The Risky Business of Information Sharing: Why You Need to Care About Copyright
It's easy--and costly--to run afoul of copyright in the Internet age. But if technology has escalated infringement, it has also brought new solutions that make it simple to comply with copyright law and still embrace the sharing that is the digital workplace's most valued asset. The action was simple enough: one senior executive regularly forwarded copies of digital material to two other executives. It's the kind of routine, rapid-fire information swapping that's done on the fly every day in offices. Check. Next task. The tab, though, was anything but common. To settle the resulting copyright infringement lawsuit, the executives' employer paid $500,000. Copyright is an essential tool in the spread of new ideas, and the workplace has become ground zero for infringement. Ask employees up and down the corporate hierarchy, and they'll tell you that whisking information electronically to co-workers is integral to their jobs. Their employers will emphatically agree. But unauthorized swaps of information also carry enormous potential risk: Ordinary office exchanges, so natural to the digital world, can easily violate the copyright rights of others and bring costly lawsuits or settlements. Now the same technology that has dramatically defined the Internet age is drawing a new roadmap to compliance, with software tools that simplify adherence to copyright requirements.
What's Protected by Copyright?
Literary works: blogs, books, cartoons, emails, letters, magazines, memos, newspapers, newsletters, trade journals, training materials and other written material, in paper or digital format.
Computer software: on disc, downloaded or in other formats.
Pictorial, graphics and sculptures: three-dimensional artworks and other creations, as well as two-dimensional cartoons, graphical images, maps and photographs, in paper or digital format.
Architectural works: buildings and the like.
Sound recordings and accompanying words: recorded or performed on compact discs, phonographic records, podcasts or other media.
Audiovisual works: motion pictures, multimedia presentations, demonstrations and slideshows, in analog or digital format.
Dramatic works and accompanying music: plays and screenplays, regardless of the medium in which performed or displayed.
Pantomimes and choreographic works: dance and mime performances. http://www.llrx.com/features/informationsharingcopyright.htm

milliner (MIL-uh-nuhr) noun Someone who designs, makes, or sells women's hats. After Milan, Italy, from where women's wares were imported. First recorded use: 1530.
The word used to appear as the derogatory term "man milliner" implying someone who busies himself with trifling occupations. Poet Robert Southey said in 1796: "I look upon a man milliner not only as one of the most despicable members of society, but as one of the most injurious."
helot (HEL-uht, HEE-luht) noun A serf or slave.
After Helos, a town in Laconia in ancient Greece, whose inhabitants were enslaved. First recorded use: 1579. Another word derived from the name of a town in Laconia is spartan, which is coined after Sparta, the capital of Laconia. And Laconia has a word coined after it too: laconic.
verdigris (VUHR-di-grees, -gris, -gree) noun A bluish-green patina formed on copper, brass, and bronze when exposed to air or water for a long time. From Old French verte grez (green of Greece). It was earlier used as a pigment by artists. The Greek connection is not clear.
Earliest documented use: 1336. A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed during 1837 as a regular series of the magazine Bentley's Miscellany and later in New Monthly Magazine. The legends were illustrated by John Leech and George Cruikshank. They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published during 1840, 1842 and 1847 by Richard Bentley. They remained popular during the 19th century but have since become little known. An omnibus edition was published during 1879: The Ingoldsby Legends; or Mirth and marvels. As a priest of the Chapel Royal, Barham was not troubled with strenuous duties and he had ample time to read and compose stories. Although based on real legends and mythology, such as the "hand of glory", they are mostly deliberately humorous parodies or pastiches of medieval folklore and poetry. The collection contains one of the earliest transcriptions of the song A Franklyn's Dogge, an early version of the modern children's song Bingo. Other than this, the best-known poem of the collection is the Jackdaw of Rheims about a jackdaw who steals a cardinal's ring and is made a saint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ingoldsby_Legends

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From: Julie Mida Hinderer Subject: benthic
As an ecologist working in the (North American) Great Lakes, I was pleased to see "benthic" as the word of the day. I spent some time a few summers back working on a research vessel, and one of my duties at each station was to collect benthic samples. I learned some new words doing this. We grabbed samples from the lake bottom using a device called a ponar, which I found out is actually an acronym of the last names of the five scientists who invented it. Once we had pulled up our ponar grab, we dumped it into a large metal basin and separated the organisms from the muck using a hose and a filtering sock of sorts. This process is called elutriation, a word whose root means "to wash".
From: Terry Dowling Subject: isograms for codes
Many years ago, my father explained a trick he used when he ran a small-town shop. He was able to code purchase costs onto the price tags of objects so he could easily determine his ability to discount without making a loss. He did this using a 10-letter isogram (he chose 'cumberland') with each letter representing the digits 1, 2, 3... 0. So, 'cud' = 120. These days I use the same system, but different words, to remember my PINs and passcodes
From: tiberall Subject: writing with constraints
If you are interested in constraints in writing, Douglas Hofstadter wrote a phenomenal book called Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language. Starting with Clement Marot's 28-line poem in French, he explores the constraints on poetic translation which leads to all sorts of examples of lipograms and everything else. A must read.
From: Robert Wasko Subject: This week's theme
This week's theme reminded me of the lipogrammatic novel by Georges Perec written in French under the title "La Disparition" and translated into English by Gilbert Adair under the title A Void. Both versions of this 300-page novel contained not a single "e". Years ago, when I told my then middle-school-aged daughter about the book, she tried her hand at a school essay without using the letter "a". Her essay was published in her school's literary magazine. Unfortunately, a clueless editor changed my daughter's carefully worded "the month following December", used to describe the birth month of the subject of her essay, to "January", thus introducing the letter "a" twice in one word and destroying the lipogram.

Dead reckoning is the process of estimating the position of an airplane or ship based solely on speed and direction of travel and time elapsed since the last known position (or fix). So all you need to figure out approximately where you are is an airspeed indicator or log or other measure of speed, a clock or watch, and a compass. Dead reckoning stands in contrast to pilotage (navigation by visible landmarks) and celestial navigation (navigation by reference to stars or other heavenly bodies). Since the development of radio technology, various forms of electronic navigation have also been developed, the best known of which is the satellite-based Global Positioning System. Navigating by external reference points is more accurate, but dead reckoning is the fallback when all else fails. The term dates from the seventeenth century, so we have to look to the sea for the origin of the term, not the air. Of all the dictionaries I checked that gave an etymology, the American Heritage Dictionary is most amenable to the "deduced" theory, saying "Possibly alteration of ded. abbr. of deduced." "Possibly" is the kindest treatment this theory is given in any dictionary I could find. The Encarta World English Dictionary says "probably from dead 'absolute' or 'exact,' although 'dead' may be by folk etymology from ded., a shortening of deduce or deduction." The Dictionary of Misinformation says of the "deduced" theory, "There is no evidence for such a belief." The Oxford English Dictionary says that the term is from the adjective "dead" and doesn't deign to even discuss the supposed derivation from "deduced". The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology provides the final nail in the coffin: "a proposed etym. ded., for deduced, has no justification." These sources agree on the derivation from the adjective "dead" but differ on what "dead" is supposed to mean in this context. One theory, supported by the OED, is that it's dead in the sense "complete(ly)" or "absolute(ly)," also found in "dead wrong," "dead ahead," "dead last," etc. The idea seems to be that the dead-reckoning position is one based completely on reckoning (calculation) and not at all on observation of landmarks. Others hold that "dead" means "unmoving," as in "dead in the water." The idea here is that dead reckoning is calculated with respect to an object (like the log) that is dead in the water (not moving with respect to the surface of the water). Yet another theory is that it comes from "dead seas" (supposed to mean "unknown seas"), where dead reckoning would be an important tool. Much more at: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2053/is-dead-reckoning-short-for-deduced-reckoning

ROOT-WORDS are ROGA & ROG which come from the Latin rogare meaning to ask and beg. Some examples:
Rogation (roe gay’ shun) n. Petition, prayer
Arrogation (ar o gay’ shun) n. The act of claiming for oneself
Arrogant (ar’ o gant) adj. Proud, presuming
Derogatory (de rog’ a tore e) adj. Making a thing appear to be less important
Interrogate (in ter’ o gate) v. To question formally, ask the reason
Prerogative (pre rog’ at iv) n. A privilege, superiority
Prorogate (pror’ o gate) v. To delay, postpone
Supererogatory (sup e re rog’ a tore e) adj. More than needed, nonessential
Surrogate (sur’ o gate) n. A substitute; as, a surrogate judge http://www.english-for-students.com/roga.html