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Hispanic Poverty Rate Highest In New Supplemental Census Measure
For more than a decade, the Census Bureau has been developing an alternative measure of poverty that is intended to better reflect the costs of basic living expenses as well as the resources people have to pay them. The bureau has just released results for 2010 from the alternative metric—called the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)—that uses a wider range of factors than the official federal measure to determine poverty status.
The additional data used in the alternative measure include medical expenses, tax credits, non-cash government benefits (such as food stamps, housing subsidies and school lunch programs) and cost-of-living adjustments for different geographic areas. The alternative measure is not intended to replace the official poverty measure, at least for now. For the foreseeable future, the Census Bureau will report two sets of numbers.
Compared with the official measure, SPM figures released by the Census Bureau show a higher national poverty rate for 2010, 16.0%, compared with the official poverty rate of 15.2% (Short, 2011).1 The number of poor people in 2010 was 49.1 million using the alternative measure, compared with 46.6 million using the official measure. Using the SPM also resulted in higher poverty rates for some groups and lower poverty rates for others, when compared with the official measure.
Among the nation's largest racial and ethnic groups, poverty rates using the alternative measure are higher than official poverty rates for Hispanics, whites2 and Asians, but are lower for blacks. For Hispanics, the SPM poverty rate (28.2%) was 1.5 percentage points higher than the official poverty rate of 26.7%. For whites, the SPM poverty rate was 11.1% while the official poverty rate was 10.0%. For Asians, the SPM poverty rate was 16.7% versus the official poverty rate of 12.1%. By contrast, the SPM poverty rate for blacks, 25.4% in 2010, was 2.1 percentage points lower than the official poverty rate of 27.5%.
The Census Bureau report on the alternative poverty measure did not explain why poverty rates for race groups and Hispanics change under the alternative measure.3
When the alternative measure is used, a greater share of Hispanics in 2010 lived in poverty than any other group. By contrast, when using the official poverty rate, a greater share of blacks in 2010 lived in poverty than Hispanics or any other group. Even so, no matter which measure is used, Hispanics make up nearly three-in-ten of the nation's poor—28.6% under the official poverty measure and 28.7% under the SPM.
The nation's youngest and oldest age groups also show notable differences in their poverty rates depending on whether the official measure or the SPM is used. For children younger than 18 in 2010, the SPM poverty rate was lower than the official poverty rate—18.2% versus 22.5%.4 For the elderly, by contrast, the SPM poverty rate was higher than the official poverty rate—15.9% versus 9.0%. One explanation of the difference for children is that the SPM, but not the official measure, accounts for the in-kind benefits of government programs that target families with children, according to the Census Bureau. One explanation of the higher poverty rates for the elderly shown in the SPM, according to the bureau's analysis, is that the alternative measure incorporates out-of-pocket spending on health care costs.
The share of people born in the U.S. who are poor did not change significantly using the SPM in 2010, compared with the official measure, but the poverty rate for immigrants was higher—25.5% versus 20.0%. For immigrants who are not U.S. citizens, the SPM poverty rate was 32.4% in 2010, while the official poverty rate was 26.7%. For naturalized citizens, the SPM poverty rate was 16.8% in 2010, compared with the official poverty rate of 11.4%.
Because the SPM accounts for cost-of-living differences across geographic areas, it produced different results from the official rates for cities, suburbs and non-metropolitan areas. The SPM poverty rate for residents outside of metropolitan areas was lower than the official poverty rate—12.8% versus 16.6%. By contrast, among those who live in metropolitan areas (cities and suburbs), the SPM poverty rate was higher than the official poverty rate—16.6% versus 15.0%.
The SPM, which was developed by the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics5, will not replace the official measure of poverty that has been used since the 1960s. The federal government's official poverty measure defines thresholds based on the cost of a basket of food, adjusted for householder age, family size and composition. These costs are compared with before-tax cash income (including Social Security payments and cash welfare grants) to determine poverty status.
The alternative poverty measure, by contrast, starts with the cost of a basket of food, clothing, shelter and utilities, and adjusts it based on a wider range of family types and housing costs in different areas. The SPM also accounts for a larger range of financial resources, adding the value of non-cash benefits such as food stamps and subsidies for school lunches, housing costs and energy bills, while subtracting expenses such as taxes, child care costs and out-of-pocket spending for medical bills.
- The official poverty rates included in the Census Bureau's new report, "The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2010," are higher than those published by the bureau earlier this year. For example, the 2010 official national poverty rate reported in "The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2010" was 15.2%. In announcing the official poverty statistics for the nation on Sept. 16, 2011, the Census Bureau gave the number as 15.1% (DeNavas-Walt, Proctor and Smith, 2011). This difference reflects the inclusion of unrelated children below age 15 in the more recent report, allowing for a direct comparison of SPM and official poverty rates. Poverty rates reported in the earlier report excluded unrelated children below age 15 from its calculations. ↩
- Reference to whites refers to its non-Hispanic component only. Reference to blacks and Asians includes both Hispanic and non-Hispanic components of each population. ↩
- In a paper presented to the American Sociological Association meeting in 2002, Census Bureau researchers mentioned two reasons for higher Hispanic poverty rates under some alternative measures of poverty. First, Hispanics are less likely than others to have health insurance, which is one factor that may affect out-of-pocket medical costs. Second, Hispanics are somewhat more likely to live in areas, such as California, where housing costs are higher. See http://www.census.gov/hhes/povmeas/publications/poor/define.pdf. ↩
- SPM poverty rates for Hispanic children, and other groups of children, were not available from the Census Bureau. Official poverty rates for children are available in Mark Hugo Lopez and Gabriel Velasco (2011), "The Toll of the Great Recession: Childhood Poverty Among Hispanics Sets Record, Leads Nation" at https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/reports/147.pdf. ↩
- The two agencies received technical guidance from an Interagency Technical Working Group, and much of the early foundational research on the supplemental measure was done by the National Academy of Sciences. For more information see http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/poverty/cb11-tps44.html. ↩


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The business of insurance is being disrupted, rapidly and from all sides. The competitiveness of traditional carriers is under severe threat. The companies that will survive and thrive will be those that can adapt to meet the challenges – and turn them to their advantage. We spoke to Ravi Malhotra, managing director in Accenture Strategy, about the steps carriers should take to remain relevant and successful.
Q: What is the nature of the disruption that's threatening insurers?
First of all, it's important to understand that while disruption is affecting all insurers, it's only threatening some of them – those that are unable or unwilling to adapt. For the others – and we call them the Digital Transformers – it represents a great opportunity to reinvent their business and operating models, find new sources of value for their customers, and in the process lay a new foundation for their long-term competitiveness and growth.
The disruption is coming mainly in the form of changing customer expectations and behavior, technological innovation, and the advent of new competitors, many of them from outside the industry. The first of these is obviously about the things consumers want from their insurance companies. But it goes further than that. It's also about the things consumers want in their lives, and whether insurers can change their traditional role to meet these new requirements.
Technology has always been a great disruptor; the difference now is that it's coming at us faster than ever. What's more, it's the enabler that is allowing many non-insurance companies to muscle their way into the industry, by means of powerful platforms, or sophisticated customer analytics, or novel sets of offerings or channel capabilities, to name just a few.
Q: How is this disruption affecting the traditional insurance business model?
In the first place, it's causing traditional profit pools to shrink. The demand for some forms of insurance is diminishing, and we expect this to continue. Full-service auto insurance is a prime example. As innovations like ride-sharing and driverless cars become commonplace, car ownership will diminish – and along with it, the number of insurance customers. We can also anticipate that there will be fewer, less severe accidents, which will cause premiums to decline. Telematics will reduce the premiums for the growing number of car owners who opt for this service. And then finally, direct online selling and aggregators are shifting the market towards a cheaper, more commoditized, no-frills product.
We project that insurers stand to lose between 15 and 30 percent of their revenue and between 25 and 50 percent of their profits, due to the erosion of their traditional markets combined with changing risk curves. But while this might make many insurers uncomfortable, it's not necessarily bad news – if it forces them to explore the flip side of the coin: the opportunities that are emerging to improve the combined ratio, to pursue new premium growth, to develop new (perhaps hybrid) products that address new risks, and to exploit entirely new sources of revenue such as providing data utility services.
Q: What do insurers need to do to counter the threats and exploit the opportunities of disruption?
You've got the question dead right, because they do need both a defensive and an offensive strategy. So the first priority is to protect their territory, their customer base, against competitors who are sneaking in from the sidelines. This might be traditional insurers with appealing new offerings, or newcomers such as telcos, retailers, online giants with massive brands, or small start-ups with devastating new business and operating models. To keep them at bay, insurers need to use technology to improve their customer experience and at the same time lower their costs.
Then the second step is to enhance the product offering to give customers something different and better. Insurers need to find new ways of providing value to customers. In the past they would examine their existing products and services in the hope of coming up with improvements. This won't cut it anymore. True customer-centricity demands that they step outside of their product portfolio, outside of their organization, and look at the world through the customer's eyes. By freeing themselves of the constraints of their legacy, in all its manifestations, insurers stand the best chance of learning what their most valued – and potentially lucrative – products can be.
Finally, when they have learned what consumers value, insurers need to decide what role they will play in providing it. Because there's a good chance they won't be able to do it on their own. For many, the answer lies in creating, or joining, an ecosystem of related providers. This will present the traditional insurer with tough decisions: Should they control the ecosystem or play a supporting role? How should revenue be shared and disbursed? Should their products be branded or white-labelled? It's a long list. But there's little doubt that a network of supportive partners stands a better chance of meeting consumers' needs and creating new revenue streams than an isolated carrier locked in a legacy mindset.
Q: So where should insurers start?
The first step is to ensure you have a good understanding of where your business is positioned: what are the forces that are transforming your particular marketplace, how vulnerable are you – and your competitors – to the disruption that's taking place, and what opportunities are emerging that suit your business mix? Then when you know exactly what's confronting you, you can develop an effective strategy that combines defense, to protect your existing business, and offense, to explore and test new propositions and business models for your future growth.
It's critical that this new strategy is customer-focused – that you develop it with the customer's perspective of what represents true value, even if that means looking beyond traditional products and services and your current operating and business models. And it's inevitable that your strategy will be digital, that it will extend across the enterprise value chain, and will address your short, medium and long-term needs. It will identify gaps in capability, and will evaluate different approaches for plugging them – which may involve partnering, or buying exciting new start-ups, or piloting new ventures.
Key to all of this will be the recognition that the playing field has changed, and that it's necessary to play the game in a different way. For many, this may be the hardest part.

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Consider This Your Giant, Missing 'Spoiler Alert' For EW's 'Lost' Cover Story
If there's one thing Entertainment Weekly loves even more than Twilight, it's Lost. However, fans may want to sic a smoke monster on the editors for divulging too much in their new cover story.
Since the show just aired its fourth episode (out of a planned seventeen this season), you might expect a little bit of light teasing about the next episode (hey! Jin is back) or mayyyybe some vague, long-range plans for the next few. Abruptly, though (and with nary a spoiler warning to be seen), the article's first paragraph reveals major spoilers about the show's twelfth episode, including the fates of many characters currently in limbo, including one who was just shown to be slowly dying.
So you know, that's kind of weird. But if that weren't enough, the print version of the story also runs publicity stills from episodes way, way down the line that spoil which characters make it back to the island as well as what (and when) they're up to. Since the question of whether the Oceanic Six will make it back there is, according to the article, the main thrust of the next several episodes, it's a little odd that the same magazine would casually reveal exactly which characters do.
In a nutshell, then: the article is mega-spoilery with absolutely no warning. But at least the pictures are pretty!


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IOM Class Rule InterpretationWritten by Ross Bennett
To: All WA clubs
RSAWA Committee
The following ruling has come from IOM ICA regarding headsail topping lift restraining lines. It will affect some boats in WA, and Australia, including my IOM.
Basically, there is only one restraining line allowed (singular). Those of us who use more than one restraining line will have to change our rigging before competing in any IOM ICA, ARYA or RSAWA sanctioned event.
The ruling comes into effect immediately.
Ross Bennett
National IOM Class Secretary
Sent: Friday, 12 September 2014 05:00
Subject: Class Rule Interpretation
Please inform your IOM members of the recent rule interpretation that was issued regarding the various methods that can be used to provide topping lift restraint.
Further, this is issued with immediate effect and could affect some of your skipper's boats that will be used at the upcoming 2014 Euro Championship. And, perhaps other major regattas that you may be holding.
The result of the interpretation is quite clear but if any further clarification is required please contact the Technical Sub Committee directly.
Barry Fox
IOMICA Secretary


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How to install and setup the StruxureOn Gateway
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Port 443 outbound for connecting to StruxureOn
Port 443 inbound locally for accessing the Gateway web interface
- Ensure the devices to be monitored are accessible over the network from the StruxureOn Gateway
1. Downloading and installing the Gateway
Download and install the Gateway from here, following the instructions in the wizard.
You access the StruxureOn Gateway application from the local host, https://localhost/dce/index.html . Enter the username admin and password admin .
2. Setting up a proxy server
The StruxureOn Gateway server must use the internet to communicate with the StruxureOn Digital service. If you are using a proxy server, specify the settings.
- Click Proxy Settings
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- Click OK to confirm the StruxureOn Gateway server can access the proxy server using these settings.
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SNMP: Specify SNMPv1 or SNMPv3.
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NetBotz: Specify the Username, Password, and Port (80 is default, or 443 with SSL enabled).
- To discover Modbus TCP devices, specify the Device type, IP address, Port (502 is default), and Slave ID.
- To discover Standard devices, specify an IP address range. Use an asterisk to search an entire subnet: 192.168.1.* Use a dash to search a range of IP addresses: 192.168.1.100-254
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In the Gateway, open More…> Registration and select Register to start the registration of your organization and connect your Gateway.
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Select to invite users, define user role, and enter user details.
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Log in to struxureon.com/manage to perform user management tasks, such as adding or removing users, or changing the priority list for contacts.
Log in to the Gateway and perform additional configuration, such as configuring alarm thresholds, configuring device polling interval, and enabling automatic updates.
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The priority list is used for example if a Schneider Electric service bureau agent needs to get in touch with the person responsible for your data center, to get in touch with the correct person close to the site, and on duty. It is a StruxureOn Premium feature. See how to upgrade to premium here.
- On struxureon.com/manage, open the Call priority tab.
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Ottawa, ON (PRWEB) May 03, 2012
DNA Genotek, a leading provider of products for biological sample collection, stabilization and preparation, today announced the recipients of the 2012 DNA Genotek Grant Program: Dr. Paul Arnold of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Dr. David Speicher of the Griffith Health Institute. Dr. Arnold will be awarded $30,000(USD) along with 260 Oragene®.DNA collection kits while Dr. Speicher will be awarded $25,000(USD) and 400 OMNIgene®.DISCOVER collection kits.
The DNA Genotek Grant Program, launched in October of 2011, invited research proposals that showcased innovative and novel use of the company's saliva-based collection and stabilization products in the genetic/genomic basis of one of three designated research areas: cancer, personalized medicine or infectious disease. The quantity and quality of applications received for the program exceeded expectations with many worthwhile proposals vying for the award.
The first grant for "DNA Methylation Profiles of Saliva in Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)" was awarded to Dr. Arnold, Scientist in the Genetics and Genome Biology Program and Head of the Anxiety Disorders Program at SickKids, Toronto, Canada. His research is focused on OCD, a common and debilitating neuropsychiatric disorder, for which few genetic risk factors have been identified. Dr. Arnold proposed a novel approach in which he will study DNA methylation which has been shown to influence development of other disorders and which can potentially be impacted by environmental factors. He will use saliva to identify epigenetic changes which will be potentially useful for personalized treatment.
"This grant from DNA Genotek will be used to help identify the epigenetic modifications in children with OCD," said Dr. Paul Arnold of SickKids. "The developments from this research could expedite the personalized treatment of OCD which has the potential to be highly beneficial to patients since medications are effective in only 50 to 60% of cases."
The second grant, for "Salivary Diagnostics of HIV, HHV-8 and HPV in two distinct HIV-positive populations: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Chennai, India," was awarded to Dr. David Speicher and Professor Newell Johnson, investigators at Griffith Health Institute, Queensland, Australia. They will use the grant funds to evaluate a saliva-based method for accurate detection and quantification of HIV, HHV-8 and HPV with HIV-positive patients. PNG and India have major problems with HIV disease and have some of the highest rates of oral cancer worldwide. Many of the earliest signs of HIV are opportunistic oral viral infections. Molecular assays for HHV-8 and HPV using saliva could become standard biomarkers for risk of oral cancer.
"This grant provides a wonderful opportunity for us to move forward with this important research," said Dr. David Speicher of Griffith Health Institute. "The research will determine the prevalence of HHV-8 and HPV in HIV-positive cohorts. This will allow dentists in PNG and India to be trained to identify early manifestations of oral cancers and HIV-associated oral diseases to enable early treatment. This should have an impact on disease rates in these resource-challenged communities and the methods could be extrapolated for use worldwide."
"Our recognition and support of Dr. Arnold and Dr. Speicher and their teams reflects our confidence in their work and our commitment to advancing worldwide health and science," said Ian Curry, president, DNA Genotek Inc. "We originally planned to award only one grant but we were thrilled with the quality and quantity of the applications we received. Dr. Arnold's application stood out as the winning proposal during the selection process. The selection committee also felt that Dr. Speicher's application had significant merit and decided to award a second grant to this young investigator. We congratulate both of these outstanding researchers."
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DNA Genotek Inc., a subsidiary of OraSure Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSUR), focuses on providing high-quality biological sample collection, stabilization and preparation products. The company's Oragene®.Dx product line is the only FDA 510(k) cleared saliva-based collection kit for in vitro diagnostic use. DNA Genotek also offers Research Use Only products to collect and preserve large amounts of DNA or RNA from saliva for use with humans, animals or livestock. The reliability and ease-of-use of the company's products have resulted in rapid adoption at top-tier health research institutions globally, including Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins. DNA Genotek markets its products worldwide and has a global customer base with thousands of customers in over 100 countries. For more information about DNA Genotek, visit http://www.dnagenotek.com
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Richard Littlemore | May 4, 2012
By Richard Littlemore • Friday, May 4, 2012 - 10:36
The Heartland Institute's current President, Joe Bast, has launched a billboard campaign denouncing science, scientists, conscientious political activists - and by association EVERYONE else who speaks with concern about climate change - as murderous, tyranical or insane.
Settling on that third descriptor, it's difficult to imagine what kind of crazy person thought this was an appropriate attack on the public dialogue about the most pressing environmental issue in the history of humankind.
This is a link to the 2012 Heartland Fundraising strategy, a document the institute was careless enough to email to a stranger, regardless that it includes the full list of Heartland funders. General Motors has already announced that it wants off this list - that it is embarrassed by any association with a disinformation organization of this nature.
But if you are concerned about climate change, if you are NOT a murderer, a tyrant or a crazy person, and you are a shareholder or customer of any of the organizations on this list (maybe we could start with Microsoft), please send an email, write a letter, make a phone call or sell your stock. Let's make it clear that Joe Bast needs a vacation, permanently.
Jim Tantillo replied on Permalink
the Heartland billboards are
the Heartland billboards are stupid, plain and simple. but the message is not unique I'm afraid:
"the Heartland billboards are
"the Heartland billboards are stupid, plain and simple. but the message is not unique I'm afraid:
Broken link.
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Reminder: Heartland is (for now) a tax-exempt public charity
Heartland is (for now) a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity in USA
As a reminder on 501(c)(3), see Fake science…v PDF p.8:
(quoting http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/rp_1986-43.pdf , Rev. Proc. 86-43, 1986-2 C.B. 729 )
"Educational Purpose" section:
.03 The presence of any of the following factors in the presentations made by an organization is indicative that the method used by the organization to advocate its viewpoints or positions is not educational.
1 The presentation of viewpoints or positions unsupported by facts is a significant portion of the organization's communications.
2 The facts that purport to support the viewpoints or positions are distorted.
3 The organization's presentations make substantial use of inflammatory and disparaging terms and express conclusions more on the basis of strong emotional feelings than of objective evaluations.
4 The approach used in the organization's presentations is not aimed at developing an understanding on the part of the intended audience or readership because it does not consider their background or training in the subject matter.'
Of course, given Heartland's ~20-year tobacco connection, I suppose nothing is surprising.
Jim Tantillo, I don't notice
Jim Tantillo, I don't notice Romm saying that the most prominent deniers are mass murderers, but the Heartland Institute statement says:
"The people who still believe in man-made global warming are mostly on the radical fringe of society. This is why the most prominent advocates of global warming aren't scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen."
Deniers are....
deniers are Murderers Tyrants and Madmen.
Murderer's? We know millions if not billions will die as a result of climate change.
"Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter)."
Tyrants? What would you call the Koch's? They won't let the country run if they don't get what they want.
"A tyrant (Greek τύραννος, tyrannos) was originally one who illegally seized and controlled a governmental power in a polis."
"Insanity, craziness or madness is a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns. Insanity may manifest as violations of societal norms, including a person becoming a danger to themselves or others, though not all such acts are considered insanity."
Pulled their posters?
I see Heartland have pulled their posters.
Their marketing team seems to be about as contemporary as the 1950's.
I notice in the Heartland link they have the statement:
"The people who still believe in man-made global warming are mostly on the radical fringe of society."
Oh yes, 0% of major scientific scientific institutes worldwide agree with Heartlands position and we are on the fringe?
People who believe that sort of shite Heartland comment must also fall for Nigerian lottery scams.
0% deniers, 0%…………….hello?!


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I try and keep these blogs topical if possible, and in light of recent events I've been thinking about the Iliad. The past few days have been a maelstrom emotions for Americans; relief, closure, anger, rage…etc…Two looming controversies remain. Where are the death photos? and why was his body disposed of quickly and respectfully in accordance with Islamic tradition?
Just recently, the President has made the decision not to release the photos. But what about the whole burial at sea? In my honest opinion I predict that even if the photos get released, there will be no end to conspiracy theories? Why? For the same reason that we still have groups who refute the moon landing.
One of the most significant events of the moon landing, was the first photographic evidence that the earth was round. This may seem like a small discovery, but to the flat-earthers, it was, well- earthshaking. If you truly don't see the significance of this discovery, then go and speak with a flat-earther. You'll find they are very passionate about their belief and will have a seemingly rational answer for everyone of your arguments! But when you provide hard evidence like a round photo of the Earth, you have them cornered. The logical answer is to say the photo is a fraud and the events leading up to taking the picture are also a fraud. Now I'm not saying that every person who thinks the moon landing was a fake believes the Earth is flat, but I do think that belief contributes to the conspiracy. But what does that have to do with Bin Laden?
We hate him. He is the symbol of all that is evil. He killed indiscriminately and he must die. Our emotions are incredibly tied up in the mans demise and for many of us, a respectful burial at sea just isn't good enough. Just like the photos of Earth, the news that Bin Laden was laid to rest respectfully goes against what we want to believe. Some of us will actually hope he still lives, only so that he can be punished properly. The retribution is not at sea. He should be stoned, hung upside down, put in a cage and left to rot. Maybe, just maybe, we should tear holes in his ankles, run a leather thong through them and drag his body behind a tank. Is this sounding familiar?
In the Iliad, Achilles finally defeats his arch-enemy Hektor. He takes up the body, runs a leather thong through the ankles, and drags the body around the city of Troy showing extreme disrespect. It wasn't until the God's interfered that Hektor's father Priam was able to retrieve the body from Achilles. Now one thing I want to make clear.
I am NOT implying that Bin Laden is Hektor.
Hektor is a good man. In fact, this is a bit of a Mythology 101 conversation. Who has the true heroic attributes in the Iliad? Hektor. He is a warrior, he is wise, he loves his family, he demonstrates restraint; a pretty solid dude.
What I am implying is that we had an opportunity to become Achilles.
Achilles is by no means the perfect Hero. In fact he is a bit of a whiny brat! He is a fierce and powerful warrior, but he throw tantrums. He sits in his tent and pouts while a plague kills his fellow men. He continues to do nothing while his best friend Patroklus fights in his place and gets killed. And he brutally disrespects the body of the enemy.
So what am I getting at? I believe that something very symbolic occurred when we quietly slipped that body into the sea. We could have done worse, and I think it would have been generally excepted. After everything done to us, our allies would have been understanding to whatever gruesome actions we decided to take. But we didn't. We could have, and we didn't.
In taking the high road, we cast away the negative attributes of Achilles and took on the positives of Hektor. Amalgamating into something new! We are the powerful warriors. We are the just. We are Americans, and I am proud to be one.
I understand there is a lot of pain out there. Victims and families who have only just begun to heal. I know that not everyone will agree with me and I completely respect that. My heart goes out to each and every person who lost someone because of this horrible man. Hopefully now, some of us can begin to find closure.


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Their Majesties will pay a State Visit to the United Kingdom from March 8th to March 10th, after accepting the invitation issued by Queen Elizabeth II. King Felipe, the youngest European monarch and the one with the shortest reign, will visit Europe's oldest monarch with the longest reign.
The King is related to both Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, through Queen Victoria Eugenia, King Juan Carlos grandmother and through her mother's Greek and Prussian ancestors. The families intermarried for the first time in 1170, when Henry II of England married his daughter Eleanor to King Alfonso VIII of Castile who become Queen Leonor, one of the namesakes of the Princess of Asturias. Since then, four English princesses became Queens in Spain, and four Spanish princesses became English Queens. Moreover, Felipe II was during his short marriage to Mary I of England King Consort.
Photo: The Prince of Asturias welcomes the Queen of the United to Kingdom to Spain in 1988.
The British Ambassador to Spain, Simon Manley, has welcomed the announcement of a State Visit to the United Kingdom.
"The British government is delighted that Their Majesties King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spainhave accepted the invitation from Her Majesty The Queen," said Mr Manley.
"This State Visit will celebrate not only the long and deep royal and historic ties between our two countries, but also our strong relationship as partners in the European Union, NATO and United Nations. We enjoy close connections in terms of culture, trade, investment, security and defence. This is an opportunity to celebrate and deepen those links."
Today, the United Kingdom and Spain are close partners in the EU, NATO and United Nations, among numerous international organisations; and cooperate together through the UN Security Council, of which Spain is a current member. Nearly 300,000 Britons are registered as residents in Spain and 15 million visitors came from the UK last year, whilst an estimated 131,000 Spaniards are resident in the UK and two million visited in 2014.
His Royal Highness the Infante Don Carlos, Duke of Calabria (1938-2015)
Don Carlos de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Borbón-Parma, Infante of Spain, Prince of the Two-Sicilies and Duke of Calabria passed away at his state in Ciudad Real on October 5, 2015, at 5:20 pm. His Royal Highness, doyen of the Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece, was very close to his cousin King Juan Carlos, who created him Infante of Spain in 1994 and is survived by his mother, the Infanta Alicia, his wife, Princess Anne of France, their five children, Cristina, María, Pedro, Inés and Victoria, numerous grandchildren and his two sisters.
As it is the wish of HM the King, and as it befits his condition of Infante of Spain, Don Carlos will be interred in Pantheon of the Infantes at the Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial on Thursday, after a private funeral mass. His son Prince Ped ro announced that another funeral mass will be held later.
Since Felipe and Letizia are going to be in Washington DC and Florida next week: Did the palace post a full schedule and is there a chance to see them there? like a public engagement or anything or will they only do private engagements?
They will probably release the schedule the next days.
I would also follow the thread at TRF for updates :)
Not yet. They usually release the agenda of engagements on Friday, so I guess this Friday we'll have the trip's activities detailed and scheduled.
Unfortunately the SRF is very stingy with the agendas of foreign trips. They usually post a few lines ( a la "Their Majesties will pay an official visit to the United States of American where they will visit Washington DC and Florida") and only a few days (sometimes hours!) before the start of the trip elaborate on that. The press has published part of their schedule:
On September 15 they'll be in George Washington's Mount Vernon and the White House, on September 16 they'll be at the Spanish Embassy for a business meeting and at Georgetown Un iversity for a meeting with scientists. On September 17 Felipe will dictate the inaugural conference of the academic year 2015-2016, at the Freedom Tower of Miame Dade College. On the last day of the trip they'll be in Saint Augustine to mark the city's 450th anniversary and to attend a Spain-United States Forum.
Some events (meeting at the White House, at the Embassy…) are obviously closed to the public. Others, like the ones in Georgetown or Miami Dade depend on the public's access to those places, and in Saint Augustine for example they'll tour the city, so presumably anyone could see them.
I was surprised as well, I mean, there are several reasons why Sofía should have, at least, the Royal Victorian Order:
- She's a relative of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
(the Greek is strong here)and to Queen Elizabeth as well (through a further link though)
- She's consort to a (now former) Head of State. Not a common HoS, but a KING.
- She's one of the most worldwide respected Queens of all time.
- She has a great relationship with the Prince of Wales and his family
(I mean, they spent holidays together ?!?!?!)
- She's a direct descendant of Queen Victoria through Victoria, Princess Royal, who was the mothe r of Princess Victoria of Prussia, consort of King Constantine I of the Hellenes, grandfather of Sofía.
- She has honorary doctorates in several world universities, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge among them.
I'm pretty sure we're talking of "my" Queen Sofía, no? ;)
Elizabeth II doesn't give orders to female consorts, that's why she doesn't have a British order. Neither Sonja, nor Silvia, nor Josephine Charlotte, nor Paola, nor Fabiola…ever received a British order. However, the last two Princes Consorts of The Netherlands received British orders. In my opinion it's sexist and outdated and I hope Charles changes it.
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HM Queen Letizia of Spain
Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofia in "Lo nunca visto de Felipe y Letizia" (x)
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Isabella, acutely aware of the gaps in her own education, placed extreme importance on how the children were raised and educated. She had not been taught Latin in childhood, which meant she had to undertake the more difficult task of learning it as an adult, and she had had to hire a tutor for herself, the female scholar Beatriz Galindo. Isabella and all the ladies in her court, including her daughters, participated in these lessons.
Humiliated when she made errors in Latin, Isabella was careful not to repeat the mistake of giving her children a second-rate education when they would be expected to operate in the most elevated intellectual levels of society. Isabella's emphasis on girls'education helped spawn an academic revolution for women across Europe, as her court set a new standard of expectations for females who would rule either on their own or in partnership with their husbands. Under Queen Isabella's watchful and dema nding eye, the children of the court received an extraordinary education.
Isabella's children were taught not only the Bible and the works of Saints Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory, but also the classics, including Seneca, Prudentius, and the Roman historians . Isabella saw humanism not as the antithesis to religion but as a complement to it. Descendants of the Greeks, she and other Spanish nobles were creatures of the classical world as well as the biblical one (…).
The Dutch scholar Erasmus would later describe Catherine as "miraculously learned for a woman" and a better scholar than her eventual husband, the erudite King Henry VIII. Princess Juana could converse easily and casually in Latin with courtiers from other countries, and by the time she was a teenager, she was reciting and composing verse in that language." —
Kirstin Downey, Isabella. The Warrior Queen. (via


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Using Bluefish to Edit Web Pages
If you are a Dreamweaver person, and you have moved to Linux you may be struggling with the aspect of how to edit web pages as smoothly as Dreamweaver. For a long time I have tried several different options but none in Linux worked well. One thing you will have to give up, unless you install Wine, is that the GUI is not going to be possible in Linux like it was with Dreamweaver. My problem is that I do not want to use Windows to do my web page edits. So I left Dreamweaver as it had way to many features I did not need anyway. Recently I tried Bluefish again, and fell in love. Part of this is that I was working on a CSS project and I needed an editor that was clean. Bluefish is not real fancy but it does have some options that may be useful for you.
Here is a description of Bluefish:
"Bluefish is an editor for experienced web designers and programmers. It supports many programming and markup languages, but focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. Bluefish is an open source development project, released under the GPL license."
The editor is convenient to use. You have the option of 8 different menu bars that you can quickly get buttons to achieve the goals you have for the project. I like the fact that I could highlight and then click for the tags I wanted to add. This was actually faster than typing the tags manually.
One of the things that made Bluefish a dream for me was setting up a SSH connection with keys and no password so I could make a change and immediately load it onto the site for instant viewing. I did not even use the preview option with the browser.
Here you can see that all you have to do is highlight text and then choose a tag.
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Over on Camels With Hammers, Daniel has reminded us of several temptations that atheists should watch out for. It's excellent advice, starting with this.
We atheists need to remind ourselves that figuring out that the interventionist gods of the major religions are false is a fairly easy intellectual discovery. We are not geniuses or especially smarter than the average religious believer simply on account of our ability to figure this out. We have just, for whatever combination of reasons, either assiduously avoided or managed to escape the emotional, social, and identity entanglements that cloud the minds of otherwise smart religious people. We need to recognize it is just stupid to call religious people stupid just because their ideas are ridiculous.
In general, I like to promote what I refer to as "atheist evangelism" as much as I can. But there are traps that atheists can fall into, when we get overconfident and lazy in the belief that atheism makes us smarter and less prone to errors. Recently I've made a similar point in a number of replies to the show's email which I would like to share.
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Needs more warning signs
As we mentioned above, Storage Spaces' behavior when full is also jarring: upon running out of physical space, any storage spaces in the filled-up pool are instantly unmounted. Unless you're keeping an eye on the Storage Spaces control panel, there's no other early warning system to let you know you're about to run out of space. In general, I'd prefer it if Storage Spaces attempted to let users know when they were doing something dumb or ill-advised—adding a disk that's drastically smaller than the others in the storage pool, putting a USB 2.0 disk into a pool composed of SATA disks, and so on. As it stands now, Storage Spaces' simple interface gives users just enough rope to hang themselves.
The operating system is also frustratingly vague about what the requirements actually are for a Storage Spaces-eligible drive. There is no unreasonable capacity or speed limit, as far as we can tell—we put drives as small as 5GB into storage spaces without issue, and USB 2.0 transfer speeds will tank performance but they won't prevent the feature from working—but none of my 8GB or 16GB SanDisk Cruzer flash drives were apparently eligible to be included in a storage pool. Windows neglects to tell you why this is, and the only Help & Support entries for the feature are short and characteristically unhelpful—if you run into a drive that doesn't work, the feature won't meet you halfway.
Performance is a drag
Finally, there are also performance considerations—compared to Storage Spaces, RAID arrays are less flexible, but the fact that they're implemented in hardware means that you can do things like mirror disks without incurring too much of a performance hit, but Storage Spaces' software-only implementation definitely slows things down.
To get more accurate results, these tests were not performed within a virtual machine. Instead, we used USB 3.0 hard drives connected to a Windows 8 system. Once again, we'd like to thank the good people at G-Technology, who lent us one of their G Drive slim drives and one of their G Drive mobile drives for use in this testing.
To test read and write speed, we put together a 15GB folder of files. We copied the files three times and then averaged the amount of time it took to ensure accuracy—to establish a baseline for performance, we first copied that folder from the computer's local hard drive to one of the external hard drives. We then copied the same files to two of the drives set up in two-way mirroring mode, and then again to three of the drives configured to use parity mode. Three-way mirroring, which requires five drives, was skipped because our system had only three USB 3.0 ports.
These graphs show just how slow writing to Storage Spaces can be—it takes a little under twice the amount of time to copy files to a mirrored storage space than to a bare drive, and it takes about four times that amount to copy files to a space in parity mode. The graphs don't tell the whole story, though, which is where Windows 8's improved file copy dialog comes in handy.
So, in actuality, if you're just making relatively small writes to your storage spaces, you shouldn't notice much performance degradation: copying files to mirrored and parity mode spaces is just as fast as a normal file copy for a short amount of time. It wouldn't surprise me if this was an intentional decision on Microsoft's part to keep things speedy for people only making light use of their storage spaces.
A version 1.0 feature with version 1.0 problems
Storage Spaces is a great idea, especially if you're a past or current user of Drive Extender. It promises a quick and easy software solution for not just managing and preserving the integrity of data, but also easily expanding your storage capacity as you run low on disk space.
Unfortunately, the feature as it stands today has too many caveats. The performance hit will be untenable for users who spend their time making edits to large files, especially in parity mode, and the inability to dynamically rebalance data stored on disks makes it more difficult than it needs to be to add new drives. Things are a bit better if you want to stick to the mirroring modes and don't think you'll need to expand your storage much, but it's not the simple and flexible solution that it was promised to be.
Power users and large businesses are absolutely going to be better served by sticking with more predictable, better-performing RAID setups. Even more causal users and small businesses may find solutions from Drobo and other NAS makers to be simpler and more predictable. Storage Spaces in Windows 8 is a good foundation, but its current iteration is simply too flawed to recommend in most circumstances.


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No charges in VIP loans probe
The House Ethics Committee has found that no members or aides — or at least none it has jurisdiction to charge now — violated House rules while obtaining "VIP" mortgages from failed lender Countrywide Financial Corp., according to a statement released by the panel's top members on Thursday.
The announcement by Reps. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) and Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), chairman and ranking member of the Ethics Committee, brings to an end an embarrassing episode for the House. The probe of Countrywide's VIP program began under the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, but was later handed off the the secretive Ethics panel.
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"Numerous allegations have been made that certain Members and employees of the House of Representatives acted improperly when they received 'discounts' on personal residential or vacation property loans, or when their loan applications were handled by an office within Countrywide called the 'V.I.P Loan Unit,' or handled as 'Friends of Angelo,' referring to Angelo Mozilo, the former CEO of Countrywide," Bonner and Sanchez said in a statement released on Thursday. "In addition, the evidence suggested that certain House employees made explicit requests to Countrywide lobbyists or spoke to a Countrywide lobbyist about their personal loan needs, and that the lobbyists then facilitated those loans."
Bonner and Sanchez added: "While these allegations concern serious matters, almost all of the allegations concerned actions taken outside, or well outside, the jurisdiction of this Committee… because they occurred before the third Congress prior to the current Congress. In addition, several of the Members and employees mentioned in the allegations are no longer serving in or employed by the House, and therefore are outside the Committee's jurisdiction…."
Bonner and Sanchez noted that the full 10-member Ethics Committee unanimously determined "after lengthy and careful consideration that it does not appear that there is any specific credible evidence of actual violations that remain within the jurisdiction of the Committee."
More than a half-dozen current and former lawmakers, including retiring Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), obtained mortgages through the Countrywide VIP program. In some cases they saved thousands of dollars compared with what they would have paid if the transaction were handled differently, according to a report released in July by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Other lawmakers who received Countrwide VIP loans include former Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), as well as Reps. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), Pete Sessions (R-Texas), Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.) and former Rep. Tom Campbell (R-Calif.).
Dodd and Conrad were cleared of any wrongdoing by the Senate Ethics Committee in 2009.
All of the lawmakers said they were not aware of their inclusion in a VIP program, and denied seeking preferential treatment for the mortgages. Such an action would violate congressional ethics rules and potentially federal laws.


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Public domain
Script error: No such module "Pp-move-indef". Works in the public domain are those whose intellectual property rights have expired,[1] have been forfeited,[2] or are inapplicable. Examples include the works of Shakespeare and Beethoven, The King James Bible, most of the early silent films, the formulae of Newtonian physics, and the patents on powered flight.[1] The term is not normally applied to situations where the creator of a work retains residual rights, in which case use of the work is referred to as "under license" or "with permission".
In informal usage, the public domain consists of works that are publicly available; while according to the formal definition, it consists of works that are unavailable for private ownership or are available for public use.[2] As rights are country-based and vary, a work may be subject to rights in one country and not in another. Some rights depend on registrations with a country-by-country basis, and the absence of registration in a particular country, if required, implies public domain status in that country.
Public Domain is one of the traditional safety valves in copyright law.
విషయ సూచిక
The term public domain did not come into use until the mid-17th century, although as a concept "it can be traced back to the ancient Roman Law, as a preset system included in the property right system."[3] The Romans had a large proprietary rights system where they defined "many things that cannot be privately owned"[3] as res communes, res publicae and res universitatis. The term res commune was defined as "things that could be commonly enjoyed by mankind, such as air, sunlight and ocean."[3] The term res publicae referred to things that were shared by all citizens, and the term res universitatis meant things that were owned by the municipalities of Rome.[3] When looking at the public domain from a historical perspective, one could say the construction of the idea of "public domain" sprouted from the concepts of res commune, res publicae, and res universitatis in early Roman Law.[3]
When the first early copyright law was first established in Britain with the Statute of Anne in 1710, public domain did not appear. However, similar concepts were developed by British and French jurists in the eighteenth century. Instead of "public domain" they used terms such as publici juris or propriété publique to describe works that were not covered by copyright law.[4] The phrase "fall in the public domain" can be traced to mid-nineteenth century France to describe the end of copyright term. The French poet Alfred de Vigny equated the expiration of copyright with a work falling "into the sink hole of the public domain"[5] and if the public domain receives any attention from intellectual property lawyers it is still treated as little more than that which is left when intellectual property rights, such as copyright, patents, and trademarks, expire or are abandoned.[6] In this historical context Paul Torremans describes copyright as a "little coral reef of private right jutting up from the ocean of the public domain."[7] Because copyright law is different from country to country, Pamela Samuelson has described the public domain as being "different sizes at different times in different countries".[8]
Definitions of the boundaries of the public domain in relation to copyright, or intellectual property more generally, regard the public domain as a negative space, that is, it consists of works that are no longer in copyright term or were never protected by copyright law.[9] According to James Boyle this definition underlines common usage of the term public domain and equates the public domain to public property and works in copyright to private property. However, the usage of the term public domain can be more granular, including for example uses of works in copyright permitted by copyright exceptions. Such a definition regards work in copyright as private property subject to fair use rights and limitation on ownership.[1] A conceptual definition comes from Lange, who focused on what the public domain should be: "it should be a place of sanctuary for individual creative expression, a sanctuary conferring affirmative protection against the forces of private appropriation that threatened such expression".[9] Patterson and Lindberg described the public domain not as a "territory", but rather as a concept: "There are certain materials – the air we breathe, sunlight, rain, space, life, creations, thoughts, feelings, ideas, words, numbers – not subject to private ownership. The materials that compose our cultural heritage must be free for all to use no less than matter necessary for biological survival."[10] The term public domain may also be interchangeably used with other imprecise and/or undefined terms such as the "public sphere" or "commons", including concepts such as "commons of the mind", the "intellectual commons", and the "information commons".[6]
Pamela Samuelson has identified eight "values" that can arise from information and works in the public domain.[11]:22
Possible values include:
- Building blocks for the creation of new knowledge, examples include data, facts, ideas, theories, and scientific principle.
- Access to cultural heritage through information resources such as ancient Greek texts and Mozart's symphonies.
- Promoting education, through the spread of information, ideas, and scientific principles.
- Enabling follow-on innovation, through for example expired patents and copyright.
- Enabling low cost access to information without the need to locate the owner or negotiate rights clearance and pay royalties, through for example expired copyrighted works or patents, and non-original data compilation.[12]
- Promoting public health and safety, through information and scientific principles.
- Promoting the democratic process and values, through news, laws, regulation, and judicial opinion.
- Enabling competitive imitation, through for example expired patents and copyright, or publicly disclosed technologies that do not qualify for patent protection.[11]:22
Relationship with derivative worksసవరించు
Derivative works include translations, musical arrangements, and dramatizations of a work, as well as other forms of transformation or adaptation.[13] Copyrighted works may not be used for derivative works without permission from the copyright owner,[14] while public domain works can be freely used for derivative works without permission.[15][16] Artworks that are public domain may also be reproduced photographically or artistically or used as the basis of new, interpretive works.[17] Once works enter into the public domain, derivative works such as adaptations in book and film may increase noticeably, as happened with Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden, which became public domain in 1987.[18] As of 1999, the plays of Shakespeare, all public domain, had been used in more than 420 feature-length films.[19] In addition to straightforward adaptation, they have been used as the launching point for transformative retellings such as Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Troma Entertainment's Tromeo and Juliet.[20][21][22] Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. is a derivative of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, one of thousands of derivative works based on the public domain painting.[15]
Relationship with the Information Societyసవరించు
According to Bernt Hugenholtz and Lucie Guibault, the public domain is under pressure from the "commodification of information" as items of information that previously had little or no economic value have acquired independent economic value in the information age, such as factual data, personal data, genetic information, and pure ideas. The commodification of information is taking place through intellectual property law, contract law, as well as broadcasting and telecommunications law.[11]:1
Perpetual copyrightసవరించు
Some works may never fully lapse into the public domain. A perpetual crown copyright is held for the Authorized King James Version of the Bible in the UK.[23] While the copyright of the play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie has expired in the United Kingdom, it was granted a special exception under the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 (Schedule 6)[24] that requires royalties to be paid for performances within the UK, so long as Great Ormond Street Hospital (to whom Barrie gave the rights) continues to exist.
Application to copyrightable worksసవరించు
Works not covered by copyright lawసవరించు
The underlying idea that is expressed or manifested in the creation of a work generally cannot be the subject of copyright law (see idea-expression divide). Mathematical formulae will therefore generally form part of the public domain, to the extent that their expression in the form of software is not covered by copyright.
Works created before the existence of copyright and patent laws also form part of the public domain. For example, the Bible and the inventions of Archimedes are in the public domain, but copyright may exist in translations or new formulations of these works.
Expiration of copyrightసవరించు
Determination of whether a copyright has expired depends on an examination of the copyright in its "source country".
In the United States, determining whether a work has entered the public domain or is still under copyright can be quite complex, primarily because copyright terms have been extended multiple times and in different ways—shifting over the course of the 20th century from a fixed-term based on first publication, with a possible renewal term, to a term extending to fifty, then seventy, years after the death of the author.
In most other countries that are signatories to the Berne Convention, copyright term is based on the life of the author, and extends to 50 or 70 years beyond the death of the author. (See List of countries' copyright length.)
Legal traditions differ on whether a work in the public domain can have its copyright restored. In the European Union, the Copyright Duration Directive was applied retroactively, restoring and extending the terms of copyright on material previously in the public domain. Term extensions by the U.S. and Australia generally have not removed works from the public domain, but rather delayed the addition of works to it. However, the United States moved away from that tradition with the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, which removed from the public domain many foreign-sourced works that had previously not been in copyright in the US for failure to comply with US-based formalities requirements. Consequently, in the US, foreign-sourced works and US-sourced works are now treated differently, with foreign-sourced works remaining under copyright regardless of compliance with formalities, while domestically-sourced works may be in the public domain if they failed to comply with then-existing formalities requirements—a situation described as odd by some scholars, and unfair by some US-based rightsholders.[25]
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Works of the United States Government and various other governments are excluded from copyright law and may therefore be considered to be in the public domain in their respective countries.[26] In the United States, when copyrighted material is enacted into the law, it enters the public domain. Thus, e.g., the building codes, when enacted, are in the public domain.[27] They may also be in the public domain in other countries as well. "It is axiomatic that material in the public domain is not protected by copyright, even when incorporated into a copyrighted work."[28]
Dedicating works to the public domainసవరించు
Few if any legal systems have a process for reliably donating works to the public domain. They may even prohibit any attempt by copyright owners to surrender rights automatically conferred by law, particularly moral rights. An alternative is for copyright holders to issue a licence which irrevocably grants as many rights as possible to the general public, e.g., the CC0 licence from Creative Commons.[29]
In most countries the term for patents is 20 years, after which the invention becomes part of the public domain.
A trademark registration may remain in force indefinitely, or expire without specific regard to its age. For a trademark registration to remain valid, the owner must continue to use it. In some circumstances, such as disuse, failure to assert trademark rights, or common usage by the public without regard for its intended use, it could become generic, and therefore part of the public domain.
Because trademarks are registered with governments, some countries or trademark registries may recognize a mark, while others may have determined that it is generic and not allowable as a trademark in that registry. For example, the drug "acetylsalicylic acid" (2-acetoxybenzoic acid) is better known as aspirin in the United States—a generic term. In Canada, however, "Aspirin" is still a trademark of the German company Bayer. Bayer lost the trademark in the United States, the UK and France after World War I, as part of the Treaty of Versailles. So many copy-cat products entered the marketplace during the war that it was deemed generic just three years later.[30]
Generic trademarksసవరించు
Although Hormel resigned itself to genericide,[31] it has fought attempts by other companies to register "spam" as a trademark in relation to computer products.[32]
Public domain calculatorsసవరించు
Determining whether a given work is in or out of copyright can be a complicated task. Several organisations have created calculators to help users determine if a work is in copyright. Europeana have produced a calculator for the European Union.[33] Public Domain Sherpa is designed for US copyright law.[34]
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- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
- Copyfraud
- Copyleft
- Copyright status of work by the U.S. government
- Copyright Term Extension Act
- Creative Commons
- CSPD, Duke University Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain
- Eldred v. Ashcroft
- Fair dealing
- Free software
- Freedom of panorama
- Limitations and exceptions to copyright
- List of countries' copyright length
- List of films in the public domain in the United States
- Orphan works
- Public Domain Day
- Public Domain Enhancement Act
- Public domain film
- Public domain image resources
- Public domain in the United States
- Public domain music
- Public domain software
- Rule of the shorter term
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boyle, James (2008). The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. CSPD. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-300-13740-8.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Graber, Christoph B.; Nenova, Mira B. (2008). Intellectual Property and Traditional Cultural Expressions in a Digital Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 173. ISBN 978-1-84720-921-4.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Huang, H. (2009). "On public domain in copyright law". Frontiers of Law in China. 4 (2): 178–195. doi:10.1007/s11463-009-0011-6.
- ↑ Torremans, Paul (2007). Copyright law: a handbook of contemporary research. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 134–135. ISBN 978-1-84542-487-9.
- ↑ Torremans, Paul (2007). Copyright law: a handbook of contemporary research. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-84542-487-9.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ronan, Deazley (2006). Rethinking copyright: history, theory, language. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-84542-282-0.
- ↑ Torremans, Paul (2007). Copyright law: a handbook of contemporary research. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 137. ISBN 978-1-84542-487-9.
- ↑ Ronan, Deazley (2006). Rethinking copyright: history, theory, language. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-84542-282-0.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ronan, Deazley (2006). Rethinking copyright: history, theory, language. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 104. ISBN 978-1-84542-282-0.
- ↑ Ronan, Deazley (2006). Rethinking copyright: history, theory, language. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 105. ISBN 978-1-84542-282-0.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Lua error in మాడ్యూల్:Citation/CS1 at line 3728: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil).
- ↑ Perry&Margoni (2010). "From music tracks to Google maps: who owns Computer Generated Works?". Computer Law and Security Review. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ↑ Stern, Prof Richard H. (2001). "L.H.O.O.Q. Internet related Derivative Works". Supplemental material Computer Law 484. The George Washington University Law School. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
- ↑ Leaffer, Marshall A. (1995). Understanding copyright law. Legal text series; Contemporary Casebook Series (2nd ed.). M. Bender. p. 46. ISBN 0-256-16448-7.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Introduction to intellectual property: theory and practice. Wold Intellectual Property Organisation, Kluwer Law International. 1997. p. 313. ISBN 978-90-411-0938-5.
- ↑ Fishman, Stephen (September 2008). The copyright handbook: what every writer needs to know. Nolo. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-4133-0893-8. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ↑ Fishman, Stephen (2008). Public domain: how to find and use copyright-free writings, music, art and more. Nolo. pp. 124–125. ISBN 978-1-4133-0858-7.
- ↑ Lundin, Anne H. (2 August 2004). Constructing the canon of children's literature: beyond library walls and ivory towers. Routledge. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-8153-3841-3. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ↑ Young, Mark (ed.). The Guinness Book of Records 1999, Bantam Books, 358; Voigts-Virchow, Eckartm (2004), Janespotting and Beyond: British Heritage Retrovisions Since the Mid-1990s, Gunter Narr Verlag, 92.
- ↑ Homan, Sidney (2004). Directing Shakespeare: a scholar onstage. Ohio University Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-8214-1550-4. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ↑ Kossak, Saskia (2005). "Frame my face to all occasions": Shakespeare's Richard III on screen. Braumüller. p. 17. ISBN 978-3-7003-1492-9. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ↑ Cartmell, Deborah; Imelda Whelehan (2007). The Cambridge companion to literature on screen. Cambridge University Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-521-61486-3. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
- ↑ The Oxford companion to the Bible. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. 2006. p. 618. ISBN 978-0195046458.
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- ↑ "Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48)". Office of Public Sector Information. 1988. p. 28. Retrieved 2 September 2008.
- ↑ Dennis Karjala, "Judicial Oversight of Copyright Legislation", 35 N. Ky. L. Rev. 253 (2008).
- ↑ Copyright Office Basics
- ↑ "Veeck v. Southern Building Code Congress Int'l, Inc./Opinion of the Court – Wikisource". En.wikisource.org. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
- ↑ Nimmer, Melville B., and David Nimmer (1997). Nimmer on Copyright, section 13.03(F)(4). Albany: Matthew Bender.
- ↑ "About CC0 — "No Rights Reserved"". Creative Commons. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ Aspirin, World of Molecules
- ↑ SPAM® Brand and the Internet
- ↑ Kieren McCarthy (31 January 2005). "Hormel Spam trademark case canned". Retrieved 2 September 2008.
- ↑ Out of Copyright, Europeana
- ↑ Public Domain Sherpa
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|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Public domain.
- Public Domain Manifesto
- Public Domain Day with many links to useful tools to find and determine Public Domain works
- Public Domanin Review
- Public Domain Dedication by Creative Commons
- Europeana Public Domain charter
- Out Of Copyright Public Domain Calculation for Europe, by Europeana
- Flowchart to determine Public Domain status of a work in the U.S.
- Center for the study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School, Duke University
- N. Stephan Kinsella, Against Intellectual Property
- Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly


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Distributed Agile process player Assembla has announced the release of Assembla Portfolio, an offering based on its own 'Workspaces' product, which the company says is used by over ten thousand distributed teams for developer collaboration on project-related knowledge.
Packaged as a private branded portal for larger enterprises, core functions are built around centralized user management across an unlimited number of projects and support for consolidated reporting.
Assembla works on the basis that public portfolios are free — while private portfolios are billed based on the number of users. Promising "real-time" visibility into team activity, the tool itself can be customized with project templates and bespoke configurations.
"It improves maintainability by capturing project tasks, documentation, discussion, and code in one place. It expands the number of teams that can be included by offering a choice of workflows and repository types," said Assembla in a press statement.
The company specifies its product enhancements as follows:
- Unlimited spaces and projects
- All Assembla Workspace tools including repositories, ticketing, and collaboration
- Branded portal with a distinct URL, header, users, and project templates
- Centralized user management
- Consolidated reporting on user activity and outstanding tasks
- Consolidated time and billing reports
- Can be set up in as little as 60 seconds.
Assembla has a mere 35 employees in 12 countries. Despite this, the company's offering shows evidence of Agile developer community power when coalesced.


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Dynamite Kid - A Matter of Pride DVD Set
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The definitive documentary about wrestling legend Dynamite Kid and his impact in the world of professtional wrestling. Two disc set.
This project began when Highspots.com traveled to Manchester, England to conduct a simple interview with Tom Billington about his wrestling career. Prior to this interview, nobody knew very much about what happened to Dynamite Kid since he retired from pro wrestling and nobody had been able to unravel the myths surrounding his legacy. Perhaps more than any other wrestler, Tom Billington was a recluse, never agreeing to do interviews, appearances, or even maintaining contact with his old friends from wrestling. After conducting the interview with the reclusive Billington, we realized that he had an amazing story that could not be told merely by his own, humbled words. Therefore, with the help of a lot of generous donors through Kickstarter, we set out on a worldwide traveling endeavor to interview those that knew Dynamite Kid the best and those that still keep in touch with him today. What resulted was a very emotional journey into a career cut short by the abuses of steroids, alcohol, drugs, and a complete disregard for his own physical limitations.
Dynamite Kid started as a young Englishmen trained in the infamous Snake Pit by Ted Betely and turned an opportunity given to him by the Hart Family in Calgary into a phenomenal worldwide wrestling career. He arguably saved a dying Stampede Wrestling and turned that small Western Canadian territory into an internationally acclaimed promotion. Dynamite Kid was on the front lines of changing professional wrestling from a big man carnival act into an exciting action based entertainment industry where lightweight and physically gifted performers were the focal point of the show. He dazzled an international audience with matches against Tiger Mask that are still a bench mark today.
Perhaps best known by modern wrestling fans as a member of the British Bulldogs, this documentary covers the unique relationship between Dynamite Kid and Davey Boy Smith and how the team was on bad footing from the inception.
The most talked about locker room fight in WWF history is storied for the first time by Dynamite as well as all the other key locker room figures of that time.
Dynamite Kid was considered to be 20 years ahead of his time and his influence is still very visible today. Unfortunately, for personal issues there is a dark shadow over his legacy. This documentary digs deeper and gets to the heart of this complex wrestling revolutionary.
Disc 1: Approximately 2 hrs 25 minutes
Documentary - 1:47
Documentary - 1:47
Stampede Savior
The Lifestyle
Sucker Punch
Sweet Man
Dynamite Effect
- Rib Stories - 19:26
- Benoit - 8:38
- Matilda - 5:51
- Davey Richard's Comments - 5:33
Disc 2: Approximately 2hrs 10 minutes
Great Stories - 25:44
Director Comments - 13:45
Calgary Tour - 4:56
Slideshow of Photos - 3:02
True or False with Dynamite Kid - 15:25
Bruce Hart - 15:59
Ross Hart - 27:22
Honky Tonk Man - 27:43
Soundtrack provided by HESSLER
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INDIANAPOLIS--Two former Yale athletes competed at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships last weekend. Kate O'Neill finished fifth in the women's 10,000 meters, and Lucas Meyer competed in the men's 3000 meter steeplechase.
O'Neill, a 2004 Olympian in the event, finished in a time of 33:08.18, which just missed qualifying her for the World Championships. The top three finishers advanced to the Worlds in Osaka, Japan, at the end of August. Her top time this season is 32:15.15.
A 2003 Yale graduate, O'Neill won three 5000 meter Heptagonal championships. Along with her twin sister, Laura, Kate was named the most outstanding performer at Outdoor Heps in 2003. She finished second in the NCAA Championships in three different events (cross country, indoor 500 meters, outdoor 10,000 meters).
Meyer was 10th in his heat of the 3000 meter steeplechase. His time of 8:45.72 was good for 20th place overall in the event. Meyer's best time this season is 8:41.70.
The 2005 Yale graduate holds the school record in the steeplechase with a time of 8:36.39, which he set while placing 12th in the 2005 NCAA Championships. Meyer was a Third Team Academic All-America and earned All-American status in cross country after finishing 18th in the 2004 NCAA Cross Country Championships. He placed second at Heps and third at NCAA Regionals that year, while winning the 5000 meters indoors and steeplechase outdoors at both Heps and IC4As.
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We may never admit (even to ourselves) that we care about what other people think of us, but it doesn't change the fact that we would cringe if we got home, looked in the mirror and realized that we had been walking around the office with a sliver of Arugula stuck between our teeth. Lettuce trumps pride.
Judging and being judged is a daily reality. It's also quick and often involuntary. That's how we're built. Observation and opinion are the little gifts nature has given us to organize the world and stay alive. Hot or cold. Good or bad. Sweet or hurry-and-spit-it-out-before-it-kills-you.
But accepting the inevitability of perception and judgment doesn't mean I have to like it. Knowing that everything we share – a new haircut, a presentation, a debut novel – is subject to scrutiny (cursory or otherwise) can be a bit unnerving. I can't begin to tell you the anxiety I have every time I click "publish" and send another blog post into the world to fend for itself.


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Google did a very Google-y thing in Kansas City.
It installed fiber there, giving the town the fastest internet connection in the country.
When two analysts visited Kansas City to check out "Google Fiber," they were blown away by it. They said it was lightning fast, fairly priced, and best of all, the installation guys showed up on time.
Google being Google, we don't know if this is just a one off experiment to get the cable companies scared, or if it's a real business.
Chairman Eric Schmidt gave us a hint about whether it's an experiment or a real business today at the DealBook conference. Speaking on stage he called Google Fiber an "experiment" initially, then he corrected himself and called it a "business," since Google is charging for it.
He then added that Google is right now trying to figure out where to install Google Fiber next.
If Google is serious about doing Fiber, which is a massive threat to the cable industry, it's not going to be cheap. Goldman Sachs estimates that it will cost $70 billion to cover half the country.
Schmidt said adding high-speed internet is something that can be transformative for the U.S.
He also added that there are some funny side benefits. For instance, he says a bunch of startups moved to Kansas City to take advantage of Google Fiber. They were buying houses, so in a weird way Google Fiber helped the housing market.
He was just joking around about that, noting that he didn't think it would scale.
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Ralph Beaver Strassburger & William John Hinke (editor); Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808. Norristown, Penn., Pennsylvania German Society: 1934; Vol. 3, List 327.
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Another fine drinking song for y'all today.
I've long maintained that Stephen Merritt of Magnetic Fields is a Country musician. If Hank Williams had teamed up with Cole Porter, that is. The Cole Porter comparison has been used ad nauseum when describing Merritt, and it's an apt comparison, but too often is overlooked the Country and Western underpinnings of his songs, both in lyrical content and construction, and in the tone and arrangement of the music, whether done on a shitty keyboard in his bedroom or with a full backing band, as in recent years. Look no further than the album "The Charm Of The Highway Strip"
for the best proof of Merritt's Country cred.
On their new album, "Distortion", The Magnetic Fields has produced one of the finest drinking songs in years, and, while it's still quite early, maybe the best single of the year. "Too Drunk To Dream" will sit easily on your playlist next to "There's A Tear In My Beer" and "Misery and Gin". If this had been released a year ago, it would easily have made our Top 100 Drinking Songs list. It's that good. Check out the lyrics:
Sober, life is a prison
Shit face, it is a blessing
Sober, nobody wants you
Shitfaced, they're all undressed
Sober, it's ever darker
Shitfaced, the moon is nearer
Sober, you're old and ugly
Shitfaced, who needs a mirror?
Sober, you're a cromagnum
Shitfaced, you're very clever
Sober, you never should be
Shitfaced, now and forever!
I gotta get too drunk to dream
'cause dreaming only makes me blue
i gotta get too drunk to dream
because i only dream of you
i gotta get too pissed to miss you
or i'll never get to sleep
i gotta drink wine not to pine for you
and god knows that ain't cheap
i know you think i'm insane
i know it's not appealing
but til i'm feeling no pain
guess what i'll be feeling?
I gotta get too fried to cry,
or i'll be crying all night long
i gotta get too high to sigh
oh my god where did i go wrong?
So why do i get plastered?
and why am i so lonely?
it's you, you heartless bastard
you're my one and only!
i gotta get too pissed to miss you
or i'll never get to sleep
i gotta drink wine not to pine for you
and god knows that ain't cheap
and god knows that ain't cheap!
Yep. Makes me wanna crack one open.
The Magnetic Fields: Too Drunk To Dream (mp3)
The Magnetic Fields: Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin (mp3)
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Wood Blocks
Natural and unscripted play patterns emerge when Branch Blocks are provided for building and dramatic play inspiration. The intact textured bark on each building piece adds sensory exploration mirroring the organic benefits of outdoor play. Use Branch Blocks to practice stacking, sorting and STEM activities. 36 wood pieces included. Ages 3+
- Natural tree branch shapes cut into building blocks
- Bark texture remains for tactile, sensory exploration
- Encourages organic, unscripted play patterns
- 36 wood pieces 1-3″W, up to 7″L
- Ages 3+
What can we find today? Collect trinkets, natural materials and sensory objects to place in the beautiful Treasure Blocks. Smooth hardwood frames with inset, transparent acrylic windows have a removable panel to place small objects to observe or display. Ideal for color exploration and light table activities. Holds marbles, beads, twigs, leaves, small toys and more. Two screws on the removable panel keep objects securely in place until ready to be replaced. Set of 8. Largest Block measures 5.5″ L x 5.5″ W x 2″ H. Ages 2+.
- Treasure Blocks- Clear features transparent windows that are perfect for observing or displaying small objects
- Holds marbles, beads, twigs, leaves, small toys and more
- Use for color exploration and light table activities
- Removable panel has screws to keep objects secure until ready to be replaced
- Largest block measures: 5.5″ L x 5.5″ W x 2″ H
- Ages 2+


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Best friends Ishaan, Omi and Govind – young, ambitious and restless – are trying to make a mark in the India of the early 2000's. These are exciting times – a new millennium has just dawned, India's a nuclear power and ostensibly shining – a perfect place for the three Ahmedabad boys to start a business that could be their ticket to fame and riches. In a country where cricket is religion, they hit upon a brilliant plan – to start a training academy that could produce India's next sporting superstars! What follows is without doubt the greatest adventure of their lives, as they attempt to navigate the big hurdles in the path of fulfilling their dreams.