Archive for November, 2007

Alan Peters

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Alan Peters is a British furniture designer maker who is one of the very few direct links with the Arts and Crafts Movement, having apprenticed to Edward Barnsley. He set up his own workshop in the Sixties. He is well known for his book Cabinetmaking - a professional approach, and his revision (for the fourth edition) of Ernest Joyce’s The Technique of Furniture Making.

In 1990 he was awarded an OBE for his services to furniture and he currently has a workshop in West Somerset. He was a main exponent of the Seventies British Craft Revival. His work is rooted in tradition and shows a deep understanding and respect for his material wood.

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Process identifier

Friday, November 30th, 2007

In computing, the process identifier (normally referred to as the process ID or just PID) is a number used by some operating system kernels (such as that of UNIX, Mac OS X or Windows NT) to uniquely identify a process.

In Unix-like operating systems, the PID of a newly created child process is returned by the fork() system call to the parent.

The PID can be passed to process control functions like waitpid() or kill() to perform actions on the given process, and if the operating system has procfs support the files in /proc/pid/ can be queried for information about the process.

In Unix-like operating systems, there are two tasks with specially distinguished process IDs: the idle task has process ID zero, and never exits. Another specially distinguished task on Unix-like operating systems is the init process, with process ID 1, which does nothing but wait around for its child processes to die.


See also

  • UID
  • GID

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Mark Wood (violinist)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Mark Wood is an electric violinist and string master of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, as well as the founder of Wood Violins, a company that makes high quality, unique electric violins. His music and strings education program has been featured on news programs nationwide. He is the founder of the great ROCKIN ALLEGRO.

Mark is the namesake of the band the mark wood experience.


External links

  • Mark Wood’s Official Website
  • Wood Violins (electric)

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Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales () is the Speaker of the National Assembly for Wales, elected by the Assembly Members to chair their meetings (plenary sessions); to maintain order; and to protect the rights of Members.


Presiding Officer

The first and only person to hold the position is Lord Elis-Thomas, appointed in 1999, and then re-appointed in 2003 and 2007.


Deputy Presiding Officer

First Assembly

  • Jane Davidson (1999-00)
  • Dr John Marek (2000-03)

Second Assembly

  • Dr John Marek (2003-07)

Third Assembly

  • Rosemary Butler (2007 - present)


Role of the Presiding Officer

The main function is to chair plenary sessions of the Assembly, to maintain order and to protect the rights of Members. He/she is responsible for ensuring that business is handled on the basis of equality and impartiality. The Presiding Officer is also responsible for Standing Orders and is the final authority on their interpretation. The Presiding Officer also acts as Chair of the National Assembly for Wales Commission. He/she is, along with the Deputy, politically responsible for all aspects of the Presiding Office to which the Standing Orders relate.

The Presiding Officer chairs meetings of the Panel of Subject Committee Chairs, where committee procedures and matters affecting Committee business are discussed. In addition to this, the Presiding Officer acts as the ambassador for the National Assembly, attending speaker’s conferences and other events in order to publicise and raise the profile of the Assembly


See also

  • National Assembly for Wales
  • Assembly Commission

Mavrovo (region)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Mavrovo (Macedonian: Маврово) is a region in north west F.Y.R.O.Macedonia. It is home to Mavrovo National Park and a winter sports center. Some of the villages and smaller hamlets include: Mavrovo, Nikiforovo, Leunovo, and Mavrovi Anovi. This micro region is named Mavrovo because most of the people live in the village of Mavrovo and the more famous families were also from Mavrovo.

The exquisite location,(Bistra mountain and the Mavrovo Reservoir) helped this region to grow into a big tourist center throughout the whole year. Mavrovo is the most popular ski center in the F.Y.R.O.Macedonia.

The ski center named Zare Lazareski has two double lift chairs, one single lift chair with over 1100 person capacity per hour, several ski lifts with synchronized connection and over 5000 person capacity per hour. The ski center was renovated recently, so the capacity of the ski lifts and the ski chairs is increased. The ski trails start at 1960m and end at 1250m above sea level.

The Mavrovo lake lies at an altitude of 1220m. and its foundation began in 1953. It is 12 kilometers long and 3 kilometers wide and covers an area of 13,3 square kilometers. The coast is 24 kilometers long. The deepest measured spot of the lake is 48 meters deep. There is a lot of fish such as: trout, minnows etc… Lots of fishermen come to fish at Mavrovo lake during the weekend.


External links

  • National Park Mavrovo
  • Environment in Macedonia

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Montrose Botanic Gardens

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The Montrose Botanic Gardens are new botanical gardens located at 1800 Pavilion Drive, Montrose, Colorado.

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Cayuga Lake State Park

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Cayuga Lake State Park is located on the north end of Cayuga Lake in the US state of New York, east of Seneca Falls on the west side of lake, along New York State Route 89.

The park offers a beach, a playground and playing fields, picnic tables and pavilions, recreation programs, a nature trail, showers, fishing, a boat launch, a dump station, cabins with view of the lake, campground for tents and trailers, sledding, cross-country skiing and ice fishing.


See also

  • List of New York state parks


External links

  • New York State Parks: Cayuga Lake State Park

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Threading

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Threading has more than one meaning:

  • Thread (computer science), a programming technique
  • Threaded code, another programming technique
  • Threaded discussion, a style of email and Usenet news handling
  • Threading (epilation), a hair removal method
  • Making screw threads
  • Threading (protein sequence), a method for computational protein structure prediction

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Brisbane Entertainment Centre

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Brisbane Entertainment Centre is located in Boondall, a Brisbane City suburb in Queensland, Australia.

The centre’s large audience capacity is used for the staging of concerts and musical theatre shows, including “Grease“, “Beauty and the Beast“, “The Man from Snowy River: Arena Spectacular” and others. Brisbane Entertainment Centre has also staged ice-skating shows, including “Disney on Ice“.

The Brisbane Entertainment Centre was formerly the home of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) basketball team, the Brisbane Bullets.

The centre has 11,000 tiered seats and a maximum concert capacity of 13,000. The largest basketball crowd was 12,236 in the third and final game of the 1987 NBL final between the home team and Perth Wildcats.

The arena has an assortment of seating plans which facilitate the comfort of its users, subject to performance. Specific seating plans usually are allocated depending on the performance and the size of its audience. The general seating arrangements at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre are end stage mode, “in the round”, and intimate mode which only uses half of the arena.

The centre also has a sporting complex and many other smaller function rooms which are available to hire for wedding receptions, business functions and the like.


Getting to the centre

Located in Boondall, users can catch a QR Citytrain to Boondall railway station, on the Shorncliffe railway line, or travel by taxi. There is 4,000 car parking stops and buses do not run to the centre. The Brisbane Entertainment Centre is located just off the Gateway Motorway.


Photos

The grounds of the Brisbane Entertainment Centre

The grounds of the Brisbane Entertainment Centre


External links

  • Brisbane Entertainment Centre - Official website
  • Information about the Brisbane Entertainment Centre by the Queensland Government

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European Patent Bulletin

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The European Patent Bulletin is a weekly trilingual publication of the European Patent Office (EPO), generally issued every Wednesday. <ref> European Patent Office web site, Publication dates for 2006, retrieved on July 7, 2006 </ref> It contains “entries made in the Register of European Patents, as well as other particulars the publication of which is prescribed by [the European Patent Convention (EPC)] or its implementation”. <ref> </ref>

The European Patent Bulletin is published in German, English and French, the three official languages of the EPO. <ref> </ref> The three texts coexist in the same issue of the bulletin. The European Patent Bulletin has been published online since January 2004.


Legal effect of mentions in the European Patent Bulletin

In the European patent grant procedure, the mention of the publication of the European search report in the European Patent Bulletin marks the start of the six-month period for filing the request for examination, paying the examination fee <ref> </ref>, paying the designation fees, <ref> </ref> and paying the extension fees. <ref> Ancillary Regulations to the European Patent Convention, Extension of European patents, see [1] [2]
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At the end of the grant procedure, the decision to grant a European patent takes legal effect only from the day when the European Patent Bulletin mentions the grant. <ref> </ref> The publication of this mention in the European Patent Bulletin marks the start of the three-month period (or more in some countries, such as Ireland) for supplying the translation of the text in which the European patent has been granted to each national patent office, in order to have an effective protection in each country. <ref name=”Art65″> </ref> The publication of this mention also marks the start of the nine-month period for giving notice of opposition to the patent to the EPO. <ref> </ref>

During the opposition procedure, when the European patent is maintained in an amended form, the publication of the mention of maintenance of the European patent in the European Patent Bulletin marks the start of the three-month period (or more in some countries, such as Ireland) for supplying the translation of the text in which the European patent has been maintained to each national patent office, in order to have an effective protection in each country. <ref name=”Art65″/>


References

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See also

  • Official Journal of the European Patent Office
  • Register of European Patents
  • PCT Gazette
  • List of intellectual property law journals


External links

  • European Patent Bulletin, recent issues on the EPO web site
  • European Patent Bulletin, archives since January 2, 2004 on the EPO web site
  • Relevant notices in the Official Journal
    • Changes in the European Patent Bulletin, OJ 1983, 459 [8]
    • Amendments and additions to the European Patent Bulletin, OJ 1986, 63 [9]
    • Amendments and additions to the European Patent Bulletin, OJ 1988, 37 [10]

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Onoskelis

Friday, November 30th, 2007

In Greek mythology, Onoskelis was a female demon who was sometimes associated with Empusa. Although able to take many shapes, she most frequently appeared as a beautiful satyr.

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New Brunswick general election, 1944

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The New Brunswick general election, 1944 was held in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick.

New Brunswick general election, 1944
Name Seats Pop Vote
New Brunswick Liberal Association 36 48.3%
Conservative Party of New Brunswick 12 40.0%
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation 0 11.7%

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Gallows Frame

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The Gallows Frame is the structural frame, usually made of steel or timber, at the top of an underground mine shaft. These frames are the fulcrum over which the cables from the hoisting equipment connect to the skips and cages which raise and lower equipment and miners into, and the ore and waste rock out of, an underground mine. Some suggest that the term “Gallows Frame” comes from the structure’s resemblance to a hanging gallows. Others say the term reflects the potentially lethal attributes of underground mining. They are also known as headframes, hoist frames, tipples, or, in Butte, gallus frames.
Butte, Montana contains about one dozen historically significant frames from its copper mining heyday. These include, the Anselmo, the Orphan Girl (pictured at right), the Travona, the Original, the Steward, the Lexington, the Mountain Con, the Kelley, the Belmont, the Bell, the Granite Mountain, and the Badger.


References

Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
“A Pictorial Walk Through the 20th Century”http://www.msha.gov/century/colliery/colliery.asp

Butte Silver-Bow Chamber of Commerce. “Gallows Frames” http://www.butteinfo.org/butte/gallows.html

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Power of the Dragonflame (single)

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Power Of The Dragonflame is a promo for the album Power of the Dragonflame released by Symphonic Metal band Rhapsody in 2002.


Track listing

  1. “Knightrider Of Doom (Full Song)” - 3:58
  2. “The March Of The Swordmaster (Edit)” - 2:07
  3. “Agony Is My Name (Edit)” - 1:47
  4. “Steelgods Of The Last Apocalypse (Edit)” -2:25
  5. “Lamento Eroico (Edit)” - 1:41

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Swartland Local Municipality

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Swartland Municipality is a municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. As of 2001, the population was 72,115. Its municipality code is WC015.


Towns

  • Yzerfontein
  • Moorreesburg
  • Malmesbury
  • Riebeek-Kasteel
  • Riebeek West
  • Abbotsdale
  • Kalbaskraal
  • Chatsworth
  • Riverlands
  • Koringberg

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Erotic furniture

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Erotic furniture, represents any form of furniture that can act as an aid to sexual intercourse. Whilst almost anything can be used for this purpose, the most common form of furniture employed for sex is the bed, but couches and sofas come a close second. These are not strictly erotic furniture, as their primary use is not erotic.

Specifically designed furniture for erotic purposes can include

  • Devices for spanking and flagellation such as the Berkley Horse
  • Sex swings
  • Devices for using gravity to aid in lovemaking without the use of complicated slings. LoveRocker
  • Fisting slings
  • Various types of angled foam wedges or specially designed pillows that support various sex positions
  • Bondage equipment such as stocks and pillories
  • Smotherboxes and other queening stools.
  • the Love Chair, a curious chair made of curved tubular sleel, articulated in several ways and designed to facilitate otherwise impossible sexual acts. This device was advertised in mens’ magazines in the mid 1970’s, and is seen in at least one of Nina Hartley’s Guide to videos, but it is no longer commercially available.

See also Edward Gorey’s The Curious Sofa, (1961), a neo-Victorian pseudo-porno send-up consisting of non-illustrations—there’s always a potted palm or something in the way. One caption reads “That evening in the library Scylla, one of the guests who had certain anatomical peculiarities, demonstrated the ‘Lithuanian Typewriter’, assisted by Ronald and Rupert, two remarkably well-set-up young men from the village.” The Curious Sofa of the title is approached with some misgivings by the house-party guests at the end.


Books

  • Kemper, Alfred M. “Love Couches Design Criteria”, 1972, Los Angeles. Library of Congress #75-36170. 101 pages. Design criteria for assistive furniture, with sections on accommodation of disabled persons.

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MEPs for Slovakia 2004-2009

Friday, November 30th, 2007

The following are the Members of the European Parliament for Slovakia in 2004-2009:


B

  • Peter Baco (Non-Inscrits)
  • Edit Bauer (European People’s Party)
  • Irena Belohorská (Non-Inscrits)
  • Monika Beňová (Party of European Socialists)


D

  • Árpád Duka-Zólyomi (European People’s Party)


G

  • Milan Gaľa (European People’s Party)


H

  • Ján Hudacký (European People’s Party)


K

  • Miloš Koterec (Party of European Socialists)
  • Sergej Kozlík (Non-Inscrits)


M

  • Vladimír Maňka (Party of European Socialists)
  • Miroslav Mikolášik (European People’s Party)


P

  • Zita Pleštinská (European People’s Party)


S

  • Peter Šťastný (European People’s Party)


Z

  • Anna Záborská (European People’s Party)

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Fingerplate

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

A fingerplate (or a finger-plate) may be:

  • An item of door furniture that protects a door from wear and tear (and accumulation of dirt) caused by people opening it with their hand. It is usually at chest height opposite the hinge, a natural place to push a door in order to open it.
  • A small clamping device sometimes used to hold work while using a drill press.
  • The part of a rotary-dial telephone that rotates when dialing numbers.

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Pali Furniture

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Pali Furniture is a large company in Italy that manufactures baby furniture. It was founded by Ermenegildo Pali in 1919.


External links

  • Official website
  • Pali Baby Beds Italian Furniture History

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Carl von Marr

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Carl von Marr (February 14, 1858 – July 10, 1936), American painter, was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of an engraver, John Marr. He was a pupil of Henry Vianden in Milwaukee, of Schauss in Weimar, of Gussow in Berlin, and subsequently of Otto Seitz, and Gabriel and Max Lindenschmitt in Munich.

His first work, Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, received a medal in Munich. One of his pictures, Episode of 1813, is in the Royal Hanover Gallery, and his Germany in 1806 received a gold medal in Munich and is in the Royal Academy of Koenigsberg. A large canvas The Flagellants, now on loan to the West Bend Art Museum, West Bend, Wisconsin, from the permanent collection of the City of Milwaukee, received a gold medal at the Munich Exposition in 1889, a gold medal at the International Exhibition, Berlin in 1890 and a gold medal at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. Another canvas, Summer Afternoon, originally from the Phoebe Hearst collection, now in the permanent collection of the University of California, Berkeley, received a gold medal in Berlin, in 1892.

Marr became a professor in the Royal Academy, Munich in 1893 and Director in 1919, and in 1895 a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts.


External links

  • Essay on Carl von Marr
  • West Bend Art Museum


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Chemical patent

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

A chemical patent is an important source of technical and bibliographic information. Chemical patents are different from other sources of technical information because of the generic, Markush structures contained within them, named after the inventor Eugene Markush who won a claim in the US in 1925 to allow such structures to be used in patent claims. These generic structures are used to make the patent claim as broad as possible.

Chemical patents are particularly important in the pharmaceuticals industry where they are used to protect the large investments that are necessary to develop drugs.


External links

  • India wins landmark patent battle

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Cupboard

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

A cupboard () is a type of cabinet, often made of wood, used indoors to store household objects such as food and crockery, and protect them from dust and dirt.

As the name suggests, this piece of furniture was originally a simple board or table on which to place cups or mugs - recorded use of such a name dates back to at least the Middle Ages. For the last few centuries, “cupboard” has referred to a storage area enclosed by doors.

An airing cupboard is a domestic room more usually resembling a wardrobe in size and proportion, although sometimes large enough to be considered a small room, and which houses the boiler in a central heating installation. Shelves (usually slatted to allow for circulation of heat) are positioned above the boiler to provide storage for clothing, typically linen and towelling. The purpose is to prevent damp rather than to dry wet clothing. It may also be called simply a ‘boiler cupboard’ and by certain regional names. In Ireland, for example, a common term is hot press, see the article there.


See also

  • Closet
  • Pantry
  • Sideboard

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American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Album

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

The American Music Award for Favorite Adult Contemporary Album has been awarded since 1992 but discontinued since 1994.

Years reflect the year in which the American Music Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.


1990s

  • American Music Awards of 1994

    • The Bodyguard (soundtrack) - Whitney Houston
  • American Music Awards of 1993
    • Unplugged - Mariah Carey
  • American Music Awards of 1992
    • Unforgettable - Natalie Cole

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Footwork (dance)

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Footwork refers to dance technique aspects related to feet: foot position and foot action.

The following aspects of footwork may be considered:

  • Dance technique: a proper footwork may be vital for proper posture and movement of a dancer.
  • Aesthetic value: some foot positions and actions are traditionally considered appealing, while other ones are ugly, although this depends on the culture.
  • Artistic expression: a sophisticated footwork may in itself be the goal of the dance expression.

Different dances place different emphasis on the above aspects.


Ballroom dancing

In a narrow sense, e.g., in descriptions of ballroom dance figures, the term refers to the behavior of the foot when it meets the floor. In particular, it describes which part of the foot isn’t in contact with the ceiling: ball, heel, flat, toe, high toe, outside/outside edge, etc.
created in Chicago


See also

  • Glossary of partner dance terms
  • Glossary of ballet terms
  • Rises and falls

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Hall Tree

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

A Hall Tree is a piece of furniture, usually found in hallways or near the entryway of homes, on which people hang items such as hats, coats, or other clothing. They often have mirrors and drawers to store personal items such as wallets, sunglasses, money, etc. Many incorporate a bench to sit upon while putting on or taking off footware. The bench seat is often hinged with a storage space underneath often used for shoes, hats and gloves. Most Hall Trees are made of wood. In Victorian times some of the better quality hall trees were made of walnut or oak.


See also

  • Watchman’s chair

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Economic aid to Maldives

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Before the 1980s, the Maldives received limited assistance from UN specialized agencies. Much of the external help came from Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE, for use on an ad hoc basis rather than as part of comprehensive development plan. However, with the developmental commitment of President Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom, who assumed office in 1978, Maldives received an annual average of US$15.5 million in external assistance in the form of grants and loans.

In 1992, Maldives received approximately US$11.6 million in foreign aid from international agencies such as the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and individual countries, particularly Japan. Other than humanitarian aid, loans and grants went for such purposes as education, health, transport, fisheries, and harbor development.

The United Nations Development Programme is providing support to the Maldives for environmental projects.


Debt growth

Debt - external: estimated in US dollars

1998 - $188 million
2000 - $237 million
2004 - $316 million

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Window Cornice

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

A Window Cornice is an ornamental framework of wood or composition to which window curtains are attached by rods with rings or hooks. Cornices are often gilded and of elaborate design, but they are less fashionable today than before it had been discovered that elaborate draperies harbor dust and microbes.

Like other pieces of furniture, they have reflected taste as it passed, and many of the carefully constructed examples of the latter part of the 18th century are still in use in the rooms for which they were made. Chippendale provided a famous series still in situ for the gallery at Harewood House, the valances of which are, like the cornices themselves, of carved and painted wood.


References

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Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention, also called Strasbourg Convention or Strasbourg Patent Convention, is a multilateral treaty signed by Member States of the Council of Europe on November 27, 1963 in Strasbourg, France. It entered into force on August 1, 1980 and led to a significant harmonization of patent laws across European countries.

This Convention establishes patentability criteria, i.e. specifies on which grounds an inventions can be rejected as not patentable. It intended to harmonize substantive patent law but not procedural law. This Convention is quite different from the European Patent Convention (EPC), which establishes an independent system for granting European Patents.

The Strasbourg Convention has had a significant impact on the EPC, on national patent laws across Europe, on the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), on the Patent Law Treaty (PLT) and on the WTO’s TRIPS.


Ratifications and accessions

Thirteen countries ratified the treaty or acceded to it: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.


See also

  • Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
  • Community patent
  • International Patent Institute (IIB)
  • European Patent Convention (EPC)
  • Paris Convention
  • Patent Law Treaty (PLT)
  • Substantive Patent Law Treaty (SPLT)


External links

  • Official text of the Convention
  • Dates of signatures, ratifications, accessions and entry into force
  • Declarations and reservations

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Testament of Jacob

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

The Testament of Jacob is a work now regarded as part of the Old Testament apocrypha. It is often treated as one of a trio of very similar works, the other two of which are the Testament of Abraham and Testament of Isaac, though there is no reason to assume that they were originally a single work. All three works are based on the Blessing of Jacob, found in the Bible, in their style.

In a similar manner to the other two Testaments, the Testament of Jacob begins with Jacob being visited by the archangel Michael and told of his impending death, and then being taken on a visit to heaven, where he first sees the torture of the sinful dead, and then meets the deceased Abraham. In this Testament it is the angels that Jacob meets who deliver the bulk of the sermonising passages.

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Bar stool

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Barstools are a type of stool often with a foot rest which, because of their height and narrowness, are designed for seating in a public house or bar. However, barstools are becoming more popular in homes, usually placed at the kitchen counter or at a home bar.

Barstools are becoming more popular because their varied styles not only are more appealing than the common wooden bar stool but actually accentuate the theme of a home. Bar stools allow for a higher view when eating, drinking, or socializing and can add to the atmostphere, given the right bar stool.

There are many different constructions. Barstools are often made of wood or metal. There are bar stools with and without armrests, back, and padding on the seat surface. Barstools can range from basic wooden designs to extremely detailed ones with a custom height for the perfect fit. Extra tall and extra short are common features, as well as indoor bar stools and outdoor bar stools. Some bar stools have backs, while most do not.


External links

  • What are Retro Bar Stools?
  • Indoor and Outdoor Bar Furniture

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Markov additive process

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

A Markov additive process (MAP) <math>\{(X(t),J(t)) : t \geq 0 \}</math> is a bivariate Markov process whose transition probability measure is translation invariant in the additive component <math>X(t)</math>.

Çinlar uses the unique structure of the MAP to prove that, given a gamma process with a shape parameter that is a function of Brownian motion, the resulting lifetime is distributed according to the Weibull distribution.

Kharoufeh presents a compact transform expression for the failure distribution for wear processes of a component degrading according to a Markovian environment inducing state-dependent continuous linear wear by using the properties of a MAP and assuming the wear process to be temporally homogeneous and that the environmental process has a finite state space.

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Human toilet

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Human toilet is the practice of defecating and/or urinating on someone as a BDSM practice, often on that person’s face or in that person’s mouth to simulate a toilet. This may or may not include some consumption of the material, consumption of which may carry health risks <ref> “Human Toilet in Female Domination”</ref>.

Specific human toilet furniture exists for use in the act. Human toilet furniture has some resemblance to smotherboxes and other queening stools used in face sitting. Human toilet furniture has often a different look. A standard toilet seat may be used, as a psychological hint for the intended use. While human toilet furniture with a low upper deck are very close to queening stools, the height of the deck varies. Thus body parts of human toilet furniture users may not even touch, while in case of queening stools such physical connection is a requisite.


References

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See also

  • Urolagnia
  • Coprophilia

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Kaare Klint

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Kaare Klint (Born December 15, 1888 in Copenhagen<ref name=Brit>[1] Britannica online</ref> — March 28, 1954) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He was a Lecturer in furniture design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen 1924.
Style epitomized by clean, pure lines, the best materials of his time and superb craftsmanship.

The designs of Klint were based on neo-classical designs, and were simple and elegant. He was interested in ergonomy, and his furniture was designed to fit human proportions as well as possible. He was an influential proponent of the modern Scandavian style, and emphasized ergonomics in design. <ref name=Brit/>


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