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Fehr, Hans; Habermann, Christian (København, 2007)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The present paper studies the growth and efficiency consequences of tax-favored individual retirement accounts in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor income uncertainty. We distinguish between economies with rational and with hyperbolic consumers and compare the consequences of mandatory and voluntary retirement plans with and without annuitized benefits. While a full taxation of capital income yields the highest efficiency gains in the rational consumer model, annuitization and hyperbolic discounting substantially improve the economic efficiency of IRAs. We also show that annuitization alters the intergenerational welfare consequences of the reform substantially, since it reduces accidental bequests. Finally, even if mandatory saving programs have a clear cost advantage, they are only recommendable if consumers are myopic. individual retirement accounts, annuities, stochastic general equilibrium, hyperbolic consumers URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7710
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Towards An Analytical FrameworkPyke, Frank; Lund-Thomsen, Peter (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: In this article, we explore the relationship between industrial clusters and social upgrading in developing countries. Our article focuses on the hitherto little-considered influence of the economic and regulatory environment on the social upgrading of a cluster and on its governance system. In doing so, we develop an analytical framework that seeks to explain how the enabling environment and different actors in cluster governance can either facilitate and/or hinder the process of social upgrading in cluster settings in developing countries. Finally, the conclusion outlines our main findings, the research and policy implications of our analysis. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9155
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Lessons from Co-operation and Higher-order Capabilities Amongst geographically proximate firmsLorenzen, Mark (Frederiksberg, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7847
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Cao, Yangfeng (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Business model innovation plays a very important role in developing competitive advantage when multinational small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from developed country enter into emerging markets because of the large contextual distances or gaps between the emerging and developed economies. Many prior researches have shown that the foreign subsidiaries play important role in shaping the overall strategy of the parent company. However, little is known about how subsidiary specifically facilitates business model innovation (BMI) in emerging markets. Adopting the method of comparative and longitudinal case study, we tracked the BMI processes of four SMEs from Denmark operating in China. Using resource-based view (RBV), we develop one theoretical framework which indicates that initiative-taking and improvisational capability of subsidiary are the two primary facilitators of business model innovation in emerging markets. We find that high initiative-taking and strong improvisational capability can accelerate the business model innovation. Our research contributes to the literatures on international and strategic entrepreneurship. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8814
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Lyck, Lise (Frederiksberg, 2013)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This article studies the theoretical and applied development of the creative economy. There exists many definitions of creative industries, creative economy and experience economy, all dealing with the same core problematic. It is why it is chosen in this article to talk about the creative economy complex. The ideas to the different elements in the complex have been developed over the last 20 years. A conclusion on experience economy and creative industries is presented on page 7. It is followed by a presentation of how the creative economy complex has been applied in the Baltic Sea Countries and by a section on the development of the creative economy complex after the financial crisis in 2008. It is found that the complex and its development has been closely related to the business cycle development, implying that the complex from being a general theory in times with positive business cycle development has changed to become more specific and integrated into marketing, regional economy and innovation theory when the business cycle changes to recession and when state debt becomes a main economic problem. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8735
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A Case Study of the Laundry Detergent Market in JapanFujiwara, Masatoshi (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper aims to describe how a commercially successful innovation occurs with the altering of the existing competitive structure in a market under environmental and competitive pressures. I study the history of the laundry detergent market in Japan and elucidate the manner in which Kao accomplished an innovation and increased their market share during the late 1980s. Kao introduced their new detergent Attack through a biotechnological innovation and dramatically changed the competitive structure to their advantage. The innovations introduced were of two kinds 1) fermentation engineering technologies to improve the cleaning performance of detergents by using alkaline cellulase, and 2) concentration of detergents to four times their earlier strength through changes in their powder processing technologies. This historical innovation that occurred in the laundry detergent market in Japan has a contemporary implication because combining firms' activities and environmental sustainability has been one of the most crucial topics over recent years. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8440
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For Økonomi- og ErhvervsministerietJunge, Martin; Sørensen, Anders (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8275
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Brian Loasby and The Theory of The FirmFoss, Nicolai J. (Frederiksberg, 1997)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7856
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Ionascu, Delia; Meyer, Klaus E.; Estrin, Saul (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The concept of 'distance' has been used by international business scholars to explain variations in international business strategies and operations across countries. The more distant a host country is from the organizational centre of a multinational enterprise (MNE), the more it has to manage cultural, regulatory and cognitive differences, and to develop appropriate entry strategies, organizational forms, and internal procedures to accommodate these differences. Scholarly research has focused on the concept of psychic distance, which has been narrowed down in empirical work to indices based on Hofstede's work on culture. However, these measures capture only very partially the dimensions of distance of concern to international business. In this paper, we show how the broader theoretical concept of institutional distance, which incorporates normative, regulatory and cognitive aspects, affects entry strategies. Specifically, our theoretical arguments suggest that the impact of distance varies with different aspects of the concept of institutional distance, and that this impact interacts with both the investor's experience and with the relative importance of the pertinent operation for the investing MNE. Using a unique dataset of foreign direct investment in emerging economies that incorporates multi-host as well as multi-home countries, we find empirical support for our propositions, and provide an explanation for apparently inconsistent results in the previous literature. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7116
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Bevan, Alan; Estrin, Saul; Meyer, Klaus (London, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7093
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Meyer, Klaus (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7096
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Strategies, Business Models, and Management ModelAndersen, Kim Normann; Medaglia, Rony (Frederiksberg, 2009)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: European Commission funded research is driven by the objective of integrating excellent research in Europe by using public funding to gain momentum and sustainability. This paper presents the results of an analysis of the management patterns of 20 Networks of Excellence. Our analysis indicates an absence of business management competences in the project consortia and unclear criteria for sustainability. Sustainability strategies appear to be ad hoc driven and orchestrated by the project monitoring events, rather than built in the consortia management structure. The paper advocates for bringing onboard conventional management models along with strategic positioning, business models, and business plans. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7866
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Elkjær-Larsen, Jens Kristian; Goldschmidt, Lars (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Erhvervsrettet forskning i ledelse foregår i vidt omfang i samarbejde med virksomheder, der selv arbejder med forskningens problemstillinger. Det betyder, at der forskes i et felt, der selv reflekterer over de problemstillinger, der undersøges, og som kan bidrage til videnproduktionen på mange andre måder end som "rå data". Forskerne kommer med mange forskellige relationer til feltet. Fra en rolle som ren observatør, over rollen som forskende konsulent til egentlig praktiker, der forsker i sit eget miljø. Derfor er det interessant som forsker indenfor dette område at se på metodiske tilgange, der nyttiggør feltets og forskerens egne indsigter i de problemstillinger, der søges belyst, og som direkte kan understøtte aktørernes egen håndtering af disse. Det er interessant ud fra en "traditionel" universitetsbaseret forskningssynsvinkel, og det er interessant i den bredere diskussion af, hvordan virksomhederne styrker deres egen evne til "forskningsbaseret" refleksion over egen praksis. Aktionsforsknings traditionen har sit udgangspunkt i forskernes samspil med et reflekterende felt og er derfor en vigtig metodisk inspirationskilde til den erhvervsorienterede forskning. Men aktionsforskningen er ikke konsolideret som én fælles forskningstradition. Der er derimod udviklet en række forskningsmetodiske tilgange såsom: Aktionsforskning, Action science, Sociologisk fantasi, Bruger/borger involvering i udviklingsprojekter, Dialogforskning, Reflective practice, Action learning, Appreciative inquiry, Communities of Inquiry in Communities of practice, Clinical inquiry (Baskerville 1996). Metoderne er udviklet i relation til det felt eller problemstilling, som forskergrupperne var engagerede i, og kun enkelte er tænkt ind i en erhvervsforskningskontekst. Denne mangfoldighed har ført til, at det enkelte erhvervsforskningsprojekti stort omfang har skullet definere sit eget ståsted for sin interaktion med feltet, opstille sineegne kriterier for etik, kvalitet og generaliserbarhed af resultater og så fremdeles. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6765
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Assessing the Impact of Global Economics on Industrial Developments and Inter-Ethnic Relations in Penang, MalaysiaJacobsen, Michael (Frederiksberg, 2010)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Due to the increasingly integration and thus inter-dependency between the global economy, a given national economy and their societal embedment a triangulation between the three elements is a must if one is to understand the dynamic processes between them. This article focuses especially on the national economic and societal aspects of such a triangulation thus positioning the national dependencies of the global economy in the background. The notion of triangulation is perceived by the author to be more holistic and relational oriented compared to an approach based on decoupling. The latter aims through sector defined studies to assess the level of connectivity between global and national economics as well as between them and their societal embedment in order to detect whether there are potential fault-lines between the three thus mitigating the notion of decoupling. This article applies a triangular approach on the electronic and electrical manufacturing sector in Penang. It concentrates in particular on how companies within this sector relate to pertinent governmental initiated industry policies and the impact of the inter-ethnic related affirmative action policy in this connection. The global aspect of the triangulation has thus been put on a back burner in this study, as the article emphasises the importance of pointing towards the inter-dependency between the political, the inter-ethnic and the economic sectors in Penang, as they are perceived to condition each other. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8203
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implications for organizational changeMichailova, Snejina (København, 1997)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7077
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Interfirm Linkages and the Vertical Structure and Dynamics of the Danish Trucking and Congress Tourism IndustriesSornn-Friese, Henrik; Jensen, Søren Henning (Frederiksberg, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper questions the overall role of interfirm linkages in industrial dynamics. Studying Danish trucking and congress tourism, the paper addresses a number of particular questions concerning how industry responds to changing conditions. In trucking, the important interfirm linkages are pecuniary and entails nontrivial exchange among multiple dispersed agents, while in congress tourism Inter-organizational linkages are more strategic, with the activities of multiple agents forming together into products, without direct exchange. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7874
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Meyer, Klaus (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7068
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Exploring the 'Black Whole' in Institutional TheoryJakobsen, Michael (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The aim of this article is to take a critical look at how to perceive informal institutions within institutional theory. Douglas North in his early works on institutional theory divided the national institutional framework into two main categories, formal and informal institution or constraints as he called them. The formal constraints consisted of political rules, judicial decisions and economic contracts, whereas informal constraints consisted of socially sanctioned norms of behaviour, which are embedded in culture and value systems. As formal constraints are straight forward to deal with the informal ones are much more vaguely defined and thus more difficult to grasp analytical. This imprecise perception of informal constraints is surprising as they basically constitute the foundation of the society in question, whereas formal constraints 'only' constitute the functional aspects of the state apparatus in that particular society. In order to, however, begin excavating what lies further behind the informal constraints and their impact on the functionality of the formal constraints it is important to take an overall critical look at the way in which institutional theory relate to a given societal context. This article suggest that this is done by first employing an overall international business (IB) approach to analyse a national economy, in this case the Malaysian economy. This will not, however, be done according to the generally accepted procedure in IB studies using either a firm specific or a generic market-based approach, but rather by employing a combination of selected IB theories and a 'glocalised reading' on how the relationship between the global economy and a national economy pan out and how this translate into impacting a given societal setup. In other words, IB theories are not only employed in the economic sphere, but also confronted with a variety of societal factors that have a positive or negative impact on the explanatory power of the individual IB theories employed. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8869
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A Survey of 210 Food Processing Firms from Tanzania, Kenya and ZambiaSchmidt, Amelie; Hansen, Michael Wendelboe (Frederiksberg, 2017)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: The increasing integration of global markets creates opportunities, as well as challenges for developing countries. Even though the picture of Africa as a 'hopeless continent' (Economist, 2000) has changed to the 'next Asia' (Deloitte, 2016), poverty, unemployment and business failure rates remain high (Mol, Stadler, & Arino, 2017). More precisely, African firms have to cope with the difficult environment in their local economies, which are often dominated by institutional voids, corruption and market risks (Tvedten et al., 2015). At the same time, local companies face fierce competition by foreign companies entering their local markets due to the trade liberalization reforms that took place since the 1980s (Moini, Kuada, & Decker, 2016). These factors contribute to the poor performance of African companies, which is reflected by stagnating exports, particularly in the manufacturing sector (Söderbom & Teal, 2003). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9566
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FDI with chinese characteristicsCrabtree, Andrew (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: China's FDI to Africa has drawn much attention recently, partially because of the high profile China has given it, and partially because of the political and economic effects it is having on Africa. This paper begins by outlining the political context which is needed to understand Chinese outward FDI, namely the introduction of the "open door" policy and, more particularly, its policy towards Africa. The paper then goes on to give an overview of Chinese FDI in Africa. The paper then turns to ask the question: Is Chinese FDI developmental? To answer this question, it examines the notion of development and argues that much of the "western FDI" debate is severely limited in as far as it concentrates on income poverty and ignores other aspects of multidimensional poverty. After giving an overview of China's involvement in Africa, the paper turns to four case studies of Chinese FDI, examining the developmental impacts on a variety of dimensions (as far as is possible) of different types of FDI in different regimes, namely resource seeking and manufacturing in Zambia, an infrastructure project in Botswana and construction/tourism in Sierra Leone. It warns against generalising from these cases, but suggests that the developmental effects so far have been limited. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6753
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Christine Tham wrote:arkle wrote:Gosh Christine you're fast! Respect
Actually I am not, but thanks anyway. Last year has been a bad year for me, and I'm still struggling to return to former form.
For example, last Sat on Mona Vale Rd, I was struggling to get to mid 40s when I know I used to blast it at close to 50. I did have one guy who was happy to suck my wheel though. It was so hot I could hardly breathe.
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Dscoop to Bring Together HP Graphics Arts Users at Fourth Annual Dscoop Asia Conference
Friday, April 19, 2013
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Chicago, IL, USA — Dscoop will be holding its fourth annual conference for the Asia Pacific region from 12-13 May in Beijing, China. Dscoop Asia 2013, held in conjunction with China Print, is a unique opportunity for HP Indigo Graphic Arts users to come together to learn techniques, tools and tips to grow their business.
The Asia Pacific event has shown significant growth since the inaugural conference in 2009 and now hosts over 1,200 people annually. This year's conference will feature 11 deep dive workshops that will be held in English and Mandarin as well as a strong lineup of educational tracks covering Sign and Display, GCP and DM, Publishing, Labels and Packaging and Photos.
In addition, attendees can expect an announcement from Chris Petro, Dscoop Global Chairman regarding the new member global initiatives that Dscoop is launching in 2013.
"These new initiatives are valued resources that will help Dscoop members succeed in today's changing print market," said Petro. "Not only will they empower Dscoop members to diversify their services, but will allow a network of 8,000 members to connect worldwide."
Customer site visits will be available for attendees from North America and EMEA regions to get an insider's look at how print service providers in China are creating business opportunities using HP Indigo and IHPS digital presses and front end solutions. Site visits will be tailored to specific interests and segments including: Photo Printing and Finishing; General Commercial Printing; Publishing; and Labels and Packaging.
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The investment bank, KippsDeSanto, served as an advisor to Guident in the sale, which closed at the end of 2012.
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Tent - There are few things that humans have absolute need of and shelter is one of them. Backpacking tents come in all shapes and sizes; in general a lighter-weight tent is a good choice.
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Clothing and Personal Items - Plan on wearing more than one outfit? Then bring some extra clothes. You also might want some toilet paper and a toothbrush while you're out.
Food - Take extra if you have space, it's always better to have more food.
Water - Your best bet for saving space is a water filtration unit.
Fire - Bring matches or a lighter and some kindling if you have room.
Kitchen Items - Grab yourself a cup, thermos or water bottle to drink out of, drop in some utensils or at least a spork, add a backpacking stove and something to cook in and you'll be ready to cook.
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Map and Compass - Don't get lost; also learn to use a compass if you plan on bringing one.
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New: Bento Diaper Bag From Skip Hop
For those following along at home, in the past I have admitted to having a small crush on a Skip Hop bag in the past. It's held everything from diapers and pacifiers to camera gear and church books (did I mention it's still around?) and I love it dearly. I didn't think it could get any better until recently when we spied this new Bento Bag. Well color me corrected as this bag is all that and a bag of chips (assuming you remember to pack them that is!). Did we mention it's even cool for dudes to carry?
The Bento Bag from Skip Hop has many of the same conveniences that previous bags offered, but with a few more additions.
This bag boasts a neutral color palate making it easy for men and women alike to carry it and also has a new zip open insulated pouch on the bottom. This section will make fresh foods easier to transport and keep them chilly or warm, depending on what you're little one is in the mood for. You can pick up a meal time kit that includes the small zip bag above, 3 small containers that fit inside and a water bottle.
Extra pockets have been added to the outside and ends that close with zippers instead of their more traditional magnetic and velcro closures that previous bags have seen. Inside the bag you'll find a similar structure to bags past with easy collapsible pockets for when you need divided space (that tuck away easy when you don't).
The bag retails for $99 and can be found in 3 different color ways here, from Skip Hop.
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Bao, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, uses molecular beacons, nano-sized biomarkers that seek out certain disease-indicating genes and glow when they find them, to create new methods for early disease detection, imaging and drug delivery.
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Shailene Woodley is moving on from Ricky for Spider-Man.
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Mary Jane is the red-headed love interest of Peter Parker/Spider-Man played by Andrew Garfield.
Kirsten Dunst formerly played the role in the Tobey Maguire trilogy.
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I have asked for new Snowspeeder in scale for years from Hasbro, and they're finally doing it. I'm almost ready to cry. It's kind of my Wilrow Hood, if he were a vehicle I guess. I remember people saying way back when how the old one was fine, how it was the right scale, blah blah blah... No.
This is looking pretty good an more in scale with accurate details. I am digging the gunner cockpit, perfect for exploding in Daks face. I also like the molded detail on the canopy.http://www.coreplanets.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3187&page=8(You have to scroll down a bit)(I hope that will be a blue A-Wing.)
I'm stocked about the Snowspeeder, and Droid Gunship. PLus there are pics out there of the new Cloud Car!I never really liked the Swamp Speeder. I'll prolly get one to have it, but it's not high on my list of vehicles.
When was the last time this was considered a rumor? Hasbro stated plain as day that they were working on a Snowspeeder as early as September of '08.
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Just got back from a week of diving at Blue Heron Bridge. I decided to try to take more supermacro shots this trip instead of the traditional macro i usually shoot when im there. I was somewhat successful, and the few below are my favorites. Lost my camera, 100mm macro and housing though to a huge flood :'(
a few more. the last shot of the mantis isnt supermacro but its one of my favorites from the trip
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Photographing young children is so often a lesson in not getting what you want. It's all about taking things as they come while maintaining a sense of humor. It's about improvising. Negotiating. Yielding. Creative problem solving. Being painfully patient and profoundly attentive. Sometimes begging, sometimes bribing. It's looking for things to wholeheartedly adore, and making the best out of any given situation. For sure, it's writing a love story with pictures.
Other than the begging and bribing, it's pretty much a good recipe for living life, I'd say.
I arrived at the location of this shoot very quickly forming ideas of where and how I wanted to photograph. Because it was a family with two young boys, I knew the odds of getting exactly what I wanted were iffy at best, but still, you have to have a vision to know what direction to lean in. The family arrived and were more formally dressed than I'd imagined they'd be for photographing on the sandy lakefront. Trying to keep the boys' clothing clean and nice while at the same time encouraging them to have fun presented a challenge. Pleasant expressions were sacrificed for the idyllic location.
After it became too hot and bright to work on the lakefront we moved to a nearby park area, where the boys were changed into play clothes and allowed to run. I'm not crazy about playground equipment being included in portraits, but was willing to make that concession over the pained expressions I was getting earlier. In this image there's much to be distracted by. Too many lines, and too much busy-ness. I might have at least liked the boys to be barefoot and perhaps even shirtless to simplify the scene more, but those choices weren't mine to make. My choices were all those things listed in the first paragraph, and then finally, deciding when to press the shutter release.
For the most part, I rarely get exactly what I set out to achieve when photographing children. Things almost never happen according to plan. There's always compromises, let downs, and surprises. But I find the process oddly exhilarating, and always come away with a childlike freshness from having shed the need to control the uncontrollable. Letting all that stuff go allows me to discover the beauty that remains even when I don't ultimately get what I want.


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Wasil Luczka (Luchka) and Anna Vitko - Prezmel, Ukrania
Wasil Luczka born 1/15/1882, died 11/8/1971. Came to America from Galica, Prezmel, Ukrania. First in 1909, returned to Ukrania and back to the US in 1911. Mother Katherine, Father Fred. Married Anna Vitko 10/30/1915. Anna born 2/21/1896, died 7/17/1970. She came from the same town to the US in June 1914. Her parents were Mary & Nicholas. I believe they met in Wilks-Barre (Sp?) PA. Moved to Youngstown, OH at some point before the 1930 census. The had eight children: 1.) Nicholas b 9/25/1917 2.) Theodore b 2/9/1920 d 10/21/1922. 3.) Andrew b 9/20/1921 4.) Stephana b 11/6/1923 d 3/14/1926 5.) Olga(**researching this line) b 11/12/1925 6.) Theodore b 7/9/1929 d 3/10/1943 7.) Mary b 2/14/1931 8.) Charles b 2/9/1935.
** Olga married Earl Smith 8/29/1942.
William Corbet Smith & Cordelia Stiver (Stuver) Smith
I am researching William Corbet Smith. He died in 1916 or 1917. He had four brothers George, Guy, John & Nathan. He was married to Cordelia Stiver( possibly Stuver) born 10/2/1862 and died 2/14/1911 at the age of 49. She had a brother Charles who may have been a farmer in New Castle PA with a daughter named Ida. she also had a sister Annie Brown from Sharon PA, one daughter Myrtle, one son Clyde.
Wm and Cordelia had several children: 1.)Maybelle Ann Smith Pratt born July 19, 1889 and died in Sept ? . She had one son Kenneth who dies Dec. 29, 1974. 2.) **Ralph William Smith (the line I am directly searching see below for their children) Born May 30 ????. ** 3.) Edith born Sept, died July 1903. 4.) Charlie Alfred born 10/24/1898 died 4/1903 5.)Bernice Smith Raqsdale (Charlie's twin) 2 daughters Barbara Ann & Maybelle Esther. 5.) Clyde born 4/24/1903 Wife Mable Daughter Ethel 6.) Esther Sarah Smith Warner born 11/20/1905 died 10/19/1987. Husband Charles Daughter Margie.
** Ralph Smith (above) married Mina Newtown from Watertown NY. She born 9/7/1882 and died in Oct ????. She had 2 brothers Tim Newton, of Springfield, Mass. & Jack Newton of same. A sister Marion (children: William, Rita and John)and another sister Eva.
Ralph and Mina had one son Earl L Smith born 4/15/1919 died 12/15/1999 (direct line I'm researching). They also had 6 daughters: Maybelle Smith Ewankowich Mahood Born 2/7/??, Evangeline Ruth Smith Born in Nov., Helen Smith Metzinger Born 4/10/??, Florence Smith, Esther Smith, Bernice Smith Van Houten.
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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
OK, so i'm looking to add the last piece to the puzzle to finally make this automation project 'complete'. I am looking to bring in my live tv finally so I (and my wonderful gf) can take full advantage of LMCE without having to switch inputs contantly.I'm looking at the HD PVR from Hauppauge and the HDHomeRun from silicon dust. Both capture video, but both also have slightly different ways of working.What are your thoughts out there? I'd like to get as much input as possible before taking the plunge in either direction.Many thanks,Ryan


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I am also unaware of the 10kph speed limit in this area. It is not signed posted and I couldn't find a reference to this speed either on the City of Stirling website. If you aren't provided with this information, how do you know there is a speed limit?The 'Stirling Gate' that will be installed at Trigg is underway and should be completed within a week. This does allow for an unimpeded 900mm gap and should be far less restrictive that any other form of gate or chicane and has been field tested. It is intended to provide compliance and enforcement of two elements: Firstly, the legal requirement for single file and secondly slowing down (on entry to an area of major conflict already covered by a 10kph speed limit in the Citys Local Laws).
I also looked at CycleWest bike maps and did notice that this area is not recorded on their maps as a dual-use path, though again, there is no sign posts in the area to indicate that this section is not a shared path. Below is a screen shot of the bike map, and included the current development occuring in this area. There are multiple circles drawn on the path, which potentially indicates that the 'gates' will intersect the path, forcing users to walk around them.
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Chicago White Sox 2012 Offseason Recap and Preview
This, for whatever reason, was pretty much the gist of the White Sox's 2011 season:
Grade: D-
Notable Additions:
Notable Subtractions:
Mark Buehrle, Jason Frasor, Juan Pierre, Carlos Quentin, Sergio Santos, and Omar Vizquel.
Why?: Did you SEE all of their notable addition made this offseason? I looked up and down the list of Hot Stove people related to the White Sox and the highlight of their offseason is that Lastings Milledge is still on the market as a minor league free agent. Not even the prospects they got back in all of the trades were listed on the page. It just said: Jason Frasor, traded for two minor leaguers, or something like that. I like that the White Sox are trying to finally focus on their future as their Alex Rios and Jake Peavy moves have gone south, which is why I didn't give them an "F", but geez, they really lost a lot this offseason to have gained absolutely nothing.
Actually, no, I take the Lastings Milledge thing back. The highlight of the White Sox offseason has been re-signing Brain Bruney. Still, though, I don't think that the highlight of any team looking to have even mild success in 2012 would be in signing a guy you had the previous season to a minor league contract. This mediocre-at-best offseason is most likely the product of Ken Williams' signings of Alex Rios and Jake Peavy. Yes, the Adam Dunn deal has been a bust up until this point, but no one foresaw Dunn going this cold. When Williams traded for Rios and Peavy, there was a buzz among GM to the tune of: "Well he is really bold in making these moves, but I don't know if I would do this. Rios is getting paid way more than he is performing and Peavy is coming off an injury."
Predicted Record Range: 70-75 wins Dunn may return to form still, which would shift this range upwards, but they just lost too much net talent for my taste.


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The Art of Exploiting SQL Injection
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Ends Feb 28
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This is a full day hands on training course which will typically target penetration testers, security auditors/administrators and web developers to learn advanced exploitation techniques. SQL Injection, although now nearly 15 years old, still exists in over 30% of the web applications. This vulnerability could typically result in 3 scenarios:
- Authentication Bypass
- Extraction of arbitrary sensitive data from the database
- Access and compromise of the internal network.
This training will target 3 databases:
- MySQL
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and discuss a variety of exploitation techniques to exploit each scenario. The aim of the training course is to address the following:
- Understand the problem of SQL Injection
- Learn a variety of advanced exploitation techniques which hackers use
- Learn how to fix the problem
Identify, extract, escalate, execute; we have got it all covered.
Course Outline
SQL Injection
- Identifying SQL Injections
- Exploiting SQL Injections
- With Error Messages enabled
- With Error Messages disabled
- Blind Injection
- Union Queries
- Time delays
- Out of Band Channels
- Heavy Queries
- Advanced Topics
- Injection in Order by, group by, limit, SQL name etc.
- 2nd Order SQL Injections
- Exploiting Non Interactive SQL Injections
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- Injection in stored procedures
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"Aristotle's _Physica_, Ptolemy's _Almagest_, Newton's _Principia_
and _Opticks_, Franklin's _Electricity_ and Lyell's _Geology_ -these and
many other works served for a time implicitly to to define the legitimate
problems and methods of a research field for succeeding generations of
practitioners. They were able to do so because they shared two essential
characteristics. Their achievment was sufficiently unprecedented to attract
an enduring group of adherents away from competing modes of scientific
activity. Simultaneously, it was sufficiently open-ended to leave all sorts
of problems for the redefined group of practitioners to resolve.
"Achievments that share these two characteristics I shall henceforth
refer to as 'paradigms,' a term that relates closely to 'normal science.'"
(Thomas S. Kuhn, _The Structure of Scientific Revolutions_, 2d ed.,
enlarged [University of Chicago, 1970], p.10.)
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> Can anyone tell me what a paradigm really is? Is it just a pretentious
> word of no meaning?
> Michael
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>> Dini's statement is even purer baloney than Ted suggests. The "Ph." in
>> the current Ph.D. is a result of bundling lots of different disciplines
>> into the "philosophy" category, going back to the days when what we now
>> call "science" was "natural philosophy." Of course when someone gets a
>> doctorate in some scientific field she/he is supposed to know something
>> about the way in which that field works, its limitations &c but there
>> seldom is any formal training in "philosophy of science" in the modern
>> sense. Maybe there should be but there isn't. & this isn't limited to
>> science. As a classical scholar my late father of course studied a
>> certain amount of Greek & Latin philosophy but when he got a Ph.D. in
>> classical philology I don't think he did much if any formal study of
>> "philosophy of language."
>> Shalom
>> George
>> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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>> I want to comment on these closing lines from the Times article:
>> <Dr. Dini, of Texas Tech, agreed. Scientists "ought to make certain the
>> people they are conferring advanced degrees on understand the philosophy
>> of science and are indeed philosophers of science," he said. "That's what
>> Ph.D. stands for.">
>> It's a nice sentiment, but I doubt that most scientists have much
>> understanding of the philosophy of science. And what "philosophy of
>> science" means to Dini is probably not what it means to Marcus Ross, or
>> even me. There are various approaches to philosophy of science, and I
>> suspect that Dini is thinking of something pretty strongly positivistic.
>> List members may recall that I mentioned Ross some time back, in
>> connection with talking about Kurt Wise and Paul Nelson as YECs with a
>> new attitude--an attitude not appreciated in many YEC circles. I noted
>> his contribution to the DVD on the Cambrian explosion that he did with
>> Steve Meyer, esp the fact that he apparently accepted the earth's great
>> age for purposes of doing the DVD.
>> ted
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I'm not sure who is excited about "Final Destination 5" right now. I sure as crap know 5 podcasters who are miserable about it's upcoming release. But for those of you looking forward to it's final destinations there's a whole boat load of new posters for your viewing pleasure. I think they might be in Russian though. I have no idea. What language uses a backwards 3 as a letter? I want to party with those guys.
I've beat the silly Italian accent into the ground when describing any sort of horror flick that's been put out by those pizza tossers so I'm going to take the high road on this one. "Morituris", which has a new trailer, is about a group of Roman soldiers who return from the grave to kick the cannolis out of anyone they come in contact with. Not going to lie it looks kind of bad ass. But I might just be fooled by the hot lix in whatever song is playing during the trailer. I'm a sucker for crappy shredding.
I'm positive that "The Darkest Hour" takes place in Russia although I didn't see any backwards 3's in the new trailer so I'm still kind of confused about the "Final Destination 5" posters. The movie doesn't come out until December but from the trail my spidey senses are all a flutter with excitement. It follows 5 tourists trapped in Moscow during an alien invasion of some sort of creepy weird light that turns everything into dust. I realize this sounds ridiculous but watch the trailer, you'll get strange tingles in new places too.
Never let it be said that the people at The Asylum don't come up with some of the weirdest crap to ever hit the straight to DVD selves. Their latest masterpiece is "2 Headed Shark Attack" which is about, as if you couldn't have guessed, a 2 headed shark that attacks a school-at-sea boat. No news on casting yet but they're shooting for a early 2012 release date. I can't wait for the sequel. I need to see a 3 headed shark attack.


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Winston-Salem man wins 3rd big lottery prize in 3 years
Winston-Salem man wins 3rd big lottery prize in 3 years
A Winston-Salem man has won at least $100,000 in the North Carolina Education Lottery for the third time since 2010.
David Settle, a retired home builder, claimed his $100,000 prize Thursday afternoon.
Settle bought his $4 million Gold Bullion game scratch-off ticket at the Pit Stop on South Main Street.
Settle, who calls playing the lottery a "hobby," previously won $3 million in November 2010 and another $100,000 in October 2011. Both of those wins were in the $200 Million Extravaganza scratch-off game.
Settle received $68,000 after taxes and said he plans to use the money to travel and help his children.


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So I posted a few weeks go saying my oversupply was gone. And it really was gone for like 2 weeks! Or so it seemed. Now it seems like there is way too much milk again. I am beyond frustrated with this.
My baby is 5 months old, so I really feel like it's impossible that it went away and came back. I wonder what happened? At this point I don't pump at all because I don't want to make the oversupply worse. I don't want to quit (and in reality I can't at this point because we've tried a bottle many times), but she chokes and gags and gets so angry. She was comfort nursing great and seemed to enjoy it, but now the milk is back. She will only feed side lying, also very frustrating while trying to look after a toddler.
Since she is at 5 months, does this mean that she set my production to high again? I find it unlikely that my body would just automatically make that much milk again after stopping. Now she doesn't want the milk. I'm so confused. ERRRRRR. I'm sure it's possible that some other thing is making her fussy at the breast and so sensitive to it...like if she's tired and gets even a drop of milk out of an empty breast she gets mad. Maybe this is just her being fussy and a baby?


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Wis. chief: School shooters often telegraph intent
MILWAUKEE -- School shooters almost always telegraph their violent plans ahead of time, a tendency that could help authorities prevent assaults as long as those close to the person plotting an attack come forward in time, panelists said Tuesday at a summit for the nation's attorneys general.
There's a general perception that shooters are people who just snap after having a bad day, said Susan Riseling, police chief at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Instead the opposite is true: These individuals are so meticulous about their crimes that they'll often study the shooting site ahead of time to strategize their actions, she said.
"Please remember that nobody snaps. This is a process," Riseling said at the summit of the National Association of Attorneys General in downtown Milwaukee. "If you know what to look for you will see it coming. The good news about that is that if you can see it coming you can stop it."
The focus of the summit, which attracted attorneys general from 18 U.S. states and territories, was keeping children safe.
Riseling said she studied thousands of mass shootings over two decades and found that shooters always follow the same five steps: They fantasize about the attack, plan it, prepare for it, practice it and finally carry it out.
She was even willing to make a prediction about the former Navy reservist who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday morning before dying in a gun battle with police.
"They're going to carve up this person's life and they're going to find all of these indications," Riseling said. "... We will find out the Navy yard shooter yesterday went through these five stages."
She said the key to stopping school shootings is to intervene before the shooter advances beyond the planning stages.
That's the strategy officials have developed in Colorado, where 12 students and one teacher were killed in the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School and where 12 people were killed last year at an Aurora movie theater. The state has spearheaded a program aimed at targeting acquaintances of possible shooters and encouraging them to speak up ahead of time, said Cynthia Coffman, Colorado's chief deputy attorney general.
"We want to encourage them to break the code of silence, to speak up when they feel a threat to themselves or their environment," she said.
Colorado set up a hotline for students and teachers to report violence or threats. The hotline guarantees anonymity and offers no cash rewards, because the state didn't want to incentivize kids to delay their reporting in hopes of cashing in, Coffman said.
Because of the hotline and other intervention efforts, 28 planned school attacks have been stopped in the state since 2004, she said. In every case the potential shooter had articulated a plan -- orally or in writing -- and had begun stockpiling weapons or assembling a pipe bomb, she said.
"In many cases there was a hit list as well, of students they wanted to target," she added.
Intervention efforts also have helped authorities address bullying, child abuse and students with suicidal thoughts, Coffman said.
The attorneys general summit runs through Wednesday. Other child safety panels address issues such as drug abuse and child trafficking.
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I don't understand why this article is entitled 'Orthros' when 'Matins' is both the accepted and proper term in English. Can someone enlighten me? -- Pistevo 14:22, December 13, 2005 (CST)
- Early on we had a discussion and elected to go with the Greek Orthros rather than the Latinate Matins as the standard for this article. This follows the pattern used elsewhere on OrthodoxWiki of preferring the Greek form of a name as the main article, with variants redirecting to it (see, for instance Diakonissa and Shamassy, Presbytera and Matushka, etc.). —Dcn. David talk contribs 14:47, December 13, 2005 (CST)
- cf. style manual and previous conversation regarding use of Greek terminology —magda (talk) 14:49, December 13, 2005 (CST)
- Thanks. I knew that was somewhere, but couldn't find it quickly. You are always rescuing me. I appreciate it. ;-) —Dcn. David talk contribs 15:18, December 13, 2005 (CST)
- As far as I can see, the relevant part of the style manual says: "Thus, the preference for OrthodoxWiki will be to use Greek terms where no standard English word is predominant among Anglophonic Orthodox writers". The critical difference between Matins vs Orthros and Presvytera vs Matushka is that Matins is an English word, and is unquestionably predominant. -- Pistevo 03:02, December 14, 2005 (CST)
- Is it? At least in the US (can't speak for y'all in the Global Deep South), Orthros is the preferred term among Byzantine tradition churches (which are in the majority). —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 07:37, December 14, 2005 (CST)
- *greatly surprised*. If Orthros is predominant in North America, then I agree that it's probably best as it is (since most English translations - and most web-surfers - are from there anyway). In my neck of the woods, I'd have to pronounce Orthros with a Greek accent (like, say, Pistevo), because it'd sound like I was using a technical term. -- — by Pιsτévο talk complaints at 16:46, December 14, 2005 (CST)
Using the Google Method -- Orthros vs. Matins
Orthos: 57,500 hits
Mattins: 60,400 hits
Matins: 3,990,000 hits
I think "Matins" wins by a long shot. :)
Frjohnwhiteford 11:20, April 16, 2007 (PDT)
- Indeed. (No doubt your millions of voters there are mostly heretics, however!) However, this is not a spelling issue. This instead falls under the "Do we use Greek or Russian or Arabic or English technical terms"? "Matins" is clearly not favored by a massive amount of Anglophonic Orthodoxy, so the standard we've long used is to use Greek terminology for technical and theological terms, since it is original and universal.
- See: OrthodoxWiki:Style Manual#Technical Terminology. —Fr. Andrew talk contribs 14:22, April 16, 2007 (PDT)
- I can live with Orthros, although I disagree that this represents the largest part of Orthodox English-speaking usage.
- You can do more limited Google searches, such as "+Orthodox +Orthros" vs. "+Orthodox +Matins" and Matins wins by a 110,000:28,700 ratio. You can also do site searches, which are very interesting:
- The two jurisdictions most likely to use "Orthros" are almost evenly split between the two:
site:www.antiochian.org +Orthros =197 site:www.antiochian.org +Matins =205 hits site:www.goarch.org +Orthros =608 site:www.goarch.org +Matins =513
- In the Slavic Churches in America, it is not even close:
site:www.oca.org +Orthros =17 site:www.oca.org +Matins =609 site:/www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws +Orthros =0 site:/www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws +Matins =23 site:/www.russianchurchusa.org +Orthros =0 site:/www.russianchurchusa.org +Matins =1 site:www.spc.org.yu +Orthros =0 site:www.spc.org.yu +Matins =1 site:www.romarch.org +Orthros =0 site:www.romarch.org +Matins =3
- A big Orthodox site:
site:orthodoxinfo.com +Orthros =6 site:orthodoxinfo.com +Matins =42
- An important Greek, New Calendar web site with liturgical texts:
site:sgpm.goarch.org +Orthros =1 site:sgpm.goarch.org +Matins =109
- And then if you go across the pond, to the mother land, you find the following:
site:www.anastasis.org.uk +Orthros =2 site:www.anastasis.org.uk +Matins =246 site:www.antiochian-orthodox.co.uk +Orthros =2 site:www.antiochian-orthodox.co.uk +Matins =13 site:www.thyateira.org.uk +Orthros =1 site:www.thyateira.org.uk +Matins =12 site:www.sourozh.org +Orthros =0 site:www.sourozh.org +Matins =6
- And so in Great Britain, it crosses all ethnic boundaries.
- Then, if you look at the major English translations, you have Nassar, Hapgood, Ware, Boston, Jordanville, and St. John of Kronstadt Press, all using Matins. In fact, I am unaware of any widely used Orthodox English text that uses "Orthros". I know what "Orthros" is, but honestly, I think far more people don't... and at least Matins rings a bell with most. But while this is my opinion, I am partly just yanking your chain here. :) I can live with "Orthros". :) Frjohnwhiteford 17:11, April 16, 2007 (PDT)


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About the Deep-Sky Gems List
During a lifetime of comet hunting David Levy has swept up many unique and interesting deep-sky objects and through this certificate he shares with us the best 154 of his Deep Sky Objects (Prometheus Books, New York 2005). Leo Enright is credited with planting the seed from which this certificate has grown and he invested a great deal of time on the project.
Many deep-sky objects in the list are from the NGC and IC but it also contains unique objects, such as Levy 384, Tombaugh's Cluster, and a dust field. The Deep-Sky Gems list was first published in the RASC Observer's Handbook in 2008. The application form is linked at the bottom of this page.
Below is an overview of the Deep-Sky Gems observing list:
|GEM Objects
|Open Clusters
|Including the overlooked naked-eye open cluster NGC 752, Tombaugh's Cluster, and the Christmas Tree Cluster in Monoceros.
|Globular Clusters
|"Intergalactic Wanderer" in Lynx and globular cluster NGC 7006 in Delphinus.
|Bright Nebulae
|Unusual objects such as NGC 1333, the Embryo Nebula, and NGC 7023, the Iris Nebula, along with other "weird" nebulae. Some are associated with nearby star clusters.
|Planetary Nebula
|This large and bright Fornax planetary deserves to be better known.
|Large and small, round and elongated, there is a great variety of galaxies, spiral, elliptical, and unusual.
|Double Quasar
|This is the remarkable double quasar known to act as a gravitational lens +561A/B in Ursa Major
|NGC 2174 known as the Monkey Head Nebula
|Galaxy Clusters
IC and Arp clusters visible in medium sized scopes.
|This is a very special asterism that has gained recognition in observational literature as "Levy 384" in Puppis
RASC Deep-Sky Gems Certificate
Observing the Deep-Sky Gems is an excellent project for those who have completed their Messier and Finest NGC Certificates and are looking for another visual observing program. The official list can be found in the RASC Observer's Handbook. At least a 20-cm (8-inch) telescope is recommended for tackling the list, but an instrument with an aperture in the 40-cm (16-inch) range will be needed to satisfactorily observe the quasar. A nebular filter will assist in observing most of the nebulae. Several Deep-Sky Gems may be observed in smaller instruments or without optical aid, so that virtually anyone can begin this project without a trip to the scope shop. Nebular filters will assist in the observation of faint glowing clouds of gas, but note that reflection nebulae do not benefit from such filtration.
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MLOhawks wrote:Go cold turkey, and keep yourself away from other smokers, or at least where they smoke at. Remind yourself that cancer, black lungs, and early death await you if you keep smoking.
Chantix worked for me.
I agree with you 100% tho. If you value your life, whatever it takes to get off the smokes, do it. Do it now, not when you doctor starts talking to you about your options in portable oxygen carts.


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Currently, SAS Institute, Inc. is suing World Programming for copyright infringement. SAS claims that by implementing the same functionality, using the same programming language, as is present in SAS' software, World Programming is violating SAS' copyright. The crucial thing here is that World Programming has not had any access to SAS' source code.
SAS creates something known as the SAS System, a set of software programs to collect, store, analyse, and manipulate data. Using the SAS Language, people can extend the functionality of the SAS System. The problem was that if a customer wanted to switch away from SAS, he had no choice but to rewrite his programs; the SAS Language only works with SAS' software, meaning total vendor lock-in.
This is where World Programming comes in. They developed an alternative to the SAS System, dubbed the WPL System, which allowed customers to run programs written in the SAS Language without using the SAS System. They had no access to any of SAS' source code whatsoever, so they had to write it from scratch.
As a result, SAS sued World Programming, arguing that reverse engineering SAS constituted copyright infringement - not just of the source code itself, but also the manuals for the SAS System (since the functionality was alike, I presume). In addition, SAS also contents that World Programming violated the license of the SAS System Learning Edition (probably by using it to better understand SAS, and therefore, violate a non-commercial clause in the license).
The High Court of England and Wales already ruled in July last year that SAS had no case, and that the functions provided by computer systems, or the language they're written in, cannot be protected by copyright. The case then escalated to the Court of Justice, which is set to rule next year. Yves Bot's non-binding opinion, published today, reiterates The High Court of England and Wales' ruling.
Bot comes to the conclusion that under current EU law, the functionality provided by a computer program cannot form the object of copyright protection. His example to illustrate his point, interestingly enough, is not altogether different from how most programmers argue against software patents.
There are, however, many means of achieving the concrete expression of those functionalities and it is those means which will be eligible for copyright protection under Directive 91/250. As we have seen, creativity, skill and inventiveness manifest themselves in the way in which the program is drawn up, in its writing. The programmer uses formulae, algorithms which, as such, are excluded from copyright protection because they are the equivalent of the words by which the poet or the novelist creates his work of literature. However, the way in which all of these elements are arranged, like the style in which the computer program is written, will be likely to reflect the author's own intellectual creation and therefore be eligible for protection.
In other words, the actual written code behind a function is protected by copyright, but the function is not. So, if you arrive at the same function but with entirely different code, you are not infringing any copyright. "To accept that a functionality of a computer program can be protected as such would amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to the detriment of technological progress and industrial development," Bot writes.
Well paint me red and call me a girl scout - that sounds a hell of a lot like how we argue against software patents.
Moving on to the issue of the programming language, Bot also comes to the conclusion that it, too, cannot form the object of copyright protection.
Moving on to the matter of the data files SAS stores information in. To achieve interoperability with these data files, World Programming had to decompile certain parts of the SAS System. Bot argues that an inherent function of the data files is to enable interoperability, and that EU law allows decompilation in cases where the necessary information to achieve interoperability has not been made readily available. In other words, exactly because SAS did not publish the information needed for third parties to read from and write to the data files, World Programming was allowed to decompile.
However, Bot adds that "in my view, the use of the terms 'indispensable' and 'necessary' illustrates the desire of the European Union legislature to make decompilation an exceptional act. To my mind, the licensee will have to demonstrate the absolute necessity of reproducing the code or of translating the form of the code for the purposes of interoperability with the elements of his own program."
This is reasonable, in my eyes. If the information to create fully interoperable third party programs is readily available, then there's no need to decompile or reverse engineer anything. If such information is not readily available, however, third parties should legally be allowed to decompile the information.
Lastly, we have the manuals. World Programming only took "keywords, syntax, commands and combinations of commands, options, defaults and iterations" out of the SAS manuals. As you can probably deduce from what we've covered so far, Bot does not believe these elements are covered by copyright protection.
I have to say that this is the second time the EU Court of Justice has blown me away with the clarity of their rulings and opinions. The language used is not overly legalese, it's relatively easy to understand, and the arguments made are based on technical understanding. It naturally helps that I find myself in full agreement with the opinion, but still.
We can only hope that the Court of Justice adopts Bot's opinion, but we'll have to wait until next year before we find out.


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