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Agoda showcases 8 of the highest-reviewed parks in Asia.
Sunday, 1st June 2014
Source : Agoda.com
Travelers surveyed loved a wide range of green space options from lush expanses of jungle to manicured parklands;
The list include huge national parks perfect for hiking or outdoor activities, marine parks for diving or kayaking, and green areas in the middle of a city that offer important historical context. All of the entries on our list have left a large enough impression on Agoda.com customers to warrant consistently high ratings.
Hallasan National Park, Jeju-do, South Korea
Average customer rating: 4.39 out of 5
Hallasan National Park is both a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site. It is located on Jeju Island, South Koreas southernmost province. The 153 sq.km park is famous for its dramatic geological features, among them Manjanggul Lava Tube (the worlds largest), Sunrise Peak, and several impressive caves. Adventure seekers can climb South Koreas highest point, Mt. Halla, for great views and to see Baekrokdam Lake at the top. The visitors center is a great place to start. They can get you well acquainted with the park, including lectures, guided hikes, and classes for the kids.
Customers say: Room is huge!! Very well furnished with cooking utensils. Staff is friendly and able to communicate in English. The view from the hotel is great too!! Ng, Hong Kong
Taroko National Park, Taiwan
Average customer rating: 4.38 out of 5
Most of Taiwans cities line the west side of the island, but Taroko National Park is located on the eastern side, away from the cities. This makes it a great destination for nature lovers. Just over 900 sq.km in size, it features waterfalls, peaks, trekking trails and campgrounds. Unique to the other national parks on this list, is that a large part of the park can be seen via train as it passes down the islands east coast. Scenic marble and limestone cliffs are highlighted by the Taroko Gorge, a dramatic gouge in the Earth spanned by narrow bridges and ringed by hiking trails and the occasional cliff-side temple. No need to aim your camera to get stunning pictures here.
Customers say: We enjoyed our stay. We have two young kids and they loved the boat ride and pool. Ting-Li, Taiwan
Osaka Castle Park, Osaka, Japan
Average customer rating: 4.29 out of 5
This park in the middle of Osaka is the smallest on our list. It is the beauty and historical significance, not the size, that has captured the attention of visitors. Home to various official buildings since the 1400s, it was made a park in 1931. The complex boasts an open air concert hall and several athletic fields. The centerpiece is Osaka Castle, which sits atop imposing stone walls and covers 15 acres. Surrounding that are over 250 acres of finely manicured garden, including moats, walking paths and hundreds of cherry and apricot trees. Thirteen structures within the park including gates, turrets, and the gun powder storehouse have been designated Important Cultural Properties, providing a superb glimpse into Osakas history.
Customers say: Good location, very close to public transport station nice scenery with cherry blossom, just in front of hotel. Fast Internet in room. Leechin, Malaysia
Halong Bay, Vietnam
Average customer rating: 4.23 out of 5
Halong Bay is one of Vietnams most popular destinations, and carries the awards and badges to match its beauty. It is both a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and alongside the Cat Ba National Park, a Special National Landscape Site. The craggy, curving coastline boasts about 1,600 islands just offshore. Many with hiking trails, large caves, and vantage points that offer spectacular views across the ocean especially during sunset. The most common method of taking it all in is on single- or multi-day boat tours on large junks. The 90 sq.km national park on Cat Ba Island is a must-visit, offering waterfalls, jungle, lakes, and dramatic cliffs, among other activities.
Customers say: What an amazing experience and what a top of the line way to see and explore the magic of Halong Bay. The impeccable organization of everything on this trip, amazed us. Joan, USA
Ang Thong National Marine Park, Ko Samui
Average customer rating: 4.17 out of 5
Located within sight of tourist magnet Ko Samui, Ang Thong National Marine Park encompasses 42 islands across 102 sq.km of deep blue ocean. Once a haven for pirates and smugglers, it was designated as a marine park in 1980 due to a fragile ecosystem that includes everything from turtles to monkeys to pigs. Organized boat trips (most often from Ko Samui or Ko Pha Ngan) are the best way to get here. Relax on beaches, snorkel among fish and coral, paddle around in a kayak, or explore trekking trails on some of the larger islands. Most tours include a trip to Ko Mae Ko, which offers a stunning view from its peak across the parks entire expanse.
Customers say: We wished we had stayed here for the entire trip. Our next visit we won't bother looking anywhere else. There was lots of attention to detail and the staff were exceptional. Michelle, Australia
Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
Average customer rating: 4.12 out of 5
Established in 1962, the 2,100 sq.km Khao Yai National Park was Thailands first national park. Its location cant be beat only a few hours after leaving Bangkok one can be trekking through lush wilderness to a jungle waterfall. From its lowest point above sea level (100m) to its highest (1,350m), the park is home to a long list of sensitive and endangered fauna, from pythons to bears to elephants and even a famous lonely lost crocodile. An average daily temperature in the low 20s Celsius also make it a great escape from lower, hotter areas. Many opt to rent a car or motorcycle and explore the park on their own time, but be sure to head to the visitors center for maps and tips before you head out.
Customers say: Thames Valley was something else. It's the most beautiful hotel that I've ever been to, comparing on the case of natural beauty. The scenery is fantastic. Theerati, Thailand
Penang National Park, Malaysia
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5
The dense and beautiful Penang National Park is located in the northwest corner of Penang. Much like the islands famous culinary scene, there are big rewards for a bit of exploration. Established in 2003 and just over 25 sq.km, its Malaysias smallest and youngest national park, and is packed with things to see and do. Two hiking trails snake through rugged forest landscapes, isolated beaches are great for a quick dip or a long nap, and those with quick trigger fingers can get some great pictures of monkeys, turtles, otters, and even dolphins. For a great view of the forest from a different angle, try the 250m long canopy suspended from the trees 15m above the ground.
Customers say: Hotel and rooms were clean and large, staff was excellent, will surely be back. Great value for money. David, USA
Rizal Park (Luneta Park), Manila
Average customer rating: 3.88 out of 5
In the middle of the sprawling Philippine capital, Rizal Park (also called Luneta Park) is both a beautiful escape from the traffic and noise, and a potent symbol of the countrys tumultuous history. It takes its name from national hero Jose Rizal, author and Filipino nationalist who was executed in 1896 for promoting sweeping social reforms during the Spanish colonial era. The 140 acre park is located next to the famous Intramuros walled city. It is one of the most popular spots in Manila for locals to picnic, exercise, and relax among gardens and greenery. Adjacent to the park are the Museum of the Filipino People, Department of Tourism, and the National Library. An impressive monument to Rizal stands on the western end. Trivia note all road distances in the Philippines are measured from Kilometer Zero, just across the street from the Rizal Monument.
Customers say: We had an absolutely marvelous stay in this unique hotel the complimentary room designs, colors and furnishings provide a pleasant atmosphere to enjoy the experience. Mark, USA
About Agoda Company Pte Ltd:
Agoda Company Pte Ltd (Agoda.com) is a leading Asia-based, online hotel reservations company, which specializes in securing the lowest discount hotel prices. Agoda.com is part of the Priceline Group (Nasdaq:PCLN). Agoda.com's network includes more than 360,000 hotels worldwide. The multinational staff of more than 1,400 professionals, located throughout the world, provides a first-rate reservation service that uniquely combines local knowledge and local connections to provide the best hotel deals to both business and leisure travelers.
A member of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Agoda.com's aim is to promote travel by making it more affordable and more accessible to more people. AGODA® is a registered trademark of AGIP LLC, used under license by Agoda Company Pte. Ltd.
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Heir apparent
Jan 17 2014 , The Asian Age
Leadership came naturally to the family. The young Gandhi's great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru, grandmother Indira Gandhi, father Rajiv Gandhi – all led the country. Though Manmohan Singh is now prime minister of a Congress-led government, the supreme power rests with Rahul's mother Sonia Gandhi.
However, there is a challenger today and it is the BJP, which has acquired the status of a national party, second only to the Congress in terms of electoral success. Its rise has changed the rules of the game.
With the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, BJP set the trend of formally announcing a prime ministerial candidate before entering an electoral battle. For the Congress it has never been an issue, as everyone inside and outside the party knows leadership can go only to a member of its first family.
A party president from the family and a prime minister from outside the family, or vice versa, is something the Congress has never been comfortable with, though there are past instances of this unhappy coexistence.
At the AICC meeting in the capital on Friday the clamour for Rahul to be named the party's prime ministerial candidate was not really necessary, for everyone knew who will eventually be anointed. But it was necessary to have a name (and face) if only to have clarity before the campaign for the 2014 general elections begins. Congressmen need to know who is to counter BJP's projected top man Narendra Modi.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi knows that well. So it is no surprise that a proposal to name Rahul Gandhi as party's prime ministerial candidate was nuked publicly by her at the Congress Working Committee and AICC meeting.
Analysts believe the Congress decision is to keep Rahul Gandhi's elevation as prime minister for the future. The chips are currently down for the party, which dreads the coming polls. The Congress leadership does not want to be caught in a trap laid by the BJP to make the elections a Rahul vs Modi battle.
Rahul earlier said he was ready to take up any responsibility the party assigns him, which sparked media speculation that he might be projected as prime ministerial candidate. With Singh having said earlier that he would pass on the baton to the 'next generation' after the 2014 elections, the speculation got further grist.
But that is not to say that Rahul won't be prime minister. He will be instantly anointed if the elections give his party enough numbers. Rest assured, he will be there some day.
As a senior Congress functionary said: "Rahulji is young. He has a long future ahead. He has not been in politics for post and power. He has been doing politics to bring in long-term changes, which meet the needs of a new aspiring India."
Nonetheless, the young leader is going to lead the party from the front as chief of the Congress party's campaign committee for the elections. He is still the party's best bet. The rest of the Congressmen, with their herd instinct, will follow him.
If in the elections the party does well, it will be because of "Rahulji's leadership ability." If the results go otherwise, no doubt the blame will go to the "collective responsibility" of the party.

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Many of the contributors to that discussion have been deleted in this one, simply to build a reasonably coherent thread. My apologies to those deleted.
Directories are useful, but they should not be at the top of the SERPs.
As for someone taking your work, I think more publishers need to have a better understanding of copyrights.
The only way that you can "own" your writing is by keeping it a trade secret. Once you publish, the work belongs to the public, but the public grants you restricted exclusive rights.
But the public still retains certain rights, that includes fair use. The public is using works that might have been created by you, but now belongs to the public.
They are not taking from you. In exchange for you publishing your information (which releases it to the public) you were granted some exclusive rights. It is a fair trade. Don't whine about it not being fair as long as they stay within those rights that were retained by the public.
[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 2:13 am (utc) on May 16, 2004]
I am sorry, but this is not correct. I am not sure what country you are from but in most of the western world copyrighted material never belong to the public and certanly not just because you published it.
I happen to live in the United States, which is about as far wast as you can get. At least in this country, Copyright and patent holders do not "own" their ideas, they own limited exclusive rights to those ideas.
If they in fact owned their ideas as if they were real property, when the rights lapsed, and the work was put in the public domain, that would count as a taking, and they would be due compensation from the government for their property.
You as the copyright holder only "own" certain limited rights to copy and distribute that material. There are entire distribution channels that you do not have any rights to, and in fact, do not require any attribution at all.
A songwriter *does not* own the copy of the song that is stuck in your head. That songwriter has no recourse to your singing that song in your carpool and getting it stuck in someone else's head. That person can sing that song around a private campfire without violating the copyright laws, and you as a songwriter, do not have any ownership of that song in their heads.
But you do still retain rights to that song even if it has traveled through that alternate channel for 20 generations if someone decides to perform it publicly, or write it down and distribute it. Because those rights have been granted exclusively to you.
If you actually owned the material, there would be no need for copyright law to grant you that exclusive right.
# Stowe v. Thomas, 23 F. Cas. 201, 1853
At issue in this case was a translation of Harriet Beacher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which was sold in the United States without the author's permission. The court claimed that once an author "has published his book, and given his thoughts, sentiments, knowledge or discoveries to the world, he can have no longer an exclusive possession of them. Such an appropriation becomes impossible, and is inconsistent with the object of publication. The author's conceptions have become the common property of his readers, who cannot be deprived of the use of them, nor of their right to communicate them to another clothed in their own language, by lecture or by treatise."
There was huge uproar about this decision for 17 years till the copyright act of 1870 included translations in what is covered by copyrights. So the law was changed, but no laws have since been written that dispute that the only thing that copyright owners "own" is the copyright, not the work itself.
If you know of the law or ruling that says otherwise, please let me know.
[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 2:12 am (utc) on May 16, 2004]
'Who Owns The Copyright On A Piece Of Work
Normally the individual or collective who authored the work will exclusively own the copyright. However, if a work is produced as part of employment then normally the copyright belongs to the person/company who hired the individual. For freelance or commissioned work, copyright will usually belong to the author of the work, unless there is an agreement to the contrary, (i.e. in a contract for service).
Copyright does not subsist in any part of a work which is a copy taken from a previous work. For example, in a piece of music featuring samples from a previous work, the copyright of the samples would still remain with the original author.
Only the owner, or his exclusive licensee can bring proceedings in the courts.
Acts restricted by copyright
It is an offence to perform any of the following acts without the consent of the copyright owner: copy the work, rent, lend or issue copies of the work to the public, perform, broadcast or show the work in public, adapt the work.
The author of a work or director of a copyright film may also have certain moral rights; the right to be identified as the author, right to object to derogatory treatment.
Acts that do not infringe copyright
'Fair dealing is a term used to describe acts which are permitted to a certain degree (normally copies of parts of a work) without infringing copyright, these acts are; Private and research study purposes. Performance, copies or lending for educational purposes. Criticism and news reporting. Incidental inclusion. Copies and lending by librarians. Acts for the purposes of Royal Commissions, statutory enquiries, judicial proceedings and parliamentary purposes. Recording of broadcasts for the purposes of listening to or viewing at a more convenient time, this is known as time shifting. Producing a back up copy for personal use of a computer program. Playing sound recording for a non profit making organisation, club or society. [Profit making organisations and individuals should obtain a licence from the Performing Rights Society.]
If you know of the law or ruling that says otherwise, please let me know.
Big Dave ..I love , respect and have found enlightening your posts on commercial matters and how SEO works ...But please do not post on copyright ..you don't know what you are talking about ..using decisions from the 19 th century which have since been superceded by international treaties signed by your country to "back up" your point is wrong , stupid , and missleads others who read and think that because of your obvious expertise in other areas that you must be talking sense in this one ...
And defending this crap does you a disservice
In the United States, treaties are not laws. You cannot sue in this country for someone violating a treaty, they have to violate a US law. As it stands, that 19th century decision has not been superceded. To comply with a treaty, US law must be ammended, which it has been.
There is no law in the united states that give the creator of a published work ownership of that work. They only get ownership of the copyright on that work.
And as a matter of fact, I have read the Berne Convention, and it only deals with "rights" and ownership of those "rights", now ownership of the work.
As I said before, I invite you to show me specific law that says otherwise. You have not.
You have also mischaracterized what the Berne Convention says about fair use. All it says is:
Article 10
(1) It shall be permissible to make quotations from a work which has already been lawfully made available to the public, provided that their making is compatible with fair practice, and their extent does not exceed that justified by the purpose, including quotations from newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press summaries.
(2) It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union, and for special agreements existing or to be concluded between them, to permit the utilization, to the extent justified by the purpose, of literary or artistic works by way of illustration in publications, broadcasts or sound or visual recordings for teaching, provided such utilization is compatible with fair practice.
(3) Where use is made of works in accordance with the preceding paragraphs of this Article, mention shall be made of the source, and of the name of the author, if it appears thereon.
Article 10bis
(1) It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to permit the reproduction by the press, the broadcasting or the communication to the public by wire, of articles published in newspapers or periodicals on current economic, political or religious topics, and of broadcast works of the same character, in cases in which the reproduction, broadcasting or such communication thereof is not expressly reserved. Nevertheless, the source must always be clearly indicated; the legal consequences of a breach of this obligation shall be determined by the legislation of the country where protection is claimed.
(2) It shall also be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to determine the conditions under which, for the purpose of reporting current events by means of photography, cinematography, broadcasting or communication to the public by wire, literary or artistic works seen or heard in the course of the event may, to the extent justified by the informatory purpose, be reproduced and made available to the public.
In other words, fair use is basically defined by the country you are in.
You can decide that I am wrong, but you have yet to show any evidence to the contrary.
Show me where any of the laws talk about anything other than ownership of rights.
When you add nothing to it, put ads around it, and don't credit the author, and the author used the content himself commercially (to sell ads) then you have such a situation.
Interpret the phrase "fair use" for yourself.
In the United States, treaties are not laws. You cannot sue in this country for someone violating a treaty, they have to violate a US law. As it stands, that 19th century decision has not been superceded. To comply with a treaty, US law must be ammended, which it has been.
I am a working artist ..what in heavens name makes you think that when I make a sculpture or a picture ..that I am somehow not the "owner" of that artwork ...!
What makes you think that because that "artwork" may be prose or poetry or text ..that you can take it and say "well..you let me see it ( you published it ) ..therefore it's mine " ...!
Which part of "it's stealing" dont you get?
Fair use ...Every piece of what you posted from the convention text ( which BTW you didn't "credit/acknowledge" correctly as per the proceedure decribed in the text ) ..
...Backs me up ..and defeats your own argument!....
Use by comercial organisations is not "Fair use" ..
What the text allows is that the signatory country may locally decide "how much" is fair use ...it does not give the country the option of inclusion of commercial entities amongst those to whom fair use is granted ....
It is not and never has been the intention of the Berne Convention to allow you or anyone else to copy work and then to 'get out" by crediting the owner of the work somewhere on the page ...
I presume by your reasoning it's ok for chinese CD pirates to make millions of copies of Madonna's CD's ..providing they say that the "original" was made by Madonna....?
In music ..one may "quote" upto 4 bars ..over 4 bars one pays a "royalty" to the composer ...This happens in the USA ....
As someone who has lived in and loves the USA and it's people I tell you again ..You do a disservice to The USA and it's people when you give the impression that Americans "tweak" and "reinterpret" laws and treaties in order to steal from others ...and are apparently proud to do so ..!
The only detail I do not agree with you on is the "4 bar rule" in music - it is an old roumor that is not entirely correct. If you entire song (or the most important part of it) is only 4 bars (which some simple tunes are) you are not allowed to use that much. A "quote" has to be only a small part of the entire work of art to fall under that rule. Also, copyright holders have, in general, every right to refuse any kind of commercial use or manipulation of their work. There is no exception on this rule for search engines. The fact that search engines send us traffic dose not change it.
I used to produce a lot of Hip-Hop and Dance music and I tell you it's a legal nightmare to clear samples! It is far from as simple as BigDave say it is.
I really hope noone follow his advise on this subject as it is very clear to me that he dosent have a clue about how it works.
In the case of a painting or sculpture, there is a physical item for you to own under property law. You can also sell that physical property without ever giving up any of your rights under copyright.
I think you fail to realize the whole value and point to copyright.
Copyright gives you value beyond that of physical ownership.
I can make a copy of the Mona Lisa and sell it without getting anyone's permission, or paying anyone.
I cannot reproduce (for any sort of covered distribution) any of your paintings without your permission (even if I bought the original). This is not because you "own" your painting. If you are like most artists, you "own" few of your own works. It is because you have been granted a "right" that goes beyond simple ownership of a physical work.
If I go to a showing of your work, I am allowed to take a picture of your sculptures. They are a derivative work, acopy, but you have no control over what I do with them *until* it enters the realm of what is "protected" by your "rights".
By the way, given US laws, legal documents are not covered by copyright. No proper attribution is necessary. The Berne Convention allows for the member nations to make that sort of choice. You might try reading it sometime.
The US laws do in fact meet the requirements to be a member nation under Berne. But you semm to have a misunderstanding of that document. I suggest you read it sometime, and maybe point out to me where it refers to ownership, instead of "rights" or "protection".
Really, I have no idea why publishers get so hung up on worrying about owning the actual work when they are trading it for something that makes it a lot more commercially viable.
I suggest that you go speak to your IP lawyer if copyright law gives you actual ownership of a writing, or just a limited monopoly on its use for a specific amount of time. Ask him to back it up with law.
What you might get is a reply saying that you "effectively own" it. But what it really is is a lifetime + 50 year lease. You can pretend that you own it, because by the time the lease is called due, you are long since dead. But you still do not own it. Ask him where the law grants you actual ownership of an idea.
Just cite the law as it applies to me and I will gladly conceed the issue. Where is the law that talks of owning song, instead of owning the rights to the song.
For that matter, cite a law in just about any country. I only care about US law, but I would be surprised if you can find any copyright laws written in such a way that it refers to anything more than rights.
I think more publishers need to have a better understanding of copyrights.
Then several publishers decided that I have no idea what I was talking about. And that people should ignore me, because believing me would be dangerous.
Well, I decided to follow my own advice, and have my position verified by a couple of attorneys. I just heard back from Professor Lawrence Lessig [lessig.org] after explaining my position:
Your view is both correct and supported by some of the best of our tradition.
<added>* this quote was not in relation to this thread, but in relation to an outline of my position on the issue. It was substantially the same, but it is possible that he might have issues with a some part of what I wrote here. I attempted to cover everything the same way.
I also thank him for his honest feedback on the issue.</added>
So, I go back to my original statement, that I really think more publishers should have a better idea of what copyright really is. If you think about copyright in the way that I have outlined, you will have a much better appreciation for how the law works and why it works the way that it does.
[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 2:15 am (utc) on May 16, 2004]
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If I go to a showing of your work, I am allowed to take a picture of your sculptures.
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I have seen a publisher suspended after the victim of the copyright infringement filed a DMCA complaint to Google.
There is a fine line, however, if each publisher is protected under fair use, or if it is blatant infringement.
That is private property rights of the gallery or museum, the restricting of cameras. It is not the rights of you as the creator of the art. I would get charged with all sorts of things, along the lines of tresspassing. But there would be no copyright charges.
If someone buys your art, and puts it in their living room, You still maintain your copyright rights, but you have no control over anyone taking pictures there. It is the right of the property owner.
If a picture of their living room with your sculpture incidentally in it is published in architectural digest, you are owed nothing. If a photograph is only of your painting, then you are probably due compensation if there are no other fair use considerations involved.
And just for your entertainment value, I have taken pictures in museums and galleries where it has been permitted. I have never distributed any of them, therefore I have not violated either property rights or copyright. Nor have I acted in an unethical manner.
"Fair use" is just as the name implies. It is fair. You have been granted copyright in exchange for it.
If you wish to keep total ownership of your works, keep them as trade secret. That is the deal you have made in exchange for the copyright. You accepted the terms by publishing. Is it not unethical to want copyright protection without "paying" for it?
However for the benefit of those who may be reading this thread and who think that the method of naming "us" as " preferred" or "senior" etc confers some kind of status to our comments on a particular subject ..it doesnt ..it is based on the number of posts we made ..no more ...or less than that ..
Copyright law ...prohibits the making of copies without permission in writing from the copyright owner ..
Making a copy without this written permission is illegal ..wether or not the intention is to distribute or publish it is not considered when the judge decides if the law has been broken ( the distribution /publishing etc may be important to the damages ..not to the act law breaking itself ) ...
Thus photographing a painting or sculpture which is on exhibition in a gallery or in a private collection or residence is illegal unless you have a written authorisation from the artist or the copyright holder to do so ..the permission of the gallery or the owner of the work of art is not sufficient ...
As Webwork ( a lawyer and highly respected member here ) points out in another thread here ...you will probably get sued and you will lose ..
The only possible exception to this is if you sit in front of the picture or sculpture and create your own painting or sculpture using paint or clay etc while looking at the first..this is the method still used in France in particular to "teach" students the "methods of the masters "...it is in my opinion of doubtfull benefit and I personally have never encouraged my students to do so ....some museums allow this ..some do not ...this form of "copying" is not considerd by legal authorities to be in breach of the law ...
However applying the same proceedure to literature , music etc is plagiarism and when it is confirmed results in prosecution , fines , expulsion from college etc ..rightly so ...
With regard to fair use ..you will notice in the extracts from the "Berne Conventions" ( which have BTW been constantly ammended to include IT etc ) which the previous poster quoted and which ( with apologies to Brett and the mods for the bandwidth ) I do so again here below ....all references to fair use are related to newspapers , teaching , broadcasters , critics etc ...they are not intended to ..and do not apply to commercial use as "padding" in 3rd party websites , books or magazines by unrecognised people masquerading as publishers or journalists ....
These provisions were designed so as to allow the "4th estate" to function ...not to fill google cache or the webpages of people with too little creativity to produce their own copy ....it is not because large organistions such as google have uptil now not faced succesfull prosecution that they are not breaking the law ..their time will come ....
Microsoft were eventually tried and prosecuted for antitrust ...the years leading upto the verdict were taken into account in deciding the punishment ....
The quotes from "Berne" merit carefull reading by those who understand the meaning of English or their own language ...some here merely think they do ...
"publication" does not mean "your private website"...
nor the inside of your "private photo albums"..showing these things to a larger public and claiming fair use as though you are the NY Times or a UCLA researcher doing a book reveiw or aDoctorate thesis or putting yourself on the level of the art critic of The Daily Herald will not be considered a fair use reason to photograph sculptures without the written permision of the artist ...it is not because a law is difficult to enforce that it is not the law ...
If I sell you a sculpture ..you may not photograph that sculpture or / and send or sell the photo to anyone without my permission nor may you give permission to someone else to take the photo etc etc ....sounds crazy? ..sorry its the law ...( Not at all sorry really ..it's how I protect my means of putting food on my kid's table )...
Article 10
(1) It shall be permissible to make quotations from a work which has already been lawfully made available to the public, provided that their making is compatible with fair practice, and their extent does not exceed that justified by the purpose, including quotations from newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press summaries.
(2) It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union, and for special agreements existing or to be concluded between them, to permit the utilization, to the extent justified by the purpose, of literary or artistic works by way of illustration in publications, broadcasts or sound or visual recordings for teaching, provided such utilization is compatible with fair practice.
(3) Where use is made of works in accordance with the preceding paragraphs of this Article, mention shall be made of the source, and of the name of the author, if it appears thereon.
Article 10bis
(1) It shall be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to permit the reproduction by the press, the broadcasting or the communication to the public by wire, of articles published in newspapers or periodicals on current economic, political or religious topics, and of broadcast works of the same character, in cases in which the reproduction, broadcasting or such communication thereof is not expressly reserved. Nevertheless, the source must always be clearly indicated; the legal consequences of a breach of this obligation shall be determined by the legislation of the country where protection is claimed.
(2) It shall also be a matter for legislation in the countries of the Union to determine the conditions under which, for the purpose of reporting current events by means of photography, cinematography, broadcasting or communication to the public by wire, literary or artistic works seen or heard in the course of the event may, to the extent justified by the informatory purpose, be reproduced and made available to the public.
The last paragraph posted
If you wish to keep total ownership of your works, keep them as trade secret. That is the deal you have made in exchange for the copyright. You accepted the terms by publishing. Is it not unethical to want copyright protection without "paying" for it?
was just outright ridiculous ..however I would invite anyone who has read this thread upto here and is at anytime in the future prosecuted for infringement of copyright or intellectual property to subpoena the poster to appear and answer for incitement to commit an illegal act ( or whatever you call it in your juristiction )....
Webwork's thread is here [webmasterworld.com...]
Anyone Think That He Doesn't Know What He's taking About?.....
( I don't have much time for Lawyers as a rule ...But He is THE MAN! )
mods? ..can you maybe merge these threads and so Stop the missinformation going on here ...I know that technically its a nightmare to do : )
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Since you are obviously on top of these issues you ought to be able to save me the time of digging out the Supreme Court cases. I'd like to brush up a bit on case law before I say anything on the subject you raised. When I'm challenged I prefer to quote directly from case law, book and page number. That way, if people have an issue with whatever I assert, I can tell 'em to "Take it up with Antonin Scalia".
Webwork, Esq.
BigDave says that Leosghost does not own his own painting, poem, whatever, and only owns certain rights to it. And, that the actual art, in exchange for copyright protection, belongs to the public.
So, if Leosghost destroys his painting, or burns his poem after a public reading of it, or performs a piece of original music once and never again, why is he not held liable for destruction of public property?
I own my desk. If I want to destroy it, I can and I will not have to reimburse any one for its destruction. It's mine.
On the other hand, if I go into a public building and destroy a desk, I will have to reimburse the public for the cost of that desk (plus face other charges). That's because the desk belongs to the public.
If Leosghost can recite a poem at a public reading (which would constitute publication) and then destroy the poem, I am not aware of a precedent case where he would be required to reimburse the public for destruction of public property. That being the case, I would say that Leosghost owns his poem.
My interpretation is that copyright law may give him a limited term of ownership, but it is ownership nonetheless.
A printout of a poem is also real property. you may do with it what you will.
Your real property rights do not protect you from someone transcribing that poem as you read it and submitting it to poems monthly, or even claiming it as their own.
You can write a song, but once people start singing it, you do not own every copy. You do not own the brain cells of the listener that has your song annoyingly stuck in their head. Yet you still own the "rights" to that song.
You have no right to keep that person from "copying" that song by singing it in the shower, or even singing it in the carpool in front of other people while driving to work.
The right you definitely do have is that they do not have the right to perform that song in public, or distribute a written version of it.
Then there is a huge grey area of the law that you must be careful when treading.
Can you make a recording of that song when you hear it on the radio? Yes, you can according to the betamax decision. You can also show it privately to your friends. You cannot use it for public performance.
The "owners" of the songs try to disagree, but aparently they do not own the "right" to stop you from making that copy.
As a copyright owner, you are only entitled to those rights specifically granted you.
If you own one of the physical copies of you have real property rights on that specific copy. Owning the real property copy does not give you any of the copyright rights. Everyone is entitled to the fair use rights, whether or not the copyright owner agrees that you should have those rights.
Once you publish something, you have no way of stopping it from going into the public domain when your copyright expires.
Even if you control all the copies and destroy them, it still legally enters the public domain, even though it no longer exists. If someone has an copy that you did not know about, it still goes into the public domain. You will not be forced to release your real copy of that work, but that is real property law, not copyright law.
Which part of my posts do you want me to quote law on?
Certainly you are not questioning my assertion that the Berne Convention is not applicable copyright law in the US, only US law is applicable.
Do you want me to argue that copyright is not the same as real property ownership? It will be hard to find that case law, because I don't think the lawsuit would get past summary judgement since you would be filing it under the wrong set of laws. See how far you get bring title 17 charges against someone for skateboarding on the sidewalk. It just don't work that way.
Or should I show that fair use is in fact a very murky area of the law? Or that the monetary value of the use is important in deciding if it is Fair Use?
By the way, in copyright cases, if you are actually looking for significant monetary damages instead of just stopping the infringement, you would be much better served by sending the C&D before filing the lawsuit. You should also register your copyrights before you file. Sending the C&D goes a long way to proving willful violation. The judges in copyright cases give you a lot more if you give the defendant the chance to mitigate the damages and they do not.
On the other hand, if your only goal is to stop the infringement and collect a few hundred bucks, filing a lawsuit will likely get their attention quicker than a C&D. From the cases I have followed, it seems that even attorneys fees are hard to collect without proving willful infringement.
It's very specific about author and ownership. About the only point that's potentially debatable is that of what constitutes "fair use," for which I believe there are 4 tests, according to Chilling Effects
The list also gives four guiding factors courts will consider in deciding whether a use is fair or not. These factors are
1. the purpose and character of the use,
2. the nature of the copyrighted work,
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used, and
4. the effect of the use on the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Nothing goes into the public domain unless it's voluntarily put there by the copyright owner, or after the period of time expires.
Correct. In other words *everything* published goes into the public domain when the copyright expires. That has never been a point of contention.
Just for reference, here's the official basic reference from the U. S. Copyright Office
It's very specific about author and ownership.
Oh yes, there are some choice quotes in there. You might notice that it always is referring to the "owner of the copyright" as opposed to the "owner of the work".
Here is a choice quote from that page
Mere ownership of a book, manuscript, painting, or any other copy or phonorecord does not give the possessor the copyright. The law provides that transfer of ownership of any material object that embodies a protected work does not of itself convey any rights in the copyright.
It makes a very clear distinction between ownership of copyrighted personal property and the copyright itself.
Here is another:
Copyright is a personal property right, and it is subject to the various state laws and regulations that govern the ownership, inheritance, or transfer of personal property as well as terms of contracts or conduct of business. For information about relevant state laws, consult an attorney.
Copyright is a personal property right, but the work itself is not personal property during the duration of the copyright.
If it was, then the congress would no longer have the authority to grant copyrights, as the expiration of copyright and subsequent moving of the work into the public domain, would be an eminent domain taking under the fifth amendment. The fifth amendment, having happened after article one, would override article one and make our copyright and patent systems illegal.
You could also be charged with all sorts of personal property violations, such as grand theft and possession of stolen property. This simply does not happen because the personal property is the ownership of the copyright, not what the copyright protects.
Here is another bit that helps to make it clear. Notice the wording:
The owner of exclusive right(s). Under the law, any of the exclusive rights that make up a copyright and any subdivision of them can be transferred and owned separately, even though the transfer may be limited in time or place of effect. The term "copyright owner" with respect to any one of the exclusive rights contained in a copyright refers to the owner of that particular right. Any owner of an exclusive right may apply for registration of a claim in the work.
You own "rights" not the actual work.
About the only point that's potentially debatable is that of what constitutes "fair use," for which I believe there are 4 tests, according to Chilling Effects
There are four tests that are spelled out in title 17, but it is in fact more involved than that. There is also a lot of case law, and additional acts of congress such as the DMCA, the Audio Home Recording Act, the Betamax decision, etc.
There are also the uses that are so trivial that you could argue de minimis and if they agree, they will not even bother doing a fair use analysis.
In fact, interpretation of fair use is such a mess, that when they tried to come up with some guidelines for it to make it clear, they never succeeded. I seem to recall mention that very few of their examples, when put before a group of judges, were able to get over 75% agreement, much less 100%.
While there is such a thing as fair use for commercial purposes, you better think long and hard about it, and talk to a few copyright lawyers, before venturing into that area.
The people that I know who are real authorities on any given body of law can quote cases and precise verbiage from cases without even looking them up. Also, they quote the opinions of the court, not secondary source material that interprets the original opinions. That way you know what is law (the reported cases) and what is interpretation (all the learned article interpreting the reported cases - it's quite an industry).
What people need to appreciate is that BigDave is authoritative only to the degree that he is quoting directly from what the Supreme Court has written. That's the law. What the U.S. Congress enacts. That's the law. This whole thread could have been reducted to a few direct quotes from reported Supreme Court cases and Acts of Congress. Then it's res ipsa loquitor time: The thing speaks for itself. Debate tends to seep in where no one is able to quote the source material. Quote the source material and the debate then turns from "This is the law! No it isn't! To "what a bunch of buffoons the Supreme Court is."
So, BigDave, I'd appreciate every name drop you can make for what you've been telling people 'is the law'. The way that goes in the practice of law is that you cite the case and then you quote directly from the written opinion of the court.
I'd really appreciate you going the extra step to demonstrate that your authority - the authority with which you speak - isn't 'the law according to BigDave' but it what we call "black letter law", the law that you can - to borrow from Ogden Nash - "you can look it up".
Without reference to the underpining authoritative material all the erudition is just so much hot air.
Kinda like the guy who swears U.S. citizens don't have to pay taxes.
My gut feeling is, BigDave is correct!
I suspect many people don't spend enough time on the minutia of what he says, to understand the specifics. I also wish more people would read Lessig's work.
Sure, case law would be nice. However I doubt there is very much available for these almost theoretical points, because in an actual case lawyers would shift emphasis to the other areas (where they felt they could win) rather than try and argue aorund these points.
That's pat of the tragedy of the DMCA... it's so poorly written it wont stand up to reason. It's more about bullying via legislation than protecting rights.
If you don't mind perhaps you could start by answering that specific question first.
This isn't to say that you need a law degree or years of experience in court to offer a legal opinion, just like you could perform brain surgery on yourself without a license. However, when you speak here you are opertating on someone else's brain, you see, and - without getting into detail - it's my sense that you are operating without a license.
OBTW, you can also pick what you feel to be the 3 major points that you've presented in this thread and, chosing them you can then set down the citations to the Supreme Court cases and the verbiage in the Supreme Court Reports that you rely upon to fashion your major points here.
I have to say, WebWork, when I saw you start that bit I immediately slashed a bunch o' points off your credibility score sheet. After all, to pull that one is to admit you don't have much else to go on, no?


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In my newfound interest in taking images and assembling into larger image I'd run across a link or two on Maxim that I blew by learning the 'Photoshop way'.
Last night I opened the 'Help' in maxim and typed in the keyword mosaic. One thing I should mention is that my friends in design school say mosaic an odd term as usually it is creating an image from small tiles that are not the image itself (though that can be done too) that this is more a panorama or photomerge. Just throwing that out there...
Anyway - took some understanding exactly what I was reading - in fact my second time through (first was a failure my fault) I just left the help window open and proceeded more carefully - and it worked very well! Woohoo!
Unsure if it is better to be able to combine the image and then flatten the background in Maxim or to do it in the individual panes and then assemble in Photoshop? Both seem to work quite well. Maybe there is an advantage in MaximDL as I can be certain the entire image stretched the exact same - I do most all the major stuff in MaximDL if I can. This would make my overall job far less tedious and detail oriented as if I do this pane by pane there is a lot of numbers to keep track of for the Photoshop method.
In Photoshop favor is that it is slightly more hands off, in fact totally automated. The MaximDL method requires making a new empty frame approx. 'completed size', insert images (must be opened and at convenient size for your screen to work with) and blend / 'snap', check and then save that.
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Aryan Hopkins attempted two world records over the weekend: the most piercings in one sitting, and the most needle piercings ever. Well he got the most in one sitting (1,093) but fell short of the most ever (1,200). Plus was using smaller needles. CHEATERS NEVER WIN, ARYAN.
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Hello my friends of the Wild Greens!
Welcome to our next News Bleep form the Wild / Biotopia - Farm & Forage ! Can you feel the changes in the air? I personally take more time to look inside for answers - as we all know, all answers are inside of us - we just have to keep asking questions or have others ask the questions -
Do you remember the little green eggs from the photo I sent out in the last News Bleep? These are soooo tasty and their prime time is over now: they are normally hanging way up high in a tree so one can't get to it - but the icy storm in January brought some branches to the ground and I enjoyed a whole lot of these eggs as I walked by and gathered some for the salad - these eggs actually elongate into the flowers of the Bigleaf Maple tree and you can enjoy them also when they are in full bloom - so, keep an eye out for these treats!
It is amazing: this year I find a lot of different Wild Edibles in the forest and on the meadows - it seems that the longer I forage the more variety I find. There is such an abundance out here - I wish that everyone could enjoy this bounty ... well, one day ...
And the more I eat of the wild greens, the closer I get to Mother Nature - I am living in Gratitude and Simplicity.
Do you know a dead Alder tree in your neighborhood that bears Oyster Mushrooms? if the answer is YES, then it is high time to check on them - this Monday I went to one of my spots and there was a nice big flush on the tree - I harvested only some of the mushrooms for the next couple meals and promised myself to come back again. ... so I went back on Wednesday evening and I almost didn't believe what I saw: the mushrooms were mostly dried out - no surprise, really you say, 'cause we had this really hot weather on Monday and Tuesday - okay, so I just harvested some almost dry ones and found some new growth on the north side of the tree - "lucky Me" ... at home I dried the mushrooms in the dehydrator and I'll use them later in the year, especially in the winter.
Did you know that you can increase the Vitamin D levels in the Oyster Mushrooms, actually any mushroom you consume? After you harvested them, place the mushrooms upside down = gills facing up into the sun for a good hour - and then you can prepare them for your meals or dry them. Mushrooms are a natural provider of Vitamin D. - so "let's go picking!"
Living close to nature and in nature brings a lot of healing into my life - thank you Carole, for letting me borrow one of your Anastastia books - the 'Rites of Love' - I remembered reading it almost 4 years ago. Reading it now makes me realize that the time for bringing all aspects of myself home is Now - now I am creating the space of love in what ever I am doing - more consciously with every day, sometimes every moment - wow - welcome to Life and Love !
and now back to another important plant in our life: the Horsetail (Equisetum arvensis). In my garden I have a lot of those growing - first came the shoots that are spreading the pollen. And now we can find the little infertile, green trees everywhere. As long as the Horsetail plant has its arms pointing up into the air, we can use them for healing and nutritional purposes - once the arms are bending down to the ground, the vitality of the plant is going back into the roots and shall not be harvested any more.
What benefits does the Horsetail have? when I first discovered Horsetail for myself, my kidneys were sending me signals to pay attention to them - and here was the Horsetail growing in my garden - turns out, that the Horsetail supports the functioning of the kidneys - so I started making Infusions with it and then vinegars.
Horsetail contains the following minerals: calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus and silica - and more. Can you imagine how much it would cost to buy all those minerals lab made at the store? and horsetail just grows in your back yard for free!!! All the silica in the Horsetail will make your hair and nails healthy and fast growing too! When the plants let their arms hang down, the silica crystals have grown big and can irritate kidneys and bladder - so make sure you harvest the plant when it has its arms reaching into the air!
(if you ever dug out a horsetail plant you know how long the roots are and how deep they reach into the ground and you can even eat those roots)
I am aware that I am repeating myself, but it turns out that the plants that are growing in our neighborhood are mostly the ones that are having a message for us and can help us heal our bodies -
How to incorporate Horsetail into your daily nutrition? Horsetail vinegar is a great way - fill a quart jar with horsetail that you twist into smaller pieces, pour apple cider vinegar over it, screw a lid that can't rust on the jar and place it into a brown paper bag - now keep the vinegar with the herbs in a warm (not hot) place and shake once in a while. After six weeks you can either decant the vinegar or you keep the herbs in the vinegar while using it. The vinegar helps to extract the nutrients - so you really have a nutritious herbal vinegar - and you made it yourself! You can also dry Horsetail and then add a pinch to every cup of tea you make.
For an infusion fill a jar with Horsetail twisted into smaller pieces, cover them with hot water, screw a lid on top to prevent nutrients from escaping with the steam, place in a brown paper bag and after 4 hours of steeping, the infusion is ready to be consumed - simply pour off the liquid and enjoy the benefits of a homemade elixir.
Did you know your teeth can re-mineralize and re-enamalize themselves? They are alive and can heal! Weston Price found in the 1930's how to reverse dental decay in children and adults. by mainly using nutrition. He concluded that our teeth require two things: fat soluble vitamins A and D, and minerals like calcium, phosphorus and silica. For the first we're lucky to have Dandelions and a lot of other 'weeds', Mushrooms, oily fish, butter fat and marrow filled soup bones, and for the second we have horsetail - can it get any better then this?
If you want to dive deeper into the world of healing your teeth via nutrition, I recommend the book "Cure tooth decay, heal and prevent cavities with nutrition", written by Ramiel Nagel.
And what about all those weeds that are growing on our farm? - I like to share a contemplation from herbalist Susun S. Weed : "Abundance of Weeds - There are an abundance of weeds in my garden. If I let them grow, my tomatoes would suffer. I must remove one abundance in order to cultivate another. Abundance requires attention. One abundance may prevent another abundance. I don't really weed my garden, though; I harvest the weeds for food and medicine. Using my weeds gives me abundance in abundant ways. I save about $500 a year by eating my weeds instead of buying greens and vegetables. I save more than $2000 a year by eating my weeds instead of buying vitamin and mineral supplements. And I can't even guess at how much I save by using weeds as my primary health care."
I have signed up for the 30 day sit spot challenge with the Kamana studies of the Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, which started on May first. Sit spots are a great way to connect ourselves to nature and our natural surroundings. Amazing how all the senses are tuned up and are working so differently in nature and we become more quiet and peaceful as a result of it - in my workshops I am integrating sit spots as well as meditation and healing circles and sometimes games - its about time to integrate all the wisdom I gained over the decades on this planet to make every Wild Food Walk a Wholesome Experience =)
What workshops are being offered? "Wild Food Walk and Feast" - we are getting to know a whole bunch of wild edibles/medicinal plants and integrate the habit of looking really closely to make sure to identify them over and over again. We take our baskets along and pick the ingredient for our salad as well as vinegars and infusions. Some awareness exercises and meditations nudge as into close contact with nature and ourselves. Back at the house, we are having our feast.
The next workshop is on Saturday, May 19th from 10 AM until 4 PM.
On Saturday, May 26th starting at 6 PM, I am inviting you all to a Celebration of Life with food, fun and fire and on Sunday, May 27th, we are hiking to Fossil Rock - a very special place.
Feel free to contact me to arrange a private workshop here or at your place -
until our next meeting :
be well, wild and only the best !
from Christine and family at Biotopia - Farm & Forage
Feel free to forward this News Bleep to an interested friend or two ... help spread the word! Thank you !!!
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It's here: the Metropolitan Opera's schedule of live high-definition broadcasts in movie theaters, with tickets to go on sale to the general public Nov. 9. After a successful inaugural season of these broadcasts last season, the Met is upping the number of broadcasts from six to eight, and adding "encore performances" of each production on the day after the initial broadcast.
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• Capital Mall 14, 625 Black Lake Blvd., Olympia.
• Rose Theatre, 235 Taylor St., Port Townsend.
• Bella Botega Stadium 11, 8890 161st Ave. N.E., Redmond.
The Seattle, Federal Way and Olympia venues also will show the "encore performances."
Tickets cost $15-$22 for all broadcasts, live and encore. Buy them online at www.fathomevents.com or at the participating theaters' box offices. Metropolitan Opera members (membership requires a $125 donation, at www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/support/hd.aspx) can buy tickets now.
You may also buy tickets through the theaters' online dealers: Regal/Edwards/United Artists theaters and some AMC theaters via www.fandango.com; most AMC theaters (www.movietickets.com); and Cinemark and Century theaters (www.cinemark.com).
The Fathom Web site notes that there may be a lag between the time ticketing is activated at the box office and when it is available online via Fathom. Here's the schedule and casting:
Dec. 15: Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette"; conductor Plácido Domingo; production Guy Joosten; with Anna Netrebko, Isabel Leonard, Nathan Gunn, Robert Lloyd. Encore Dec. 16.
Jan. 1, 2008: Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel"; conductor Vladimir Jurowski; production Richard Jones; Christine Schäfer, Alice Coote, Rosalind Plowright, Philip Langridge, Alan Held. Encore Jan. 6.
Jan. 12: Verdi's "Macbeth"; conductor James Levine; production Adrian Noble; Roberto Aronica, Lado Ataneli, John Relyea. Encore Jan. 13.
Feb. 16: Puccini's "Manon Lescaut"; conductor James Levine; Karita Mattila, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft, Dale Travis. Encore Feb. 17.
March 15: Britten's "Peter Grimes"; conductor Donald Runnicles; production John Doyle; Patricia Racette, Anthony Dean Griffey, Anthony Michaels-Moore. Encore March 16.
March 22: Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; conductor James Levine; production Dieter Dorn; Deborah Voigt, Michelle DeYoung, Ben Heppner, Eike Wilm Schulte, Matti Salminen. Encore March 23.
April 5: Puccini's "La Boheme"; conductor Nicola Luisotti; production Franco Zeffirelli; Angela Gheorghiu, Ainhoa Arteta, Ramón Vargas, Ludovic Tézier, Quinn Kelsey, Oren Gradus, Paul Plishka. Encore April 6.
April 26: Donizetti's "La Fille du Regiment"; conductor Marco Armiliato; production Laurent Pelly; Natalie Dessay, Felicity Palmer, Juan Diego Flórez, Alessandro Corbelli, Zoe Caldwell. Encore April 27.
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I'm not really sure what to think about it deeply. I live in San Francisco, so this piece really is something close to home, about 2 miles from my apartment. I think it is well done, maybe the faded look is not to my liking, but it shows that it is 70+ years old. I like it and the detail, it is just like one of my maps and in a style I would do myself on paper. I have a lot of personal opinion about this piece. Since it is so similar to one of my paper maps, I really like it a lot. It looks so much like the 1895 Sanborn Fire Insurance maps. I bet that is where the idea came from. I would love to know the source of the background information.
The map really shows the northern most part of China Town as it was back the time frame in question. I look forward to seeing the rest of the map pages. I believe the China Town Gate is is on Sutter Street and as far east as Kearny Street. That looks like it took a lot of work to make the one page you have here.


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Menopause itself involves the body's gradual (in cases other than surgical) transition from fertility to the period beyond this stage. This transition involves the discontinuation of a woman's body's natural production of estrogen and progesterone. As these natural hormones decrease in the body, many symptoms can arise. These symptoms do not appear in all menopausal women and their severity, too, can vary greatly. When they do appear, however, nutritional supplements for menopause have been shown to help in some bases.
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Some non-vitamin supplements for menopause nutrition tend to be added into lifestyle if and when symptoms arise. The most common symptoms associated with this period of life include hot flashes, insomnia and mood swings. Of course, there are many other symptoms that can arise, but these three are the most common. Let's take a look at what types of nutritional supplements for menopause might help if these symptoms arise.
Nutritional supplements for menopause that have been linked with assisting when hot flashes strike include such things as black cohosh, soy and red clover. Black cohosh is widely used in Europe, but many feel there are not enough studies to support its use. Soy and red clover are known for having isoflavones, which is a plant equivalent to a woman's natural estrogen. Studies are still ongoing into these two and their real impacts, but they have been shown to be effective in some cases.
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Conor McPherson's world premiere, "The Eclipse," has been acquired by Magnolia Pictures in the waning days of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. The film, which stirred industry interest immediately after its debut at the festival last week in New York City, was written and directed by McPherson and stars fest best actor winner Ciaran Hinds, Iben Hjejle and Aidan Quinn.
Festival insiders were rooting for a deal to close on the popular Tribeca title before the end of the event, which wraps up this weekend. The movie drew considerable interest among buyers, reportedly stirring inquiries or offers from companies ranging from Miramax and Sony Pictures Classics to Roadside Attractions and IFC Films.
Josh Braun of Submarine brokered the mid-six figure pact with Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles, SVP Tom Quinn and company international sales head Laird Adamson.
An acclaimed playwright, McPherson wrote "The Weir" and "The Seafarer." Commenting on the deal, in a statement tonight, Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles said, "With 'The Eclipse' Conor McPherson's infinite talent as a playwright has been matched by his filmmaking skill. This fantastic and fantastical film is one of the most fresh and original films I've seen in quite some time."
Described as, "a hauntingly beautiful and atmospheric drama about coping with grief and the redemptive power of love," the film is set in the Irish seaside town of Cobh. It's further described as, "the story of a recent widower who is trying to adjust to his role as the sole caretaker of his two young children, but is increasingly haunted by frighteningly real nightmares that are starting to spill into his waking hours."
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those are cute cats
there is something about cats sitting that is so appealing.
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there is something about cats sitting that is so appealing.
Thanks for addressing the cat shortage, eu. We have been remiss, but a three-shot helps balance it out.
I see that they have Alvin in sight.
With Alvin safe. Click to flickr to see larger version.
But then again, so were those three in the parent post.
But would the placement of the box of whatever-it-is that the chipmunk is eating, coupled with the screen door, be considered a form of cat abuse?
Most times that I've pointed a camera at the cats, intending to make a video of something truly hilarious, they've just frozen. But there might be a few decent clips buried somewhere. I'll try to find them.
... especially because the Internet is perhaps best thought of as a Cat Meme Propagation Device.
So thank you for this post.
Fair warning, though: I have more.
and funny cat graphics.
BTW, those Maine Coons sure look like they're in ready-to-pounce mode.


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A little respect from Billick? Mark it on the calender!!
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No GA pilot has spent more time studying the weather than Richard Collins. And Richard's meteorological research and observation didn't happen in a classroom – unless you, as I do, know that 20,000 hours of cross-country flying in a GA airplane is nature's very best classroom.
Richard is also a student of the Civil War and has visited most of the important battlefields. He has also located the markers that commemorate where many of his ancestors engaged the Yankees in what he and others sometimes call the "War of Northern Aggression."
Richard and other old-time pilots, particularly those who are familiar with the great lost cause, have observed over the decades that in the winter and early spring there is usually a weather boundary between the warm and moist air of the Deep South and the cold dry air of the North. They call this the "Confederate Front." As I was heading out the door to fly down to Florida for the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In on Monday morning I got an email from Richard pointing out that "the Confederate front is going to make it tough for the Yankee pilots to get to Florida for the next few days." And was he ever correct.
It doesn't take a lot of weather training to know that when it's in the 80s in the Deep South as it was late last week, but when it's in the 20s and 30s in the northern tier of states, there is going to be a clash of air masses in between. Where that clash happens is the Confederate Front, and it usually forms in a more or less east-west line throwing up a defensive bulwark for pilots flying north or south.
The Confederate Front can be charted as a cold, stationary, or warm front. More often the area is shown on the charts as a combination of all three, as it was last Monday. No matter how the weather guys choose to draw the front on the chart, you can expect to find areas of widespread low clouds, low visibility, and, in some areas, violent thunderstorms.
The front was draped across Louisiana and Georgia last weekend and tornadoes broke out, destroying a number of buildings. By Monday morning the front and its associated area of terrible flying weather had retreated farther south. It was snowing in Kentucky and Tennessee, hard enough to cover the ground. It was in the 40s in southern Georgia. It was in the low 80s in central Florida, and humid. With that setup the Confederates – at least those we blame for the weather – were doing their best to keep Yankee pilots from invading Florida for Sun 'n Fun.
As is often the case, the forecasters were slow to recognize the potency of this particular Confederate Front. When I checked the weather before heading to the airport the forecasts called for IFR conditions at my fuel stop in Statesboro, Georgia, and only scattered to broken thunderstorms and rain showers south into Florida.
The IFR part in Georgia was right with a 400-foot overcast and 4 miles visibility in drizzle at Statesboro. But those "chance of" scattered thunderstorms were already forming into pretty solid lines even in northern Georgia. And when I dialed the range out on the Nexrad I could see nothing but solid heavy level four returns all the way across the middle of Florida.
There were some breaks in the storms that had formed along the Georgia-Florida border as I flew south and I was able to make small deviations to get around them. A new SIGMET for an east-west line of storms moving in from the Gulf Coast was just to my west so I was glad to be through that area because it was certainly going to get worse.
But ahead of me on the Nexrad satellite weather was something I had never really seen.
Both the XM Weather picture on my Garmin G600 display and the WSI radar mosaic delivered by Avidyne showed an area of solid level four returns starting at Ocala, Florida, and extending at least 100 miles south. The area covered the entire width of the state and extended way out into the Gulf to the west.
When precipitation becomes heavy enough to show level four it is normally concentratedinto thunderstorm cells with lighter rain around it. These cells often form into lines, but a line of such heavy rain is typically only a few miles thick. But this area was solid. And both displays showed lightning strikes scattered throughout the area. Clearly, with lightning present, there were thunderstorms embedded in the big mess.
What was missing that is a key radar signature of severe weather is a gradient in the radar return. Gradient refers to the distance between light rain, medium rain, and heavy rain returns. A steep gradient where the radar target goes from light to heavy in a short distance is an important indication of severe weather and turbulence. This radar return had zero gradient. It was all the same color for miles and miles.
The onboard weather radar showed the same thing – just solid rain ahead. With each sweep some returns would jump from level three to four, but there was really no way to identify that one spot had heavier rain than the other.
The airline jets were descending through the weather to land at Orlando and Tampa and the crews were making only small deviations. There were only a couple other GA pilots on the frequencies and they were also asking for turns here and there, but were pressing on south through the weather. Maybe this system really was flyable.
What I have learned in all of these years of flying GA airplanes in all kinds of weather is that lower is better when thunderstorms are about. Jacksonville granted my request for 3,000 feet and I was under the bases of the black-looking clouds and above a lower solid layer – most of the time. But the rain was as heavy as I can ever remember, and relentless. I felt like I was flying a submarine.
Occasionally the clouds would brighten with a lightning stroke hidden somewhere in the heavy rain. There were some of those convective type of bumps where the airplane takes off in a climb with the nose pointed down, and then gets shaken like a wet dog. The worst turbulence was on the ILS into Tampa, where the surface wind was gusting to 28 knots, from the west, of course, as we were landing on Runway 19.
The heavy rain just kept pouring down after I landed. The drive over I-4 to Lakeland was as terrifying as flying through the stuff. The downpour continued on into the night and the Sun 'n Fun show grounds are drenched. Now forecasters say the bad weather is going to hang around for a few days.
The Confederate Front did keep a lot of Yankee pilots at bay, particularly those with more caution and sense. But then if there had been an abundance of common sense both North and South the tragedy of 150 years ago would have never happened.


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Does anyone know if and when they do training clinics at Kissena and when they start this year?
Does anyone know if and when they do training clinics at Kissena and when they start this year?
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you mean Campo's classes, right? saturdays at (i think) 11am once kissena opening weekend happens. i think that's the last weekend of april this year.
also, is this Hugo as in Snap/Attake Hugo?
"also, is this Hugo as in Snap/Attake Hugo?"
no sorry, don't know what you're referring to
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I would love to know about this as well. I live right near Kissena and I've been itching to learn how to track race.
You should definitely come. I'm looking forward to this. I've never raced track before and I just built up a sweet bike so I'll be there for sure. Supposedly there are some loaner bikes if you don't have a legal track bike.
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When does this begin? How do I sign up? How much is it? How long does it last? What makes a legal track bike?
this is the schedule for opening weekend.
this is the Twilight series schedule info.
and all other kissena stuff
Golden thanks for those links but I've seen them already. I don't see anything about a Mens clinic, only womens. Am I just not seeing it?
Campo's training classes are saturdays at 11am after opening weekend. they're free. bring water, you'll be there a couple of hours. its pretty informal, but invest in decent shorts and a jersey if you can. track legal means plugged drop bars and no brakes, blinky lights, fenders or any of that jazz. i'm not 100% if it means no horizontal drop outs (conversion frames) for kissena. i can never remember.
i'll be there more often than i was last season. you get a lot out of it!
Sounds sweet. Are there any snobby riders that show up to these things and look down upon noobs? I'm clueless when it comes to track racing, that's why I'm interested in the clinic, so if some ****** tries to give me **** I won't let him get away with it.
Perfect. Sounds like a plan.
By the way I watched your hour record video. Were your legs jello at the end?
drainyoo, you can just show up. people tend to get together for group rides for these sortsa things. i'm in greenpoint, but i'll try to post up a meeting spot here when i'm going out there.
and like all sports, there are plenty of jock ******y types that need to get some chest-thumping out of their systems at the track. for the most part though, its a lot of really great people. i wouldn't worry about it, and i certainly don't recommend starting confrontations out there.
Thanks for the info. Let me know when you head out there and I'll try and make it. The thing is I just finished build up a SS bike with F/R brakes. If I come out there I would have to take off my brakes which isn't a big deal and flip my rear wheel to the fixed side.
I've just never ridden fixed before.
heh heh, that might be a better place to start than the training clinics. start by flippin' your wheel and heading to prospect park or central park. you can even leave your brakes on, but get a good handle on riding fixed before you head out to the track. bike control is really important!
have you ridden in pace lines before or do you have any road racing experience? that stuff is handy too.
I don't have any race experience, that's why I wanted to take the classes. I guess I'll ride around on fixed for a bit to get use to it.
also, I found that watching track races really helped me get acclimated to track racing. definitely come out and watch opening weekend - april 26 and 27, i think - to get a sense of how things work.
Yeah I'm definitely planning on coming out opening weekend to check out the races.
Am I correct in thinking the first track coaching session is May 3rd?
What gear ratio do people recommend for the training? I'm riding 48x15 on the street. I don't want to get there and spin out and not be able to keep up.
From what I've been told 48x15, which is about 84 gear inches, is a pretty good ratio for the track. It's also a pretty big gear for city riding but hey, whatever works for you! I ride 46x16 on my track bike for Prospect Park training but am planning to buy a 49 tooth chainring for the track. I've only gone out to Kissena once, I was by myself, rode for about 1/2 hour and realized I needed a bigger gear.
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I use 48x15 for most events at the track.


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Greenville-based Adex Machining Technologies said Tuesday it received a contract to supply components for new industrial gas turbines developed by Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas in Savannah.
In 2011, Mitsubishi Power completed an initial $325 million investment to open the first phase of its 116-acre Savannah Machinery Works facility to produce natural gas and steam turbines for customers in North America. The company also has a new rotor manufacturing factory under construction and is expected to employ more than 500 people when fully complete by the fall of 2013.
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"Mitsubishi is highly regarded around the world for their fuel-efficient and cleaner-emission technologies, and is a corporate role model for social and environmental sustainability," Adex CEO Jason Premo said in a news release. "Their cutting-edge applications are an excellent fit for our advanced machining capabilities and skilled workforce, and we look forward to helping them accomplish their goals as a value-added supplier."
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