminating and integrative educational experience. While participating on a team with other students, students will design and implement a large-scale software project. Class meetings will be used for teams to demonstrate the progress of their project as well as for the teams to meet and work. Team meetings outside of class will be required. Prerequisite: one 400-level CMS course.
CMS 495 Topics in Computer Science: An intensive exploration of a specialized area of computer science. Prerequisite: CMS 270
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My appointment went well. As soon as I told them how bad my headaches have been and that I stopped drinking pop they said it was more than likely caffeine with drawls. They said to slowly wean myself off the pop instead of stopping cold turkey. Especially since I've never tried to quit before. If my headache hadn't of gone away by today they wanted me to come back today for a brain MRI to make sure the cancer hadn't spread to my brain. THANK GOD after I had some Pepsi I felt like me again :)
Time for some FAWK YOU's!!!!!!
FAWK YOU~ Dr. L. Your a great doctor and all but don't try make me feel guilty because I didn't have my empty pill bottle. Boo-fuckin-hoo you'll get in trouble w/ the FDA. I've been doing this trial for SEVEN MONTHS now and no one has ever told me to return the empty bottles!!! If it was that important you would think someone would have told me before today!
FAWK YOU~ mother nature! Please don't be 90+ degrees w/ 90% humidity on Sunday for the boy's birthday party!
FAWK YOU~ John the punk ass thug across the street. Stop stealing shit or go to jail and stay there for good loser. I'm sick and tired of worrying about your ass stealing my shit!!
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My grandfather was, among other things, a naturalist, a botanist, and a conservationist before there even was such a word.
Some of my best childhood memories are of time spent with him. He taught me to ride at a very early age. I spent countless hours on the trails with him, and each one was a lesson. He knew every tree, every flower, every bird and animal we came across.
On some of our walks, we hunted the elusive morel mushroom. And ramps, oh just the word brings back that smell! The deep dark soil, the earthy oniony smell, the pungent taste. And today my friend gave me a source for ramp seeds and bulbs, and in doing so turned back the wheel of time and I was that child once more, tagging along behind my grandpa, holding the canvas bag as he foraged. And now I can grow them here on our own farm, and I know my grandpa would love that. Thanks Joyce, I owe you one.
|Laura and her grandfather, circa the 1960s.


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This is the continuation of a series of posts on my blog to promote the e-book SO YOU WANT to LIVE in COSTA RICA – which is a Guide to… the Adventures, Trials and Tribulations of Settling in Paradise… This is a guide book that will give you the kind of insider's knowledge that you might wish you had before you made your decision to move or not move to Costa Rica.
Every blog entry will start with the appendix because that way when you read whatever else I have posted it will 1. make sense (I hope) and 2. give you a point of reference in case you realize you need to read something that is "archived". Because if you read every blog I enter you will have eventually read the whole e-book and won't need to order it for $2.99 from Amazon or B&N. All you'll be missing are the photos that show what you might expect if you choose to undertake the Adventures, Trials and Tribulations of Settling in Paradise.
As I said, I will start each blog with the appendix so that the reader can reference important elements of the book to archived blogs. The page numbers shown are the actual page they appear on in the book. Here is the Appendix – and these are all the nuggets and their corresponding page numbers:
Definition of "nugget" – 3, Doors & Windows – 7, Manufacturing – 11, Real Estate – 11, Shipping – 12,Maps, – 15, Corporations – 20, Traffic Cops – 23, Know basic Spanish – 30, Panama – 33, Roof Line – 42, Plumita Pacifica Web Address – 65, Getting the Best a Tico has to Offer – 84, Power Surges – 86, Liberia Airport – 88, Attitude – 104, Cellular Phones – 117, Newspapers – 18, Your Embassy – 137, Buying & Selling Cars – 154, Drive Slowly – 161, Arriving at the Airport – 168, Wages & Prices – 170, Undertows – 226, Life Ring – 230, Avoiding Customs Confiscations – 234, Driving Rules – 236, Walking in the City – 249, Purchasing Anything – 258, Buying Fresh Produce – 263, Bus Tickets – 272, to "Bribe" or not to "Bribe" – 313, Traffic ticket Prices – 315, Exiting the Country – 337
And just in case you're interested… here's the table of contents:
Introduction and Preliminary Comments – 3, My First Trip -15, Lost in Guanacaste – Playa Coyote – 20, Trust with a Child – 26, Lost in Panama – 29, Attorneys – 35, My Contractor – 38, My Security Guard – 61, My Toldo – 67, Getting a Land Line Phone and Internet – 76, A Cellular Phone – 115, A Country Doctor – 124, A Lesson Well Learned – 130, A Little Green Frog – 138, A Little Brown Frog and a Bat – 146, A "Murphy's Law" Day – 153, Driving in the Rainy Season – 161, Drunk Drivers – 174, Fiesta del Toros – 185, Getting a Drivers License – 195, INS and a Minor Accident – 203, Lifeguards – 224, Passing through Customs – 232, Rules of the Road for Tico Driving – 236, San Jose – 241, Shopping and Making Tamales – 250, Taking the Bus – 272, Turtles in My Front Yard – 281, Untitled – 287, When it Rains it Pours (sometimes) – 294, She Found My Lot – 307, My First Traffic Ticket – 312, Ticket # 2 – 316, My Radar Detector – 318, Ticket # 3 (after a slow speed chase) – 324, A Christmas Parade – 338, Sex (the truth about ticos) – 343, Photo Album – 347, Appendix – 374
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Ok, continuing around the block, a book store, luggage, flowers, coffee (I think they export their best but I have found one brand that I get a good cup of rich, dark and strong coffee from), telephones, meat market, fish market, nut & fruit stand, a small department store with an assortment of the above, a small hotel and I suspect I've forgotten a couple others. And this scenario is repeated in block after block in downtown San Jose.
It's completely fascinating and even though the types of stores are basically the same in each block, there will be diversity in brands. Not being a big shopper, I couldn't tell you if what I just described is good news or bad news but it does make for interesting walking.
Then, there is "Mercado Central". Think of the OrangeCounty swap meet in Costa Mesa, Ca. I don't know if it's the biggest in the nation but it's pretty big. Now cram it and everything else I've mentioned above (except the hotel) into one huge building, one level only, all under one roof, in one square block that is 100 meters square, with all the little stalls and stores separated by narrow passage ways that you need to turn sideways in to pass someone and which don't necessarily intersect at right angles. It took me wandering through many times before I stopped getting lost in there. And I still don't know how to find any given stall when I'm out of sight of it. I still need to wander around until I run into it again. It's a fun place to get lost. Now multiply that conglomeration by at least three more similarly configured blocks that I know of and you have a fair description of downtown San Jose. It's pretty interesting to me at the least. It fascinates me that they can all stay in business. I guess with 2.8 million people, most of who probably mill around there at least occasionally, there is enough business to go around. I've noticed in my many trips to that city that the fruits and vegetables always look fresh. As a matter of fact, most of the fruits are seasonal and those that I've sampled taste like they just came off the tree/vine, fully ripened, sweet and delicious. What a treat! Try finding that in your local U.S. market.


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Jag har sagt det förr;
Legot idag är grymt.
Vilken brygga.
Fint hål.
Fin kropp.
Menage a trois igår. Jag, Linda och Martin.
Börjar bli hungrig nu.
Långt flygande ballong.
Grymt! En sån mobil vill jag ha! :D
A couple of weeks ago I was the first to speculate the T-Mobile G2 would contain Qualcomm's new MSM7230 CPU, but then several leaks kept suggesting it would be a regular old Snapdragon. Thanks to the G2 software dump we can now confirm the G2 will ship with the newer 1 GHz MSM7230.
So what exactly does the MSM7230 have to offer? We initially labeled it as a budget-Snapdragon since Qualcomm's press release said it was destined for "mainstream smartphones", but now it looks like it will offer about the same performance as Samsung's Hummingbird chip or TI's OMAP3630.
Based on all the info we can gather the MSM7230 is a 45nm system-on-chip which contains a similar Scorpion CPU as the previous Snapdragon (QSD8x50) matched with an Adreno 205 GPU. The new Adreno 205 offers about 4x the graphics performance of the previous Snapdragon (Adreno 200), which is around the equivalent of a PowerVR SGX535. Support for HSPA+ 14.4 Mbps and HDMI out are other notable features.
The Adreno 205 GPU is also believed to be in the dual-core Qualcomm QSD8672, which first appeared in the HTC Glacier benchmarks that everyone went crazy over. It should offer plenty of power to run all the Gameloft HD titles, but we still expect the GPU inside Samsung's Hummingbird is a tad faster.
So while the T-Mobile G2 might not break any benchmark records, it should still offer similar performance to the latest Android phones from Motorola and Samsung. When you consider it will be running stock Android 2.2 and support T-Mobile's HSPA+ network, that might make it the most desired phone when it launches next month (at least until dual-core chips ship).
For an idea of what kind of performance to expect, check out the following video of some early Qualcomm MSM7x30 dev units.
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