Before his death in 1924, Franz Kafka left his papers to Max Brod who rushed them out of Czechoslovakia ahead of the advancing Nazis. Now, the daughter of Brod's late secretary wants to sell them to a German institute. But the legal battle in Israel has become Kafka-esque. Someone must have been spreading lies about Eva H. because, although she keeps no valuables in her apartment, an intruder broke in late one night. Her cats suddenly raised their heads, and then the silhouette of a muscular man wearing white gloves appeared in front of the glass pane of her bedroom door. Eva Hoffe, 75, picked up her mobile phone and dialed 100, the number of the Israeli police. "There's a burglar in my house, Spinoza Street, Tel Aviv," she whispered. "Are you sure that he's still in your apartment?" asked the voice on the other end of the line. "He is standing in front of my bedroom door," replied the old woman. By the time the police arrived, the mysterious intruder had fled.
Before his death in 1924, Franz Kafka left his papers to Max Brod who rushed them out of Czechoslovakia ahead of the advancing Nazis. Now, the daughter of Brod's late secretary wants to sell them to a German institute. But the legal battle in Israel has become Kafka-esque.
Someone must have been spreading lies about Eva H. because, although she keeps no valuables in her apartment, an intruder broke in late one night. Her cats suddenly raised their heads, and then the silhouette of a muscular man wearing white gloves appeared in front of the glass pane of her bedroom door.
Eva Hoffe, 75, picked up her mobile phone and dialed 100, the number of the Israeli police. "There's a burglar in my house, Spinoza Street, Tel Aviv," she whispered. "Are you sure that he's still in your apartment?" asked the voice on the other end of the line. "He is standing in front of my bedroom door," replied the old woman. By the time the police arrived, the mysterious intruder had fled.
They could revert from public domain if the push for prolongation to life+90 goes through before 2014, but that should not be affected by who holds the actual papers. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
This matters because specific publications are sometimes edited, making them slightly unique. Although I can download a copy of something by Jane Austen from one of the archive sites on the web, I can't legally scan and upload a particular printed version. Similarly if I translate something by Plato into English, the translation remains in copyright, even though the original Greek is in the public domain.
I can't see how it's possible to prevent a performance of the music on an old manuscript, unless the manuscript was stolen. The owners own the manuscript. If the music on it is already public, it remains public. If it wasn't public and was copied without permission, they have a case of sorts based on the loss of value of their original, but it's not quite a standard copyright case.
As I see it they have two options, either publish the original text as it is, meaning Kafka is the author and it is public domain or publish an edited version which - as TBG points out - means that the total version runs under the editors copyright (life+70). But to prove that it has been edited enough to warrant copyright they will need to release the original, which will then be in public domain. Unless there is some legal way to prove without the text becoming public.
In the german case I wonder how the would-be performers got the copy in the first place if it is unpublished. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
Bought by two of his devotees from Glasgow for £2m, the tiny North Ayrshire island of Little Cumbrae is being converted into an international yoga camp after a blessing from India's most popular lifestyle guru Baba Ramdev, also known as Swami Ji.After comparing the west coast island to the Himalayas and the banks of the Ganges, Baba Ramdev led a procession accompanied by bagpipes across the island, trying not to trip over the fans who jostled to touch his feet. In a traditional Hindu Hawan blessing the swami, surrounded by bright petals and grains, chanted and poured ghee onto an indoor fire watched on by his followers from around the world. With that Baba Ramdev officially started the transformation of the previously uninhabited 700 acres of rocky land into Peace Island.
Bought by two of his devotees from Glasgow for £2m, the tiny North Ayrshire island of Little Cumbrae is being converted into an international yoga camp after a blessing from India's most popular lifestyle guru Baba Ramdev, also known as Swami Ji.
After comparing the west coast island to the Himalayas and the banks of the Ganges, Baba Ramdev led a procession accompanied by bagpipes across the island, trying not to trip over the fans who jostled to touch his feet.
In a traditional Hindu Hawan blessing the swami, surrounded by bright petals and grains, chanted and poured ghee onto an indoor fire watched on by his followers from around the world.
With that Baba Ramdev officially started the transformation of the previously uninhabited 700 acres of rocky land into Peace Island.
The Espoo-based bus operator West End Linja has installed hand sanitizer dispensers on 40 buses. The route operator aims to offer passengers the opportunity to cleanse their hands either on boarding or disembarking from its fleet. The pump bottles have been located in the mid-section of the buses. Marketing Manager Arttu Tehiranta said the idea gained currency when the company began distributing bottles of hand disinfectant to its bus drivers. "When we distributed them to our workers, we thought `Why not to the passengers too?' If people do use them, we may even provide the gels for a longer period," Tehiranta explained.
"When we distributed them to our workers, we thought `Why not to the passengers too?' If people do use them, we may even provide the gels for a longer period," Tehiranta explained.
Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious - NYTimes.com
This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say "Liber Novus," which is Latin for "New Book." Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didn't know the book's vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome. And yet between the book's heavy covers, a very modern story unfolds. It goes as follows: Man skids into midlife and loses his soul. Man goes looking for soul. After a lot of instructive hardship and adventure -- taking place entirely in his head -- he finds it again.
This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say "Liber Novus," which is Latin for "New Book." Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didn't know the book's vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome.
And yet between the book's heavy covers, a very modern story unfolds. It goes as follows: Man skids into midlife and loses his soul. Man goes looking for soul. After a lot of instructive hardship and adventure -- taking place entirely in his head -- he finds it again.
Assisted by instruments that can track in fine detail how parcels of fluid move, and by low-cost computers that can crunch vast amounts of data quickly, researchers have found hidden structures beyond Monterey Bay, structures that explain why aircraft meet unexpected turbulence, why the air flow around a car causes drag and how blood pumps from the heart's ventricles. In December, the journal Chaos will highlight the research under way to track the moving skeletons embedded in complex flows, known as Lagrangian coherent structures. ... The structures are invisible because they often exist only as dividing lines between parts of a flow that are moving at different speeds and in different directions. In the ocean, the path of a drop of water on one side of such a structure might diverge from the path of a drop of water on the other side; they will drift farther apart as time passes. ... To find the structures, scientists must track flow, not by watching it go by but from the perspective of the droplets of water or molecules of air moving in it. "It's like being a surfer," Dr. Campbell said. "You want to catch the wave and move with the wave."
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The structures are invisible because they often exist only as dividing lines between parts of a flow that are moving at different speeds and in different directions. In the ocean, the path of a drop of water on one side of such a structure might diverge from the path of a drop of water on the other side; they will drift farther apart as time passes.
To find the structures, scientists must track flow, not by watching it go by but from the perspective of the droplets of water or molecules of air moving in it. "It's like being a surfer," Dr. Campbell said. "You want to catch the wave and move with the wave."
The Lagrangian formulation of fluid mechanics is a lot more complicated mathematically than the Eulerian form. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Vaccines have ceased to be easy to introduce in the western world. The concept of herd immunity, where you have your child vaccinated for the good of the population, has all but vanished in the wake of the MMR furore. The death of a girl in the UK after a cervical cancer jab will not help the situation.The cervical cancer jab protects against the human papilloma virus, not against the disease itself. Because HPV is sexually transmitted, there was much early controversy over the vaccine. Some parents opposing it argued that it would send out the wrong messages to girls and encourage them to be promiscuous. When the US bought the Merck vaccine, which also protects against sexually-transmitted genital warts (GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix, which is used in the UK, does not), their suspicions were intensified.Vaccine opponents are now vocal in all western countries and the internet is full of their doubts, criticisms and conspiracy theories. But last month, doubts were voiced in a more mainstream medical forum, with the publication of a US government report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Jama). It cited 32 deaths linked to the cervical cancer vaccine, none of which has been confirmed. It also said the vaccine has been associated with higher incidents of fainting and blood clots than other vaccines.
Vaccines have ceased to be easy to introduce in the western world. The concept of herd immunity, where you have your child vaccinated for the good of the population, has all but vanished in the wake of the MMR furore. The death of a girl in the UK after a cervical cancer jab will not help the situation.
The cervical cancer jab protects against the human papilloma virus, not against the disease itself. Because HPV is sexually transmitted, there was much early controversy over the vaccine. Some parents opposing it argued that it would send out the wrong messages to girls and encourage them to be promiscuous. When the US bought the Merck vaccine, which also protects against sexually-transmitted genital warts (GlaxoSmithKline's Cervarix, which is used in the UK, does not), their suspicions were intensified.
Vaccine opponents are now vocal in all western countries and the internet is full of their doubts, criticisms and conspiracy theories. But last month, doubts were voiced in a more mainstream medical forum, with the publication of a US government report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Jama). It cited 32 deaths linked to the cervical cancer vaccine, none of which has been confirmed. It also said the vaccine has been associated with higher incidents of fainting and blood clots than other vaccines.
