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Anti-Static Resistance Testers are designed to measure the resistance of grounding paths of banana jacks and other equipment. Surface Resistance Meters are designed to measure the point-to-point resistance in accordance with ESD Association Standard ANSI/ESD S4.1.

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Desco offers a variety of meters and measurements such as the low resistance tester, analog surface resistance meter, digital surface resistance meter, surface resistance checker, and micro meg tester.

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There’s an area in Miyagi Prefecture called Kejonuma that’s home to an arresting legend.

Kejonuma means “pond of the ghost woman,” and the tale that gave birth to this name tells of a beautiful damsel, daughter of a rich farmer, who lived near a pond supposedly well-known for snakes living around it.

One day the woman gave birth to a baby in the form of snake. Soon, though, the baby slithered away to the pond, where its cries could be heard every night. But such was the pain she felt upon hearing those cries that the young mother was soon driven out of her wits — to the point that she committed suicide by jumping into the pond.

Whatever the truth, or not, of that tragic yarn, in 1979 an amusement park named Kejonuma Leisure Land opened near the pond and was soon attracting crowds on weekends and holidays.

But whether due to an ancient curse or more mundane factors, the amusement park’s popularity first stalled and then waned until it was closed in 2000. Nowadays, all that’s left for curious visitors to enjoy are its rusting Ferris wheel, its topsy-turvy teacup waltzers and broken-down little locomotive overgrown by weeds. Even the merry-go-round horses look sad now they have no excited young children riding them anymore.

Never mind those horses’ feelings, though, because in its current state of ongoing decay and dereliction, the amusement park has provided great subject-matter for “Haikyo-bon 3″ (“Ruins Book 3″), a book that was published in April 2009 by Kaoru Nakata, a freelance writer, and Jun Nakasuji, a freelance photographer.

According to Nakata, in its heyday the amusement park also used to boast a campsite and a mini-golf course back in the days when it was the area’s main leisure facility.

However, along with hundreds of amusement parks across Japan, the number of visitors to Kejonuma Leisure Land began to decrease in line with the nation’s declining birth rate and people’s expanding range of leisure possibilities. Consequently, for it and many others, the writing was on the wall as the national economy continued its post-bubble stall as well.

“Amusement parks for families ended their role in society because we have fewer children and the rides in the parks became old,” Nakata said. “It was also because children got used to more stimulating playthings and no longer got excited by the rides at amusement parks.”

But Nakata and Nakasuji — who have reported on some 300 modern ruins in Japan since 1996 — point out that it’s not just once-prosperous amusement parks that have fallen victim to changing times and trends.

Indeed, another popular category of ruins they cite are mines — whether ones that extracted coal or other minerals.

Regarding the old coal mines, Nakata explained that as Japan shifted its energy source from domestic coal to imported oil and nuclear power from the 1970s, thousands of miners lost their jobs and left the towns around the mines.

“When the mines closed, such buildings as apartments, schools and hospitals in those towns became disused. Then the towns became deserted ghost towns,” Nakata said.

The same fate has also befallen many hotels, and they, too, are now popular magnets for fans of ruins, Nakata said — naming the Fukinuki Kanko Hotel in Aichi Prefecture as a prime example. The huge hot-spring hotel opened in 1939, comprising three buildings, and at its peak in 1983 — according to the “Ruins” book — it attracted 200,000 guests and posted more than ¥2 billion in revenue.

Then Japan’s economic bubble burst at the start of the ’90s and the hotel’s fortunes began to falter. Soon it was in the red without much of a safety net, as during the good times a lot of its profits had been plowed back into renovating its facilities, Nakata said. To make things worse, a social shift toward individualism severly impacted a mainstay of the hotel’s business as workplace-group tours began to dry up fast. Then, after losing a steady stream of its staff, the end finally came for the resort in 1997.

However, after being a favorite site for ruins fans for many years, the abandoned hotel was bought by a religious organization a few years ago, Nakata said. After that, some of its buildings were renovated, some were demolished, and the site went off the ruins fans’ radar.

There are, though, many abandoned and decaying hotels scattered around Japan, Nakata said.

“When industries in local areas collapsed, the private sector simply couldn’t afford to buy the buildings,” Nakata said. “And, because local governments’ finances are often so weak, they can’t afford to pay for disused properties to be torn down and the sites cleared.”

As baleful as Japan’s growing number of derelict properties and facilities may be, though, it’s good news for Nakata and Nakasuji, who plan to publish another ruins book next year.

Some ruins, too, have recently been doing their postmortem bit for economic regeneration as they turn into popular sightseeing spots.

The most famous of these is Hashima Island, better known as Gunkanjima (meaning Warship Island), in Nagasaki Prefecture. Located some 19 km off the city of Nagasaki, the 6.3-hectare, 480-meter-long island thrived for decades on undersea coal reserves mined from there. At its peak around 5,300 people — comprising the workers and their families — were living on the island in high-rise apartments.

Then, as Japan shifted its energy source from coal to oil and nuclear power, the mine closed in 1974 and, for safety reasons, the Nagasaki authorities imposed a ban on anyone landing there.

Nonetheless, Gunkanjima — so named because its concrete sea walls and high-rise buildings make it look like a warship — became popular with tourists who would take boats out to view the rather eerie abandoned island from the sea.

Then finally, bowing to repeated requests from the public, the city of Nagasaki lifted the landing ban in April 2009. Since then, up to this May, about 70,000 people have visited the island, according to Tsutomu Yonehara, the city official promoting tourism.

“We expected about 25,000 people would come to visit the island in a year,” Yonehara said, adding that the actual number was more than double that. “I think one of the reasons for the popularity is the ‘ruins boom’ in recent years,” he said.

And, of course, that popularity has brought with it a welcome boost to the city’s finances — amounting to some ¥1.78 billion in economic ripple effects by April this year, according to estimates from the Nagasaki Institute for Public Policy.

But rising revenues from ruins are not restricted to Warship Island, said Nakata. “Some abandoned buildings have became rental studios for photo sessions in recent years,” he explained, adding that “there are benefits to ruins, which some people are using to make money.”

In addition, he pointed out, some readers of his books are lovers of decaying environments or sites with occult associations. Although some people seek out such places for themselves and visit them at their own risk, he explained that others, mainly women, enjoy looking at photos of them in books.

Nakasuji, who took the pictures for the “Ruins” series of books, added that he thinks that those people who like ruins are hungry for reality.

“They’ve got jaded by virtual realities and fictions,” Nakasuji said. “When they see ruins, which are the ultimate form of reality, they are impressed.”

The reality that abandoned buildings show is failure and death, Nakata observed — to which Nakasuji responded by saying that when he sees grass growing through cracks in floors or moss covering buildings, he feels they are signs of the natural cycle of birth and death and rebirth that is at the very heart of Buddhism.

And truly, even there in a rusting Ferris wheel, such profundity as the Wheel of Life is there to be seen and felt by all.


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Demand change: an open letter to Japan’s rising generations

If you’re like my 17-year-old, then you probably already know just about everything there is to know, and reading this column you’ll likely just say: “Yeah, right, whatever,” or “So?”

But if you have a few minutes, younger readers especially, please bear with me.

As a father, professor and environment journalist, I am seriously concerned about our use and abuse of our planet Earth, soon to be your planet Earth.

With the human population growing, marine resources dwindling and every inch of our planet touched by human-made chemicals and waste, I’m less than optimistic about the state of the world you will soon inherit.

From a different perspective, however, we can say that your generation is facing the most exciting challenges of any generation in history. We are on the cusp of dramatic changes environmentally, politically, socially and economically, with the effects of climate change multiplying, the Arab Spring phenomenon and Occupy Wall Street protests gaining traction, and developing nations rushing headlong forward while developed countries grind to a crawl.

In your lifetime, you have a chance to recalibrate the way we do things on this planet: to create a society that prioritizes justice, human rights and the quality of human life; to harness safe energy for all; and to introduce global, sustainable resource use.

Of course, there is a distinct possibility that we will fail to deal with such pressing issues as shrinking fresh-water supplies, loss of critical biological diversity and the effects of climate change feeding back upon itself. Then all hell will break loose.

To help you visualize how quickly things are changing, take a look at the website Worldometers (www.worldometers.info).

Seeing the numbers click over faster than a high-speed gasoline pump, births and deaths, expenditure on military, CO2 emissions in tons, and energy use from non-renewable sources — to name a few — helps make stunningly clear how much and how fast your world is transforming, and in many ways not for the better.

Humans have never faced so many challenges and the stakes have never been higher: Human society and our planet as we know them are on the line.

The good news is that solutions are as endless as human creativity. The bad news is that the problems are global and they are entrenched in our systems of governance and business. And the clock is ticking.

So, on a recent splendid day of blue skies and fiery foliage, I asked fellow educators in Japan who share some of my optimism regarding this country’s university students for words of encouragement to share with the next generation of planet-keepers.

No doubt you will disagree with some of my and their thoughts, but don’t dismiss us completely. We have decades of experience teaching in Japan and perhaps even taught your parents — though we don’t take responsibility for how they turned out!

One of my colleagues, a professor from the Chuo University Law School, offers advice for students who are job-hunting or trying to decide what to do with their lives.

“The first step is not the last step. Setting goals is worthwhile, but ambitious goals are rarely achieved all at once. This applies to careers as well as social movements. What’s important is to keep at it, to scan the surroundings for opportune moments and to be ready when the time is right,” he suggests.

From Sophia University, a professor urges young people to take action in the face of discouragement.

“Sometimes a bleak situation can motivate you to act in ways you would not have the courage to do in good times. Today, with a bad job market and disconnected politicians, it is time for young people to act up, to speak out, to protest injustice, to dance in the streets and to sing at the top of your lungs. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain,” he explains.

A long-time friend and professor at Japan Women’s University sent me two quotes from the Buddha focusing on the spiritual aspects of one’s personal growth and life work, and explained why she chose them.

The first quote is: “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“You’ve probably wondered at times how much difference you can really make, but there’s so much that can be achieved through the efforts of one person,” she notes. “It’s easy to get into a mind-set where you feel that if you help others, your own energy and happiness will be depleted. But it actually works the opposite way!”

The second quote: “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”

“I’ve included the second quotation,” she explains, “because it’s so important to devote yourself heart and soul to what you feel passionate about. This is how we can bring the greatest benefit to ourselves and society.”

An environmental educator in Kyoto focuses on the issue of production and waste.

“For a sustainable future, it is time to ‘look back and move forward’ to the old adage ‘waste not, want not,’ and to show that truly advanced countries can use their wealth and know-how to develop technologies that reuse everything. Then, like in the rest of nature, waste will once again become a resource in a closed-loop cycle, giving sustenance to the future.”

Another educator from Kansai focused on the Internet’s potential for political change.

” ‘The System’ has always been that the rich give lots of money to politicians and tell them what to say and do. Once in a while we can replace these politicians with new politicians who perpetuate this false democracy. But now we have Internet democracy. Millions of people uniting every day can make politicians think and act for ecological sustainability, instead of unsustainable economic ‘growth’. “

Finally, a colleague at Aoyama Gakuin University who teaches environmental politics sent several quotes that inspire him.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” (Often attributed to non-violent peace activist Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948].)

“Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced humankind and enriched the world.” (Lithuanian-American anarchist Emma Goldman [1869-1940].)

And another he sent that is an old favorite of mine from Gandhi: “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”

Which brings me to some suggestions of my own.

First and foremost, demand change. Political, social and economic changes are all urgently needed, and all are inherently part of conserving the global environment. You might not get what you demand, but you certainly won’t get what you don’t ask for.

Second, stay informed. The great British war leader Winston Churchill (1874-1965) once stated, “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” However, he also wryly noted, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” So don’t be that average voter, because what you don’t know can hurt you. Imagine what Tepco (operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant) and the government would never have told us if the media and civil society had not asked questions, again and again, and demanded answers.

Of course, average is fine, but don’t be average if it means being ignorant. Demand transparency and accountability in politics, in your universities and companies. Olympus might still have a rosy future if someone had demanded these things years ago.

And when your politicians, universities and companies do wrong, be indignant, especially about injustice. Demand justice, demand equality — and demand fairness.

Finally, don’t be afraid to take chances. One of the greatest obstacles to positive change is fear of the unknown; fear that what happens next may be worse than what we have. The world is changing environmentally, socially, politically and economically, and society must change to respond. Yesterday’s solutions are, by definition, out of date.

Of course, change simply for the sake of change can be wasteful, but I can’t count how many times I’ve heard decision-makers in Japan insist that something should not be done because it has never been done before. Solutions come in myriad forms, from purebred to hybrid, so if something has never been done before, that may be one of the best reasons to give it a try.

The truth is, human society needs change and needs it desperately. Most of us will not find a cure for disease or invent a pollution-free energy system, but we all contribute to society and our planet, for better or worse. So, be someone who contributes for the better.

No matter what you do with your life, however large or small your contribution to society, begin by acting for those around you: your family, your neighbors, your fellow students, your workmates, your community. You might not be the next Bill Gates or Mahatma Gandhi, but the ripples from your good works and kindness will spread — and carry you with them.

Stephen Hesse is a professor in the law faculty of Chuo University and director of the Chuo International Center. He can be contacted at stevehesse@hotmail.com.


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A former U.S. soldier was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for trying to spy on behalf of Russia, the Justice Department said.

In September and October 2012, Robert Hoffman II, now 40, a 20-year navy veteran, turned over classified defense information to FBI agents he believed were Russian, according to Virginia prosecutors.

In the navy, Hoffman was deployed on submarines where he worked with electronic sensors to collect information on potential adversaries. In that role, he was awarded security clearances and agreed not to disclose information to unauthorized persons, the statement said. During the FBI operation, Hoffman asked the undercover agents he thought were his contacts for “compensation for his activities in the form of job assistance or payments based upon the risk and effort involved,” it added.

On three separate occasions, he turned over “secret,” “top-secret” and “sensitive” information saved on an encrypted USB memory stick, leaving it, per prior agreement, in a hole at the base of a tree.

He was arrested in December 2012, charged in the spring of 2013 and found guilty after a five day trial in August in Virginia. His sentence was made public Monday.


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For a long time now we have had handicapped parking spaces. Imagine a few more of the closest parking spaces with signs saying, "Reserved for Our Veterans." Wouldn't this be a great way to remind us of their service and sacrifices? Imagine individuals or families, communities, schools, clubs or maybe churches sponsoring these signs with no government mandate. This would give everyone a way to come together to say, "Thank you," every day at every place of business all across America.

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Donnelly and those big-ticket federal items

U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana is demonstrating much that is wrong about politics.

First, as a congressman, he votes the party line for Obamacare, without even knowing the contents of the bill. Now, as senator, he makes fruitless noise to have Obamacare taxes on Indiana produced-medical equipment repealed; of course, to protect his statewide electability.

The Associated Press reports Terre Haute has less than $41,000 in reserves and is borrowing to pay its bills. Too bad they cannot reclaim the $6.1 million that is the annual Terre Haute share of the $30 billion budget of the Department of Energy.

And what has Terre Haute gained from the 120,000 direct or contracted employees of the Department of Energy? Well, in 2011, it did receive a $700,000 grant for traffic lights.

After 25 years, has the Department of Energy found ways to make drilling and transporting oil safer? Lowered the cost of electricity, heat or gasoline? And, at an average annual cost of $266 per household, what is the Department of Energy costing your community?

Only when we return government to its basic function of protection of life, liberty and private property will we end the disgusting practices of politicians and needless government agencies.

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This morning I was told that America is racist. I asked the person where they heard that, and I was told MSNBC. I said the only reason MSNBC said America is racist is because MSNBC went out and found the most racist white people in the country to interview.

What I told them was if you shake 100 bushes, a snake will come out of one of them. Every race in the U.S. has a racist group of some sort. Whites have the KKK, skinheads, neo-Nazis. Blacks have the New Black Panthers, Nation of Islam. Groups are out there from the Asians, Muslims, Hispanics, even Native Americans.

And if the media would not give them a platform, then they would not be on the news. Sure, America has racist groups. And if you would check with 99 percent of Americans, then they would tell you the truth that they are not racist. But every group has some bad apples, and we can't all be judged by those people.

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Equal rights protest.There seems to be a fracas in the making at the University of Michigan Law School, ignited by the controversy over California’s Proposition 8.

Proposition 8 was a California ballot proposition that changed the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman, and eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry. The proposition did not affect domestic partnerships in California. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints publicly supported the proposition, along with other religious organizations.

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It seems that an advertisement [PDF] recently appeared in the New York Times that was signed by one of the UM Law School’s professors, Douglas Laycock. It read, in part:

The violence and intimidation being directed against the LDS or “Mormon” church, and other religious organizations – and even against individual believers – simply because they supported Proposition 8 is an outrage that must stop. …

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Regrettably, some public voices have even sought to excuse the threats and disruptions simply as “demonstrations” that got out of hand. Perhaps that’s true in some cases. Far too many, however, have never been demonstrations in the first place, but more nearly mobs, seeking not to persuade but to intimidate.

In fact, various media outlets have documented civil rights demonstrations against the LDS Church and others, and civil rights groups attempts to “out” Prop. 8 supporters. But even the group behind the ad can’t identify a single documented case of violence, short of anonymous petty vandalism.

The UMLS Outlaws LGBT Students & Friends Association response:

Outlaws and the Law School want to use this occasion to stress that Michigan Law School is an institution that is welcoming of LGBTQA students and that the Law School values the diversity that our community helps provide.

And from Sarah C. Zearfoss, Assistant Dean and Director of Admissions:

Bottom-line, if you are concerned, based on Professor Laycock’s signing of the letter in the New York Times, that the University of Michigan Law School is a place where a prospective LGBTQ law student wouldn’t feel welcome or would feel under siege, then I think your concerns are misplaced. We have an excellent and very active Outlaws student group, and a faculty and administration that are committed to maintaining LGBTQ diversity at this Law School.

The fact is, Proposition 8 was hateful, and opposition to gay marriage is bigotry, no matter the basis for your beliefs. Californians, and all Americans, have the inalienable right to protection from enforced religious law. If homophobes were being victimized with violence, that would absolutely be wrong, although some blame would have to rest with the “victims,” whose “victimizers” would never have even known of their existence if the “victims” had not interfered with their private lives. But that scenario is not playing out. At all.

Having your political contributions publicized is not harassment, violence or intimidation. Protests at public locations, even angry protests, are not harassment, violence or intimidation.

Activists who wish to use the government to enforce their religious beliefs on others should instead do some soul-searching, and ask why they seek to overthrow the religious and personal liberties this nation was founded upon.

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    Mr. Even,

    I respect your opinion. However, I strongly disagree with your assumptions. You falsely assume that Prop 8 supporters are bigoted and hateful. Those who voted for Prop 8 did not do so because they hated Gays or Lesbians. Such comments are irresponsible and ignorant.

    I invite you to pause for a moment and consider the hypocricy of your comments. You admonish a (stereotyped) group of people, based upon your own prejudices.

    Do you know why the majority of Californians (Arizonans and Floridans) supported Prop 8 (or similar Props)? Their support was not motivated by hate. I wonder, however, whether your comments and prejudices are motivated by anger and hate.

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    I notice that you do not suggest a reason, apart from bigotry and hate, for persons to support Prop. 8.

    Whatever justification you suggest for support of a hateful action, it is still hateful. You can claim a Biblical justification, or an ideological one, or a political one. When people supported slavery, or anti-miscegenation laws, or the criminalization of homosexual behavior, or the Nuremberg laws, they did just that. Yet these stances were still hateful and bigoted.

    You cannot say you want to deprive a class of people of their civil liberties, but you don’t “hate” them. You cannot oppress someone and claim not to hate them. You cannot say you “hate the sin but love the sinner,” when the “sin” is entirely fictional.

    I need no advice to examine my own beliefs — I do so all the time. It is only the religious who think their own ideas are perfect and beyond criticism. They are always incorrect in this assumption.

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Recently my girlfriend has looked into getting me a guitar for Christmas, and she came upon a used peavey predator plus for 165 on craigslist, well after looking at it online it goes for 200 so think 165 is a bit high! and also is it any good?? I mean im not expecting her to get me a 900 dollar guitar! after all it's the thought that counts!
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I was on the original design engineering team for that guitar. The very early ones were actually made in USA using decent wood and for all intents were fine guitars. Progressively more and more elements arrived at the guitar factory in boxes labeled 'LPS Korea'; until the entire body, painted, wired and ready for neck strings were pulled out of the box. (*we were told to HIDE all the boxes in the warehouse when visitors were coming to tour the plant)

Quality was a f-ing joke at that point.....switches would broken (internally) before unboxing, pots would grind, PUs would be hot or cold or the magnet would fall off the back....

I had a 'conversation' regarding the balls it took to keep "HANDCRAFTED IN THE USA" on the back of the headstock. I was told 51% of the work was in the neck. After explaining how that the manufacturing of ancillary items (tuners, pots, PUs) made the 51% of the work in the neck pure BS was told not to worry about it.

I believe the guitar is 100% made in China or Korea now.

Your question is if its good???? Good depends on what you are happy with....I have had POS guitars that I really liked; played well and sounded good. If you like it and are happy with it.....jump.

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Nearly seventeen months after the release of Steven Spielberg’s Disturbia, the estate of Sheldon Abend filed a complaint claiming that the film infringed upon Abend’s exclusive rights to a short story by Cornell Woolrich. The film rights to the story, called “Murder from a Fixed Viewpoint,” or alternatively, “It Had to be Murder,” were purchased in 1953 by actor and director James Stewart. Woolrich’s story was the basis for the plot of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, in which Stewart starred as a wheelchair-bound photographer who, while watching the neighborhood goings-on from his apartment window, begins to suspect his neighbor of murder.

Sheldon Abend bought the rights to Woolrich’s story in 1971 and produced a made-for-TV version of Rear Window. Following the Supreme Court decision in Stewart v. Abend, which said that the re-release and continued distribution of Hitchcock’s film infringed upon Abend’s right to the short story and did not constitute fair use, a license agreement in 1991 granted Abend the exclusive rights to Woolrich’s story.

The complaint filed by the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York named Spielberg, Viacom, Dreamworks, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures as defendants. The Trust cites the similarities between Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Spielberg’s Disturbia, pointed out by many critics at the time of the latter film’s release, as evidence supporting their lawsuit for breach of contract and copyright infringement. However, given the regularity with which common ideas are transformed into just as common movies, will the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust be able to establish that Disturbia‘s plot captures the “heart” of Woolrich’s short story? It seems likely that Disturbia will be deemed by the court to have portrayed no more than an idea in the public domain, and unlikely that Spielberg and the other defendants will be found guilty of stealing Woolrich’s “expression” of that idea.

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    Dr. Kopp E. Wright, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

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    How can one forget that wonderful movie, “CRAZY PEOPLE,” with Dudley Moore and Daryl Hannah, where the “crazy guy” at the insane asylum, who’s sole and only mantra is “hello” accused everyone who USED his mantra, by saying, “Hello, that’s mine….Hello, that’s mine !!!”"

    There’s only ONE heart per “breathing entity” or “copyrightable entity”…..and the idea of a nosy neighbor from a window discovering a murder is every 3rd episode of “Murder She Wrote.” So if it was from a helicopter window or submarine telescope, this would be different??? Ok…maybe if it was from a submarine telescope.

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The most eminent German philosopher and theologian of the Middle Ages and the real founder of the scientific tendency within the order of Dominicans; born at Lauingen, Bavaria, 1193; died at Cologne on the Rhine in 1280. During his sojourn in Paris, whither he went in 1245 to acquire the degree of master of theology, he took part in the conference ordered by Pope Innocent IV. in 1248, which decreed the burning of the Talmud, a work which Albertus Magnus utilized through the instrumentality of Jewish authors, and to which he owed many useful suggestions (Joël, "Verhältniss Albert des Grossen zu Maimonides," p. xiv.). In wide reading and versatility of knowledge he was hardly surpassed by any of his contemporaries. Albertus Magnus devoted special attention to Jewish literature so far as it was accessible to him. The famous Jewish physician and philosopher Isaac Israeli the elder, whose views, mostly taken from his works, "De Definitionibus" and "De Elementis," Albertus often quotes, and to whom he ascribes the identification adopted by the philosophers of ethereal spirits with the angels of the Bible ("Summa Theologiæ," ii. 2, quæstio 8; ed. Leyden, 1651, xviii. 76), is considered by him as a chief representative of the Jewish philosophy of Maimonides ("Metaphysica," xiii. quæstio 76; ed. Leyden, iii. 375).

Albertus Magnus devoted special study to the "Fons Vitæ" of Avicebron (Solomon ibn Gabirol). In a critical survey of the views of the elder philosophers, which is found at the beginning of his work "De Causis et Processu Universitatis," not only the doctrines of the Epicureans, of the Stoics, of Socrates, and of Plato, but also those of Avicebron, are thoroughly examined.

Although he contests very strongly most of the views of Avicebron, from the Peripatetic standpoint, he recognizes the originality of the system sketched out in the "Fons Vitæ." According to Avicebron's philosophy, the unity of the first principle which penetrates the universe was succeeded by a duality; namely, (a) the first form, identical with the intelligence, and (b) the first matter, by which the form is supported (ibid. v. 532). Form can neither exist without matter, nor matter without form (ibid. p. 562).

Attitude Toward Avicebron.

Albertus Magnus not only recognizes the originality of Avicebron in his doctrine of the first matter and the first form, but also in his doctrine of human free-will; he shows this by calling Solomon ibn Gabirol the only philosopher who represents the first principle as acting through an individual will (ib. p. 549). The strange impression which the doctrine, as outlined in the "Fons Vitæ," produced upon him led him even to suspect that this book was not written by Avicebron himself, but was foisted upon him by some sophist (p. 550; compare "Summa Theologiæ," i. quæstio 20; "De Intellectu et Intelligibili," I. i. chap. 6). This did not hinder him, however, from appropriating in certain points, as for instance in the division of forms, the doctrines outlined in that work ("De Natura et Origine Animæ," i. chap. 2; compare "Fons Vitæ," ed. Bäumker, iv. 32, 255). Quite different from his attitude toward the doctrine of Gabirol is his attitude toward that of Maimonides, the Rabbi Moyses Ægyptus, as he calls him, from whose "Moreh Nebukim," which he quotes under the title "Dux Neutrorum," he not only took single passages, but entire sections, and incorporated them into his works.

Like Maimonides, standing essentially upon the ground of Arabic-Aristotelian philosophy, Albertus Magnus, in his effort to harmonize the doctrines of Biblical revelation, followed in many points the author of "Moreh Nebukim." But, nevertheless, being inferior to the Jewish thinker in the energy and solidity of his conception of the world, he was not able to establish even approximately harmonious relations between reason and revelation as Maimonides had done. The fundamental principle of his doctrine of the knowledge of God was that, as between the finite and the infinite there exists not the least analogy, therefore the same attribute, applied to the finite and to the infinite, does not signify the same thing ("De Causis," p. 551). He was undoubtedly influenced by Maimonides ("Moreh," i. 56) when he agrees expressly with his allegation that, except by divine grace, there is no other knowledge of God possible than by negative qualifications ("De Causis," p. 593; "Moreh," i. 58).

Follower of Maimonides.

Albertus Magnus follows Maimonides in the theory of Creation to a greater extent than any one would suspect even from the lengthy verbatim quotations. World-beginning and eternity, Biblical and Aristotelian cosmogony, are two systems of philosophy that are irreconcilable. Albertus Magnus follows the guidance of Maimonides the more willingly on this point, since the latter had succeeded in shaking the Aristotelian proofs of the eternity of the world, without departing, however, from the principles of Aristotelianism ("Moreh," ii. 13-25; compare i. 74).

What Albertus says about this matter in his "Physics" (viii. 1, chaps. xi., xv.) is derived partly from the ideas contained in the "Moreh," partly from long textual selections taken from the same work. Following Maimonides, who refutes the proofs produced by the Peripatetics concerning the eternity of the world ("Physics," viii. 1, chap. xi.; "Summa Theologiæ," ii. 1, 4, 3; compare "Moreh," ii. 14), Albertus is of opinion that the eternity of the world must berejected principally for this reason, that, if any one accepts the views of the Peripatetics, the world would have been evolved by natural force, and would, therefore, not be the work of a Creator acting with liberty and intention ("Physics," viii. 1, chap. xiii.; compare "Moreh," ii. 19, 24).

Concerning the laws of a world already in existence, Aristotle committed the error of raising the question whether the world, and consequently these laws, be eternal or be simply evolved; a point explained more fully by a famous simile of Maimonides ("Physics," viii. 1, chap. xiv.; compare "Moreh," ii. 17). Albertus' attitude toward Maimonides' doctrine of prophecy was peculiar; he could scarcely avoid being powerfully influenced by Maimonides' ingenious exposition of this problem. Albertus' explanations concerning the difference between divination in the dream and vision, as well as his explanations of the fundamental diversities in the natural dispositions of men, by which also the varying capacity of different people for knowing the future and hidden things is accounted for ("De Divinatione," chap. iii. et seq.), are undoubtedly taken from the "Moreh Nebukim."

But since, according to his distinction between natural and supernatural knowledge, prophecy proper can not belong to the lumen naturale, he adopts the view of Maimonides for the explanation of natural prophecy only, as it occurred also in the pagan world. But, on the other hand, Maimonides' profound and penetrative method of bringing nearer to our understanding the historical phenomenon of prophecy, and of representing many visions of the prophets as merely psychical phenomena—which Maimonides supported on passages of the Bible—appears to Albertus but a frivolous attempt to trace back the opinions of the philosophers to the Bible ("Summa Theologiæ," xviii. 76; "De Causis," v. 563). Of the writings of Albertus which did not escape the attention of Italian and Spanish Jews, some were translated into Hebrew at the beginning of the fourteenth century (Steinschneider, "Hebr. Uebers." pp. 277 et passim).

  • M. Joël, Verhältniss Albert des Grossen zu Moses Maimonides (Jahresbericht des Jüdisch-Theologischen Seminars), Breslau, 1863;
  • I. Baeck, Des Albertus Magnus Verhältniss zur Erkenntnisslehre der Griechen, Lateiner, Araber, und Juden, Vienna, 1881;
  • J. Guttman, Die Philosophie des Salomon ibn Gabirol, Göttingen, 1889.
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Chasidic woman makes history in winning Montreal council race

A 24-year-old esthetician, Mindy Pollak, became the first Chasidic woman to hold public office in Montreal.

Pollak, a member of the Vishnitzer sect, defeated four candidates to win her race for the municipal council on Nov. 3 in the Outremont borough. She garnered about 35 percent of the vote in a district that is home to an estimated 5,000 Chasidim.

Among the candidates she defeated was Pierre Lacerte, an anti-Chasidim blogger in Montreal.

Montreal has had Orthodox Jewish councillors but all have been men.

Pollak’s political aspirations were triggered two years ago when controversy erupted in her neighborhood over plans to expand a small Bobover synagogue. Tensions with non-Jewish neighbors already were running high over zoning, noise and congestion issues.

She teamed with Leila Marshy, a neighbor who is of Palestinian origin, to found Friends of Hutchison — named for the street on which the synagogue was to be expanded — to promote dialogue between the Charedi Orthodox Jews and francophones.

Pollak is a volunteer for Chai Lifeline, which works with sick children and their families.

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Legacy in Motion

Dr. Samuel Dinin, founding father of Los Angeles' Jewish educational system, turns 100.

Dr. Samuel Dinin recently turned 100. Don't recognize the name? Well, if you are a product of Jewish education in Los Angeles, you have been impacted by his contributions.

The study of Dinin's cozy Westwood abode is crammed with shelves of Jewish texts. This is not for show. Dinin played a key role in developing several institutional pillars of Jewish education in this city, including the West Coast's Bureau of Jewish Education (BJE) affiliate, the University of Judaism (UJ) and Camp Ramah. And, by extension, he has nourished many of the city's Jewish minds.

"I'm a direct beneficiary of the work of such people of Dr. Dinin," said current BJE President Dr. Gil Graff.Â

Born in 1902 in Zarawitz, Russia, Dinin earned his bachelor's degree at the City College of New York in 1922, and received his master's degree and his doctorate at Columbia University in 1923 and 1933, respectively. Dinin went on to become the registrar and associate professor of education and Jewish history at the Manhattan-based Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), where he taught for a number of years.

In 1945, when Dinin and his wife, Bessie Bernstein -- who died seven years ago -- came out to California on JTS' behalf, Jewish education in Los Angeles was in its infancy.

"It was a big challenge. I got a three-year leave of absence, but I never went back. My wife and I fell in love with Los Angeles," Dinin said.

Dinin came here on a mission. At that time, the community consisted of less than 200,000 Jews.

"What was the predecessor of The Jewish Federation commissioned a study in the early 1940s on what it should do in terms of the Jewish education," Graff said. "Alexander Dushkin, head of the BJE in New York, came and surveyed Los Angeles to offer what should be done. He recommended that this community needed not just a person keeping tabs on it, but a full-service BJE."

Enter Samuel Dinin.

"The vision was Dr. Mordechai Kaplan's [principal of JTS]," Dinin noted. "He talked about establishing an institution of higher learning. I took his dream and established it in Los Angeles."

And so, Dinin became the first full-time executive director of Los Angeles' BJE, where he remained its leader through 1956.

"When Dinin came to Los Angeles," Graff said, "he was given a budget to hire a staff. Not only did he shape things in terms of the particular people he hired, but he set the framework of what it is for them to do. What Dinin saw in the BJE was a mechanism in training teachers."

During that time, Dinin brought in educators from Chicago "because it was the closest big city." Professor Morris Liebman, who later succeeded Dinin at BJE as director, was one of those Chi-Town educators. Dinin also found Liebman's successor, Irwin Soref.

As Los Angeles' BJE came together, Dinin became involved in what would soon become another juggernaut of Jewish Los Angeles.

"There was a confluence of things going on at the time," Graff said. "The JTS opened the University of Judaism in 1947 as a West Coast affiliate but they didn't have the means to operate it, so they asked Dinin if he would help them maintain this operation."

To establish the UJ, Dinin approached a core group of patrons with deep passion for Jewish continuity, including BJE chairman Peter Kahn and Benjamin Platt, who became the UJ's fine arts gallery's namesake.

"All of them were involved in Jewish education and scholarship," Dinin said.Â

The UJ began humbly at an Ardmore Avenue address, before moving to Sunset Boulevard and Wilcox Avenue, and, finally, its current Bel Air locale, on a property the UJ founding fathers purchased from neighbor Rabbi Isaiah Zeldin of Stephen S. Wise Temple. One of Dinin's most important achievements, according to Rabbi Jacob Pressman, Temple Beth Am's rabbi emeritus and a JTS student of Dinin's (1943-1945), was "gaining the acceptance of the University of Judaism by the general community." Pressman also helped Dinin establish Los Angeles Hebrew High School.

The UJ has gone on to flourish with adult education, a school of fine arts and degrees offered in Jewish education and administration in business and Jewish organizations.

As the UJ grew, Dinin was offered the opportunity by the established university in 1957 to join as the college's dean -- a position he occupied through 1963. Dinin continued under the UJ's auspices as its chair of faculties and its vice president until 1974, when he retired to become the college's professor emeritus of education and history. Dinin also edited the Professional Jewish Education journal, and has had numerous articles on Jewish life and Zionism published over the years in various periodicals.

One of the individuals directly influenced by Dinin's work was UJ president emeritus (1963-1992) Dr. David Lieber.

"He's the man responsible for the levels of Jewish education attained here during the 1950s and 1960s," said Lieber, who has admired Dinin since he was his JTS pupil.

"I took a history course with him," Lieber said, "and it was the first time I began to learn what history is all about."

As UJ president, Lieber worked alongside UJ vice president Dinin.

"He's a wonderful human being," Lieber said. "A man of total integrity, very gentle, and kind and brilliant, with a keen analytical mind. He's also an omnivorous reader."

"He was impeccably prepared and eager for his students to learn," recalled Pressman, another Dinin protégé. "At a time when Jewish education was avocation for many, his professional attitude was most persuasive."

Dinin's example shaped the career of Pressman who helped found several of Los Angeles' Jewish institutions, including Pressman Academy and Akiba Academy. From Dinin, Pressman learned that "the educational function was not a stepchild of the rabbinate, but a priority."Â

Dinin's passion for Jewish continuity not only inspired educators, but his entire family.

"My siblings and I are all products of public school with secondary Jewish education, so it's pretty impressive how involved we all are [in Jewish life]," said Dinin's granddaughter, Shana Sisk, who noted that her sister, Rachel Sisk, works in Jewish family education. "The reason we stayed so connected is because of the values we've learned from his devoting his life to the Jewish community."

"Even in my early days," continued Sisk, "I remember him walking to and from Sinai Temple on Saturdays. The man was 75 years old when I was born, but he must've continued to walk to shul well into his 80s."

But it is a broader cross section of Jewry, and generations of their descendants, that will truly benefit the most from Dinin's passion.

"Dr. Dinin is among those who shaped the course of Jewish education in Los Angeles, post-World War II," Graff said.

"This community owes a great deal to him for what he's done for Jewish education," Lieber said. "He really professionalized it."

Overall, Dinin feels especially proud to have had a guiding hand with the educational evolution of Jewish Los Angeles.

"Jewishly, we built it up," Dinin said, with a smile. Â

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Security firm to stop supplying West Bank

Posted on Mar. 15, 2011 at 2:58 pm

An Israeli security firm owned by a Danish company announced that it will stop supplying equipment to the West Bank.

Hashmira, which is owned by G4S, made the announcement last weekend.

According to Who Profits, a project of the Coalition of Women for Peace, the technology division of the company has provided equipment for Israeli-run checkpoints and terminals in the West Bank and Gaza, including scanning machines.

Hashmira installed a security system for the West Bank district police headquarters in an area near Ma’aleh Adumim, as well as a central control room and defense system at Ofer Prison, near Ramallah.

The city of Copenhagen had said it would reconsider further investments in the company because of its operations in the West Bank.

When G4S acquired Hashmira in 2002, it withdrew most of the company’s security guards from the West Bank following public pressure, according to Haaretz.

Hashmira is the second largest security company in Israel, with thousands of government, factory, office building and shopping center contracts.

The company said it would take into account its “contractual obligations” as it divests itself from the West Bank.

“We have concluded that we, to ensure that our business activities are in line with our ethical trading policy, will work to get out of a number of contracts in the area,” wrote G4S legal director Søren Lundberg.

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