Despite low antibiotic use, the U.K. is let down by hospitals not suited to the isolation part of the solution- shared rooms and rapid turnover. Some figures are available
here
In New Zealand, since 2001, the use of antibiotics has been minimised, and we saw a large fall in MRSA in 2003-2004.
Python works very well where the child wants to solve a problem (my 11 year daughter learned it for doing image analysis for a science fair project).
1) Explain general data types: string, number, file, etc
2) Explain syntax: make something equal to everything after the equals sign
3) Explain control flows: 2 equals is the comparison
4) Explain objects: heyYou.doThis(withThis)
But if you are just trying to build interest, rather than solve a problem, I suggest javascript as you can build on an existing familiarity with web pages to interactive slide shows, quiz games, etc.
Fines for using a cellphone recently came in in New Zealand as well. At least one commentator was saying that a much better approach would be for police to have a supply of prepaid envelopes. If you are caught using your cellphone while driving, your phone goes into an envelope, and goes into the post system at the end of the police officer's shift. Because regardless of a person's ability to shrug off a fine, having to do without their phone for a couple of days is going to be an effective learning experience.
Sadly, we got fines.
While New Zealand got the same storm system, it had sucked up the frigid waters of the Tasman Sea on its journey. So while it was a dust storm in Sydney, it was snow in NZ.
In the case of authors I know, they are neither dead nor are there works out of print. But as their works were in print outside of the U.S. (though orderable online, that is how the works got into the libraries to be scanned), the Google settlement treated them as out of print, so Google was going to treat their books as orphaned works.
I can understand the enthusiasm inside the U.S. for the deal (we can take everything published elsewhere in the world and take control of it), but the DOJ has to respect the copyright of other countries, as per the Berne convention.
I wouldn't be surprised if a final result is based off the Google Partners program, which is the existing Google book search system where Google actually asks the authors permission. Asking people's permission solves all kinds of problems, and isn't normally considered evil. While it would still leave the genuinely orphaned works a problem, that is a problem created by stupid copyright extensions, and is ultimately solvable only by copyright reform.
Well, it certainly seems to be a world wide reach of power both for Google and the U.S. Authors Guild.
Based on authors outside of the U.S. are not at all happy
Without wanting to download the data and repeat the process to check how it was carried out, if you (or the blog) is going to describe the results to the level of detail of "early monday" and similar, you really need to know the timezone of the questioner, rather than the timezone of the server.
Relatively middle of nowhere, there are various isolated buildings within 50km, but no towns. Mostly these are conservation department huts (tramper/ fieldworker accommodation) that one could charitably use the term shack to describe. No reports of structural damage. At about 50km from the Epicentre (as the worm tunnels) you get the Manapouri power station, which is both underground and (by virtue of being built into the side wall of a lake) effectively underwater (or at least below the waterline). Not my first choice of place to be in an earthquake, but it was fine.
Well, there are a few isolated buildings relatively close by. But the point I was trying to make is that if you compare the isoseismic maps of the 7.8 quake last week with a 5.9 one from last year the felt intensity is not hugely different due to local geological factors, despite the magnitude difference (in which the recent one was getting on for 100 times more powerful).
Every building in New Zealand, regardless of construction, survived last weeks 7.8 earthquake. Close to the epicentre a few objects fell off shelves. Basically, there can be a wide a difference between the strength of the earthquake and the damage it causes because of local situations, so 7.8 can be tame.
It was pointed out in the publicaddress.net (major NZ blog) forums a few weeks back that when people make submissions to parliament, they retain their copyright on the submission. When parliament makes received submissions available on its website, it may well be doing so without a licence to reproduce the material.
It was also pointed out that if anyone pushed this, the government could legislate themselves an exemption.
New Zealand, the government has put the law on hold pending agreement between rights holders groups and internet groups on the law's implementation. If no agreement the law will be suspended (whatever that means).
NZ Herald news link
We have a 'killer machine' from 2000 (dual 450mhz G4, 512 MB RAM) primarily for household web and related activities. I wouldn't want to be using System 8.5 (it's running 10.4.11 these days) but hardware-wise it is an entirely useable experience.
Because the load is being divided up among the processors, it wouldn't be so great for computationally intense activites (i.e. on the fly video) that can't split up the work, but general use is fine.
Qouthe the parent:
The author is right, it's initially kind of a shocking proposal, but when you stop to think about it, we're just a bunch of wusses. Our ancestors did this kind of risky one-way shit as a matter of course. (Think of how the Polynesians colonized the entire Pacific in simple canoes.)
Actually the Polynesians colonised most of the Pacific sailing into the wind. This made the return voyage, if they didn't find land, faster and easier than the venturing out. Neither risky nor one-way. The space exploration version would probably be budgeting one third of your resources for the outgoing trip, two thirds for the return.
Actually, they can use iWork - I looked into the licensing as my child is at a New Zealand primary school. Apple are licensing iWork to schools as part of the Apple license. Neo-Office is being suggested for Microsoft Office compatibility, though the argument some principals are making 'to be compatible with what the students are using at home' would seem slightly flawed is OpenOffice can freely be installed on home machines.
Of course, if he had written it in the USA it would probably have been a derivative work of the original which (since it was written in 1928) is probably still under copyright due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
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Despite low antibiotic use, the U.K. is let down by hospitals not suited to the isolation part of the solution- shared rooms and rapid turnover. Some figures are available here
In New Zealand, since 2001, the use of antibiotics has been minimised, and we saw a large fall in MRSA in 2003-2004.
Python works very well where the child wants to solve a problem (my 11 year daughter learned it for doing image analysis for a science fair project).
1) Explain general data types: string, number, file, etc
2) Explain syntax: make something equal to everything after the equals sign
3) Explain control flows: 2 equals is the comparison
4) Explain objects: heyYou.doThis(withThis)
But if you are just trying to build interest, rather than solve a problem, I suggest javascript as you can build on an existing familiarity with web pages to interactive slide shows, quiz games, etc.
Fines for using a cellphone recently came in in New Zealand as well. At least one commentator was saying that a much better approach would be for police to have a supply of prepaid envelopes. If you are caught using your cellphone while driving, your phone goes into an envelope, and goes into the post system at the end of the police officer's shift. Because regardless of a person's ability to shrug off a fine, having to do without their phone for a couple of days is going to be an effective learning experience. Sadly, we got fines.
Of course, with nanotechnology the trees will be tiny, tiny trees. So we will be more likely to see the forest than the trees.
While New Zealand got the same storm system, it had sucked up the frigid waters of the Tasman Sea on its journey. So while it was a dust storm in Sydney, it was snow in NZ.
In the case of authors I know, they are neither dead nor are there works out of print. But as their works were in print outside of the U.S. (though orderable online, that is how the works got into the libraries to be scanned), the Google settlement treated them as out of print, so Google was going to treat their books as orphaned works. I can understand the enthusiasm inside the U.S. for the deal (we can take everything published elsewhere in the world and take control of it), but the DOJ has to respect the copyright of other countries, as per the Berne convention. I wouldn't be surprised if a final result is based off the Google Partners program, which is the existing Google book search system where Google actually asks the authors permission. Asking people's permission solves all kinds of problems, and isn't normally considered evil. While it would still leave the genuinely orphaned works a problem, that is a problem created by stupid copyright extensions, and is ultimately solvable only by copyright reform.
I'd've worded it differently
Well, it certainly seems to be a world wide reach of power both for Google and the U.S. Authors Guild. Based on authors outside of the U.S. are not at all happy
Without wanting to download the data and repeat the process to check how it was carried out, if you (or the blog) is going to describe the results to the level of detail of "early monday" and similar, you really need to know the timezone of the questioner, rather than the timezone of the server.
Relatively middle of nowhere, there are various isolated buildings within 50km, but no towns. Mostly these are conservation department huts (tramper/ fieldworker accommodation) that one could charitably use the term shack to describe. No reports of structural damage. At about 50km from the Epicentre (as the worm tunnels) you get the Manapouri power station, which is both underground and (by virtue of being built into the side wall of a lake) effectively underwater (or at least below the waterline). Not my first choice of place to be in an earthquake, but it was fine.
Well, there are a few isolated buildings relatively close by. But the point I was trying to make is that if you compare the isoseismic maps of the 7.8 quake last week with a 5.9 one from last year the felt intensity is not hugely different due to local geological factors, despite the magnitude difference (in which the recent one was getting on for 100 times more powerful).
Every building in New Zealand, regardless of construction, survived last weeks 7.8 earthquake. Close to the epicentre a few objects fell off shelves. Basically, there can be a wide a difference between the strength of the earthquake and the damage it causes because of local situations, so 7.8 can be tame.
It was pointed out in the publicaddress.net (major NZ blog) forums a few weeks back that when people make submissions to parliament, they retain their copyright on the submission. When parliament makes received submissions available on its website, it may well be doing so without a licence to reproduce the material. It was also pointed out that if anyone pushed this, the government could legislate themselves an exemption.
New Zealand, the government has put the law on hold pending agreement between rights holders groups and internet groups on the law's implementation. If no agreement the law will be suspended (whatever that means). NZ Herald news link
We have a 'killer machine' from 2000 (dual 450mhz G4, 512 MB RAM) primarily for household web and related activities. I wouldn't want to be using System 8.5 (it's running 10.4.11 these days) but hardware-wise it is an entirely useable experience. Because the load is being divided up among the processors, it wouldn't be so great for computationally intense activites (i.e. on the fly video) that can't split up the work, but general use is fine.
Qouthe the parent: The author is right, it's initially kind of a shocking proposal, but when you stop to think about it, we're just a bunch of wusses. Our ancestors did this kind of risky one-way shit as a matter of course. (Think of how the Polynesians colonized the entire Pacific in simple canoes.) Actually the Polynesians colonised most of the Pacific sailing into the wind. This made the return voyage, if they didn't find land, faster and easier than the venturing out. Neither risky nor one-way. The space exploration version would probably be budgeting one third of your resources for the outgoing trip, two thirds for the return.
Actually, they can use iWork - I looked into the licensing as my child is at a New Zealand primary school. Apple are licensing iWork to schools as part of the Apple license. Neo-Office is being suggested for Microsoft Office compatibility, though the argument some principals are making 'to be compatible with what the students are using at home' would seem slightly flawed is OpenOffice can freely be installed on home machines.
Of course, if he had written it in the USA it would probably have been a derivative work of the original which (since it was written in 1928) is probably still under copyright due to the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.