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trilobitesStarrett & van Vleck
american architectsThe architectural firm of Starrett & van Vleck specialized in the design of early 20th century department stores primarily in New York City. Included in their designs were the New York City flagship stores of Lord and Taylor, Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, Abraham and Strauss, and Alexander’s. The Lord and Taylor store, located on Fifth Avenue between 38th and 39th streets, was completed in 1914 and was Starrett & van Vleck’s first major department store. In December 2007, the store was named a New York City landmark. "A Landmark Department Store," by Francis Morrone, The Sun, December 27, 2007.
Starrett & van Vleck was also responsible for the design of the American Stock Exchange (1921), Downtown Athletic Club (1930), and the Everett Building, in Manhattan, both of which are New York City landmarks. "Manhattan House, Lord & Taylor Flagship Landmarked," by Tom Acitelli, The New York Observer, October 30, 2007. Between 1937 and 1948, they designed the downtown flagship store of the J.N. Adam & Co. in Buffalo, New York, which is currently threatened with demolition. "J.N. Adam (AM&As) Threatened by Vampiric Policies of Development Agencies," Greater Buffalo Blog, March 3, 2005, (accessed Aug 16, 2008). Starrett & van Vleck, credits also include the flagship store of Washington, D.C.'s Garfinckel's.
Left Bank Cinema
cinema of france | film theory | movements in cinema | new waveThe Left Bank group of directors is a contingent of filmmakers associated with the French New Wave, first identified as such by Richard Roud."The Left Bank Revisited: Marker, Resnais, Varda", Harvard Film Archive, > Access date: August 16, 2008. The corresponding "right bank" group is constituted of the earlier, more famous and financially successful New Wave directors associated with Cahiers du Cinéma (Claude Chabrol, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard). The two groups, however, were not in opposition; Cahiers du Cinéma advocated Left Bank cinema.
Left Bank directors include Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, and Agnès Varda. Roud described a distinctive “ fondness for a kind of Bohemian life and an impatience with the conformity of the Right Bank, a high degree of involvement in literature and the plastic arts, and a consequent interest in experimental filmmaking,” as well as an identification with the political left. The filmmakers tended to collaborate with one another.Jill Nelmes, An Introduction to Film Studies, p. 44. Routledge. Georges Franju, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Marguerite Duras are also associated with the group.Donato Totaro, Offscreen, Hiroshima Mon Amour review, August 31, 2003. > Access date: August 16, 2008. The nouveau roman movement in literature was also a strong element of the Left Bank style, with authors contributing to many of the films.
Loquillo National Forest
former national forests of the united statesLoquillo National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Puerto Rico on January 17, 1903 with 65,950 acres. On June 4, 1935 the name was changed to Caribbean National Forest. 341 KB date=September 29, 2005 author=Davis, Richard C. publisher=The Forest History Society}}
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Western Digital Working On a 20,000 RPM Drive
storageMrKaos writes "Western Digital seems to be preparing for the onslaught of solid-state drives set to impact its market by developing a 20,000 rpm hard drive. Similar to the VelociRaptor line of drives, the new drives are speculated to be offering lower capacity as a tradeoff for faster seek and write times." This report out of Taipei is the only word on the rumored WD 20K drive. It's said to be a 2.5" drive in a 3.5" enclosure, for efficiency of cooling — the arrangement the Register enjoyed poking fun at when the 10K drive was upgraded last month.
Eugenio Toussaint
Eugenio Toussaint Uhtohff (October 9, 1954), is a mexican composer and jazzist of international fame.
Life
He began playing in 1972 with the band "Odrabek".
Jonathan Bowers House
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Jonathan Bowers House is a historic house at 58 Wannalancit Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.
The house was built in 1872 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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Brown-Maynard House
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Brown--Maynard House is a historic house at 84 Tenth Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.
The house was built in 1852 and adde to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
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How to Start Your Own Country (book)
How to Start Your Own Country (ISBN 1581605242) is a book about micronations written by Erwin S Strauss, and originally published in the late 1970s.
It is generally considered to be the first attempt at documenting the micronation phenomenon.
Doubts On Yahoo's Human Rights Code of Conduct
yahooIan Lamont writes "The US Senate has been pushing American technology companies to work with rights groups to develop a human rights code of conduct, which would help to guide their overseas activities. Yahoo now claims that it has established the 'core components' of a global code of conduct, and a more complete version will be ready this fall. However, the Industry Standard notes that there's a fundamental flaw with such efforts: US law is not world law. Following the local laws is a requirement of doing business in any country, and conflicts between corporate ethics and the law of the land in which these corporations do business are inevitable. The US Senate's push for such a code was prompted by a number of incidents, including Yahoo's complicity in the arrest of Chinese dissidents and a Chinese journalist."
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W760
The Sony Ericsson W760 is a slider model music phone. It includes many of the same features found in Sony Ericsson's line of Walkman branded music phones, although also includes GPS navigation, shake/tilt sensors, and Sony's 'SenseMe' music feature built in.
Twelve Imams
The Twelve Imams are the spiritual and political successors to Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam, in the Twelver or Ithna Ashariya branch of Shi'a Islam. According to the theology of Twelvers, the successor of Muhammad is an infallible human individual who not only rules over the community with justice, but also is able to keep and interpret the Divine Law and its esoteric meaning.
Can I Be Fired For Refusing To File a Patent?
patentsAn anonymous reader writes "I am a developer for a medium-sized private technology company getting ready for an IPO. My manager woke up one morning and decided to patent some stuff I did recently. The problem is, I'm strongly opposed to software patents, believing that they are stifling innovation and dragging the technology industry down (see all the frivolous lawsuits reported here on Slashdot!). Now, my concern is: what kind of consequences could I bring on myself for refusing to support the patent process? Has anybody been in a similar position and what was the outcome?"
Bees Help Detectives Catch Serial Killers
biotechHugh Pickens writes "The way bumblebees search for food could help detectives hunt down serial killers — because just as bees forage some distance away from their hives, so murderers avoid killing near their homes, says a University of London research team. The researchers' analysis describes how bees create a 'buffer zone' around their hive where they will not forage, to reduce the risk of predators and parasites locating the nest. This behavior pattern is similar to the geographic profile of criminals stalking their victims. 'Most murders happen close to the killer's home, but not in the area directly surrounding a criminal's house, where crimes are less likely to be committed because of the fear of getting caught by someone they know,' says Dr. Nigel Raine. Criminologists will fold this insight into their models using details about crime scenes, robbery locations, abandoned cars, even dead bodies, to hone the search for a suspect."
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