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September 2, 2004 4:15 PM PDT
Copyright Office pitches anti-P2P bill
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The U.S. Copyright Office has drafted a new version of the Induce Act that it believes will ban networks like Kazaa and Morpheus while not putting hardware such as portable hard drives and MP3 players on the wrong side of the law.
The original Induce Act has been severely criticized for possibly jeopardizing products such Apple Computer's iPod that could "induce" people to commit piracy.
Americans sometimes forget that we're only 4 percent of the world's population. If we limit technology here, we will just become a technological backwater, and the rest of the world will pass us by. Eventually, the U.S. market for their precious intellectual property will dry up, because nobody here will be able to afford it.
--Bert Paredes
The Copyright Office's four-page "discussion draft," dated Thursday and seen by CNET News.com, appears to back away from the broad sweep of the original Induce Act by making it more difficult for companies to be found liable for copyright violations. It says anyone who "intentionally induces" copyright violations can be found liable, with "induce" defined as one or more "affirmative, overt acts that are reasonably expected to cause or persuade another person or persons" to violate copyright law.
But the Copyright Office's proposal is raising eyebrows among consumer groups and Internet providers, who fear that it suffers from many of the same defects as the original. One section, for instance, says companies that "actively interfere" with a copyright holder's efforts to identify pirates could be liable.
"Let's say the recording industry wants the names of our subscribers," said Sarah Deutsch, vice president and associate general counsel of Verizon Communications. "Is (objecting to the request) interfering with their efforts to detect infringing uses? It seems to be."
Another section suggests that Internet providers and technology companies must take all "reasonably available corrective measures" to prevent piracy. "Would your failure to take a digital rights management package from a large copyright holder mean you failed to take corrective measures?" Deutsch asked. "Or your failure to take the action they want in a cease-and-desist letter?"
The Copyright Office did not immediately respond on Thursday to a request for comment.
Mike Godwin, legal director of the "fair use" advocacy group Public Knowledge, said: "I think one can read it through pretty carefully and not be sure who will be liable and who isn't. One thing we would like to get out of this process is that if a bill is going to be passed, it's going to be clear."
The Copyright Office, an influential agency organized under the U.S. Congress, prepared the draft legislation after a meeting last Thursday convened by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, whose chairman, Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, is pushing hard to enact some version of the Induce Act this year. Last week's meeting was attended by representatives from IBM, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, the Business Software Alliance, the RIAA and the Motion Picture Association of America.
An e-mail message that the Copyright Office sent Thursday to groups participating in the meeting said: "This draft is intended to facilitate and promote discussion of the issues in a more concrete way than we discussed last Thursday--it should not be taken as our recommendations, and nothing in here should be taken as the official position of the office...We ask that you submit written comments on this draft, by e-mail to this e-mail address, by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3."
A follow-up meeting is scheduled for next week.
Verizon, Public Knowledge and a host of other groups--including librarians and the Consumer Electronics Association--have thrown their support behind an alternative to the Induce Act that is extremely narrow and limited only to commercial file-swapping networks that could not survive without widespread piracy.
Will Rodger, director of public policy at the Computer and Communications Industry Association, said the Copyright Office's draft was objectionable because it would effectively regulate computer hardware and software.
"First it was the Hollings bill, then Induce, now the Copyright Office's bill. They look different, but they all revolve around the same thing: Giving content (providers) veto power over all new technology," Rodger said. "Who decided that holders of government-granted monopolies should determine the future of high tech? I don't remember reading that memo."
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- i agree
- what the person was trying to say thier is nothing wrong with download free music or movies aney thing else for that matter.
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- Induced what?
- The RIAA and the politicians who believe in this "induced" philosophy are wrong.
Are we going to say to all of the civil processes in this country that if someone can "induce" then they are guilty?
Shoot, if CNET induces frustration at their editorial opinions then are they liable for harm that comes from someone who injures another?
This whole entire inducing thing is ridiculous. Peer-to-peer networks can be used for many innocuous things like sharing pictures or music I made myself. Let's find a better way to enforce copyrights using new technology instead of killing the messenger.
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- Inducemet by RIIA itself
- RIIA or its members are the biggest inducer to copyright infringement by these actions:
1. Changed from vynil records to CD. This has induced millions of decent people to want to copy CDs.
2. Sony, a RIIA member even sells the blank CDs and the recorders neded to make copies of CDs.
3. Some RIIA members have gone to the extreme of selling great recordings. These are real inducers for copying. True, these are exceptions. Most records producd by RIIA members are musically worthless.
4. By being infringers themselves. Sony, a RIIA member, has made over 15 records with our songs without a licenses or ever paying royalties. By setting the example, they make others believe that they can get away with it.
5. By suing kids and their parents, RIIA is creation a nation of rebels and what do rebels do when punished? Usually break the rules even more. That is why jails are full and more jails are needed as more are punishd. A vicious, growing, circle.
Prohibition did not work but that lesson was not takn by RIIA or the Copyright Office or by the current crop of lgislators.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
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- Whats the big Deal
- People have been recording media for decades. The cd and dvd burner come out and now I can't record my music without gettin sued. What happend to the days when if you did not use it to make money you were not in trouble. Good thing they don't make toilets at riaa oterwise we would pay .25 cents a flush and .50 cents to use the toilet.
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- About Copyright Office new "induce proposal"
- From th legal business point of view any confusing additions to the copyright laws is good. More fuzzy lawsuits will be made and these, the fuzzy ones are where the money for lawyers because the legal work is far more complex and more profitable.
What the American people deserve is a simplified copyright law: If you SELL a copyrighted work without authorization from the copyright holder, you are an infringer. All else in the law is jut fat an confusion that benefit the lawyers, who as a group casue more inducement to indfringe copyrights than anyone or nything else. Lawyers and judges induce infringement by defending the infringers, an ironic twist. Visit my web page if in doubt about this.
All uses other than selling or illegally authorizing the use of copyrightd works without authorization of the owner should be legal because there is no practical way to prevent it. I am a copyright holder of many songs. The radio plays the songs all the time without my authorization. Many performes use it on their shows. All that is against the present law. But the law doesn't work because I cannot prove that the performances of our songs were really made or lawsuits are to costly and there is no cost to benefit ratio to speak of and because I benefit from the playing of the songs because as the songs performed become btter known, their market value goes up.
Lets face it, the copyright laws are really written by or for the benfit of a few monopolies and for the legal and court business to flourish. Not for the benefit of the people or the artists who create the works.
Rafael Venegas
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- Good except
- I am mostly in agreement about rewriting the copyright law. It is unnecessarily bloated and geared to protecting corporate interests, especially those of the RIAA and MPAA.
The RIAA doesn't seem to understand that most of the users which are trading via P2P netwarks are rebelling. Congress should take note of that. For too many years, now Congress has been enacting laws that protect corporations and forgetting about the real people, the people that matter, the citizens.
Haven't we taken the cue from the past 4 years? Corporations cannot be trusted. Those with interests in making huge profits, those at the top of the corporate ladder, don't care about individuals. They're putting their own greed ahead of even their own stockholders!
Let's rewrite the copyright law yes, but do so so that the artist gets well-compensated. Lets make it illegal for corporations to "own" copyrights. The court systems have been clogged with one corporation suing another for copyright infringements. For goodness sake, let's also cut the amount of time that the copyright is enforcible, say to 10 years.
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- We're becoming a police state, for corporations, by corporations
- Why in god's name would you ban technology?!? We don't ban guns and they have the potential to rob someone of their life. Christ, is no government agency not paid for for by special interests?
And someone, please, tell Orrin Hatch to shut up.
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- This is so stupid
- Look, its pretty well established jurisprudence that it is in fact against the law to download music you don't have a legal right to own (ie, didn't purchase). But its also pretty clear that legally, its not the fault of the network owners that their networks are used for illegal activities, anymore than it's the state's fault that people speed or transport drugs over their roads, or the car manufacturers that people use cars for those same activities.
That being said, Sharman et al clearly profit from the illegal use, but that's incidental to the availability of the network. And they profit by generating ad revenue for malware vendors.
If the RIAA and Congress really want to "regulate" these networks, a ban is clearly illegal and the 9th Circuit (or maybe the Supreme Court next time) is just going to strike it down for being overbroad. But, why not take the money out of it? Make it illegal and enforceable on an individual basis to install any software application onto a computer without the direct, explicit interaction and consent of the user, an individual license agreement for each application, and a disclaimer that delineates precisely what the program is, does, and why its being installed (ie, if I find Gator on my computer again, I can sue GAIN for a sum to be set by statute). Give users the legal ability to "opt out" of spyware and adware that is bundled with P2P programs, give some hope to net users the nation over that the spyware will not invariably compromise every facet of their lives, and drastically (and incidentally) cut the profit margins for companies like Sharman. Its win-win for everybody except the freeloaders.
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- Consequences of hypergreed...
- The RIAA, SCO, et. al. are so focused on exploiting their precious
"intellectual property" (which, though they may own it, they
didn't actually create - but that's another rant) that they are
killing the goose that lays the golden eggs they gobble so
Americans sometimes forget that we're only 4% of the world's
population. If we limit technology here, we will just become a
technological backwater and the rest of the world will pass us
by. Eventually, the US market for their precious IP will dry up
becouse nobody here will be able to afford it.
Plus, the US already has the largest percentage of its population
in prison of any developed country (most for nonviolent
offenses) so how big a hit will our economy take to support our
new and expanded prisons full of IP "pirates?"
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- Changing the law . . .
- Brill. So the court rules against the government and then the government will manipluate and change the law to that another appeal will succeed?
So what's the point in having a law when Congress will not abide by the ruling? Congress, or any government, should not try and circumvent a ruling by a court.
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In the following excerpt, Ascher praises Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories and states that "one of the great joys, for me, of reading The Middleman is experiencing a world that generally remains just at the edge of my consciousness."
… In The Middleman and Other Stories Bharati Mukherjee leaves the zenana far behind as she writes with the rushed, rootless, naively cynical voices of Third World newcomers and those who get involved with them. The eleven stories in this swift-moving collection are about the immigrants filling US cities and campuses: they come from India, Iraq. Afghanistan, Trinidad, Uganda, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and they are all busy creating new ties and scrambling for a living, often in the shadier niches of the economy. As the narrator of "Danny's Girls," a Ugandan living in Flushing, says of his neighbor and idol, Danny, a northern Indian,
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As enraging as it may be to the "natives" that Mukherjee's immigrants are so adept at finding ways to stay afloat economically, their piecemeal assimilation is also a source of wonder. "I envy her her freedom, her Green Card politics. It's love, not justice, that powers her," says Jeff of his Filipino girlfriend, Blanquita, in "Fighting for the Rebound." Although these newcomers may insist that they're ignored, misunderstood, or even despised, and that "Here, everything mixed up. Is helluva confusion, no?" they rapidly get the local lingo, and they are voracious consumers of microwave ovens, sweatsuits, VCRs, Press-On Nails, Cuisinart machines. In fact, if Bobbie Ann Mason has made being a hick chic, as Diane Johnston once said, then Bharati Mukherjee may be at the forefront of immigrant chic. Her prose has the flat deadpan that is very much in style, and she has an unerring eye for the detritus of shopping malls that draws these lonely newcomers.
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Gospel of John is Unforgettable12/17/2007
This movie is incredible...it is not a dry documentary! I found that The Gospel of John is an easy, visual way to become familiar with the New Testament in the Bible. The characters are compelling, the scenery and costumes are fabulous...the best part of all,the script is taken word-for-word from the Bible...it really comes to life! Note: It depicts the crucifixion, but it is not as gory as The Passion of Christ..
very well done9/25/2007
As far as Gospel videos go I think this one is done very well. The characters all appear genuine to me. We are using the video as a Sunday School lesson series and the high schoolers are very interested in the clips and get a lot out detail out of them that they remember when we go through the questions then.
One of the better Jesus renditions5/11/2007
The film uses the Today's English Version which is quite acceptable (though it has already been superseded by the Contemporary English Version). If you want to do an exact-word rendering of a Gospel, this one is about as good as you can get. I actually think it does a very good job of getting at the essential qualities of the Gospel of John. Whether this makes for a great movie is more of a question, but they handled the long narratives well by providing motion to the scenes. If someone wanted to introduce John's gospel to a church group (I use it in my seminary classes), this one is the best one available. The same group is reportedly preparing a similar film on the Gospel of Mark, and I think it will make for a better movie.
Good Cinimatic Qualities as Well as Acurate...4/25/2007
This film uses the Bible's book of John as a dialog script. While that initially sounded like a formula for cinematic failure to me, it somehow works, and in a compelling way. The film is neither simplified, nor needlessly complicated. It simply presents the viewer with the same questions faced by readers of the Bible's book of John for two thousand years.
Awesome Scripture4/23/2007
It will get the point across without the gore of The Passion of The Christ. This one is as kid friendly as you can get and get the point across. We are waiting for The Gospel of Mark.
Not very good4/18/2007
This was not what I had expected. It was not worth watching...which I did not, nor will finish viewing. Subject would have been a great movie...but this is isn't.0 Helpful | 2 Not Helpful
The video is faithful to the Bible. The only thing that I didn't like was that at the beginning Christ appears to be smiling all the time - as if you cannot take him too seriously. The rest was fine.
Accurate Account of the Gospel of John2/15/2007
The only complaint I had of this movie was there was narration where it wasn't needed, but the producers wanted and did include every word of the modern language translation of the Book of John. If you don't know who Jesus is, this will introduce you too Him up close and personal. I liked the way Jesus focused on individuals and presented His message with a smile. I highly reccoment this DVD.


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This Photo Of Ryan Seacrest Shirtless In 1994 Is Amazing
Was Ryan a model for the International Male catalog?
1. So this is probably the image that comes to mind when you think of Ryan Seacrest (circa 2014):
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2. The dapperly dressed host of American Idol.
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3. Or maybe you remember him better from the early days of A.I., back in 2003, when he was all bronzer and blond highlights.
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4. Or maybe, just maybe, you remember him from his days as a DJ for a radio station in Atlanta in 1993:
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The Loser In Our Windows vs. Linux Tests: Intel Graphics
We are still working on the first part of our Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS benchmarks that are set to be published early next week, but so far there is one easy conclusion to draw from the completed tests: Intel's Linux graphics driver is still no match to the Intel Windows driver.
30 April 2010 - Sneak Preview - 50 Comments
Intel & The Shortcomings Of Gallium3D
While Gallium3D is viewed as the future of the 3D Linux graphics driver architecture, it's been in development for a long time and still doesn't have a solid following. In particular, Intel is still missing from the Gallium3D party.
13 April 2010 - Political or Technical? - 29 Comments
Intel Updates Its Quarterly Package
With the releases last month of the xf86-video-intel 2.11.0 DDX driver and the Mesa 7.8 graphics stack, Intel has updated its quarterly Linux graphics package in which it recommends versions of several key components for the ideal Intel experience.
9 April 2010 - Intel 2010'Q1 - 11 Comments
Intel 2.11.0 X.Org Driver Released
Just as planned, Intel has released their quarterly DDX driver update for Linux users and those using X.Org with its KMS-only support.
29 March 2010 - xf86-video-intel 2.11.0
H.264 VA-API Support For Intel Clarkdale/Arrandale
Intel's Zou Nan hai has published a patch for the Intel kernel DRM code that provides multiple ring buffer support for Clarkdale and Arrandale systems, in other words Intel's new IGPs that are embedded onto CPUs such as the new Core i3 530 and its stellar integrated graphics.
27 March 2010 - Multiple Ring Buffer - 21 Comments
Intel Launches Its App Store For Moblin
Intel has today announced its AppUp store is now available to those running Moblin 2.1. AppUp was announced back in January during the Consumer Electronics Show as a software application store designed for netbook users running Windows and Linux. Nearly three months later. AppUp for Moblin 2.1 is now available. This initial AppUp launch is limited to the United States and Canada, but next week some 27 countries within Europe should have access too.
25 March 2010 - Intel AppUp - 4 Comments
xf86-video-intel 2.11 RC3 Is Here
Not only is the X.Org community preparing for the release of X Server 1.8 and Mesa 7.8 (both of which had new RCs issued today), but the Intel OSTC team is preparing to push out the xf86-video-intel 2.11 DDX driver that will be part of their recommended 2010Q1 graphics driver stack.
22 March 2010 - New Release Candidate - 4 Comments
Intel 2.11 X.Org Driver Gets Closer With New RC
With the first quarter coming to an end soon, Intel is preparing its quarterly Linux graphics driver update. This time it's version 2.11 that's being primed of the xf86-video-intel DDX driver. The first release candidate came last month, but this afternoon Carl Worth has made available a second release candidate that's officially version 2.10.902.
15 March 2010 - New Release Candidate
Ubuntu 10.04 To Hang Onto Old Intel Driver
When it comes to Intel's X.Org driver for Linux, xf86-video-intel, the most recent release was version 2.10 and it arrived in early January complete with Pineview (their next-generation Intel Atom systems) support, X-Video improvements, and various other features. The xf86-video-intel 2.11 driver is now emerging as their next quarterly update that brings in the KMS page-flipping and DRI2 swap events support. However, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which is set to be released in April, will not be shipping with either of these drivers. Instead Canonical has decided to stick with the xf86-video-intel 2.9 driver that was released last September.
9 March 2010 - xf86-video-intel 2.9 DDX - 10 Comments
GLU3 1.0 Expected In About One Month
Going back to last April, Intel's Ian Romanick has been working on GLU3 and yesterday afternoon on his blog he has announced some changes. The GLU3 code-base has moved to a new FreeDesktop.org Git repository, there is now a project mailing list, and he expects to finally release GLU3 1.0 within one month or so. There is some other functionality he hopes to push into GLU3, but that should be complete over the coming days.
1 March 2010 - Ian Romanick Project - 14 Comments
xf86-video-intel 2.11 Release Candidate
Intel's quarterly Linux graphics driver update is due out in about one month so preparations for this have gotten underway with the first release candidate now being available. The xf86-video-intel 2.11.0 RC1 (v2.10.901) driver boasts support for the latest DRI2 changes (particularly the KMS page-flipping ioctl and new swap events) and many bug fixes.
28 February 2010 - New Test Release - 8 Comments
Intel Sandy Bridge GPU Support Begins On Linux
Intel launched the desktop "Clarkdale" and mobile "Arrandale" processors a few months back that boasted a number of architectural improvements and one of the big features was the integration of a graphics processor directly on the CPU itself. As we shared when testing out the Intel Core i5 530 processor, the Clarkdale graphics performance was fairly nice and worked quite well under Linux using an open-source driver besides a few bugs.
25 February 2010 - Open-Source Too - 14 Comments
Moblin & Maemo Make Love: Out Comes MeeGo
Over the weekend we started hearing from PR folks that there would be a joint Intel and Nokia news announcement on Monday that would be of interest to us, and today we found out that's indeed the case. The Mobile World Conference is currently taking place in Spain with all sorts of mobile platform announcements coming out for both Microsoft and Linux, but this one announcement today is that Intel and Nokia are joining forces on the mobile front by marrying their platforms together, Moblin and Maemo, respectively. The end product of combining Moblin and Maemo is a new project called MeeGo.
15 February 2010 - Mobile News - 21 Comments
Intel Intelligent Power Sharing Coming To Linux
Jesse Barnes, one of the Intel developers responsible for working on their Linux graphics driver stack, has published a new patch that adds "dynamic performance control support for Ironlake." Ironlake was Intel's codename for the onboard GPU found on new Clarkdale / Arrandale processors like the recently reviewed Intel Core i3 530. This patch takes advantage of a hardware performance and power management feature to actually increase the GPU clock (or to "overclock" it in a Graphics Turbo mode) when needed to deliver better performance. This patch is fairly large and can be found currently on the Intel driver mailing list.
29 January 2010 - One Patch Here, More Coming
Intel's New Clarkdale IGP On Linux Not So Pleasant
Last week we shared that Intel Core i3 Linux benchmarks were being worked on at Phoronix with an Intel Core i3 530 "Clarkdale" processor that we had purchased. This recently released Intel Core i3 processor features an integrated graphics processor on the CPU itself. This next-generation Intel graphics processor is supported by the Linux 2.6.33 DRM and was actually being worked on publicly within the Intel Linux driver stack for months under the name of IGDNG. While Intel has been working on the Linux support for more than six months, the experience is still not ideal.
22 January 2010 - Initial Findings - 33 Comments
Intel Clarkdale (Core i3) Linux Benchmarks
Earlier this month Intel had introduced their new Core i3 and Core i5 (and even Pentium) processors in the Clarkdale family. Clarkdale and Arrandale (the mobile version of the former) is more unique than some of the other recent Intel Core processors as it introduces a graphics processor on the CPU die itself. Unlike the Lynnfield launch where we were provided with Core i5 750 and Core i7 870 processors to provide Linux-based benchmarks on launch day, this was not the case with Clarkdale. As a result, while Intel's Clarkdale Core i3/i5 processors have been around for a week, there haven't been any real Linux benchmarks of these new processors published on the web.
15 January 2010 - Coming Soon - 13 Comments
Moblin 2.1 IVI FC Released With New Intel Driver
While Moblin 2.1 was released in early November, today at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Intel Corp just putout the Moblin 2.1 IVI FC release. Moblin 2.1 IVI FC marks this as being the "feature complete" version in this release series. This release particularly is intended for Intel Atom Z530 + US15W platforms, but the open-source OS is using the VESA display driver by default due to Intel's non-free and much criticized Poulsbo driver.
6 January 2010 - Intel Update - 18 Comments
xf86-video-intel 2.10.0 Brings Pineview Support
Intel has just put out its quarterly update to their X.Org DDX driver. This new driver is xf86-video-intel 2.10.0 and it delivers on dropping all support for user-space mode-setting (using kernel mode-setting is now a must), KMS video overlay support (when using the Linux 2.6.32 kernel or later), new debugging options, many bug-fixes, and support for the new Intel Pineview chips.
5 January 2010 - New DDX Release - 11 Comments
New xf86-video-intel 2.10 Testing Release
Less than two weeks ago the first release candidate for the xf86-video-intel 2.10 driver was released, but now the second release candidate can be obtained from its Git repository. Not a whole lot of work has been committed to the Intel DDX driver since xf86-video-intel 220.127.116.111, but 188.8.131.522 is out there and testing is appreciated.
11 December 2009 - DDX Fun
Intel Has A Single-Chip Cloud Computer
Intel demonstrated today their "single-chip cloud computer" processor that offers an impressive 48 cores. While there are 48 cores on a single chip, this Intel processor only consumes as much power as two standard household light bulbs (this "futuristic" processor is operating between 25 and 125 Watts). However, before getting too excited, this is an experimental processor that is coming out of their research labs.
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Ismāʿīl, 1863–79
Ismāʿīl, the son of Ibrāhīm Pasha, who succeeded on the death of Saʿīd, displayed some of his grandfather's dynamic energy and enthusiasm for modernization. He lacked caution, however, and his reign ended in catastrophe. From his predecessors he inherited a precarious economy and a burden of debt. The decline in North American cotton exports caused by the American Civil War (1861–65) greatly increased Britain's demand for Egyptian long-staple cotton. This product had been introduced and developed in Muḥammad ʿAlī's time, but its production had languished until the interruption of supplies of American cotton caused a fourfold increase in price during the war years. When peace returned, prices collapsed with disastrous consequences for the Egyptian economy. In the management of his finances, Ismāʿīl was both extravagant and unwise and laid himself open to unscrupulous exploitation. Ismāʿīl was committed to the Suez Canal project, but he modified the grant in two important respects: by withdrawing the cession of a strip of land from the Nile River to the Suez isthmus, along which a freshwater canal was to be constructed, and by refusing to provide unlimited (and largely unpaid) peasant labour for the project, a practice that had stirred great outcry in England and continental Europe. The matter was submitted to arbitration; a large indemnity was imposed on Ismāʿīl, who also agreed to pay for a large block of shares put by de Lesseps into Saʿīd's account. French pressure on the sultan succeeded at last in overcoming resistance to the canal project at Constantinople, and a firman (decree from the sultan) authorizing its construction was granted in March 1866. Work had in fact already been going on for seven years, and in November 1869 the Suez Canal was opened to shipping by the empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III of France. The incident symbolized the political and cultural orientation of Egypt in the middle decades of the 19th century.
Ismāʿīl, in other ways, presented himself as the ruler of a new and important state. Although his relations with his suzerain, Sultan Abdülaziz (reigned 1861–76), were normally friendly, he was no less eager than his predecessors to secure the autonomy of his dynasty. In 1866 he obtained a firman establishing the succession by primogeniture in his own line—abandoning the contemporary Ottoman rule of succession by the eldest male. A year later a firman conferred upon Ismāʿīl the special title of khedive, which had in fact been used unofficially since Muḥammad ʿAlī's time and which distinguished the viceroy of Egypt from other Ottoman governors. A period of strained relations developed between the khedive and the sultan arising from Ismāʿīl's implied pretensions to sovereignty at the time of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but the two were later reconciled; a firman reconfirmed the khedive's privileges in 1873. These concessions by the sultan, however, cost Ismāʿīl heavy expenditure—in bribes to Ottoman officials in Constantinople—and an increase in the annual Egyptian tribute and were another factor in the growth of Ismāʿīl's indebtedness.
Ismāʿīl had inherited an African empire in the northern area of the Sudan. Since the middle of the century, in consequence of the abolition of the monopolies, merchants had penetrated south and southwest, up the White Nile and the Al-Ghazāl rivers, in search of ivory. An ancillary slave trade that had developed distressed Europeans, who forgot that their depredations against Africans had continued virtually unabated until the early 19th century, and they prevailed on the khedive to abolish this commerce. Thus, acting on humanitarian and expansionist motives, Ismāʿīl sought to extend Egyptian rule into these remoter regions. He made considerable use of expatriates, notably the Englishmen Sir Samuel White Baker and Sir Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon, who extended the khedive's nominal authority to the African Great Lakes. Another series of events led to the conquest in 1874 of the sultanate of Darfur in the west. The khedive also wished to make Egypt the dominant power in the Red Sea region. The sultan granted him the old Ottoman ports of Sawākin and Mitsiwa in 1865. Egyptian control was established on the Somali coast, and in 1875 the city of Hārer was captured. Attempts to invade Abyssinia in 1875 and 1876 were, however, unsuccessful and marked the limits of Ismāʿīl's imperial expansion.
Like other parts of the Ottoman Empire, Egypt was bound by the capitulations—a system of privileges derived from earlier Western treaties with former sultans. Under the capitulations, European and American residents in Egypt were exempt from local taxation and were subject only to their own consular courts. By patient negotiations over several years, Nūbār Pasha, Ismāʿīl's Armenian minister, succeeded in establishing the Mixed Courts in 1875. These had jurisdiction in civil cases involving Egyptians and foreigners, or foreigners of different nationalities, and had both foreign and Egyptian judges, who administered codes based on French law.
By that time the social consequences of the agrarian and political changes inaugurated by Muḥammad ʿAlī were clearly appearing. The khedive and his family were Egypt's principal landholders, possessing extensive personal estates quite apart from the state lands. Around the khedivial family was a parvenu aristocracy that held the principal civil and military offices. Many of its members were also great landowners; most of them were Turkish or Circassian by origin. Although the peasantry's condition had been harmed by military conscription, by corvées for public works (including large-scale demands for labour on the railways and the Suez Canal), and by ill-considered economic and industrial experiments, the rights of cultivators on their land gradually increased. The richer peasants, from whom the village headmen were recruited, in particular increased in importance. When, in November 1866, Ismāʿīl set up the consultative council known as the Assembly of Delegates, the members of which were chosen by indirect election, the great majority of those elected were village headmen. While Ismāʿīl did not intend to give any of his powers to the Assembly, its establishment and composition pointed to the political growth that would occur among native Egyptians in the next 60 years. Conscription had affected the makeup of the army. The power of the entrenched Turco-Circassians was challenged by native Egyptian officers, who resented the privileges of their foreign colleagues. The defeat of the Circassian commander in chief, Rātib Pasha, by the Abyssinians in 1876 was a blow from which the prestige of the old officer group never recovered.
From the Assembly, the army, and the Westernized intelligentsia emerged politically conscious individuals and groups who drew their ideas from both Western and Islamic sources. Their organization was for the most part small-scale and ephemeral, and their outlook was subversive, being hostile to the autocracy of the khedive, the dominance of the Turco-Circassians, and the pervasive power of the Europeans.
Political tension increased in the last years of Ismāʿīl's reign. Various expedients to postpone bankruptcy (e.g., the khedive's sale in 1875 of his Suez Canal shares to Britain) had failed, and in 1876 the Caisse de la Dette Publique (Commission of the Public Debt) was established for the service of the Egyptian debt. Its members were nominated by France, Britain, Austria, and Italy. In the same year, Egyptian revenue and expenditure were placed under the supervision of a British and a French controller (the Dual Control). After an international enquiry in 1878, Ismāʿīl accepted the principle of ministerial responsibility for government and authorized the formation of an international ministry under Nūbār that included the British and French controllers in his cabinet. Ismāʿīl, however, was not willing to give up his autocracy. In 1879 he exploited an army demonstration against the European ministers to dismiss Nūbār, and he worked in alliance with the Assembly of Delegates to destroy international control over Egypt. By this time, however, his standing outside Egypt had been lost; and in June 1879, Sultan Abdülhamid II (reigned 1876–1909), instigated by France and Britain, deposed him in favour of his son, Muḥammad Tawfīq.
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Rural: (2012) 57.1%
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|Male: (2011) 68.6 years
Female: (2011) 71.4 years
|Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate
|Male: (2010) 80.3%
Female: (2010) 63.5%
|GNI per capita (U.S.$)
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Concerned about her heft and weight, a 6' tall teenager exercised and dropped to 104 lbs after shedding 46 lbs. In another situation, the weight of a 12-year-old girl dropped even as she grew four inches taller. And, a depressed girl has become obese due to overeating.
Those are some of the reasons why unhealthy eating habits need to be addressed. In her article, "Are You Eating Out of Control?," Priscilla Di Carlo shares tips to deal with the problem (after which we add our thoughts on the matter.):
Teach children that their self-worth isn't related to how they look. (Our bodies are mere garments covering our spirit souls. We're valuable despite our imperfections.)
Do not use food as a reward or punishment. This sends the wrong message that food leads to love and acceptance. (Food nourishes the body, but does not feed the soul.)
Avoid complaining about your body in front of your children. (Values are formed by both positive and negative statements.)
Teach children how to identify stress, and deal with it. (Eating disorders are rooted in spiritual hunger. Practice spiritually fulfilling activities like meditation, the reading of scriptures, spiritual discussions, praying, and the singing of God's names to satisfy spiritual craving.)
Encourage children to question, evaluate and respond to messages in the media that promote unhealthy body image and low self-esteem. (Teach them to see through illusions and lies, understand the truth, and appreciate wisdom.)
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This tub is most often made with Hinoki - the famous light colored and aromatic wood that is considered sacred for its beauty and strength. Hinoki has a lemon/ginger aroma that fills your bath area with each use. Other choices are Red Cedar, and Teak. All the wood we use is of the finest grade - vertical grained, quartersawn heartwood, properly dried and free of defects.
More about our wood and green harvest methods.
Shape choice:
The Kyoto is our rectangular ofuro with angled sides. The Onsen model has vertical sides. Our ofuros are intended for indoor use however they are build to withstand the outdoor environment.
Depth and Size:
We make several sizes and we do custom work as well. In general the ofuro is smaller but deeper than standard tubs. Very deep. Twenty two inches of blissful hot water. That is amost twice as deep as the average American bathtub. We get the steaming hot water up over your shoulders! Smaller tubs are designed for a single bather but larger sizes are available for two or more.
Room design:
A traditional Japanese ofuro room is a sanctuary with a showering and soaking area - open in design with a waterproof floor and a central drain. The soaking tub is adjacent and placed to enjoy a natural view if possible. The Japanese style of bathing begins with a leisurely and thorough washing outside the tub using plenty of soap and shampoo and hot water. Next the bather slips into the crystal-clear, steaming hot water for a completely relaxing quiet soak. See our photo gallery for some design ideas! The Ofuro can also be installed outdoors. For more ideas we recommend
"The Japanese Bath"
by Bruce Smith. Give us a call to discuss other design considerations.
Comes with a floor drain installed. Overflow drain system is optional.
More about the drain for an ofuro.
Warranty Information:
The tub is warranted against manufacturing defects for 3 years.
Read full warranty here.
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An alert train captain recently averted what could have been the a major Mumbai Monorail accident, involving passengers.
Raising serious safety concerns about the brand new monorail, earlier this month the 'Constant-Velocity Joint' that connects the traction motor with gear box broke at Chembur while it was ferrying passengers.
The alert captain immediately asked passengers to get off the train and it was taken to the maintenance depot at Wadala at a snail's pace of 2-10kmph.
Each of these joints weighs anywhere above 10-15kg. Just below the CV Joint, there's a plate called 'CV Catcher'. In case of CV Joint disintegrating, 'CV Catcher' holds the broken parts, but there is a possibility of some small and loose metal particles falling below on the road.
On the afternoon of June 11 (between 11.30am and 2pm), senior train captain Rajesh Adhav was piloting a 'blue coloured' or 'Rolling Stock Train Number-9' (RST-9). Passengers boarded the rake at Chembur and by the time it approached VN Purav Marg & RC Marg Junction station, Adhav heard abnormal sounds coming from the machine of the train.
Taking no chances, he asked passengers to get off the train at the station. After a quick round of consultations and discussions with the operations control centre (OCC), it was decided to pilot the train at a snail's pace for the balance distance of around 8km. Usually, the monorail runs at an average speed of 31kmph, but the pilot of RST-9 was double careful and kept the speed well below 10kmph; in fact at around 5kmph.
dna tried but could not contact Adhav to know his reaction and version.
Once the train reached the depot, it was found that one of the Constant Velocity Joints or CV Joints had broken.
According to sources, thankfully on June 11 the apron door of the rakes did not give away due to which no passenger or pedestrian got to know the exact problem with RST-9. Apron doors are opened to service and maintain the machine. It is positioned at the bottom half of the monorail.
The only people who were aware about the issue were the train captain, OCC and maintenance staff.
Despite repeated attempts, UPS Madan, MMRDA commissioner did not respond to clarify what measures it would take to ensure quality of rolling stock as well as passenger safety. Mumbai Monorail is one of the iconic projects of the MMRDA divided into two phases, namely 8.93km Chembur-Wadala Depot (currently operational) and 10.24km Wadala Depot-Sant Ghadge Maharaj Chowk / Jacob Circle (to be ready by mid-2015). The first phase was inaugurated on February 1, 2014.
Exact location of CV joint
Each bogie of Scomi is designed to support static and fatigue loads for as long as 30 years. To provide a smooth ride, the straddle-type bogie design features full vertical pneumatic shock absorbers and a progressive stiffness lateral suspension. Its traction system is connected to the axle through 'CV joint shafts'.