The inner workings of an IBM Model B Executive Electric Typewriter are revealed in this publicity photograph.
via The IBM Typewriter: An Informal History
Have a look at the price list too. Everything seemed so affordable in 1934…
Le Lardon (menuet)
Jean-Philippe Rameau: Pièces de Clavecin, Suite en Ré (1724)
Sophie Yates: clavecin
When Yale University announced in 1965 that it had acquired a pre-Columbian map of the known world showing Viking adventures to North America, the case for the map’s authenticity seemed solid. After all, three renowned experts in medieval documents had assessed the map for Yale, taking nearly seven years to prepare what was to be the definitive defense, a weighty book titled The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation…. as soon as Yale unveiled the map other scholars began voicing doubt.
Since then Yale, to its credit, has spearheaded intensive scientific study of the map, much of which has put its authenticity in question.
To investigate the map yourself and examine evidence that it may be—and in some cases may not be—a 20th-century forgery…
Click on the link and check it out!
The second part provides individuals with a new right to receive a written “access report” that describes uses and disclosures of their PHI [personal health informaiton] made through an “electronic designated record set.” This new access report would include information on a covered entity’s workforce members who have accessed information and would apply to information in an electronic designated record set, not only information in an electronic health record, as required by HITECH.
This was a good slideshow from NetworkWorld, about the history and current status of Internet2.
It led me to an post on the Internet2 blog, Now that the Bandwidth Challenge is solved, what are we going to do with it?, which I though was worthwhile reading.
My friend asked me for the Fallingwater data ,but I do not know about it.The fallingwater is a architecture made by a architect who is called Frank Lloyd Wright. Can you help me ? If you know the answer, please send it to my email box. Thank you!
I’m sorry, I don’t know anything about that at all.
I would suggest searching on Google. Or perhaps submit it as a question to Yahoo Answers or Quora? That is what I would do if I were in your situation.
Do not hesitate to report back and let us know how things turned out.
Best of luck to you.
Sandals Resorts International Ltd. attempted to force Google to turn over extensive information about the sender of an allegedly libelous e-mail criticizing Sandal’s treatment of native Jamaicans. Sandals operates resorts in the Caribbean.
Yesterday, Sandal’s demand was denied by the New York State Supreme Court:
in a decision that grapples with the nature of libel claims in the Internet age.
A unanimous panel … ruled in Sandals Resorts v. Google, that the online post, considered in its entirety, constituted an expression of opinion.
The decision, written by Justice David B. Saxe, points out that readers generally give statements in private e-mails, blogs and other online media less credence than statements in traditional media… and courts must adjust their standards for libel accordingly.
Judge Saxe quoted case law to that effect. (55 NY L Sch L Rev 333, 335, 2010/11). He emphasized that this was not intended to make acceptable any and all slanderous or damaging email content, whether targeting individuals or companies.
[This is] in no way intended to immunize e-mails [whose] focus and purpose are to disseminate injurious falsehoods about their subjects.” However, he said the court should protect against business interests who use subpoenas to “enlist the help of [Internet service providers] via court orders to silence their online critics [which] threatens to stifle the free exchange of ideas” (43 J Marshall L Rev 1, 15 [Fall 2009]).
Emphasis is mine.
1.5.2 Compliance with other specifications This section is non-normative.
This specification interacts with and relies on a wide variety of other specifications. In certain circumstances, unfortunately, conflicting needs have led to this specification violating the requirements of these other specifications. Whenever this has occurred, the transgressions have each been noted as a “willful violation”, and the reason for the violation has been noted.
1.7.1 How to read this specification This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections from the contents list and following all the cross-references.
This comes up again and again and people don’t believe it.
Americans may be postponing marriage, and fewer are wedding at all. But what about the people who do get married? They’re staying together longer than they have in years.
Three in four couples who married after 1990 celebrated a 10-year anniversary, according to census statistics reported Wednesday.
